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A facile one-pot synthesis of 4-chloro or 4-bromonicotinic acid esters with optional 2- and 2,5-disubstitution on the pyridine ring has been developed from easily accessible enamino keto esters by a formylation followed by in situ intramolecular cyclization strategy under optimized Vilsmeier reaction conditions. The effect of the substituents on the ß-carbon and the nature of the keto functionality were explored in detail to understand the mechanism of pyridine ring formation under the described conditions.
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The synthesis of [3.3]dithia-bridged cyclophanes 7, 9 and 11 incorporating a fused heterocycle, thieno[2,3-b]thiophene is described. The structures are established by ¹H NMR analysis and, in the case of 11, also by single crystal X-ray crystallography. Conformational analysis by variable temperature NMR suggests that cyclophanes 7, 9 and 11 exhibit conformationally rigid bridges and rings at least up to 130° C. Energy minimization of 11 revealed anti-11 to be the most stable conformation. Although, the computed energy difference between the most stable conformation anti-11 and the next higher energy conformation syn-anti-11 is only 2.98 kJ/mol, it is intriguing that 11 does not exhibit thia-bridge inversion even at elevated temperatures.
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A new and practical synthetic strategy is developed for the synthesis of six-membered lactam-bridged dipeptides, 4-substituted-3-aminopiperidin-2-ones, featuring two key steps: (a) a diastereoselective addition of cuprate to (E)-alpha,beta-unsaturated ester (3) and (b) racemization-free reductive amination. On the basis of this methodology, conformationally constrained tetrapeptide N-acetyl-Ser-Asp-Lys-Pro (AcSDKP) (2) has been successfully synthesized from 3-amino-4-vinylpiperidin-2-one (22).
