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Natural Products in OBC – our latest selection

03 Jun 2015

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

We try to keep you updated here, although signing up to OBC’s e-alert (free service) means you will receive the tables of content directly in your inbox every time an issue is published.

Hand-picked for you from the latest issues are:

DMSO/Tf2O-mediated cross-coupling of tryptamine with substituted aniline to access C3a–N1′-linked pyrroloindoline alkaloids
Masanori Tayu, Takako Ishizaki, Kazuhiro Higuchi and Tomomi Kawasaki
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB00190K, Communication
From themed collection 2015 Hot Articles in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry

Molecular characterization of the boron adducts of the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib with epigallocatechin-3-gallate and related polyphenols
Stephen J. Glynn, Kevin J. Gaffney, Marcos A. Sainz, Stan G. Louie and Nicos A. Petasis
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02512A, Paper

Total syntheses of five uvacalols: structural validation of uvacalol A, uvacalol B and uvacalol C and disproval of the structures of uvacalol E and uvacalol G
Adiyala Vidyasagar and Kana M. Sureshan
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02663B, Paper
From themed collection 2015 Hot Articles in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry

Cytotoxic scalarane sesterterpenoids from the South China Sea sponge Carteriospongia foliascens
Fei Cao, Ze-Hong Wu, Chang-Lun Shao, Sen Pang, Xiao-Yan Liang, Nicole J. de Voogd and Chang-Yun Wang
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02532F, Paper

First total synthesis of the marine natural products clavulolactones II and III
Charlotte M. Miller, Tore Benneche and Marcus A. Tius
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB00074B, Paper

Absolute configuration of remisporines A & B
Edward C. Sherer, James R. Cheeseman and R. Thomas Williamson
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB00082C, Communication

One-pot total synthesis of streptindole, arsindoline B and their congeners through tandem decarboxylative deaminative dual-coupling reaction of amino acids with indoles
Jiachen Xiang, Jungang Wang, Miao Wang, Xianggao Meng and Anxin Wu
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB00025D, Paper

Synthesis and structural reconfirmation of bacillamide B
Xue Sun, Yi Liu, Jun Liu, Guofeng Gu and Yuguo Du
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB00093A, Paper

A concise synthetic approach to brazilin via Pd-catalyzed allylic arylation
Youngeun Jung and Ikyon Kim
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB00216H, Paper

Chirality extension of an oxazine building block en route to total syntheses of (+)-hyacinthacine A2 and sphingofungin B
Seok-Hwi Park, Xiangdan Jin, Jong-Cheol Kang, Changyoung Jung, Seong-Soo Kim, Sung-Soo Kim, Kee-Young Lee and Won-Hun Ham
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB00251F, Paper

Stereoselective synthesis of the C13–C22 fragment of callystatin A by a non-aldol approach
Sadagopan Raghavan and Sheelamanthula Rajendar
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB00413F, Paper

We hope you enjoy this selection! Let us know what you think…
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Natural Products in OBC – our latest selection

12 Mar 2015

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

We try to keep you updated here, although signing up to OBC’s e-alert (free service) means you will receive the tables of content directly in your inbox every time an issue is published.

Hand-picked for you from the latest issues are:

Functional chromatographic technique for natural product isolation
Eric C. Lau, Damian J. Mason, Nicole Eichhorst, Pearce Engelder, Celestina Mesa, E. M. Kithsiri Wijeratne, G. M. Kamal B. Gunaherath, A. A. Leslie Gunatilaka, James J. La Clair and Eli Chapman
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02292K, Communication

Volatiles from nineteen recently genome sequenced actinomycetes
Christian A. Citron, Lena Barra, Joachim Wink and Jeroen S. Dickschat
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02609H, Paper

Convergent synthesis of isomeric heterosaccharides related to the fragments of galactomannan from Aspergillus fumigatus
D. A. Argunov, V. B. Krylov and N. E. Nifantiev
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02634A, Paper

Synthesis of the tricyclic core of manzamine A
Ravindra B. Pathak, Benjamin C. Dobson, Nandita Ghosh, Khalid A. Ageel, Madeha R. Alshawish, Rungroj Saruengkhanphasit and Iain Coldham
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02582B, Paper

