Major lignans of sesame sesamin and sesamolin are benzodioxol--substituted furofurans.
Sesamol, sesaminol, its epimers, and episesamin are transformation products found in …

The study aims to communicate the current status regarding the development and
management of the databases on dietary lignans; within the phytochemicals, the class of the …

By rational engineering of amidase, the efficient biocatalytic desymmetrization of meso O-
heterocyclic dicarboxamides for synthesizing both antipodes of functionalized cyclic motifs …

A nickel-catalyzed reductive tandem cyclization of the elaborated β-bromo acetal with a
dibenzoxepin scaffold was invented to strategically construct the remaining two rings in …

The essential oil and the major non-volatile secondary metabolites from the leaves of Piper
subscutatum (Miq.) C. DC.(Family Piperaceae), collected in the Ecuadorian Amazon, were …

Total synthesis of biologically important tetrahydrofuran (THF) lignan natural products with
different substituted types was first summarized, and the construction strategies of THF rings …

A seven-step asymmetric total synthesis of gymnothelignan N is detailed in the current
report. The approach is based on an early-stage one-carbon homologative lactonization …

Herein, we detail a unified synthetic approach to the classical lignan family of natural
products that hinges on divergence from a common intermediate that was strategically …

A photoredox catalyzed [3+ 2] dipolar cycloaddition between acyclic carbonyl ylides
generated from α-cyano epoxides and dipolarophiles is described. This method, influenced …

A general [4+ 1] cyclization reaction of carbonyl nucleophiles with 2-iodomethylallyl
peroxides, which function as unique electrophilic oxygen synthons, for the synthesis of a …