Synlett 2018; 29(11): 1437-1440
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1609684
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© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Catalyst-Free One-Pot Synthesis of Chromeno-Imidazo-Pyridinones by an Aza-Michael Addition/Rearrangement/Heterocyclization Tandem Reaction

Authors

  • Houria Lakhdari

    a   Lab. de Chimie Organique Appliquée, Faculté de Chimie, Université des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumediène BP 32, El-Alia Bab-Ezzouar, 16111 Alger, Algeria   Email: noraoussaid@yahoo.fr
    b   Centre de Recherche Scientifique et Technique en Analyses Physico-Chimiques (CRAPC), BP 384, Bou-Ismail, 42004 Tipaza, Algeria   Email: oualid.talhi@ua.pt
  • Oualid Talhi*

    b   Centre de Recherche Scientifique et Technique en Analyses Physico-Chimiques (CRAPC), BP 384, Bou-Ismail, 42004 Tipaza, Algeria   Email: oualid.talhi@ua.pt
    d   QOPNA and Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal   Email: artur.silva@ua.pt
  • Ridha Hassaine

    b   Centre de Recherche Scientifique et Technique en Analyses Physico-Chimiques (CRAPC), BP 384, Bou-Ismail, 42004 Tipaza, Algeria   Email: oualid.talhi@ua.pt
    c   Lab. de Catalyse et Synthèse en Chimie Organique, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Tlemcen, BP 119, 13000 Tlemcen, Algeria
  • Nadia Taibi

    b   Centre de Recherche Scientifique et Technique en Analyses Physico-Chimiques (CRAPC), BP 384, Bou-Ismail, 42004 Tipaza, Algeria   Email: oualid.talhi@ua.pt
  • Ricardo F. Mendes

    e   CICECO–Aveiro Institute of Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
  • Filipe A. Almeida Paz

    e   CICECO–Aveiro Institute of Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
  • Norah Bennamane*

    a   Lab. de Chimie Organique Appliquée, Faculté de Chimie, Université des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumediène BP 32, El-Alia Bab-Ezzouar, 16111 Alger, Algeria   Email: noraoussaid@yahoo.fr
  • Bellara Nedjar-Kolli

    a   Lab. de Chimie Organique Appliquée, Faculté de Chimie, Université des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumediène BP 32, El-Alia Bab-Ezzouar, 16111 Alger, Algeria   Email: noraoussaid@yahoo.fr
  • Khaldoun Bachari

    b   Centre de Recherche Scientifique et Technique en Analyses Physico-Chimiques (CRAPC), BP 384, Bou-Ismail, 42004 Tipaza, Algeria   Email: oualid.talhi@ua.pt
  • Artur M. S. Silva  *

    d   QOPNA and Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal   Email: artur.silva@ua.pt

Thanks are due to University of Aveiro and FCT/MEC for the financial support of the QOPNA research project (FCT UID/QUI/00062/2013); to the CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007679; FCT UID/CTM/50011/2013), financed by national funds and, when appropriate, co-financed by FEDER under the PT2020 Partnership Agreement; and to the Portuguese NMR Network. We would like also to thank FCT/MEC and the General Directorate for Scientific Research and Technological Development–DGRSDT of Algeria and Agence Thématique de Recherche en Sciences et Technologie ATRST for approving the co-financed bilateral project PT-DZ/0005. We further wish to thank CICECO for funding the purchase of the single-crystal X-ray diffractometer.
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Publication History

Received: 13 January 2018

Accepted after revision: 20 March 2018

Publication Date:
07 May 2018 (online)


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Abstract

A one-pot synthesis of a novel series of chromeno-imidazo-pyridinone derivatives from 3-[(2-hydroxyphenyl)-3-oxoprop-1-en-1-yl]chromones and ethane-1,2-diamine at room temperature under catalyst-free conditions has been successfully developed. This approach involves a tandem aza-Michael addition reaction, a chromone-to-chromanone rearrangement, and a heterocyclization sequence, leading to chromeno-imidazo-pyridinone polyheterocycles. The structure and absolute configurations of the new compounds were elucidated by a combination of 1D- and 2D-NMR analyses and single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

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