Organobase-catalyzed three-component reactions for the synthesis of 4H-2-aminopyrans, condensed pyrans and polysubstituted benzenes

• Moustafa Sherief Moustafa,
• Saleh Mohammed Al-Mousawi,
• Maghraby Ali Selim,
• Ahmed Mohamed Mosallam and
• Mohamed Hilmy Elnagdi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 141–149, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.11

• -oxo-5-phenyl-3H-isoindole-4-carboxylate (40). Keywords: aminopyranes; arylbenzoic acid; DABCO; L-proline; multicomponent; tetrahydronaphthalene; three-component reaction; Introduction The reaction of arylidenemalononitriles with active methyl and methylene compounds was extensively utilized for the

• methylenenitriles to α,β-unsaturated ketones [8], 2-amino-4H-pyrans 1 (Scheme 1) have become the central focus of a number of chemical and biological investigations [9][10]. Perez et al. recently reported an interesting method for the synthesis of condensed pyridines 2 through a three-component reaction of

The regioselective synthesis of spirooxindolo pyrrolidines and pyrrolizidines via three-component reactions of acrylamides and aroylacrylic acids with isatins and α-amino acids

• Tatyana L. Pavlovskaya,
• Fedor G. Yaremenko,
• Victoria V. Lipson,
• Svetlana V. Shishkina,
• Oleg V. Shishkin,
• Vladimir I. Musatov and
• Alexander S. Karpenko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 117–126, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.8

• nucleus. The structure of compound 4a was determined by an X-ray diffraction study of a single crystal and supports the structure deduced from NMR spectroscopy (Figure 2). Dipolarophiles, such as aroylacrylic acids 5, can also be successfully used in this three-component reaction. The cycloaddition of

• aroylacrylic acids 5 were prepared according to the previously reported procedure [42]. General procedure for the synthesis of spirooxindoles 4a–4g from the three-component reaction of isatins, sarcosine or cyclic α-amino acids and acrylamides: A mixture of isatin (1.0 mmol), α-amino acid (1.0 mmol) and

• C13H14BrN3O2 (324.17): C 48.17, H 4.35, N 12.96; found: C 48.19, H 4.40, N 12.99. General procedure for the synthesis of spirooxindoles 6a–6h from the three-component reaction of isatins, sarcosine or proline and aroylacrylic acids: A mixture of isatin (1.0 mmol), α-amino acid (1.0 mmol) and aroylacrylic acid

Four-component reaction of cyclic amines, 2-aminobenzothiazole, aromatic aldehydes and acetylenedicarboxylate

• Hong Gao,
• Jing Sun and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2934–2939, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.330

• -toluenesulfonic acid-catalyzed three-component reaction of arylamine, aromatic aldehyde and acetylenedicarboxylate afforded 3-hydroxy-2-pyrrolidinone as main product [28]. In order to improve the reactivity of morpholine in this four-component reaction, p-toluenesulfonic acid was added in the four-component

Efficient synthesis of dihydropyrimidinones via a three-component Biginelli-type reaction of urea, alkylaldehyde and arylaldehyde

• Haijun Qu,
• Xuejian Li,
• Fan Mo and
• Xufeng Lin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2846–2851, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.320

• ). The variation of the alkyl substituent of acetaldehydes 2 is well tolerated to provide the desired products 4o–4q in 48–55% isolated yields. Finally, N-ethylurea 1b was also investigated in the one-pot three-component reaction, and the reactions proceeded smoothly to give the corresponding

• catalyze the enantioselective three-component reaction of mono-substituted ureas 1, alkylaldehydes 2 and arylaldehydes 3 to generate enantioenriched dihydropyrimidinones 4 [32][33][34][35]. In our initial study, we examined the multicomponent model reaction between N-methylurea 1a, phenylacetaldehyde 2a

An overview of the synthetic routes to the best selling drugs containing 6-membered heterocycles

• Marcus Baumann and
• Ian R. Baxendale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2265–2319, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.265

AgOTf-catalyzed one-pot reactions of 2-alkynylbenzaldoximes with α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds

• Qiuping Ding,
• Dan Wang,
• Puying Luo,
• Meiling Liu,
• Shouzhi Pu and
• Liyun Zhou

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1949–1956, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.231

• progress in this aspect. Wu and co-workers described an efficient three-component reaction of a 2-alkynylbenzaldoxime and an α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compound with bromine or iodine monochloride under mild conditions, which generates the 1-alkylated isoquinolines in good to excellent yields [36]. Wu and co

From bead to flask: Synthesis of a complex β-amido-amide for probe-development studies

• Kevin S. Martin,
• Cristian Soldi,
• Kellan N. Candee,
• Hiromi I. Wettersten,
• Robert H. Weiss and
• Jared T. Shaw

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 260–264, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.31

• step involves the use of a β-amino acid-forming three-component reaction (3CR), the scope of which defines its role in the synthetic strategy. Keywords: β-amino acid; benzimidazole; multicomponent reaction; Introduction Library syntheses and high-throughput screening can often be combined to enable

