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Asymmetric organocatalytic Michael addition of cyclopentane-1,2-dione to alkylidene oxindole

  • Estelle Silm,
  • Ivar Järving and
  • Tõnis Kanger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 167–173, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.18

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  • versatile starting materials in organic synthesis [1][2]. Specifically, due to their keto–enol tautomerism and high reactivity, diketones are excellent precursors for different pharmaceuticals [3]. Cyclic 1,3-diketones have been widely exploited to access enantiomerically enriched scaffolds with increased
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Published 03 Feb 2022

Regioselective synthesis of methyl 5-(N-Boc-cycloaminyl)-1,2-oxazole-4-carboxylates as new amino acid-like building blocks

  • Jolita Bruzgulienė,
  • Greta Račkauskienė,
  • Aurimas Bieliauskas,
  • Vaida Milišiūnaitė,
  • Miglė Dagilienė,
  • Gita Matulevičiūtė,
  • Vytas Martynaitis,
  • Sonata Krikštolaitytė,
  • Frank A. Sløk and
  • Algirdas Šačkus

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 102–109, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.11

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  • Information File 258: General information, synthesis procedures, and spectral data. Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to Mr. S. Belyakov (Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Riga, Latvia) for performing the X-ray analysis. Funding This work has been accomplished with financial support provided by
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Published 12 Jan 2022

1,2-Naphthoquinone-4-sulfonic acid salts in organic synthesis

  • Ruan Carlos B. Ribeiro,
  • Patricia G. Ferreira,
  • Amanda de A. Borges,
  • Luana da S. M. Forezi,
  • Fernando de Carvalho da Silva and
  • Vitor F. Ferreira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 53–69, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.5

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  • Fluminense, Faculdade de Farmácia, Departamento de Tecnologia Farmacêutica, 24241-000, Niterói-RJ, Brazil 10.3762/bjoc.18.5 Abstract Several low molecular weight naphthoquinones are very useful in organic synthesis. These compounds have given rise to thousands of other naphthoquinones that have been tested
  • used in organic synthesis, they are excellent analytical derivatization reagents to spectrophotometrically determine drugs containing primary and secondary amino groups. This review summarizes the literature involving β-NQS. Keywords: biological activities; derivatization reagents; β-NQS; organic
  • new fragments in the general structure or modifying functional groups. In Figure 1, eight low molecular weight naphthoquinones are highlighted, which are the most commonly used in organic synthesis. Among them, quinones 1–5 are naturally occurring, are simple to prepare and are commercially available
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Published 05 Jan 2022

Recent advances and perspectives in ruthenium-catalyzed cyanation reactions

  • Thaipparambil Aneeja,
  • Cheriya Mukkolakkal Abdulla Afsina,
  • Padinjare Veetil Saranya and
  • Gopinathan Anilkumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 37–52, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.4

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  • -aryl-substituted cyclic tertiary amines including N-arylpiperidines and N-aryltetrahydroisoquinolines. The high reusability of the catalyst at least seven times further enhanced the importance of this strategy in the field of organic synthesis. 1.2 Cyanation of amines using homogeneous catalysts An
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Published 04 Jan 2022

Stepwise PEG synthesis featuring deprotection and coupling in one pot

  • Logan Mikesell,
  • Dhananjani N. A. M. Eriyagama,
  • Yipeng Yin,
  • Bao-Yuan Lu and
  • Shiyue Fang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2976–2982, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.207

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  • obtained. However, for many other applications, which include as linkers in organic synthesis and bioconjugation [8], as ingredients in nanomedicines to stabilize nanoparticles and to assist nanoparticle cell entry [9][10][11], and as PEGylation agents to stabilize drugs based on biologic molecules such as
  • protecting groups would be preferred. Such routes can double the length of the PEG in three easy steps and the PEG product is asymmetric. It is noted that the use of base-labile protecting groups or linkers in organic synthesis involving carrying out reactions under less basic reactions and removing the
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Published 28 Dec 2021

Iron-catalyzed domino coupling reactions of π-systems

  • Austin Pounder and
  • William Tam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2848–2893, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.196

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  • catalysts is desirable from both an ecological and economic standpoint. Certainly, in the past couple decades, iron has become a key player in the development of sustainable coupling chemistry and has become an indispensable tool in organic synthesis. Over the last ten years, organic chemistry has witnessed
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Published 07 Dec 2021

Recent advances in the asymmetric phosphoric acid-catalyzed synthesis of axially chiral compounds

  • Alemayehu Gashaw Woldegiorgis and
  • Xufeng Lin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2729–2764, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.185

