Sigmatropic rearrangement

Herbert Waldmann and co-workers at Max Planck have reported in Chemical Communications on an Ireland-Claisen rearrangement to access a chiral tertiary carbon center.

Chem Comm paper

Nucleophilicity: Alpha vs. Beta Position

Zhi-Xiang Wang and co-workers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have reported in JOC on a Morita Baylis Hilman type reaction using either trimethyl phosphine or an NHC catalyst.

 

JOC paper

Piperidinone Synthesis

Deevi Basavaiah at the University of Hyderabad have published in Helvetica Chimica Acta on the use of Morita-Baylis-Hillman adducts as precursors to piperidinones.

HCA paper

Aza-MBH followed by IMDA

Thomas Back and co-workers at the University of Calgary have recently reported in JOC on an aza-Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction fgollowed by an intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction.

JOC paper

Hydroxysulfide Catalysts for Morita-Baylis-Hilman

Javier Perez-Castells and co-workers from the Universidad San Pablo CEU in Spain have recently reported in Organic Letters on a hydroxysulfide catalyst promoted Morita-Baylis-Hilman reaction.

OL paper

Vinyl Pyridinium Ylide Cyclization

Ponnusamy Shanmugam and co-workers have recently published in Organic Letters on a pyridinium ylide formation that cyclizes to form spirocyclic centers.

OL paper

Asymmetric Morita-Baylis-Hillman Reaction

Brian Connell and co-workers at Texas A&M have recently reported in Chemical Communications on an enantioselective Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction using a chiral DMAP catalyst.

Chem Comm paper