• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.31 no.10
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• pp.2776-2782
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• 2010

Newly developed Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons (HWE) reagents 5 having triphenylphosphorane ylide subunits readily condensed with various carbonyl compounds under mild reaction conditions to afford $\beta,\gamma$-unsaturated $\alpha$-keto triphenylphorane ylides in good to excellent yields, which were hydrogenated over Pd-C (10%)/$H_2$ (1 atm) to give the corresponding $\alpha$-keto triphenylphorane ylides in quasi-quantitative yields. These triphenyphosphorane ylides have been utilized as the precursors to $\alpha$-keto amide/ester and vicinal tricarbonyl units in Wasserman's synthetic protocols, and have previously been prepared only from carboxylic acids/acid chlorides. Our new approaches provide excellent alternatives for the synthesis of triphenylphosphorane ylide precursors to $\alpha$-keto amide/ester and vicinal tricarbonyl units directly from carbonyl compounds in good to excellent yields.

• The Korean Journal of Pesticide Science
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.147-150
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• 1998

A series of new benzenesuIfonylurea derivatives possessing ${\alpha}$-diketone or ${\alpha}$-keto ester moiety as an ortho substituent were synthesized by employing new methodology starting from 2-bromophenyl methoxymethyl sulfide and some of them were found to have good herbicidal activity at foliar application.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.28 no.10
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• pp.1641-1642
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• 2007

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.30 no.11
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• pp.2521-2522
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• 2009

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.34 no.12
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• pp.3545-3546
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• 2013

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.34 no.10
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• pp.2953-2958
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• 2013

A noble phenylsulfonyl reagent 8 having ${\alpha}$-oxo (cyanomethylene)triphenylphosphorane ylide subunit readily condensed with various alkyl halides under basic conditions to afford ${\beta}$-alkyl-${\alpha}$-oxo-${\beta}$-phenylsulfonyl (cyanomethylene)triphenylphosphorane ylides 9 in excellent yields. These sulfonyl ylides 9 were then reductively desulfonylated with $Na(Hg)/Na_2HPO_4$ in the presence of methanol to provide ${\alpha}$-keto (cyanomethylene)-triphenylphosphorane ylides 2' in good to excellent yields. Our new synthetic approach offers an expeditious access to various ${\alpha}$-keto (cyanomethylene)triphenylphosphorane ylides from alkyl halides utilizing a new phenylsulfonyl reagent as the key reagent under mild reaction conditions in good overall yields.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.178-183
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• 1986

It was our working hypothesis that introduction of 11-keto groups to 12-oleanene/ursene series of triterpenoids should endow them with corticoid-like activities, since pharmacological actions of glycyrrhetinic acid (GA) are known to be caused by inhibition on $corticoid-{\delta}^4-reductase$. 11-Keto-triterpenoids derived artificially in these studies, such as 11, 19-diketo-18, 19-secoursolic acid methyl ester(I), $11-keto-{\beta}-boswellic$ acid derivatives (IIa-IIc), 11-Keto-presenegenin dimethyl ester (III), II-keto-oleanolic acid derivatives (IVa-IVd) and 11-keto-hederagenin (V) possess the fundamental functions of ${\alpha},\;{\beta}-unsaturated$ ketone on C-11 and hydroxyl group on C-3, as like GA (VI). Additionally, they involve the carboxyl groups on rings A (II, III), D (I, III, IV, V) and E (VI), and the hydroxyl groups on rings A (III, V) and C (III). All the compounds competitively inhibited $corticoid-5{\beta}-reductase$, and the highest inhibitory potency appeared in I. All of them except $3,\;11-diketo-{\beta}-boswellic$ acid methyl ester (IIc) were more effective about five times to twice than GA. On carrageenin-induced edema test, compounds I and IVa-IVd showed anti-inflammatory activities, but III enhanced rather edema. Structure-activity relations were found in the aspects of hydrophilicity of ring A and hydrophobicity of rings C/D. The more they were hydrophilic in ring A and hydrophobic in rings C/D, the more they inhibited the enzyme. And the more they were hydrophobic in rings C/D, the more they exhibited antiiflammatory activities. However, the increased hydrophilicity in ring A resulted in increasing edema, probably due to a nonspecific inhibition on $aldosterone-5{\beta}-reductase$.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.35 no.12
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• pp.3423-3424
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• 2014

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Life Science Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.36.2-36.2
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• 2007

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• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.360-366
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• 1975

Selective reduction of carbonyl group with zinc borohydride in the presence of ester functional group was demonstrated with seven representative keto esters. Either hydroxy esters or lactones were obtained in good yields; ethyl 6-hydroxyheptanoate ($83.0{\%}$), ethyl 2,6-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-2-cyclohexenecarboxylate ($82.3{\%}$), ethyl p-(${\alpha}$-hydroxyethyl)-phenylacetate ($78.9 {\%}$), 4-phenylbutyrolactone ($70.2{\%}$), and 3-phenylphthalide ($92.4{\%}$) were obtained from the corresponding keto esters.