Nature chose phosphates and chemists should too: How emerging P (V) methods can augment existing strategies

KW Knouse, DT Flood, JC Vantourout… - ACS Central …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Phosphate linkages govern life as we know it. Their unique properties provide the
foundation for many natural systems from cell biology and biosynthesis to the backbone of …

Ideality in context: Motivations for total synthesis

DS Peters, CR Pitts, KS McClymont… - Accounts of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Total synthesis—the ultimate proving ground for the invention and field-testing
of new methods, exploration of disruptive strategies, final structure confirmation, and …

Beyond the approved: target sites and inhibitors of bacterial RNA polymerase from bacteria and fungi

SH Kirsch, FPJ Haeckl, R Müller - Natural Product Reports, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2016 to 2022 RNA polymerase (RNAP) is the central enzyme in bacterial gene
expression representing an attractive and validated target for antibiotics. Two well-known …

Tetrachlorovancomycin: Total Synthesis of a Designed Glycopeptide Antibiotic of Reduced Synthetic Complexity

MJ Moore, P Qin, N Yamasaki, X Zeng… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A technically straightforward total synthesis of a new class of vancomycin analogues of
reduced synthetic complexity was developed that provided tetrachlorovancomycin (1, LLS …

Second Generation Catalytic Enantioselective Nucleophilic Desymmetrization at Phosphorus (V): Improved Generality, Efficiency and Modularity

M Formica, B Ferko, T Marsh… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A broadly improved second generation catalytic two‐phase strategy for the enantioselective
synthesis of stereogenic at phosphorus (V) compounds is described. This protocol …

Mild and chemoselective phosphorylation of alcohols using a Ψ-reagent

M Ociepa, KW Knouse, D He, JC Vantourout… - Organic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
An operationally simple, scalable, and chemoselective method for the direct phosphorylation
of alcohols using a P (V)-approach based on the Ψ-reagent platform is disclosed. The …

The phosphate ester group in secondary metabolites

F Della-Felice, A de Andrade Bartolomeu… - Natural Product …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2000 to mid-2021 The phosphate ester is a versatile, widespread functional group
involved in a plethora of biological activities. Its presence in secondary metabolites …

Cu-catalyzed asymmetric addition of alcohols to β,γ-alkynyl-α-imino esters for the construction of linear chiral N,O-ketals

C Sheng, Z Ling, Y Luo, W Zhang - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
N, O-acetals are part of many synthetic intermediates and important skeletons of numerous
natural products and pharmaceutical drugs. The most straightforward method of the …

Synthesis of P (V)-Stereogenic Phosphorus Compounds via Organocatalytic Asymmetric Condensation

F Che, J Hu, M Liao, Z Luo, H Long, B Li… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Enantioenriched phosphorus (V)-stereogenic compounds, featuring a pentavalent
phosphorus atom as the stereogenic center, are crucial in various natural products, drugs …

Squaramide Organocatalyzed Addition of a Masked Acyl Cyanide to β-Nitrostyrenes

AP Hart, CJ DeGraw, GJ Rustin… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A method for the squaramide-organocatalyzed enantioselective addition of a silyl-protected
masked acyl cyanide (MAC) reagent to various β-nitrostyrenes is described. Reactions are …