Synlett 2018; 29(16): 2108-2116
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1609627
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© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

The Invention of New Methodologies: An Opportunity for Dating Natural Products

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Publication History

Received: 12 June 2018

Accepted after revision: 02 July 2018

Publication Date:
14 August 2018 (online)


Abstract

This Account surveys almost two decades of methodological developments and their straightforward applications to the total synthesis of simple natural products. The main directions covered include radical chemistry and cascades, electrophilic catalysis based on coinage metals, and asymmetric synthesis based on bis(sulfoxides) auxiliaries.

1 Introduction

2 Radical Cascades

2.1 N-Cyanamides

2.2 Homolytic Substitution at Sulfur Atom to Give Sultines

3 Electrophilic Catalysis Based on Platinum(II) and Gold(I) Complexes

4 From Alkylydene Bis(sulfoxides) to Chiral Carboxylic Acids

5 Conclusion and Perspectives