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The following review article provides an overview of DHA chemistry, with specific confirmation based on major historical developments and progress mainly made over the last two decenniums. It is our hope this review serves as a valuable treasure to those interested in the 3-acetyl-4-hydroxy-6-methyl-2H-pyran-2-one (DHA) chemistry, and helps impact future advancements.

Chemical reactivity of 2-methyl-2-phenyl-1,3-oxathiolan-5-one (1) toward various reagents such as hydroxyaldehyde, ketone, α,β unsaturated carbonyl compounds, heterocyclic amine, hydrazine, and hydrazide to give unpredicative opened and fused heterocyclic systems was investigated. Moreover, treatment of compound 1 with bromoester to afford the respective fused system, 2-methyl-2-phenylfuro[3,2-d][1,3]oxathiol-5(6H)-one (6) was implemented. Besides, 1H–1H nuclear overhauser effect spectroscopy was used for full confirmation of the compound 19. In addition, the density functional theory modeling study outcomes were discussed and all of the new synthesized compounds were evaluated as antioxidants and cytotoxicity assay against hepatocellular carcinoma cell line.

This review covers many reports of the applications of multicomponent domino reactions (MDRs) in the synthesis of novel stereocontrolled mercapto-heterocycles from the 1972 up to the end of 2016. The reported approaches were employed for modifications of the oxathiolanone core for new construction of a mercapto-heterocycles scaffold from mercaptoacetyl transfer agent with various reagents.

We exploited the utilization of 2-methyl-2-phenyl-1,3-oxathiolan-5-one (1) that acts as activated thioglycolic acid as mercaptoacetyl transfer agent to build new pyridinonethiol derivatives via multicomponent domino reactions of 1 with different acyclic or cyclic α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds and aniline using CeCl3∙7H2O/KI as Lewis acid catalyst. Furthermore, the new synthesized compounds were biologically evaluated for antitumor efficiency. The geometries and normal modes of vibrations obtained from calculations are in good agreement with the experimentally observed data.