[structure: see text] A stereoselective synthesis of SCH 351448 has been completed. Twelve of the fourteen stereogenic centers were established through chiral enolate reactions, and six key C-C bonds were formed by metathesis reactions.

A palladium catalyzed highly regio- and stereoselective intermolecular tandem reaction of alkynes, CuCl(2) and alkenes by a sequence of chloropalladation/Heck reaction to produce chloro-substituted 1,3-dienes is achieved.

The nitro oxanorbornene adduct derived from the Diels-Alder reaction of ethyl (E)-3-nitroacrylate and furan provides a versatile template for the stereoselective synthesis of hydroxylated derivatives of 2-aminocyclohexanecarboxylic acid (ACHC).

A stereoselective total synthesis of 7,8-O-isopropylidene iriomoteolide-3a has been achieved by using Yamaguchi esterification, Julia-Kocienski olefination, organocatalytic α-oxidation, and ring-closing metathesis reaction as key bond-forming steps.

A general and facile synthesis of enantiopure 1-deoxyazasugars was achieved from stereoselective dihydroxylation of a common synthetic intermediate, piperidine ring fused oxazolidin-2-one, originating from a commercially available starting substrate, chiral aziridine-2-carboxylate, in high yields.

The CH-activation of THF is realized in a zinc-mediated process using a dibromocyclopropane as a crucial additive. The highly regioselective addition to aryl-substituted propiolates as well as the regio- and stereoselective addition to diynes are described.

Fluorescent pyrimidine analogs containing a fused biphenyl unit were prepared in high yields using stereoselective N-glycosylation and Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reactions. The resulting "push-pull" fluorophores exhibit highly solvatochromic emissions from twisted intramolecular charge-transfer (TICT) states.

A new stereoselective synthesis of trisubstituted alkenes is developed. Hydrophosphoryloxylation of haloalkynes provides Z-alkenyl halophosphates, which undergo Pd-catalyzed consecutive cross-coupling reactions to afford regio- and stereodefined trisubstituted alkenes.

The first enantioselective synthesis of (-)-paeonilide is reported. Starting from inexpensive furan-3-carboxylic acid the targeted monoterpene was obtained in 12 steps via an asymmetric cyclopropanation-lactonization cascade and a stereoselective side chain insertion at an acetal-like position.

The enantioselective syntheses of two stereoisomers, (2R,6S,10S) and (2S,6S,10S), of methyl 2,6,10-trimethyldodecanote, out of eight possible isomers, are described , employing the stereoselective hydroboration of (-)-isopulegol (2) and (+)-neo-isopulegol (2a) as the key reaction.