Recent progress in cyclic aryliodonium chemistry: syntheses and applications

X Peng, A Rahim, W Peng, F Jiang, Z Gu… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hypervalent aryliodoumiums are intensively investigated as arylating agents. They are
excellent surrogates to aryl halides, and moreover they exhibit better reactivity, which allows …

Synthetic and biosynthetic routes to nitrogen–nitrogen bonds

HY He, H Niikura, YL Du, KS Ryan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The nitrogen–nitrogen bond is a core feature of diverse functional groups like hydrazines,
nitrosamines, diazos, and pyrazoles. Such functional groups are found in> 300 known …

The Elusive Structure of Levocetirizine Dihydrochloride Determined by Electron Diffraction

DP Karothu, Z Alhaddad, CR Göb… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Levocetirizine is an orally administrated, second‐generation antihistaminic active
pharmaceutical ingredient that has been used to treat symptoms of allergy and long‐term …

Structure determination of small molecule compounds by an electron diffractometer for 3D ED/MicroED

S Ito, FJ White, E Okunishi, Y Aoyama, A Yamano… - …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
3D electron diffraction (3D ED)/Micro electron diffraction (MicroED) has extended the limits
of crystallography by enabling the determination of three dimensional molecular structures …

Electron diffraction of 3D molecular crystals

A Saha, SS Nia, JA Rodríguez - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Electron crystallography has a storied history which rivals that of its more established X-ray-
enabled counterpart. Recent advances in data collection and analysis have sparked a …

Frontier studies on natural products: Moving toward paradigm shifts

JX Zhao, JM Yue - Science China Chemistry, 2023 - Springer
Natural products (NPs) historically serve as a valuable and productive source of bioactive
compounds for drug development. The discovery of a range of alkaloids in the early 1800s …

Unravelling key enzymatic steps in C-ring cleavage during angucycline biosynthesis

SS Elsayed, HU van der Heul, X Xiao… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Angucyclines are type II polyketide natural products, often characterized by unusual
structural rearrangements through B-or C-ring cleavage of their tetracyclic backbone. While …

Structure elucidation of secondary metabolites: Current frontiers and lingering pitfalls

M DiBello, AR Healy, H Nikolayevskiy… - Accounts of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Analytical methods allow for the structure determination of submilligram
quantities of complex secondary metabolites. This has been driven in large part by …

Micromonospora: A Prolific Source of Bioactive Secondary Metabolites with Therapeutic Potential

S Yan, M Zeng, H Wang, H Zhang - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Micromonospora, one of the most important actinomycetes genera, is well-known as the
treasure trove of bioactive secondary metabolites (SMs). Herein, together with an in-depth …

Flavin-enabled reductive and oxidative epoxide ring opening reactions

BC De, W Zhang, C Yang, A Mándi, C Huang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Epoxide ring opening reactions are common and important in both biological processes and
synthetic applications and can be catalyzed in a non-redox manner by epoxide hydrolases …