Synthesis of novel photochromic pyrans via palladium- mediated reactions

• Christoph Böttcher,
• Gehad Zeyat,
• Saleh A. Ahmed,
• Elisabeth Irran,
• Thorben Cordes,
• Cord Elsner,
• Wolfgang Zinth and
• Karola Rueck-Braun

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 25, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.25

• rearrangement reactions [25]. Since nitriles are important intermediates in the synthesis of carboxylic acids and derivatives, and for the introduction of aminomethyl substituents, we started our studies with palladium-catalyzed cyanation reactions. The studies were then extended towards a Heck carbonylation in

• in good to excellent yields (Scheme 6). Starting from the bromo-substituted pyran 2b a final carbonylation step (Scheme 6) would directly complete the synthesis of an Fmoc-protected ω-amino acid. Though many protocols for Heck carbonylations are known, only a few report neutral reaction conditions

Polyionic polymers – heterogeneous media for metal nanoparticles as catalyst in Suzuki–Miyaura and Heck–Mizoroki reactions under flow conditions

• Klaas Mennecke and
• Andreas Kirschning

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 21, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.21

• heterogeneous supports for palladium(0) nanoparticles is described. These functionalized polymers were incorporated inside a flow reactor and employed in Suzuki–Miyaura and Heck cross couplings under continuous flow conditions. Keywords: Heck–Mizoroki reaction; heterogeneous catalysis; ion exchange resin

• 0.7 ppm for each run. This very low value for leaching corresponds to the leaching determined for transfer hydrogenations with this catalytic flow system using cyclohexene as hydrogen source and solvent [23][24]. Heck–Mizoroki reactions One other very important cross coupling reaction that bears

• industrial relevance is the Heck–Mizoroki reaction. We were able to perform C-C coupling reaction under flow conditions with aryl iodides 23–28 using catalyst 3 (Table 2). Optimization of the conditions for our monolithic flow reactor was conducted with 4′-iodoacetophenone (23) and styrene (29) as coupling

Convenient methods for preparing π-conjugated linkers as building blocks for modular chemistry

• Jiří Kulhánek,
• Filip Bureš and
• Miroslav Ludwig

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 11, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.11

• ] proved to be infeasible. However, in light of the report by Itami and Yoshida [34], we attempted the Mizoroki–Heck C–H arylation of 4-bromo-N,N-dimethylaniline with an equimolar amount of vinylboronate pinacol ester leading to the desired 3c in 73% yield (Scheme 1, Method A). 4-Substituted 4

• . Overall 12 extended π-linkers have been easily synthesized (8 of them are new compounds) utilizing procedures such as a lithiation/reaction with triisopropyl borate/esterification with pinacol, Mizoroki–Heck coupling with vinylboronate pinacol ester, borylation with bis(pinacolato)diboron or Sonogashira

Recent progress on the total synthesis of acetogenins from Annonaceae

• Nianguang Li,
• Zhihao Shi,
• Yuping Tang,
• Jianwei Chen and
• Xiang Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 48, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.48

Synthesis of the Benzo- fused Indolizidine Alkaloid Mimics

• Daniel L. Comins and
• Kazuhiro Higuchi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 42, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-42

• indolizidine alkaloid mimics has been developed. The indolizidine derivatives 8 were prepared via heteroaryl Grignard addition to N-acylpyridinium salts followed by an intramolecular Heck cyclization. Further substitution reactions were developed to demonstrate that heterocycles 8 are good scaffolds for

• from N-TIPS-3-bromopyrrole [18] and N-TIPS-3-bromoindole (entries 8,9). Next, the intramolecular reductive Heck cyclization with N-acyl-2,3-dihydropyridones 1a-i was investigated (Table 2). A short synthesis of indolizidine alkaloids of type 8 by using Heck or anionic cyclization methods was developed

• derivatives containing functionality in the benzene ring was examined. The chloro-substituted compound 1j was prepared from 6 and 4-chloro-2-iodobenzoylchloride (7b). [20] The reductive Heck cyclization of 1j proceeded without difficulty to provide compound 8j in 82% yield (Scheme 1). Next, the nitro