Group Seminar Schedule 2023

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Date	Lecture	Lit. Review	Mech. Problem
6-4-23	Horror Autotoxicus: Small Molecule Kinase Inhibitors in Immunology (Rerick, 2023)	N/A	Truax
6-10-23	Mark A. Murcko (Eberle, 2023)	Truax	Bedekar
8-12-23	Electroorganic Chemistry: Silicon, Phosphorus, and Sulfur (Jiang, 2023)	Bedekar	Li
8-26-23	Bedekar	Li	Pokle
10-14-23	Li	Pokle	Jafarzadeh Bedoustani
10-28-23	Pokle	Jafarzadeh Bedoustani	Neigenfind

A

Acridine Alkaloids (Lockner, 2006)
Acylsilane Chemistry (Dixon, 2011)
Agrochemistry: Insecticides (Cherney, 2011)
Ajmaline and Sarpagine Alkaloids (Newhouse, 2006)
Alkane Hydroxylation (Voica, 2009)
All-Carbon Spirocycles (Cherney, 2012)
Allenes (Dao, 2012)
Al Padwa (Krawczuk, 2009)
Alkaloid Photochemistry (Eastman, 2006)
Alois Fürstner (O’Malley, 2006)
Amphetamines and Trace Amines (Harwood, 2020)
Angewandte Chemie Year in Review: 1991 (Chong, 2022)
Angewandte Chemie Year in Review: 1992 (Rerick, 2020)
Angewandte Chemie Year In Review 1993 (Eberle, 2020)
Angewantde Chemie Year in Review 1994 (Xu, 2018)
Angewandte Chemie Year in Review: 1995 (Harwood, 2017)
Angewandte Chemie Year in Review: 1996 (Martinez, 2012)
Angewandte Chemie Year in Review: 1997 (Zeng, 2017)
Angewandte Chemie Year in Review: 1998 (Lo, 2012)
Angewandte Chemie Year in Review: 2004 (Guerrero, 2005)
Antidepressant and Anxiolytic Drugs (Eberle, 2020)
Antiparasitic drugs: malaria and the forgotten ones (Oberg, 2014)
(The) Anomeric Effect (Krawczuk, 2005)
Anti-Baldwin Cyclizations (Wengryniuk, 2013)
Antipsychotic Drugs (Rerick, 2021)
Aphidicolin (Khoroosi, 2005)
Approaches Towards: 1985 to 2005 (See, 2016)
(The) Art & Science of Natural Products Chemistry: Koji Nakanishi (Lin, 2004)
(The) Art & Science of Natural Products Chemistry: William Fenical & Satoshi Omura (DeMartino, 2004)
Arthur J. Birch (Hafensteiner, 2005)
Aryldiazonium Chemistry (Brückl, 2011)
Ate Complexes (deGruyter, 2017)
Atropisomerism in Drug Design (Pollatos, 2023)
Atroposelective Biaryl Synthesis (Gulder, 2008)
Aziridines in Synthesis (Jessing, 2007)

B

Barry Snider (Krawczuk, 2007)
The Barton Family Tree (Barton, 2017)
BCSJ 1986-1990 (Kanda, 2015)
Bernhard Witkop (Maue, 2006)
Beyond the Rule of 5 (Hayashi, 2021)
Bimetallic Complex in Organic Synthesis (Qin, 2015)
The Big Grabowski (Cernijenko, 2014)
Biginelli and Related Reactions (DeMartino, 2003)
Biocatalysis (Gulder, 2009)
Bioisosteres v2 – Recent Trends and Tactics (Smith, 2020)
Biotech: A High Stakes Table for Science (Garrido-Castro, 2022)
Biotin (Shenvi, 2003)
Birch Reduction (Barton, 2018)
Bismuth in Organic Synthesis (Lockner, 2007)
Block One Metals in Organic Chemistry (Cherney, 2013)
Boehringer Ingelheim (Edwards, 2015)
Boron (Farmer, 2014)
Boron Catalysis (Kanda, 2018)
Borrowing Hydrogen (Seiple, 2010)
Bruce Maryanoff (Holte, 2013)
Bull. Soc. Chim. Fr. 1990–1997: Open Access (McClymont, 2017)
Buried Treasures: Cascades We Haven’t Seen (Shenvi, 2003)
BYU Emeritus Professors in Organic Chemistry (Wilde, 2014)

C

C–C Bond Activation (Luzung, 2009)
Camptothecin (Chen, 2007)
Cannabinoids (Harwood, 2020)
Cation-Radical Cycloadditions (Su, 2007)
Carbocyclic Propellanes (Lopchuk, 2014)
Carbohydrate Chemistry (Knouse, 2018)
Cardiovascular Drugs (Merchant, 2018)
Cascade Reactions (Reisberg, 2018)
Cembranoid Natural Products (Newhouse, 2007)
Cepharamine and Related Alkaloids (Mitsos, 2005)
Charged Natural Products (Chong, 2022)
Cheletropic Reactions (Martinez, 2013)
Chemistry in Germany: The Young Generation (Götz, 2011)
Chemistry of Cultural Heritage (Palkowitz, 2021)
Chemistry of Sex (Bi, 2020)
Chemistry of 1-Acyl Pyridiniums (Lin, 2006)
Chemistry of π-Extended Molecules (Kanda, 2016)
Chemists with Named Oxidations (Simke, 2015)
Can. J. Chem. 1980-1985 (McClymont, 2015)
Cladiellin, Briarellin, Asbestinin & Sarcodictyin (Maimone, 2007)
Classic Corey Tetrahedron Letter’s (Shenvi, 2006)
Classic Terpene Syntheses (Maimone, 2005)
Classics in Chemische Berichte (Schöne, 2008)
Classics in Helvetica Chimica Acta (Biskup, 2007)
Classics in Semisynthesis (Kanda, 2017)
Classics in Tetrahedron Letters (Richter, 2003)
Clayton H. Heathcock (Luzung, 2008)
Cobalt in Organic Synthesis (Foo, 2009)
Computer-Assisted Organic Syntheis (Maimone, 2006)
Conservation of Helical Asymetry (Burns, 2005)
Controversial Mechanisms in Organic Synthesis (Seiple, 2010)
Coriolin & Related Natural Products (Gallagher, 2004)
Corrin Chemistry Cliff Notes (Burns, 2007)
Covalent Drugs: Trends, Mechanisms, & Warheads (Smith, 2022)
Creativity from the Chiral Pool: Amino Acids (deGruyter, 2017)
Creativity from the Chiral Pool: Carvone (Rosen, 2012)
Creativity from the Chiral Pool: Sugar Edition (Martinez, 2014)
Curiosities in Biosynthesis: Lessons and Revelations (Chong, 2023)
Cyclobutanes in Organic Synthesis (Foo, 2012)
Cycloisomerizations in Synthesis (Dam, 2008)
Cyclopentane Synthesis (O’Malley, 2005)