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  • ][21] (Figure 2), and chiral building blocks in modern organic synthesis [5]. During the past decades, both C2 and non-C2 symmetric axially chiral biaryl compounds such as BINAP, BINAM, NOBIN and their derivatives BINOL have played a crucial role as ligands in the development of transition-metal
  • , axially chiral allenes and spiranes [25] are well-known scaffolds widely used in natural products, ligands, organocatalysts, and functional materials as well as versatile chiral building blocks in organic synthesis [14][26][27]. Chiral phosphoric acids represent an important and widely used class of
  • ]. Organocatalytic aryl C–H activation via a nonradical process represents an enormous challenge in organic synthesis, although the nucleophilic aromatic substitution with cleavage of the electrophilic aryl C–H bond has only recently been developed by transition-metal-catalyzed aryl C–H activation [57]. In the
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Published 15 Nov 2021

AlBr3-Promoted stereoselective anti-hydroarylation of the acetylene bond in 3-arylpropynenitriles by electron-rich arenes: synthesis of 3,3-diarylpropenenitriles

  • Yelizaveta Gorbunova,
  • Dmitry S. Ryabukhin and
  • Aleksander V. Vasilyev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2663–2667, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.180

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  • –C≡N) are versatile building blocks in organic synthesis for the preparation of a plethora of functionalized compounds and heterocycles. The presence of conjugated acetylene and nitrile bonds in these compounds leads to an enhancement of reactivity of both functional groups. Thus, propynenitriles
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Published 01 Nov 2021

Ligand-dependent stereoselective Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reactions of β-enamido triflates

  • Tomáš Chvojka,
  • Athanasios Markos,
  • Svatava Voltrová,
  • Radek Pohl and
  • Petr Beier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2657–2662, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.179

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  • -diaryl-substituted enamides is observed. Thus, the method provides synthetic access to both isomers of the target enamides from (Z)-β-enamido triflates. Keywords: enamides; isomerization; Suzuki–Miyaura coupling; vinyl triflates; Introduction Enamides are substrates of high value in organic synthesis
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Published 29 Oct 2021

Solvent-free synthesis of enantioenriched β-silyl nitroalkanes under organocatalytic conditions

  • Akhil K. Dubey and
  • Raghunath Chowdhury

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2642–2649, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.177

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  • Enantioenriched organosilanes are attractive molecules in organic synthesis owing to their potential applications in stereoselective synthesis [1][2]. The unique sterical and electronical features of the C–Si bond can induce stereodifferentiation at the adjacent prostereogenic center in organic transformations [2
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Published 27 Oct 2021

Recent advances in organocatalytic asymmetric aza-Michael reactions of amines and amides

  • Pratibha Sharma,
  • Raakhi Gupta and
  • Raj K. Bansal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2585–2610, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.173

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  • Pratibha Sharma Raakhi Gupta Raj K. Bansal Department of Chemistry, The IIS (deemed to be University), Jaipur 302 020, India 10.3762/bjoc.17.173 Abstract Nitrogen-containing scaffolds are ubiquitous in nature and constitute an important class of building blocks in organic synthesis. The
  • metal-free small organic molecules as catalysts has been a landmark advancement in organic synthesis in the recent past [16]. MacMillan and co-workers for the first time in the year 2000 termed these catalysts as ‘Organocatalysts’ [17]. It was followed by intense activity and phenomenal rise in the
  • -containing chiral scaffolds of wide applications in the fields of pharmaceuticals, organic synthesis building blocks and accessible catalysis continues to attract attention of the chemists. During the last two decades, many new chiral organocatalysts have been developed for accomplishing these reactions with
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Published 18 Oct 2021

Silica gel and microwave-promoted synthesis of dihydropyrrolizines and tetrahydroindolizines from enaminones

  • Robin Klintworth,
  • Garreth L. Morgans,
  • Stefania M. Scalzullo,
  • Charles B. de Koning,
  • Willem A. L. van Otterlo and
  • Joseph P. Michael

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2543–2552, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.170

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  • 20 and 21). More interestingly, microwave heating at 150 °C for no more than 10 minutes of a solution of 15a in xylene with montmorillonite K10, an acidic layered aluminosilicate clay often used as a catalyst in microwave-assisted organic synthesis [41][42][43][44], also afforded the pyrrolizine 19a
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Published 13 Oct 2021

Visible-light-mediated copper photocatalysis for organic syntheses

  • Yajing Zhang,
  • Qian Wang,
  • Zongsheng Yan,
  • Donglai Ma and
  • Yuguang Zheng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2520–2542, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.169

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  • by ligand modification. Although remarkable efforts have been made to elucidate and modify Cu complexes as photoredox catalysts for organic synthesis, the design of these complexes has not received much attention. If new complexes with improved redox and photophysical performances are designed, then
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Published 12 Oct 2021

Recent advances in the tandem annulation of 1,3-enynes to functionalized pyridine and pyrrole derivatives

