Novel oxidative ring opening reaction of H-isotelluro-chromenes to bis(o-formylstyryl) ditellurides.

The oxidation of 1-unsubstituted or 1-phenyl-1H-isotellurochromenes with m-chloroperbenzoic acid (mCPBA) in CHCl3 resulted in a ring opening reaction to produce as the sole products the corresponding o-formyl or benzoyl distyryl ditellurides, which were also produced by the hydrolysis of the 2-benzotelluropyrylium salts readily prepared from the parent isotellurochromene.

An alternative convenient synthesis of piperidazine-3-carboxylic acid derivatives.

The short-step synthesis of the unsubstituted, 5-hydroxy- and 5-chloropiperidazine-3-carboxylic acids using an aza Diels-Alder reaction between the 1,3-diene and azodicarboxylate was described. This synthetic methodology could be used for the preparation of the optically active piperazic acid in a 35% overall yield.

An efficient transformation of cyclic ene-carbamates into omega-(N-formylamino)carboxylic acids by ruthenium tetroxide oxidation.

The ruthenium tetroxide (RuO(4)) oxidation of cyclic ene-carbamates resulted in the endo-cyclic carbon-carbon double bond cleavage to afford the corresponding omega-(N-formylamino)carboxylic acids in good yields. Substituted cyclic ene-carbamates derived from (3R)-3-hydroxypiperidine hydrochloride were converted into the N-Boc 4-aminobutyric acids by utilization of the RuO(4) oxidation as the key step, which were further transformed into (3R)-4-amino-3-hydroxybutyric acid, an important key intermediate for the synthesis of L-carnitine.

Synthesis of hexahydropyridazine-3-phosphonic acid.

The synthesis of hexahydropyridazine-3-phosphonic acid (piperidazine-3-phosphonic acid) was performed via a hetero-Diels-Alder reaction followed by Lewis acid-catalyzed phosphonylation. This two-step procedure was improved to a one-pot reaction.