Nagendra Nath Yadav

Gold(III) chloride-catalyzed three-component reaction: a facile synthesis of alkynyl derivatives of 1,2-dihydroquinolines and isoquinolines.

Gold(III) chloride is found to be an effective catalyst for the addition of alkynes on activated quinoline/isoquinolines to produce a series of alkynyl-substituted 1,2-dihydroquinolines and isoquinolines in a single-step operation. The easy availability of starting materials, convenient synthetic procedure, operational simplicity, and high regioselectivity makes this strategy very useful for the preparation of enyne derivatives of aza-aromatic compounds.

An iterative, facile stereoselective synthesis of C1-C11 fragment of borrelidin via enzymatic desymmetrization strategy

A highly stereoselective and general method for the synthesis of the C1-C11 fragment of borrelidin has been achieved. The main feature of our synthetic route is enzymatic desymmetrization to create two methyl bearing chiral centres, use of Evans auxiliary to introduce two other methyl groups and creation of C3 stereocentre by regioselective opening of an epoxide arising from Sharpless epoxidation protocol. The synthesis of the C1-C11 subunit was achieved in gram scale by a linear synthetic sequence in an overall yield of 18.4%.