The microwave-assisted intramolecular [3 + 2] cycloaddition reaction of azomethine ylides to activated and nonactivated alkenes and alkynes is described. The procedure allows the synthesis of pyrrolidines and pyrrole products in good to excellent overall yields in short reaction times. It appears from parallel comparative studies that the microwave procedure favors the reaction times and overall purity of the crude reaction mixture. The reactions can also be performed in the absence of solvent. [reaction: see text]
A new class of hybrid molecules is accessed by elaborating testosterone's AB ring into the norsesquiterpene spirolactone AЈBЈ ring. The cyclic ene-acetal 6b, obtained by a PhI-(OAc) 2 -mediated domino process from vicinal unsaturated diol 5, is used for the synthesis of a norsesquiterpene spiro-
[structure: see text]. The first enantioselective total synthesis of 1-epi-pathylactone A, 3, has been accomplished using a PhI(OAc)2-mediated domino reaction as a key step. No diastereomeric separation was required throughout the whole synthetic scheme presented in this paper. Comparison of 1H and 13C NMR spectral data of the synthetic product with the reported spectral data of natural pathylactone A, coupled with an X-ray crystallographic analysis, led to the conclusion that the C1 configuration in the original paper was erroneously ascribed to (R).
The straightforward synthesis of families of novel tricyclic and tetracyclic pyrrolino and indolino heterocycles in a onepot [3+2]-cycloaddition reaction is described. The process enables the synthesis of diversified pyrroles or pyrrolines in high yields in a single step. Microwave and conventional thermal conditions were explored, with remarkable acceleration observed under the microwave conditions.
Bicyclic unsaturated diols undergo a path selective modular domino transformation upon subjection to Pb(OAc)4, the reaction being biased to the nature of the angular substituent. The magnitude of the linking chain and the nature of the angular substituent determine the reaction course. Methylene ether linkage acts as an autoremovable directing group (ring-retained domino product 5), whereas a propylene linkage switches the path toward the ring-expanded type 21 domino product. Reaction times were substantially reduced using microwave irradiation.
Structurally different products can be reached selectively from unsaturated vicinal bicyclic diols, which differ only by the epoxide configuration at the angular position. It is possible to modify the regiochemical outcome of the domino process in such a way as to create a different pathway, [4 + 2] versus [4 + 3 + 2], and control product distribution by using the configuration bias. No previous example of a domino variant of the [4 + 3 + 2] process appears to have been documented.
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