E

E.J. Corey: B-Sides (Newhouse, 2010)
Ed Vedejs (Newhouse, 2007)
Ekkehard Winterfeldt (Maue, 2006)
Electrochemical Flow Reactors (Chen, 2020)
Electrochemistry in Synthesis (Ambhaikar, 2005)
Electroorganic Chemistry (Rosen, 2014)
Electroorganic Chemistry: Choice of Electrodes (Kawamata, 2016)
Electroorganic Chemistry: Silicon, Phosphorus, and Sulfur (Jiang, 2023)
Electrophilic Nitrogen (Lockner, 2009)
Energy Source Chemistry (Shi, 2009)
Epidemics and Pandemics (Xu, 2020)
Ernest Wenkert (DeMartino, 2005)
EROS: Vol. I and II (Gutekunst, 2012)
EROS: Vol. III and IV (Rodriguez, 2013)
EROS: Vol. V and VI (Martinez, 2015)
EROS: Vol.VII and VIII (See, 2017)
Erythronolide and Erythromycin (Ishihara, 2009)
η-Complex I: Activation of Diene and Arene (Tang, 2020)
Eugene E. van Tamelen (Lo, 2015)
Extremes (Knouse 2019)

F

FDA Approved Drugs: 2015-2019 (Barton 2019)
FDA Drug Approvals: 2020 (Bielecki, 2022)
Fischer Carbenes (Chen, 2007)
Flash Vacuum Pyrolysis (Holte, 2012)
“Flatland”: Logic and Methods in the Synthesis of Benzenoids (McKerrall, 2011)
Fluorinated Synthons(Gianatassio, 2013)
Fluorination of Organic Compounds (Su, 2008)
Food Chemistry: An Organic Perspective (Peters, 2019)
Fragmentation Reactions in Synthesis (Shenvi, 2005)
Frederick Ziegler (Lewis, 2009)
Fundamentals of Small Molecule Virology (Harwood, 2021)
Furans & Thiophene Synthesis: Cliff Notes (Shenvi, 2004)
Furans in the Synthesis of Complex Molecules (Rodriguez, 2022)

G

G Protein-Coupled Receptor Drugs (Barton, 2019)
Germacranes (Usui, 2011)
George Büchi (Stratton, 2017)
Gems of German Angewandte Chemie in Context (Teske, 2019)
Get the F Out! C-F Bond Functionalization (Pitts, 2020)
Gilbert Stork (Burns, 2006)
Gordon W. Gribble (Gianatassio, 2014)
Graphene Chemistry (Feu, 2018)
Guaianes and Xanthanes (Cherney, 2011)
Guanidine Derivatives (Yan, 2012)

H

Haloselectivity in Heterocycles (Gutekunst, 2010)
Hallucinogens(McKerral, 2013)
Helvetica Chimica Acta 2015 (Tian, 2016)
Henry Rapoport (Foo, 2013)
Hetero-spirocycles (See, 2017)Hidden and Evident Symmetry in Total Synthesis (Sofiadis, 2021)
“Hidden Gems” in Chemistry Letters (Shi, 2010)
High Energy Materials (Rodriguez, 2012)
Higher Order Cycloadditions in Synthesis (O’Malley, 2006)
Highlights in Peptide and Protein Synthesis (Malins, 2016)
Hisashi Yamamoto (Tang, 2022)
Horror Autotoxicus: Small Molecule Kinase Inhibitors in Immunology (Rerick, 2023)
Human Performance Enhancing Substances (Smith, 2020)
Hydrogen Atom Transfer (Lo, 2014)
Hydrogen Bonding in Synthesis (Seiple, 2009)
Hypervalent Iodine (Lo, 2013)

I

Indole & Pyrrole Synthesis: Cliff Notes (Richter, 2004)
Indolizidine Alkaloids (Richter, 2006)
Infamous Drugs Recalled from the Market (Ociepa, 2022)
Iridium in Synthesis (Guerrero, 2005)
Iron-Oxo and Iron-Nitrido Compounds (Navratil, 2020)
Isao Kuwajima (Kanda, 2017)
Isocyanide Chemistry (Gaich, 2009)
Isoquinoline Alkaloids (Shi, 2006)
Isosteres in Medicinal Chemistry (Mitsos, 2006)
Isoxazoles & Isothiazoles in Synthesis (Mitsos, 2004)

