Althought there are several reported synthetic routes to strychnine, one of the most widely recognized alkaloids, we report an unexplored route with an oxidative dearomatizing process mediated by hypervalent iodine as the key step. The new syntheses of isostrychnine and strychnine have been achieved from an readily available phenol in nine and ten steps. In addition to the key step, these synth...

We report the first example of employing homogeneous organometal-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation for selective reductive amination furfurals to furfurylamines. An efficient, chemoselective, and base-free method is described using Ru-MACHO-BH as catalyst iPrOH H donor. The tolerates a range substituents affording moderate excellent yields.

Enzymatic reductive amination, being a direct, selective and green methodology, has attracted significant interest in short period of time is emerging as powerful tool for the synthesis chiral alkylated amines. The discovery an increasing number imine reductases with aminase (RedAm) activity enabled mechanistic substrate profiling studies. However, their potential commercial applications not be...

Herein we have identified an optimal catalyst, Pd1Ag1.7, for the tandem reductive amination between nitroarenes and aldehydes (selectivity > 93%). Key to the success is the ability to control the compositions of the investigational Pd1-xAgx (x = 0-1) catalysts, as well as the clear composition dependent activity/selectivity trend observed in this study. This catalyst features a wide substrate s...

Chitooligosaccharide with one 2,5-anhydro-D-mannofuranose unit at the reducing end (COSamf) was prepared by nitrous acid depolymerization of chitosan. The reducing-end functionalization of COSamf by reductive amination with octanoic hydrazide in the presence of NaBH3CN was achieved in high yield. The chemical structure of the targeted octanoic hydrazide-linked COSamf was fully characterized by ...

A new one-pot method has been developed for the selective synthesis of secondary amines via reductive amination of the corresponding nitriles using Pt nanowires as a catalyst. This method allows for the synthesis of both unsymmetrical and symmetrical secondary amines in excellent yields (up to 95%) in the presence or absence of additional amines, respectively. Furthermore, the reaction proceeds...

UDP-galactofuranose (UDP-Galf) is the donor substrate for both bifunctional galactofuranosyltransferases, GlfT1 and GlfT2, which are involved in the biosynthesis of mycobacterial galactan. In this paper, a group of UDP-Galf mimics were synthesized via reductive amination of a bicyclo[3.1.0]hexane-based amine by reacting with aromatic, linear, or uridine-containing aldehydes. These compounds wer...

Indirect reductive amination of aldehydes, catalyzed by polymer supported triphenylphosphine-palladium acetate complex PS-TPP-Pd(OAc)2 catalyst have been developed. The imine is prepared with molecular sieves in the first stage, followed by reduction with potassium formate catalyzed by PS-TPP-Pd(OAc)2. The recovered catalyst could be reused for four consecutive cycles without loss in activity a...