- Photo-on-Demand Synthesis of Vilsmeier Reagents with Chloroform and Their Applications to One-Pot Organic Syntheses
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The Vilsmeier reagent (VR), first reported a century ago, is a versatile reagent in a variety of organic reactions. It is used extensively in formylation reactions. However, the synthesis of VR generally requires highly toxic and corrosive reagents such as POCl3, SOCl2, or COCl2. In this study, we found that VR is readily obtained from a CHCl3 solution containing N,N-dimethylformamide or N,N-dimethylacetamide upon photo-irradiation under O2 bubbling. The corresponding Vilsmeier reagents were obtained in high yields with the generation of gaseous HCl and CO2 as byproducts to allow their isolations as crystalline solid products amenable to analysis by X-ray crystallography. With the advantage of using CHCl3, which bifunctionally serves as a reactant and a solvent, this photo-on-demand VR synthesis is available for one-pot syntheses of aldehydes, acid chlorides, formates, ketones, esters, and amides.
- Liang, Fengying,Eda, Kazuo,Okazoe, Takashi,Wada, Akihiro,Mori, Nobuaki,Konishi, Katsuhiko,Tsuda, Akihiko
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p. 6504 - 6517
(2021/05/06)
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- Access to indoles via Diels-Alder reactions of 5-methylthio-2-vinylpyrroles with maleimides
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Diels-Alder reactions of 5-methylthio-2-vinyl-1H-pyrroles with maleimides followed by isomerization gave tetrahydroindoles in moderate to good yield. Aromatization using activated MnO2 in refluxing toluene gave the corresponding 2-methylthioindoles in good yields, and demethylthioation using Raney nickel gave the 2-H indoles in excellent yields. The protection of the adducts produced aromatization in improved yield, demonstrating the effectiveness of the methylthio group as a protecting group for pyrroles; however, 5-methylthio-2-vinylpyrrole was shown to perform with slightly less efficiency than 2-vinylpyrrole in Diels-Alder reactions, indicating the protective group was more deactivating than desired. This route toward indoles offers high convergency and conveniently available starting materials that are easily purified. Bis-methylthioated vinylpyrroles were shown to have potential as highly activated Diels-Alder dienes.
- Noland, Wayland E.,Lanzatella, Nicholas P.,Dickson, Rozalin R.,Messner, Mary E.,Nguyen, Huy H.
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p. 795 - 808
(2013/08/23)
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