Complex bridged 1,3-oxazabicycles and 1,4-disubstituted 1,10-phenanthroline derivatives were efficiently prepared by the reactions of N-methyl or N-benzylphenanthrolinium halides with cyclic 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds in a K2CO3/CH3CN system.
An efficient synthetic protocol for the 1,4-diaryl-1,4-dihydropyridines was developed via the domino four-component reaction of arylamine,acetylenedicarboxylate,aromatic aldehyde and ethyl acetoacetate.The reaction mechanism involves the formation of β-enamino ester and its sequential Michael addition to arylidene acetoacetate.
The three-component reaction of aromatic aldehyde,malononitrile and aliphatic amine in a mixed solvent of methanol and water exhibited very interesting molecular diversity and gave the derivatives of polysubstituted N-methyldihydropyridines,2-dialkylaminopyridines and 2-methoxypyridines as main products according to the structure of aliphatic amines used.
The 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane(DABCO) catalyzed reaction of cyclohexane-1,3-dione or dimedone with various aldehydes in acetonitrile resulted in the polysubstituted tetraketones, spiro dihydrofurans or 1,8-dioxo-xanthenes derivatives as main products respectively according to the structure of reactants and reaction conditions.
