Enantioselective C-H addition is one of the most straightforward and efficient approaches towards synthesis optically active molecules from readily available arenes. The significant feature these reactions that nucleophilic aryl metal species generated catalytically in situ via C–H bond activation. These typically proceed without requirement either strongly basic or acidic conditions, thus with...

A Simple and efficient method for Michael addition of pyrrole and indole to α,β- un saturated compounds has been developed in the presence of oxalic acid under refluxing reaction condition was achieved.

The 3-azabicycloACHTUNGTRENNUNG[3.1.0]hexane is a common motif in natural products. Furthermore this rigid framework represents a privileged class of pharmacologically active compounds, often showing enhanced binding affinities with their targets (Figure 1). These bicycles also represent conformationally restricted analogues of piperidines (e.g. trovafloxacin). When substituted with a carboxyli...

Aza-Michael reactions between primary aliphatic and aromatic amines and various Michael acceptors have been performed under environmentally-friendly solventless conditions using acidic alumina as a heterogeneous catalyst to selectively obtain the corresponding mono-adducts in high yields. Ethyl acrylate was the main acceptor used, although others such as acrylonitrile, methyl acrylate and acryl...

Phosphine-boronates R(2)P(o-C(6)H(4))B(OR')(2) have been evaluated as bifunctional organocatalysts for the Michael addition of malonate pronucleophiles to methylvinylketone. The presence of the Lewis acidic boron center adjacent to phosphorus significantly improves catalytic performance. Isolation and complete characterization of a key intermediate, namely a β-phosphonium enolate, substantiate ...

A new enzymatic process is described. Different preparations of lipase B from Candida antarctica are able to catalyse Michael-type addition of secondary amines to acrylonitrile. This new reaction widens the applicability of these biocatalysts in organic synthesis.

To map out the efficient organocatalyst requirements in the Michael addition of 1,3-dicarbonyl indane compounds to nitrostyrenes, a dozen different amino organocatalysts containing a p-toluenesulfonyl group (Ts) have been evaluated; excellent enantio-selectivities (up to er 92:8) were obtained with a primary amine-based Ts-DPEN catalyst and a plausible catalytic reaction mechanism was proposed ...