Toward safer methodologies for the synthesis of polyheterocyclic systems: intramolecular arylation of arenes under Mizoroki-Heck reaction conditions.
[reaction: see text] A straightforward synthesis of ibudilast-related pyrazolo[1,5-f]phenanthridines is accomplished by a tandem amine-exchange/heterocyclization of arylenaminones followed by an intramolecular biaryl coupling of the so-formed diarylpyrazoles. The direct, environmentally convenient ring-closure of the latter pyrazole intermediates, which show a close resemblance to the antiinflammatory drug celecoxib, is efficiently performed under Mizoroki-Heck reaction conditions.
Hernández
Susana
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Kimika Organikoa II Saila, Zientzi Fakultatea, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, P.O. Box 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain.
SanMartin
Raul
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Tellitu
Imanol
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Domínguez
Esther
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