2-Amino-4-benzoyl-1-arylpyrrole-3-carbonitriles react with arylidene malonodinitriles, β-ketoesters and βdiketones to afford pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridine derivatives.

The aerobic direct dehydrogenative annulation of N-iminopyridinium ylides with terminal alkynes leading to pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyridine derivatives has been developed.

Two enantioselective cyanation reactions, the Strecker reaction of ketoimines and the Reissert reaction of pyridine derivatives, promoted by Lewis acid–Lewis base bifunctional asymmetric catalysts are described.

A series of 2-amino pyridine-3-carbinitrile derivatives incorporated coumarin moiety has developed via multicomponent condensation of 3-acetyl-2H-chromen-2-one, arylaldehydes, malononitrile and ammonium acetate utilizing Brønsted acidic ionic liquid, (4-sulfobutyl)tris(4-sulfophenyl)phosphonium hydrogen sulfate as catalyst under solvent-free conditions. Good yields, short reaction times, straig...

The titled compounds were prepared by interaction of ethyl 2-(benzo[d]thazol-2-yl)acetate (3) with different arylidinemalononitrile derivatives (4a-c) in EtOH/TEA solution at room temperature. When 3 was treated with 2(ethoxymethylene)-malononitrile (4f) under same reaction conditions, the ethyl iminothiazolopyridine-4-carboxylate (6) was obtained. Ethyl (amino(methoxy)methyl)-3-(substitutedphe...

The reaction of 3-oxo-3-phenyl-2-phenylhydrazonal with functionally substituted and heteroaromatic substituted acetonitrile to yield arylazonicotinic acid derivatives and 5-arylsubstituted pyridines was established. In some cases the produced nicotinates could not be isolated as they underwent thermally induced 6π-electrocyclization yielding polynuclear pyridine derivatives.

A mild and practical synthesis of spirooxindole [1,3]oxazino derivatives from N-substituted isatins and 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds with pyridine derivatives is reported. The reactions provided good to excellent yields. Further exploration of the molecular diversity of these compounds is demonstrated through Diels-Alder reactions.