J

J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans 1: 1975-1979 (Tang, 2019)
J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 1: 1985–1989 (Gu, 2018)
Jack Baldwin (Georgiades, 2006)
Jan-Erling Bäckvall (Lockner, 2008)
JACS Year in Review: 1971 (O’Malley, 2003)
Year in Review: JACS 1976 (Pollatos, 2021)
JACS Year in Review: 1977 (Stratton, 2016)
JACS Year in Review: 1978 (Peters, 2015)
JACS Year in Review: 1979 (Edwards, 2015)
JACS Year in Review: 1980 (Krawczuk, 2006)
JACS Year in Review: 1981 (Rodriguez, 2011)
JACS Year in Review: 1982 (Guerrero, 2003)
JACS Year in Review: 1983 (Cherney, 2010)
JACS Year in Review: 1984 (Shi, 2007)
JACS Year in Review: 1985 (Hernandez, 2008)
JACS Year in Review: 1986 (Gutekunst, 2008)
JACS Year in Review: 1987 (Holte, 2010)
JACS Year in Review: 1988 (McKerrall, 2010)
JACS Year in Review: 1989 (Foo, 2011)
JACS Year in Review: 1990 (Shenvi, 2004)
JACS Year in Review: 1991 (Villaume, 2012)
JACS Year in Review: 1992 (Dao, 2012)
JACS Year in Review: 1993 (Rosen, 2012)
JACS Year in Review: 1994 (Burns, 2005)
JACS Year in Review: 1995 (See, 2013)
JACS Year in Review: 1996 (Farmer, 2013)
JACS Year in Review 1997 (Bi, 2018)
JACS Year in Review: 1998 (Gallagher, 2020)
JACS Year in Review: 1999 (Bedekar, 2022)
James D. White (Bi, 2019)
JOC Year in Review: 1972 (Zografos, 2003)
JOC Year in Review: 1974 (DeMartino, 2003)
Year in Review: JOC 1983 (Rodriguez, 2021)
JOC Year in Review: 1984 (Ishihara, 2007)
JOC Year in Review: 1985 (Voica, 2007)
JOC Year in Review: 1986 (Wilde, 2013)
JOC Year in Review: 1987 (Smith, 2019)
JOC Year in Review 1988 (Clay, 2017)
JOC Year in Review: 1989 Part I (deGruyter, 2015)
JOC Year in Review: 1989 Part II (Barton, 2004)
JOC Year in Review: 1990 (Hafensteiner, 2004)
JOC Year in Review: 1991 (Cernijenko, 2012)
JOC Year in Review: 1992 (Chu, 2015)
JOC Year in Review: 1993 (Merchant, 2015)
JOC Year in Review: 1994 (Simke, 2015)
JOC Year in Review: 1995 (Knouse, 2015)
JOC Year In Review: 1996 (Smith, 2017)
JOC Year in Review 1997 (Palkowitz, 2018)
José Barluenga (Mendoza, 2011)
Johann Mulzer (Kuttruff, 2013)
Journal of Chemical Eduation (Peters, 2017)
Jun-ichi Yoshida (Laudadio, 2021)

K

Kinetic Isotope Effect (Péter, 2023)
Keisuke Suzuki (Umemiya, 2016)
Ketenes (Dao, 2014)
Kharasch Reaction (Foo, 2010)
Kinase Inhibitors: An Introduction (Peters. 2019)
Kinetics in Process Chemistry (DeMartino, 2006)

L

Larry Overman (Risgaard, 2013)
Laurencia Derived Natural Products (McClymont, 2016)
Leo A. Paquette (Rodriguez, 2011)
Lewis N. Mander (Cherney, 2009)
Liebigs Annalen (Thomé, 2014)
Ligands in Transition Metal Catalysis (Farmer, 2016)
Lignan Synthesis (DeMartino, 2005)
Limonoids (Renata, 2011)
Lipids: Fatty Acids) (Smith, 2016)
Liquid Crystals (Bauer, 2021)
The Longest Yard (Stratton, 2020)
Lupin Alkaloids (Seiple, 2006)

M

Macrocyclizations (Reisberg, 2020)
Madeleine M. Joullié (Eberle 2019)
Manganese (III) in Organic Chemistry (Voica, 2010)
Mark A. Murcko (Eberle, 2023)
Masahiro Miura (Smith, 2018)
Masakatsu Shibasaki (Ishihara, 2011)
Masterpieces in Process Chemistry (Richter, 2004)
Masterpieces in Process Chemistry-II (Richter, 2006)
Maximum Entropy Production Principle (Renata, 2010)
Memory of Chirality (Voica, 2008)
Mesoionic Compounds (Edwards, 2017)
Metal Clusters (Smith, 2017)
Metal Pairs (Cornella, 2016)
Metals in Negative Oxidation States (Palkowitz, 2018)
Methods for Dearomatization (Voica, 2010)
Mind-Bending Mechanisms (Hafensteiner, 2004)
Misassigned Natural Products: A Synthesis Perspective (Xu, 2022)
Modern Computational Organic Chemistry (McKerrall, 2014)
Modern Sulfone Synthesis Focused on SO2 Surrogates (Choi, 2020)
Molecular Electronics (Foo, 2011)
Molybdenum in Organic Synthesis (Michaudel, 2012)
Morphine/ Codeine (Li, 2005)
Multi-component Reactions: Cliff Notes (Ambhaikar, 2004)

N

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes (Eastman, 2007)
Natural Products as Covalent Inhibitors (He, 2019)
Natural Products Inspired Drug Discovery (Chu, 2017)
Nature’s Catalysts: A Search for Synthetic Equivalents I (Rodriguez, 2010)
Nickel in Synthesis (Guerrero, 2004)
Nitrogen-centered Radicals (Richter, 2004)
Nitroso and Nitro Compounds (Dao, 2014)
Non-Aldol Polyketide Synthesis (Renata, 2012)
Nucleoside Chemistry (O’Hara, 2012)
Nucleosides: Anomeric Radicals (Gianatassio, 2013)

Nucleoside Triphosphate Synthesis (Zhang, 2021)

O

Opioids: Natural and Synthetic (Harwood, 2019)
Organic Chemistry from the Eastern Bloc (Voica, 2011)
Organic Chemistry from SIOC (Shang, 2018)
Organic Chemistry in Spain – Research Institutions (Padial, 2019)
Organic Electron Donors (Lo, 2015)
Organic Process Research & Development (Ishihara, 2011)
Organic Reactions in the Presence of Water (Wang, 2016)
Organic Synthesis from France (Michaudel, 2010)
Organoaluminium in Synthesis (Jessing, 2010)
Organocopper Chemistry (Farmer, 2017)
Organoiron Chemistry (Hafensteiner, 2003)
Organomanganese Chemistry (McClymont 2017)
Organometallic Oddities (O’Malley, 2003)
Organometallics 1990-1997 (Holte, 2010)
Organophosphorus Chemistry (Kanda, 2019)
Organoruthenium Chemistry (Xu, 2019)
Organotitanium Chemistry (Merchant, 2017)
Orphan Drugs (Xu, 2021)
Overbred Intermediates (Wilde, 2013)

