Dr. Nopporn Thasana Email:  nopporn@cri.or.th Office: Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry (R403B) Phone: (66)2 5740622-33 ext. 1409, 1413-4

• Medicinal and Organic Chemistry
• Oxygen-heterocyclic and Alkaloid Chemistry
• Organometalic and Microwave-assisted Organic Synthesis
• Natural Product Chemistry

Publications:

1. Thasana N, Prachyawarakorn V, Tontoolarug S, Ruchirawat S. Synthesis of Aryl Alpha-keto Esters via the Rearrangement of Aryl Cyanohydrin Carbonate Esters. Tetrahedron Lett. 2003; 44: 1019-1021.
2. Thasana N, Ruchirawat S. Directed Remote Metalation: The Synthesis of Wrightiadione. Synlett 2003; 1037-1039.
3. Kondo N, Kuse M, Mutarapat T, Thasana N, Isobe M. Novel Synthetic Route of Coelenterazines -2-: Synthesis of Various Dehydrocoelenterazine Analogs. Heterocycles 2005; 65: 843-856.
4. Tempeam A, Thasana N, Pavaro C, Chuakul W, Siripong P, Ruchirawat S. A New Cytotoxic Daphnane Diterpenoid, Rediocide G, from Trigonostermon reidioides. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 2005; 53: 1321-1323.
5. Sahakitpichan P, Thasana N, Ruchirawat S. Efficient Synthesis of Diospyrol via Suzuki-Miyaura and Modified In Situ Cross-coupling. Synthesis 2005; 2934-2938.
6. Athikomkulchai S, Prawat H, Thasana N, Ruangrungsi N, Ruchirawat S. COX-1, COX-2 Inhibitors and Antifungal Agents from Croton hutchinsonianus. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 2006; 54: 262-264.
7. Thasana N, Pisutjaroenpong S, Ruchirawat S. Two Protocols for the Conversion of Biphenol to Binaphthol: Synthesis of Diospyrol. Synlett 2006; 1080-1084.
8. Worayuthakarn R, Thasana N, Ruchirawat S. Three Distinct Reactions of 3,4-Dihydroisoquinolines with Azlactones: Novel Synthesis of Imidazoloisoquinolin-3-ones, Benzo[a]quinolizin-4-ones, and Benzo[d]azocin-4-ones. Org. Lett. 2006; 8: 5845-5848.
9. Thasana N, Worayuthakarn R, Kradanrat P, Hohn E, Young L, Ruchirawat S. Copper(I)-mediated and Microwave-assisted Caryl-Ocarboxylic Coupling: Synthesis of Benzopyaranones and Isolamellarin Alkaloids. J. Org. Chem. 2007; accepted.