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Joan Bosch was affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain and contributed significantly to the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry.

Throughout their career, Bosch published extensively with a focus on Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. Their research spanned subfields such as Pharmacology, Surgery, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Key topics of their work included:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Alkaloids: synthesis and pharmacology
  • Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods
  • Chemical synthesis and alkaloids
  • Advanced Synthetic Organic Chemistry

Bosch's work appeared frequently in several publication venues, with the largest number of contributions in The Cambridge Structural Database. Other venues included:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database (11 publications)
  • Tetrahedron (2 publications)
  • Organic Letters
  • Perioperative Medicine
  • Chemical Communications

Frequent collaborators included Mercedes Amat, Arnau Calbó, Rosa Griera, Núria Llor, and Miriam Piccichè.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Bosch are:

  • Total Synthesis of (−)-Cylindricine H, 2022, Organic Letters
  • Effect of goal-directed haemodynamic therapy guided by non-invasive monitoring on perioperative complications in elderly hip fracture patients within an enhanced recovery pathway, 2022, Perioperative Medicine
  • Generation of acyclic chiral building blocks containing a quaternary stereocenter. Formal synthesis of alkaloids of the leuconolam-leuconoxine-mersicarpine group, 2020, Tetrahedron
  • Enantioselective formal synthesis of the marine macrolide (−)-callyspongiolide, 2020, Chemical Communications
  • Cyclocondensation reactions of racemic diastereomers of dimethyl-2-oxocyclohexanepropionic acids with (R)-phenylglycinol: access to both enantiomers of dimethylcis-decahydroquinolines, 2022, Organic Chemistry Frontiers

Joan Bosch's body of work indicates a strong emphasis on the structural analysis and synthesis of organic compounds, often within a crystallographic context.

Best Publications

  • Chiral oxazolopiperidone lactams: versatile intermediates for the enantioselective synthesis of piperidine-containing natural products.

    Carmen Escolano;Mercedes Amat;Joan Bosch

  • Enantioselective synthesis of piperidine, indolizidine, and quinolizidine alkaloids from a phenylglycinol-derived delta-lactam.

    Mercedes Amat;Núria Llor;José Hidalgo;Carmen Escolano

  • Synthesis of Enantiopure trans-3,4-Disubstituted Piperidines. An Enantiodivergent Synthesis of (+)- and (−)-Paroxetine

    Mercedes Amat;Joan Bosch;José Hidalgo;Margalida Cantó

  • A General Synthetic Entry to Strychnos Alkaloids of the Curan Type via a Common 3a-(2-Nitrophenyl)hexahydroindol-4-one Intermediate. Total Syntheses of (±)- and (−)-Tubifolidine, (±)-Akuammicine, (±)-19,20-Dihydroakuammicine, (±)-Norfluorocurarine, (±)-Echitamidine, and (±)-20-Epilochneridine1

    Josep Bonjoch;Daniel Solé;Silvina García-Rubio;Joan Bosch

  • Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Heteroarylation of 2- and 3-Indolylzinc Derivatives. An Efficient General Method for the Preparation of (2-Pyridyl)indoles and Their Application to Indole Alkaloid Synthesis.

    Mercedes Amat;Sabine Hadida;Grigorii Pshenichnyi;Joan Bosch

  • Elucidation of the structure of methanopterin, a coenzyme from Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum, using two-dimensional nuclear-magnetic-resonance techniques.

    Patrick Van Beelen;Alphons P. M. Stassen;Johannes W. G. Bosch;Godfried D. Vogels

  • Biomimetic Total Synthesis of Ervitsine and Indole Alkaloids of the Ervatamine Group via 1,4-Dihydropyridines

    M.-Lluïsa Bennasar;and Bernat Vidal;Joan Bosch

  • A new synthetic entry to pentacyclic Strychnos alkaloids. Total synthesis of (.+-.)-tubifolidine, (.+-.)-tubifoline, and (.+-.)-19,20-dihydroakuammicine

    Mercedes Amat;Ana Linares;Joan Bosch

  • A General Method for the Synthesis of Bridged Indole Alkaloids. Addition of Carbon Nucleophiles to N-Alkylpyridinium Salts

    Joan Bosch;M.-Lluïsa Bennasar

  • Total Synthesis of Uleine-Type and Strychnos Alkaloids through a Common Intermediate

    Jordi Gracia;Nuria Casamitjana;Josep Bonjoch;Joan Bosch

  • Enantioselective synthesis of 3,3-disubstituted piperidine derivatives by enolate dialkylation of phenylglycinol-derived oxazolopiperidone lactams.

    Mercedes Amat;Oscar Lozano;Carmen Escolano;Elies Molins

  • Dynamic kinetic resolution of racemic gamma-aryl-delta-oxoesters. Enantioselective synthesis of 3-arylpiperidines.

    Mercedes Amat;Margalida Cantó;Núria Llor;Carmen Escolano

  • Identification of new aminoacid amides containing the imidazo[2,1-b]benzothiazol-2-ylphenyl moiety as inhibitors of tumorigenesis by oncogenic Met signaling.

    Alessandro Furlan;Francesco Colombo;Andrea Kover;Nathalie Issaly

  • Conjugate addition of organocuprates to chiral bicyclic delta-lactams. Enantioselective synthesis of cis-3,4-disubstituted and 3,4,5-trisubstituted piperidines.

    Mercedes Amat;Maria Pérez;Núria Llor;Joan Bosch

  • Total Synthesis of (-)-Strychnine via the Wieland-Gumlich Aldehyde

    Daniel Solé;Josep Bonjoch;Silvina García-Rubio;Emma Peidró

  • Enantioselective total synthesis of Wieland-Gumlich aldehyde and (-)-strychnine

    Daniel Solé;Josep Bonjoch;Silvina García-Rubio;Emma Peidró

  • Chiral precursors for the synthesis of enantiomerically pure piperidines. Total synthesis of (R)-(-)-coniine

    Mercedes Amat;Núria Llor;Joan Bosch

  • Studies on the Synthesis of Strychnos Indole Alkaloids. Synthesis of (.+-.)-Dehydrotubifoline

    Josep Bonjoch;Daniel Sole;Joan Bosch

  • Preparation and reactions of 1-(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)-3-lithioindole. Regioselective synthesis of 3-substituted indoles

    Mercedes Amat;Sabine Hadida;Swargam Sathyanarayana;Joan Bosch

  • Conjugate additions to phenylglycinol-derived unsaturated δ-lactams. Enantioselective synthesis of uleine alkaloids

    Mercedes Amat;Maria Perez;Nuria Llor;Carmen Escolano

  • Enantioselective Synthesis of Indole Alkaloids from Chiral Lactams

    Mercedes Amat;Maria Pérez;Joan Bosch

  • Cooperative Catalysis for the First Asymmetric Formal [3+2] Cycloaddition Reaction of Isocyanoacetates to α,β‐Unsaturated Ketones

    Carlos Arróniz;Alberto Gil‐González;Vladislav Semak;Carmen Escolano

Frequent Co-Authors

Elies Molins
Elies Molins Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona
F. Javier Luque
F. Javier Luque University of Barcelona
Modesto Orozco
Modesto Orozco University of Barcelona
Xavier Solans
Xavier Solans University of Barcelona
Vickie McKee
Vickie McKee Dublin City University
Ernest Giralt
Ernest Giralt University of Barcelona
Maurizio Botta
Maurizio Botta University of Siena
Ramon Bartrons
Ramon Bartrons University of Barcelona
Manuel J. Rodriguez
Manuel J. Rodriguez Université Laval
Anna Roig
Anna Roig Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona

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