Editorial
| 2015 Editorial Amos B. Smith, III 1-2 |
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Letters
| A Mild, Diastereoselective Construction of Cyclic and Spirocyclic Ketals Employing a Tandem Photoisomerization/Cyclization Tactic Bo Li, Brett D. Williams, and Amos B. Smith, III 3-5  |
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| N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalyzed Highly Chemoselective Intermolecular Crossed Acyloin Condensation of Aromatic Aldehydes with Trifluoroacetaldehyde Ethyl Hemiacetal Bandaru T. Ramanjaneyulu, Sriram Mahesh, and Ramasamy Vijaya Anand 6-9  |
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| MIDA–Vinylsilanes: Selective Cross-Couplings and Applications to the Synthesis of Functionalized Stilbenes Mark G. McLaughlin, Catherine A. McAdam, and Matthew J. Cook 10-13  |
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| A Claisen Approach to 4′-Ed4T William P. Gallagher, Prashant P. Deshpande, Jun Li, Kishta Katipally, and Justin Sausker 14-17  |
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| Regioselective Synthesis of Vinyl Halides, Vinyl Sulfones, and Alkynes: A Tandem Intermolecular Nucleophilic and Electrophilic Vinylation of Tosylhydrazones Devi Prasan Ojha and Kandikere Ramaiah Prabhu 18-21  |
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| Cobalt-Catalyzed Enantioselective Directed C–H Alkylation of Indole with Styrenes Pin-Sheng Lee and Naohiko Yoshikai 22-25  |
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| Cu(I)-Catalyzed Highly Enantioselective [3 + 3] Cycloaddition between Two Different 1,3-Dipoles, Phthalazinium Dicyanomethanides and Iminoester-Derived Azomethine Ylides Chunhao Yuan, Honglei Liu, Zhenzhen Gao, Leijie Zhou, Yalin Feng, Yumei Xiao, and Hongchao Guo 26-29  |
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| Gold-Catalyzed Intermolecular Nitrene Transfer from 2H-Azirines to Ynamides: A Direct Approach to Polysubstituted Pyrroles Lei Zhu, Yinghua Yu, Zhifeng Mao, and Xueliang Huang 30-33  |
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| Copper-Catalyzed Three-Component Synthesis of Benzothiazolethiones from o-Iodoanilines, Isocyanide, and Potassium Sulfide Pan Dang, Weilan Zeng, and Yun Liang 34-37  |
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| Silver-Catalyzed C–H Trifluoromethylation of Arenes Using Trifluoroacetic Acid as the Trifluoromethylating Reagent Guangfa Shi, Changdong Shao, Shulei Pan, Jingxun Yu, and Yanghui Zhang 38-41  |
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| Enantioselective Construction of Functionalized Thiopyrano-Indole Annulated Heterocycles via a Formal Thio [3 + 3]-Cyclization Xiang Chen, Zheng-Hang Qi, Shao-Yun Zhang, Ling-Pei Kong, Yong Wang, and Xing-Wang Wang 42-45  |
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| Reinvestigation of the Stereochemistry of the C-Glycosidic Ellagitannins, Vescalagin and Castalagin Yosuke Matsuo, Hatsumi Wakamatsu, Mohamed Omar, and Takashi Tanaka 46-49  |
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| The Concise Synthesis of Unsymmetric Triarylacetonitriles via Pd-Catalyzed Sequential Arylation: A New Synthetic Approach to Tri- and Tetraarylmethanes Masakazu Nambo, Muhammad Yar, Joel D. Smith, and Cathleen M. Crudden 50-53  |
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| Highly Efficient Oxidation of Secondary Alcohols to Ketones Catalyzed by Manganese Complexes of N4 Ligands with H2O2 Duyi Shen, Chengxia Miao, Daqian Xu, Chungu Xia, and Wei Sun 54-57  |