  • Yi Liu,
  • Puying Luo,
  • Yang Fu,
  • Tianxin Hao,
  • Xuan Liu,
  • Qiuping Ding and
  • Yiyuan Peng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2462–2476, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.163

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  • in Scheme 22). Conclusion 1,3-Enynes, one of the most significant classes of Michael acceptors for the construction of N-heterocycles, have been widely used in organic synthesis. We herein reviewed the recent advances in the development of tandem cyclization reactions of 1,3-enynes in the presence of
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Published 22 Sep 2021

Allylic alcohols and amines by carbenoid eliminative cross-coupling using epoxides or aziridines

  • Matthew J. Fleming and
  • David M. Hodgson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2385–2389, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.155

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  • alkoxide. Keywords: alkenes; aziridines; epoxides; lithiation; synthetic methods; Introduction Methods for the convergent generation of alkenes can be of significant utility in organic synthesis [1]. A relatively under-examined approach is through the interaction of two carbenoids [2]. Dimerisation of
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Published 10 Sep 2021

Advances in mercury(II)-salt-mediated cyclization reactions of unsaturated bonds

  • Sumana Mandal,
  • Raju D. Chaudhari and
  • Goutam Biswas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2348–2376, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.153

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  • transition metal reagents has found considerable applications in organic synthesis [1][2][3][4] and has radically changed the realm of chemical science. It also provides a powerful tool for the construction of complex molecular frameworks [5][6][7]. A plethora of reviews involving transition metals such as
  • Pd(II) [8][9][10], Ru(II) [11][12][13], Rh(III) [14][15][16], Mn(II) [17][18][19], Au(II/I) [20][21][22], Ag(I) [23][24][25] etc. in both cascade and sequential reactions have been published. Electrophilic Hg(II) salts are important reagents in organic synthesis and there is published literature
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Published 09 Sep 2021

A novel methodology for the efficient synthesis of 3-monohalooxindoles by acidolysis of 3-phosphate-substituted oxindoles with haloid acids

  • Li Liu,
  • Yue Li,
  • Tiao Huang,
  • Dulin Kong and
  • Mingshu Wu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2321–2328, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.150

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  • -based spirooxindoles [15][16][17][18] and 3-alkyl-substituted 3-fluorooxindoles (Figure 1) [19]. Despite the importance of 3-monohalooxindoles in organic synthesis and medicinal chemistry, only a few methods for the synthesis of these 3-monohalooxindoles have been reported. Recently, Xu and co-workers
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Photoredox catalysis in nickel-catalyzed C–H functionalization

  • Lusina Mantry,
  • Rajaram Maayuri,
  • Vikash Kumar and
  • Parthasarathy Gandeepan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2209–2259, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.143

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  • powerful strategy in organic synthesis due to the improved atom-, step- and resource economy in comparison with cross-coupling or classical organic functional group transformations. Despite the significant advances in the metal-catalyzed C‒H activations, recent developments in the field of
  • a reliable strategy in modern organic synthesis. Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions such as Mizoroki–Heck [5][6][7][8], Suzuki–Miyaura [9][10][11], Buchwald–Hartwig [12][13], Negishi [14][15], Migita–Stille [16], Sonogashira [17], among others [18][19][20], significantly changed the design
  • powerful tool in organic synthesis, they generally require prefunctionalized starting materials, which significantly affect the reaction's atom economy and produce inorganic, organometallic salt wastes [23][24][25]. During the last decade, the oxidative functionalization of inert C‒H into carbon–carbon (C
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Published 31 Aug 2021

Asymmetric organocatalyzed synthesis of coumarin derivatives

  • Natália M. Moreira,
  • Lorena S. R. Martelli and
  • Arlene G. Corrêa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1952–1980, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.128

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  • synthetic perspective, coumarin derivatives have received much attention due to their pivotal role in organic synthesis [16][17][18]. The development of efficient synthetic processes with eco-friendliness and sustainability that avoid the extensive use of toxic and hazardous reagents and solvents, as well
  • as harsh reaction conditions, has become paramount in the field of organic synthesis in recent years [19]. In this sense, Molnar et al. published a review on green chemistry approaches to the synthesis of coumarin derivatives [20] and Chandrakar et al. reviewed the developments of multicomponent
  • stereogenic centers. Review A plethora of highly effective small‐molecule organocatalysts have enriched the field of organic synthesis [27], including chiral proline derivatives, N‐heterocyclic carbenes, chiral thioureas and Brønsted acids as well as phase‐transfer catalysts (PTC), such as the quaternary
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Published 03 Aug 2021

On the application of 3d metals for C–H activation toward bioactive compounds: The key step for the synthesis of silver bullets

  • Renato L. Carvalho,
  • Amanda S. de Miranda,
  • Mateus P. Nunes,
  • Roberto S. Gomes,
  • Guilherme A. M. Jardim and
  • Eufrânio N. da Silva Júnior

