Concise Syntheses of Strychnine and Englerin A: the Power of Reductive Cyclizations Triggered by Samarium Iodide

Total Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of (−)-Englerin A and B: Synthesis of Analogues with Improved Activity Profile

(2011) Lea Radtke et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Samarium diiodide induced ketyl-(het)arene cyclisations towards novel N-heterocycles

(2011) Christine Beemelmanns et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

A Brief Synthesis of (−)-Englerin A

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

Total Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of (−)-9-Deoxy-englerin A

(2011) Dmitry B. Ushakov et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

A synthesis of strychnine by a longest linear sequence of six steps

(2011) David B. C. Martin et al.   Chemical Science

A Short Formal Total Synthesis of Strychnine with a Samarium Diiodide Induced Cascade Reaction as the Key Step

(2010) Christine Beemelmanns et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Enantioselective Synthesis of (−)-Englerins A and B

(2010) Kian Molawi et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Asymmetric, Protecting-Group-Free Total Synthesis of (−)-Englerin A

(2010) Qianghui Zhou et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Uncovering the Mechanistic Role of HMPA in the Samarium Barbier Reaction

(2010) Kimberly A. Choquette et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Dynamic Ligand Exchange in Reactions of Samarium Diiodide

(2010) Dhandapani V. Sadasivam et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Enantioselective Formal Synthesis of (−)-Englerin A via a Rh-Catalyzed [4 + 3] Cycloaddition Reaction

(2010) Jing Xu et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Total Synthesis and Absolute Configuration of the Guaiane Sesquiterpene Englerin A

(2009) Matthieu Willot et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A Dialdehyde Cyclization Cascade: An Approach to Pleuromutilin

(2009) Matthew D. Helm et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Samarium Diiodide Mediated Reactions in Total Synthesis

(2009) K. C. Nicolaou et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Total Synthesis of Strychnine

(2009) Miwako Mori   HETEROCYCLES

Studies on the Mechanism, Selectivity, and Synthetic Utility of Lactone Reduction Using SmI2and H2O

(2009) Dixit Parmar et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis and Reactions of the Pestalotiopsin Skeleton

(2008) Thomas M. Baker et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A Ring Size-Selective Reduction of Lactones Using SmI2and H2O

(2008) Lorna A. Duffy et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mechanistic Study of Samarium Diiodide-HMPA Initiated 5-exo-trigKetyl−Olefin Coupling: The Role of HMPA in Post-Electron Transfer Steps

(2008) Dhandapani V. Sadasivam et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis of (+)-Cortistatin A

(2008) Ryan A. Shenvi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Total Synthesis of (−)-Kendomycin

(2008) Jason T. Lowe et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Englerin A, a Selective Inhibitor of Renal Cancer Cell Growth, fromPhyllanthus engleri

(2008) Ranjala Ratnayake et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Mechanistic Studies on the Roles of Cosolvents and Additives in Samarium(II)-Based Reductions

(2008) Robert Flowers et al.   SYNLETT