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Molecular editing of bilobalide: Regioselective C-ring lactam formation featured image

Molecular editing of bilobalide: Regioselective C-ring lactam formation

Late-stage diversification of complex natural products enables rapid access to analogues for structure-activity relationship studies. Herein, we report a regioselective …

wenjing-wang

Carbohydrate‐based drug discovery: Synthetic strategies and clinical applications

Carbohydrates are integral to drug discovery, serving as versatile templates for the development of small‐molecule therapeutics. However, their success in antiviral, anticancer, …

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Stephan Scheeff
Antiviral profiling and cellular activation of carbobicyclic nucleoside analogues featured image

Antiviral profiling and cellular activation of carbobicyclic nucleoside analogues

Nucleoside analogues are important antiviral and anticancer agents. In this study, we investigated a new class of nucleoside analogues built on a synthetically accessible …

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Stephan Scheeff

Ligand-directed self-assembling chimeras for targeted protein O-GlcNAcylation

Precise control of protein-specific O-GlcNAcylation in cells remains a major challenge. Chemically induced proximity (CIP) offers a promising path forward, but its application to …

zhihao-guo

Practical access to trisubstituted Morita‐Baylis‐Hillman‐type products through copper‐catalyzed reductive aldol reactions of alkynones

AbstractWe report a convenient and diastereoselective copper‐catalyzed reductive alkynone aldol addition to aldehydes, with pinacolborane as stoichiometric reductant, that results …

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Stephan Scheeff

Lactone-to-lactam editing alters the pharmacology of bilobalide

Precise transformations of natural products (NPs) can fine-tune their physicochemical properties while preserving inherently complex and evolutionarily optimized parent scaffolds. …

xiaoding-jiang
Diastereo- and enantioselective construction of stereochemical arrays exploiting non-classical hydrogen bonding in enolborates featured image

Diastereo- and enantioselective construction of stereochemical arrays exploiting non-classical hydrogen bonding in enolborates

We report a copper-catalyzed reductive aldol addition to aldehydes and ketones, with pinacolborane as stoichiometric reductant, that results in the generation of stereodefined …

matthew-li
Design and synthesis of bicyclo[4.3.0]nonene nucleoside analogues featured image

Design and synthesis of bicyclo[4.3.0]nonene nucleoside analogues

Nucleoside analogues are effective antiviral agents, and the continuous emergence of pathogenic viruses demands the development of novel and structurally diverse analogues. Here, …

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Stephan Scheeff

Making it hard to replicate

Understanding how to harden liquid condensates produced by influenza A virus could accelerate the development of novel antiviral drugs.

billy-wai-lung-ng

Copper-catalyzed reductive Ireland-Claisen rearrangements of propargylic acrylates and allylic allenoates

The copper-catalyzed reductive Ireland-Claisen rearrangement of propargylic acrylates led to 3,4-allenoic acids. The use of silanes or pinacolborane as stoichiometric reducing …

siyuan-guo