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Bronsted acid p-TsOH·H2O-catalyzed hydrovinylation of styrenes with internal olefins α-oxo ketene dithioacetals was efficiently achieved in the presence of N-phenylselenophthalimide (N-PSP), regioselectively affording Markovnikov phenylselenati

The functionalization of internal olefins has been a challenging task in organic synthesis. Efficient CuII-catalyzed trifluoromethylation of internal olefins, that is, α-oxoketene dithioacetals, has been achieved by using Cu(OH)2 as a catalyst and TMSCF3 as a trifluoromethylating reagent. The push-pull effect from the polarized olefin substrates facilitates the internal olefinic C-H trifluoromethylation. Cyclic and acyclic dithioalkyl α-oxoketene acetals were used as the substrates and various substituents were tolerated. The internal olefinic C-H bond cleavage was not involved in the rate-determining step, and a mechanism that involves radicals is proposed based on a TEMPO-quenching experiment of the trifluoromethylation reaction. Further derivatization of the resultant CF 3 olefins led to multifunctionalized tetrasubstituted CF3 olefins and trifluoromethylated N-heterocycles.

A convenient base-mediated strategy to synthesize 3-aryol-4-methyl (or benzyl)-2-methylthio furans 2 (trisubstituted furans) has been developed through the domino coupling/annulations between available α-oxo ketene dithioacetals 1 and propargyl alcohols.

Compounds corresponding to general formula (I) in which R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 each represent, independently of one another, a hydrogen or halogen atom or a nitro, amino, trifluoromethyl, trifluoromethoxy, cyano, hydroxy, (C1-C6)alkyl, (C1-C6)alkoxy or phenyl group, it also being possible for two of these substituents in adjacent positions together to represent a methylenedioxy group, and R6 represents a hydrogen atom or a (C1-C6)alkyl group. Application in therapeutics.

3-Carboxymethylamino-3-methylthio-1-phenyl-2-propen-1-ones were synthesized by the reaction of 3,3-bis(methylthio)-1-phenyl-2-propen-1-ones with glycine in the presence of sodium hydroxide.