Promoted by diethyl azodicarboxylate, a novel and highly stereoselective synthesis of cis-β-enaminones via oxidative dehydrogenation and hydration of the substituted propargylamines was realized. The possible mechanism was also proposed.

A new series of thiadiazole-enaminones 4 were synthesized via reactions of 5-acetyl-1,3,4-thiadiazoles 3 with dimethylformamide-dimethylacetal (DMF-DMA). The simple phenyl substituted thiadiazole-enaminone 4f was used as a synthetic precursor for the preparation of a wide variety of new heterocyclic compounds, including the 5-substituted-1,3,4-thiadiazole derivatives 5, 6, 11, 12 and 13, which ...

The first example of the use of an N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) as an organocatalyst for the activation of isocyanides was demonstrated. On the basis of previous reports on the interaction between NHCs and isocyanides, we developed a catalytic cycle involving transient imidoyl intermediate. The reaction of ketones with isocyanides produced the corresponding enaminones with high efficiency. Cont...

The reactions between o-hydroxylphenyl-functionalized enaminones and sulfonyl hydrazines providing 3-sulfenylated chromones via domino chromone ring construction and C(sp2)-H bond sulfenylation have been achieved under transition-metal-free conditions by using KIO3 as the only catalyst.

Correction for 'Copper-catalyzed, hypervalent iodine mediated C=C bond activation of enaminones for the synthesis of α-keto amides' by Jie-Ping Wan et al., Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 1270-1273.

for its high cytotoxicity against several cancer cell lines due to its intercalating properties and its ability to inhibit DNA religation by topoisomerase II. A number of angular analogs have been prepared in order to obtain more active compounds. For example, one of the most promising products appeared to be intoplicine 2, synthesised firstly by Nguyen et al., which acts both as an intercalati...

The first example of the use of an N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) as an organocatalyst for the activation of isocyanides was demonstrated. On the basis of previous reports on the interaction between NHCs and isocyanides, we developed a catalytic cycle involving transient imidoyl intermediate. The reaction of ketones with isocyanides produced the corresponding enaminones with high efficiency. Cont...

Present work employs the QSAR formalism to predict the ED(50) anticonvulsant activity of ringed-enaminones, in order to apply these relationships for the prediction of unknown open-chain compounds containing the same types of functional groups in their molecular structure. Two different modeling approaches are applied with the purpose of comparing the consistency of our results: (a) the search ...

* e-mail: [email protected] Present address: Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Campus de Ondina, 40170-290 Salvador BA, Brazil. # Dedicated to Professor Albert James Kascheres, a great mentor and pioneer in ciclopropenone chemistry in Brazil, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Reaction of Acyclic Enaminones with Methoxymethylene Meldrum’s Acid. Synthetic and Structural Impl...

Reactions of aldehydes, 1,3-indanedione and enaminones were successfully carried out using p-toluene sulfonic acid (p-TsOH) as a catalyst and high-temperature water as a solvent under microwave irradiation. This method provided several advantages such as rapid reaction times, high yields, and a simple workup procedure. In addition, a possible mechanism to account for the reaction was proposed.