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New advances in asymmetric organocatalysis II

  • Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 766–769, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.60

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  • describes the enantioselective Michael addition of pyrazoline-5-ones to α,β-unsaturated ketones. The enantioselectivity and chemical efficiency of this transformation were achieved with a cinchona-alkaloid-derived primary-amine–Brønsted acid composite [22]. A good demonstration of how organocatalysis
  • ]. Kowalczyk and co-workers showed how asymmetric organocatalysis can benefit from mechanochemical activation. They established that Michael additions of thiomalonates to enones, catalyzed by cinchona-derived primary amines, is efficient and enantioselective under ball-milling conditions [24]. Kondratyev and
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Published 15 Apr 2025

Origami with small molecules: exploiting the C–F bond as a conformational tool

  • Patrick Ryan,
  • Ramsha Iftikhar and
  • Luke Hunter

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 680–716, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.54

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Published 02 Apr 2025

Recent advances in organocatalytic atroposelective reactions

  • Henrich Szabados and
  • Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 55–121, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.6

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Published 09 Jan 2025

Non-covalent organocatalyzed enantioselective cyclization reactions of α,β-unsaturated imines

  • Sergio Torres-Oya and
  • Mercedes Zurro

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3221–3255, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.268

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  • -workers reported a cinchona alkaloid-derived thiourea-catalyzed regio- and stereoselective cycloaddition of 3-isothiocyanatooxindoles and imines containing two or three electron-deficient unsaturated bonds [25]. Firstly, the (3 + 2) cycloaddition of 3-isothiocyanatooxindoles 4 and aldimines 5 was explored
  • bifunctional squaramide-catalyzed asymmetric domino Mannich/formal [4 + 2] cyclization of 2-benzothiazolimines 21 with azlactones 15 [30]. Using cinchona-derived squaramide VII it was possible to obtain 25 different chiral benzothiazolopyrimidines 22 bearing adjacent tertiary and quaternary stereocenters in up
  • -diamino derivative 37 in a good yield and an excellent enantioselectivity. Brønsted bases Cinchona alkaloids have been established as highly efficient chiral organocatalysts, capable to engage in a wide array of enantioselective processes [35]. They possess a unique structure. Firstly, the bulky
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Published 10 Dec 2024

gem-Difluorovinyl and trifluorovinyl Michael acceptors in the synthesis of α,β-unsaturated fluorinated and nonfluorinated amides

  • Monika Bilska-Markowska,
  • Marcin Kaźmierczak,
  • Wojciech Jankowski and
  • Marcin Hoffmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2946–2953, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.247

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  • of 1-fluorobis(phenylsulfonyl)methane (FBSM) to α,β-unsaturated ketones with cinchona alkaloids [9]. Fluorinated Michael acceptors usually contain one fluorine atom or a trifluoromethyl group in the structure [10][11][12]. There are also known examples of gem-difluoroalkenes being used as Michael
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Published 15 Nov 2024

5th International Symposium on Synthesis and Catalysis (ISySyCat2023)

  • Anthony J. Burke and
  • Elisabete P. Carreiro

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2704–2707, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.227

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  • organocatalyst for the gram-scale enantioselective synthesis of (S)-baclofen”, an interesting approach to recycling the very useful cinchona squaramide organocatalysts was described. This approach involved functionalization of the organocatalyst with a lipophilic linker (octadecyl side chains), resulting in a
  • novel lipophilic cinchona squaramide organocatalyst. This organocatalyst was evaluated in a benchmark Michael addition of acetylacetone to trans-β-nitrostyrene, yielding the Michael adduct with high yield and enantioselectivity. The hydrophobic chain of the catalyst allowed the organocatalyst to be
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Published 28 Oct 2024

Asymmetric organocatalytic synthesis of chiral homoallylic amines

  • Nikolay S. Kondratyev and
  • Andrei V. Malkov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2349–2377, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.201

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  • -trifluoromethylamine derivatives of high molecular complexity (Scheme 28). The process involves a highly enantioselective reaction of the isatin-derived Morita–Baylis–Hillman carbonate 137 with a novel α-CF3-substituted imine 136, derived from inexpensive benzothiophene-2,3-dione. A C2-symmetrical cinchona-derived
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Published 16 Sep 2024

Stereoselective mechanochemical synthesis of thiomalonate Michael adducts via iminium catalysis by chiral primary amines

  • Michał Błauciak,
  • Dominika Andrzejczyk,
  • Błażej Dziuk and
  • Rafał Kowalczyk

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2313–2322, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.198

