Brønsted acidic ionic liquid triethylamine-bonded sulfonic acid {[Et3N-SO3H]Cl} efficiently catalyzes the one-pot multi-component condensation of 2-naphthol with arylaldehydes and dimedone (5,5-dimethylcyclohexane-1,3-dione) under solvent-free conditions to afford 12-aryl-8,9,10,12-tetrahydrobenzo[a]xanthen-11-ones in high yields and relatively short reaction times.

An efficient site selective method for the direct arylation of free-(NH2) adenines 1 to provide a range of C-8 arylated adenines 3 in excellent yields is described. This process based on the use of Pd(OH)2/C as the catalyst and a stoichiometric amount of CuI under ligandless conditions is general. It allows the coupling to proceed with a variety of aryl halides, including for the first time che...

Amination of the 2-aryl-6-bromo-4-chloro-8-iodoquinazolines with 2-aminoethanol followed by acid-promoted cyclodehydration of the incipient 2-((6,8-dihalo-2-phenylquinazolin-4-yl)amino)ethanols afforded the corresponding novel 5-aryl-9-bromo-7-iodo-2,3-dihydro-2H-imidazo[1,2-c]quinazolines. The latter were, in turn, subjected to sequential (Sonogashira and Suzuki-Miyaura) and one-pot two-step (...

The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of (E)-7-arylidene-3-(1H-benzotriazol-1-yl)-6,7-dihydroindolizin-8(5H)-one and azomethine ylide which was generated in situ by the 11H-indeno[1,2-b]quinoxalin-11-one L-proline afforded novel 1'-aryl-3”-(1H-benzotriazol-1-yl)-5',5”,6',6”,7',7a'-hexahydro-1'H,8”H-dispiro[indeno[1,2-b]quinoxaline-11,3'-pyrrolizine-2',7”-indolizin]-8”-one moderate yields. stru...