α-Ketoglutaric acid in Ugi reactions and Ugi/aza-Wittig tandem reactions

• Vladyslav O. Honcharov,
• Yana I. Sakhno,
• Olena H. Shvets,
• Vyacheslav E. Saraev,
• Svitlana V. Shishkina,
• Tetyana V. Shcherbakova and
• Valentyn A. Chebanov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 2021–2029, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.157

• ; quinoxalinone derivative; Ugi reaction; Introduction Multicomponent reactions are powerful tools in organic chemistry that enable the synthesis of structurally complex and multifunctional compounds from three or more starting materials in a single synthetic step. They are widely used in drug discovery because