Condensation of anthranilic acids with pyridines to furnish pyridoquinazolones via pyridine dearomatization?

Chemical Communications Pub Date: 2016-10-05 DOI: 10.1039/C6CC07365D

Abstract

The unprecedented carbodiimide-mediated condensation between pyridines and anthranilic acids via pyridine dearomatization at room temperature has been developed to provide a straightforward approach to pyridoquinazolones. The value of this approach has further been demonstrated by its application to one-step, gram-scale syntheses of a series of pyridoquinazolone-based natural products and their analogues from readily available starting materials.

Graphical abstract: Condensation of anthranilic acids with pyridines to furnish pyridoquinazolones via pyridine dearomatization
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