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| Rh(III)-Catalyzed Selenylation of Arenes with Selenenyl Chlorides/Diselenides via C–H Activation Songjie Yu, Boshun Wan, and Xingwei Li 58-61  |
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| Pd-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Aryllithium Reagents with 2-Alkoxy-Substituted Aryl Chlorides: Mild and Efficient Synthesis of 3,3′-Diaryl BINOLs Luis M. Castelló, Valentín Hornillos, Carlos Vila, Massimo Giannerini, Martín Fañanás-Mastral, and Ben L. Feringa 62-65  |
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| One-Pot Protocol to Functionalized Benzopyrrolizidine Catalyzed Successively by Rh2(OAc)4 and Cu(OTf)2: A Transition Metal–Lewis Acid Catalysis Relay Hua-Dong Xu, Zhi-Hong Jia, Ke Xu, Hao Zhou, and Mei-Hua Shen 66-69  |
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| Palladium-Catalyzed Synthesis of Six-Membered Benzofuzed Phosphacycles via Carbon–Phosphorus Bond Cleavage Katsuaki Baba, Mamoru Tobisu, and Naoto Chatani 70-73  |
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| Synthesis and Stability of Boratriazaroles Didier Zurwerra, Vincent Quetglas, Daniel P. Kloer, Peter Renold, and Thomas Pitterna 74-77  |
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| Isoquinoline Synthesis by Heterocyclization of Tosylmethyl Isocyanide Derivatives: Total Synthesis of Mansouramycin B Anna Coppola, David Sucunza, Carolina Burgos, and Juan J. Vaquero 78-81  |
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| KOtBu-Mediated Aerobic Transition-Metal-Free Regioselective β-Arylation of Indoles: Synthesis of β-(2-/4-Nitroaryl)-indoles Shailesh Kumar, Vandana Rathore, Ajay Verma, Ch. Durga Prasad, Amit Kumar, Abhimanyu Yadav, Sadhan Jana, Moh. Sattar, Meenakshi, and Sangit Kumar 82-85  |
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| Stereoselective Preparation of Spiro[4.4] Cyclic Compounds by the Photochemical Activation of Oxazoles Noriyoshi Arai, Moe Mizota, and Takeshi Ohkuma 86-89  |
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| Application of Two Direct C(sp3)–H Functionalizations for Total Synthesis of (+)-Lactacystin Shun Yoshioka, Masanori Nagatomo, and Masayuki Inoue 90-93  |
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| Traceless Stereoinduction for the Enantiopure Synthesis of Substituted-2-Cyclopentenones Nanaji Arisetti and Oliver Reiser 94-97  |
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| A Biomimetic Strategy to Access the Silybins: Total Synthesis of (−)-Isosilybin A Benjamin R. McDonald, Antoinette E. Nibbs, and Karl A. Scheidt 98-101  |
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| Cooperative Dyads for Two-Photon Uncaging Eduardo José Cueto Díaz, Sébastien Picard, Vincent Chevasson, Jonathan Daniel, Vincent Hugues, Olivier Mongin, Emilie Genin, and Mireille Blanchard-Desce 102-105  |
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| Organocatalytic Enantioselective Addition of Thiols to Ketimines Derived from Isatins Shuichi Nakamura, Shun Takahashi, Daisuke Nakane, and Hideki Masuda 106-109  |
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| First and Stereoselective Synthesis of an α-(2→5)-Linked Disaccharide of 3-Deoxy-d-manno-oct-2-ulosonic Acid (Kdo) Barbara Pokorny and Paul Kosma 110-113  |
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| Approaches to Polycyclic 1,4-Dioxygenated Xanthones. Application to Total Synthesis of the Aglycone of IB-00208 Jingyue Yang, Daniel Knueppel, Bo Cheng, Douglas Mans, and Stephen F. Martin 114-117  |
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| Silver-Mediated Selective Oxidative Cross-Coupling between C–H/P–H: A Strategy to Construct Alkynyl(diaryl)phosphine Oxide Tao Wang, Songtao Chen, Ailong Shao, Meng Gao, Yangfei Huang, and Aiwen Lei 118-121  |
