Relay Catalytic Branching Cascade: A Technique to Access Diverse Molecular Scaffolds
作者:Nitin T. Patil、Valmik S. Shinde、Balasubramanian Sridhar
DOI:10.1002/anie.201208738
日期:2013.2.18
Skeletal diversity: The reactions of alkynoic acids (A, common type of substrates) with various scaffold‐building agents (B) under gold catalysis produce a series of multifunctional polyheterocyclic structures (see scheme). The approach enables the preparation of compound libraries with high skeletal diversity.
react with alkynoic acids (AAs) to achieve gold‐catalyzed highly selective cascade reactions to furnish novel indole‐fused skeletons. Furthermore, with this powerful gold catalytic system, a library of indole/pyrrole/thiophene/benzene/naphthalene/pyridine‐based nitrogen‐containing heterocyclic compounds (NCHCs) with scaffold diversity and molecular complexity was constructed rapidly using various amine
scope. In addition, this is the first example of the generation of an indole/thiophene/pyrrole/pyridine/naphthalene/benzene-fused N-heterocycle library through gold catalysis in water from readily available materials. Notably, the discovery of antibacterial molecules from this library demonstrates its high quality and potential for the identification of active pharmaceutical ingredients.