The direct functionalization of C H bonds in organic compounds has recently emerged as a
powerful and ideal method for the formation of carbon–carbon and carbon–heteroatom …

A systematic analysis of all naturally-occurring glycosylated bacterial secondary metabolites
reported in the scientific literature up through early 2013 is presented. This comprehensive …

The war against infectious bacteria is not over! Although vancomycin and glycopeptide
antibiotics have provided a strong last line of defence against many drug‐resistant bacteria …

Containing fully authenticated data on virtually all known natural products, the" Dictionary of
Natural Products", main work, published in 1993 was the end result of over 12 years …

The aldol reaction is one of the most important methods for the stereoselective construction
of polyketide natural products, not only for nature but also for synthetic chemistry. The …

An overview is given of the recent trends in the synthesis of naturally occurring 8-and 9-
membered lactones. During the past three decades of synthetic studies of medium-sized …

1. Introduction Nature has stocked the seas with a seemingly limitless range of diverse and
often highly complex secondary metabolites, which exhibit one or more of a variety of …

The total synthesis of the marine macrolide bryostatin 2 is described. The synthesis plan
relies on aldol and directed reduction steps in order to construct the anti-1, 3-diol array …

Among the frontier challenges in chemistry in the twenty-first century are the interconnected
goals of increasing synthetic efficiency and diversity in the construction of complex …

Enol diisopinocampheylborinates, derived from achiral ethyl and methyl ketones by
enolisation in the presence of tertiary amine bases (iPr2NEt or Et3N), undergo enantio-and …