Excessive macrophage activation induces the release of high levels of inflammatory mediators which not only amplify chronic inflammation and degenerative …
Continue reading “In Vitro and in Silico Studies of 7′′,8′′-Buddlenol D Anti-Inflammatory Lignans from Carallia Brachiata as P38 MAP Kinase Inhibitors”
Carlos Morillo
March 16, 2023
Due to burgeoning interest in the pharmaceutical industry in exploiting optically active α-aminoboronic derivatives as bioisosteres of α-amino acid derivatives, …
Continue reading “Enantioselective Synthesis of α-Aminoboronic Acid Derivatives via Copper-Catalyzed N-Alkylation”
Carlos Morillo
February 24, 2023
2-Amino[2.2]paracyclophane reacts with salicylaldehyde or 2-hydroxyacetophenone to yield imines that then give access to a new series of boranils (8b–d) …
Continue reading “Synthesis, structural characterization, and chiroptical properties of planarly and axially chiral boranils”
Carlos Morillo
February 8, 2023
Basidiomycetes produce a wide variety of sesquiterpenoids, which attract significant interest in pharmaceutical and industrial applications. Structural diversification of sesquiterpenoids …
Continue reading “Biocatalyst collection and heterologous expression of sesquiterpene synthases from basidiomycetous fungi: Discovery of a novel sesquiterpene hydrocarbon”
Carlos Morillo
January 31, 2023
Two novel prenylated acetophenones with new carbon skeletons, acronyrones A and B (1 and 2), and a new analogue, acronyrone …
Continue reading “Acronyrones A–C, unusual prenylated acetophenones from Acronychia pedunculata”
Carlos Morillo
January 31, 2023
A grand challenge in terpene synthase (TS) enzymology is the ability to predict function from protein sequence. Given the limited …
Continue reading “Structure-guided product determination of the bacterial type II diterpene synthase Tpn2”
Carlos Morillo
November 14, 2022
Medermycin, produced by Streptomyces species, represents a family of antibiotics with significant activity against Gram-positive pathogens. The biosynthesis of this …
Continue reading “Chimeric natural products derived from medermycin and the nature-inspired construction of their polycyclic skeletons”
Carlos Morillo
September 12, 2022
Securinega alkaloids have fascinated the synthetic chemical community for over six decades. Historically, major research foci in securinega alkaloid synthesis …
Continue reading “Collective total synthesis of C4-oxygenated securinine-type alkaloids via stereocontrolled diversifications on the piperidine core”
Carlos Morillo
September 12, 2022
Carlos Morillo
August 30, 2022
Chukrasia tabularis is an economically important tree and widely cultured in the southeast of China. Its barks, leaves, and fruits …
Continue reading “Bioactivity-guided isolation of anti-inflammatory limonins from Chukrasia tabularis”
Carlos Morillo
August 17, 2022
The pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been ongoing for over two years, and treatment for COVID-19, …
Continue reading “(+)-Usnic acid and its salts, inhibitors of SARS‐CoV‐2, identified by using in silico methods and in vitro assay”
Carlos Morillo
August 16, 2022
Several strikingly different aerobic and anaerobic pathways of nicotinate breakdown are extant in bacteria. Here, through reverse genetics and analytical …
Continue reading “A complete nicotinate degradation pathway in the microbial eukaryote Aspergillus nidulans”
Carlos Morillo
August 16, 2022
The lichen’s special symbiotic structure enables it to produce bioactive substances. They have historically been recognized for their aesthetic and …
Continue reading “Anti-Inflammatory Potential of Compounds Isolated from Tunisian Lichens Species”
Carlos Morillo
July 21, 2022
Carlos Morillo
July 21, 2022
Carlos Morillo
July 21, 2022
Carlos Morillo
May 31, 2022
Carlos Morillo
May 16, 2022
Sarpagine-Ajmaline-Koumine type monoterpenoid indole alkaloids represent a fascinating class of natural products with polycyclic and cage-like structures, interesting biological activities, …
Continue reading “Structure units oriented approach towards collective synthesis of sarpagine-ajmaline-koumine type alkaloids”
Carlos Morillo
February 24, 2022
Although computational simulation-based natural product syntheses are in their initial stages of development, this concept can potentially become an indispensable …
Continue reading “Computation-guided asymmetric total syntheses of resveratrol dimers”
Carlos Morillo
February 24, 2022
Axially chiral styrenes bearing a chiral axis between a sterically non-congested acyclic alkene and an aryl ring are difficult to …
Continue reading “Carbene-catalyzed atroposelective synthesis of axially chiral styrenes”
Carlos Morillo
January 18, 2022