Galenko Ekaterina E, Kryukova Mariya A, Novikov Mikhail S, Khlebnikov Alexander F
Institute of Chemistry, Saint Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg 199034, Russia.
J Org Chem. 2020 May 1;85(9):6109-6122. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c00611. Epub 2020 Apr 15.
A flexible method was developed for the synthesis of 2,2'-bi-, 2,2':6',2″-ter-, and 2,2':6',2'':6'',2‴-quaterpyridines containing a nicotinic acid moiety. The approach involves the Fe(II)/Au(I)-catalyzed rearrangement of key 4-propargylisoxazole building blocks bearing a pyrid-2-yl or quinolin-2-yl substituent at the 3-position and Pd(0)-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions.