Alpha-Hydroxy ketones with an aromatic and aliphatic substituent were prepared with condensation of aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes in the presence of polymer-bound thiazolium salt.

An efficient, economic and environmentally friendly enantioselective oxidation of racemic benzoins (alpha-hydroxy ketones) catalyzed by a chiral iron complex has been developed using molecular oxygen as a terminal oxidant with good selectivity and excellent enantiomeric excess.

[reaction: see text] A practical organocatalytic process for the synthesis of optically active, highly substituted alpha-hydroxy-ketones was achieved through asymmetric desymmetrization (ADS) of prochiral ketones. The ADS and O-N bond reduction reaction of prochiral ketone with nitrosobenzene in the presence of a catalytic amount of chiral amine or amino acid produced the tandem ADS/O-N bond re...

a simple extremely fast and efficient approach for the synthesis of substituted indazole ingood to excellent yield catalyzed by using silica sulfuric acid (ssa) in dmso solvent at roomtemperature. this is solid state reaction have been attracting the synthetic organic chemist asthey provided enhance reaction rates, less environmental pollution, greater selectivity, cleanerproducts and manipulat...

The reaction of the flavonol 3,7,3', 4'-tetra-O-methylquercetin (1) and of the isoflavone 7,4'-di-O-methylgenistein (2) with alkaline iodine in methanol afforded four new iodine derivatives: 8-iodo-5-hydroxy-3,7,3', 4'-tetramethoxy- flavone (1a) and 6-iodo-5-hydroxy-3,7,3', 4'-tetramethoxyflavone (1b) from 1; 2 afforded a mixture of two compounds, identified as a racemic mixture of (+/-)-trans-...

Remarkably high and regular enantioselectivities are obtained in Friedel-Crafts alkylation reactions involving alpha'-hydroxy enone templates and Cu(II)-bis(oxazoline) complexes as catalysts. The simple elaboration of adducts provides a route to enantioenriched aldehydes, carboxylic acids, and ketones containing the pyrrole and indole frameworks.

The Mo(CO)6-mediated photoinduced ring-opening reactions of adamantane isoxazolines involve novel rearrangement that provide enaminoketones as major products and b-hydroxy ketones as minor ones; in contrast, only b-hydroxy ketones and a,b-unsaturated ketones were obtained under thermal condition. 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Table 1. Synthesis of substituted adamantane-isoxazolines 1a–d

A series of substituted benzoyl radicals has been generated by laser flash photolysis of alpha-hydroxy ketones, alpha-amino ketones, and acyl and bis(acyl)phosphine oxides, all of which are used commercially as photoinitiators in free radical polymerizations. The benzoyl radicals have been studied by fast time-resolved infrared spectroscopy. The absolute rate constants for their reaction with n...