Tandem catalytic oxidative deacetylation of acetoacetic esters and heteroaromatic cyclizations

Article abstract of DOI:10.1039/c4ob02441a

One pot syntheses of furan, thiophene, and pyrrole were accomplished by oxidative deacetylation using Mn(iii)/Co(ii) catalysts and the Paal-Knorr reaction from 1,5-dicarbonyl compounds, which are prepared from the conjugate addition of ethyl acetoacetate to α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds. The oxidative deacetylation and reductive cyclization of β-ketoesters derived from ethyl acetoacetate and o-nitrobenzyl bromides efficiently produced diversely substituted indoles. This journal is