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A facile and efficient synthetic procedure for effecting the pinacol rearrangement catalyzed by AlCl3 in the absence of solvent is developed. The rearrangement product is obtained at room temperature in a few minutes and in almost quantitative yield. Benzylic pinacols rearrange under these conditions, while aliphatic pinacols do not react.

The copper-catalyzed coupling of aromatic boronic acids with potassium cyanate in the presence of an alcohol has been employed for the synthesis of arylcarbamates. This simple and highly efficient approach can be carried out in air at room temperature and, importantly, no base, ligand, or additive is required.

A palladium-catalyzed cross-dehydrogenative coupling (CDC) reaction of pyridine N-oxides with toluenes has been developed that operates under mild conditions. 2-Benzylpyridines can be obtained directly by this method via a CDC reaction between unactivated toluenes and pyridine N-oxides. In addition, azafluorene N-oxides, of value for future medicinal chemistry applications, can be obtained successfully by this procedure via four tandem C-H bond activations.

A highly efficient protocol for the regioselective dehydrogenative cross-coupling of pyridine-N-oxides with N,N-dialkyl uracils via 2-fold C-H activation has been developed. The resultant uracil substituted pyridine-N-oxide structural motifs is readily deoxygenated, making the present procedure a highly attractive route for the synthesis of 5pyridine substituted uracils.

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A novel imidazole ionic liquid (IL)-functionalized [Formula: see text]-[Formula: see text] ([Formula: see text]) is prepared by the functionalization of [Formula: see text] by 1-butyl-3-(3-trimethoxypropyl)-1H-imidazol-3-ium chloride as the IL moiety. The catalyst is characterized by transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscope, vibrating sample magnetometer, dynamic light scattering and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. [Formula: see text] showed good activity in the synthesis of 6H-chromeno[4,3-b]quinolin-6-one derivatives via multicomponent reaction of 4-hydroxycoumarin, anilines and benzaldehydes. The nanocatalyst is magnetically separable and easily recoverable and showed successful activity up to 10 runs.

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