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  • nitroalkenes or guanidine-mediated addition of bisthiomalonates to maleimides, cyclic enones, and acyclic 1,4-dicarbonylbutenes, albeit at low temperatures and with relatively long reaction times, further limited to a narrow scope of thioesters (Scheme 1) [31]. Recently, we described a cinchona-squaramide
  • Discussion Based on our previous experiences with low-reactive Michael acceptors [29], initial attempts were carried out using bifunctional squaramides, derivatives of cinchona. However, up to 45% yield of the desired product was obtained with poor enantioselectivity (14%, Scheme 2). Considering the
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Published 12 Sep 2024

Factors influencing the performance of organocatalysts immobilised on solid supports: A review

  • Zsuzsanna Fehér,
  • Dóra Richter,
  • Gyula Dargó and
  • József Kupai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2129–2142, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.183

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  • spaces. The confinement of the heterogeneous version of cinchona amine and thiourea catalysts was reported, leading to improved enantioselectivity values in the Michael addition of nitromethane (5) to chalcone (6) through modification of the pore size of mesoporous silica 8 or 9 (Scheme 2) [63]. Thus
  • , for cinchona thiourea, enantioselectivity not only increased with reduced pore size but even reached the level of the homogeneous catalyst when the support pore size was reduced to 6.3 nm. This resulted in obtaining the (R)-configured product 7 with 63% yield and 93% ee, as opposed to a 55% yield and
  • lead to a decrease in selectivity. Connon and co-workers have attached a cinchona thiourea organocatalyst to magnetic nanoparticles 13 for the Michael addition of dimethyl malonate (10) to trans-β-nitrostyrene (11) (Scheme 3) [31]. To explore the potential impact of nanoparticles on catalyst efficiency
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Published 26 Aug 2024

Mining raw plant transcriptomic data for new cyclopeptide alkaloids

  • Draco Kriger,
  • Michael A. Pasquale,
  • Brigitte G. Ampolini and
  • Jonathan R. Chekan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1548–1559, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.138

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  • lack an oxidative decarboxylation of the C-terminus (Figure 3, arabipeptin A). Our transcriptome mining results further support the prevalence of cyclopeptide alkaloids in the Rubiaceae family. Chiococca alba (Snowberry), Cinchona calisaya (Yellow Cinchona), Gardenia jasminoides (Cape Jasmine), C
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Published 11 Jul 2024

Primary amine-catalyzed enantioselective 1,4-Michael addition reaction of pyrazolin-5-ones to α,β-unsaturated ketones

  • Pooja Goyal,
  • Akhil K. Dubey,
  • Raghunath Chowdhury and
  • Amey Wadawale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1518–1526, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.136

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  • 10.3762/bjoc.20.136 Abstract The enantioselective 1,4-addition reaction of pyrazolin-5-ones to α,β-unsaturated ketones catalyzed by a cinchona alkaloid-derived primary amine–Brønsted acid composite is reported. Both enantiomers of the anticipated pyrazole derivatives were obtained in good to excellent
  • disclosed organocatalyzed [5 + 1] double Michael additions between pyrazolones and dienones (Scheme 1b) [23]. Very recently, the Chimni group reported a cinchona-derived squaramide-catalyzed 1,4-Michael addition reaction of pyrazolin-5-ones with 2-enoylpyridines (Scheme 1c) [24]. Recently, we developed an
  • metal catalytic conditions. In continuation of our work in the field of organocatalysis [26][27][28][29], herein, we present the Michael addition reaction of 4-unsubstituted pyrazolin-5-ones with arylidene/heteroarylideneacetones using cinchona alkaloid-derived primary amine catalysts. The developed
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Published 09 Jul 2024

Towards an asymmetric β-selective addition of azlactones to allenoates

  • Behzad Nasiri,
  • Ghaffar Pasdar,
  • Paul Zebrowski,
  • Katharina Röser,
  • David Naderer and
  • Mario Waser

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1504–1509, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.134

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  • gives an overview of the most significant results obtained hereby). First experiments using cinchona alkaloid-based quaternary ammonium salts A showed that the expected β-addition product 5a can be accessed under typical phase-transfer conditions, but with low selectivities and yields only when using
  • these catalysts (Table 1, entries 1–4, other cinchona alkaloid-based ammonium salt derivatives as well as free base cinchona alkaloids were tested too but did not allow for any improvement). Using the established and commercially available Maruoka catalysts B1 and B2 [39] next turned out to be more
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Synthesis and optical properties of bis- and tris-alkynyl-2-trifluoromethylquinolines

  • Stefan Jopp,
  • Franziska Spruner von Mertz,
  • Peter Ehlers,
  • Alexander Villinger and
  • Peter Langer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1246–1255, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.107

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  • which can be found in several natural and synthetic products and many of them show interesting pharmacological properties [1][2][3]. Quinine, for example, is a widely known natural product which was first isolated from the cinchona tree besides many other quinoline-containing cinchona alkaloids [4]. It
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Published 29 May 2024

