Phosphine Supported Ruthenium Nanoparticle Catalyzed Synthesis of Substituted Pyrazines and Imidazoles from α-Diketones

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• 作者：Prasad Ganji ; Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen
• 刊名：Journal of Organic Chemistry
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 3, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：82
• 期：3
• 页码：1768-1774
• 全文大小：439K
• ISSN：1520-6904

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A new methodology has been developed for the synthesis of highly substituted nitrogen heterocycles such as pyrazines and imidazoles starting from α-diketones using phosphine supported ruthenium nanoparticles (RuNPs) as catalysts. Ruthenium nanoparticles Ru1–Ru4 supported with different phosphines such as dbdocphos, dppp, DPEphos, and Xantphos are screened, of which Ru1 and Ru4 are found to be the most active. Interestingly, aryl-substituted and alkyl-substituted α-diketones produced different products: namely, pyrazine and imidazoles, respectively. This reaction methodology has been applied to the synthesis of a key intermediate (2m) of the marine cytotoxic natural product Dragmacidin B and an estrogen receptor (2l). This work represents the first examples of pyrazines prepared by RuNPs.