Shape- persistent macrocycle with intraannular alkyl groups: some structural limits of discotic liquid crystals with an inverted structure

• Sigurd Höger,
• Jill Weber,
• Andreas Leppert and
• Volker Enkelmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 1, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-4-1

• compared to macrocycle 1. 3,5-Diiodo-4-methylbenzene (2) was treated with trimethylsilyl(TMS)acetylene under standard Hagihara-Sonogashira coupling conditions and subsequently deprotected with K2CO3 in MeOH/THF. As expected, the Pd-catalyzed coupling reaction runs under milder conditions and with higher

• (model reactions with 4-methylanisole showed that a direct diiodination could not be obtained under the conditions we used; for example, with N-iodosuccinimide and FeCl3 we could obtain cleanly 2-iodo-4-methylanisole). Pd-catalyzed Hagihara-Sonogashira coupling with 15, deprotection of the

• PAH substituents (Scheme 3). Pd-catalyzed coupling of the diiodo compound 14 with the mono protected bisacetylene 20, deprotection of the acetylenes with TBAF and subsequent coupling with an excess of the diiodo compound 5c gave the diiodide 23. Hagihara-Sonogashira coupling of 23 with an excess of

Flexible synthesis of poison- frog alkaloids of the 5,8-disubstituted indolizidine- class. II: Synthesis of (-)-209B, (-)-231C, (-)-233D, (-)-235B", (-)-221I, and an epimer of 193E and pharmacological effects at neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

• Soushi Kobayashi,
• Naoki Toyooka,
• Dejun Zhou,
• Hiroshi Tsuneki,
• Tsutomu Wada,
• Toshiyasu Sasaoka,
• Hideki Sakai,
• Hideo Nemoto,
• H. Martin Garraffo,
• Thomas F. Spande and
• John W. Daly

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 30, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-30

• the resulting aldehyde under Stork's conditions [11] provided the Z-iodoolefin 5 in a highly stereoselective manner. The Sonogashira coupling reaction [12] of 5 with TMS-acetylene followed by cleavage of the trimethylsilyl group with K2CO3 afforded (-)-231C. Although the rotation of the natural