Current Organic Synthesis

ISSN: 1570-1794

Current Organic Synthesis
Volume 4, Number 1, February 2007

Contents

Synthesis of Scaffolds with Glycomimetic Structures Pp. 1-13
C. Gravier-Pelletier and Y. Le Merrer
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Synthesis and Applications of Chalcogenoamide: Thio-, Seleno- and Telluroamides Pp. 15-29
Mamoru Koketsu and Hideharu Ishihara
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The Synthesis of Tertiary and Secondary Phosphines and Their Applications in Organic Synthesis Pp. 31-45
Matthew T. Honaker, Jason M. Hovland and Ralph Nicholas Salvatore
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The Hetero Diels-Alder Approach to Carbohydrate- Containing Molecular Scaffolding Pp. 47-57
Martina Cacciarini, Stefano Menichetti, Cristina Nativi and Barbara Richichi
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Macrocycles as Precursors for Organic Nanotubes Pp. 59-80
Dario Pasini and Marina Ricci
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Oxazolidin-2-one Ring, a Popular Framework in Synthetic Organic Chemistry: Part 1. The Construction of the Oxazolidin-2 one Ring Pp. 81-135
G. Zappia, E. Gacs-Baitz, G. Delle Monache, D. Misiti, L. Nevola and B. Botta
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Synthesis of Scaffolds with Glycomimetic Structures
C. Gravier-Pelletier and Y. Le Merrer

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Efficient and total synthesis of enantiopure cyclitols with a C6, C7 or C8 ring as framework and related aminocyclitols, including polyhydroxylated octahydroindoles and decahydroquinolines are reported from C₂-symmetrical bis-epoxides derived from D-mannitol. The described strategy permits access to various configurations of these scaffolds.


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Synthesis and Applications of Chalcogenoamide: Thio-, Seleno- and Telluroamides
Mamoru Koketsu and Hideharu Ishihara

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This provides a comprehensive survey of the recent progress in the various synthetic methods of the chalcogenoamides (thioamide, selenoamide and telluroamide), their application in the preparation of heterocycles and their biological significances.


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The Synthesis of Tertiary and Secondary Phosphines and Their Applications in Organic Synthesis
Matthew T. Honaker, Jason M. Hovland and Ralph Nicholas Salvatore

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This review focuses on a literature survey of the uses and the different approaches for the syntheses of tertiary and secondary phosphines. In addition, their applications in organic synthesis are briefly overviewed along with basic methods for their preparation and physical properties are also discussed. Where possible, the relative advantages of ditertiary and disecondary phosphines in important organic reactions are often industrially important organic reactions that are also compared.


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The Hetero Diels-Alder Approach to Carbohydrate- Containing Molecular Scaffolding
Martina Cacciarini, Stefano Menichetti, Cristina Nativi and Barbara Richichi

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The hetero Diels-Alder reactions between α,α’-dioxothiones, α-imino-α’-oxothiones or ortho-thioquinones and glycals represent an effective way to prepare α- or β-, O- or N-glycosides with impressive chemo-, regio- and diastereoselectivity. The glycoderivatives so obtained are bicyclic, sulfur-containing, rigid structures, which, due to their differentiable functional groups, allow easy manipulations of the molecular architecture and can be used as veritable glycosyl scaffolds.


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Macrocycles as Precursors for Organic Nanotubes
Dario Pasini and Marina Ricci

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The use of cyclic structures, which organize themselves in a predicted manner to form tubular structures, is an area of great active interest. This review focuses on the design and characterization of cyclic, covalent compounds as building blocks for tubular aggregates and their behavior as multifunctional, synthetic, defined nanoobjects.


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Oxazolidin-2-one Ring, a Popular Framework in Synthetic Organic Chemistry: Part 1. The Construction of the Oxazolidin-2 one Ring
G. Zappia, E. Gacs-Baitz, G. Delle Monache, D. Misiti, L. Nevola and B. Botta

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The 1,3-oxazolidin-2-one nucleus is a popular heterocycle framework in synthetic organic chemistry, as well as in medicinal chemistry. This paper deals with the huge number of synthetic approaches addressed to the construction of this five-member ring, with a particular care for the mechanistic and stereochemical outcome.