Synthesis of disulfides and 3-sulfenylchromones from sodium sulfinates catalyzed by TBAI

• Zhenlei Zhang,
• Ying Wang,
• Xingxing Pan,
• Manqi Zhang,
• Wei Zhao,
• Meng Li and
• Hao Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 253–261, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.17

• groups on the aryl substituents of the enaminones were tolerated and afforded the corresponding products in good to excellent yields (4a–f), with a slight decrease in the yield if 5-nitrophenyl-substituted enaminone was used as a substrate (4f). Both sodium arylsulfinates and sodium alkylsulfinates (4g–p

Multicomponent syntheses of pyrazoles via (3 + 2)-cyclocondensation and (3 + 2)-cycloaddition key steps

• Ignaz Betcke,
• Alissa C. Götzinger,
• Maryna M. Kornet and
• Thomas J. J. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2024–2077, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.178

• pyrazoles occurs through the cyclization of the hydrazine with the enaminone, followed by a Ullmann coupling with aryl halides to form the corresponding 1,3-substituted pyrazoles 76. The method tolerates both sterically demanding and electronically versatile aryl moieties. Enaminones embedded in

• , all components can be initially present in the reaction vessel, whereas methylhydrazine is added dropwise to the enaminone to prevent the formation of regioisomers. The versatility of this method is highlighted by its tolerance towards both β-ketoesters and aliphatic 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds. Moreover

• esters are tolerated in the method [113]. Starting from enaminone 86 functionalization, the hypervalent iodine compound 87 facilitates the introduction of a difluoromethanesulfonyl group in the copper(I) bromide-mediated consecutive three-component synthesis of difluoromethanesulfonyl-functionalized

Exploring the role of halogen bonding in iodonium ylides: insights into unexpected reactivity and reaction control

• Carlee A. Montgomery and
• Graham K. Murphy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1171–1190, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.86

• calculations for enaminone synthesis from iodonium ylides and thioamides. Crystal structures of 76c (top) and 76e (bottom) [101], (CCDC# 2104180 & 2104181) [143][144]. Outline of possible reaction pathways between iodonium ylides and Lewis basic nucleophiles (top); and, reaction between 6 and HCl to give 7, as

Synthesis of substituted 8H-benzo[h]pyrano[2,3-f]quinazolin-8-ones via photochemical 6π-electrocyclization of pyrimidines containing an allomaltol fragment

• Constantine V. Milyutin,
• Andrey N. Komogortsev,
• Boris V. Lichitsky,
• Mikhail E. Minyaev and
• Valeriya G. Melekhina

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 778–788, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.58

• were not optimal and the process could be significantly improved. In order to employ the aforementioned approach for the preparation of pyrimidines containing an allomaltol moiety we initially selected the interaction of enaminone 13a with cyanamide as a model reaction. We varied time and temperature

• for the formation of pyrimidines 9 is presented in Scheme 3. At first, intermediate A is formed by Michael addition of cyanamide to enaminone 13. Further elimination of dimethylamine leads to cyanoenaminone B. Next, interaction of the cyano group with dimethylamine results in the formation of

Practical synthesis of isocoumarins via Rh(III)-catalyzed C–H activation/annulation cascade

• Qian-Ci Gao,
• Yi-Fei Li,
• Jun Xuan and
• Xiao-Qiang Hu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 100–106, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.10

• . The success of gram-scale reaction and diverse functionalization of isocoumarins demonstrated the synthetic utility of this protocol. Keywords: C–H activation; enaminone; iodonium ylide; isocoumarin; rhodium catalysis; Introduction Isocoumarins are an important structural motif in many naturally

• to couple iodonium ylides with enaminones in a Rh(III)-catalyzed C–H activation/annulation cascade reaction for the rapid construction of isocoumarins (Scheme 1c). Results and Discussion Our initial experiment was performed with enaminone 1a and iodonium ylide 1b in the presence of [Cp*RhCl2]2 (5 mol

• active Rh catalyst. Subsequently, the oxygen atom of the enaminone is coordinated to the Rh catalyst, following by a Rh(III)-promoted ortho C–H activation to form a five-membered ruthenacycle 1-A. Then, the reaction of the iodonium ylide with intermediate 1-A generates a Rh-carbenoid intermediate 1-B

An isoxazole strategy for the synthesis of 4-oxo-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylates

• Timur O. Zanakhov,
• Ekaterina E. Galenko,
• Mikhail S. Novikov and
• Alexander F. Khlebnikov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 738–745, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.74

