A large variety of publications involving O- and S-6-membered ring systems
have appeared in 2017. The importance of these heterocyclic compounds
is highlighted by the huge number of publications on the total
synthesis of natural oxygen derivatives and of other communications
dedicated to synthetic derivatives.
Reviews on stereoselective organocatalytic synthesis of tetrahydropyrans
(17EJO4666), of tetrahydropyrans and their application in total synthesis of
natural products (17CSR1661), on the synthesis of the less thermodynamically
stable 2,6-trans-tetrahydropyrans (17S4899), on enantioselective
synthesis of polyfunctionalized pyran and chromene derivatives
(17TA1462), and on enantioselective and racemic total synthesis of
camptothecins, including the formation of their pyran-2-one ring
(17SL1134), have appeared.
Advances in the transition metal-catalyzed synthesis of pyran-2/4-ones
(17TL263), N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-catalyzed achiral synthesis of
pyran-2-one, coumarin and (thio)chromone derivatives (17OBC4731), on
the synthesis and transformation of 2H-pyran-2-ones (17T2529) and
2-styrylchromones (17EJO3115) into other heterocyclic compounds, have
been surveyed. The strategies to build up the tetrahydropyranyl core of
brevisamide (17H(95)81) and the reactions of ketyl radicals, generated from
carbonyl derivatives under transition-metal photoredox-catalyzed conditions,
leading to isochromen- and chroman-type compounds (17CC13093) were
disclosed. Developments in the synthesis of pentafluorosulfanyl(chromene
and coumarin) derivatives (17TL4803), photoswitchable D9-tetrahydrocannabinol
derivatives (17JA18206), and aminobenzopyranoxanthenes
with nitrogen-containing rings (17JOC13626) have been studied.
