Recent articles – Dec 13th, 2018

From ACS Chemical Biology

Monoamine Biosynthesis via a Noncanonical Calcium-Activatable Aromatic Amino Acid Decarboxylase in Psilocybin Mushroom

From Science Magazine

Right Side, Left Side

Molecular to organismal chirality is induced by the conserved myosin 1D

From the Journal of Natural Products

Structural Revision of Macropodumine A and Structure of 2-Deoxymacropodumine A, Daphniphyllum Alkaloids with 11-Membered Macrolactone Rings

From The Journal of Organc Chemistry

Enantioselective Total Synthesis and Assignment of the Absolute Configuration of the Furo[3,2-a]carbazole Alkaloid Furoclausine-B

From The Journal of the American Chemical Society

Chemical Interventions for the Opioid Crisis: Key Advances and Remaining Challenges

From Marine Drugs

MS/MS-Based Molecular Networking Approach for the Detection of Aplysiatoxin-Related Compounds in Environmental Marine Cyanobacteria

From Nature

Ongoing challenge

Citations strength begins at home

An exciting tool for asymmetric synthesis

How snuggling close affects bats’ microbiome

From Organic Letters

Hypatulone A, a Homoadamantane-Type Acylphloroglucinol with an Intricately Caged Core from Hypericum patulum

Alterbrassicicene A, a Highly Transformed Fusicoccane-Derived Diterpenoid with Potent PPAR-γ Agonistic Activity from Alternaria brassicicola

With a pretty incredible biosynthesis proposal for these isoprene-derived natural products

Ophiorrhines A and B, Two Immunosuppressive Monoterpenoid Indole Alkaloids from Ophiorrhiza japonica

Alstoscholactine and Alstolaxepine, Monoterpenoid Indole Alkaloids with γ-Lactone-Bridged Cycloheptane and Oxepane Moieties from Alstonia scholaris

Biosynthesis of Quinolidomicin, the Largest Known Macrolide of Terrestrial Origin: Identification and Heterologous Expression of a Biosynthetic Gene Cluster over 200 kb

From Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Progress in total synthesis of subincanadine alkaloids and their congeners

Biosynthesis of the uridine-derived nucleoside antibiotic A-94964: Identification and characterization of the biosynthetic gene cluster provide insight into the biosynthetic pathway

Ciliatasecones A-C, three rearranged limonoids from Toona ciliata var. yunnanensis

Biosynthesis of an anti-tuberculosis sesterterpenoid asperterpenoid A

Meroterpene-like compounds derived from β-caryophyllene as potent α-glucosidase inhibitors

Crotonols A and B, two rare tigliane diterpenoid derivatives against K562 cells from Croton tiglium

Biosynthesis of lagopodins in mushroom involves complex network of oxidation reactions

From Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Guest Editorial: Critical Thinking in Education and Research—Why and How?

Nitromethane as a Carbanion Source for Domino Benzoannulation with Ynones: One‐Pot Synthesis of Polyfunctional Naphthalenes and a Total Synthesis of Macarpine

Towards the 150th anniversary of the Markovnikov’s rule

Insights into the Biosynthesis of Cyclic Guanidine Alkaloids from Crambeidae Marine Sponges

A Branched Diterpene Cascade: The Mechanism of Spinodiene Synthase from Saccharopolyspora spinosa

From the European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Stereoselective Syntheses of (+)‐Broussonetine D and (+)‐Australine via a Functionalized Pyrrolidine from an Extended Chiral 1,3‐Oxazine