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I'm still 'out of the office' just now - on holiday with my family back in Embra (Edinburgh to non-natives), but the conference ended yesterday, so I thought I'd write a bit about what was discussed. The gist of the conference was five days of organic synthesis - and only one lecture theatre, so no [...]...
Stoltz and Enquist. Nature, 2008, 453, 1228. DOI: 10.1038/nature07046. We're going high-concept again, here… but before it all gets complex, let's examine the why before the how. The cyanthiwigins are pretty diverse biological agents, with antimicrobial and antineoplastic activities, along with nerve growth factor stimulation; this particular beastie has some moderate cytoxicity [...]...
Burton, Me and Kemmit. 'Diastereocontrolled Synthesis of Hetero- and Carbocycles via Manganese(III) and Copper(II): Towards a Novel Prostaglandin Total Synthesis' (Thesis, Oxford), 2008, On my desk, pending corrections. Observant readers will remember my disappearing off the face of the blogosphere around Christmas (I'm looking at you, McClory…), citing some lame excuse about a thesis or somethin...
Leighton, Tran and Lombardi. Org. Lett., 2008, ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/ol8011869. A nice little Org Lett, this; basically the story of one key transformation, but let's look at the target first. Manzacidin C would appear to have a fairly interesting biological profile, including α-adrenoceptor blocking, but apparently there hasn't been enough isolated to be [...]...
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