A stable enol from a 6-substituted benzanthrone and its unexpected behaviour under acidic conditions

• Marc Debeaux,
• Kai Brandhorst,
• Peter G. Jones,
• Henning Hopf,
• Jörg Grunenberg,
• Wolfgang Kowalsky and
• Hans-Hermann Johannes

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 31, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.31

• unexpected behaviour of this adduct under acidic conditions. Results and Discussion Syntheses Benzanthrone (1) was treated with biphenyl-2-yl lithium (Scheme 1). After work-up and chromatography the surprisingly stable enol 4 was obtained in 56% yield. However, no formation of the tertiary alcohol 5 could be

Facile synthesis of two diastereomeric indolizidines corresponding to the postulated structure of alkaloid 5,9E- 259B from a Bufonid toad (Melanophryniscus)

• Angela Nelson,
• H. Martin Garraffo,
• Thomas F. Spande,
• John W. Daly and
• Paul J. Stevenson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 6, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-4-6

• magnesium iodide gave the water soluble tertiary alcohol 1 in 96% yield. 7-Oxoheptanoic acid methyl ester was prepared by the literature procedure [36], by ozonolysis of 1-methoxycycloheptene, and then condensed with the amidoalcohol 1 with azeotropic removal of water to give the N,O-acetal 2 in 71% yield

• this intriguing transformation will be published elsewhere in due course. One-pot dehydration of the tertiary alcohol 3 was accomplished via the mesylate, and in situ elimination with triethylamine to give the diene 4 in 74% yield. Diene 4 smoothly underwent cyclisation to indolizidinone 5 when treated

The first organocatalytic carbonyl- ene reaction: isomerisation- free C-C bond formations catalysed by H-bonding thio- ureas

• Matthew L. Clarke,
• Charlotte E. S. Jones and
• Marcia B. France

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 24, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-24

• after 3 hours reaction time. A 96% yield of the desired isomerically pure tertiary alcohol was obtained in the presence of 5. In contrast, the uncatalysed background reaction yields just 19%. Reactions monitored by 19F NMR reveal that good conversion (70%) was also possible after 1 hour using 10 mol

Synthesis of novel (1-alkanoyloxy- 4-alkanoylaminobutylidene)-1,1-bisphosphonic acid derivatives

• Petri A. Turhanen and
• Jouko J. Vepsäläinen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2006, 2, No. 2, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-2-2

• esters like P(O)-O-Me as well as an acyl group at the tertiary alcohol group are stable against enzymatic hydrolysis. [18] However, the latter decomposed gradually due to chemical hydrolysis. Because of the extreme hydrophilic character of HABBPA, its solubility and reactivity in organic solvents is very