The production of enantiopure chiral compounds is important for pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries because enantiomers can exhibit distinct biological activities. Therefore, processes that directly produce the desired enantiomer are desirable. First reported by Knowles, Horner et al. in 1968, catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation of unsaturated compounds such as olefins, ketones, and imine...

In present communication a novel series of benzodiazepine derivatives were synthesized from α, β-unsaturated ketones and evaluated for their antimicrobial activities. The α, β-unsaturated ketones were prepared by ClaisenSchimidt Condensation of Indan-1-one with different aldehydes in presence bleaching earth clay and PEG400 as Greener reaction solvent. A novel benzodiazepine derivatives were sy...

The presence of a strong contact component in the sex and ovipositing behavior of the sheep blowfly Lucilia cuprina Wied. prompted an investigation into the chemical composition of the cuticular wax of the adult male and female flies as well as that of the blowfly puparia. Thin-layer chromatography indicated that the lipids in all the waxes examined comprise hydrocarbons, nonglyceryl esters, tr...

A novel approach to the production of chiral 1,3-cyclohexadienals has been developed. The organocatalysed asymmetric reaction of different β-disubstituted-α,β-unsaturated aldehydes with a chiral α,β-unsaturated aldehyde in the presence of a Jørgensen-Hayashi organocatalyst provides easy and stereocontrolled access to the cyclohexadienal backbone. This method allows for the synthesis of potentia...

Sequential Wolff rearrangement of α-diazo-β-ketoesters followed by trapping of the ketene intermediates with enol ethers generated a variety of γ,δ-unsaturated β-ketoesters. This method involves a novel thermal cascade reaction and allows the synthesis of γ,δ-unsaturated β-ketoesters with trans-stereochemistry under catalyst-free conditions. The synthesized compounds were further transformed in...

This contribution summarizes methods to compare bonded stationary phases for the compound-class HPLC separations of unsaturated polycyclic hydrocarbons and polar compounds. These strategies are based on the physical chemistry behavior of the functional group of the bonded stationary phase, behavior of the unsaturated polycyclic hydrocarbons under isocratic and gradient elution, regression analy...

Michael addition of pyrimidine and purine nucleobases to substituted as well as unsubstituted α,β-unsaturated esters efficiently proceeds in the presence of catalytic amount of zinc oxide in ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide (ZnO/[bmim]Br) under microwave irradiation to afford carboacyclic nucleosides, as biologically important compounds, in good to excellent yields and in short ...

Chalcones are a class of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds that form the central core for a variety of naturally occurring biologically active compounds. They exhibit tremendous potential to act as a pharmacological agent. Besides their various pharmacological activities, chalcones have been explored for different optical applications including second harmonic generation materials in non-linea...

A novel one-pot synthesis of π-conjugated polycyclic compounds, which could undergo further facile transformation to form complex polycyclic heteroarene compounds, has been realized between 7-azaindoles and α,β-unsaturated ketones. This distinctive cascade process proceeds via a rhodium(iii)-catalyzed alkylation/copper-catalyzed radical annulation-aromatization pathway.

α,β-Unsaturated carbonyl compounds are versatile intermediates in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and biologically active compounds. Here, we report the discovery and application of Pd(DMSO)(2)(TFA)(2) as a catalyst for direct dehydrogenation of cyclohexanones and other cyclic ketones to the corresponding enones, using O(2) as the oxidant. The substrate scope includes heterocyclic ketones and ...