The stereoselective incorporation of fluorine atoms into N-heterocycles can lead to dramatic changes in the molecules' physical and chemical properties. These changes can be rationally exploited for the benefit of diverse fields such as medicinal chemistry and organocatalysis. This brief review will examine some of the effects that fluorine substitution can have in N-heterocycles, including cha...

Abstract Ring opening of donor–acceptor cyclopropanes with various N-nucleophiles provides a simple approach to 1,3-functionalized compounds that are useful building blocks in organic synthesis, especially in assembling various N-heterocycles, including natural products. In this review, ring-opening reactions of donor–acceptor cyclopropanes with amines, amides, hydrazines, N-heterocycles, nitri...

The 3,5-disubstituted tetrahydro-2H-1,3,5-thiadiazine-2-thione scaffold has found many applications in recent years. This review is aimed at highlighting the most important aspects of these compounds: synthesis, spectroscopic characterization and biological activities. How the chemical nature of N-substituents influences the overall activity and cytotoxicity profile will also be discussed.

Saturated N-heterocycles are prevalent in biologically active molecules and are increasingly attractive scaffolds in the development of new pharmaceuticals. Unlike their aromatic counterparts, there are limited strategies for facile construction of substituted saturated N-heterocycles by convergent, predictable methods. In this Synopsis, we discuss recent advances in the synthesis of these comp...

Highly optically enriched, protected, nitrogenated heterocycles with different ring sizes have been synthesized by a very efficient methodology consisting of the asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of N-(tert-butylsulfinyl)haloimines followed by treatment with a base to promote an intramolecular nucleophilic substitution process. N-protected aziridines, pyrrolidines, piperidines, and azepanes bea...

The Co(II) atom in the title compound, [Co(C(12)H(8)N(5))(2)(H(2)O)(4)]·2H(2)O, lies on a center of inversion and is bonded to two N-heterocycles and to four water mol-ecules in a slightly distorted octahedral coordination. The coordinated and lattice water mol-ecules inter-act with the N-heterocycles through O-H⋯N hydrogen bonds, generating a three-dimensional supra-molecular architecture.

The asymmetric unit of the polymeric title compound, [Ni(C8H4O4)(C10H14N4)(H2O)] n , contains one Ni(2+) cation, one coordinating water mol-ecule, one 3,3',5,5'-tetra-methyl-4,4'-bi-pyrazole ligand and half each of two benzene-1,4-di-carboxyl-ate anions, the other halves being generated by inversion symmetry. The Ni(2+) cation exhibits an octa-hedral N2O4 coordination sphere defined by the O at...