Formaldehyde surrogates in multicomponent reactions
- Cecilia I. Attorresi,
- Javier A. Ramírez and
- Bernhard Westermann
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 564–595, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.45
Graphical Abstract
Scheme 1: Features of the ideal reaction (redrawn from P. A. Wender et al. [1]).
Scheme 2: Some of the most popular MCRs with formaldehyde as the carbonyl component.
Scheme 3: Ugi reaction under a catalyzed electro-oxidation process using TEMPO (2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperid...
Scheme 4: Examples of different products obtained by MCRs in which DMSO serves as -SCH3 source.
Scheme 5: Mechanism of the decomposition of DMSO under acidic or thermal conditions. a) In situ generation of...
Scheme 6: Povarov multicomponent reaction to quinolines.
Scheme 7: Example of the Povarov reaction with formaldehyde with a julolidine derivative as main product.
Scheme 8: Povarov multicomponent reaction to quinoline derivatives I and II using DMSO as formaldehyde surrog...
Scheme 9: Example of a Povarov three-component reaction with change of catalyst, yielding regioisomer III. In...
Scheme 10: The Povarov three-component reactions carried out under acidic catalysis to afford quinoline regios...
Scheme 11: Different MCR routes involving DMSO to synthesize complex heterocycles such as diarylpyridines and ...
Scheme 12: Pyrazole synthesis by a three-component reaction using DMSO as a source of a C-1 unit.
Scheme 13: Three-component reactions for the synthesis of aliphatic heterocycles 13 and 14 using DMSO as a for...
Scheme 14: Proposed mechanism for the 3CR between homoallylic amines, disulfides, and DMSO.
Scheme 15: Mannich-type reaction using DMSO as formaldehyde surrogate.
Scheme 16: Mechanism for the 3CR-Mannich-type reaction between aryl ketone 18, saccharine (19), and DMSO. The ...
Scheme 17: Mannich-type reaction using DMSO as formaldehyde surrogate and under oxidative activation.
Scheme 18: Three-component reaction between an indazole, a carboxylic acid, and DMSO.
Scheme 19: Amine–aldehyde–alkyne (AAA) coupling reaction and plausible mechanism.
Scheme 20: AHA coupling for the synthesis of propargylamines using dihalomethanes as C1 building blocks.
Scheme 21: AHA coupling using CH2Cl2 as both solvent and methylene source.
Scheme 22: Examples of propargylamines synthesized under catalytic AHA protocols.
Scheme 23: Proposed mechanism for the synthesis of propargylamines using dichloromethane as a C1 source.
Scheme 24: Mechanism proposed for the generation of the aminal intermediate E by Buckley et al. [68].
Scheme 25: Pudovic and Kabachnik–Fields reactions for the synthesis of α-aminophosphonates.
Scheme 26: a) Abramov side reaction that generates α-hydroxy phosphonate as a byproduct during the Kabachnik-F...
Scheme 27: Catalyst-free three component reaction to afford α-amino phosphorus product 35 using 1,1-dihaloalka...
Scheme 28: a) Proposed mechanism for the three-component reaction of dichloromethane, amine and phosphorus com...
Scheme 29: Ugi-ammonia strategy using HMTA as a formaldehyde surrogate.
Scheme 30: Glyoxylate and its derivatives as C1 building blocks.
Scheme 31: The Groebke–Blackburn–Bienaymé multicomponent reaction (GBB) and its mechanism.
Scheme 32: a) Byproducts in the GBB multicomponent reaction (GBB) when formaldehyde is used as the carbonyl co...
Scheme 33: Possible regioisomers in the GBB multicomponent reaction when formaldehyde is used as the carbonyl ...
Scheme 34: The multicomponent GBB reaction yields 2-unsubstituted 3-aminoimidazo heterocycles 42a using MP-gly...
Scheme 35: GBB multicomponent reaction to 2-unsubstituted 3-amino imidazo heterocycles 42a using glyoxylic aci...
Scheme 36: GBB reaction using glyoxylic acid immobilized on silica as formaldehyde surrogate.
Scheme 37: Bioactive products synthesized by the GBB reaction using glyoxylic acid.
Scheme 38: van Leusen three-component reaction to imidazoles.
