The development of effective, environmentally friendly catalysts for the Baeyer–Villiger reaction is becoming increasingly important in applied catalysis. In this work, we synthesized a 3D composite consisting silica spheres coated with Mg/Al hydrotalcite much better textural properties than its 2D counterparts. fact, solid outperformed 2D-layered as catalyst cyclic ketones H2O2/benzonitrile ox...

Cyclic alkenyl triflates are useful intermediates in organic synthesis usually synthesized from ketones through a reaction involving enolization and trapping with a triflating agent. This sequence suffers from some stereochemical drawbacks owing to the basic conditions required. Herein, we describe a new acid-mediated cationic cyclization reaction of enyne derivatives (or alkynols) to access cy...

Eeny, meeny, miny ... enaminones! Lactams and imides have been shown to consistently provide enantioselectivities substantially higher than other substrate classes previously investigated in the palladium-catalyzed asymmetric decarboxylative allylic alkylation. Several new substrates have been designed to probe the contributions of electronic, steric, and stereoelectronic factors that distingui...

The first enantioselective organocatalytic transfer hydrogenation of cyclic enones has been accomplished. The use of iminium catalysis has provided a new organocatalytic strategy for the enantioselective reduction of beta,beta-substituted alpha,beta-unsaturated cycloalkenones, to generate beta-stereogenic cyclic ketones. The use of imidazolidinone 4 as the asymmetric catalyst has been found to ...

ABSTRACT Chiral acyclic and macrocyclic amines derived from trans-1,2-diaminocyclohexane in complexes with diethylzinc efficiently catalyze asymmetric hydrosilylation of aryl-alkyl and aryl-aryl ketones with enantiomeric excess of the product up to 86 %. A trianglamine ligand with a cyclic structure or the presence of an additional coordinating group increases the enantioselectivity of the reac...

Novel binaphthyl-based chiral bifunctional organocatalysts were designed, synthesized and successfully applied to the asymmetric List-Lerner-Barbas aldol reaction in the presence of water. These organocatalysts were found to be effective catalysts for the reactions of symmetrical, unsymmetrical and cyclic ketones with different aldehydes to give the corresponding aldol products with higher yiel...

The regioselective gold-catalysed hydration of propargylic alcohols to β-hydroxy ketones can be achieved by diverting the gold-catalysed Meyer-Schuster rearrangement through the addition of a protic additive with a pKa of 7-9 such as p-nitrophenol, boric acid or a boronic acid. This provides an interesting alternative to an aldol reaction when combined with the straightforward addition of an al...

SYNLETT 2004, No. 6, pp 1054–105806.05.2004 Advanced online publication: 25.03.2004 DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-822895; Art ID: G04404ST © Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York Abstract: Using only 10% of CrCl2 as catalyst, manganese-powder as reducing agent and TMSCl as scavenger, 2-methylene-a,w-dialdehydes and -ketones can be coupled to form cyclic diols diastereoselectively. The diastereomeric e...

Three man synthetic routes to analogues of tacrine are described: reaction of anthranilonitriles with cyclohexanone and other ketones, reaction of various anilines with alpha-cyanoketones, and reactions involving anilines and cyclic beta-ketoesters. Although tacrine has a wide range of pharmacological effects, it is best known as an inhibitor of cholinesterase enzymes. Many of the analogues tha...