Aryl glyoxal: a prime synthetic equivalent for multicomponent reactions in the designing of oxygen heterocycles
Abdur Rehman Sheikh1, Anam Arif1, Md Musawwer Khan1
1Department of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh 202002 India musawwer@gmail.com.
Abstract:
The category of bifunctional building blocks overrides many others because of their fascinating wide applicability in synthetic chemistry. Aryl glyoxal is one of the key molecules used extensively in heterocyclic chemistry to afford nearly all types of five- and six-membered heterocycles, which are the structural constituents of many natural products. The multicomponent reaction is a practical strategy to utilize this wonderful moiety with different types of starting materials to obtain numerous diverse oxygen heterocycles. This review covers the advancement of aryl glyoxal as a prime synthetic equivalent in recent years for the synthesis of oxygen heterocycles.
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