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

We will try to keep you updated, although the safest bet is for you to sign up to OBC’s e-alert (free service) and receive the table of content directly in your inbox every time an issue is published.

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

• Limonoids

Kv1.2 potassium channel inhibitors from Chukrasia tabularis
Hong-Bing Liu, Hua Zhang, Ping Li, Yan Wu, Zhao-Bing Gao and Jian-Min Yue
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2012, 10, 1448-1458
DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06666H, Paper

• Fungal glycolipid

Fusaroside, a unique glycolipid from Fusarium sp., an endophytic fungus isolated from Melia azedarach
Sheng-Xiang Yang, Hong-Peng Wang, Jin-Ming Gao, Qiang Zhang, Hartmut Laatsch and Yi Kuang
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2012, 10, 819-824
DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06426F

• Pancratistatin analogues

A formal [3+3]-annulation-based approach to pancratistatins: total synthesis of (±)-7-deoxy-pancratistatin and its 2-epi and 2,4-diepi analogues
Olaia Nieto-García, Hugo Lago-Santomé, Fernando Cagide-Fagín, Juan Carlos Ortiz-Lara and Ricardo Alonso
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2012, 10, 825-834
DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06374J, Paper

•  Bromotyrosine natural products

Syntheses of pseudoceramines A–D and a new synthesis of spermatinamine, bromotyrosine natural products from marine sponges J. Mikael Hillgren, Christopher T. Öberg and Mikael Elofsson
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2012, 10, 1246-1254
DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06722B, Paper

• Alkaloids synthesis

One-pot reductive coupling of N-acylcarbamates with activated alkenes: application to the asymmetric synthesis of pyrrolo[1,2-a]azepin-5-one ring system and (−)-xenovenine Xue-Kui Liu, Xiao Zheng, Yuan-Ping Ruan, Jie Ma and Pei-Qiang Huang
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2012, 10, 1275-1284
DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06697H, Paper

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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry publishes many articles that cover natural product chemistry. We will try to keep you updated, although the safest bet is for you to sign up to OBC’s e-alert (free service) and receive the table of content directly in your inbox every time an issue is published.

In OBC Issue 1, 2012 , you will find:

• A concise asymmetric synthesis of (−)-rasfonin
  Yange Huang, Adriaan J. Minnaard and Ben L. Feringa
  Org. Biomol. Chem., 2012, 10, 29-31, DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06700A, Communication

• Combining two-directional synthesis and tandem reactions: a short formal synthesis of halichlorine
  Camille Gignoux, Annabella F. Newton, Alexandre Barthelme, William Lewis, Marie-Lyne Alcaraz and Robert A. Stockman
  Org. Biomol. Chem., 2012, 10, 67-69, DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06380D, Paper

• 3,4′-Linked bis(piperidines) related to the haliclonacyclamine class of marine alkaloids: synthesis using crossed-aldol chemistry and preliminary biological evaluations
  Martin G. Banwell, Mark J. Coster, Natasha L. Hungerford, Mary J. Garson, Stephen Su, Andrew C. Kotze and Murray H. G. Munro
  Org. Biomol. Chem., 2012, 10, 154-161, DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06418E, Paper

• Discovery of a potent and highly β1 specific proteasome inhibitor from a focused library of urea-containing peptide vinyl sulfones and peptide epoxyketones
  Wouter A. van der Linden, Lianne I. Willems, Tamer B. Shabaneh, Nan Li, Mark Ruben, Bogdan I. Florea, Gijs A. van der Marel, Markus Kaiser, Alexei F. Kisselev and Herman S. Overkleeft
  Org. Biomol. Chem., 2012, 10, 181-194, DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06554H, Paper

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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, our sister journal, publishes many articles that cover natural product chemistry. We will try to keep you updated, although the safest bet is for you to sign up to OBC’s e-alert (free service) and receive the table of content directly in your inbox every time an issue is published.

The latest natural products’ related articles in OBC Issue 23 have been collated here:

Efficient approach to novel 1α-triazolyl-5α-androstane derivatives as potent antiproliferative agents
Zalán Kádár, Ádám Baji, István Zupkó, Tibor Bartók, János Wölfling and Éva Frank
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 8051-8057
DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06086D, Paper


Design and synthesis of trans-3-aminopyran-2-carboxylic acid (APyC) and α/β-peptides with 9/11-helix
Gangavaram V. M. Sharma, Kodeti Srinivas Reddy, Shaik Jeelani Basha, Kondreddi Ravinder Reddy and Akella V. S. Sarma
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 8102-8111
DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06279D, Paper


6,6-Spiroimine analogs of (−)-gymnodimine A: synthesis and biological evaluation on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
Leslie Duroure, Thierry Jousseaume, Rómulo Aráoz, Elvina Barré, Pascal Retailleau, Laurent Chabaud, Jordi Molgó and Catherine Guillou
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 8112-8118
DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06257C, Paper

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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, our sister journal, publishes many articles that cover natural product chemistry. We will try to keep you updated, although the safest bet is for you to sign up to OBC’s e-alert (free service) and receive the table of content directly in your inbox every time an issue is published.

The latest natural products’ related articles in OBC Issue 20 have been collated here:

Total synthesis of the proposed structures of the DNA methyl transferase inhibitors peyssonenynes, and structural revision of peyssonenyne B
Patricia García-Domínguez, Ilaria Lepore, Cathie Erb, Hinrich Gronemeyer, Lucia Altucci, Rosana Álvarez and Ángel R. de Lera
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 6979-6987
DOI: 10.1039/C1OB05932G, Paper

A flexible and unified strategy for syntheses of cladospolides A, B, C, and iso-cladospolide B
Debjani Si, Narayana M. Sekar and Krishna P. Kaliappan
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 6988-6997
DOI: 10.1039/C1OB05787A, Paper

Resolving natural product epimer spectra by matrix-assisted DOSY
Ralph W. Adams, Juan A. Aguilar, Julia Cassani, Gareth A. Morris and Mathias Nilsson
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 7062-7064
DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06097J, Paper

New apocarotenoids and β-carotene cleavage in Blakeslea trispora
Alejandro F. Barrero, M. Mar Herrador, Pilar Arteaga, Jesús Gil, Jose-Antonio González, Eugenio Alcalde and Enrique Cerdá-Olmedo
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 7190-7195
DOI: 10.1039/C1OB05712J, Paper

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