Multicomponent processes are beneficial tools for the synthesis of heterocycles. As densely substituted bifunctional electrophiles, ynones are essential intermediates by applying cyclocondensations or cycloadditions in numerous heterocycle syntheses. The respective alkynoyl intermediates are generally accessible by palladium-, copper- and palladium/copper-catalyzed alkynylation. In turn, the mild reaction conditions allow for a fast and versatile entry to functional heterocycles in the sense of consecutive multicomponent processes. This review collates and presents recent advances in accessing thirteen heterocycle classes and their applications by virtue of catalytic alkynoyl generation in diversity-oriented multicomponent syntheses in a one-pot fashion.
Two consecutive three-component syntheses furnishing-amino enoates or 3-hydroxypyrazoles based upon the Sonogashira alkynylation of aryl iodides and ethyl propiolate were established in mostly excellent yields. The ethyl 3-arylpropiolate intermediates are Michael systems which are suited for concatenation with conjugate addition or cyclocondensation giving access to libraries of 21 different-amino enoates and 17 different 3-hydroxypyrazoles. The rotational barrier [a
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