A microwave-assisted metal-free route to substituted 4-haloisoxazoles via decarboxylative halogenation of substituted isoxazole-4-carboxylic acids using N-iodosuccinimide (NIS) and N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) in the presence of K 3 PO 4 is described. It was discovered that the substitutions present at the 3-position of differently 3,5-disubstituted isoxazoles influenced the outcome of the protocol. The methodology is compatible for performing decarboxylative halogenation followed by decarboxylative Suzuki-Miyaura and Sonogashira couplings as one-pot process.

The decarboxylative/oxidative amidation of aryl α-ketocarboxylic acids with 5-aryl-3-nitroisoxazole-4-carboxylates and substituted dinitrobenzenes under oxidative aqueous conditions to afford N-aryl amides is described. The reaction is suggested to proceed via a radical pathway in which a benzoyl nitroxyl radical, the key intermediate formed from reaction between nitroarene and benzoyl radical from glyoxalic acid, couples with hydroxyl radical from water to produce amide. Mechanistic insight allowed the scope of the strategy to be expanded to the synthesis of amides via reaction between aryl α-ketocarboxylic acids and nitroso compounds.

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A metal-free, base-mediated, and atom-efficient oxidative dehydrogenative coupling of substituted phenylmethanols (benzyl alcohols) with methyl azaarenes or phenylacetonitriles to afford substituted alkenylazaarenes or 2-aminoquinolines, respectively is described. CsOH.H 2 O was discovered to be the base of choice for obtaining optimal yields of the title compounds, although the reaction could proceed with KOH as well. The protocol that works efficiently in the presence of air is amenable over broad range of substrates.

Herein, we report the regioselective one-pot synthesis of 1,4,5trisubstituted pyrazoles by reacting Morita-Baylis-Hillman (MBH) acetates derived from aryl aldehydes with alkyl or aryl hydrazines in the presence of iodine under aerobic conditions. The reaction proceeds through sequential S N 2' nucleophilic substitution of substituted hydrazine onto the MBH acetate, I 2catalyzed oxidation of the allylic hydrazine to allylic hydrazone, heating-induced intramolecular aza-Michael reaction and cyclization, and oxidative aromatization. The key intermediate, the s-trans allyl hydrazones were isolated in good yields by performing the reactions at room temperature. However, the allyl hydrazones prepared from the MBH acetates of aliphatic aldehydes did not furnish the pyrazole owing to the absence of an activated methylene group in the substrate. The synthetic applications of the pyrazoles in Ugi reactions, decarboxylative halogenation, Pd-catalyzed benzoylation of the N-aryl ring, and metal-free tetrazole synthesis has been demonstrated.