Nigricanoside A was isolated from green alga, and its dimethyl ester was found to display potent cytotoxicity. Its scarcity prevented a full structure elucidation, leaving total synthesis as the only means to determine its relative and absolute stereochemistry and to explore its biological activity. Here we assign the stereochemistry of the natural product through enantioselective total synthes...

Nigricanoside A was isolated from green alga, and its dimethyl ester was found to display potent cytotoxicity. Its scarcity prevented a full structure elucidation, leaving total synthesis as the only means to determine its relative and absolute stereochemistry and to explore its biological activity. Here we assign the stereochemistry of the natural product through enantioselective total synthes...

The absolute stereochemistry of longithorone J (1) from the ascidian Aplidium longithorax has been determined using the advanced Mosher method. Based on biosynthetic reasoning and chiroptical data comparison the absolute stereochemistry for longithorone K (2) was also assigned. Longithorone J was tested for cytotoxicity against the cell lines SHSY5Y, HEK293T and A549. Compound 1 showed minimal ...

The crystal structure unequivocally confirms the relative stereochemistry of the title compound, C(6)H(11)FO(5). The absolute stereochemistry was determined by the use of d-galactose as the starting material. The compound exists as a three-dimensional O-H⋯O hydrogen-bonded network with each mol-ecule acting as a donor and acceptor for four hydrogen bonds.

A computer-readable dictionary for protein structure refinement is presented. The dictionary is based on the set of interatomic bonds and bond angles previously derived from small-molecule structures by Engh & Huber [Acta Cryst. (1991), A47, 392-400]. The internal inconsistency of the set is discussed. Some preliminary results derived from several protein structures refined at atomic resolution...

The organometallic chemistry of platinum covers a huge field, as shown by a recent survey covering the crystallographic and structural data of almost one thousand organometallic derivatives. About nine percent of those derivatives exist as isomers and are summarized in this review and include distortion (90 %), cis trans (6%) and ligand isomerism (4%). These are discussed in terms of the coordi...