A variety of 2,3,5-trisubstituted furans were synthesized by virtue of a Rh(III)-catalyzed vinylic C-H coupling of -enoxyimides with propargyl alcohols or amines. In this protocol, -enoxyimides served as a one-oxygen and two-carbon synthon and the -OH/-NHR moiety in the alkynes was found to be crucial for realizing the desired chemo-/regioselectivity. Detailed experimental mechanistic studies together with DFT calculations clarified the sequential C-H activation/regioselective alkyne insertion/simultaneous O-N bond cleavage and hydrogen transfer/intramolecular nucleophilic addition/aromatization reaction path, which involved a distinctive Rh(V) carbene species as the active intermediate.
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J Org Chem
January 2025
State Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Drugs and Large-Scale Manufacturing, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325035, P. R. China.
The Pd-catalyzed multicomponent tandem reaction of β-ketonitriles, arylboronic acids and DMSO was efficiently developed, enabling access to a variety of poly substituted pyridines. The protocol shows excellent chemoselectivity, generating nicotinonitriles or symmetrical tetrasubstituted pyridines under different conditions by tandem cyclization of enaminone intermediates with β-ketonitriles or enolates, respectively, and does not require extra ammonias. This method boasts notable advantages, such as the use of commercially available or easily prepared substrates, simple conditions, a broad substrate scope, and good functional group tolerance.
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January 2025
Institute of Next Generation Matter Transformation, College of Material Sciences Engineering at Huaqiao University, 668 Jimei Boulevard, Xiamen, Fujian 361021, China.
Domino cascade reactions, which can construct multiple bonds in one pot, are efficient methods to synthesize N-heterocycles and other useful skeletons. Herein, we report an expedient synthesis of polysubstituted benzo[][1,5]naphthyridine via Mn(III)-mediated C-C bond cleavage of cyclopropanols. These reactions were initiated by addition of β-carbonyl radicals, generated from cyclopropyl alcohols in the presence of Mn(III), to 2-(2-isocyanophenyl)acetonitriles to give quinolin-3-amines, which went through intramolecular cyclizations and dehydrogenation to give the final products.
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December 2024
Instrumentation Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan.
A visible light photocatalytic cascade reaction was developed, involving sequential self-[2+2] photodimerization of benzoylacetones, De Mayo reaction, acetalization, and alkoxylation, yielding tetrahydrofurans with high stereoselectivity, three stereogenic centers, and two quaternary carbons, under mild conditions with a cycloaddition-rearrangement strategy. Given the significance of photoreaction and rearrangement in organic chemistry, this method provides a valuable approach for the synthesis of tetrahydrofurans.
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December 2024
Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, 220 Handan Rd., Shanghai, 200433, China.
Atropisomers with multiple stereogenic axes have attracted much attention due to their increasing significance in the fields of natural products, chiral materials, and drug discoveries. However, the catalytic stereoselective construction of axially chiral ring scaffolds with more than two axes on a single benzene ring remains a challenging task. Herein, we present an efficient method for synthesizing triaxially chiral polysubstituted naphthalene scaffolds via sequential Ni(II)-catalyzed Diels-Alder reaction of isobenzofurans and TfOH-promoted dehydrative aromatization reaction.
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December 2024
Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P. R. China.
A series of 3-phosphonyl polysubstituted pyridine were first synthesized by photocatalysis, combining a phosphonyl radical cascade reaction, Boc deprotection, and aromatization. This strategy can avoid the difficulties of activating the C3-H bond on pyridine to synthesize 3-phosphonylpyridine under mild conditions. Furthermore, by constructing different enynes, we can achieve the metal-free modular synthesis of 3-phosphonyl polysubstituted pyridine, which will be transferred into a new type of phosphine ligand.
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