2

Pyrinodemin A 1, a cytotoxic marine alkaloid, was synthesized in a convergent and enantioselective fashion. The key steps are an asymmetric intramolecular dipolar cycloaddition of an oxazoline N-oxide to introduce the bicyclic ring system of the molecule, a cuprate coupling for the extension of the saturated chain and a B-alkyl Suzuki coupling for the introduction of a 3-pyridyl moiety. Reducti...

A copper(i) catalyzed amination reaction utilizing aqueous ammonia and operating under mild conditions is presented. This method was employed for the efficient synthesis of various aminopyridine derivatives bearing electron withdrawing and electron donating groups.

A general method for constructing both 2-acylindoles and 2-acylindolines via I2-mediated intramolecular C-N bond formation is presented, and the selective formation of either 2-acylindoles or 2-acylindolines just depends on the nitrogen protecting groups used in the same substrate skeletons.

Agarose was herein employed as starting material to produce primary, secondary and tertiary C-glycoside glycamines, including mono- and disaccharide structures. The semisynthetic approach utilized was generally based on polysaccharide-controlled hydrolysis followed by reductive amination. All reactions were conducted in aqueous media and without the need of hydroxyl group protection. We were ab...

We recently reported that the aldehyde residue of an abasic (Ap) site in duplex DNA can generate an interstrand cross-link via reaction with a guanine residue on the opposing strand. This finding is intriguing because the highly deleterious nature of interstrand cross-links suggests that even small amounts of Ap-derived cross-links could make a significant contribution to the biological consequ...

A catalytic intermolecular amination of nonactivated tertiary C(sp3)–H bonds (BDE 96 kcal·mol–1) is reported for substrates displaying an activated benzylic site 85 kcal·mol–1). The tert...

A mild, green and highly efficient route for regio-selective amination of oxiranes was developed via incorporation of Mn(II), Fe(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) cations onto the surface of hydroxyapatite-encapsulated γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles (γ-Fe2O3@HAp). Among six magnetically recoverable catalytic systems denoted as [γ-Fe2O3@HAp-MII], the catalyst in which M designated as Fe(II) showed t...

The direct reductive amination of aromatic aldehydes has been achieved with excellent isolated yields (89-96%) using readily accessible Ph(3)PAuCl/AgOTf catalyst along with ethyl Hantzsch ester as hydrogen source under mild reaction conditions.