• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.1808-1846
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• 2011

From 1975 to 2011, for thirty six years, the author and his collaborators have developed a variety of reducing and hydroborating agents, and applied them to organic synthesis, which involves the 1,2-reduction of ${\alpha}$,${\beta}$-unsaturated carbonyl compounds, stereoselective reduction of cycloalkanones, regioselective ring-opening of epoxides, partial reduction of carboxylic acid derivatives to aldehydes, regioselective addition to carbon-carbon multiple bonds, etc. by utilizing metal hydrides and the newly-devised the Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley (MPV) type reagents. Such developments provide a new synthetic methodology making possible valuable selective reductions and hydroborations, not practical previously.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Life Science Conference
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• 2005.04a
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• pp.110-110
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• 2005

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.28 no.9
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• pp.1545-1548
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• 2007

This paper discusses the racemic and stereoselective synthetic route for novel 4'α -methyl and 6'α -methyl analogues of abacavir. The quaternary carbon at the 4'-position of carbocyclic nucleoside was installed successfully via a Claisen rearrangement. The stereocontrolled construction of a methyl group in the 6'α - position was directed through the Felkin-Anh rule. A Bis-vinyl compound 9 was cyclized successfully using Grubbs' catalyst II to provide a carbocycle nucleus for the target compound. The synthesized compound 15 showed moderate anti-HIV activity (EC50 = 10.67 μM, MT-4 cell lines).

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.1257-1259
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• 2013

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.915-920
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• 2010

A novel 2',4'-dimethyl carbocyclic adenosine 5'-phosphonic acid analogue (20) was prepared using acyclic stereoselective route from commercially available 4-hydroxybutan-2-one (4). To improve cellular permeability and enhance the anti-HCV activity of this phosphonic acid, a 3',5'-cyclic SATE phosphonodiester nucleoside prodrug (22) was prepared. The synthesized phosphonic nucleoside analogues, (20) and (22), were assayed for their ability to inhibit HCV RNA replication in a subgenomic replicon Huh7 cell line.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.364-369
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• 1991

The synthesis and regioselective reactions of a chiral allyl sulfide. (S)-(+)-(1-methylpyrrolidin-2-yl)methyl allyl sulfide (MAS, 1) are described. Remarkable ${\alpha}-regioselectivity$ was observed in the alkylation of the carbanion of MAS while 1:3 mixtures of ${\alpha}-and\;{\gamma}-adducts$ were produced in the addition of the MAS anion to aldehydes. However, a dramatic change of the regioselectivity was witnessed when Lewis acids such as $Et_3Al$, $Et_3B$, and $Ti(O^iPr)_4$ were used as additives in the addition reaction. In these cases, ${\alpha}-adducts$ were formed exclusively. A rationale for the change of regioselectivity is provided. And the stereochemical aspect of the addition reaction is also described.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.66-69
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• 1986

The reaction of potassium trialkoxyborohydrides of varying steric requirements with lithium chloride in tetrahydrofuran(THF) was examined in detail to establish the generality of this synthesis of the corresponding lithium trialkoxyborohydrides. The metal ion exchange reaction between potassium triisopropoxyborohydride and lithium chloride in THF proceeded instantly at room temperature and the corresponding lithium salt was very stable toward disproportionation. However, for R = s-Bu, t-Bu and 2-methylcyclohexyl, with increasing steric requirement, the lithium derivatives were unstable and thus dissociated into $(RO)BH_3^-\;and\; (RO)_4B^-$. The stereoselectivity of lithium triisopropoxyborohydride(LIPBH) in the reduction of representative cyclic ketones was examined and compared with that of the potassium derivative.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.236-242
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• 1998

Reaction of carbonyl compounds with Al-alkoxydiisobutylalane (DIBAOR, R=H, Et, i-Pr, t-Bu) has been investigated in detail so as to establish their usefulness as selective reducing agents in organic synthesis. The reagents appear to be extremely mild and can reduce only aldehydes and ketones effectively under mild conditions. All the other common organic functional groups are not affected by these reagents. The reagents can also reduce α,β-unsaturated aldehydes and ketones to the corresponding allylic alcohols without any detectable 1,4-reduction. Furthermore, the reagents show a highly chemoselective discrimination between aldehyde and ketone, between aldehydes, and between ketones. Even more remarkable is the stereoselective reduction of cyclic ketones to the thermodynamically more stable alcohol epimers.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.769-776
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• 2008

The stereoselective synthesis of chiral terminal epoxide is of immense interest due to their utility as versatile starting materials as well as chiral intermediates. In this study, new chiral Co(salen) complexes bearing cobalt(II) chloride, iron(III) chloride and zinc(II) nitrate have been synthesized and characterized. The mass and EXAFS spectra provided the direct evidence of formation of complex. Their catalytic activity and selectivity have been demonstrated for the asymmetric ring opening of terminal epoxides such as styrene oxide and phenylglycidylether by hydrolytic kinetic resolution technology and for the synthesis of glycidyl buthylate. The easily prepared complexes exhibited very high enantioselectivity for the asymmetric ring opening of epoxides with $H_2O$ nucleophile, providing enantiomerically enriched terminal epoxides (>99% ee). The newly synthesized chiral salen showed remakablely enhanced reactivity with substantially low loadings. The system described in this work is very efficient for the sinthesis of chiral epoxide and 1,2-diol intermediates.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.352-355
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• 2007

A new phenanthrene derivative 3,7-dihydroxy-2,4,6-trimethoxyphenanthrene was isolated from the all plant of Bulbophyllum odoratissimum, and its structure was elucidated by extensive spectral studies and chemical transformation. The compound displayed cytotoxicity against the growth of human leukemia cell lines K562 and HL-60, human lung adenocarcinoma A549, human hepatoma BEL-7402 and human stomach cancer cell lines SGC-7901 with IC50 values of 14.23, 10.02, 3.42, 15.36 and 1.13 mg/ml respectively.