Dorota Ferenc

Simple two-step synthesis of 2,4-disubstituted pyrroles and 3,5-disubstituted pyrrole-2-carbonitriles from enones.

Summary The cyclocondensation of enones with aminoacetonitrile furnishes 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyrrole-2-carbonitriles which can be readily converted to 2,4-disubstituted pyrroles by microwave-induced dehydrocyanation. Alternatively, oxidation of the intermediates produces 3,5-disubstituted pyrrole-2-carbonitriles.

A Modular Access to (±)-Tubocurine and (±)-Curine - Formal Total Synthesis of Tubocurarine

Two consecutive Cu-catalyzed Ullmann-type C-O couplings permitted the first successful entry toward the curare alkaloids (±)-tubocurine and (±)-curine. Starting from vanillin, the synthetic sequence comprises 15 linear steps and includes a total of 24 transformations. In addition, the total synthesis of tubocurine represents a formal total synthesis of the famous arrow poison alkaloid tubocurarine.

Chemoenzymatic synthesis of functional sialyl Lewis(x) mimetics with a heteroaromatic core.

Functional mimetics of the sialyl LewisX tetrasaccharide were prepared by the enzymatic sialylation of a 1,3-diglycosylated indole and a glycosyl azide, which was subsequently transformed into a 1,4-diglycosylated 1,2,3-triazole, by using the trans-sialidase of Trypanosoma cruzi. These compounds inhibited the binding of E-, L-, and P-selectin-coated nanoparticles to polyacrylamide-bound sialyl-LewisX-containing neighboring sulfated tyrosine residues (sTyr/sLeX-PAA) at low or sub-millimolar concentrations. Except for E-selectin, the mimetics showed higher activities than the natural tetrasaccharide.

(Z)-Amino­(2-methyl-3-oxoisoindolin-1-yl­idene)acetonitrile

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C11H9N3O, contains two independent and nearly identical molecules (A and B). Molecule A can be transformed to B using a rotation of approximately 85° around the [111] direction. Each A molecule is connected to three B molecules via N—H⋯N and N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds and vice versa. Centrosymmetrically related molecules of the same residue form π–π interactions with centroid–centroid distances of 4.326 (1) and 3.826 (1) Å for the benzene rings of molecules A and B, respectively.