Christine Beemelmanns

TL;DR: This tutorial review discusses recent advances in the field of ketyl-(het)arene cyclisations promoted by samarium diiodide and related processes, and summarizes diversity orientated approaches towards nitrogen heterocycles and emphasize other approaches with SmI(2) as well as electrochemical cyclisation methods providing similar N-heterocycles.

TL;DR: It is revealed that multiple bacterially produced lipids converge to activate, enhance, and inhibit multicellular development in a choanoflagellate.

TL;DR: Treatment of indole substrates (I according to A) produces mainly the tetracyclic heterocycles (II) and (IV) in a diastereomerically pure form as scaffolds of the Strychnos alkaloids as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the exploration of specific microbial–host interactions, in combination with multidisciplinary dereplication processes, has emerged as a successful strategy to identify novel chemical entities and to shed light on the ecology and evolution of defensive associations.

TL;DR: Bioassay-guided metabolomic analyses led to the characterization of four new 20-membered glycosylated polyketide macrolactams, macrotermycins A-D, from a termite-associated actinomycete, Amycolatopsis sp.