Scheme 39: Side reaction during the synthesis of imidazoles with formaldehyde as the carbonyl compound.
Scheme 40: Optimization of the van Leusen three component reaction to 1,4-disubstituted imidazoles 43 using gl...
Scheme 41: Application of the Sisko strategy [96] for the synthesis of CB1 receptor antagonist compounds [97].
Scheme 42: Side reaction, when NH4OH is used as amine component.
Scheme 43: Ugi-type adducts with the ester moiety and the acidic CH to be used for post-cyclization sequences.
Scheme 44: Ugi/cycloisomerization process to pyrrolones 51, butenolides 52, and pyrroline 53.
Scheme 45: Radical cyclization reactions from Ugi adducts promoted by TEMPO.
Scheme 46: Hydrolysis and decarboxylation reactions to products with incorporation of a C1 unit of ethyl glyox...
Scheme 47: One-step synthetic route to pyrrolones 60 using phenylglyoxal.
Scheme 48: Ugi-pseudo-Knoevenagel-pseudo-Dieckmann cascade sequence for the synthesis of fused heterocycles.
Scheme 49: Ugi-pseudo-Knoevenagel reaction from ethyl glyoxylate.
Steroid diversification by multicomponent reactions
- Leslie Reguera,
- Cecilia I. Attorresi,
- Javier A. Ramírez and
- Daniel G. Rivera
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1236–1256, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.121
Graphical Abstract
Figure 1: Structures of natural steroids of A) animal and B) plant origin.
Scheme 1: Synthesis of a steroidal β-lactam by Ugi reaction of a cholanic aldehyde [14].
Scheme 2: Synthetic route to steroidal 2,5-diketopiperazines based on a diastereoselective Ugi-4CR with an an...
Scheme 3: Multicomponent synthesis of a heterocycle–steroid hybrid using a ketosteroid as carbonyl component [18]....
Scheme 4: Synthesis of peptidomimetic–steroid hybrids using the Ugi-4CR with spirostanic amines and carboxyli...
Scheme 5: Synthesis of azasteroids using the Ugi-4CR with androstanic and pregnanic carboxylic acids [22].
Figure 2: Ugi-4CR-derived library of androstanic azasteroids with diverse substitution patterns at the phenyl...
Scheme 6: Synthesis of 4-azacholestanes by an intramolecular Ugi-4C-3R [26].
Scheme 7: Synthesis of amino acid–steroid hybrid by multiple Ugi-4CR using steroidal isocyanides [29].
Scheme 8: Synthesis of ecdysteroid derivatives by Ugi-4CR using a steroidal isocyanide [30].
Scheme 9: Stereoselective multicomponent synthesis of a steroid–tetrahydropyridine hybrid using a chiral bifu...
Scheme 10: Pd(II)-catalyzed three-component reaction with an alkynyl seco-cholestane [34].
Scheme 11: Multicomponent synthesis of steroid–thiazole hybrids from a steroidal ketone [36].
Scheme 12: Synthesis of cholanic pseudo-peptide derivatives by novel MCRs based on the reactivity of ynamide [37,38].
Scheme 13: Synthesis of steroid-fused pyrimidines and pyrimidones using the Biginelli-3CR [39,42,43].
Scheme 14: Synthesis of steroidal pyridopyrimidines by a reaction sequence comprising a 4CR followed by a post...
Scheme 15: Synthesis of steroid-fused pyrimidines by MCR of 2-hydroxymethylene-3-ketosteroids [46].
Scheme 16: Synthesis of steroid-fused naphthoquinolines by the Kozlov–Wang MCR using ketosteroids [50,51].
Scheme 17: Conjugation of steroids to carbohydrates and peptides by the Ugi-4CR [62,63].
Scheme 18: Solid-phase multicomponent conjugation of peptides to steroids by the Ugi-4CR [64].
Scheme 19: Solid-phase multicomponent conjugation of peptides to steroids by the Petasis-3CR [68].
Scheme 20: Synthesis of steroidal macrobicycles (cages) by multiple multicomponent macrocyclizations based on ...
Scheme 21: One-pot synthesis of steroidal cages by double Ugi-4CR-based macrocyclizations [76].
