Natural Products in OBC: our latest selection

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, our sister journal, publishes many articles that cover a variety of natural product chemistry.

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  • The latest natural products’ related articles have been collated here:

Novel approach to biscarbazole alkaloids via Ullmann coupling – synthesis of murrastifoline-A and bismurrayafoline-A
Carsten Börger, Olga Kataeva and Hans-Joachim Knölker

Novel ring chemistry of vitamin B6 with singlet oxygen and an activated ene: isolated products and identified intermediates suggesting an operable [3 + 2] cycloadditionDavid Samuel, Kirsten Norrell and David G. Hilmey

Total synthesis of the marine toxin phorboxazole A using palladium(II)-mediated intramolecular alkoxycarbonylation for tetrahydropyran synthesis
Punlop Kuntiyong, Tae Hee Lee, Christian L. Kranemann and James D. White

Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel isoellipticine derivatives and salts
Charlotte M. Miller, Elaine C. O’Sullivan, Ken J. Devine and Florence O. McCarthy

Total synthesis of epothilones using functionalised allylstannanes for remote stereocontrol
Nathaniel Martin and Eric J. Thomas

Revisiting sesquiterpene biosynthetic pathways leading to santalene and its analogues: a comprehensive mechanistic study
Garima Jindal and Raghavan B. Sunoj

Stereoselective total synthesis of dinemasone A by double intramolecular hetero-Michael addition (DIHMA)
Gangavaram V. M. Sharma, Gourishetty Srikanth and Pothula Purushotham Reddy

Asymmetric synthesis of a highly functionalized enantioenriched system close to thapsigargin framework
Aurélien Tap, Morgan Jouanneau, Gilles Galvani, Geoffroy Sorin, Marie-Isabelle Lannou, Jean-Pierre Férézou and Janick Ardisson

Synthesis and biological evaluation of a potent salicylihalamide A lactam analogue
Dan Balan, Christopher J. Burns, Nicholas G. Fisk, Helmut Hügel, David C. S. Huang, David Segal, Charlotte White, Jörg Wagler and Mark A. Rizzacasa

Organocatalytic asymmetric syntheses of inthomycins A, B and C
Madoka Yoshino, Kohei Eto, Keisuke Takahashi, Jun Ishihara and Susumi Hatakeyama

Guest edited by Professor Christopher Walsh and Dr Sylvie Garneau-Tsdodikova, the issue contains some of the newest discoveries in the field, along with 9 review articles that will lead the reader through exciting natural products research. Let us know what you think!

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