The synthesis of oxazolines and imidazolines was achieved by activation of isocyanides with water. Mechanistic studies show that the organosuperbase proazaphosphatrane is tolerant of water within the reaction medium, with a beneficial and cooperative effect being observed.

Reaction of pyridine with well defined magnesium hydride species results in heterocycle dearomatisation by a hydride transfer which occurs with the formation of magnesium compounds containing 1,2- and 1,4-dihydropyridide anions as the respective kinetic and thermodynamic products.

The oxasmaragdyrins containing one five membered heterocycle such as pyrrole, thiophene and furan in place of one of the meso-phenyl group were synthesized by acid-catalyzed oxidative coupling reaction of meso-heterocycle substituted dipyrromethane with 16-oxatripyrrane in the presence of catalytic amount of trifluoroacetic acid followed by oxidation with DDQ. The smaragdyrin macrocycles contai...

Forging the lock that autolocks! Rh-NHC catalysts promote a new access to 4 H-quinolizine species from 2-vinylpyridine and terminal and internal alkynes through C-H activation and C-C coupling reactions (see figure). N-Bridgehead heterocycle formation is favored for internal- over terminal-substituted butadienylpyridine derivatives in a thermal 6π-electrocyclization process.

The title compound, C11H10O3, is a phenyl-subsituted dihydro-pyran-dione in which the heterocycle adopts a boat conformation with the phenyl substituent canted 72.14 (5)° relative to the mean plane of the heterocycle.

Crystal structures of protein-tyrosine phosphatase 1B in complex with compounds bearing a novel isothiazolidinone (IZD) heterocyclic phosphonate mimetic reveal that the heterocycle is highly complementary to the catalytic pocket of the protein. The heterocycle participates in an extensive network of hydrogen bonds with the backbone of the phosphate-binding loop, Phe(182) of the flap, and the si...

N-Heterocycle directing groups lead to selective borylation of indole at C2 or C7 controlled by heterocycle ring size. With five membered groups, is disfavoured due an increased degree distortion.

A concise method for the synthesis of heterocycle-fused naphthoquinones such as naphtho[2,3-b]-furan-4,9-dione, 1H-benz[f]indole-4,9-dione, and naphtho[2,3-b]thiophene-4,9-dione was developed. This method employed Sonogashira coupling and tandem addition-elimination/intramolecular cyclization, and it enabled the preparation of versatile heterocycle-fused naphthoquinones from one substrate.