Strategies and Tactics in Organic Synthesis

1. The Substrate-Directed Heck-Matsuda Arylations. From Curiosity to a Valuable Synthetic Tool, Carlos Duarte Correia 2. (-)-Berkelic Acid: Lessons Learned from our Investigations on Scalable Total Synthesis, Francisco J. Fañanás 3. Replicating Nature's Schemes with Pericyclic Reactions, Kathlyn A. Parker 4. Total Synthesis of Chinensolide B: Overcoming Functional Group Selectivity and a Mislabeled Bottle of Carvone, Dennis Hall 5. The Synthesis of Borrerial and Flindersial Akaloids via Biosynthesis-Inspired Strategies, Jeremy A. May 6. Synthesis of (±)-Amathaspiramide F: Stereochemical Switch of a [2,3]-Stevens Rearrangement, Uttam Krishan Tambar 7. Halocylopropene Furan Cycloadditions: Application to the Total Synthesis of the Frondosins, Dennis Wright 8. Structure Inspires a New Method that Delivers the Synthesis of Natural Products and Analogs in the Pederin Family, Paul Floreancig 9. Gliocladin C: The Development of Visible Light Mediated, Catalytic Intermolecular Pyrroloindoline-indole Radical Coupling Reaction, Corey Stephenson 10. Adventures in Atropselective Synthesis, Jared Shaw 11. Sleepless Nights: The Total Synthesis of the Anticancer Australian Rainforest Polyketide EBC23, Craig McKenzie Williams 12. Total Synthesis of Crinipellin B, Hee-Yoon Lee