Transition metal-promoted biomimetic steps in total syntheses

Epoxide-Opening Cascades Triggered by a Nicholas Reaction: Total Synthesis of Teurilene

(2013) Julio Rodríguez-López et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Biomimetic Dehydrogenative Diels-Alder Cycloadditions: Total Syntheses of Brosimones A and B

(2013) Chao Qi et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Total Synthesis of Kingianins A, D, and F

(2013) Samuel L. Drew et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Bio-Inspired Dimerization Reaction of Tryptophan Derivatives in Aqueous Acidic Media: Three-Step Syntheses of (+)-WIN 64821, (−)-Ditryptophenaline, and (+)-Naseseazine B

(2013) Shinji Tadano et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Biosynthesis of the Iron-Molybdenum Cofactor of Nitrogenase

(2013) Yilin Hu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Osmium-Catalyzed Oxidative Cyclization of Dienes and Their Derivatives

(2013) Ben S. Pilgrim et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Mechanistic Study of the Biomimetic Synthesis of Flavonolignan Diastereoisomers in Milk Thistle

(2013) Hanan S. Althagafy et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Spiro-Ring Formation is Catalyzed by a Multifunctional Dioxygenase in Austinol Biosynthesis

(2013) Yudai Matsuda et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Hirsutellones and beyond: figuring out the biological and synthetic logics toward chemical complexity in fungal PKS-NRPS compounds

(2013) Xu-Wen Li et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Ammonia formation by a thiolate-bridged diiron amide complex as a nitrogenase mimic

(2013) Yang Li et al.   Nature Chemistry

Studies toward the Biomimetic Total Synthesis of (−)-PF-1018

(2013) Robert Webster et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Metal ions control product specificity of isoprenyl diphosphate synthases in the insect terpenoid pathway

(2013) Sindy Frick et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Asymmetric Synthesis and Biosynthetic Implications of (+)-Fusarisetin A

(2012) Jun Yin et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Total Synthesis of Exiguamines A and B Inspired by Catecholamine Chemistry

(2012) Vladimir Sofiyev et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Merochlorins A–D, Cyclic Meroterpenoid Antibiotics Biosynthesized in Divergent Pathways with Vanadium-Dependent Chloroperoxidases

(2012) Leonard Kaysser et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Iridium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Polyene Cyclization

(2012) Michael A. Schafroth et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Diversity of P450 enzymes in the biosynthesis of natural products

(2012) Larissa M. Podust et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Total Synthesis of (±)-Decinine via an Oxidative Biaryl Coupling with Defined Axial Chirality

(2012) Zhen-Hua Shan et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (S)-Bisoranjidiol, an Axially Chiral Bisanthraquinone

(2012) Erin E. Podlesny et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Biomimetic Synthesis of 5,6-dihydro-glaucogenin C: Construction of the Disecopregnane Skeleton by Iron(II)-Promoted Fragmentation of an α-Alkoxy Hydroperoxide

(2011) Jinghan Gui et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Bioinspired terpene synthesis: a radical approach

(2011) José Justicia et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Total Synthesis of (+)-seco-C-Oleanane via Stepwise Controlled Radical Cascade Cyclization

(2011) Victoriano Domingo et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Total Synthesis of the Potent Androgen Receptor Antagonist (−)-Arabilin: A Strategic, Biomimetic [1,7]-Hydrogen Shift

(2011) Hee Nam Lim et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Stereoselective Vanadium-Dependent Chloroperoxidase in Bacterial Antibiotic Biosynthesis

(2011) Peter Bernhardt et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Comparative Characterization of Fungal Anthracenone and Naphthacenedione Biosynthetic Pathways Reveals an α-Hydroxylation-Dependent Claisen-like Cyclization Catalyzed by a Dimanganese Thioesterase

(2011) Yanran Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Isolation of a Bis-Iodurated Tetra-THF as a Trace Product from the Oxidation of Squalene with RuO4 and Its Double Ring Expansion to a Novel bis-THF-bis-THP Compound

