Design and Synthesis of Propeller-Shaped Dispiroisoxazolinopiperidinochromanones

Rhodium catalyzed oxidative coupling of salicylaldehydes with diazabicyclic olefins: a one pot strategy involving aldehyde C-H cleavage and π-allyl chemistry towards the synthesis of fused ring chromanones

An efficient one pot strategy for the synthesis of cyclopentene fused chromanone derivatives through the direct oxidative coupling of salicylaldehydes with bicyclic olefins in the presence of a rhodium-copper catalyst system is described. This is the first report on the ring opening-ring closing of bicyclic hydrazines via metal catalyzed oxidative coupling reaction.

Solid-phase synthesis of diverse spiroisoxazolinodiketopiperazines

A convenient, efficient protocol to prepare diverse spiroisoxazolino-diketopiperazines via a parallel solid-supported synthesis was developed. The key steps are (1) a coupling reaction of an amino acid; (2) tosylation with concomitant β-elimination to form an α, β-unsaturated ester; (3) a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with an oxime to form isoxazoline rings; and (4) cyclic cleavage to release the product from the resin. All reaction steps and workup procedures were modified to allow the use of automated or semiautomated equipment. A 100-member demonstration library with two diversity sites was prepared in good purity and acceptable overall yields.

Solution-phase synthesis of a diverse library of benzisoxazoles utilizing the [3 + 2] cycloaddition of in situ-generated nitrile oxides and arynes

A library of benzisoxazoles has been synthesized by the [3 + 2] cycloaddition of nitrile oxides with arynes and further diversified by acylation/sulfonylation and palladium-catalyzed coupling processes. The eight key intermediate benzisoxazoles have been prepared by the reaction of o-(trimethylsilyl)aryl triflates and chlorooximes in the presence of CsF in good to excellent yields under mild reaction conditions. These building blocks have been used as the key components of a diverse set of 3,5,6-trisubstituted benzisoxazoles.

Synthesis of substituted chromanones: an organocatalytic aldol/oxa-Michael reaction

A diastereoselective organocatalytic aldol/oxa-Michael reaction has been developed to efficiently deliver medicinally relevant 2,3-ring-substituted chromanones. Development of this synthetic strategy revealed an unexpected kinetic anti-Saytzeff elimination; an origin for the observed selectivity is suggested on the basis of the results of quantum chemical calculations. This unusual kinetic selectivity necessitated an isomerization protocol that in turn led to the discovery of an intriguing Pd-mediated isomerization/intramolecular Friedel-Crafts-type alkylation.

Parallel synthesis of an imidazole-4,5-dicarboxamide library bearing amino acid esters and alkanamines

The imidazole-4,5-dicarboxylic acid scaffold is readily derivatized with amino acid esters and alkanamines to afford compounds with intramolecularly hydrogen bonded conformations that mimic substituted purines and therefore are hypothesized to be potential inhibitors of kinases through competitive binding to the ATP site. In this work, a total of 126 dissymmetrically disubstituted imidazole-4,5-dicarboxamides with amino acid ester and alkanamide substituents were prepared by parallel synthesis. The library members were purified by column chromatography on silica gel and the purified compounds characterized by LC-MS with LC detection at 214 nm. A selection of the final compounds was also analyzed by (1)H-NMR spectroscopy. The analytically pure final products have been submitted to the Molecular Library Small Molecule Repository (MLSMR) for screening in the Molecular Library Screening Center Network (MLSCN) as part of the NIH Roadmap.

Natural compounds: leads or ideas? Bioinspired molecules for drug discovery

In this article, we compare drugs of natural origin to synthetic compounds and analyze the reasons why natural compounds occupy a place of choice in the current pharmacopoeia. The observations reported here support the design of synthetic compounds inspired from plant alkaloids and their biosynthetic pathway. Our reasoning leads to very efficient syntheses of compounds which complexity matches that of indolomonoterpenic alkaloids.