- Ruthenium-catalyzed conjugate hydrogenation of ?±,?2-enones by in situ generated dihydrogen from paraformaldehyde and water
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Notwithstanding that the highly selective hydrogenation of ?±,?2-enones to allylic alcohols can be realized by using Noyori's Ru bifunctional system, the selective reduction of the C=C bonds in ?±,?2-enones without touching the C=O bonds still lacks a general, simple, and efficient procedure. Ruthenium-catalyzed conjugate hydrogenation of various ?±,?2-enones to saturated ketones with high selectivity was investigated. The most important feature of this procedure was that hydrogen in situ generated from paraformaldehyde (or formalin) and water was employed as the reductant.
- Li, Wanfang,Wu, Xiao-Feng
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(2015/03/05)
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- NBS-mediated cyclization of trans-cinnamic alcohols
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An efficient and straightforward three-step synthetic route toward 2,4-disubstituted-3-bromooxetanes 5 with the trans-trans contiguous stereogenic centers is developed from functionalized chalcones 3 via NaBH 4-mediated reduction of chalcones 3
- Chang, Meng-Yang,Tsai, Chung-Yu,Wu, Ming-Hao
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p. 6364 - 6370
(2013/07/26)
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- Stereocontrolled ring-opening of some enantiomerically enriched epoxy ketones and epoxy alcohols using trimethylaluminium: Synthesis of (S)-2-arylpropanoic acids
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Poly-(D)-leucine-catalysed epoxidation of chalcone furnished epoxide (+)-6; treatment of this epoxide with trimethylaluminium followed by zinc borohydride reduction and oxidative cleavage furnished (S)-2-phenylpropanoic acid 11. In a complementary sequence epoxy ketones (-)-6 and 25 were converted into (S)-2-phenylpropanoic acid and (S)-fenoprofen 5 respectively by reduction with zinc borohydride, reaction with trimethylaluminium and oxidative cleavage. Similarly epoxy ketones (-)-6, 21 and 28 were treated with methylmagnesium iodide, trimethylaluminium and the resultant alcohols subjected to oxidative cleavage to afford (S)-2-phenylpropanoic acid (from the first two substrates) and (S)-naproxen 1.
- Carde, Lydia,Davies, D. Huw,Roberts, Stanley M.
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