(2011) Vincenzo Piccialli et al.   MOLECULES

Crystal structure of oxygen-evolving photosystem II at a resolution of 1.9 Å

(2011) Yasufumi Umena et al.   NATURE

Total Synthesis of Coralloidolides A, B, C, and E

(2010) Thomas J. Kimbrough et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Total Synthesis and Evaluation of a Key Series of C5-Substituted Vinblastine Derivatives

(2010) Porino Va et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Enantioselective Polyene Cyclization via Organo-SOMO Catalysis

(2010) Sebastian Rendler et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Trinuclear metal clusters in catalysis by terpenoid synthases

(2010) Julie A. Aaron et al.   PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY

Discovery of a novel one-step RuO4-catalysed tandem oxidative polycyclization/double spiroketalization process. Access to a new type of polyether bis-spiroketal compound displaying antitumour activity

(2010) Vincenzo Piccialli et al.   TETRAHEDRON

Expedient synthesis of ialibinones A and B by manganese(III)-mediated oxidative free radical cyclisation

(2010) Nigel S. Simpkins et al.   TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

The Biosynthetic Logic of Polyketide Diversity

(2009) Christian Hertweck   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Total synthesis of chiral biaryl natural products by asymmetric biaryl coupling

(2009) Marisa C. Kozlowski et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

The polyketide cyclase RemF fromStreptomyces resistomycificuscontains an unusual octahedral zinc binding site

(2009) Laura Silvennoinen et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Perylenequinone Natural Products: Total Synthesis of Hypocrellin A

(2009) Erin M. O’Brien et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Total Synthesis of Vinblastine, Vincristine, Related Natural Products, and Key Structural Analogues

(2009) Hayato Ishikawa et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Concise, Biomimetic Total Synthesis of (+)-Davanone

(2009) Karen C. Morrison et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Gold(I)-Catalyzed Cascade Cyclization of Allenyl Epoxides

(2009) Michael A. Tarselli et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Total synthesis of fomitellic acid B

(2009) Makoto Yamaoka et al.   TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

Dynamic Stereochemistry Transfer in a Transannular Aldol Reaction: Total Synthesis of Hypocrellin A

(2008) Erin M. O'Brien et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Asymmetric Oxidative Cation/Olefin Cyclization of Polyenes: Evidence for Reversible Cascade Cyclization

(2008) Charles A. Mullen et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Halogenation Strategies In Natural Product Biosynthesis

(2008) Christopher S. Neumann et al.   CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY

Regio- and Stereoselective Biomimetic Synthesis of Oligostilbenoid Dimers from Resveratrol Analogues: Influence of the Solvent, Oxidant, and Substitution

(2008) Saraswati S. Velu et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Mechanistic Study of Asymmetric Oxidative Biaryl Coupling: Evidence for Self-Processing of the Copper Catalyst to Achieve Control of Oxidase vs Oxygenase Activity

(2008) J. Brian Hewgley et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Structure of (E)-4-Hydroxy-3-methyl-but-2-enyl Diphosphate Reductase, the Terminal Enzyme of the Non-Mevalonate Pathway

(2008) Ingo Rekittke et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Biomimetic synthesis of the IDO inhibitors exiguamine A and B

(2008) Matthew Volgraf et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

First Total Synthesis of (−)-Achilleol B: Reassignment of Its Relative Stereochemistry

(2008) Jesús F. Arteaga et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

In vitro reconstitution and crystal structure of p-aminobenzoate N-oxygenase (AurF) involved in aureothin biosynthesis

(2008) Y. S. Choi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Direct Coupling of Catharanthine and Vindoline to Provide Vinblastine:  Total Synthesis of (+)- andent-(−)-Vinblastine

(2007) Hayato Ishikawa et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Biomimetic Synthesis of the Shimalactones

(2007) Vladimir Sofiyev et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS