This work describes the design and application of a single-pot, reductive arene C-H silanolization of aromatic esters for synthesis of ortho-formyl arylsilanols. This strategy involves a sequence of two transition metal (Ir and Rh)-catalyzed reactions for reductive arene ortho-silylation directed by hydridosilyl acetals and hydrolysis.

The highly regioselective ortho-arylation of acetanilides with aromatic boronic acids in the presence of a Ru(II) complex (3 mol%), AgSbF6 (12 mol%), Cu(OTf)2 (20 mol%) and Ag2O (1.0 eq.) is described. Later, ortho-arylated acetanilides were converted into phenanthridine and carbazole derivatives by using Ph3PO and Tf2O or palladium or Cu(OTf)2 catalysts.

A simple fluorescent probe based on an ortho-hydroxy aldehyde-functionalized coumarin showed selective responses to homocysteine and cysteine by fluorescence turn-on.

A highly regioselective ruthenium-catalyzed ortho-arylation of substituted N-alkyl benzamides with aromatic boronic acids in the presence of [{RuCl(2)(p-cymene)}(2)], AgSbF(6), and Ag(2)O is described. Further, ortho-arylated N-alkyl benzamides were converted into fluorenones in the presence of trifluoroacetic anhydride and HCl.

The microbial degradation of aromatic compounds has tremendous practical significance. Both aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms have been isolated that degrade aromatic compounds, but much more is known about aerobic pathways. In general, degradation proceeds in two phases. First, an aromatic compound is prepared for ring cleavage by a variety of ring modification reactions. Of the many divers...

Starting from aromatic ortho-dialdehydes, we devised a homo-elongation protocol that combines a Wittig olefination and subsequent intramolecular Knoevenagel condensation to produce acene diesters and dinitriles.

An ortho-nitrophenol solution was injected into the intestine which had been removed from an anesthetized mouse by placing a ligature at the duodenum and at the rectum. The intestine was then incubated in Ringer's solution at 37•Ž and the ortho-nitrophenol was found to be reduced to ortho aminophenol. At the same time, it was found that ortho-nitrophenol which was incubated with the intestinal ...

A metal-free oxidative decarbonylative coupling of aromatic aldehydes with electron-rich or electron-deficient arenes to produce biaryl compounds was developed. This novel coupling was proposed to proceed via a non-chain radical homolytic aromatic substitution (HAS) type mechanism, based on the substrate scope, ortho-regioselectivity, radical trapping experiments and DFT calculation studies. Wi...