The Journal of organic chemistry

Organocatalytic sequential one-pot double cascade asymmetric synthesis of Wieland-Miescher ketone analogues from a Knoevenagel/Hydrogenation/Robinson …

DB Ramachary, M Kishor

Index: Ramachary, Dhevalapally B.; Kishor, Mamillapalli Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2007 , vol. 72, # 14 p. 5056 - 5068

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Abstract

A practical and novel organocatalytic chemo-and enantioselective process for the cascade synthesis of highly substituted 2-alkyl-cyclohexane-1, 3-diones and Wieland-Miescher (WM) ketone analogs is presented via reductive alkylation as a key step. First time, we developed the one-step alkylation of dimedone and 1, 3-cyclohexanedione with aldehydes and Hantzsch ester through an organocatalytic reductive alkylation strategy. Direct ...