Stereoselective Addition to N-Activated Pyridines James A. Bull,‡ James J. Mousseau, Guillaume Pelletier,† and Andre ́ B. Charette*,† †Department of Chemistry, Universite ́ de Montreál, P.O. Box 6128, Station Downtown, Montreál, Queb́ec, Canada H3C 3J7 ‡Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, U.K. Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

Synthesis of Pyridine and Dihydropyridine Derivatives by Regio- and Stereoselective Addition to N-Activated Pyridines

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Dihydropyridine (DHP) is among the most beneficial scaffolds that have revolutionised pharmaceutical research with unprecedented biological properties. Over the years, metamorphosis of easily accessible 1,2- and 1,4-dihydropyridine (1,4-DHP) intermediates by synthetic chemists has generated several drug molecules and natural products such as alkaloids. The 1,4-dihydropyridine (1,4-DHP) moiety itself is the main fulcrum of several approved drugs. The present review aims to collate the literature of 1,2- and the 1,4-DHPs relevant to synthetic and medicinal chemists. We will describe various methodologies that have been used for the synthesis of this class of compounds, including the strategies which can furnish enantiopure DHPs, either by asymmetric synthesis or by chiral resolution. We will also elaborate the significance of DHPs towards the synthesis of natural products of medicinal merit.

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Synthesis, utility and medicinal importance of 1,2- & 1,4-dihydropyridines

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