1. Formal total synthesis of (-)-balanol: a potent PKC inhibitor
Formal total synthesis of (-)-balanol: a potent PKC inhibitor. Yaragorla, Srinivasarao; Muthyala, Ramaiah. Center for Orphan Drug Research, Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. Tetrahedron Letters (2010), 51(3),

6. Pyridinium Dichromate (PDC): The Corey-Schmidt Reagent
Pyridinium dichromate (PDC) is a commercially available (and also readily prepared) salt of chromic acid that is soluble in many common organic solvents and useful in the oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes and ketones.
It is less acidic than pyridinium chlorochromate (PCC), and thus more suitable for the oxidation of acid-sensitive substrates.

7. Pyridinium Chlorochromate (PCC)
Corey-Suggs Reagent

8. Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
Elias J. Corey
Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
Nobel Prize Winner:

13. Shi Epoxidation
Oxone = Potassium Peroxymonosulfate =

14. Mechanism of the Shi Epoxidation
Chiral Dioxirane

15. Colorado State University
Yian Shi
Colorado State University

16. The chiral catalyst of the Shi Epoxidation is derived from the readily-available D-Fructose
Chiral Ketone Catalyst

17. Dimethyldioxirane
(DMDO)

22. Trost Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation Reaction
Barry Trost
Stanford University
Palladium p-allyl complex

31. Methods for Reduction of Azides to Amines