Ultrasound-assisted synthesis of heterocyclic compounds.

In this review, we tried to underscore the synthesis of the heterocyclic compounds under assisted ultrasonic irradiation. The ultrasonic irradiation has been applied for medicinal chemistry and drug discovery process since it dramatically reduces reaction times, from days or hours to minutes. Also, ultrasonic irradiation provides lower cost, excellent yields, greater purity, and simple workups as compared to lower yields, longer reaction times, lesser purity and in the conventional methods. In this review, we have compared synthesis of the heterocyclic compounds under ultrasonic irradiation with other methods.

The molecular diversity scope of 4-hydroxycoumarin in the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds via multicomponent reactions.

4-Hydroxycoumarins are some of the most versatile heterocyclic scaffolds and are frequently applied in the synthesis of various organic compounds. 4-Hydroxycoumarin-based compounds are important among heterocyclic structures due to their biological and pharmaceutical activities. In this study, we provide an overview on the recent applications of 4-hydroxycoumarin in multicomponent reactions for the synthesis of various heterocyclic compounds during the time period of 2015-2018.

A Simple Colorimetric Chemosensor for Naked Eye Detection of Cyanide Ion.

A simple cyanide chemosensor tetranitrile compound 1 was designed and synthesized via an efficient method in the presence of nanoporous SBA-Pr-NH2 as the catalyst. The chemosensor exhibited high selectivity and sensitivity for detecting CN¯ among different anions through a visual color change from light yellow to purple. The results confirmed that the chemosensor 1 causes the color of the solution to change depending on the concentration of CN¯. Linear changes of the optical properties of the sensor as a function of the concentrations of CN¯ was proved. The detection limit of 3.07 × 10(-7) M was calculated for CN¯. A simple paper test strip system for the rapid detection of CN¯ was developed. The TD-DFT calculations were carried out to understand the sensing mechanism.