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Stephen G. Pyne is affiliated with the University of Wollongong in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with a significant focus in Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. Additional areas of study include Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, and Plant Science.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis, and Traditional and Medicinal Uses of Annonaceae. Other research themes encompass Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis, Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms, and Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stephen G. Pyne include:

  • Christopher J. T. Hyland
  • Christopher Richardson
  • Thunwadee Limtharakul
  • Andrew J. Tague
  • Surat Laphookhieo

The scientist has published work in several prominent venues, among them:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Phytochemistry
  • Chemical Science
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Natural Product Research

Recent papers authored by or associated with Stephen G. Pyne include:

  • Isolation of bioactive compounds from medicinal plants used in traditional medicine: Rautandiol B, a potential lead compound against Plasmodium falciparum (2021), published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
  • Palladium-Catalyzed Formal (3 + 2) Cycloaddition Reactions of 2-Nitro-1,3-enynes with Vinylaziridines, -epoxides, and -cyclopropanes (2021), published in Organic Letters
  • Macluracochinones A-E, antimicrobial flavonoids from Maclura cochinchinensis (Lour.) Corner (2021), published in Phytochemistry
  • Five-membered cyclic sulfamidate imines: versatile scaffolds for organic synthesis (2020), published in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
  • Cytotoxicity and Nitric Oxide Production Inhibitory Activities of Compounds Isolated from the Plant Pathogenic Fungus Curvularia sp. (2021), published in Journal of Fungi

Best Publications

  • In vitro cytotoxicity evaluation of some substituted isatin derivatives.

    Kara L Vine;Julie M Locke;Marie Ranson;Kirsten Benkendorff

  • Conversion of ketones having δ, ϵ-π-functions to cyclopentanols by zinc-trimethylchlorosilane

    E.J. Corey;Stephen G. Pyne

  • An investigation into the cytotoxicity and mode of action of some novel N-alkyl-substituted isatins.

    Kara L. Vine;Julie M. Locke;Marie Ranson;Stephen G. Pyne

  • Asymmetric Synthesis of Polyfunctionalized Pyrrolidines and Related Alkaloids

    Stephen G. Pyne;Andrew S. Davis;Nicole J. Gates;Joseph P. Hartley

  • TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF LEUKOTRIENE B5

    E.J. Corey;Stephen G. Pyne;Wei-guo Su

  • Asymmetric Synthesis of anti-1,2-Amino Alcohols via the Borono-Mannich Reaction: A Formal Synthesis of (−)-Swainsonine

    Christopher W. G. Au;Stephen G Pyne

  • Synthesis of carbocyclic hydantocidins via regioselective and diastereoselective phosphine-catalyzed [3 + 2]-cycloadditions to 5-methylenehydantoins.

    Tien Quoc Pham;Stephen G Pyne;Brian W Skelton;Allan H White

  • Asymmetric synthesis of (-)-swainsonine, (+)-1,2-di-epi-swainsonine, and (+)-1,2,8-tri-epi-swainsonine.

    Karl B Lindsay;Stephen G Pyne

  • Immunologically induced generation of tetraene and pentaene leukotrienes in the peritoneal cavities of menhaden-fed rats.

    A G Leitch;T H Lee;E W Ringel;J D Prickett

  • Total synthesis of uniflorine A, casuarine, australine, 3-epi-australine, and 3,7-di-epi-australine from a common precursor.

    Thunwadee Ritthiwigrom;Anthony C. Willis;Stephen G. Pyne

  • Recent Developments on the Synthesis of (-)-Swainsonine and Analogues

    Stephen G. Pyne

  • Evaluation of an ethnopharmacologically selected Bhutanese medicinal plants for their major classes of phytochemicals and biological activities.

    Phurpa Wangchuk;Paul A. Keller;Stephen G. Pyne;Malai Taweechotipatr

  • N-Phenethyl and N-naphthylmethyl isatins and analogues as in vitro cytotoxic agents

    Lidia Matesic;Julie M. Locke;John B. Bremner;Stephen G. Pyne

  • Chiral and stereochemical control via intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction of Z dienes

    Stephen G. Pyne;Mark J. Hensel;P. L. Fuchs

  • Synthesis of putative uniflorine A.

    Andrew S Davis;Stephen G Pyne;Brian W Skelton;Allan H White

  • Copper-Mediated Cyclization−Halogenation and Cyclization−Cyanation Reactions of β-Hydroxyalkynes and o-Alkynylphenols and Anilines

    Nalivela Kumara Swamy;Arife Yazici;Stephen G. Pyne

  • Diastereoselective Reactions of Sulfoximines

    Stephen G. Pyne

  • Chiral sulfur compounds. II. Diastereoselective additions of (R)-(+)-methyl p-tolyl sulfoxide anion to imines. Asymmetric synthesis of (R)-(+)-tetrahydropalmatine

    Stephen G. Pyne;Branko Dikic

  • Chiral sulfur compounds. 9. Stereochemistry of the intermolecular and intramolecular conjugate additions of amines and anions to chiral (E)- and (Z)-vinyl sulfoxides. Total syntheses of (R)-(+)-carnegine and (+)- and (-)-sedamine

    Stephen G. Pyne;Peter Bloem;Sandra L. Chapman;Christine E. Dixon

  • Chemical constituents and biological activities of Garcinia cowa Roxb

    Thunwadee Ritthiwigrom;Surat Laphookhieo;Stephen G Pyne

  • Synthesis and biological activities of conformationally restricted cyclopentenyl-glutamate analogues.

    Alison T. Ung;Karl Schafer;Karl B. Lindsay;Stephen G. Pyne

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian W. Skelton
Brian W. Skelton University of Western Australia
Allan H. White
Allan H. White University of Western Australia
Anthony C. Willis
Anthony C. Willis Australian National University
Raymond J. Andersen
Raymond J. Andersen University of British Columbia
Roger J. W. Truscott
Roger J. W. Truscott University of Wollongong
Brian O. Patrick
Brian O. Patrick University of British Columbia
Abdol R. Hajipour
Abdol R. Hajipour Isfahan University of Technology
Thomas V. Riley
Thomas V. Riley Edith Cowan University
Robert J. Nash
Robert J. Nash Aberystwyth University
Atsushi Kato
Atsushi Kato University of Toyama

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