Chemoselective reduction of aldehydes by ruthenium trichloride and resin- bound formates

• Basudeb Basu,
• Bablee Mandal,
• Sajal Das,
• Pralay Das and
• Ashis K. Nanda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 53, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.53

• ·3H2O), we carried out the CTH using a well-defined Ru(II) complex [Dichloro(p-cymene)ruthenium(II)] dimer; (2 mol%) under similar conditions and indeed a comparable result was observed (Table 1, entry 11). On the basis of this comparison, it may be presumed that the Ru(III) salt might undergo in situ

Synthesis of methylenebisamides using CC- or DCMT- activated DMSO

• Qiang Wang,
• Lili Sun,
• Yu Jiang and
• Chunbao Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 51, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.51

• , when amides react with electrophile-activated DMSO, the yields are rather low. We have found new electrophiles, 2,4,6-trichloro[1,3,5]triazine (CC) and 2,4-dichloro-6-methoxy[1,3,5]triazine (DCMT), which activate DMSO in the presence of amides to yield methylenebisamides in good to fair yields. The

• drastic reaction conditions [19][22]. In this paper, we report the reaction of amides with DMSO activated by CC or 2,4-dichloro-6-methoxy[1,3,5]triazine (DCMT) [24]. Results and Discussion Initially, we chose CC as the activation reagent and benzamide as a model substrate to optimize the reaction

Photosonochemical catalytic ring opening of α-epoxyketones

• Hamid R. Memarian and
• Ali Saffar-Teluri

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 2, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-2

• and α-epoxyketones have also occurred thermally or photochemically by the presence of various electron acceptors. These reactions have been observed thermally by ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN), [28][29] 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-p-benzoquinone (DDQ) [30] and iron(III) chloride [31] or photo-induced

New modification of the Perkow reaction: halocarboxylate anions as leaving groups in 3-acyloxyquinoline- 2,4(1H,3H)-dione compounds

• Oldřich Paleta,
• Karel Pomeisl,
• Stanislav Kafka,
• Antonín Klásek and
• Vladislav Kubelka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2005, 1, No. 17, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-1-17

• , amides or acyl halides. [5][6] Examples of the successful Perkow reaction also include chlorofluoro ketones, e.g. 1,3-dichloro-1,1,3,3-tetrafluoroacetone,[7] α-halonitroalkanes, and in rare cases also polycyclic compounds[8] such as 3,3-dichloro-1-methylquinoline-2,4(1H,3H)-dione. [9] In the Perkow