Pyridines and fused pyridines are accessible by a combination of a Lewis acid-catalyzed multicomponent reaction and aromatization involving loss of a 2-furylmethyl chain.
A one-pot multicomponent reaction for assembling substituted 4-arylidene imidazolin-5-ones from l-amino acid methyl esters, iso-, isothio- or isoselenocyanates, and α-bromoketones has been discovered.
Zeolite H-BEA catalysed multicomponent reaction: One-pot synthesis of amidoalkyl naphthols – Biologically active drug-like molecules