A chitosan‐catalyzed, domino aldol‐hetero‐Diels‐Alder (DAHDA) reaction has been developed in glycerol after combining 2‐alkenyloxynaphthaldehydes 1 a–b/O‐alkenylsalicylaldehydes 2 a–b/5‐alkenyl‐sulfanyl‐pyrazole‐4‐carbaldehydes 3 a–b with the poorly enolizable CH activated but‐3‐en‐2‐ones; monobenzalacetone 4 a/4‐methoxy‐3‐but‐2‐ene 4b/mesityl oxide 4c to achieve pyrano [3,4‐c]chromenes 5 aa–5 bc, 6 aa–6 bc/ thiopyrano[2,3‐c]pyrazoles 7 aa–7 bc all are containing cyclic heptanoid core. The method is highly efficient yielding 91% of the model compound 5 aa in 8 h at 90 oC. The structural investigation of the aldol intermediate which is isolable gave the important insight into the stereochemical output of the second step hetero‐Diels‐Alder(HDA) reaction. 2D NMR NOESY (nuclear overhauser effect spectroscopy) andsingle‐crystal X‐raydiffraction dataof the representative 5 aa confirmed that the E‐aldol intermediate formed initially undergoes HDAreaction via endo‐E‐syn transition state to form cis‐fused product exclusively. Both chitosan and glycerol can be recycled at least five times without the loss of their efficiencies as catalyst and reaction medium respectively. E‐factor (0.15) and EcoScale (77.5 %) valuesof thismethod to afford model DAHDA product 5 aa reveal key green aspects of the present protocol.
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