Synthesis of Some Acetylene-tethered Chiral and Achiral Dialdehydes

Paulsamy Suresh,a Sankareswaran Srimurugan,a Balaji Babub and Hari N. Patic,*

aDepartment of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600 036, India
bDepartment of Chemistry, J. N. T. University, Hyderabad 500 072, India
cDepartment of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, Jyoti Vihar 768 019, India
* Corresponding author: E-mail: hari.pati@advinus.com

Abstract
A convenient synthesis of some acetylene-tethered chiral and achiral dialdehydes using Sonagashira-Hagihara coupling has been accomplished. Dibromobenzenes and enantiopure dibromobinaphthol were functionalized to provide the acetylene-tethered dialdehydes in moderate to good yields.

Keywords: Acetylene, dialdehydes, Sonagashira-Hagihara coupling, binaphthyl.