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Competition between decarboxylation and isomerization in the C3H5O 2+ energy surface. Justification of the experimental results by molecular orbital …
1994
In constrast with recent molecular orbital calculations on the decarboxylation of O-protonated 2-oxetanone, this experimental work indicates that no decarboxylation of this cation occurs in sulphuric acid solution up to 150°C, but instead a clean isomerization to protonated acrylic acid takes place. Parallel theoretical work shows that the gas-phase model is too crude to account successfully for the experimental facts obtained in acidic media. However, the latter are well reproduced when the effect of the solvent is taken into account. The present findings do not necessarily invalidate the reaction mechanism currently accepted to explain the rate enhancement and change of stereochemistry ac…
A Simple Organocatalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of Pregabalin
2009
This paper describes a new procedure for the enantioselective synthesis of the important anticonvulsant drug Pregabalin, which shows biological properties as the (S) enantiomer only. The key step of the synthetic sequence is the Michael addition reaction of Meldrum's acid to a nitroalkene mediated by a quinidine derived thiourea. A variety of novel catalysts bearing different groups at the thiourea moiety were synthesized and tested. The most successful catalyst that incorporates a trityl substituent provided up to 75 % ee of (S)-4. The conjugate addition reaction was carried out on a multigram scale with low loadings of catalyst (10 mol-%). Moreover, the catalyst can be recycled showing th…
Electrochemical Synthesis of Aryl Methoxymethyl Ethers
2019
ChemInform Abstract: Catalytic Aerobic Oxidative Decarboxylation of α-Hydroxy Acids. Methyl Mandelate as a Benzoyl Anion Equivalent.
2010
Abstract The monomeric square-planar cobalt(III) complex of bis- N,N ′-disubstituted oxamides catalyses the oxidative decarboxylation of α-hydroxy acids with molecular oxygen/pivalaldehyde with very good yields. This reaction offers an interesting alternative in the use of methyl mandelate as a convenient benzoyl anion equivalent.
Three‐Component Castagnoli‐Cushman Reaction of 3‐Arylglutaconic Acid Anhydrides, Carbonyl Compounds, and Ammonium Acetate: a Quick and Flexible Way t…
2021
Photoinduced functionalization of the C-20 methyl group of the nor-diterpene atractyligenin
2001
Abstract Irradiation of the nor-diterpene atractyligenin at λ =254 nm in methanol gave, on one hand, the decarboxylation product, and provided, on the other hand, the transformation of the C-20 angular methyl into a methylene-carbomethoxy group. A photochemical pathway involving formation of C-19/C-20 bond is suggested.