The development of multicomponent reactions (MCRs) designed to produce elaborate biologically active compounds has become an important area of research in organic, combinatorial, and medicinal chemistry. A comparative study of the synthesis of new bis-spiro-oxindolo(pyrrolizidines/pyrrolidines) ring systems by the cycloaddition of azomethine ylides generated by a decarboxylative route from sarc...

Phelligridin G is an unusual natural product that contains an embedded spiro-fused furanone core. We have investigated two furan-based synthetic approaches towards the spirocyclic core structure of this natural product from readily available 2-phenylfurans. Although initial studies involving an oxidative cyclization were unsuccessful, we were ultimately able to access this key system through ...

     A very efficient one-pot three-component synthesis of pyran derivatives has been improved by condensation of aldehydes and malononitrile with dimedone under 80 °C using sucrose as natural and biodegradable catalyst in water. This method offers some advantages including inexpensive, high to quantitative yields, short reaction time, and easy work-up. Therefore, this methodology is entirely g...

A chiral cooperative catalysis of NHC and Brønsted acid for a formal [4+2] reaction of unprotected isatins and enals was developed for the direct synthesis of unprotected spiro[indoline-3,2'-pyran]-2,6'(3'H)-diones in good to excellent yields (up to 95%) with high enantioselectivities (up to >93% ee).

a very efficient one-pot three-component synthesis of pyran derivatives has been improved by condensation of aldehydes and malononitrile with dimedone under 80 °c using sucrose as natural and biodegradable catalyst in water. this method offers some advantages including inexpensive, high to quantitative yields, short reaction time, and easy work-up. therefore, this methodology is entirely green ...

The 4H-pyran ring of the title compound, C(17)H(16)N(2)O(2), is nearly planar [maximum deviation = 0.077 (2) Å] and the cyclo-hexene ring adopts a flattened chair conformation [puckering parameters: Q(T) = 0.435 (2) Å, θ = 122.0 (3)° and ϕ = 53.5 (3)°]. The 4H-pyran ring is almost perpendicular to the benzene ring [dihedral angle = 87.23 (8)°] and is almost coplanar with the mean plane of the c...

A concise synthesis of spiro-cyclopropane compounds from indole derivatives and sulfur ylides has been developed via a dearomatization strategy. Moreover, the spiro-cyclopropane compounds could be conveniently transformed to rearomatized indole derivatives in the presence of acids.

In the title compound, C(18)H(17)ClN(2)O(2)·C(3)H(6)O, the 4H-pyran ring is nearly planar [maximum deviation = -0.108 (1) Å] and the cyclo-hexene ring is puckered [puckering parameters Q(T) = 0.4596 (17) Å, θ = 55.9 (2)° and ϕ = 226.5 (3)°]. The 4H-pyran ring is approximately perpendicular to the benzene ring [dihedral angle = 84.35 (7)°] and is almost coplanar with the mean plane of the cyclo-...