P

P-Stereogenic Compounds (Rosen, 2014)
Paul Scheuer and John Faulkner (O’Malley, 2005)
Paul G. Gassman (See, 2015)
Pentacyclic Triterpenes(Michaudel, 2013)
Pentaleno Lactone (DeMartino, 2004)
Perfume Chemistry (Petricci, 2009)
Peroxide Chemistry in Organic Syntheses (Yuan, 2014)
Peter J. Stang (Martinez, 2016)
Pharmacokinetics (Reisberg, 2019)
Photochemistry of Enones (Guerrero, 2003)
Photochemical Rearrangements (Gallagher, 2020)
Photoinduced Electron Transfer in the Days of Yore (Yan, 2014)
Phillip D. Magnus (Yan, 2013)
Platonic Hydrocarbons (Shenvi, 2006)
Poly(ß-carbonyl)s (Michaudel, 2011)
Polyene Cyclizations (Harwood, 2018)
Polymer Chemistry (Holte, 2011)
Polyphenols (Peters, 2016)
Practical Process Chemistry (Toriyama, 2016)
Prebiotic Chemistry I (Maimone, 2008)
Prebiotic Chemistry II (Newhouse, 2008)
Prenylated Indole Alkaloids (Guerrero, 2004)
Prodrug Strategies (Gu, 2021)
Proton Coupled Electron Transfer (Tang, 2020)
Pyridine N-Oxides (Weickgenannt, 2012)
Pyridine Synthesis: Cliff Notes (O’Malley, 2004)
Pyridinium Photochemistry (Richter, 2005)
Pyrrolidine Containing Natural Products (Meanwell, 2021)

Q

Quadrone (Guerrero, 2004)
Quinones (Villaume, 2013)

R

Radicals and Transition Metals: The Kochi Legacy (Werner, 2013)
Redox-Active Ligands(Michaudel, 2013)
Reductive Couplings (Young, 2009)
Remote Functionalization (Nakamura, 2018)
Retrosynthetic Analysis – Vol. 1 (Gianatassio, 2012)
Revisiting Nickel (Edwards, 2016)
Rhenium Chemistry (Chiodi, 2020)
Ring Annulations (Martinez, 2016)
Robert V. Stevens (Shi, 2008)
Robert G. Bergman (deGruyter, 2015)
Robert E. Ireland (Herrmann, 2015)
Robert H. Crabtree (Neigenfind, 2022)
Rolf Huisgen (Hafensteiner, 2004)
Ronald Breslow (Renata, 2009)
Royal Chemistry (Renata, 2010)
The Rubromycins (Renata, 2008)
The Russian Journal of Organic Chemistry (Cernijenko, 2014)
Ryanodol (Shenvi, 2004)
Ryōji Noyori (Saito, 2020)

S

Samarium (II) Iodide (Lewis, 2010)
Samuel J. Danishefsky (Reisburg, 2017)
Saturated Heterocycles Containing Heteroatoms at 1 & 4 positions (Chu, 2017)
Scott E. Denmark (McKerrall, 2012)
Selected Syntheses’ 2010-20 (Gallagher, 2021)
Semisynthesis (Green, 2012)Sigma-Aldrich (Gianatassio, 2015)
Shikimic Acid (Ambhaikar, 2005)
Shu Kobayashi (Dao, 2013)
Short Stories in Pharmaceutical Discovery, Process, and Isotopic Labeling (Michaudel, 2011)
Silicon and Germanium (Hafensteiner, 2003)
Singlet Oxygen in Organic Synthesis (McKerrall, 2011)
Sir James Fraser Stoddart (Ishihara, 2010)
Statistics in Synthetic Chemistry (Farmer, 2017)
Stegane Natural Products (Zografos, 2004)
Stemona Alkaloids (Maimone, 2006)
Stephen Buchwald (Maimone, 2009)
Stephen F. Martin (Zeng, 2018)
Steroids (See, 2014)
Steve Davies + Ian Paterson (Merchant, 2017)
Steven Ley (Jorgensen, 2012)
Stoichiometric Enamine Chemistry (Lockner, 2007)
Sulfur Containing Natural Products (Knouse, 2019)
Sulfur in Organic Synthesis (Yan, 2016)
Sulfur Ylides (Gnaim, 2020)
Syntheses Over 40 Steps (Gutekunst, 2011)
Synthesis of Imidazoles (Zografos, 2004)
Synthesis of Vitamin D (Gu, 2018)

T

Tactics and Strategies in Complex Peptide Synthesis (Pollatos, 2022)
Taxol (Wilde, 2012)
Taste Enhancers and Blockers (Bi, 2021)
Terpene Ring Construction – Case Studies (Gu, 2020)
Teruaki Mukaiyama (Ishihara, 2008)
Tetracycline (Lin, 2005)
Tetrahedron Total Syntheses in the 1980s (Gui, 2015)
Tetrodotoxin (Vasan, 2003)
The Chemistry Behind Antibody-Drug Conjugation (Sella, 2014)
The Chemistry of Color (Eberle, 2022)
The Magic Methyl (Rerick, 2021)
Therapeutic Protein Degradation (Edwards, 2018)
Thienamycin (Richter, 2004)
Three-Membered Heterocycles: Two (or more) Heteroatoms (deGruyter, 2016)
Tigliane, Daphnane, Ingenane, Lathyrane Diterpenes (Seiple, 2007)
Tohru Fukuyama (Rosen, 2013)
Tom Hoye (Edwards, 2017)
Topically Applied Drugs (Merchant, 2016)
Total Synthesis of Gelsemium Alkaloids (Gao, 2020)
Total Synthesis of the Daphniphyllum Alkaloids (Palkowitz, 2020)
Total Synthesis from India (Merchant, 2015)
Total Syntheses of Natural Products without Stereocenters (Li, 2016)
Traditional Chinese Medicine (Gutekunst, 2009)
Transannular Reactions (Jessing, 2009)
Transition Metal Oxo Chemistry (McClymont, 2019)
Transition Metal Photochemistry (Farmer, 2015)
Treatment of Diabetes (Kingston, 2018)
Triplet Oxygen in Organic Synthesis (McClymont, 2018)
Triquinanes (Weidner, 2012)

U

Unused Elements in Organic Synthesis: Thallium, Tellurium, Lead (Wilde, 2014)

V

Vindoline (Mitsos, 2004)
Vinigrol (Burns, 2007)
Vinyl Sulphones (Shi, 2008)
(The) Vetivane Sesquiterpenes (Burns, 2004)

W

W. Clark Still (Lockner, 2010)
What’s in a Name?
Which Hof(f)man(n) is Which? (Young, 2008)
Wittig Rearrangements (Gallagher, 2003)
Wolfgang Oppolzer (Biskup, 2006)

Y

Ynamines (Seiple, 2008)

Z

“Z” (Yan, 2014)

