16765-79-0Relevant articles and documents
Synthesis of β-carbolines via a silver-mediated oxidation of tetrahydro-β-carbolines
Durham, Sierra D.,Sierra, Brianna,Gomez, Maximillian J.,Tran, Jennifer K.,Anderson, Marc O.,Whittington-Davis, Nick A.,Eagon, Scott
, p. 2747 - 2750 (2017)
The oxidation of tetrahydro-β-carbolines to β-carbolines using silver carbonate was developed as an alternative to current methods. The oxidation is extremely mild and provides the products in modest to good yields after purification. A number of functional groups are tolerated by this methodology, including reduction-sensitive groups which are often cleaved with other methods. Though the mechanism is not fully understood, the reaction proceeds in an open flask, is not sensitive to light or moisture, and provides a viable synthetic route to compounds that are not easily prepared via other methodologies.
Facile synthesis of isoquinolines, β-carbolines, and 3-deazapurines
Huang, Wenhua,Li, Jingyi,Ou, Lihua
, p. 2137 - 2143 (2007)
Isoquinoline, β-carbolines, and 3-deazapurines were prepared in 52-81% yields via oxidative decarboxylation of cyclic α-amino acids using ammonium persulfate as an oxidant in the presence of catalytic silver. Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
A convenient synthesis of β-carbolines by iron-catalyzed aerobic decarboxylative/dehydrogenative aromatization of tetrahydro-β-carbolines under air
Mohamad Arshad, Ahmad Saifuddin,Meesala, Ramu,Hanapi, Nur Aziah,Mordi, Mohd Nizam
, (2021/02/12)
A convenient synthesis for the conversion of various substituted tetrahydro-β-carbolines has been developed by iron-catalyzed decarboxylative/dehydrogenative aromatization to construct aromatic β-carbolines under air atmosphere. In the presence of a FeCl3 catalyst, this reaction exhibited a good functional group tolerance to produce corresponding β-carbolines in good yields in the absence of any additive. Additionally, the utility of the method was highlighted in the gram-scale synthesis of important natural β-carboline synthons norharmane (2a) and harmane (2b), which the latter provide practical access towards eudistomin N and nostocarboline.
Selective construction of alkaloid scaffolds by alcohol-based direct and mild aerobic oxidative Pictet-Spengler reactions
Han, Feng,Li, Huan,Liu, Haicheng,Liu, Jianping,Xu, Qing
supporting information, p. 7079 - 7085 (2020/10/02)
Employing TBN/TEMPO as the catalysts and oxygen as the oxidant, the biologically and pharmaceutically significant tetrahydro-β-carboline and β-carboline alkaloid scaffolds that used to be obtained by multi-step processes can now be selectively obtained in only one-stepviadirect aerobic oxidative Pictet-Spengler reactions of tryptamines with alcohols under mild conditions, with water generated as the byproduct. In this reaction, TBN/TEMPO was interestingly found to be able to facilitate the cyclization step of the whole reaction. This method tolerates a variety ofC- andN-substituted tryptamines, and both the more reactive benzylic and allylic alcohols and the less reactive aliphatic alcohols. This method can also be extended to dihydro-β-carboline synthesis and applied to the more available and more economical tryptophan for β-carboline synthesis, revealing its broad substrate scope and potential in synthetic applications.
