A ligand free, Palladium nanoparticles catalyzed synthesis of pyran derivatives using C-H activated compound, malononitrile and aryl aldehyde via Knoevenagel condensation followed by Michael addition reaction using Palladium nanoparticles as catalyst in one-pot is described herein. The advantages of this method lie in its simplicity, low catalyst loading, cost effectiveness and easy to handle. ...

BACKGROUND The pyrazolyl ketone motif of RO3201195, which exhibits good oral bioavailability and high selectivity for p38 MAPK over other kinases, is a key pharmacophore that could find application in the treatment of Werner syndrome. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Microwave irradiation promotes Knoevenagel condensation of a β-ketonitrile and formamidine, to give β-aminovinyl ketones, and their subse...

BACKGROUND Synthesized arylidene derivatives of rhodanine and 2,4-thiazolidiendione have potent pharmacological activities, and these are also key substrates for the preparation of clinically used antidiabetics. FINDINGS Some 1,1,3,3-tetramethylguanidine-based task-specific ionic liquids (TSILs) 1a-1e were prepared and employed to the catalyzed solvent-free Knoevenagel condensation of 2,4-thi...

A doença de Chagas, causada pelo Trypanosoma cruzi, é endêmica em 15 países na América Latina. Neste trabalho uma coleção de 38 cumarinas foi preparada em solução e testada frente à enzima gliceraldeído-3-fostafo-desidrogenase (gGAPDH) do T. cruzi. A rota sintética foi baseada na condensação de Knoevenagel de diferentes 2-hidroxibenzaldeídos com ácido de Meldrum ou malonato de etila, seguido de...

5-Alkenyl-2,2-butylidene-1,3-dioxane-4,6-diones were synthesized by the Knoevenagel condensation reaction of aromatic aldehydes with 2,2-butylidene-1,3-dioxane-4,6-dione using o-phthalimide-N-sulfonic acid as catalyst, without solvent under ultrasonic irradiation. The present method has some notable advantages such as mild reaction conditions, short reaction times, less catalyst dosage and high...

Effective carbon dioxide (CO2) capture requires solid, porous sorbents with chemically and thermally stable frameworks. Herein, we report two new carbon-carbon bonded porous networks that were synthesized through metal-free Knoevenagel nitrile-aldol condensation, namely the covalent organic polymer, COP-156 and 157. COP-156, due to high specific surface area (650 m2/g) and easily interchangeabl...

The domino Knoevenagel-hetero-Diels-Alder reaction of the aldehyde rac-8, Meldrum’s acid 2 and enol ether 3 leads to the cycloadduct rac-17 as the main product which in a second domino process was transformed into the benzoisoquinolizidine rac-18 by solvolysis, hydrogenolysis, condensation and hydrogenation; rac-18 was used as a substrate for the synthesis of the two diastereomeric epiemetine a...