Companies

Biotech: A High Stakes Table for Science (Garrido-Castro, 2022)
Boehringer Ingelheim (Edwards, 2015)
Dow (Chu, 2016)
Dupont (Villaume, 2014)
Sigma-Aldrich (Gianatassio, 2015)

Drug Classes

Amphetamines and Trace Amines (Harwood, 2020)
Antidepressant and Anxiolytic Drugs (Eberle, 2020)
Antipsychotic Drugs (Rerick, 2021)
Bioisosteres v2 – Recent Trends and Tactics (Smith, 2020)
Cannabinoids (Harwood, 2020)
Cardiovascular Drugs (Merchant, 2018)
Covalent Drugs: Trends, Mechanisms, & Warheads (Smith, 2022)
FDA Approved Drugs: 2015-2019 (Barton 2019)
FDA Drug Approvals: 2020 (Bielecki, 2022)
G Protein-Coupled Receptor Drugs (Barton, 2019)
Horror Autotoxicus: Small Molecule Kinase Inhibitors in Immunology (Rerick, 2023)
Human Performance Enhancing Substances (Smith, 2020)
Infamous Drugs Recalled from the Market (Ociepa, 2022)
Kinase Inhibitors: An Introduction (Peters. 2019)
The Longest Yard (Stratton, 2020)
Natural Products as Covalent Inhibitors (He, 2019)
Opioids: Natural and Synthetic (Harwood, 2019)
Orphan Drugs (Xu, 2021)
Prodrug Strategies (Gu, 2021)
Therapeutic Protein Degradation (Edwards, 2018)
Treatment of Diabetes (Kingston, 2018)

Elements

Aluminium in Synthesis (Jessing, 2010)
Organocopper Chemistry (Farmer, 2017)
Bismuth in Organic Synthesis (Lockner, 2007)
Block One Metals in Organic Chemistry (Cherney, 2013)
Boron (Farmer, 2014)
Cobalt in Organic Synthesis (Foo, 2009)
Electroorganic Chemistry: Silicon, Phosphorus, and Sulfur (Jiang, 2023)
Iridium in Synthesis (Guerrero, 2005)
Organoiron Chemistry (Hafensteiner, 2003)
Organomanganese chemistry (McClymont, 2017)
Molybdenum in Organic Synthesis (Michaudel, 2012)
Nickel in Synthesis (Guerrero, 2004)
Organophosphorus Chemistry (Kanda, 2019)
Revisiting Nickel (Edwards, 2016)
Organoruthenium Chemistry (Xu, 2019)
Rhenium Chemistry (Chiodi, 2020)
Silicon and Germanium (Hafensteiner, 2003)
Singlet Oxygen in Organic Synthesis (McKerrall, 2011)
Sulfur Containing Natural Products (Knouse, 2019)
Sulfur in Organic Synthesis (Yan, 2016)
Organotitanium Chemistry (Merchant, 2017)
Triplet Oxygen in Organic Synthesis (McClymont, 2018)
Transition Metal Oxo Chemistry (McClymont, 2019)
Unused Elements in Organic Synthesis: Thallium, Tellurium, Lead (Wilde, 2014)

Journals

Angewandte Chemie Year in Review: 1991 (Chong, 2022)
Angewandte Chemie Year in Review: 1992 (Rerick, 2020)
Angewandte Chemie Year In Review 1993 (Eberle, 2020)
Angewantde Chemie Year in Review 1994 (Xu, 2018)
Angewandte Chemie Year in Review: 1995 (Harwood, 2017)
Angewandte Chemie Year in Review: 1996 (Martinez, 2012)
Angewandte Chemie Year in Review: 1997 (Zeng, 2017)
Angewandte Chemie Year in Review: 1998 (Lo, 2012)
Angewandte Chemie Year in Review: 2004 (Guerrero, 2005)
BCSJ 1986-1990 (Kanda, 2015)
Bull. Soc. Chim. Fr. 1990–1997: Open Access (McClymont, 2017)
Can. J. Chem. 1980-1985 (McClymont, 2015)
Classics in Chemische Berichte (Schöne, 2008)
Classics in Helvetica Chimica Acta (Biskup, 2007)
Gems of German Angewandte Chemie in Context (Teske, 2019)
Helvetica Chimica Acta 2015 (Tian, 2016)
“Hidden Gems” in Chemistry Letters (Shi, 2010)
J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans 1: 1975-1979 (Tang, 2019)
J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 1: 1985–1989 (Gu, 2018)
JACS Year in Review: 1971 (O’Malley, 2003)
Year in Review: JACS 1976 (Pollatos, 2021)
JACS Year in Review: 1977 (Stratton, 2016)
JACS Year in Review: 1978 (Peters, 2015)
JACS Year in Review: 1979 (Edwards, 2015)
JACS Year in Review: 1980 (Krawczuk, 2006)
JACS Year in Review: 1981 (Rodriguez, 2011)
JACS Year in Review: 1982 (Guerrero, 2003)
JACS Year in Review: 1983 (Cherney, 2010)
JACS Year in Review: 1984 (Shi, 2007)
JACS Year in Review: 1985 (Hernandez, 2008)
JACS Year in Review: 1986 (Gutekunst, 2008)
JACS Year in Review: 1987 (Holte, 2010)
JACS Year in Review: 1988 (McKerrall, 2010)
JACS Year in Review: 1989 (Foo, 2011)
JACS Year in Review: 1990 (Shenvi, 2004)
JACS Year in Review: 1991 (Villaume, 2012)
JACS Year in Review: 1992 (Dao, 2012)
JACS Year in Review: 1993 (Rosen, 2012)
JACS Year in Review: 1994 (Burns, 2005)
JACS Year in Review: 1995 (See, 2013)
JACS Year in Review: 1996 (Farmer, 2013)
JACS Year in Review 1997 (Bi, 2018)
JACS Year in Review: 1998 (Gallagher, 2020)
JACS Year in Review: 1999 (Bedekar, 2022)
JOC Year in Review: 1972 (Zografos, 2003)
JOC Year in Review: 1974 (DeMartino, 2003)
Year in Review: JOC 1983 (Rodriguez, 2021)
JOC Year in Review: 1984 (Ishihara, 2007)
JOC Year in Review: 1985 (Voica, 2007)
JOC Year in Review: 1986 (Wilde, 2013)
JOC Year In Review: 1987 (Smith, 2019)
JOC Year in Review 1988 (Clay, 2017)
JOC Year in Review: 1989 Part I (deGruyter, 2015)
JOC Year in Review: 1989 Part II (Barton, 2004)
JOC Year in Review: 1990 (Hafensteiner, 2004)
JOC Year in Review: 1991 (Cernijenko, 2012)
JOC Year in Review: 1992 (Chu, 2015)
JOC Year in Review: 1993 (Merchant, 2015)
JOC Year in Review: 1994 (Simke, 2015)
JOC Year in Review: 1995 (Knouse, 2015)
JOC Year In Review: 1996 (Smith, 2017)
JOC Year in Review: 1997 (Palkowitz, 2018)
Journal of Chemical Eduation (Peters, 2017)
Liebigs Annalen (Thomé, 2014)
Organic Process Research & Development (Ishihara, 2011)
Organometallics 1990-1997 (Holte, 2010)
The Russian Journal of Organic Chemistry (Cernijenko, 2014)
Tetrahedron Total Syntheses in the 1980s (Gui, 2015)