The total synthesis of (−)-cryptocaryol A
L. C. Dias, P. K. Kuroishi and E. C. de Lucca
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB00080G, Communication

Concise total syntheses of (±)-mesembrane and (±)-crinane
Mrinal Kanti Das, Subhadip De, Shubhashish and Alakesh Bisai
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB00183H, Communication

Direct biosynthetic cyclization of a distorted paracyclophane highlighted by double isotopic labelling of L-tyrosine
Alexandre Ear, Séverine Amand, Florent Blanchard, Alain Blond, Lionel Dubost, Didier Buisson and Bastien Nay
DOI: 10.1039/C5OB00114E, Paper

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Natural Products in OBC – our latest selection

16 Feb 2015

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

We try to keep you updated here, although signing up to OBC’s e-alert (free service) means you will receive the tables of content directly in your inbox every time an issue is published.

Hand-picked for you from the latest issues are:

Improved synthesis of the super antioxidant, ergothioneine, and its biosynthetic pathway intermediates
Peguy Lutete Khonde and Anwar Jardine
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 1415-1419
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02023E, Paper

The development and use of a general route to brassinolide, its biosynthetic precursors, metabolites and analogues
A. L. Hurski, Yu. V. Ermolovich, V. N. Zhabinskii and V. A. Khripach
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 1446-1452
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02197E, Paper

Divergolide congeners illuminate alternative reaction channels for ansamycin diversification
Ling Ding, Jakob Franke and Christian Hertweck
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 1618-1623
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02244K, Communication

Construction of the tricyclic core of steenkrotin-type diterpenoids via intramolecular [3 + 2] cycloaddition
Jun Xuan, Saiyong Pan, Yuanbao Zhang, Bin Ye and Hanfeng Ding
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 1643-1646
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02439G, Communication

Synthesis, and QSAR analysis of anti-oncological active spiro-alkaloids
Adel S. Girgis, Siva S. Panda, I. S. Ahmed Farag, A. M. El-Shabiny, A. M. Moustafa, Nasser S. M. Ismail, Girinath G. Pillai, Chandramukhi S. Panda, C. Dennis Hall and Alan R. Katritzky
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 1741-1753
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02149E, Paper

Studies towards the synthesis of bielschowskysin. Construction of the highly functionalized bicyclo[3.2.0]heptane segment
Anupam Jana, Sujit Mondal and Subrata Ghosh
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 1846-1859
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02182G, Paper

The chemical biology of dimethylsulfoniopropionate
Jeroen S. Dickschat, Patrick Rabe and Christian A. Citron
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 1954-1968
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB02407A, Review Article

Synthesis and antimalarial evaluation of amide and urea derivatives based on the thiaplakortone A natural product scaffold
Brett D. Schwartz, Tina S. Skinner-Adams, Katherine T. Andrews, Mark J. Coster, Michael D. Edstein, Donna MacKenzie, Susan A. Charman, Maria Koltun, Scott Blundell, Anna Campbell, Rebecca H. Pouwer, Ronald J. Quinn, Karren D. Beattie, Peter C. Healy and Rohan A. Davis
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 1558-1570
DOI: 10.1039/C4OB01849D, Paper

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Meet the NPR team – See where and when you can meet us in 2015

09 Feb 2015

A selection of conferences the journal will be attending in 2015.

The Natural Product Reports team will be attending a number of conferences in 2015 and we would be delighted to meet you there.

We’re also the team behind NPR’s sister journals OBC, MedChemComm, and Molecular BioSystems, so we’ll happily discuss your interdisciplinary research work. In fact, many of our authors choose to publish their research across all of these titles.

Spring

National symposium on Chemical Biology 18-19 February 2015, Mysore, India. Meet Deeksha Gupta.

Directing Biosynthesis IV 25 – 27th March 2015, Norwich, UK. Meet Marie Cote.

MedChemComm, 27-30 April 2015, Hyderabad, India. Meet Deeksha Gupta.

