Publications of Alois Fürstner

Rütter, D.; Nöthling, N.; Leutzsch, M.; Auer, A. A.; Fürstner, A. Tripodal Silanolate Ligands Expand [MoX₃] Chemistry Beyond Its Traditional Borders. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025.

Peeters, M.; Baldinelli, L.; Lerda, S.; Bistoni, G.; Fürstner, A. Dirhodium Complexes Heterochiral-at-the-Metal Centers: An Alternative Type of Paddlewheel Catalyst for Asymmetric Synthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025.

Babón Molina, J. C.; Renken, L.; Leutzsch, M.; Molina Betancourt, R.; Fürstner, A. Asymmetric Gem-Hydroboration and Gem-Hydrogenation of Ynamides: A New Gateway to Chiral Fischer Carbene Complexes and their Catalytic Transformations. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2025, 64, e202424212.

Molina Betancourt, R.; Leutzsch, M.; Fürstner, A. Total Synthesis of the Marine Diterpenoids Caucanolide E and F by Alkyne Gem-Hydrogenation: Rigorous Reassignment of Two Almost Indistinguishable Diastereomers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2025, e202500124.

Bender, T.; Fürstner, A. Enantioselective Synthesis of Vic-Aminoalcohol Derivatives by Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Coupling of Aldehydes with Protected Amino-Pentadienoates. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024, 146, 33295–33301.

Zimmer, A.; Fürstner, A. Total Synthesis of the Humulene-Derived Sesquiterpenoid (-)-Integrifolian-1,5-Dione. Chemistry Europe 2024, 2, e202400064.

Peeters, M.; Baldinelli, L.; Leutzsch, M.; Caló, F. P.; Auer, A. A.; Bistoni, G.; Fürstner, A. In Situ Observation of Elusive Dirhodium Carbenes and Studies on the Innate Role of Carboxamidate Ligands in Dirhodium Paddlewheel Complexes: A Combined Experimental and Computational Approach. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024, 146, 26466–26477.

Lin, D. S.; Späth, G.; Meng, Z.; Wieske, L. H. E.; Farès, C.; Fürstner, A. Total Synthesis of the Norcembranoid Scabrolide B and Its Transformation into Sinuscalide C, Ineleganolide, and Horiolide. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024, 146, 24250–24256.

Isak, D.; Schwartz, L. A.; Schulthoff, S.; Pérez-Moreno, G.; Bosch-Navarrete, C.; Gonzáles-Pacanowska, D.; Fürstner, A. Collective and Diverted Total Synthesis of the Strasseriolides: A Family of Macrolides Endowed with Potent Antiplasmodial and Antitrypanosomal Activity. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2024, 63, e202408725.

Saito, H.; Handa, Y.; Chen, M.; Schneider-Poetsch, T.; Shichino, Y.; Takahashi, M.; Romo, D.; Yoshida, M.; Fürstner, A.; Ito, T.; Fukuzawa, K.; Iwasaki, S. DMDA-PatA Mediates RNA Sequence-Selective Translation Repression by Anchoring eIF4A and DDX3 to GNG Motifs. Nature Communications 2024, 15, 7418.

Hess, S. N.; Fürstner, A. An Efficient and Scalable “Second Generation” Total Synthesis of the Marine Polyketide Limaol Endowed with Antiparasitic Activity. Chemistry – A European Journal 2024, 30, e202401429.

Magari, F.; Messner, H.; Salisch, F.; Schmelzle, S. M.; van Zandbergen, G.; Fürstner, A.; Ziebuhr, J.; Heine, A.; Müller-Ruttloff, C.; Grünweller, A. Potent Anti-Coronaviral Activity of Pateamines and New Insights into their Mode of Action. Heliyon 2024, 10, e33409.

Rütter, D.; van Gastel, M.; Leutzsch, M.; Nöthling, N.; SantaLucia, D.; Neese, F.; Fürstner, A. Molybdenum(VI) Nitrido Complexes with Tripodal Silanolate Ligands. Structure and Electronic Character of an Unsymmetrical Dimolybdenum μ-Nitrido Complex Formed by Incomplete Nitrogen Atom Transfer. Inorganic Chemistry 2024, 63, 8376–8389.

Yahata, K.; Fürstner, A. Total Synthesis of the Guangnanmycin A Alcohol. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2024, 63, e202319070.

Sutro, J. L.; Fürstner, A. Total Synthesis of the Allenic Macrolide (+)-Archangiumide. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024, 146, 2345–2350.

Gui, X.; Sorbelli, D.; Caló, F. P.; Leutzsch, M.; Patzer, M.; Fürstner, A.; Bistoni, G.; Auer, A. A. Elucidating the Electronic Nature of Rh-Based Paddlewheel Catalysts from ¹⁰³Rh NMR Chemical Shifts: Insights from Quantum Mechanical Calculations. Chemistry – A European Journal 2024, 30, e202301846.

Korber, J. N.; Wille, C.; Leutzsch, M.; Fürstner, A. From the Glovebox to the Benchtop: Air-Stable High Performance Molybdenum Alkylidyne Catalysts for Alkyne Metathesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023, 145, 26993–27009.

Kim, J. Y.; Davies, T. Q.; Fürstner, A. Aminoalcohol Derivatives by Nickel-Catalyzed Enantioselective Coupling of Imines and Dienol Ethers. Chemical Communications 2023, 59, 12613–12616.

Peeters, M.; Decaens, J.; Fürstner, A. Taming of Furfurylidenes by Chiral Bismuth-Rhodium Paddlewheel Catalysts. Preparation and Functionalization of Optically Active 1,1-Disubstituted (Trifluoromethyl)Cyclopropanes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2023, 62, e202311598.

Varlet, T.; Portmann, S.; Fürstner, A. Total Synthesis of Njaoamine C by Concurrent Macrocycle Formation. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023, 145, 21197–21202.