Archive for April, 2010
Posted by naturalproductman on April 30, 2010
Adding aryl groups across alkynes seems to be a developing chemical transformation in the field. Nicolas Guimond and co-workers at the University of Ottawa have recently reported in JACS on a C-N bond addition across an alkyne.

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Posted by naturalproductman on April 30, 2010
Norbert De Kimpe and co-workers from Ghent University have recently reported in Chemical Communications on the reduction of chiral N-(tertbutanesulfinyl)ketimines with chlorides to yield chiral pyrrolidines upon reduction with LiBEt3H.

Chem Comm paper
Posted in Asymmetric, Cascade Reactions, Methodology, Ring forming | Leave a Comment »
Posted by naturalproductman on April 30, 2010
Koichiro Oshima and co-workers from Kyoto University have recently reported in Organic Letters on a Ni-catalyzed C-C bond cleavage.

OL paper
Posted in C-C Bond Breaking, Methodology, Nickel, Transition Metal | Leave a Comment »
Posted by naturalproductman on April 30, 2010
James White and co-workers have recently reported in JOC on a [2+2] photocycloaddition followed by a retro-Mannich cascade reaction (TIPCARM), which further undergoes another retro-Mannich reaction and a rearrangement to yield a spirocycle.

JOC paper
Posted in Cascade Reactions, Cycloaddition, Light Mediated, Methodology, Named Reactions, Pericyclic reactions, retro-Mannich | Leave a Comment »
Posted by naturalproductman on April 30, 2010
Timothy Jamison and co-worker have recently reported in JACS on a nickel catalyzed allylic substitution of a mono-substituted alkene.

JACS paper
Posted in C-H activation, Methodology, Nickel, Transition Metal | Leave a Comment »
Posted by naturalproductman on April 29, 2010
Guillaume Laconde and co-workers at INSERM have recently reported in Tetrahedron Letters on an Ugi reaction to synthesize 4-aminopiperidine-4-carboxylic acids.

Tetraheron Letters paper
Posted in Cascade Reactions, Methodology, Multi-Component Coupling, Named Reactions, Ugi | Leave a Comment »
Posted by naturalproductman on April 29, 2010
Erick Carreira and co-workers have used cyclohexyne to cleave a C-C bond and expand a ring system. A hypervalent iodine was used to generate the strained alkyne.

ACIEE paper
Posted in C-C Bond Breaking, Cascade Reactions, Cycloaddition, Electrocyclization, Hypervalent Iodine, Methodology, Pericyclic reactions | Leave a Comment »
Posted by naturalproductman on April 29, 2010
Craig Merlic and co-worker at UCLA have recently reported in Organic Letters on an Ullmann reaction from a vinyl boron substrate to couple to the oxygen of an allylic alcohol. The yield was optimized in the presence of a terminal alkyne, which was used as a ligand for copper.

OL paper
Posted in Copper, cross coupling, Methodology, Transition Metal, Ullmann | Leave a Comment »
Posted by naturalproductman on April 28, 2010
Jieping Zhu and co-workers from CNRS have recently reported in Chemistry a European Journal on a spirocyclization process that forms two rings in one reaction with the use of a palladium catalyst. One of the steps involves an aminopalladation to make the pyrrolidine-unit.

Chemistry a European Journal paper
Posted in Cascade Reactions, Mechanistic, Methodology, Palladium, Spirocycles, Transition Metal | Leave a Comment »
Posted by naturalproductman on April 28, 2010
Benito Alcaide and co-workers (CSIC and University of Oxford) have recently reported in Chemistry – a European Journal on a cross coupling cyclization reaction between two different allene compounds in the presence of a palladium catalyst.

Chemistry a European Journal paper
Posted in Allenes, Cascade Reactions, cross coupling, Methodology, Palladium, Transition Metal | Leave a Comment »