A novel recyclable organocatalyst for the gram-scale enantioselective synthesis of (S)-baclofen

  • Gyula Dargó,
  • Dóra Erdélyi,
  • Balázs Molnár,
  • Péter Kisszékelyi,
  • Zsófia Garádi and
  • József Kupai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1811–1824, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.133

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  • , application, and recycling of a new lipophilic cinchona squaramide organocatalyst. The synthesized lipophilic organocatalyst was applied in Michael additions. The catalyst was utilized to promote the Michael addition of cyclohexyl Meldrum’s acid to 4-chloro-trans-β-nitrostyrene (quantitative yield, up to 96
  • , acetonitrile, with 91–100% efficiency, and the catalyst was reused in five reaction cycles without the loss of activity and selectivity. Keywords: baclofen; catalyst recovery; lipophilic cinchona squaramide; organocatalysis; stereoselective catalysis; Introduction In today’s chemical industry, catalytic
  • recycling of the organocatalysts can be achieved in a simple step by centrifugation or filtration. Previously, we have demonstrated the homogeneous and heterogeneous recycling of cinchona-based organocatalysts [20][25][26][29]. Continuing our work, we aimed to synthesize a novel, recyclable lipophilic
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Published 24 Nov 2023

N-Sulfenylsuccinimide/phthalimide: an alternative sulfenylating reagent in organic transformations

  • Fatemeh Doraghi,
  • Seyedeh Pegah Aledavoud,
  • Mehdi Ghanbarlou,
  • Bagher Larijani and
  • Mohammad Mahdavi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1471–1502, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.106

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  • thiiranium ion by the tosylamide and deprotonation led to the final product 99 or 100 (Scheme 41). Through the coupling reaction of N-(aryl/alkylthio)succinimides 1 with 5H-oxazol-4-ones 101 in the presence of an organocatalyst named cinchona alkaloid-derived squaramide F, a series of α-sulfenylated products
  • acid catalyst I, leading to the formation of an electrophilic sulfenium source (Scheme 49). The use of dimeric cinchona alkaloid J as another organocatalyst for α-sulfenylation of deconjugated butyrolactam substrates 117 with N-(arylsulfanyl)succinimides 1 demonstrated in Mukherjee′s work (Scheme 50
  • reacted with N-(arylthio)succinimide 1 or N-(arylthio)phthalimide 14 as the sulfenylating reagents in the presence of cinchona-derived thiourea O as a catalyst to afford the corresponding chiral naphthalenone products 126 under mild reaction conditions. Another work from Anbarasan and Chaitanya on the use
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Published 27 Sep 2023

Selective construction of dispiro[indoline-3,2'-quinoline-3',3''-indoline] and dispiro[indoline-3,2'-pyrrole-3',3''-indoline] via three-component reaction

  • Ziying Xiao,
  • Fengshun Xu,
  • Jing Sun and
  • Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1234–1242, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.91

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  • multicomponent reactions have been successfully developed to construct multifunctionalized or polycyclic spirooxindoles. For example, Zhang successfully developed a recyclable bifunctional cinchona/thiourea-catalyzed four-component Michael/Mannich cyclization sequence for the asymmetric synthesis of
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  • . Cinchona alkaloid O2 was the efficient catalyst for this asymmetric C–C bond formation delivering the products with moderate to good enantioselectivities. One example was documented involving β-naphthol as nucleophile and another example included electron-rich phenol (Scheme 31) [61]. Lin, Duan and co
  • benzothiazolimines. Thiourea-catalyzed reaction between β-naphthol and isatin-derived ketamine. Quinine-derived molecule as catalyst. Cinchona alkaloid as catalyst. aza-Friedel–Crafts reaction by phase transfer catalyst. Disulfonamide-catalyzed reaction. Heterogenous thiourea-catalyzed aza-Friedel–Crafts reaction
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Published 28 Jun 2023

Facile access to 3-sulfonylquinolines via Knoevenagel condensation/aza-Wittig reaction cascade involving ortho-azidobenzaldehydes and β-ketosulfonamides and sulfones

  • Ksenia Malkova,
  • Andrey Bubyrev,
  • Stanislav Kalinin and
  • Dmitry Dar’in

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 800–807, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.60

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  • occurrence among natural products [1] and is a key structural component of several pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, dyestuffs, and materials. Particularly, the well-known antimalarial alkaloid quinine isolated from Cinchona bark comprises a quinoline core (Figure 1a) [2]. Moreover, numerous quinoline
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Published 09 Jun 2023

Menadione: a platform and a target to valuable compounds synthesis

  • Acácio S. de Souza,
  • Ruan Carlos B. Ribeiro,
  • Dora C. S. Costa,
  • Fernanda P. Pauli,
  • David R. Pinho,
  • Matheus G. de Moraes,
  • Fernando de C. da Silva,
  • Luana da S. M. Forezi and
  • Vitor F. Ferreira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 381–419, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.43

