In a study appearing in nature, UC Davis Department of Chemistry researchers from the Tantillo Lab step closer to mimicking nature’s mastery of #chemistry by harnessing aliphatic hydrocarbons: lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu/news/harnessin…

Metallocarbenes as Substituents in 8-Electron Electrocyclizations …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Analogies between photochemical reactions and ground-state post-transition-state bifurcations shed light on dynamical origins of selectivity nature.com/articles/s4155…

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 Tantillo Lab.

Overcoming a Radical Polarity Mismatch in Strain-Release Pentafluorosulfanylation of [1.1.0]Bicyclobutanes: An Entryway to Sulfone- and Carbonyl-Containing SF5–Cyclobutanes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

This paper by Claire Harmange Magnani, Tantillo Lab, @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 College of Chemistry

DiRhodium -Catalyzed Combined CH(C)-Functionalization/Cope Rearrangements: Does Post-Transition-State Dynamic Mismatching Influence Product Distributions? UC Davis Department of Chemistry UC Davis Tantillo Lab #Rh #CHFunctionalization #Product #Distribution Total Synthesis and Methodology Highlights pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Running Wild through Dirhodium Tetracarboxylate-Catalyzed Combined CH(C)-Functionalization/Cope Rearrangement Landscapes: Does Post-Transition-State Dynamic Mismatching Influence Product Distributions? pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Thio-Induced Organophosphate Breakdown Promoted by Methimazole: an Experimental and Theoretical Study. europepmc.org/article/med/38…

Overcoming a Radical Polarity Mismatch in Strain-Release Pentafluorosulfanylation of [1.1.0]Bicyclobutanes: An Entryway to Sulfone- and Carbonyl-Containing SF5-Cyclobutanes (Cody Ross Pitts and co-workers) Cody Ross Pitts Tantillo Lab onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Allyl-Allyl Coupling Promoted by Catalyst Systems with two Palladium Atoms – A Plethora of Potentially Pericyclic Processes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Combined Computational and Experimental Study Reveals Complex Mechanistic Landscape of Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Silane-Dependent P═O Reduction pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

Energetics of proposed cyclizations for the biosynthesis of daphenoid a and artatrovirenols a and B sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Heavy Atom Quantum Mechanical Tunneling in Total Synthesis pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

Computation-guided scaffold exploration of 2E,6E-1,10-trans/cis-eunicellanes beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/articles/…

Concise #TotalSyntheses of (−)-Crinipellins A and B Enabled by a Controlled Cargill Rearrangement by Bo Xu, Ziyao Zhang, Dean J. Tantillo Tantillo Lab at UC Davis Department of Chemistry, and Mingji Dai at Emory Chemistry in J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Check out our recent work on "Cobalt-Catalyzed Deacylative Ipso-C–C Bond Functionalization" out in J Org Chem/Org Lett ACS Publications Congratulations👏Shyam_Banjare SAISTA AFREEN TANMAYEE NANDA Gopalkrushna DAS ADHIKARI Tantillo Lab and all the authors. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jo…

Concise Total Syntheses of (−)-Crinipellins A and B Enabled by a Controlled Cargill Rearrangement pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Please check out our crinipellin synthesis J. Am. Chem. Soc. ! Special thanks to Tantillo Lab 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/ja…

The structural basis of pyridoxal-5′-phosphate-dependent β-NAD-alkylating enzymes nature.com/articles/s4192…