Isocyanides are important building blocks in organic synthesis; however, their synthesis is time and resource consuming often unpleasant due to smelly nature. Diversification of isocyanides can be accomplished by de novo or from already existing isocyanides. In this work, we report for the first-time isocyanide diversification based on nucleophilic aromatic substitution suitable precursor The m...

Though the efficiency of isocyanides as strong ligands for transition metals was recognized very early, the disclosure of metal-catalyzed arylation of isocyanides has only been explored quite recently. In most of these studies, the formation of a metal/aryl complex starting from aryl iodide or bromide is followed by isocyanide insertion and trapping of the metal/imidoyl complex with various nuc...

We report a novel Lewis acid catalysed tandem reaction of isocyanides, chromone 3-carboxylic acid and nucleophiles. An experimentally very simple procedure, involving the use of microwave irradiation in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst, affords a representative collection of chromone-2-carboxamides and chromone-2-carboxamido-3-esters in high yields, in just a few minutes. Such an unprecede...

In continuation of our current studies on the reaction between isocyanides and electron-defficient alkenes, we would like to report our recent reseaarch on synthesizing novel derivatives of barbituric acid. The reaction of alkylidene-substituted Meldrum's acid with alkyl isocyanides in the presence of urea led to the production of the corresponding 2-(hexahydro-2,4,6-trioxopyrimidin5-yl)-N,2-di...

Four-component reactions between amino alcohols, aldehydes, isocyanides and thiols proceed rapidly under microwave or conventional heating at 60 °C in methanol. The reaction is successful with a wide range of components and gives access to potentially drug-like products containing amine, amide and thioether functionality in moderate to excellent yield. The reaction conditions are also applicabl...

The mechanochromic compound 1 forms green-emitting crystals (1g) and blue-emitting crystals (1b) that exhibit two intriguing responses to mechanical stimulation. Upon mechanical stimulation, the emission color of 1g does not change but its crystalline structure does. Conversely, 1b shows a clear emission shift, but it retains its molecular arrangement upon grinding.

A three-component reaction involving diphosphinoketenimines, isocyanides and water or ethanol leading to the formation of new five-membered azaphosphaheterocycles is described.

We developed a one-pot, two-stage synthetic route to substituted 4-aminoquinolines involving an imidoylative Sonogashira coupling followed by acid-mediated cyclization. This three-component reaction affords pharmaceutically valuable 4-aminoquinolines in a one-pot procedure from readily available starting materials. The reaction tolerates various substituents on the arene as well as the use of s...