Marine organisms have produced a big number of structurally diverse secondary
metabolites with important biological activities as a defense mechanism to the persistent …

Amphidinolides are a family of more than forty macrolides of varying sizes and complex
structures isolated from dinoflagellates of the genus Amphidinium. Although all of them …

A new highly enantioselective domino Michael/hemiketalization reaction of α‐
hydroxyacetophenone with β, γ‐unsaturated α‐keto esters for the synthesis of 2, 2, 4, 5 …

This is a review of papers published in the year 2008 that focus on the synthesis, reactivity,
or properties of compounds containing a carbon-transition metal double or triple bond.

Abstract dinoflagellates amphidinolide group of natural products have drawn the attention of
the synthetic community owing to their natural scarcity, variation in ring size (12‐to 27 …

Chiral nonracemic γ-seleno-α, β-ethylenic esters, when treated with sulfuryl chloride and
ethyl vinyl ether in hexanes, produced α-chloro-β, γ-ethylenic esters in 65− 75% yields, with …

Synthesis of the C7-C23 fragment and its 18R, 19S-diastereomer of iriomoteolide-1a has
been accomplished from the C7-C12 allyl bromide, the C13-C16 vinyl iodide, and the C17 …

A ring-closing metathesis (RCM) approach was envisioned for installing the E double bond
at the C9 and C10 positions of divergolide A, isolated from a mangrove endophyte …

Molecular shape is a presentation of a molecule's three-dimensional structure and its
volume of space and surface electrostatic potential map collectively define the function, eg …

Total synthesis of amphidinolide T3, a 19-membered ring marine macrolide, has been
accomplished using a ring-closing metathesis (RCM) and asymmetric dihydroxylation (AD) …