Smejkal, Tomas; Gopalsamuthiram, Vijayagopal; Ghorai, Sujit K.; Jawalekar, Anup M.; Pagar, Dinesh; Sawant, Krishna; Subramanian, Srinivas; Dallimore, Jonathan; Willetts, Nigel; Scutt, James N.; Whalley, Louisa; Hotson, Matthew; Hogan, Anne-Marie; Hodges, George published the artcile< Optimization of Manganese Coupling Reaction for Kilogram-Scale Preparation of Two Aryl-1,3-dione Building Blocks>, Recommanded Product: 2,2,5,5-Tetramethyldihydrofuran-3(2H)-one, the main research area is manganese catalysis coupling reaction aryl dione building block preparation.
Aryl-1,3-diones represent a promising new class of herbicidal acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACCase) inhibitors. The original synthesis of this structural motif employed in the research phase involved a selenium oxide mediated oxidation, the use of diazoacetate and aryl lead reagents, and a low temperature oxidation of an aryl lithium intermediate, so it was not well suited to large scale synthesis. For kilogram scale synthesis of the two aryl-1,3-dione building blocks I [R = Me, Et], we developed an alternative route which employs a manganese or manganese-copper catalyzed alkyl Grignard coupling and a semi-pinacol rearrangement of an epoxide as the key steps. The optimized conditions could be of general interest as scalable methods for the synthesis of 2-alkyl substituted benzaldehydes and of 2-aryl-1,3-diones.
Organic Process Research & Development published new progress about Coupling reaction. 5455-94-7 belongs to class tetrahydrofurans, and the molecular formula is C8H14O2, Recommanded Product: 2,2,5,5-Tetramethyldihydrofuran-3(2H)-one.
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