Total Syntheses of Isomeric Spiroacetal Marine Natural Products Attenols A and B

Total Synthesis of Fusaramin, Enabling Stereochemical Elucidation, Structure-Activity Relationship, and Uncovering the Hidden Antimicrobial Activity against Plant Pathogenic Fungi

Fusaramin (1) was isolated as a mitochondrial inhibitor. However, the fungal producer stops producing 1, which necessitates us to supply 1 by total synthesis. We proposed the complete stereochemical structure based on the biosynthetic pathway of sambutoxin. We have established concise and robust total synthesis of 1, enabling us to determine the complete stereochemical structure and to elucidate the structure-activity relationship, and uncover the hidden antiplant pathogenic fungal activity.

Gold-catalyzed alkyne-diol bicycloketalization enables enantioselective divergent total syntheses of attenols

Gold-catalyzed bicycloketalization of alkyne-diols provides synthetic advantages when compared to that of keto-diols under acidic conditions.

Synthesis of chiral propargyl alcohols following the base-induced elimination protocol: application in the total synthesis of natural products

Synthesis of enantiomerically pure propargyl alcohols is one of the most important tools in organic synthesis and “base-induced elimination of β-alkoxy chlorides” could offer the enantiomerically pure propargyl alcohols.

N,N-Dimethylaminobenzoates enable highly enantioselective Sharpless dihydroxylations of 1,1-disubstituted alkenes

A design scenario aimed at exploring beneficial catalyst-substrate π-π stacking electronic interactions in the classical Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylations (SAD) leads to the identification of highly polarizable allylic N,N-dimethylaminobenzoate as a remarkably efficient auxiliary for inducing high levels of enantioselectivities (up to 99% ee) in the traditionally challenging substrate class of 1,1-disubstituted aliphatic alkenes.

Ivorenolide B, an immunosuppressive 17-membered macrolide from Khaya ivorensis: structural determination and total synthesis

Ivorenolide B (1), an unprecedented 17-membered macrolide featuring conjugated acetylenic bonds and four chiral centers, was isolated from Khaya ivorensis. The structure of 1 was fully determined by spectroscopic analysis and total syntheses of its four most possible stereoisomers. Compound 1 showed significant immunosuppressive activity.