THE PIERCE GROUP

Great group event to end last week - retrosynthesis Jeopardy to start the day followed by a group social and new photo! It's fantastic to have everyone back together again.

Congrats to You-Chen, Aubert and Yasamin on our ASAP Article in JACS!

Concise Synthesis and Antimicrobial Evaluation of the Guanidinium Alkaloid Batzelladine D: Development of a Stereodivergent Strategy Herein, we describe a stereodivergent route to (±)-batzelladine D (2), (+)-batzelladine D (2), (−)-batzelladine D (2), and a series of stereochemical analogues and explore their antimicrobial activity for the first time. The concise synthetic approach enables access to the natural products in a s...