Synthesis 2019; 51(08): 1809-1818
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1611703
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A Tandem Sulfonylation and Knoevenagel Condensation for the Preparation of Sulfocoumarin-3-carboxylates

Ziyang Dong ‡
a   State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Department of Organic Chemistry, College of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, P. R. of China   eMail: zhyang@mail.buct.edu.cn   eMail: jxxu@mail.buct.edu.cn
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Yang Chen ‡
a   State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Department of Organic Chemistry, College of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, P. R. of China   eMail: zhyang@mail.buct.edu.cn   eMail: jxxu@mail.buct.edu.cn
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Zhiheng Yang
b   Department of Pharmacy, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, P. R. of China
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a   State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Department of Organic Chemistry, College of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, P. R. of China   eMail: zhyang@mail.buct.edu.cn   eMail: jxxu@mail.buct.edu.cn
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Jiaxi Xu*
a   State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Department of Organic Chemistry, College of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, P. R. of China   eMail: zhyang@mail.buct.edu.cn   eMail: jxxu@mail.buct.edu.cn
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This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21602010 to Z.Y., and No. 21572017 to J.X.), the BUCT Fund for Discipline Construction and Development (Project No. XK1533, to Z.Y.), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2016M600900, to Z.Y.), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (XK1802-6, to Z.Y. and J.X.).
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Received: 20. September 2018

Accepted after revision: 27. November 2018

Publikationsdatum:
24. Januar 2019 (online)


These authors contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

Sulfocoumarins are key structural motifs in several bioactive molecules. Herein, we describe a simple, one-pot procedure for the synthesis of structurally diverse sulfonocoumarin-3-carboxylates by heating 2-hydroxyaryl aldehydes with an active sulfonyl chloride in the presence of pyridine. The process tolerates numerous functional groups including alkoxy, alkyl, halogen, nitro, and even nucleophilic phenolic hydroxy. Additionally, reactions of 2-hydroxyaryl ketones and 2-methylaminoaryl aldehydes give 4-substituted sulfocoumarins and 1-aza-2-sulfocoumarins, respectively. A gram-scale synthesis and further derivatizations are also reported. The ester group is easily removed via ­Happer’s decarboxylation.

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