• studies of this compound as a biological probe [14][15]. The synthesis of 1 emanates from a one-pot, three-component reaction (3CR) of an arylaldehyde, malonic acid (5), and ammonium acetate, which assembles the β-amino acid core (Figure 2) [14][15][18]. In the reported synthesis of 1, a protected β-amino

Synthesis of spiro[dihydropyridine-oxindoles] via three-component reaction of arylamine, isatin and cyclopentane-1,3-dione

• Yan Sun,
• Jing Sun and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 8–14, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.2

• three-component reaction of arylamine, isatin and cyclopentane-1,3-dione. Results and Discussion Recently we found that the four-component reactions of arylamine, acetylenedicarboxylate, isatin and dimedone in acetic acid resulted in the novel functionalized tetrahydrospiro[indoline-3,2’-quinoline

• -5-methylisatin and cyclopentane-1,3-dione in acetic acid was carried out at room temperature. After workup, we were a little surprised to find that there was no unit of acetylenedicarboxylate in the obtained product (Scheme 1b). In another experiment, the three-component reaction of isatin

• that the three-component reaction of arylamine, isatin and clopentane-1,3-dione gave the final spiro product, while the acetylenedicarboxylate could not take part in the reaction. Attention was therefore turned to evaluate the generality of the three-component reaction of arylamine, isatin and

Reactions of salicylaldehyde and enolates or their equivalents: versatile synthetic routes to chromane derivatives

• Ishmael B. Masesane and
• Zelalem Yibralign Desta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 2166–2175, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.244

• 24 in 94% yield (Scheme 9) [22]. In 2009, Shanthi and co-workers reported the use of the amino acid L-proline as a catalyst in a three component reaction of salicylaldehyde, malononitrile and indole for the synthesis of 2-aminochromene 27 in 90% yield (Scheme 10) [23] The synthesis proceeds through a

Features of the behavior of 4-amino-5-carboxamido-1,2,3-triazole in multicomponent heterocyclizations with carbonyl compounds

• Eugene S. Gladkov,
• Katerina A. Gura,
• Svetlana M. Sirko,
• Sergey M. Desenko,
• Ulrich Groth and
• Valentin A. Chebanov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 2100–2105, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.236

• sequential procedure via the preliminary synthesis of 2-cycloheptylidenecycloheptanone but not by a three-component reaction involving cycloheptanone. ABC-type MCR between 4-amino-5-carboxamido-1,2,3-triazole, aldehydes and cyclohexanone or 1,3-cyclohexandiones leads to the formation of 4,5,6,7,8,9-hexahydro

• or thermal heating was substituted by ultrasonication at ambient temperature or when the three-component reaction was replaced by a sequential protocol via the preliminary synthesis of cyclic α,β-unsaturated ketones. Some MCRs of aminoazoles with controlled switching of the direction. Some possible

Facile synthesis of functionalized tetrahydroquinolines via domino Povarov reactions of arylamines, methyl propiolate and aromatic aldehydes

• Jing Sun,
• Hong Gao,
• Qun Wu and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1839–1843, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.211

• the functionalized tetrahydroquinolines 2a–2e were successfully obtained in good yields (Table 2). This result showed that this domino Povarov reaction has a broad substrate scope. Conclusion In summary we investigated the domino three-component reaction of aromatic aldehydes, arylamines and methyl

Copper-catalyzed CuAAC/intramolecular C–H arylation sequence: Synthesis of annulated 1,2,3-triazoles

• Rajkumar Jeyachandran,
• Harish Kumar Potukuchi and
• Lutz Ackermann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1771–1777, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.202

• catalyst for two mechanistically distinct transformations for the synthesis of fully substituted annulated 1,2,3-triazoles as well as for twofold N–H/C–H bond arylations. Notable features of our strategy include (i) the development of a chemoselective C–H arylation-based three-component reaction, as well

Organocatalytic tandem Michael addition reactions: A powerful access to the enantioselective synthesis of functionalized chromenes, thiochromenes and 1,2-dihydroquinolines

• Chittaranjan Bhanja,
• Satyaban Jena,
• Sabita Nayak and
• Seetaram Mohapatra

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1668–1694, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.191

• quadruple-cascade reaction exemplifies an efficient three-component reaction. In 2010 Wang et al. [11] reported the highly enantioselective synthesis of trisubstituted chiral 4H-chromenes 20 through iminium-allenamide catalysis. The reaction consists of a Michael–Michael-cascade sequence between alkynals 5

Enaminones in a multicomponent synthesis of 4-aryldihydropyridines for potential applications in photoinduced intramolecular electron-transfer systems

• Nouria A. Al-Awadi,
• Maher R. Ibrahim,
• Mohamed H. Elnagdi,
• Elizabeth John and
• Yehia A. Ibrahim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 441–447, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.50

