ABSTRACT We present a comprehensive review of the advent and impact of continuous flow chemistry with regard to the synthesis of natural products and drugs, important pharmaceutical products and definitely responsible for a revolution in modern healthcare. We detail the beginnings of modern drugs and the large scale batch mode of production, both chemical and microbiological. The introduction of modern continuous flow chemistry is then presented, both as a technological tool for enabling organic chemistry, and as a fundamental research endeavor. This part details the syntheses of bioactive natural products and commercial drugs.

This review presents thermodynamics and kinetics aspects of the hydroamination reaction, recent advancements on this field for non-activated alkenes, alkynes and allenes, employing transition metal catalysis or organocatalysis, including activation by hydrogen bonding or Brønsted acids. Selected syntheses that contain a strategic hydroamination step will be discussed, and advancements on the asymmetric version will also be highlighted. The full coverage of scientific activity about hydroamination is beyond this review, therefore the examples presented are from the last ten years, except when there are historical reasons for the discussion of previous works.

Novos líquidos iônicos aquirais e quirais foram preparados utilizando-se rotas sintéticas inéditas e/ou otimizadas. Estas séries de líquidos iônicos do tipo imidazolínico, imidazólico e piridínico foram totalmente caracterizadas, incluindo-se análises por calorimetria diferencial de varredura (DSC). O desempenho desses líquidos iônicos (LIs) foi demonstrado empregando-se a arilação de Heck de aza-acrilato endocíclicos com sais de arenodiazônio ou iodetos de arila. As arilações de Heck realizadas na presença destas entidades iônicas quirais, seja como um solvente ou um aditivo, foram eficazes levando à completa conversão do substrato, em bons a excelentes rendimentos do aduto de Heck na maioria dos casos, apesar de não ser observada indução assimétrica em nenhum dos casos estudados. Dois novos complexos quirais de paládio do tipo carbeno N-heterocíclico foram preparados em bons rendimentos a partir de um sal imidazólico quiral e suas estruturas caracterizadas por difração de raios-X. De modo geral, a arilação de Heck empregando tetrafluoroboratos de arenodiazônio em líquidos iônicos demonstrou ser mais eficiente do que os protocolos tradicionais em termos de reatividade e rendimentos de reação.

New achiral and chiral RTILs were prepared using novel and/or optimized synthetic routes. These new series of imidazolinium, imidazolium, pyridinium and nicotine-derived ionic liquids were fully characterized including differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) analysis. The performance of these achiral and chiral room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) was demonstrated by means of the Heck arylation of endocyclic acrylates employing arenediazonium salts and aryl iodides. The Heck arylations performed in the presence of these ionic entities, either as a solvent or as an additive, were effective leading to complete conversion of the substrate and good to excellent yield of the Heck adduct. In spite of the good performances, no asymmetric induction was observed in any of the cases studied. Two new diastereoisomeric NHC-palladium complexes were prepared in good yields from a chiral imidazolium salt and their structure characterized by X-ray diffraction. Overall, the Heck arylations employing arenediazonium tetrafluoroborates in RTILs were more effective than the traditional protocols employing aryl iodides in terms of reactivity and yields.