New Insights into Furans Transformations
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2021) | Viewed by 7128
Special Issue Editors
Interests: chemistry of donor–acceptor cyclopropanes; transformations of furans to other heterocycles
Interests: chemistry of heterocyclic compounds; transformations of furans; dearomatization; catalysis; new synthetic methods; the synthesis of natural and biologically active compounds
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are happy to be Guest Editors of the Special Issue of Molecules, devoted to “New Insights into Furans Transformations”. The chemistry of furan, on the one hand, has a long history, but on the other hand, it has received a new life after developments of methods for the large-scale preparation of furan derivatives during biomass processing. These technological advances stimulated studies of diverse modifications of simple furans to polysubstituted ones and investigations of furans transformations to various acyclic, alicyclic, and, especially, heterocyclic molecules. For example, furans acylation or alkylation followed by hydrogenation can be used for the preparation of diesel fuel or gasoline additives. Both intermolecular and intramolecular versions of the Diels-Alder reaction followed by post-modifications of the formed [4+2]-cycloadducts are used for the synthesis of carbo- and heterocycles, including total synthesis of natural products. Another important area of furans transformations is a diversity of acid-induced rearrangement, such as the Piancatelli rearrangement, Butin reaction, and other processes. In recent years, the related Lewis acid-induced and π-acid-catalyzed processes have attracted increasing attention. In addition to the Achmatowicz reaction, whose 50th anniversary is in 2021, many other oxidative transformations of furans are under development. We are inviting reviews and original reports devoted to various aspects of furans transformations, both those mentioned and others not described here, and hope that this Special Issue will be of great interest to the organic chemistry community.
Prof. Dr. Igor V. TrushkovDr. Maxim G. Uchuskin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Furans
- Cycloaddition
- Dearomatization
- Rearrangement
- Oxidative transformations
- Organic synthesis
- Synthetic methods
- Multicomponent reactions
- Natural and bioactive compounds
- Domino reactions
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