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1849–1938, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.126

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  • few of them become approved, due to their toxicity or other issues related to their applicability. Therefore, synthetic methodologies that facilitate the successful production of potential biologically active molecules have a relevant role in the organic synthesis research field. One of the key
  • phenanthroindolizidine alkaloid boehmeriasin A (31) (Scheme 12A) [98], and phenanthroindolizidines through an intramolecular oxidative aryl–alkene coupling (Scheme 12B) [99], which is a far less common transformation in organic synthesis. This approach was employed to synthesize eight phenanthroindolizidines, including
  • involving organochromium species generated from alkyl halides [115][116]. Whereas its toxicity has hindered the use of Cr(VI) in organic synthesis, the less toxic Cr(III) and Cr(II) salts have been exploited as plausible catalysts in organic synthesis [117][118]. A good example is a redox-neutral reaction
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Published 30 Jul 2021

Sustainable manganese catalysis for late-stage C–H functionalization of bioactive structural motifs

  • Jongwoo Son

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1733–1751, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.122

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  • organic synthesis. Among the 3d metals, manganese catalysts have gained increasing attention for late-stage diversification due to the sustainability, cost-effectiveness, ease of operation, and reduced toxicity. Herein, we summarize recent manganese-catalyzed late-stage C–H functionalization reactions of
  • operationally simple fluorination strategy suitable for bioactive structural motifs. Manganese-catalyzed late-stage C–H azidation In organic synthesis, organic azides are of considerable significance in the fields of medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, and nanotechnology as they can participate in elegant
  • selectivity, which is observed at the more electron-rich and the less sterically hindered position. Manganese-catalyzed late-stage C–H alkynylation Alkynes are invaluable intermediates in organic synthesis and are conventionally prepared via palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions [62]. Moreover, they
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Published 26 Jul 2021

Chemical approaches to discover the full potential of peptide nucleic acids in biomedical applications

  • Nikita Brodyagin,
  • Martins Katkevics,
  • Venubabu Kotikam,
  • Christopher A. Ryan and
  • Eriks Rozners

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1641–1688, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.116

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  • Nikita Brodyagin Martins Katkevics Venubabu Kotikam Christopher A. Ryan Eriks Rozners Department of Chemistry, Binghamton University, The State University of New York, Binghamton, New York 13902, United States Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Aizkraukles 21, Riga, LV-1006, Latvia 10.3762
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Published 19 Jul 2021

Methodologies for the synthesis of quaternary carbon centers via hydroalkylation of unactivated olefins: twenty years of advances

  • Thiago S. Silva and
  • Fernando Coelho

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1565–1590, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.112

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  • ) [6], and the presence of all-carbon quaternary centers (Figure 1). The all-carbon quaternary center motif represents a challenge in modern organic synthesis due to the inherent steric issues associated with the formation of these particular C(sp3)–C(sp3) bonds [7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. A glimpse of
  • more probable than the ET proposal, especially for radicals derived from alkyl radical additions to acrylates due to their lower oxidation potentials toward the Fe(II) species [81]. The methodology developed by Baran had a rapid impact on the organic synthesis community, and numerous examples of this
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Published 07 Jul 2021

A straightforward conversion of 1,4-quinones into polycyclic pyrazoles via [3 + 2]-cycloaddition with fluorinated nitrile imines

  • Greta Utecht-Jarzyńska,
  • Karolina Nagła,
  • Grzegorz Mlostoń,
  • Heinz Heimgartner,
  • Marcin Palusiak and
  • Marcin Jasiński

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1509–1517, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.108

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  • structural motifs present in naturally occurring compounds as well as synthetic drugs and other functionalized organic molecules of great practical importance, e.g., in materials chemistry (Figure 1) [1][2][3][4]. Selective functionalization of 1,4-quinones is a challenging task in current organic synthesis
  • fluorine-containing organic molecules combined with the 1,4-quinone moiety can be considered as a challenging problem of current organic synthesis. Thus, the main goal of the present study was to check the course of [3 + 2]-cycloaddition reactions of electron-deficient CF3-substituted nitrile imines 7 with
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Published 28 Jun 2021

Synthesis of 1-indolyl-3,5,8-substituted γ-carbolines: one-pot solvent-free protocol and biological evaluation

  • Premansh Dudhe,
  • Mena Asha Krishnan,
  • Kratika Yadav,
  • Diptendu Roy,
  • Krishnan Venkatasubbaiah,
  • Biswarup Pathak and
  • Venkatesh Chelvam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1453–1463, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.101

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  • salts has been discovered. Results and Discussion Optimization of reaction conditions and chemical synthesis The base-catalyzed imination of aromatic aldehydes is a valuable method in organic synthesis to synthesize a variety of heterocyclic building blocks [29]. Among all the reported iminoesters
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