Heterocycles are among the well-established classes of compounds, constituting a wide
range of organic molecules. These structural motifs not only have a dominant presence in a …

Podophyllotoxin is an aryltetralin lignan lactone derived from different plants of
Podophyllum. It consists of five rings with four chiral centers, one trans‐lactone and one aryl …

A nickel-catalyzed reductive cascade approach to the efficient construction of
diastereodivergent cores embedded in podophyllum lignans is developed for the first time …

This comprehensive review summarizes the published literature data concerning the
intramolecular Diels–Alder reactions of vinylarenes (the IMDAV reaction) and alkynyl arenes …

In this study, fourteen ingenane-type and nine jatrophane-type diterpenoids were isolated
from Euphorbia kansui, including seven undescribed compounds. Kansuingenol AC have …

The synthetic progress of bioactive 2, 7′-cyclolignans is reviewed. After a short introduction
to biosynthesis and chemoenzymatic synthesis, the chemical synthesis of various …

The styryl dehydro-Diels–Alder reaction with a conjugated diyne is reported. While typical
alkyne–styrene condensation requires elevated temperatures (> 160° C), the application of …

Intramolecular cycloaddition reactions of α-bromostyrene-functionalized amides of
monomethyl fumarate were investigated. The reaction of the amides with Et3N in toluene at …

Domino Knoevenagel-cyclization reactions of styrene substrates, containing an N-(ortho-
formyl) aryl subunit, were carried out with N-substituted 2-cyanoacetamides to prepare …

Domino Knoevenagel-cyclization reactions of N-arylcinnamylamines were carried out with
active methylene reagents, which took place with five competing cyclization mechanisms …