Natural Product Synthesis

Acridine Alkaloids (Lockner, 2006)
Ajmaline and Sarpagine Alkaloids (Newhouse, 2006)
Alkaloid Photochemistry (Eastman, 2006)
Antiparasitic drugs: malaria and the forgotten ones (Oberg, 2014)
Aphidicolin (Khoroosi, 2005)
Approaches Towards: 1985 to 2005 (See, 2016)
Biotin (Shenvi, 2003)
Camptothecin (Chen, 2007)
Cembranoid Natural Products (Newhouse, 2007)
Cepharamine and Related Alkaloids (Mitsos, 2005)
Cladiellin, Briarellin, Asbestinin & Sarcodictyin (Maimone, 2007)
Classic Corey Tetrahedron Letter’s (Shenvi, 2006)
Classic Terpene Syntheses (Maimone, 2005)
Classics in Semisynthesis (Kanda, 2017)
Coriolin & Related Natural Products (Gallagher, 2004)
Delphinine (Ambhaikar, 2004)
Dendrobine (O’Malley, 2004)
Dietary Supplements (Chu, 2015)
Discorhabdin Alkaloids (Krawczuk, 2006)
Erythronolide and Erythromycin (Ishihara, 2009)
Germacranes (Usui, 2011)
Guaianes and Xanthanes (Cherney, 2011)
Hidden and Evident Symmetry in Total Synthesis (Sofiadis, 2021)
Indolizidine Alkaloids (Richter, 2006)
Isoquinoline Alkaloids (Shi, 2006)
Laurencia Derived Natural Products (McClymont, 2016)
Lignan Synthesis (DeMartino, 2005)
Limonoids (Renata, 2011)
Lipids: Fatty Acids) (Smith, 2016)
Lupin Alkaloids (Seiple, 2006)
Misassigned Natural Products: A Synthesis Perspective (Xu, 2022)
Morphine/ Codeine (Li, 2005)
Non-Aldol Polyketide Synthesis (Renata, 2012)
Overbred Intermediates (Wilde, 2013)
Pentacyclic Triterpenes(Michaudel, 2013)
Pentaleno Lactone (DeMartino, 2004)
Polyene Cyclizations (Harwood, 2018)
Polyphenols (Peters, 2016)
Prenylated Indole Alkaloids (Guerrero, 2004)
Pyrrolidine Containing Natural Products (Meanwell, 2021)
Quadrone (Guerrero, 2004)
The Rubromycins (Renata, 2008)
Ryanodol (Shenvi, 2004)
Selected Syntheses’ 2010-20 (Gallagher, 2021)
Semisynthesis (Green, 2012)
Shikimic Acid (Ambhaikar, 2005)
Stegane Natural Products (Zografos, 2004)
Stemona Alkaloids (Maimone, 2006)
Steroids (See, 2014)
Syntheses Over 40 Steps (Gutekunst, 2011)
Synthesis of Vitamin D (Gu, 2018)
Taxol (Wilde, 2012)
Terpene Ring Construction – Case Studies (Gu, 2020)
Tetrodotoxin (Vasan, 2003)
Tetracycline (Lin, 2005)
Total Synthesis of the Daphniphyllum Alkaloids (Palkowitz, 2020)
Total Synthesis of Gelsemium Alkaloids (Gao, 2020)
Thienamycin (Richter, 2004)
Tigliane, Daphnane, Ingenane, Lathyrane Diterpenes (Seiple, 2007)
Total Synthesis from India (Merchant, 2015)
Total Syntheses of Natural Products without Stereocenters (Li, 2016)
Traditional Chinese Medicine (Gutekunst, 2009)
Triquinanes (Weidner, 2012)
(The) Vetivane Sesquiterpenes (Burns, 2004)
Vindoline (Mitsos, 2004)
Vinigrol (Burns, 2007)

Organic Functionality

Acylsilane Chemistry (Dixon, 2011)
Allenes (Dao, 2012)
Aryldiazonium Chemistry (Brückl, 2011)
Ate Complexes (deGruyter, 2017)
Aziridines in Synthesis (Jessing, 2007)
Carbocyclic Propellanes (Lopchuk, 2014)
Chemistry of 1-Acyl Pyridiniums (Lin, 2006)
Cyclobutanes in Organic Synthesis (Foo, 2012)
Cyclopentane Synthesis (O’Malley, 2005)
Diazo Chemistry (Rodriguez, 2019)
Electrophilic Nitrogen (Lockner, 2009)
η-Complex I: Activation of Diene and Arene (Tang, 2020)
Fischer Carbenes (Chen, 2007)
Guanidine Derivatives (Yan, 2012)
Pyridinium Photochemistry (Richter, 2005)
Iron-Oxo and Iron-Nitrido Compounds (Navratil, 2020)
Isocyanide Chemistry (Gaich, 2009)
Isosteres in Medicinal Chemistry (Mitsos, 2006)
Ketenes (Dao, 2014)
Modern Sulfone Synthesis Focused on SO2 Surrogates (Choi, 2020)
N-Heterocyclic Carbenes (Eastman, 2007)
Nitrogen-centered Radicals (Richter, 2004)
Nitroso and Nitro Compounds (Dao, 2014)
Poly(ß-carbonyl)s (Michaudel, 2011)
Pyridine N-Oxides (Weickgenannt, 2012)
All-Carbon Spirocycles (Cherney, 2012)
Sulfur Ylides (Gnaim, 2020)
Stoichiometric Enamine Chemistry (Lockner, 2007)
The Magic Methyl (Rerick, 2021)
Vinyl Sulphones (Shi, 2008)
Ynamines (Seiple, 2008)

