DBU as a scaffold for the synthesis of [1,3]oxazolo[2’,3’ : 2,3]pyrimido-[1,2-a]azepines: annulation with aromatic cyanopropargylic alcohols

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Expedient Access to Functionalized Furan/3(2H)-furanone Ensembles via Microwave-Assisted Domino Reactions

A one-pot linkage between furan and 3(2H)-furanone rings has been effected via the microwave-assisted Et₃N-catalyzed domino condensation of the furan and benzofuran carboxylic acids with available cyanopropargylic alcohols (MeCN, 100 °C, 1.2 atm, 2–17 h). Despite involving a number of C-H-forming/breaking steps, the assembly is chemoselective and the final products, 5-(2-furyl)-3(2H)-furanones, are formed in 59–96% yields.     

New approach to the formation of azepine ring: Synthesis of 2-methyl-6-(5-methyl-2-thienyl)-3H-azepine from 2-methyl-5-propargylthiophene and isothiocyanate

The first representative of thienyl-substituted 3H-azepines has been synthesized starting from dilithiated 2-methyl-5-propargylthiophene and isopropyl isothiocyanate. It was shown that N-(1-methylethylidene)-2-(5-methyl-2-thienyl)-1-(methylthio)-1,3-butadiene-1-amine (2-aza-1,3,5-triene) formed as a result of this reaction is readily converted into 2-methyl-6-(5-methyl-2-thienyl)-3H-azepine under the action of super bases. Dedicated to Academician B. A. Trofimov of the Russian Academy of Sciences on his 70^th jubilee. Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 9, pp. 1380–1383, September, 2008.     

Reaction of 2-aza-1,3,5-trienes with superbases: an unexpected approach towards exomethylene tetrahydroazepines

Russian Chemical Bulletin - Reaction of 2-methoxy-N-(1-methylpropylidene)-1-(methylsulfanyl)buta-1,3-dien-1-amine with ButOK resulted in...     

Simultaneous synthesis of 4,5-dihydro-3H-azepines and 3H-azepines, bearing alkoxy and alkylsulfanyl substituents, through metallation of 2-aza-1,3,5-trienes by t-BuOK

A new range of alkoxy- and alkylsulfanyl-substituted 4,5-dihydro-3H-azepines and 3H-azepines have simultaneously been obtained from conjugated 2-aza-1,3,5-trienes by treatment with t-BuOK under mild reaction conditions (THF/DMSO, ∼−30 °C, 30 min). One-pot synthesis of 1-aza-1,3,4-trienes from α-lithiated alkoxyallenes, isopropyl isothiocyanate and alkyl iodides, followed by the thermally induced sigmatropic [1,5]-H shift, easily leads to starting 2-aza-1,3,5-trienes. The reaction proceeds via generation and [1,7]-electrocyclization of azatrienyl anions and represents a novel simple approach to both azacycloheptadienes and azacycloheptatrienes.