Synthesis of novel polyhydroxylated derivatives of decalin is described. The presented methodology consists in a one-pot copper-catalyzed 1,4-addition of vinylmagnesium bromide to sugar-derived cyclohexenone, followed by an aldol reaction with a derivative of but-3-enal. The obtained diene is then subjected to an assisted tandem catalytic sequence: ring-closing metathesis with the subsequent re...

The total synthesis of cytotoxic polyketides myceliothermophins E (1), C (2), and D (3) through a cascade-based cyclization to form the trans-fused decalin system is described. The convergent synthesis delivered all three natural products through late-stage divergence and facilitated unambiguous C21 structural assignments for 2 and 3 through X-ray crystallographic analysis, which revealed an in...

An investigation was carried out to study the feasibility of using 5% nickel/alumina catalysts synthesized with different methods and metal precursors for hydrogenation tetralin. The were characterized atomic absorption spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, X-ray powder diffraction, photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), hydrogen chemisorption, surface area pore volume analyses. tested in a cont...

The reactivity of 3-substituted 4-methyl-4-(3-oxobutyl)-2-cyclohexen-1-ones (1) in the presence of a combination of a Lewis acid and a 1,2-diol was studied. The results suggest several factors that influence 6-membered ring formation, including two types of intramolecular aldol reaction and intramolecular 1,4-addition, due to the C3-substituent, Lewis acid, and the presence of diol. In this stu...

The functionalisation of decalin by means of an "aliphatic Friedel-Crafts" reaction was reported over fifty years ago by Baddeley et al. This protocol is of current relevance in the context of C-H activation and here we demonstrate its applicability to a range of other saturated hydrocarbons. Structural elucidation of the products is described and a mechanistic rationale for their formation is ...

We report on the synthesis and characterization of fluorescent halogen substituted anthracene-bridge-aniline (ABA) supermolecules that undergo structural reorganization on photoexcitation to form transient complexes. The syntheses were achieved in high yields on a large scale and the molecular structures were confirmed by single crystal X-ray diffraction. The photophysics of the ABA supermolecu...

The fractional Klein-Kramers (Fokker-Planck) equation describing the fractal time dynamics of an assembly of fixed axis dipoles rotating in an N-fold cosine potential representing the internal field due to neighboring molecules is solved using matrix continued fractions. The result can be considered as a generalization of the solution for the normal Brownian motion in a cosine periodic potentia...

Die Biosynthese von Calbistrin involviert eine ungewöhnliche dual-funktionelle Polyketid-Synthase, CalA, die beide Teile der Calbistrine synthetisiert. Produktdivergenz wird interessanterweise zwei trans-wirkenden Enzymen kontrolliert, einer Enoylreduktase CalK und C-Methyltransferase CalH, um Decalin- bzw. Polyenanteile zu erhalten. Veresterung beiden Polyketidteile durch Acyltransferase CalD ...