Naturally produced halogenated compounds are ubiquitous across all domains of life where
they perform a multitude of biological functions and adopt a diversity of chemical structures …

Enzyme‐mediated cascade reactions are widespread in biosynthesis. To facilitate
comparison with the mechanistic categorizations of cascade reactions by synthetic chemists …

Organohalide is one of the most important and useful compounds in organic chemistry,
broadly embodied in diverse bioactive molecules, organic materials and agrochemicals …

Over the years, Friedel–Crafts (FC) reactions have been acknowledged as the most useful
and powerful synthetic tools for the construction of a special kind of carbon–carbon bond …

Covering: Up to January 2020 Meroterpenoids derived from the polyketide 1, 3, 6, 8-
tetrahydroxynaphthalene (THN) are complex natural products produced exclusively by …

Silacyclobutanes (SCBs), as a key member of the organosilicon family, have received
considerable attention in synthetic chemistry since the silicon–carbon bond can be …

In the past decade Clostridium difficile has become a bacterial pathogen of global
significance. Epidemic strains have spread throughout hospitals, while community acquired …

A Cu/Pd-catalyzed allylboration of alkynes with allyl carbonates and bis (pinacolato) diboron
to afford borylated skipped dienes is reported. Synergistic Cu and Pd catalysis enables this …

Described herein is the first intermolecular σ‐bond exchange reaction between the C− C
bond of cyclopropenones and C− Si bond of (benzo) silacyclobutanes and it proceeds …

Conspectus Natural products are biosynthesized from a limited pool of starting materials via
pathways that obey the same chemical logic as textbook organic reactions. Given the …