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Chemistry World May 29, 2013 Paul Docherty |
Pactamycin A member of a 'rival' field stating that a molecule is 'inaccessible by synthetic organic chemistry' is like a red rag to the proverbial bull. This challenge surrounds analogs of pactamycin, a complex cyclopentane-based target with an exceptionally potent biological profile. |
Chemistry World August 30, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
C-H oxidation proves its worth US researchers are going against the grain of total synthesis and developing new approaches to complex molecules. |
Chemistry World July 2008 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic The target is hypocrellin A, which couldn't look much less like last month's callipeltoside A. Even a casual glance reveals one intriguing feature of this target - the fact it exists in equilibrium with an isomer. |
Chemistry World July 30, 2013 Paul Docherty |
Melotenine A Chirality, where would we be without you? Often the bane of the synthetic chemist's life, the challenge of asymmetry is perhaps what makes total synthesis so endlessly intriguing. |
Chemistry World October 1, 2014 Karl Collins |
Twisting activity from amides When I think of asymmetric aldol reactions, what immediately springs to mind is using boron to control enolate geometry and chiral auxiliaries to impart facial selectivity in the addition step. |
Chemistry World June 11, 2008 James Mitchell Crow |
New Hope for Anticancer Agent The mode of action of a rare natural product with promising cytotoxic activity has been revealed by scientists in the US while a UK group have come up with a particularly efficient chemical synthesis. |
Chemistry World May 2010 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic In the case of englerin A, the synthetic strategies used by Dawei Ma's group at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, 1 and Antonio Echavarren's team at Rovira and Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, 2 are extremely similar. |
Chemistry World March 2011 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic Discovered independently by two chemists in the 1870s, it's remarkable that 140 years later, science is still tweaking and improving the aldol reaction. |
Chemistry World February 2012 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic Medium rings are a beguiling feature found in a host of natural products, owing to their behavioral oddities. |
Chemistry World February 2011 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic Although most of the natural products I've discussed have had biological activity at the core of the rationale for their synthesis, most organic chemists will admit that an unusual chemical structure is by far the stronger draw. |
Chemistry World April 2010 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic When one attempts the first synthesis of a natural product, the set of challenges are often unknown; which intermediates are either inaccessible or unstable, for instance. |
Chemistry World August 2010 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic The total synthesis of macrolide targets is now a relatively mature field. Any synthesis that bucks these trends grabs attention, with a recent publication of dictyosphaeric acid A by Richard Taylor's team at the University of York, UK, a case in point. |
Chemistry World October 1, 2012 Paul Docherty |
Prostaglandin F2I There's been no shortage of grant funding for synthetic chemistry of the prostaglandins, keeping some of the finest minds in organic chemistry engaged over the last five decades. |
Chemistry World July 2009 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic When it comes to making large natural products, different researchers will often propose identical 'end-game' strategies to complete the target. |
Chemistry World January 2012 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic What a Japanese team demonstrates in this synthesis of dragmacidin D is the state of the art, uniting all the key fragments using C-H bond couplings. |
Chemistry World May 8, 2014 |
Mandelalide A The recent synthesis of the proposed structure of mandelalide A is a good example of a well-designed route that seamlessly integrates some cutting-edge chemistry. |
Chemistry World July 2011 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic At first glance rippertenol looks a mere hop-skip-and-jump from its parent. However, a more careful examination reveals a stray methyl group at C1, complicating the synthesis of an already tricky target. |
Chemistry World June 1, 2012 Paul Docherty |
atrop-Abyssomicin C This member of the abyssomicin family is the only one to achieve bacteria-bashing prowess, and is also the only one to feature atropisomerism -- a relatively unusual form of stereoisomerism in naturally occurring species |
Chemistry World June 2010 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic Although its chemistry is mature and varied, my use of silicon reagents in my synthetic forays has been limited to a somewhat clumsy use of hydroxyl protecting groups. |
Chemistry World April 2011 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic Reactions in the synthesis of guanacastepene N. Discovered in fungi growing on trees in the Guanacaste conservation area in Costa Rica, several syntheses of this family have appeared in the decade since their isolation. |
Chemistry World December 2011 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic An important subclass of marine neurotoxins contains spirocyclic imines. Larger examples such as the pinnatoxins have tended to hog the limelight, but the increasingly prolific Daniel Romo has focused his sights on gymnodimine - a slightly smaller family member. |
Chemistry World November 2009 Paul Docherty |
Column: Totally Synthetic The hunt for anticancer therapies is inextricably linked with natural products (such as taxol), and more specifically with macrolides. |
Chemistry World June 19, 2008 Hepeng Jia |
Chemistry dominates list of China's most influential papers The Thomson Reuters Research Fronts Award recognized a total of 24 key journal articles - including seven chemistry papers and two from the material sciences - for their outstanding contribution to international R&D. |
Chemistry World October 2009 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe discusses the problem of leaning too heavily on favorite reactions |
Chemistry World January 17, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Sugars synthesised with help of promiscuous enzyme European researchers have discovered a new way to make synthetically elusive sugar molecules that could lead to novel vaccine candidates and other medically important compounds. |
Chemistry World April 25, 2014 Derek Lowe |
Engineering serendipity At this stage in the world of organic chemistry, you'd have to think that many of the great reactions that can be stumbled across with known reagents have probably been found. |
Chemistry World March 24, 2015 Karl Collins |
Back to basics for silylation While silicon is probably most familiar in organic synthesis as part of protecting groups, its utility extends much further. |