• ORGANIC CHEMISTRY OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

    ROBERTO BERLINCK’S RESEARCH GROUP – INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA DE SÃO CARLOS, USP

  • ORGANIC CHEMISTRY OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

    ROBERTO BERLINCK’S RESEARCH GROUP – INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA DE SÃO CARLOS, USP

  • ORGANIC CHEMISTRY OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

    ROBERTO BERLINCK’S RESEARCH GROUP – INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA DE SÃO CARLOS, USP

  • ORGANIC CHEMISTRY OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

    ROBERTO BERLINCK’S RESEARCH GROUP – INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA DE SÃO CARLOS, USP

NEWS

Phytochemistry Letters recognition as outstanding reviewer

Very glad to have been recognized by the Phytochemistry Letters editorship as outstanding reviewer. Good quality and highly professional peer-review is central to science. Very few other human activities benefit of such a direct feedback that contributes to enhance the quality of research and capacity building. Thanks to Professor Simon Gibbons and to the editorial board of Phytochemistry Letters for this very kind recognition.

A new review on marine natural products from marine invertebrates and microorganisms by Brazilian researchers

Among the articles published in 2018 by our group, a new review titled Natural Products from Marine Invertebrates and Microorganisms in Brazil between 2004 and 2017: Still the Challenges, More Rewards covers the research by Brazilian investigators on marine natural products from 2004 until 2017. It is an update of our previous review on the same subject, published in 2004 in the Journal of Natural Products. The fine work performed by the PhD student Laura P. Ióca and by Dr. Karen J. Nicácio comprehensively discuss the research on isolation, structure analysis, biological activities and biosynthesis. Total syntheses of marine natural products performed by Brazilian synthetic chemists is discussed as well, including research by Luiz Carlos Dias (UNICAMP), Ronaldo A. Pilli (UNICAMP), Carlos Roque Duarte Correia (UNICAMP), Fernando A. S. Coelho (UNICAMP), Luiz Cláudio de Almeida Barbosa (UFMG), the later Luiz Fernando da Silva Júnior (USP) and Ângelo da Cunha Pinto (UFRJ). The review clearly shows the growing interest on marine natural products in Brazil during the last 13 years, in particular by the chemistry of marine microbes (bacteria and fungi). The review is one of the articles of the prestigious Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society special issue dedicated to the IUPAC 2017 meeting, held in São Paulo, Brazil. We thank the JBCS editors for the very kind invitation to submit a manuscript to this JBCS special issue. Read the complete open access article here.

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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