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  • from cinchonine PTC 44 as catalyst. Despite of good yields, the method did not demonstrate good enantioselectivity results [104]. Berkessel and co-workers, in turn, described the use of asymmetric Weitz–Scheffer-type epoxidation of menadione (10), mediated by cinchona alkaloid PTC 45, showing high
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Published 11 Apr 2022

New advances in asymmetric organocatalysis

  • Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 240–242, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.28

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  • catalyzed by cinchona-based thiourea catalysts [27]. As guest editor of this thematic issue, I am grateful to all authors for their excellent contributions. I thank the referees for providing their expertise and time, and the whole team at the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry for their great level of
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Published 28 Feb 2022

Organocatalytic asymmetric nitroso aldol reaction of α-substituted malonamates

  • Ekta Gupta,
  • Narendra Kumar Vaishanv,
  • Sandeep Kumar,
  • Raja Krishnan Purshottam,
  • Ruchir Kant and
  • Kishor Mohanan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 217–224, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.25

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  • metal-catalyzed reactions [31][32][33][34][35][36]. The most successful among them are the ʟ-proline-catalyzed reactions of enolizable aldehydes with nitrosoarenes [37][38][39][40][41][42][43]. Besides ʟ-proline and its derivatives, various secondary amines derived from BINOL and cinchona alkaloids were
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Published 21 Feb 2022

Bifunctional thiourea-catalyzed asymmetric [3 + 2] annulation reactions of 2-isothiocyanato-1-indanones with barbiturate-based olefins

  • Jiang-Song Zhai and
  • Da-Ming Du

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 25–36, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.3

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  • results, it was found that the yield of product did not increase significantly with the cinchona alkaloid-derived squaramide catalysts (Table 1, entries 2 and 3). Consequently, we decided to explore the effects of different types of catalysts on the reaction. Through experiments, it can be found that
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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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  • asymmetric aza-MR. Thus, the review includes the examples wherein cinchona alkaloids, squaramides, chiral amines, phase-transfer catalysts and chiral bifunctional thioureas have been used, which activate the substrates through hydrogen bond formation. Most of these reactions are accompanied by high yields
  • compounds; however, in order to comply with the requirements of a mini review, additions of amines and amides only will be included. 1. Non-covalent bonding organocatalytic aza-Michael reactions Organocatalysts catalyzing aza-MRs through mainly hydrogen bonding include cinchona alkaloids, squaramide
  • derivatives, phase-transfer catalysts and bifunctional thiourea derivatives. 1.1 Reactions catalyzed by chiral cinchona alkaloid derivatives Cai et al. prepared and used a number of organocatalysts from Cinchona alkaloids for the aza-MR of aniline (1) with chalcone (2) to obtain the adducts 4 in poor to very
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Published 18 Oct 2021

Base-free enantioselective SN2 alkylation of 2-oxindoles via bifunctional phase-transfer catalysis

  • Mili Litvajova,
  • Emiliano Sorrentino,
  • Brendan Twamley and
  • Stephen J. Connon

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2287–2294, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.146

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  • synthesis of a potent CRTH2 receptor antagonist. Keywords: alkylation; base-free; cinchona alkaloids; CRTH2 antagonist; hydrogen-bonding; oxindole; phase-transfer catalysis; Introduction The 2-oxindole scaffold is an important motif present in a myriad of natural products. Among 2-oxidole derivatives, 3,3
  • investigation by evaluating, as a model alkylation, the phase-transfer-catalysed benzylation of substrate 5 under ‘classical’ basic reaction conditions using cinchona alkaloid-based catalysts capable of hydrogen-bonding as a control element [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40]. As expected, the ester group α to the
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Published 02 Sep 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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  • ammonium salts derived from cinchona alkaloids [28]. Therefore, the asymmetric synthesis of coumarin derivatives is herein presented according to the activation mode, i.e., via covalent or non-covalent bonding. Furthermore, the use of bifunctional catalysts and multicatalysis are discussed as well
  • enantioselective Michael addition of ketones 20 to 3-aroylcoumarins 19 [38]. For this transformation, the authors used a cinchona alkaloid-derived primary amine catalyst 22 (Scheme 6a). The study was performed with cyclic and acyclic ketones 20 and various 3-aroylcoumarins 19 and the desired products 21 were
  • stereoselective one-pot procedure for the synthesis of five-membered annulated coumarins 28 was described by the group of Enders [40]. Using dual catalysis, with a cinchona primary amine derivative 22 and silver carbonate, a series of functionalized coumarin derivatives 28 were obtained in good yields (up to 91
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