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Tetrabutylammonium fluoride works as an effective organocatalyst for the cycloaddition between phenacylmalononitriles and electron-deficient olefins (having substituent groups of NO2, CHO, and COR), providing a facile synthetic route to versatile multifunctionalized cyclopentenes having an allylic quaternary carbon center bearing both cyano and carboxamide groups with high yields and high diastereoselectivity. Preliminary studies reveal that these functionalized cyclopentenes are convenient precursors for making α-cyano-functionalized cyclopentadienone oximes.
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A one-pot and transition-metal-catalyst-free synthetic strategy to construct functionalized tellurophenes has been developed. Substituted 1,1-dibromo-1-en-3-ynes are smoothly converted to tellurophenes with telluride salts in high yield via a series of cascade reactions through reductive debromination, hydrotelluration, nucleophilic cyclization, and aromatization. Close inspection of the results clearly showed that the reactivity of in situ prepared telluride salts are significantly influenced by the polarity of the solvent system and the electronic nature of the substituent on the enyne substrate. This method reports the first direct synthesis of 3-aryltellurophenes in high yields at room temperature. This novel reaction strategy is also found to be a promising synthetic method for multisubstituted tellurophenes and selenophenes.
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An efficient C-C bond formation reaction assisted by a fluoride ion has been identified for N,N'-diphenyl-1,4-phenylenediimine with the compounds having an active methylene group. The reaction follows the typical Michael addition fashion and proceeds to completion within 1 h at 70 degrees C in acetonitrile in the presence of tetrabutylammonium fluoride (TBAF), while the same reaction failed to proceed in the absence of a fluoride anion. The new finding reported herein also offers an unprecedented method for a direct functionalization of polyaniline backbone with versatile functional alkyl groups.
