condensation–reduction approach, which was carried out in water, has been reported. Using Hantzsch esters as reducing agent, under the promotion of base, a variety of reduced Knoevenagel adducts could be easily prepared by direct alkylation of malononitrile, ethyl 2-cyanoacetate, and 2-(4-nitrophenyl)acetonitrile, respectively. Meanwhile, a gram-scale synthesis of the protocol was also realized with excellent
Solvent-free mechanochemical and one-pot reductive benzylizations of malononitrile and 4-methylaniline using Hantzsch 1,4-dihydropyridine as the reductant
作者:Ze Zhang、Jie Gao、Jing-Jing Xia、Guan-Wu Wang
DOI:10.1039/b502662h
日期:——
Under mechanical milling conditions, direct reductive benzylizations of malononitrile and 4-methylaniline by aromatic aldehydes were achieved using a Hantzsch 1,4-dihydropyridine as the reductant.
employed as substrates to explore Lewis base-catalyzed annulation reactions. This leads to the discovery of a phosphine-catalyzed [3+2] annulation of 1 with electron-deficient alkenes for the construction of exocyclic olefinic cyclopentenes in good yields and moderate E:Z ratios undermildconditions. The annulation is believed to proceed in a tandem [3+2] cyclization and double bond migration in which the
The Synthesis of Some Derivatives Based on the 4-Benzyl-1H-pyrazole-3,5-diamine Core
作者:Petr Cankař、Lukáš Jedinák、Vladimír Kryštof
DOI:10.3987/com-10-12101
日期:——
The three-step synthesis of 4-benzyl-1H-pyrazole-3,5-diamines 2 from commercially available aldehydes 3 is given. The Knoevenagel condensation was utilized to assemble the initial carbon framework, resulting in the benzylidenemalononitriles 4 which were directly transformed by the reduction of the electron deficient C=C bond to benzylmalononitriles 5. Subsequent cycloaddition of hydrazine with 5 afforded the desired pyrazoles 2. Due to the high similarity with 4-arylazo-1H-pyrazole-3,5-diamines, the biological activities of the 4-benzyl-1H-pyrazole-3,5-diamines 2 were evaluated while focusing on the inhibition of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs), but no significant results were obtained.
Study on comparison of reducing ability of three organic hydride compounds
Selective reduction of three kinds of substrates were studied to evaluate the reducing abilities of N,N-dimethyl-benzimidazolidine (DMBI), 2-phenylbenzimidazoline (PBI) and 2-phenylbenzothiazoline (PBT). As hydride donors, these three five-membered heterocyclic compounds performed different reducing abilities depending on the substrates. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.