Recent progress on the total synthesis of acetogenins from Annonaceae

• Nianguang Li,
• Zhihao Shi,
• Yuping Tang,
• Jianwei Chen and
• Xiang Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 48, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.48

• oxygen functions onto an unsaturated, non-functionalized carbon skeleton 271. Diversity in this approach arose from the relative timing of highly stereoselective reactions, such as the Sharpless AD reaction and the Kennedy oxidative cyclization (OC) with rhenium(VII) oxide. The convergent strategy, which

The enantiospecific synthesis of (+)-monomorine I using a 5-endo- trig cyclisation strategy

• Malcolm B. Berry,
• Donald Craig,
• Philip S. Jones and
• Gareth J. Rowlands

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 39, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-39

• agreement with published values. [25] Short reaction times were found to be crucial to the success of this reaction. In summary, we have developed a highly stereoselective 5-endo-trig cyclisation reaction that facilitates the preparation of 2,5-syn disubstituted pyrrolidines. We have used this

Single and double stereoselective fluorination of (E)-allylsilanes

• Marcin Sawicki,
• Angela Kwok,
• Matthew Tredwell and
• Véronique Gouverneur

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 34, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-34

• chirality when reacting allylsilanes B with electrophiles other than fluorine. [18][19][20][21] Chiral allylsilanes B are known to act as useful carbon nucleophile equivalents in highly stereoselective condensation reactions with a large range of electrophiles leading to the construction of C-C, C-O, C-N or

Flexible synthesis of poison- frog alkaloids of the 5,8-disubstituted indolizidine- class. II: Synthesis of (-)-209B, (-)-231C, (-)-233D, (-)-235B", (-)-221I, and an epimer of 193E and pharmacological effects at neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

• Soushi Kobayashi,
• Naoki Toyooka,
• Dejun Zhou,
• Hiroshi Tsuneki,
• Tsutomu Wada,
• Toshiyasu Sasaoka,
• Hideki Sakai,
• Hideo Nemoto,
• H. Martin Garraffo,
• Thomas F. Spande and
• John W. Daly

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 30, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-30

• the resulting aldehyde under Stork's conditions [11] provided the Z-iodoolefin 5 in a highly stereoselective manner. The Sonogashira coupling reaction [12] of 5 with TMS-acetylene followed by cleavage of the trimethylsilyl group with K2CO3 afforded (-)-231C. Although the rotation of the natural

Stereoselective α-fluoroamide and α-fluoro- γ-lactone synthesis by an asymmetric zwitterionic aza-Claisen rearrangement

• Kenny Tenza,
• Julian S. Northen,
• David O'Hagan and
• Alexandra M. Z. Slawin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2005, 1, No. 13, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-1-13

• highly stereoselective method for the preparation of α-fluoroamides. When the reaction was conducted without a fluorine in the substrate, using propionyl chloride in place of 2-fluoropropionyl chloride, then the diastereoselectivity decreased, generating 26 but in only 75% de. Thus the fluorine as well