Links to topics covered during the 2016 calendar year in our joint group meetings with the Lee group are collected here.

Total Syntheses of Aflavazole and 14-Hydroxyaflavinine by Hailong Li, Qifeng Chen, Zhaohong Lu, and Ang Li, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 15555–15558 (presented by Rajdip Karmakar, 28 Nov 2016)

Copper-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Silicon Pronucleophiles with Unactivated Alkyl Electrophiles Coupled with Radical Cyclization by Weichao Xue, Zheng-Wang Qu, Stefan Grimme, and Martin Oestreich, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 14222–14225 (presented by Yuanlin Deng, 07 Nov 2016)

Enantioselective Synthesis of (+)-Peganumine A by Cyril Piemontesi, Qian Wang, and Jieping Zhu, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 11148–11151 (presented by Corey Yarbrough, 17 Oct 2016)

Catalytic C−H Arylation of Aliphatic Aldehydes Enabled by a Transient Ligand by Ke Yang, Qun Li, Yongbing Liu, Guigen Li, and Haibo Ge, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 12775–12778 (presented by Nabeelah Kauser, 10 Oct 2016)

Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (−)-Alstoscholarisine A by Xiao Liang, Shi-Zhi Jiang, Kun Wei, and Yu-Rong Yang, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 2560–2562 (presented by Anh, Le, 26 Sep 2016)

Concise Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Cardiotonic Steroids 19-Hydroxysarmentogenin and Trewianin Aglycone by Will Kaplan, Hem Raj Khatri, and Pavel Nagorny, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 7194–7198 (presented by Xinyu Guan, 18 Jun 2016)

Iron(III)-catalysed carbonyl–olefin metathesis by Jacob R. Ludwig, Paul M. Zimmerman, Joseph B. Gianino, and Corinna S. Schindler, Nature 2016, 533, 374–379 (presented by Anh, Le, 28 May 2016)

Total Synthesis of Rubriflordilactone B by Peng Yang, Ming Yao, Jian Li, Yong Li, and Ang Li, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 6964–6968 (presented by Meng Zhao, 21 May 2016)

Copper-Catalyzed Amino Lactonization and Amino Oxygenation of Alkenes Using O‑Benzoylhydroxylamines by Brett N. Hemric, Kun Shen, and Qiu Wang, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 5813–5816 (presented by Saswata Gupta, 14 May 2016)

Synthesis of Eupalinilide E, a Promoter of Human Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Expansion by Trevor C. Johnson, Matthew R. Chin, Tianxu Han, John Paul Shen, Tariq Rana, and Dionicio Siegel, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 6068–6073 (presented by Jenny Martinez, 07 May 2016)

A General Alkyl–Alkyl Cross-Coupling Enabled by Redox-Active Esters and Alkylzinc Reagents by Tian Qin, Josep Cornella, Chao Li, Lara R. Malins, Jacob T. Edwards, Shuhei Kawamura, Brad D. Maxwell, Martin D. Eastgate, Phil S. Baran, Science 2016, 352, 801–805 (presented by Meng Zhao, 30 Apr 2016)

Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Aspidodasycarpine, Lonicerine, and the Proposed Structure of Lanciferine by Yong Li, Shugao Zhu, Jian Li, and Ang Li, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 3982–3985 (presented by Sourav Ghorai, 23 Apr 2016)

Lewis Acid Assisted Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Aryl Methyl Ethers by C–O Bond-Cleaving Alkylation: Prevention of Undesired β-Hydride Elimination by Xiangqian Liu, Chien-Chi Hsiao, Indrek Kalvet, Matthias Leiendecker, Lin Guo, Franziska Schoenebeck, and Magnus Rueping, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 6093–6098 (presented by Corey Yarbrough, 16 Apr 2016)

Total Synthesis of Cryptocaryol A by Enantioselective Iridium-Catalyzed Alcohol C−H Allylation by Felix Perez, Andrew R. Waldeck, and Michael J. Krische, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 5049–5052 (presented by Gena Grabovyi, 09 Apr 2016)

Manganese-Catalyzed Environmentally Benign Dehydrogenative Coupling of Alcohols and Amines to Form Aldimines and H2: A Catalytic and Mechanistic Study by Arup Mukherjee, Alexander Nerush, Gregory Leitus, Linda J. W. Shimon, Yehoshoa Ben David, Noel Angel Espinosa Jalapa, and David Milstein, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 4298–4301 (presented by Nabeelah Kauser, 02 Apr 2016)

Total Synthesis of (–)-Nakadomarin A by J. Stephen Clark and Chao Xu, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 4332–4335 (presented by Saswata Gupta, 26 Mar 2016)

Palladium-catalysed transannular C–H functionalization of alicyclic amines by Joseph J. Topczewski, Pablo J. Cabrera, Noam I. Saper, and Melanie S. Sanford, Nature 2016, 531, 220–224 (presented by Yuanlin Deng, 19 Mar 2016)

Total Synthesis of Gelsenicine via a Catalyzed Cycloisomerization Strategy by Eric T. Newcomb, Phil C. Knutson, Blaine A. Pedersen, and Eric M. Ferreira, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 108–111 (presented by Hyunjin Lee, 12 Mar 2016)

Aerobic Copper-Promoted Radical-Type Cleavage of Coordinated Cyanide Anion: Nitrogen Transfer to Aldehydes To Form Nitriles by Qian Wu, Yi Luo, Aiwen Lei, and Jingsong You, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 2885–2888 (presented by Rajdip Karmakar, 05 Mar 2016)

The Total Synthesis of (–)-Nitidasinœ by Daniel T. Hog, Florian M. E. Huber, Peter Mayer, and Dirk Trauner, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 8513–8517 (presented by Anh Le, 27 Feb 2016)

Total Synthesis of (±œ)-Alstoscholarisine A by Filip Bihelovic and Zorana Ferjancic, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 2569–2572 (presented by Nabeelah Kauser, 20 Feb 2016)

Functionalization of C(sp³)–H bonds using a transient directing group by Fang-Lin Zhang, Kai Hong, Tuan-Jie Li, Hojoon Park, and Jin-Quan Yu, Science 2016, 351, 252–256 (presented by Meng Zhao, 30 Jan 2016)

Total Synthesis and Structural Revision of (+)-Muironolide A by Qing Xiao, Kyle Young, and Armen Zakarian, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 5907–5910 (presented by Rajdip Karmakar, 23 Jan 2016)

Metal-Free CH−CH-Type Cross-Coupling of Arenes and Alkynes Directed by a Multifunctional Sulfoxide Group by José A. Fernández-Salas, Andrew J. Eberhart, and David J. Procter, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 790–793 (presented by Gena Grabovyi, 16 Jan 2016)

Concise Total Synthesis of Enigmazole A by Andreas Ahlers, Teresa de Haro, Barbara Gabor, and Alois Fürstner, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 1406–1411 (presented by Corey Yarbrough, 09 Jan 2016)