• Nouria A. Al-Awadi Maher R. Ibrahim Mohamed H. Elnagdi Elizabeth John Yehia A. Ibrahim Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 5969, Safat 13060, Kuwait 10.3762/bjoc.8.50 Abstract An efficient three component reaction with enaminones, primary amines and aldehydes

• in the mapping of enzyme kinetics by means of the fluorescence similarity to NADH [11][12][13]. Moreover, there has been recent interest in the synthesis of dihydropyridine derivatives, due to their wide range of biological activity [14][15], by a one-pot three-component reaction with aliphatic

• % yield by microwave irradiation with R-1-phenylethylamine in this three-component reaction. The bis(dihydropyridines) 5a,b were obtained in 75–92% yield with ethylenediamine and 1,3-diaminopropane as the primary amines, respectively. The 4-(1-naphthyl)dihydropyridines 6a–f and 4-(phenanthren-9-yl

Regioselectivity in the multicomponent reaction of 5-aminopyrazoles, cyclic 1,3-diketones and dimethylformamide dimethylacetal under controlled microwave heating

• Kamal Usef Sadek,
• Ramadan Ahmed Mekheimer,
• Tahany Mahmoud Mohamed,
• Moustafa Sherief Moustafa and
• Mohamed Hilmy Elnagdi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 18–24, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.3

• triethylamine as base produces the more thermodynamically stable dihydropyridine (Hantzsch-type product). In addition, the nature of the catalyst plays an important role [20]. A one-pot three component reaction of 5-amino-1H-pyrazole-4-carbonitrile, dimedone and triethylorthoesters in toluene under reflux was

Amines as key building blocks in Pd-assisted multicomponent processes

• Didier Bouyssi,
• Nuno Monteiro and
• Geneviève Balme

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1387–1406, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.163

• -step reaction with, first, a Sonogashira coupling of o-haloanilines with terminal alkynes, followed by a cyclization reaction of the resulting 2-alkynyaniline derivatives [26][27]. A strategy for the preparation of indoles through a three-component reaction consisted of generating the terminal alkyne

• Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling approach starting from 1-chloro-2-iodobenzenes, phenylacetylene and a variety of primary amines [28][29]. The sequential three-component reaction was performed with the aid of an N-heterocyclic carbene-palladium complex generated in situ, derived from imidazolium salt 50

• completion. A variety of amines were involved in this one-pot sequential three-component reaction allowing the introduction of different protecting groups of the indole moiety. This site-selective, Pd/Cu-catalyzed cross-coupling approach was also performed on 1-chloro-2-iodo-4-(trifluoromethyl)benzene as o

Multicomponent synthesis of artificial nucleases and their RNase and DNase activity

• Anton V. Gulevich,
• Lyudmila S. Koroleva,
• Olga V. Morozova,
• Valentina N. Bakhvalova,
• Vladimir N. Silnikov and
• Valentine G. Nenajdenko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1135–1140, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.131

• or 12 carbon atoms by the standard formylation–dehydration protocol (Scheme 2). We found that these diisocyanides 3 participate successfully in the catalytic three-component reaction via a modified List procedure [25]. Diamides 4 with benzyl protective groups were synthesized in moderate to good

A practical two-step procedure for the preparation of enantiopure pyridines: Multicomponent reactions of alkoxyallenes, nitriles and carboxylic acids followed by a cyclocondensation reaction

• Christian Eidamshaus,
• Roopender Kumar,
• Mrinal K. Bera and
• Hans-Ulrich Reissig

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 962–975, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.108

• procedures, we decided to purify the reaction mixture at the stage of the β-alkoxy-β-ketoenamides 58 obtained by the three-component reaction. Recently we demonstrated that β-alkoxy-β-ketoenamides are not only valuable intermediates in the synthesis of 4-hydroxypyridines 57, but that they can also serve as

New acylides: synthesis of 3-O-[γ-(4-oxo-2-aryl- thiazolidin- 3-yl)butyryl]erythromycin A derivatives

• Deepa Pandey,
• Wahajul Haq and
• Seturam B. Katti

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 14, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.14

• -thiazolidin-3-yl)butyryl]erythromycin A derivatives have been synthesized. The 3-hydroxy group was derivatised to a primary amine and subsequently the thiazolidinone nucleus was generated at the amino functionality through DCC mediated one-pot three-component reaction in good yields. Background Second

An efficient synthesis of novel pyrano[2,3-d]- and furopyrano[2,3-d]pyrimidines via indium- catalyzed multi- component domino reaction

• Dipak Prajapati and
• Mukut Gohain

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2006, 2, No. 11, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-2-11

• -nitrobenzaldehyde 2a, ethyl vinyl ether 4 in acetonitrile:water (3:1) and in presence of 1 mol% indium(III) trichloride, a one-pot three-component reaction proceeded spontaneously at room temperature. After completion and usual work-up the corresponding pyrano [2,3-d]pyrimidine derivative 5a was obtained in 99