Grassmere Heterocyclic meeting 7th – 11th May, 2015, Grassmere, UK. Meet James Anson.

Summer

Royal Society of Chemistry Organic Chemistry Symposium Series 1st – 5th June 2015, Sendai, Tokyo, Kyoto, Japan. Meet Rich Kelly

American Peptide Symposium 20th – 25th June 2015, Orlando, Florida. Meet Rich Kelly.

ISMSC 28th June – 2nd July 2015, Strasbourg, France. Meet Marie Cote.

7th International Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry, July 5 – 8^th, Tokyo, Japan. Meet Hiromitsu Urakami.

ESOC 2015 12th – 16th July 2015, Lisbon, Portugal. Meet Marie Cote.

RSC Organic Synthesis 20th – 23rd July 2015, Cambridge, UK. Meet James Anson.

9^th CCS National Organic Chemistry conference, 31st July to 3rd August 2015, Changchun, China. Meet Guanqun Song.

9^th National Chemical Biology conference, August, Tianjin, China. Meet Guanqun Song.

250th ACS National Meeting & Exposition 16th – 20th August 2015, Boston, USA.

25^th International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry Conference (August 23-28) in Santa Barbara, USA. Meet Jennifer Lee.

Autumn

18th RSC/SCI medicinal chemistry conference 13th – 16th September 2015, Cambridge, UK. Meet James Anson.

26th Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry, 24 – 26th September, Ehime, Japan. Meet Hiromitsu Urakami.

13th International Kyoto Conference on New Aspects of Organic Chemistry , 9th – 13th November, Kyoto, Japan. Meet Hiromitsu Urakami.

Tateshina Conference, 13th – 15th November, Tateshina, Japan. Meet Hiromitsu Urakami.

BMOS-16 15th – 19th November 2015, Buzios, Brazil. Meet Rich Kelly.

Winter

Pacifichem 15th – 20th December 2015, Hawaii, USA. Meet Marie Cote.

Let us know if you are planning on attending any of these meetings, as we would be happy to meet you there!

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What are your colleagues reading in Natural Product Reports?

15 Dec 2014

The articles below were the most read Natural Product Reports articles in July, August and September 2014.

Discovering the secondary metabolite potential encoded within entomopathogenic fungi
Donna M. Gibson, Bruno G. G. Donzelli, Stuart B. Krasnoff and Nemat O. Keyhanic
DOI: 10.1039/C4NP00054D

Explorations of fungal biosynthesis of reduced polyketides – a personal viewpoint
John C. Vederas
DOI: 10.1039/C4NP00091A

Microbial biosynthesis of medicinally important plant secondary metabolites
Myoung Chong Song, Eun Ji Kim, Eunji Kim, Kris Rathwell, Sang-Jip Nam and Yeo Joon Yoon
DOI: 10.1039/C4NP00057A

The phosphopantetheinyl transferases: catalysis of a post-translational modification crucial for life
Joris Beld, Eva C. Sonnenschein, Christopher R. Vickery, Joseph P. Noel and Michael D. Burkart
DOI: 10.1039/C3NP70054B

Xanthone dimers: a compound family which is both common and privileged
Tim Wezeman, Stefan Bräse and Kye-Simeon Masters
DOI: 10.1039/ C4NP00050A

Marine natural products
John W. Blunt, Brent R. Copp, Robert A. Keyzers, Murray H. G. Munro and Michèle R. Prinsep
DOI: 10.1039/C3NP70117D

Fungal polyketide biosynthesis – a personal perspective
Thomas J. Simpson
DOI: 10.1039/C4NP00065J

Natural product isolation – how to get from biological material to pure compounds
Franz Bucar, Abraham Wube and Martin Schmid
DOI: 10.1039/C3NP20106F

Natural product and natural product derived drugs in clinical trials
Mark S. Butler, Avril A. B. Robertson and Matthew A. Cooper
DOI: 10.1039/C4NP00064A

Natural products containing ‘decalin’ motif in microorganisms
Gang Li, Souvik Kusari and Michael Spiteller
DOI: 10.1039/C4NP00031E

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