Recent advances in the syntheses of anthracene derivatives

• Giovanni S. Baviera and
• Paulo M. Donate

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2028–2050, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.131

• 173 in good yield (62–94%) via a cycloaddition/oxidative aromatization sequence involving quinone 171 and substituted β-enamino esters 172 as precursors. They prepared anthraquinone 173a starting from three different β-enamino esters; a less bulky β-enamino ester favored the reaction. The scope of the

Synthesis of Xenia diterpenoids and related metabolites isolated from marine organisms

• Tatjana Huber,
• Lara Weisheit and
• Thomas Magauer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2521–2539, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.273

• affecting the sensitive caryophyllene-like subunit, the methoxy group was replaced with a phenylseleno moiety, which was converted to the alcohol and finally oxidized to lactone 73. In three further steps, lactone 73 was converted to aldehyde ester 74, which upon treatment with piperidine gave a β-enamino

• ester 75. Finally, an elegant cascade reaction involving an aldol condensation, followed by a hetereo Diels–Alder reaction closed the last three rings and antheliolide A (18) was obtained in 74% yield. In summary, the successful total synthesis of antheliolide A proceeded in 25 linear steps with an

Stereoselective synthesis of perillaldehyde-based chiral β-amino acid derivatives through conjugate addition of lithium amides

• Zsolt Szakonyi,
• Reijo Sillanpää and
• Ferenc Fülöp

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2738–2742, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.289

• obtained. These include the selective reduction of β-enamino ester enantiomers [14], enzyme-catalyzed kinetic resolution [15], and a variety of asymmetric syntheses, for example, the enantioselective syntheses of β-lactams followed by ring opening [16][17], or the enantioselective desymmetrization of

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

• benzothiazolyl and piperidinyl (or pyrrolidinyl) units. Results and Discussion Initially, we set out to investigate the reaction conditions by using piperidine to react with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate to give the expected β-enamino ester. It is interesting to find that the reaction of piperidine with

• acetylenedicarboxylate in ethanol at room temperature proceeded very quickly and could be finished to give the expected β-enamino ester in less than twenty minutes [27], while the reaction of normal primary arylamine with acetylenedicarboxylate or propiolate in ethanol at room temperature usually needed more than one

Synthesis of functionalized spiro[indoline-3,4’-pyridines] and spiro[indoline-3,4’-pyridinones] via one-pot four-component reactions

• Li-Juan Zhang,
• Qun Wu,
• Jing Sun and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 846–851, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.97

• of a wide variety of heterocycles and pharmaceutical compounds [6][7][8][9][10][11]. Many domino reactions have been developed by trapping this kind of β-enamino ester with sequential adding of nucleophilic or electrophilic reagents to give versatile nitrogen-containing compounds and N,O-heterocycles

• spiro[indoline-3,4’-pyridines] 2a–2h as the main products (Table 2, entries 1–8). Due to fact that m-nitroaniline and p-nitroaniline could not react with methyl propiolate to give the desired intermediate β-enamino ester, they were not utilized in this reaction. On the other hand p-methoxyaniline, p

• ester A from the addition of arylamine to methyl propiolate. The second reaction is a Knoevenagel condensation of isatin with malononitrile or ethyl cyanoacetate under the catalysis of triethylamine to give the isatylidene deriatives B. The third reaction is a Michael addition of β-enamino ester

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

• , cyclopentane-1,3-dione and β-enamino ester, which was prepared in situ from the addition of p-methoxyaniline to dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate in acetic acid according to our previously established procedure [15], also gave this new kind of spiro product in nearly the same yield. This result clearly indicated

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

• proceeded smoothly to give polysubstituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinolines in moderate yields. The reaction is believed to involve the Povarov reaction of in situ generated β-enamino ester with the in situ formed aromatic imine. Keywords: β-enamino ester; domino reaction; electron-deficient alkyne; Povarov

• ]. However, a survey of literature reveals that a Povarov reaction with in situ generated β-enamino ester as dienophile has not been reported until now. Recently, Zhu and Masson successfully developed three-component Povarov reactions using enamides as dienophiles leading to a highly efficient synthesis of

• enantiomerically enriched 4-amino-tetrahydroquinolines [43][44]. In this work our aim is to describe the domino Povarov reaction with both in situ formed aldimine and in situ generated β-enamino ester for the facile synthesis of the functionalized tetrahydroquinoline. Results and Discussion It is known that the