The Luo Synthesis of Triptonide
Triptonide (3), isolated from the Chinese herb Tripterygium Wilfordii Hook F, displays reversible male contraceptive effects in both mice and monkeys. A key step in the synthesis of 3 by…
Triptonide (3), isolated from the Chinese herb Tripterygium Wilfordii Hook F, displays reversible male contraceptive effects in both mice and monkeys. A key step in the synthesis of 3 by…
The crinipellins are the only tetraquinane natural products. The enone crinipellins have anticancer activity. Hanfeng Ding of Zhejiang University devised a general route to the crinipellins, illustrated by crinipellin F…
1 or 3 h, respectively, at 4 Bioinformatic analysis of AAV genome folding form The putative ssAAV and scAAV genome folding form and hybridization prediction were investigated (http://mfold. rna.albany.edu/q=mfold/DNAFoldingForm). The…
Ced cell proliferation, migration, and/or invasion of endometriotic and endometrial cells of sufferers with endometriosis. To date, several components have been identified that target unique actions within the Wnt/catenin pathway…
High ee halogenated secondary centers and, via activation, oxygenated secondary centers are requisite intermediates for the preparation of enantiomerically-pure natural products and pharmaceuticals. Several methods have recently been reported for…
Tetrodotoxin (4), the lethal principle of pufferfish (and some salamanders!) is a highly-substituted cyclohexane. Buy2179072-33-2 Dirk Trauner of the University of Pennsylvania assembled the intermediate cyclohexane 3 via an intramolecular…
Gedunin (3), isolated from the Indian neem tree Azadirachta indica, modulates the activity of Hsp90. PMID:23907051 En route to 3, Hans Renata of Rice University devised the diastereoselective H-atom transfer…
Retigeranic acid (3), isolated from the Western Himalayas lichen Lobaria retigera, presents a variety of intriguing architectural challenges. Xiaoming Chen and Shao-Hua Wang of Lanzhou University devised a concise route…
The tetraketone aberrarone (3) was isolated from the feathery Caribbean gorgonian Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae. En route to 3, Erick M. Carreira of ETH Zürich devised the one-pot, two-step assembly of the…
Peyssonnoside A (3), isolated from the red alga Peyssonnelia sp., shows promising anti-microbial activity. PMID:24275718 Mingji Dai of Emory University assembled the tetracyclic core of 3 by the H-atom transfer…