Since C^C* cyclometalated Pt(II) complexes with N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands have been identified as potential emitter materials in organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs), very promising results regarding quantum yields, colour and stability have been presented. Herein, we report on four nitrile substituted complexes with a chelating NHC ligand (1-(4-cyanophenyl)-3-isopropyl-1H-benzo[d]...

Among privileged structures, indoles occupy a central place in medicinal chemistry and alkaloid research. Here we report a flexible and efficient conversion of pyrrole-3-carboxaldehydes to substituted 7-amino-5-cyanoindoles. Phosphine addition to fumaronitrile proceeds with prototropic rearrangement of the initially formed zwitterion to the thermodynamically favored phosphonium ylide, which is ...

Formation of reduced and functionalized graphene oxide (r-FGO) at ambient temperature and pressure is demonstrated by generating liquid plasma submerged in acetonitrile and graphene oxide solution. The partial restoration of conjugation (sp(2) domain) and insertion of fluorophores such as nitrile and amine in r-FGO displays enhanced fluorescence property. Presence of nitrile and amine in r-FGO ...

Synthesis and anticonvulsant potential of certain new 6-aryl-9-substituted-6,9-diazaspiro[4.5]decane-8,10-diones (6a-l) and 1-aryl-4-substituted-1,4-diazaspiro[5.5] undecane-3,5-diones (6m-x) are reported. The intermediates 1-[(aryl)(cyanomethyl)amino] cycloalkanecarboxamides (3a-f) were prepared via adopting Strecker synthesis on the proper cycloalkanone followed by partial hydrolysis of the o...

Different strategies for the racemic or enantiospecific total syntheses of plant and mammalian 3,4-dibenzyltetrahydrofuran lignans are reviewed and compared. The multi-step approaches have various key step strategies: Diels-Alder reactions, Stobbe condensations, Michael additions, alkylations, nitrile oxide cycloadditions, radical cyclisations, dianion and oxidative couplings.

A concise and diastereoselective route to the angularly fused [5-6-7] tricyclic carbon framework of the steenkrotin-type diterpenoids was reported. The key features of the strategy are based on an intramolecular nitrile oxide/alkene [3 + 2] cycloaddition and a regio-selective aldol/dehydration sequence.

The first total synthesis of (+)-5-epi-eudesm-4(15)-ene-1β,6β-diol has been achieved in 12 steps starting from the known (-)-cis-piperitol and by using a chelation controlled glycolate enolate Ireland-Claisen rearrangement and an intramolecular nitrile oxide dipolar cycloaddition as key steps.

Front Cover: In article number 2000459 by Toshikazu Takata and co-workers, a new orthogonal agent containing photo-triggered o-nitrobenzyl (NB) ether kinetically stabilized nitrile N-oxide moieties are synthesized applied to the reliable catalyst-free functionalization of materials.