Links to topics covered during the 2015 calendar year in our joint group meetings with the Lee group are collected here.

Ligand-Controlled Divergent C–H Functionalization of Aldehydes with Enynes by Cobalt Catalysts by Rajagopal Santhoshkumar, Subramaniyan Mannathan, and Chien-Hong Cheng, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 16116–16120 (presented by Anh Le, 19 Dec 2015)

A Concise Approach to Paxilline Indole Diterpenes by David T. George, Eric J. Kuenstner, and Sergey V. Pronin, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 15410–15413 (presented by Yuanlin Deng, 12 Dec 2015)

N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalyzed Oxidative Coupling of Alkenes/α-Bromoacetophenones with Aldehydes: A Facile Entry to α,β-Epoxy Ketones by Rambabu N. Reddi, Pragati K. Prasad, and Arumugam Sudalai, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 14150–14153 (presented by Jenny Martinez, 05 Dec 2015)

Total Synthesis of Crotophorbolone by Taro Asaba, Yuki Katoh, Daisuke Urabe, and Masayuki Inoue, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 14457–14461 (presented by Xinyu Guan, 21 Nov 2015)

Conversion of amides to esters by the nickel-catalysed activation of amide C–N bonds by Liana Hie, Noah F. Fine Nathel, Tejas K. Shah, Emma L. Baker, Xin Hong, Yun-Fang Yang, Peng Liu, K. N. Houk, and Neil K. Garg, Nature 2015, 524, 79–83 (presented by Saswata Gupta, 14 Nov 2015)

Total Synthesis of Epoxyeujindole A by Zhaohong Lu, Hailong Li, Ming Bian, and Ang Li, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 13764–13767 (presented by Meng Zhao, 07 Nov 2015)

Photoinduced Copper-Catalyzed Regioselective Synthesis of Indoles: Three-Component Coupling of Arylamines, Terminal Alkynes, and Quinones by Arunachalam Sagadevan, Ayyakkannu Ragupathi, and Kuo Chu Hwang, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 13896–13901 (presented by Corey Yarbrough, 31 Oct 2015)

Pentafulvene for the Synthesis of Complex Natural Products: Total Syntheses of (±œ)-Pallambins A and B by Christian Ebner and Erick M. Carreira, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 11227–11230 (presented by Sourav Ghorai, 17 Oct 2015)

Platinum-Catalyzed, Terminal-Selective C(sp³)–H Oxidation of Aliphatic Amines by Melissa Lee and Melanie Sanford, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 12796–12799 (presented by Nabeelah Kauser, 10 Oct 2015)

Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (–)-Hosieine A by Jie Ouyang, Rui Yan, Xianwei Mi, and Ran Hong, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 10940–10943 (presented by Gena Grabovyi, 03 Oct 2015)

Comparative Catalytic Activity of Group 9 [Cp*M^III] Complexes: Cobalt-Catalyzed C–H Amidation of Arenes with Dioxazolones as Amidating Reagents by Juhyeon Park and Sukbok Chang, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 14103–14107 (presented by Xiaoguang Liu, 26 Sep 2015)

Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (−)-Incarviatone A by Benke Hong, Chao Li, Zhen Wang, Jie Chen, Houhua Li, and Xiaoguang Lei, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 11946–11949 (presented by Rajdip Karmakar, 19 Sep 2015)

Catalytic asymmetric hydroamination of unactivated internal olefins to aliphatic amines by Yang Yang, Shi-Liang Shi, Dawen Niu, Peng Liu, Stephen L. Buchwald, Science 2015, 349, 62−66 (presented by Meng Zhao, 12 Sep 2015)

Palladium-Catalyzed Decarbonylative Dehydration for the Synthesis of α-Vinyl Carbonyl Compounds and Total Synthesis of (–)-Aspewentins A, B, and C by Yiyang Liu, Scott C. Virgil, Robert H. Grubbs, and Brian M. Stoltz, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 11800–11803 (presented by Jenny Martinez, 05 Sep 2015)

Mitsunobu Reactions Catalytic in Phosphine and a Fully Catalytic System by Joseph A. Buonomo and Courtney C. Aldrich, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 13041–13044. (presented by Gena Grabovyi, 29 Aug 2015)

Total Synthesis of Hyperforin by Chi P. Ting and Thomas J. Maimone, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 10516–10519 (presented by Hyunjin Lee, 22 Aug 2015)

Stereoselective Retentive Domino Transmetalations of Secondary Alkyllithium Compounds to Functionalized Secondary Alkylcopper Reagents by Kohei Moriya, Meike Simon, Rasmus Mose, Konstantin Karaghiosoff, and Paul Knochel, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 10963–10967 (presented by Yuanlin Deng, 15 Aug 2015)

