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Professor Dean Tantillo @TantilloLab has received the 2025 ACS Edward Leete Award! This national award from the Division of Organic Chemistry honors outstanding contributions to teaching and research in Organic Chemistry. Congratulations! organicdivision.org/blog/new…
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Characterization and Engineering of a Bisabolene Synthase Reveal an Unusual Hydride Shift and Key Residues Critical for Mono-, Bi-, and Tricyclic Sesquiterpenes Formation | Journal of the American Chemical Society @TantilloLab @UCDChem @PKU1898 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
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Azorellolide! How can you not work on a natural product that starts with "Azo"? Great collaboration with @TantilloLab. I have to say my respect for carbocations has enormously gown through this project. They are just too high in energy and have too many options. But you can tame them! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
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A curious case of truncated [1.1.1]propellane oligomerization demonstrates that selective one-pot [2]staffane formation becomes possible with either SF5Cl or CF3SF4Cl through radical polarity matching. Thanks to Beilstein JOC for the invited manuscript! beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/…
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Please check out our crinipellin synthesis @J_A_C_S ! Special thanks to @TantilloLab for the DFT calculations! Concise Total Syntheses of (−)-Crinipellins A and B Enabled by a Controlled Cargill Rearrangement | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
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Check out our recent work on "Cobalt-Catalyzed Deacylative Ipso-C–C Bond Functionalization" out in @JOC_OL @ACSPublications Congratulations👏@ShyamBanjare7 @afreen_sai27358 @NandaTanmayee @Gopalkr51278158 @TantilloLab and all the authors. doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.3c01…
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Concise #TotalSyntheses of (−)-Crinipellins A and B Enabled by a Controlled Cargill Rearrangement by Bo Xu, Ziyao Zhang, Dean J. Tantillo @TantilloLab at @UCDChem, and @MingjiDai at @EmoryChem in @J_A_C_S pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
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This paper by @ClaireMagnani, @TantilloLab, @Joserhern1 and Thomas J. Maimone explores pyridine dearomatization as a tactic in both the total synthesis and biosynthesis of altemicidin. Check it out 👉 go.acs.org/7LZ @UCB_Chemistry
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The manuscript introduces seven (yes, seven) independently optimized methodologies, provides the first structural insight on SF5–cyclobutanes, and explores mechanistic features (accounting for byproduct formation) experimentally and computationally with @TantilloLab.
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In a study appearing in @Nature, @UCDChem researchers from the @TantilloLab step closer to mimicking nature’s mastery of #chemistry by harnessing aliphatic hydrocarbons: lettersandscience.ucdavis.ed…
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Unified Synthesis of 2-Isocyanoallopupukeanane and 9-Isocyanopupukeanane through a "Contra-biosynthetic" Rearrangement (Richmond Sarpong and co-workers) @SarpongGroup @TantilloLab #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Congratulations to Melissa, Jack, Kenta, Isabel, Lynée and our collaborator Zhitao from @TantilloLab on the publication of a total synthesis of pupukeanane natural products in ACIE! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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