Cascade reactions! A practical and environmentally friendly amino acid catalyzed cascade process for the synthesis of highly substituted NH‐1,2,3‐triazoles was achieved for the first time through cascade [3+2]‐cycloaddition/hydrolysis of Hagemann's esters with p‐toluenesulfonyl azide (TsN3) in the presence of a catalytic amount of proline (see scheme).

A practical and novel one-pot organocatalytic selective process for the cascade synthesis of highly substituted o-hydroxydiarylamines and o-pyrrolidin-1-yldiarylamines is reported. Direct combination of amine-catalyzed cascade Knoevenagel/Michael/aldol condensation/decarboxylation and cascade enamine amination/isoaromatization of alkyl acetoacetates, aldehydes, and nitrosoarenes furnished the highly functionalized anilines with high yields.

A practical and simple one-pot multi-catalysis process for the synthesis of highly substituted benzo[b]oxepines 5, (Z)-2-(buta-1,3-dienyl)phenols 6 and 2-methyl-2H-chromenes 7 from simple starting materials was achieved for the first time through ring-closing metathesis/base-induced ring opening/ [1,7]-sigmatropic hydrogen shift reactions. The synthesis of

A general, sustainable and practical process for the sequential cascade one-pot synthesis of library of highly substituted push-pull olefins, phenols and 2-methyl-2H-chromenes was reported through multicatalysis cascade (MCC) reactions. Direct sequential one-pot combination of amine- or amino acid-catalyzed cascade Knoevenagel/Michael/aldol condensation/decarboxylation with other reactions like amine- or amino acid-catalyzed cascade Claisen-Schmidt/iso-aromatization, Claisen-Schmidt/isomerization, Claisen-Schmidt/iso-aromatization/isomerization, Michael addition, Claisen-Schmidt/Michael, ruthenium-base-silica-catalyzed ring closing metathesis/base-induced ring-opening/benzylic oxidation/[1,7]-sigmatropic hydrogen shift, or ruthenium-base-heat-catalyzed ring closing metathesis/base-induced ring-opening/[1,7]-sigmatropic hydrogen shift reactions of alkyl acetoacetates, a variety of aldehydes and alkyl halides furnished the highly functionalized push-pull olefins, phenols and 2-methyl-2H-chromenes with high yields. The yields and regioselectivities were good to excellent. Evidence for a new reaction pathway involving in situ formation of novel push-pull dienamines under amine- or amino acid-catalysis is presented along with examples demonstrating the amenability of the process to MCC chemistry.

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