Microbial cyclosophoraose as a catalyst for the synthesis of diversified indolyl 4H-chromenes via one-pot three component reactions in water

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  Green Chem., 2016, Advance Article
  DOI: 10.1039/C6GC00137H, Paper

  Someshwar D. Dindulkar, Daham Jeong, Eunae Cho, Dongjin Kim, Seunho Jung
  A novel biosourced saccharide catalyst, microbial cyclosophoraose, a cyclic [small beta]-(1,2) glucan, was used for the synthesis of indolyl 4H-chromenes via a one pot three-component Knoevenagel-Michael addition-cyclization reaction in water under neutral conditions.

Microbial cyclosophoraose as a catalyst for the synthesis of diversified indolyl 4H-chromenes via one-pot three component reactions in water

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Microbial cyclosophoraose as a catalyst for the synthesis of diversified indolyl 4H-chromenes via one-pot three component reactions in water

Someshwar D. Dindulkar,^a   Daham Jeong,^a   Eunae Cho,^a  Dongjin Kim^b and   Seunho Jung*^ac  

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Corresponding authors

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Institute for Ubiquitous Information Technology and Applications (UBITA) & Center for Biotechnology Research in UBITA (CBRU), Konkuk University, Seoul 143-701, South Korea 
E-mail: shjung@konkuk.ac.kr

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Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, PO box 447, Arusha, Tanzania

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Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Microbial Carbohydrate Resource Bank (MCRB), Konkuk University, Seoul 143-701, South Korea

Green Chem., 2016, Advance Article

DOI: 10.1039/C6GC00137H

 As a novel biosourced saccharide catalyst, microbial cyclosophoraose, a cyclic β-(1,2) glucan, was used for the synthesis of therapeutically important versatile indolyl 4H-chromenes via a one pot three-component Knoevenagel–Michael addition–cyclization reaction of salicylaldehyde, 1,3-cyclohexanedione/dimedone, and indoles in water under neutral conditions. A possible reaction mechanism through molecular complexation is suggested based on 2D ROESY NMR spectroscopic analysis. Moreover, green chemistry metric calculations were carried out for a model reaction, indicating the satisfactory greener approach of this method, with a low E-factor (0.18) and high atom economy (AE = 91.20%). The key features of this protocol are based on two critical factors where the first is to use a novel eco-friendly supramolecular carbohydrate catalyst and the second is its fine green properties such as compatibility with various substituted reactants, recyclability of the catalyst, chromatography-free purification, high product selectivity, and clean conversion with moderate to excellent yields in an aqueous medium.

 9-(1H-indol-3-yl)-5-methoxy-3,3- dimethyl-2,3,4,9-tetrahydro-1H-xanthen-1-one (4a):

 (2-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde 1, Dimedone 2

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