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Organic Chemistry Highlights

2008 / 2009 / 2010

January
05 The Wood Synthesis of Welwitindolinone A Isonitrile Douglass F. Taber
12 Advances in Alkene and Alkyne Metathesis Douglass F. Taber
19 Alkene Metathesis: Synthesis of Panaxytriol (Lee), Isofagomine (Imahori and Takahata), Elatol (Stoltz), 5-F2t-Isoprostane (Snapper), and Ottelione B (Clive) Douglass F. Taber
26 Stereocontrolled C-O Ring Construction: The Fuwa/Sasaki Synthesis of Attenol A Douglass F. Taber
February
02 The Paquette Synthesis of Fomannosin Douglass F. Taber
09 C-O Ring Containing Natural Products: Paeonilactone B (Taylor), Deoxymonate B (de la Pradilla), Sanguiin H-5 (Spring), Solandelactone A (White), Spirastrellolide A (Paterson) Douglass F. Taber
16 Enantioselective Preparation of Alcohols and Amines Douglass F. Taber
23 Enantioselective Construction of Alkylated Centers Douglass F. Taber
March
02 The Zakarian Synthesis of (+)-Pinnatoxin A Douglass F. Taber
09 Stereocontrolled Construction of Arrays of Stereogenic Centers Douglass F. Taber
16 Best Synthetic Methods: Carbon-Carbon Bond Construction Douglass F. Taber
23 New Methods for Functional Group Conversion Douglass F. Taber
30 Selective Reactions of Alkenes Douglass F. Taber
April
06 The Hoveyda Synthesis of (-)-Clavirolide C Douglass F. Taber
13 Stereoselective C-O Ring Construction: The Oguri-Oikawa Synthesis of Lasalocid A Douglass F. Taber
20 C-O Ring Natural Products: (-)-Serotobenine (Fukuyama-Kan), (-)-Aureonitol (Cox), Salmochelin SX (Gagné), Botcinin F (Shiina), (-)-Saliniketal B (Paterson), Haterumalide NA (Borhan) Douglass F. Taber
27 New Methods for C-N Ring Construction Douglass F. Taber
May
04 The Carter Synthesis of (-)-Lycopodine Douglass F. Taber
11 Alkaloid Synthesis: (-)-Aurantioclavine (Stoltz), (-)-Esermethole (Nakao/Hiyama/Ogoshi), (-)-Kainic Acid (Tomooka), Dasycarpidone (Bennasar), (-)-Cephalotaxine (Ishibashi) and Lysergic Acid (Fujii/Ohno) Douglass F. Taber
18 Functional Group Protection Douglass F. Taber
25 C-C Single Bond Construction Douglass F. Taber
June
01 The Johnson Synthesis of Zaragozic Acid C Douglass F. Taber
08 Construction of Alkenes, Alkynes and Allenes Douglass F. Taber
15 Developments in Alkene Metathesis Douglass F. Taber
22 Total Synthesis by Alkene Metathesis: Amphidinolide X (Urpí /Vilarrasa), Dactylolide (Jennings), Cytotrienin A (Hayashi), Lepadin B (Charette), Blumiolide C (Altmann) Douglass F. Taber
25 Ultrasound-promoted palladium-catalyzed cross coupling reactions Ricardo A. W. Neves Filho
29 Preparation of Benzene Derivatives: The Barrett Syntheses of Dehydroaltenuene B and 15G256b Douglass F. Taber
June
06 The Keck Synthesis of Epothilone B Douglass F. Taber
13 Preparation of Heteroaromatics Douglass F. Taber
20 Enantioselective Synthesis of Alcohols and Amines Douglass F. Taber
25 Application of Ultrasound Irradiation in Carbohydrate Synthesis Ricardo A. W. Neves Filho, Ronaldo N. de Oliveira
27 Enantioselective Construction of Alkylated Stereogenic Centers Douglass F. Taber
August
03 The Overman Syntheses of Nankakurines A and B Douglass F. Taber
10 Enantioselective Organocatalyzed Construction of Carbocyclic Rings Douglass F. Taber
17 Transition Metal Catalyzed Construction of Carbocyclic Rings: (-)-Hamigeran B Douglass F. Taber
24 Intermolecular and Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reactions: Platencin (Banwell), Platensimycin (Matsuo), (+)-Cassaine (Deslongchamps), (-)-Halenaquinone (Trauner) Douglass F. Taber
31 Stereocontrolled Carbocyclic Construction: (-)-Mintlactone (Bates), (-)-Gleenol (Kobayashi), (-)-Vibralactone C (Snider) Douglass F. Taber
September
05 Facile synthesis of amines, amides, imines and hydrazones promoted by ultrasound irradiation Ricardo A. W. Neves Filho, Diogo R. M. Moreira
07 The Trost Synthesis of (-)-Ushikulide A Douglass F. Taber
14 Practical Enantioselective Construction of Arrays of Stereogenic Centers: The Jørgensen Synthesis of the Autoregulator IM-2 Douglass F. Taber
21 Organic Functional Group Interconversion: (-)-β-Conhydrine (Barua) and (+)-6'-Hydroxyarenarol (Anderson) Douglass F. Taber
28 Functionalization of C-H Bonds: The Baran Synthesis of Dihydroxyeudesmane Douglass F. Taber
October
05 The Castle Synthesis of (-)-Acutumine Douglass F. Taber
12 Substituted Benzenes: The Alvarez-Manzaneda Synthesis of (-)-Taiwaniquinone G Douglass F. Taber
19 Heterocycle Construction: The Chang Synthesis of Louisianin C Douglass F. Taber
26 New Methods for Functional Group Conversion Douglass F. Taber
November
02 The Kobayashi Synthesis of (-)-Norzoanthamine Douglass F. Taber
09 Stereocontrolled C-O Ring Construction: The Morimoto Synthesis of (+)-Omaezakianol Douglass F. Taber
16 Complex Cyclic Ethers: (+)-Conocarpan (Hashimoto), (-)-Brevisamide (Satake/Tachibana), (+)-Bruguierol A (Fañanás/Rodríguez), (-)-Berkelic Acid (Snider), and (-)-Aigialomycin D (Harvey) Douglass F. Taber
23 Stereocontrolled Construction of C-N Rings: The Vanderwal Synthesis of Norfluorocurarine Douglass F. Taber
30 Alkaloid Synthesis: Crispine A (Zhou), Cermizine C (Zhang), Tangutorine (Poupon), FR901483 (Kerr), Serratezomine A (Johnston) Douglass F. Taber
December
07 The Davies/Williams Synthesis of (-)-5-epi-Vibsanin E Douglass F. Taber
14 Organocatalytic C-C Ring Construction: (+)-Ricciocarpin A (List) and (-)-Aromadendranediol (MacMillan) Douglass F. Taber
21 Transition Metal-Mediated C-C Ring Construction: The Stoltz Synthesis of (-)-Cyanthiwigin F Douglass F. Taber
28 Stereocontrolled Carbocyclic Construction: The Mulzer synthesis of (-)-Penifulvin A Douglass F. Taber