Nucleophilic Acylation with Aromatic Aldehydes to 2 Bromoacetonitrile: An Umpolung Strategy for the Synthesis of Active Methylene Compounds.

Background: A novel one-pot N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-catalysed acylation of 2- bromoacetonitrile with aromatic aldehydes is reported. The protocol involves carbonyl umpolung reactivity of aldehydes in which the carbonyl carbon attacks nucleophilically (as d1 nucleophile) on the electrophilic terminal of 2-bromoacetonitrile to afford 3-aryl-3-oxopropanenitrile. The salient features of this procedure are short reaction time, operational simplicity, ambient temperature, no by-product formation and high yields.

DBU Catalysis: An Efficient Synthetic Strategy for 5,7-disubstituted-1,2,4- triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines.

Aims And Objectives: An efficient and facile DBU catalysed synthesis of highly significant motif 5,7-disubstituted-1,2,4-triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines under solvent-free condition has been reported.

Materials And Methods: To a round bottom flask, 1.0 mmol of chalcone (1), 1.

Synthesis and fungicidal activity of novel 4,4'-bis(2' '-aryl-5' '-methyl/unsubstituted-4' '-oxo-thiazolidin-3' '-yl) bibenzyl.

Reduction followed by nitration of benzil I yielded 4,4'-dinitrobibenzyl (III) which by reduction furnished quantitatively and analytically pure 4,4'-diaminobibenzyl (IV) which on condensation with different carbonyl compounds gave 4,4'-bis (benzylideneamino) bibenzyls (Va-f). Compounds (Va-f) on cycloaddition with mercaptoacetic acid/2-mercaptopropionic acid yielded the corresponding 4-oxothiazolidin-3-yl bibenzyls (VIa-l). The compounds VIg-l have two chiral centers in each thiazolidinone moiety so two diastereomers are possible, but on crystallization and repeated chromatography, one diastereomer was obtained.