Target: Bryce
Stereoselective Total Synthesis of (±)-Pleurospiroketals A and B
Method: Eliseo
Cancelled… Good luck on your oral exam!
Xanthohumol is a wonder drug?
Yet another potential use for XN:
“Importantly, a cheap and orally available DGAT inhibitor, xanthohumol, was found to suppress SARS-CoV-2 replication and the associated pulmonary inflammation in a hamster model.”
SARS-CoV-2 exploits host DGAT and ADRP for efficient replication
Yuan et al. Cell Discovery (2021) 7:100
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-021-00338-2.pdf
11/2 Group Meeting Details
Target: Bryce
Stereoselective Total Synthesis of (±)-Pleurospiroketals A and B
Method: Eliseo
Spotlight: Blaik
Cancelled.
10/19 Group Meeting Details
Postponed
10/5 Group Meeting Details
Target: Layhna
Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (+)-Garsubellin A
Method: Kik
Polymer-Supported-Cobalt-Catalyzed Regioselective Cyclotrimerization of Aryl Alkynes
Spotlight: Vivian
UCLA
9/21 Group Meeting Details
Target: Blaik
[Link] Total Synthesis of Nesteretal A
Method: Yang
[Link] Prebiotic Photochemical Coproduction of Purine Ribo- and Deoxyribonucleosides
Spotlight: Eliseo
[Profile name / Research update; optional — upload slides as PDF]
9/7 Group Meeting Details
Target: Vivian
Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Clionastatins A and B
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jacs.1c07511
Method: Bryce
Exploiting Iminoquinones as Electrophilic at Nitrogen “N+” Synthons for C–N Bond Construction
Spotlight: Kik
Thomas Maimone, UC Berkeley
8/24 Group Meeting Details
Target: Eliseo
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jacs.1c05942
Method: Layhna
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jacs.1c05764
Spotlight: Yang
[Profile name / Research update; optional — upload slides as PDF]
Welcome to our newest group members!
We’ve adopted these two plants which mysteriously appeared in our student office around the time Paul was preparing to leave… 🤔😜
8/10 Group Meeting Details
Target: Mahsa
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jacs.8b13012
Method: Blaik
https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c05690