This review summarizes the current knowledge on lactones, a class of biologically active
natural products isolated from a wide range of living organisms. Butenolide, 5, 6 …

Covering: 2014 up to the third quarter of 2019 Entomopathogens constitute a unique,
specialized trophic subgroup of fungi, most of whose members belong to the order …

This report presents the applications of enantioselective epoxidation of prochiral allylic
alcohols, so called 'Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation', which is frequently referred as …

Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation involves the reaction of an alkene with osmium
tetroxide in the presence of a chiral quinine ligand to form an optically active vicinal diol …

Structurally diverse macrocycles and medium‐sized rings (9–24 membered scaffolds, 22
examples) can be generated through a telescoped acylation/ring‐expansion sequence …

Yamaguchi protocol provides functionalized esters regioselectively from carboxylic acids
and alcohols employing 2, 4, 6‐trichlorobenzoyl chloride as the condensation reagent in the …

Chiral allylsilanes are highly valuable nucleophiles in stereoselective organic synthesis
because of the multitude of asymmetric transformations that they can undergo.[1] For …

More than sixty years after its discovery, the Wittig reaction still is a powerful tool to create
carbon–carbon double bonds. The large diversity of high‐yielding and stereoselective …

Abstract Tricrilactones A–H (1–8), a new family of oligomeric 10‐membered macrolides
featuring collectively five unique ring skeletons, were isolated from a hitherto unexplored …

Cytospolides F–Q (6–17) and decytospolides A and B (18 and 19), 14 unusual nonanolide
derivatives, were isolated from Cytospora sp., an endophytic fungus from Ilex canariensis …