Coculture of the fungus Fusarium pallidoroseum with the bacterium Saccharopolyspora erythraea was found to produce three new decalin-type tetramic acid analogues related to equisetin. The structures were determined by spectroscopic methods. The absolute configurations were established by circular dichroism spectroscopy and comparing the data with those of equisetin.

The syntheses of three decalin-based tert-thiols displaying varying degrees of solubility in aqueous milieu are described. The S-nitroso derivatives of these compounds have also been prepared and the structures of two of these determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction. These compounds have been designed for studying the interaction of nitric oxide (NO) with thiols under physiological condi...

Mild thermolysis of tert-butyl alkynyl ethers furnishes aldoketenes, which undergo facile [2 + 2] cycloaddition reactions with pendant di- and trisubstituted alkenes. A wide variety of cis-fused cyclobutanones are produced in moderate to high diastereoselectivity and good to excellent yields by this method, and free hydroxyl groups are tolerated in the ene-ynol ether starting materials. Enol-yn...

The addition of allyl magnesium and allyl indium reagents to a key TBS protected norbornenyl building block, synthesised in 6-steps from commercially available 1,1-dimethoxy-2,3,4,5-tetrachlorocyclopentadiene, has been achieved providing the syn addition products with high diastereoselectivity. The subsequent exposure of the addition products to metathesis conditions, in the presence of ethene,...

An overview of the synthetic methods developed to build all the cis-fused stereoisomers of octahydroindole-2-carboxylic acid (Oic) and its -methylated derivative [( Me)Oic] in enantiomerically pure form is presented. Both asymmetric synthetic strategies (auxiliaryor substrate-controlled processes) and procedures based on the resolution of racemic compounds (chemical, enzymatic, and chromatograp...

Tetraarylpyrenes H1-H4 that typify molecular systems with orthogonal planes and lack hydrogen bonding functional groups were designed as new host systems with three distinct domains for guest inclusion. In particular, H2 and H4 hosts are found to include a variety of guest molecules. We have determined 42 crystal structures overall (i) to establish the importance of skeletal features of the hos...

The mol-ecule of the title compound, C(22)H(27)NO(9), an azasugar derivative, consists of one benzene ring and two fused rings, which have the cis arrangement at the ring junctions, and gives a V-shaped geometry. The inter-planar angle between the five- and six-membered rings is 65.69 (11)°. The crystal structure is stablized by weak inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds.

Sesquiterpene lactones (SLs) are a group of secondary metabolites that represent a diverse and unique class of natural products and are important constituent of essential oils, formed from head-to-tail condensation of three isoprene units and subsequent cyclization and oxidative transformation to produce a cis or trans-fused lactone. In this editorial we are going to focus on anticancer, anti-i...

The title compound, C(24)H(37)BrO(3), is a tetra-cyclic diterpenoid with a beyerane skeleton, synthesized by esterification of isosteviol. It comprises a fused four-ring system A/B/C/D. Rings A and B have a chair conformation, whereas ring C is an unsymmetrical distorted chair; the remaining five-membered ring D adopts an envelope conformation. The stereochemistry of the A/B and B/C ring juncti...