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Chemistry World November 27, 2012 Paul Docherty	Pentalenolactone A methyl ester One team that really gets the Pauson -- Khand reaction or the PKR and all its nuances is that led by Zhen Yang at Peking University in Beijing, China. They recently published a very neat synthesis of the intricate pentalenolactone
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 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 June 2009 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic With potent bacteria-beating activity, it's no surprise that kendomycin has recently grabbed quite a bit of attention.
Chemistry World July 2010 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic Isolated in 1986, the steroid family of aplykurodinones have shown selective cytotoxicity in a variety of cancer cell lines, and add to the phenomenal list of steroids with potent medicinal properties.
Chemistry World November 2011 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic Gelsemoxonine has an extra four-membered azetidine ring, making for a considerable synthetic challenge.
Chemistry World December 2010 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic In a conversation at the beginning of this year, a friend and I considered the most challenging targets available to the total-synthesizer - and maoecrystal V was at the top of the list.
Chemistry World July 1, 2012 Paul Docherty	Vincorine Cage-structured natural products are some of the most appealing (if perhaps not appetising) targets for organic chemists -- perhaps due to their obvious intricacy of form, but also because of their structural rigidity.
Chemistry World August 2008 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic Impersonating nature isn't easy, and biomimetic syntheses are remarkable in two senses.
Chemistry World May 2012 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic Hopeanol and hopeahainol A
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 28, 2013 Paul Docherty	Lyconadin A Since its isolation from the clubmoss Lycopodium complanatum in 2001, lyconadina A has been party to three total syntheses. All that interest stems from anti-Alzheimer's activity attributed to the lycopodium family.
Chemistry World June 2011	Column: Totally Synthetic I've never heard of the Polonovski-Potier reaction, the keystone of a remarkable synthesis by a team led by Tohru Fukuyama at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
Chemistry World September 20, 2007 Lewis Brindley	New Catalyst Rings the Changes Organic chemists in the US have developed a method to control the stereochemistry of a useful intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction.
Chemistry World February 2010 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic Palau'amine is an alkaloid which has stubbornly held off synthesis for over 15 years. Its nemesis comes in the form of Phil Baran at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, US.
Chemistry World April 2012 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic Detecting rearrangements still seems like an abstract ability for aspiring synthetic chemists. Erick Carreira's synthesis of indoxamycin B is a great case in point, employing two rearrangement reactions.
Chemistry World April 2009 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic Perhaps the most frustrating part of being a synthetic chemist is the jealousy with which we must regard nature
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 September 2008 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic The need to discover new antibiotics to treat resistant strains of bacteria is a well- documented and discussed challenge for chemists.
Chemistry World September 2009 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic Maduropeptin chromophore (the active component of a chromopore-protein complex, noted as for its potent antitumor and antibiotic activity) is built of two distinct domains
Chemistry World January 28, 2015	Rubriflordilactone A It's likely that organic chemists have been practicing retrosynthesis in one form or another for at least a century, and certainly for decades before E J Corey formalized the concept in the mid-1990s
Chemistry World January 2009 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic In the search for new biologically active natural products, sometimes a team isolating a new compound family will be lucky enough to find one active member.
Chemistry World June 13, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Asymmetric ketone catalysis gets pharma-scale makeover An asymmetric catalysis reaction limited to laboratory syntheses has received a makeover that could see it used on a large scale by drug-makers.
Chemistry World October 2011 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic Antioxidants are not only found in human cells, but also in bacterial cell walls - and a good example is synechoxanthin.
Chemistry World January 29, 2014	Organic matter: Indoxamycins A, C and F In 2012, Erick Carreira's group in Zurich reported the total synthesis of indoxamycin B. 1 This 24-step organometallic tour de force resulted in a structural reassignment and set the bar rather high for future work on this family.
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 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 March 2012 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic Ring strain is a fascinating phenomenon - one that is best understood with plastic modelling kits, wearing safety specs for ring sizes of four or less.
Chemistry World October 2010 Paul Docherty	Barekoxide and barekol Like most scientists, organic chemists can often obsess about a problem, endlessly pursuing the perfect yield or enantioselectivity, often leading to tears and broken glassware.
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 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 August 29, 2012 Paul Docherty	Amphidinolide F We're plunging into the marine depths to find natural products with prodigious biological activity. The amphidinolide family comprises over 30 members, varying in architecture but (almost) all featuring a complex and highly decorated macrolactone ring at the core.
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 August 2011 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic Yuanhuapin, a fabulously complex member of the daphnane diterpene orthoester class of natural products, bears an astonishing twelve contiguous stereogenic centres around its seven rings (look closely!).
Chemistry World September 2011 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic Corey Stephenson of Boston University is an expert a type of reaction called photochemical reduction-oxidation. He has charmed photons into performing many chemical tricks, but one is a photoredox dehalogenation using blue light and a ruthenium bipyridyl catalyst.
Chemistry World January 2010 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic Of all the natural product classes, the steroid family are perhaps the most prevalent in the public consciousness; from cholesterol to testosterone, their infamy inflates the 'science bit' in countless advertisements.
Chemistry World May 2011 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic The ability to understand molecular structure is perhaps both our greatest skill and largest encumbrance as scientists. A quick glance at the structure of a target such as nanolobatolide tells us much about its connectivity and the manner in which it might react.
Chemistry World December 2009 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic What turns a good synthesis into a great synthesis are the steps surrounding that motif, something that Darren Dixon from the University of Oxford, UK, exemplifies with this synthesis of Nakadomarin A.
Chemistry World September 2010 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic After a target has been synthesised, and the question of 'can we make this?' has been answered, perhaps the most important remaining question is 'how did nature make it?'
Chemistry World October 31, 2012 Paul Docherty	Epicoccin G The class of natural products known as 2,5-diketopiperazines is both broad and synthetically well-trodden. An important sub-class of these targets are found with a sprinkling of sulfur atoms, and seem particularly well-suited to pathogen-bashing.
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 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 November 2008 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic Vannusal B -- This is a classic case of misassigned identity - the structure published by the researchers who first isolated the compound from its natural source has been recreated via total synthesis, and found wanting.
Chemistry World July 27, 2015	(--)-Jiadifenolide I believe that Ryan Shenvi's could well be the last synthesis we see of the popular neurotrophic agent jiadifenolide, at least for some time.
Chemistry World September 4, 2008 Fred Campbell	Two catalysts better than one US researchers have cracked a long standing problem in chemical synthesis - the catalytic alpha-alkylation of aldehydes - by combining two catalysts in one pot.
Chemistry World August 2009 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic Richmond Sarpong's research group at University of California, Berkeley, US, have taken quite an interest in lyconadin A, publishing an initial, racemic synthesis.
Chemistry World February 2009 Paul Docherty	Column: Totally Synthetic The farming squeeze has renewed interest in compounds with anti-insect abilities, especially those known for their activity against specific pests.
Chemistry World September 2, 2013 Paul Docherty	Steviol A discussion is presented on new ways to synthesize the diterpenoid steviol.
Chemistry World November 27, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Bryostatin Synthesis Made Simple US chemists have dramatically shortened the synthesis of byrostatin 16, one of a family of natural products that show promising activity against cancer but can't easily be extracted from nature or made artificially.
Chemistry World November 2010	Carbon Couplers Take the Prize Three giants of organic chemistry, who pioneered palladium-catalysed cross coupling reactions, have shared this year's Nobel prize.