An eight-step gram-scale synthesis of (−)-jiadifenolide by Hai-Hua Lu, Michael D. Martinez and Ryan A. Shenvi, Nature Chem. 2015, 7, 604−607 (presented by Corey Yarbrough, 27 Jun 2015)

Ni-Catalyzed Alkenylation of Ketone Enolates under Mild Conditions: Catalyst Identification and Optimization by Michael Grigalunas, Tobias Ankner, Per-Ola Norrby, Olaf Wiest, and Paul Helquist, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 7019–7022 (presented by Nabeelah Kauser, 06 Jun 2015)

Total Synthesis of Schilancitrilactones B and C by Liang Wang, Hengtao Wang, Yihang Li, and Pingping Tang, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 5732–5735 (presented by Sourav Ghorai, 15 May 2015)

Total Synthesis of Diterpenoid Steenkrotin A by Saiyong Pan, Jun Xuan, Beiling Gao, An Zhu, and Hanfeng Ding, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 6905–6908 (presented by Gena Grabovyi, 25 Apr 2015)

Catalytic, Stereospecific syn-Dichlorination of Alkenes by Alexander J. Cresswell, Stanley T.-C. Eey, and Scott E. Denmark, Nature Chem. 2015, 7, 146−152 (presented by Yuanlin Deng, 11 Apr 2015)

Stereochemical Determination of the Leupyrrins and Total Synthesis of Leupyrrin A₁ by Daniel Herkommer, Sebastian Thiede, Paul R. Wosniok, Sandra Dreisigacker, Maoqun Tian, Thomas Debnar, Herbert Irschik, and Dirk Menche, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 4086−4089 (presented by Rajdip Karmakar, 04 Apr 2015)

Synthesis of Dibenzo[c,e]oxepin-5(7H)-ones from Benzyl Thioethers and Carboxylic Acids: Rhodium-Catalyzed Double C–H Activation Controlled by Different Directing Groups by Xi-Sha Zhang, Yun-Fei Zhang, Zhao-Wei Li, Fei-Xian Luo, and Zhang-Jie Shi, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 5478–5482 (presented by Jenny Martinez, 28 Mar 2015)

Total Synthesis and Structural Revision of (+)-Uprolide G Acetate by Liangyu Zhu, Yuan Liu, Renze Ma, and Rongbiao Tong, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 627–632 (presented by Xinyu Guan, 21 Mar 2015)

Aminomethylation of Enals through Carbene and Acid Cooperative Catalysis: Concise Access to β²-Amino Acids by Jianfeng Xu, Xingkuan Chen, Ming Wang, Pengcheng Zheng, Bao-An Song, and Yonggui Robin Chi, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 5161–5165 (presented by Xiaoguang Liu, 14 Mar 2015)

Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (−)-Maoecrystal V by Changwu Zheng, Igor Dubovyk, Kiel E. Lazarski, and Regan J. Thomson, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 17750−17756 (presented by Hyunjin Lee, 07 Mar 2015)

Palladium-Catalyzed Intermolecular Aminocarbonylation of Alkenes: Efficient Access of β‑Amino Acid Derivatives by Jiashun Cheng, Xiaoxu Qi, Ming Li, Pinhong Chen, and Guosheng Liu, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 2480–2483 (presented by Drew Bauman, 28 Feb 2015)

Total Synthesis of Gracilioether F: Development and Application of Lewis Acid Promoted Ketene–Alkene [2+2] Cycloadditions and Late-Stage C–H Oxidation by Christopher M. Rasik and M. Kevin Brown, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 14522–14526 (presented by Nabeelah Kauser, 21 Feb 2015)

N‑Heterocyclic Carbene-Catalyzed Radical Reactions for Highly Enantioselective β‑Hydroxylation of Enals by Yuexia Zhang, Yu Du, Zhijian Huang, Jianfeng Xu, Xingxing Wu, Yuhuang Wang, Ming Wang, Song Yang, Richard D. Webster, and Yonggui Robin Chi, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 2416–2419 (presented by Gena Grabovyi, 14 Feb 2015)

Total Synthesis of Trioxacarcin DC-45-A2 by K. C. Nicolaou, Quan Cai, Bo Qin, Mette T. Petersen, Remi J. T. Mikkelsen, and Philipp Heretsch, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 3074–3078 (presented by Sourav Ghorai, 07 Feb 2015)

Cobalt(III)-Catalyzed Synthesis of Indazoles and Furans by C−H Bond Functionalization/Addition/Cyclization Cascades by Joshua R. Hummel and Jonathan A. Ellman J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 490–498 (presented by Corey Yarbrough, 24 Jan 2015)

Total Synthesis of the Protected Aglycon of Fidaxomicin (Tiacumicin B, Lipiarmycin A3) by Hideki Miyatake-Ondozabal, Elias Kaufmann, and Karl Gademann, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 1933–1936 (presented by Venkata Sabbasani, 17 Jan 2015)