“Black Swan Events” in Organic Synthesis

Asymmetric catalysis with peptides

(2011) Helma Wennemers   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Large-Scale Applications of Transition Metal-Catalyzed Couplings for the Synthesis of Pharmaceuticals

(2011) Javier Magano et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

What Do Medicinal Chemists Actually Make? A 50-Year Retrospective

(2011) W. Patrick Walters et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

Toward More “Ideal” Polyketide Natural Product Synthesis: A Step-Economical Synthesis of Zincophorin Methyl Ester

(2011) Tyler J. Harrison et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis of macrocyclic natural products by catalyst-controlled stereoselective ring-closing metathesis

(2011) Miao Yu et al.   NATURE

Catalytic Z-selective olefin cross-metathesis for natural product synthesis

(2011) Simon J. Meek et al.   NATURE

Recent advances in acyclic stereocontrol

(2011) Alexander G. O’Brien   TETRAHEDRON

Asymmetric organocatalytic cycloadditions

(2011) Hélène Pellissier   TETRAHEDRON

Total Synthesis of (−)-Mersicarpine

(2010) Rie Nakajima et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Diamine ligands in copper-catalyzed reactions

(2010) David S. Surry et al.   Chemical Science

A Synthesis of an Ionomycin Calcium Complex

(2009) Zhanghua Gao et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Catalytic Enantioselective Olefin Metathesis in Natural Product Synthesis. Chiral Metal-Based Complexes that Deliver High Enantioselectivity and More

(2009) Amir H. Hoveyda et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Gold-Catalyzed Intramolecular Allylic Amination of 2-Tosylaminophenylprop-1-en-3-ols. A Concise Synthesis of (±)-Angustureine

(2009) Prasath Kothandaraman et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

A Formal Synthesis of Swainsonine by Gold-Catalyzed Allene Cyclization

(2009) Roderick W. Bates et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Practical Aspects of Recent Asymmetric Phase-Transfer Catalysis

(2008) Keiji Maruoka   ORGANIC PROCESS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Synthesis and application of chiral monodentate phosphines in asymmetric hydrogenation

(2007) Giulia Erre et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS