Several ionic liquids were applied as catalysts for the synthesis of cyclic urethanes from amino alcohols and pressurized CO2 in the presence of alkali metal compounds as promoters. A comparative study was made for the catalytic performance using different ionic liquids, substrates, promoters, and pressures. The optimum catalytic system was BMIM-Br promoted by K2CO3, which, for 1-amino-2-propan...

syn-1,2-Amino alcohols are prevalent motifs in a diverse range of important small molecules such as natural products, pharmaceuticals, and asymmetric catalysts. The majority of methods for selectively constructing 1,2-amino alcohols rely on functional group interconversions or C-C bond-forming reactions using preoxidized materials.1 Selective methods for directly installing nitrogen functionali...

A versatile method for the synthesis of chiral 1,4-disubstituted-1,2,3-triazole derivatives starting from easily accessible naturally occurring D-or L-amino acids as chiral synthons is described. The amino acids were converted into azido alcohols, followed by copper catalyzed [3+2] cycloaddition reactions between the azido alcohols and methyl propiolate and subsequent ester aminolysis with prim...

Allyltitanocene complexes can be generated by reacting pentafulvenes with DIBAL-H and Cp2TiCl2. Their coupling with aldehydes affords homoallylic alcohols in a highly regio- and stereoselective manner. The potential of this method for the stereoselective synthesis of cyclopentane derivatives is illustrated.

The activity of HBF4 (aqueous solution) as a catalyst in propargylation reactions is presented. Diverse types of nucleophiles were employed in order to form new C-O, C-N and C-C bonds in technical acetone and in air. Good to excellent yields and good chemoselectivities were obtained using low acid loading (typically 1 mol-%) under simple reaction conditions.

The activity of HBF4 (aqueous solution) as a catalyst in propargylation reactions is presented. Diverse types of nucleophiles were employed in order to form new C–O, C–N and C–C bonds in technical acetone, and in air. Good to excellent yields were obtained using low acid loading (typically 1 mol %) under simple reaction conditions and good chemoselectivity.

[reactions: see text] N-Iodosuccinimide provides a mild, convenient, and tuneable reagent for the selective mono- or didebenzylation in representative, multifunctionalized carbohydrate and amino acid derived N-dibenzylamines with neighboring O-functionality.

Seven new amino alcohol compounds, pseudoaminols A-G (1-7), were isolated from the ascidian Pseudodistoma sp. collected off the coast of Chuja-do, Korea. Structures of these new compounds were determined by analysis of the spectroscopic data and from chemical conversion. The presence of an N-carboxymethyl group in two of the new compounds (6 and 7) is unprecedented among amino alcohols. Several...