93-09-4Relevant articles and documents
Metal-Free Solvent/Base-Switchable Divergent Synthesis of Multisubstituted Dihydrofurans
Gore, Babasaheb Sopan,Kuo, Chiao-Ying,Garkhedkar, Amol Milind,Chang, Yu-Lun,Wang, Jeh-Jeng
, p. 6160 - 6165 (2020)
A general protocol for the synthesis of multisubstituted 2,3-dihydrofuran-2-carbonitriles and 4,5-dihydrofuran-3-carbonitriles was demonstrated under a metal-free regime with the same oxidant, TBHP. By simply switching the reaction solvent and base, the reaction proceeds via two pathways. An unexpected -CN group migration rearrangement and hydroxylation have occurred in nonpolar and polar solvents, respectively, under the reported conditions. Furthermore, the source of the hydroxyl group and hydrogen in the reaction is indirectly confirmed with isotope labeling studies.
Gram-scale synthesis of carboxylic acids via catalytic acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling of alcohols and hydroxides at an ultralow Ru loading
Chen, Cheng,Cheng, Hua,Verpoort, Francis,Wang, Zhi-Qin,Wu, Zhe,Yuan, Ye,Zheng, Zhong-Hui
, (2021/12/13)
Acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling (ADC) of alcohols and water/hydroxides is an emergent and graceful approach to produce carboxylic acids. Therefore, it is of high demand to develop active and practical catalysts/catalytic systems for this attractive transformation. Herein, we designed and fabricated a series of cyclometallated N-heterocyclic carbene-Ru (NHC-Ru) complexes via ligand tuning of [Ru-1], the superior complex in our previous work. Gratifyingly, gram-scale synthesis of carboxylic acids was efficiently enabled at an ultralow Ru loading (62.5 ppm) in open air. Moreover, effects of distinct ancillary NHC ligands and other parameters on this catalytic process were thoroughly studied, while further systematic studies were carried out to provide rationales for the activity trend of [Ru-1]-[Ru-7]. Finally, determination of quantitative green metrics illustrated that the present work exhibited superiority over representative literature reports. Hopefully, this study could provide valuable input for researchers who are engaging in metal-catalyzed ADC reactions.
Comparative chemical and biological hydrolytic stability of homologous esters and isosteres
Barreiro, Eliezer J.,Fokoue, Harold H.,Freitas, Rosana H. C. N.,Gelves, Luis G. V.,Lima, Lidia M.,de Souza, Hygor M. R.,Guedes, Jéssica S.,Sant’Anna, Carlos Mauricio R.
, p. 718 - 727 (2022/03/14)
Esters are one of the major functional groups present in the structures of prodrugs and bioactive compounds. Their presence is often associated with hydrolytic lability. In this paper, we describe a comparative chemical and biological stability of homologous esters and isosteres in base media as well as in rat plasma and rat liver microsomes. Our results provided evidence for the hydrolytic structure lability relationship and demonstrated that the hydrolytic stability in plasma and liver microsome might depend on carboxylesterase activity. Molecular modelling studies were performed in order to understand the experimental data. Taken together, the data could be useful to design bioactive compounds or prodrugs based on the correct choice of the ester subunit, addressing compounds with higher or lower metabolic lability.
An Anionic, Chelating C(sp3)/NHC ligand from the Combination of an N-heterobicyclic Carbene and Barbituric Heterocycle
Benaissa, Idir,Gajda, Katarzyna,Vendier, Laure,Lugan, No?l,Kajetanowicz, Anna,Grela, Karol,Michelet, Véronique,César, Vincent,Bastin, Stéphanie
, p. 3223 - 3234 (2021/09/30)
The coordination chemistry of the anionic NHC1-based on an imidazo[1,5-a]pyridin-3-ylidene (IPy) platform substituted at the C5 position by an anionic barbituric heterocycle was studied with d6(Ru(II), Mn(I)) and d8(Pd(II), Rh(I), Ir(I), Au(III)) transition-metal centers. While the anionic barbituric heterocycle is planar in the zwitterionic NHC precursor 1·H, NMR spectroscopic analyses supplemented by X-ray diffraction studies evidenced the chelating behavior of ligand 1-through the carbenic and the malonic carbon atoms in all of the complexes, resulting from a deformation of the lateral barbituric heterocycle. The complexes were obtained by reaction of the free carbene with the appropriate metal precursor, except for the Au(III) complex 10, which was obtained by oxidation of the antecedent gold(I) complex [AuCl(1)]?with PhICl2as an external oxidant. During the course of the process, the kinetic gold(I) intermediate 9 resulting from the oxidation of the malonic carbon of the barbituric moiety was isolated upon crystallization from the reaction mixture. The νCOstretching frequencies recorded for complex [Rh(1)(CO)2] (5) demonstrated the strong donating character of the malonate-C(sp3)/NHC ligand 1-. The ruthenium complex [Ru(1)Cl(p-cymene)] (11) was implemented as a precatalyst in the dehydrogenative synthesis of carboxylic acid derivatives from primary alcohols and exhibited high activities at low catalyst loadings (25-250 ppm) and a large tolerance toward functional groups.