Using water, light, air and spirulina to access a wide variety of polyoxygenated compounds

Green oxidations of furans—initiated by molecular oxygen—that give key natural product motifs

(2011) Tamsyn Montagnon et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

Scope and Limitations of the Photooxidations of 2-(α-Hydroxyalkyl)furans: Synthesis of 2-Hydroxy-exo-brevicomin

(2011) Dimitris Noutsias et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Aiming for the Ideal Synthesis

(2010) Tanja Gaich et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

The economies of synthesis

(2009) Timothy Newhouse et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Synthesis at the molecular frontier

(2009) Paul A. Wender et al.   NATURE

Protecting-group-free synthesis as an opportunity for invention

(2009) Ian S. Young et al.   Nature Chemistry

γ-Spiroketal γ-Lactones from 2-(γ-Hydroxyalkyl)furans: Syntheses ofepi-Pyrenolides D and Crassalactone D

(2009) Elias Pavlakos et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Using Singlet Oxygen to Synthesize Polyoxygenated Natural Products from Furans

(2008) Tamsyn Montagnon et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Singlet-Oxygen-Mediated One-Pot Synthesis of 3-Keto-tetrahydrofurans from 2-(β-Hydroxyalkyl) Furans

(2008) Maria Tofi et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS