PMID- 26226194 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160629 LR - 20150914 IS - 2156-8944 (Electronic) IS - 2156-8944 (Linking) VI - 17 IP - 9 DP - 2015 Sep 14 TI - Leuckart-Wallach Route Toward Isocyanides and Some Applications. PG - 493-9 LID - 10.1021/acscombsci.5b00066 [doi] AB - Isocyanide-based multicomponent reactions (IMCR) are among the most important chemical reactions to efficiently generate molecular diversity and have found widespread use in industry and academia. Generally, isocyanides are synthesized in 1-2 steps starting from primary amines. Here, we provide experimental detail on an alternative approach toward formamides and, thus, isocyanides via the Leuckart-Wallach reaction in an improved variation. The resulting >50 synthesized and characterized formamides are useful starting materials for IMCR, as well as other chemistries. The advantage of using the Leuckart-Wallach pathway to formamides and isocyanides is the lower price, on average, of the starting materials, as well as their differential and complementary structural diversity, as compared to the primary amine pathway. FAU - Neochoritis, Constantinos G AU - Neochoritis CG AD - Department of Drug Design, University of Groningen , A. Deusinglaan 1, Groningen 9700AV, The Netherlands. FAU - Zarganes-Tzitzikas, Tryfon AU - Zarganes-Tzitzikas T AD - Department of Drug Design, University of Groningen , A. Deusinglaan 1, Groningen 9700AV, The Netherlands. FAU - Stotani, Silvia AU - Stotani S AD - Department of Drug Design, University of Groningen , A. Deusinglaan 1, Groningen 9700AV, The Netherlands. FAU - Domling, Adrian AU - Domling A AD - Carmolex, Inc. , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219, United States. FAU - Herdtweck, Eberhardt AU - Herdtweck E AD - Institut fur Anorganische Chemie, Technische Universitat Munchen , 80333 Munchen, Germany. FAU - Khoury, Kareem AU - Khoury K AD - Carmolex, Inc. , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219, United States. FAU - Domling, Alexander AU - Domling A AD - Department of Drug Design, University of Groningen , A. Deusinglaan 1, Groningen 9700AV, The Netherlands. LA - eng GR - 1P41GM094055/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - 1R01GM097082/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - 1R21GM087617/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20150810 PL - United States TA - ACS Comb Sci JT - ACS combinatorial science JID - 101540531 RN - 0 (Amines) RN - 0 (Cyanides) RN - 0 (Formamides) RN - 0 (Indicators and Reagents) SB - IM MH - Amines/chemistry MH - Costs and Cost Analysis MH - Cyanides/*chemical synthesis MH - Formamides/chemical synthesis MH - Indicators and Reagents MH - Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy OTO - NOTNLM OT - IMCR OT - Leuckart-Wallach OT - Ugi OT - formamides OT - isocyanides EDAT- 2015/08/01 06:00 MHDA- 2016/06/30 06:00 CRDT- 2015/07/31 06:00 PHST- 2015/07/31 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/08/01 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/06/30 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1021/acscombsci.5b00066 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - ACS Comb Sci. 2015 Sep 14;17(9):493-9. doi: 10.1021/acscombsci.5b00066. Epub 2015 Aug 10.