In an ongoing effort to identify novel drugs that can be used as neurotherapeutic compounds, we have focused on anilino enaminones as potential anticonvulsant agents. Enaminones are organic compounds containing a conjugated system of an amine, an alkene and a ketone. Here, we review the effects of a small library of anilino enaminones on neuronal activity. Our experimental approach employs an o...

A novel protocol to synthesize multisubstituted benzo[b][1,4]oxazepines from N-(2-haloaryl)enaminones has been developed. In this procedure, only 2 equiv. of Cs2CO3 was required. A variety of polysubstituted benzo[b][1,4]oxazepine derivatives were provided in up to 95% yield for 27 examples.

High-yielding syntheses of two unpublished series of amino-1,5-benzodiazepines derivatives 3 and 1,2,3-benzotriazoles 4 bearing a dimedone moiety are respectively reported. Derivatives 3 were obtained by intramolecular cyclisation using cyanogenbromide of enaminone 2. On the other hand, when enaminones 2 were treated with sodium nitrite under acidic conditions, cyclisation led to benzotriazole 4.

A new domino strategy for selective synthesis of enaminones and their difluoroboron complexes through aryl migration has been developed. The reaction features low-cost and readily accessible starting materials, reliable scalability, and bond-forming efficiency as well as simple one-pot operation, which makes this strategy highly viable for future applications.

The reaction of ortho-lithiated aryloxiranes with various enaminones straightforwardly affords new functionalized isochromanes as mixtures of two epimeric stereoisomers in reasonable to very good yields (50-90%). The two diastereomers, which show a high structural variability, can be easily separated by column chromatography.

A facile and efficient one-pot synthesis of polysubstituted pyridin-2(1H)-ones from readily available enaminones and the cyanomethyl sulfonium bromide salt in the presence of cesium carbonate is developed, and a mechanism involving sequential nucleophilic vinylic substitution (S(N)V), intramolecular nucleophilic cyclization and dealkylation reactions is proposed.

A small library of anilino enaminones was analyzed for potential anticonvulsant agents. We examined the effects of three anilino enaminones on neuronal activity of output neurons, mitral cells (MC), in an olfactory bulb brain slice preparation using whole-cell patch-clamp recording. These compounds are known to be effective in attenuating pentylenetetrazol-induced convulsions. Among the three c...