Efficient multicomponent strategy to pentacyclic pyrazole-fused naphtho[1,8-fg]isoquinolines through cleavage of two carbon-carbon bonds

Org Lett. 2012 Sep 21;14(18):4894-7. doi: 10.1021/ol302452j. Epub 2012 Sep 12.

Abstract

Multicomponent reactions of acenaphthylene-1,2-dione with diaroylmethanes and electron-rich pyrazol-5-amines have been discovered. A series of new and polyfunctionalized pentacyclic pyrazole-fused naphtho[1,8-fg]isoquinolines were regioselectively synthesized. The reactions were easy to perform simply by mixing three common reactants in AcOH. During these reaction processes, the insertion of active methylene of diaroylmethane into the sp(2)-sp(2) C-C bond of the cyclohexa-2,5-dienone ring was readily achieved and two C-C bonds were cleaved under transition-metal-free conditions.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Catalysis
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Heterocyclic Compounds, 4 or More Rings / chemical synthesis*
  • Heterocyclic Compounds, 4 or More Rings / chemistry
  • Isoquinolines / chemical synthesis*
  • Isoquinolines / chemistry
  • Molecular Structure
  • Pyrazoles / chemical synthesis*
  • Pyrazoles / chemistry
  • Stereoisomerism

Substances

  • Heterocyclic Compounds, 4 or More Rings
  • Isoquinolines
  • Pyrazoles
  • pyrazole