Bioinspired tetraamino-bisthiourea chiral macrocycles in catalyzing decarboxylative Mannich reactions

• Hao Guo,
• Yu-Fei Ao,
• De-Xian Wang and
• Qi-Qiang Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 486–496, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.51

• report a systematic synthesis of tetraamino-bisthiourea chiral macrocycles and their performance in catalyzing the decarboxylative Mannich addition of malonic acid half thioesters (MAHTs) to isatin-derived ketimines. The macrocycle-enabled hydrogen-bonding activation network and the associated confined

Asymmetric Mannich reactions of (S)-N-tert-butylsulfinyl-3,3,3-trifluoroacetaldimines with yne nucleophiles

• Ziyi Li,
• Li Wang,
• Yunqi Huang,
• Haibo Mei,
• Hiroyuki Konno,
• Hiroki Moriwaki,
• Vadim A. Soloshonok and
• Jianlin Han

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2671–2678, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.217

• , Paseo Manuel Lardizábal 3, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Alameda Urquijo 36-5, Plaza Bizkaia, 48011 Bilbao, Spain 10.3762/bjoc.16.217 Abstract In the present work, arylethynes were studied as new C-nucleophiles in the asymmetric Mannich addition reactions with (S

• afford diastereomerically pure compounds. The purified Mannich addition products were deprotected to give the target enantiomerically pure trifluoromethylpropargylamines. A mechanistic rationale for the observed stereochemical outcome is discussed. Keywords: arylethynes; asymmetric Mannich reaction; C

A review of asymmetric synthetic organic electrochemistry and electrocatalysis: concepts, applications, recent developments and future directions

• Munmun Ghosh,
• Valmik S. Shinde and
• Magnus Rueping

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2710–2746, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.264

• imides and no racemization was observed during the reaction (Scheme 50). In 2000, Pilli and co-workers published a vinylogous Mannich addition of silyloxyfuran to chiral N-acyliminium ions generated in situ from 157 which had been obtained from the anodic oxidation of 156 bearing a cyclohexyl-based

• chiral auxiliary ([92]. The authors established that the Mannich addition occurred exclusively on the Si-face of the N-acyliminium ions, resulting in the threo-isomer as the major isomer (with moderate yields and good diastereomeric ratios). Upon catalytic hydrogenation followed by methanolysis, threo

Quinone-catalyzed oxidative deformylation: synthesis of imines from amino alcohols

• Xinyun Liu,
• Johnny H. Phan,
• Benjamin J. Haugeberg,
• Shrikant S. Londhe and
• Michael D. Clift

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2895–2901, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.282

• iminoquinone intermediate is likely required for productive reactivity. To demonstrate the synthetic utility of this methodology, we performed a sequential oxidative deformylation/Mukaiyama−Mannich addition under our previously reported conditions for decarboxylative amino acid homologation (Scheme 4) [32]. In

• . Sequential oxidative deformylation/Mukaiyama−Mannich addition using phenylglycinol. Optimization of quinone-catalyzed oxidative deformylation of phenylglycinol (1a). Quinone-catalyzed oxidative deformylation of various amino alcohols. Quinone-catalyzed oxidative deformylation using various amine reaction

A tandem Mannich addition–palladium catalyzed ring-closing route toward 4-substituted-3(2H)-furanones

• Jubi John,
• Eliza Târcoveanu,
• Peter G. Jones and
• Henning Hopf

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1462–1470, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.150

• Braunschweig, Germany 10.3762/bjoc.10.150 Abstract A facile route towards highly functionalized 3(2H)-furanones via a sequential Mannich addition–palladium catalyzed ring closing has been elaborated. The reaction of 4-chloroacetoacetate esters with imines derived from aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes under

• . Keywords: aza-prostaglandin analogue; 3(2H)-furanone; Mannich addition; palladium catalysis; tandem reaction; Introduction Organic chemists welcome the introduction of facile tandem protocols because of the advantages of multiple bond formation in one-pot processes, which in turn makes the process

• this report we describe the use of a tandem methodology involving a Mannich addition/palladium-catalyzed ring-closing protocol for the facile synthesis of 4-substituted furanones. Since 3(2H)-furanones form the main component of many natural products and pharmaceutically important compounds (Figure 1