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The reagent TiCl4-Et3N was used in the Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons (HWE)-type reaction of triethylphosphonocarboxylates with aldehydes, wherein unstable intermediary aldol adducts were isolated with anti-selectivity. Subsequent Br?nsted acid promoted stereoselective elimination was successfully performed using TBS-benzamide-pyridinium triflate to give the less-accessible Z-α,β-unsaturated esters. Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart.

A palladium complex of a dendrimer type ligand of aminoethylacrylamide immobilized onto the mesoporous channels of MCM-41 with magnetic core was prepared and characterized using various techniques such as XRD, TEM, BET, FT-IR, TGA, and VSM. The prepared nanostructured material was found as a magnetically recoverable catalyst for Heck reaction of aryl halides and vinylic C-H. The catalyst is easily recoverable with an external magnet and is reusable with different leaching amounts depending to loading of Pd. A hot filtration test was also performed and gave evidence that Palladium in heterogeneous samples can dissolve and then redeposit on the surface of the support material.

Alkenes bearing a stereocenter in the allylic position were found to undergo Kulinkovich hydroxycyclopropanation with good diastereoselectivity. For the isomerization of the resulting cyclopropanols to diastereomerically enriched α-methyl ketones, a new mild regioselective method has been developed. A sequence of stereoselective cyclopropanation and cyclopropanol ring opening was successfully employed for the construction of the C20 stereocenter in steroids.

Ternatin, a cyclic heptapeptide derived from mushroom, strongly inhibits fat accumulation in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. However, its mechanism of action remains unclear. In this Letter, we designed, synthesized, and evaluated its derivatives for use as molecular probes to isolate its target protein. Finally, we successfully established a pair of ternatin molecular probes.

A range of pyrazolidin-3-ones have been prepared and their activity as catalysts for iminium-ion promoted Diels-Alder reactions evaluated. Systematic variation of the C(5)- and N(2)-substituents indicates that the incorporation of an electron withdrawing

A rare example of the application of a catalytic, enantioselective Diels-Alder cycloaddition to affect a kinetic resolution has been developed. Chiral pyrazolidinones are resolved with high selectivity through a process that utilizes a relay of stereochemical information from a permanent chiral center to a fluxional chiral center to enhance the inherent selectivity of the chiral Lewis acid catalyst.

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The selective 1,2-hydrogenation of simple and functionalized conjugated dienes is catalyzed by preactivation of the binuclear palladium complex, [(Bu(t)2PH)PdPBu(t)2]2 with oxygen, in THF at room temperature and 1 atm of hydrogen pressure, to form monoenes in excellent yield.

The total synthesis of doliculide (1), a potent cytotoxic cyclodepsipeptide from the Japanese sea hare Dolabella auricularia, has been achieved.The key step of the synthesis is the construction of the sereogenic centers of a 15-carbon polyketide-derived d

A variety of aldehydes were converted into the corresponding α,β-unsaturated esters using triethyl phosphonoacetate and triethylamine in the presence of lithium or magnesium halides.Under the same conditions, simple methyl ketones were unreactive.

Isobutanal on condensation with malonic acid yields Δα-isohexenoic acid (II), the ester (III) of which on NBS bromination furnishes ethyl 4-bromo-4-methylpenten-2-oate (IV).Treatment of IV with moist silver oxide yields the corresponding 4-hydroxyester which on hydrolysis with 5 percent KOH gives the title acid (I), identical (m.m.p, co-TLC and IR) with a natural sample.

2-Butenoates 1-C4 alkyl, cyclohexyl, or 1-bornyl> and higher β-alkyl-substituted acrylates 2-C9 n-alkyl> undergo highly selective (>95percent) dimerization in the presence of promoted potassium or sodium catalysts to yield corresponding 2-alkylidene-3-alkylglutarates (3).The reaction involves metalation of the β-alkylacrylate at the C-2 position, followed by addition at C-3 of a second monomeric molecule.Changes in the relative extent of dimerization (Kr) as a function of structural and experimentalvariables were determined.Kr is strongly dependent upon the inductive and steric characteristics of the alcoholic (R) group and of the β-alkyl substituent (R').For an n-alkyl group as R' the Kr value increases with increase in chain length from C1 to C4 but then decreases for longer substituents (C5-C9).Among the two geometric isomers in the dimeric product 3, the isomer with an α-vinylic hydrogen cis to the carboalkoxy group is predominant in all cases, but its relative concetration decreases with an increase in the size of R'.Branched or cyclic β-substituents in 2 prevent dimerization due to steric hindrance in the rate-determining addition step.Promoted potassium or sodium catalysts show much higher dimerization activity compared to supported alkali metals or to alkoxides.For conversions of up to 60percent, Kr values in proton-exchanging alkylbenzene solvents and in nonexchanging alkylcyclohexanes are closely similar, indicating faster abstraction of an α-vinylic hydrogen from the monomer, rather than a benzylic hydrogen from the solvent, in the chain regeneration step of the reaction.