Other Molecule Classes

Agrochemistry: Insecticides (Cherney, 2011)
Atropisomerism in Drug Design (Pollatos, 2023)
Bimetallic Complex in Organic Synthesis (Qin, 2015)
DNA Chemistry (Peters, 2017)
Carbohydrate chemistry (Knouse, 2018)
Charged Natural Products (Chong, 2022)
Chemistry of π-Extended Molecules (Kanda, 2016)
Diketopiperazines (Stratton, 2018)
Double the Structure Double the Fun (Cheng, 2022)
Fluorinated Synthons(Gianatassio, 2013)
Furans & Thiophene Synthesis: Cliff Notes (Shenvi, 2004)
Furans in the Synthesis of Complex Molecules (Rodriguez, 2022)
Graphene Chemistry (Feu, 2018)
Hallucinogens(McKerral, 2013)
High Energy Materials (Rodriguez, 2012)
Highlights in Peptide and Protein Synthesis (Malins, 2016)
Indole & Pyrrole Synthesis: Cliff Notes (Richter, 2004)
Isoxazoles & Isothiazoles in Synthesis (Mitsos, 2004)
Masterpieces in Process Chemistry (Richter, 2004)
Masterpieces in Process Chemistry-II (Richter, 2006)
Mesoionic Compounds (Edwards, 2017)
Metal Clusters (Smith, 2017)
Natural Products Inspired Drug Discovery (Chu, 2017)
Nucleoside Chemistry (O’Hara, 2012)
Nucleosides: Anomeric Radicals (Gianatassio, 2013)
Nucleoside Triphosphate Synthesis (Zhang, 2021)
Perfume Chemistry (Petricci, 2009)
Platonic Hydrocarbons (Shenvi, 2006)
Practical Process Chemistry (Toriyama, 2016)
P-Stereogenic Compounds (Rosen, 2014)
Pyridine Synthesis: Cliff Notes (O’Malley, 2004)
Quinones (Villaume, 2013)
Saturated Heterocycles Containing Heteroatoms at 1 & 4 positions (Chu, 2017)
Short Stories in Pharmaceutical Discovery, Process, and Isotopic Labeling (Michaudel, 2011)
Synthesis of Imidazoles (Zografos, 2004)
Taste Enhancers and Blockers (Bi, 2021)
The Chemistry Behind Antibody-Drug Conjugation (Sella, 2014)
Three-Membered Heterocycles: Two (or more) Heteroatoms (deGruyter, 2016)
Topically Applied Drugs (Merchant, 2016)

People

Al Padwa (Krawczuk, 2009)
Alois Fürstner (O’Malley, 2006)
Arthur J. Birch (Hafensteiner, 2005)
Barry Snider (Krawczuk, 2007)
Bernhard Witkop (Maue, 2006)
The Big Grabowski (Cernijenko, 2014)
Bruce Maryanoff (Holte, 2013)
BYU Emeritus Professors in Organic Chemistry (Wilde, 2014)
Chemistry in Germany: The Young Generation (Götz, 2011)
Classic Corey Tetrahedron Letter’s (Shenvi, 2006)
Clayton H. Heathcock (Luzung, 2008)
David Milstein (Prochnow, 2013)
Derek H. R. Barton (Gutekunst, 2010)
Dieter Enders (Hermann, 2019)
Dieter Seebach (Holte, 2011)
Ed Vedejs (Newhouse, 2007)
E. J. Corey: B-Sides (Newhouse, 2010)
Ekkehard Winterfeldt (Maue, 2006)
Ernest Wenkert (DeMartino, 2005)
Frederick Ziegler (Lewis, 2009)
George Büchi (Stratton, 2017)
Gilbert Stork (Burns, 2006)
Gordon W. Gribble (Gianatassio, 2014)
Henry Rapoport (Foo, 2013)
Hisashi Yamamoto (Tang, 2022)
Which Hof(f)man(n) is Which? (Young, 2008)
Isao Kuwajima (Kanda, 2017)
Jack Baldwin (Georgiades, 2006)
James D. White (Bi, 2019)
Sir James Fraser Stoddart (Ishihara, 2010)
Jan-Erling Bäckvall (Lockner, 2008)
Johann Mulzer (Kuttruff, 2013)
José Barluenga (Mendoza, 2011)
Jun-ichi Yoshida (Laudadio, 2021)
The Kochi Legacy (Werner, 2013)
Koji Nakanishi (Lin, 2004)
Larry Overman (Risgaard, 2013)
Leo A. Paquette (Rodriguez, 2011)
Lewis N. Mander (Cherney, 2009)
Madeleine M. Joullié (Eberle 2019)
Mark A. Murcko (Eberle, 2023)
Masahiro Miura (Smith, 2018)
Masakatsu Shibasaki (Ishihara, 2011)
Paul G. Gassman (See, 2015)
Paul Scheuer and John Faulkner (O’Malley, 2005)
Peter J. Stang (Martinez, 2016)
Phillip D. Magnus (Yan, 2013)
Robert E. Ireland (Herrmann, 2015)
Robert G. Bergman (deGruyter, 2015)
Robert H. Crabtree (Neigenfind, 2022)
Robert V. Stevens (Shi, 2008)
Rolf Huisgen (Hafensteiner, 2004)
Ronald Breslow (Renata, 2009)
Ryōji Noyori (Saito, 2020)
Samuel J. Danishefsky (Reisberg, 2017)
Scott E. Denmark (McKerrall, 2012)
Shu Kobayashi (Dao, 2013)
Stephen Buchwald (Maimone, 2009)
Stephen F. Martin (Zeng, 2018)
Steve Davies + Ian Paterson (Merchant, 2017)
Steven Ley (Jorgensen, 2012)
Teruaki Mukaiyama (Ishihara, 2008)
Tohru Fukuyama (Rosen, 2013)
Tom Hoye (Edwards, 2017)
W. Clark Still (Lockner, 2010)
William Fenical & Satoshi Omura
Wolfgang Oppolzer (Biskup, 2006)

