The Strecker synthesis is the one-carbon homologation of an aldehyde to the α-amino nitrile. Robert Cunico of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb reports (Tetrahedron Lett. 2003, 44, 8025.DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2003.09.006)a modified…
Homoallylic secondary alcohols such as 1 are readily prepared in enantiomerically-pure form by enantioselective addition of allyl anions to the aldehyde. Subhas Chandra Roy of the Indian Association for the…
Keiji Maruoka of Kyoto University has developed highly selective catalysts for the alkylation of protected glycine anions. PMID:23600560 He has now shown (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 5073.DOI: 10.1021/ja0459328)that…
Aryl amines are common constituents of pharmaceuticals, so there has been a great deal of interest in their preparation, e.g by Pd- or Cu-mediated amination of aryl halides. Multi-step procedures…
Alkene metathesis (“Grubbs Reaction”) is now well-developed as a synthetic method. Still, there is a continuing effort to develop more efficient catalysts, and to extend the range of substrates that…
Selective halogenation can be a direct route to high value added materials from inexpensive hydrocarbons. José Barluenga of the Universidad de Oviedo has developed (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. PMID:23514335 2005,…
Richard P. Hsung, now of the University of Wisconsin, has reported (Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 231. Formula of 2-Hexyloctanoic acid Methyl 6-chloro-5-formylpicolinate site DOI: 10.1021/ol052487s)the intramolecular addition of ynamides to…
Convergent coupling of a nucleophile with an aldehyde ideally will proceed with high enantioselectivity, while at the same time allowing the attachment of a usefully functionalized fragment. Several recently-reported aldehyde…
Powerful methods for the stereocontrolled construction of cyclic ethers have recently been developed, enabling the synthesis of a variety of complex natural products. Many of the Annonaceous acetogenins, represented by…
Heteroaromatics, including pyridines and indoles, play a prominent role in pharmaceutical chemistry. A new method for pyridine construction has recently been developed (Chem. Commun. 2006, 1313. DOI: 10.1039/b515901f) by Alexander…
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