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| A Concise Total Synthesis of Breitfussin A and B Sunil Kumar Pandey, Yngve Guttormsen, Bengt Erik Haug, Christian Hedberg, and Annette Bayer 122-125  |
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| Total Synthesis of Clavilactone B: A Radical Cyclization–Fragmentation Strategy Hiroshi Suizu, Daisuke Shigeoka, Hiroshi Aoyama, and Takehiko Yoshimitsu 126-129  |
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| Access to Large Cyclic Peptides by a One-Pot Two-Peptide Segment Ligation/Cyclization Process Emmanuelle Boll, Jean-Philippe Ebran, Hervé Drobecq, Ouafâa El-Mahdi, Laurent Raibaut, Nathalie Ollivier, and Oleg Melnyk 130-133  |
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| Direct Regioselective Oxidative Cross-Coupling of Indoles with Methyl Ketones: A Novel Route to C3-Dicarbonylation of Indoles Qinghe Gao, Jingjing Zhang, Xia Wu, Shan Liu, and Anxin Wu 134-137  |
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| The Cyclopentyl Group, As a Small but Bulky Terminal Group, Allows Rapid and Efficient Active Transport Junya Nishiyama, Yoshimasa Makita, and Nobuhiro Kihara 138-141  |
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| One-Pot Process That Efficiently Generates Single Stereoisomers of 1,3-Bisphosphinylpropanes Having Five Chiral Centers He Zhang, Yong-Ming Sun, Yalei Zhao, Zhong-Yang Zhou, Ji-Ping Wang, Nana Xin, Shao-Zhen Nie, Chang-Qiu Zhao, and Li-Biao Han 142-145  |
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| (±)-Melicolones A and B, Rearranged Prenylated Acetophenone Stereoisomers with an Unusual 9-Oxatricyclo[3.2.1.13,8]nonane Core from the Leaves of Melicope ptelefolia Jin-Fang Xu, Hui-Jun Zhao, Xiao-Bing Wang, Zhong-Rui Li, Jun Luo, Ming-Hua Yang, Lei Yang, Wen-Ying Yu, He-Quan Yao, Jian-Guang Luo, and Ling-Yi Kong 146-149  |
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| Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Cycloadditions of Vinylcyclopropanes and in Situ Formed Unsaturated Imines: Construction of Structurally and Optically Enriched Spiroindolenines Ze-Shui Liu, Wen-Ke Li, Tai-Ran Kang, Long He, and Quan-Zhong Liu 150-153  |
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| Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (−)-Leuconoxine via Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalyzed Desymmetrization of a Prochiral Diester Kazuhiro Higuchi, Shin Suzuki, Reeko Ueda, Norifumi Oshima, Emiko Kobayashi, Masanori Tayu, and Tomomi Kawasaki 154-157  |
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| Fully Automated Synthesis of DNA-Binding Py-Im Polyamides Using a Triphosgene Coupling Strategy Lijing Fang, Guiyang Yao, Zhengyin Pan, Chunlei Wu, Heng-Shan Wang, Glenn A Burley, and Wu Su 158-161  |
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| Supported Gold Nanoparticle-Catalyzed Hydration of Alkynes under Basic Conditions Shengzong Liang, Jacek Jasinski, Gerald B. Hammond, and Bo Xu 162-165  |
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| Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of the Enantiomer of 4,12-Dihydroxysterpurene, the Structure Assigned to a Metabolite Isolated from the Culture Broth of Stereum purpureum Ping Lan, Martin G. Banwell, and Anthony C. Willis 166-169  |
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| Photochemical Formation and Cleavage of C–N Bond Pengfei Wang, Wenya Lu, Dattatray Devalankar, and Zhenying Ding 170-172  |
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