Natural Products in OBC

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

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Hand-picked for you from the latest issues are:

Chemical chain termination resolves the timing of ketoreduction in a partially reducing iterative type I polyketide synthase
Hirokazu Kage, Elena Riva, James S. Parascandolo, Martin F. Kreutzer, Manuela Tosin and Markus Nett
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB02009C, Communication


The biosynthesis of allelopathic di-C-glycosylflavones from the roots of Desmodium incanum (G. Mey.) DC
Bing Hao, John C. Caulfield, Mary L. Hamilton, John A. Pickett, Charles A. O. Midega, Zeyaur R. Khan, Junru R. Wang and Antony M. Hooper
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB01926E, Paper


A novel C,D-spirodioxene taxoid synthesized through an unexpected Pd-mediated ring cyclization
Shao-Rong Wang, Pedro A. Sánchez-Murcia, Federico Gago and Wei-Shuo Fang
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB02131F, Paper


Total synthesis of a piperidine alkaloid, microcosamine A
Chada Raji Reddy, Bellamkonda Latha, Kamalkishor Warudikar and Kiran Kumar Singarapu
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB02085A, Paper


The structure of tagetitoxin
Abil E. Aliev, Kersti Karu, Robin E. Mitchell and Michael J. Porter
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB02076J, Paper


Total synthesis and preliminary SAR study of (±)-merochlorins A and B
Hongzhi Yang, Xue Liu, Qingong Li, Longbo Li, Jing-Ren Zhang and Yefeng Tang
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB01946J, Paper
From themed collection 2016 Hot Articles in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry


A method for investigating the stereochemical course of terpene cyclisations
Patrick Rabe, Jan Rinkel, Tim A. Klapschinski, Lena Barra and Jeroen S. Dickschat
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB01998B, Paper


Stereoselective total synthesis of (−)-nupharamine utilizing an α-chlorosulfide and a sulfinimine for C–C bond formation
Sadagopan Raghavan and Sheelamanthula Rajendar
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB01750E, Paper


Antimalarial diterpenoid dimers of a new carbon skeleton from Aphanamixis grandifolia
Hua Zhang, Jia Liu, Li-She Gan, Seema Dalal, Maria B. Cassera and Jian-Min Yue
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB02296G, Paper


Chemical constituents of the soft corals Sinularia vanderlandi and Sinularia gravis from the coast of Madagascar
Marie Pascaline Rahelivao, Margit Gruner, Tilo Lübken, Daut Islamov, Olga Kataeva, Hanta Andriamanantoanina, Ingmar Bauer and Hans-Joachim Knölker
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB02280K, Paper
From themed collection 2016 Hot Articles in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry


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