Reactions & Methods

Alkane Hydroxylation (Voica, 2009)
Atroposelective Biaryl Synthesis (Gulder, 2008)
Biginelli and Related Reactions (DeMartino, 2003)
Biocatalysis (Gulder, 2009)
Birch Reduction (Barton, 2018)
Boron Catalysis (Kanda, 2018)
Borrowing Hydrogen (Seiple, 2010)
Cascade Reactions (Reisberg, 2018)
Cation-Radical Cycloadditions (Su, 2007)
C–C Bond Activation (Luzung, 2009)
Cheletropic Reactions (Martinez, 2013)
Chemists with Named Oxidations (Simke, 2015)
Cycloisomerizations in Synthesis (Dam, 2008)
Direct Coupling of sp2 and sp3 Carbon Centers (Lin, 2004)
Directed Metalation: A Survival Guide (Krawczuk, 2008)
Dissolving Metals (Peters, 2018)
Electrochemistry in Synthesis (Ambhaikar, 2005)
Electroorganic Chemistry (Rosen, 2014)
Electroorganic Chemistry: Choice of Electrodes (Kawamata, 2016)
Electroorganic Chemistry: Silicon, Phosphorus, and Sulfur (Jiang, 2023)
Flash Vacuum Pyrolysis (Holte, 2012)
Fluorination of Organic Compounds (Su, 2008)
Fragmentation Reactions in Synthesis (Shenvi, 2005)
Get the F Out! C-F Bond Functionalization (Pitts, 2020)
Haloselectivity in Heterocycles (Gutekunst, 2010)
Higher Order Cycloadditions in Synthesis (O’Malley, 2006)
Hydrogen Atom Transfer (Lo, 2014)
Hydrogen Bonding in Synthesis (Seiple, 2009)
Kharasch Reaction (Foo, 2010)
Macrocyclizations (Reisberg, 2020)
Methods for Dearomatization (Voica, 2010)
Multi-component Reactions: Cliff Notes (Ambhaikar, 2004)
Nature’s Catalysts: A Search for Synthetic Equivalents I (Rodriguez, 2010)
Organic Reactions in the Presence of Water (Wang, 2016)
Organometallic Oddities (O’Malley, 2003)
Peroxide Chemistry in Organic Syntheses (Yuan, 2014)
Photochemistry of Enones (Guerrero, 2003)
Photochemical Rearrangements (Gallagher, 2020)
Photoinduced Electron Transfer in the Days of Yore (Yan, 2014)
Proton Coupled Electron Transfer (Tang, 2020)
Reductive Couplings (Young, 2009)
Ring Annulations (Martinez, 2016)
Tactics and Strategies in Complex Peptide Synthesis (Pollatos, 2022)
Transannular Reactions (Jessing, 2009)
Transition Metal Photochemistry (Farmer, 2015)
What’s in a Name?
Wittig Rearrangements (Gallagher, 2003)

Reagents

EROS: Vol. I and II (Gutekunst, 2012)
EROS: Vol. III and IV (Rodriguez, 2013)
EROS: Vol. V and VI (Martinez, 2015)
EROS: Vol.VII and VIII (See, 2017)
Hypervalent Iodine (Lo, 2013)
Manganese (III) in Organic Chemistry (Voica, 2010)
Organic Electron Donors (Lo, 2015)
Samarium (II) Iodide (Lewis, 2010)

Synthetic Strategy

Computer-Assisted Organic Syntheis (Maimone, 2006)
Conservation of Helical Asymetry (Burns, 2005)
Creativity from the Chiral Pool: Amino Acids (deGruyter, 2017)
Creativity from the Chiral Pool: Carvone (Rosen, 2012)
Creativity from the Chiral Pool: Sugar Edition (Martinez, 2014)
Desymmetrization (Newhouse, 2009)
“Flatland”: Logic and Methods in the Synthesis of Benzenoids (McKerrall, 2011)
Hetero-spirocycles (See, 2017)
Remote Functionalization (Nakamura, 2018)
Retrosynthetic Analysis – Vol. 1 (Gianatassio, 2012)

Miscellaneous

(The) Anomeric Effect (Krawczuk, 2005)
Anti-Baldwin Cyclizations (Wengryniuk, 2013)
The Barton Family Tree (Barton, 2017)
Beyond the Rule of 5 (Hayashi, 2021)
Buried Treasures: Cascades We Haven’t Seen (Shenvi, 2003)
Chemistry of Cultural Heritage (Palkowitz, 2021)
Chemistry of Sex (Bi, 2020)
Controversial Mechanisms in Organic Synthesis (Seiple, 2010)
Curiosities in Biosynthesis: Lessons and Revelations (Chong, 2023)
Deuterium Isotope Effect in Natural Product Synthesis (Shenvi, 2004)
Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (Lou, 2021)
Electrochemical Flow Reactors (Chen, 2020)
Energy Source Chemistry (Shi, 2009)
Epidemics and Pandemics (Xu, 2020)
Extremes (Knouse 2019)
Food Chemistry: An Organic Perspective (Peters, 2019)
Fundamentals of Small Molecule Virology (Harwood, 2021)
Kinetic Isotope Effect (Péter, 2023)
Kinetics in Process Chemistry (DeMartino, 2006)
Ligands in Transition Metal Catalysis (Farmer, 2016)
Liquid Crystals (Bauer, 2021)
Maximum Entropy Production Principle (Renata, 2010)
Memory of Chirality (Voica, 2008)
Metal Pairs (Cornella, 2016)
Metals in Negative Oxidation States (Palkowitz, 2018)
Mind-Bending Mechanisms (Hafensteiner, 2004)
Modern Computational Organic Chemistry (McKerrall, 2014)
Molecular Electronics (Foo, 2011)
Organic Chemistry from the Eastern Bloc (Voica, 2011)
Organic Chemistry from SIOC (Shang, 2018)
Organic Chemistry in Spain – Research Institutions (Padial, 2019)
Organic Synthesis from France (Michaudel, 2010)
Pharmacokinetics (Reisberg, 2019)
Polymer Chemistry (Holte, 2011)
Prebiotic Chemistry I (Maimone, 2008)
Prebiotic Chemistry II (Newhouse, 2008)
Redox-Active Ligands(Michaudel, 2013)
Royal Chemistry (Renata, 2010)
Statistics in Synthetic Chemistry (Farmer, 2017)
The Chemistry of Color (Eberle, 2022)
“Z” (Yan, 2014)