• not detected. It is most probable that, in addition to the reductive opening of isoxazole, Mo(CO)6 catalyzes the cyclization of enaminone 3g to pyridine 2g [14]. In the absence of such catalysis, the unstable enaminone intermediate undergoes deacylation and decomposes through other destructive

Regioselective synthesis of methyl 5-(N-Boc-cycloaminyl)-1,2-oxazole-4-carboxylates as new amino acid-like building blocks

• Jolita Bruzgulienė,
• Greta Račkauskienė,
• Aurimas Bieliauskas,
• Vaida Milišiūnaitė,
• Miglė Dagilienė,
• Gita Matulevičiūtė,
• Vytas Martynaitis,
• Sonata Krikštolaitytė,
• Frank A. Sløk and
• Algirdas Šačkus

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 102–109, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.11

• of two isomeric 1,2-oxazoles (Scheme 2) [34][35]. In the first route, enaminone 3a–h and hydroxylamine gives intermediate A, which then removes one molecule of dimethylamine to form intermediate B. This is followed by intramolecular cyclization to intermediate C, and subsequent dehydration to

Silica gel and microwave-promoted synthesis of dihydropyrrolizines and tetrahydroindolizines from enaminones

• Robin Klintworth,
• Garreth L. Morgans,
• Stefania M. Scalzullo,
• Charles B. de Koning,
• Willem A. L. van Otterlo and
• Joseph P. Michael

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2543–2552, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.170

• , underwent cyclization in the presence of silica gel to give ethyl 6-(hetero)aryl-2,3-dihydro-1H-pyrrolizine-5-carboxylates within minutes upon microwave heating in xylene at 150 °C. Instead of functioning as a nucleophile, the enaminone acted as an electrophile at its carbonyl group during the cyclization

• enaminone acts as an intramolecular nucleophile towards the phenacyl substituent, even though the nucleophilic character of the enamine component is expected to be suppressed by the “push–pull” effect arising from the electron-withdrawing carbonyl group [19][20][21][22][23]. The dual properties of

• described in this article. Results and Discussion The benzoyl-containing enaminone 15a (Ar = Ph) was selected as a model for investigating conditions for the cyclization. This compound was conveniently prepared by Eschenmoser sulfide contraction [29][30], as shown in Scheme 2. The route entailed initial

A recent overview on the synthesis of 1,4,5-trisubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles

• Pezhman Shiri,
• Ali Mohammad Amani and
• Thomas Mayer-Gall

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1600–1628, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.114

• investigated by means of DFT calculations using the reaction between enaminone 6a and phenyl azide. TS1 and TS2 have been proposed as two transition states, which then converted to IN1 and IN2 as two possible isomers. The stable final products were achieved via a cascade reaction including the elimination of

Microwave-assisted multicomponent reactions in heterocyclic chemistry and mechanistic aspects

• Shivani Gulati,
• Stephy Elza John and
• Nagula Shankaraiah

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 819–865, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.71

• enaminone B. Later, the successive Michael addition of A and enaminone B followed by an intramolecular cycloaddition with concomitant dehydration delivered the final product 7 (Scheme 2). In 2018, our research group [39] contemplated and developed an expeditious process for the synthesis of phenanthrene

• ]diazepines 26 using substituted 2-formylbenzoic acids 25, phenylenediamine and tetronic acid with water as solvent (Scheme 8). The mechanism leading to the formation of the final product 24 and 26 involves an initial condensation between tetronic acid and benzene-1,2-diamine to give enaminone A. An

• intermediate B generated by the addition of aldehyde to enaminone A on intramolecular cyclization furnishes the final product 24 via C. Cyclic isoindole-fused furo[1,4]diazepines 26 were obtained by dehydration of the carbonyl group on the aromatic ring on treatment with an amino group. The authors attributed

One-pot synthesis of substituted pyrrolo[3,4-b]pyridine-4,5-diones based on the reaction of N-(1-(4-hydroxy-6-methyl-2-oxo-2H-pyran-3-yl)-2-oxo-2-arylethyl)acetamide with amines

• Valeriya G. Melekhina,
• Andrey N. Komogortsev,
• Boris V. Lichitsky,
• Vitaly S. Mityanov,
• Artem N. Fakhrutdinov,
• Arkady A. Dudinov,
• Vasily A. Migulin,
• Yulia V. Nelyubina,
• Elizaveta K. Melnikova and
• Michail M. Krayushkin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2840–2846, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.277

• , which can subsequently undergo opening of the pyranone ring, yielding dihydropyrrolone 9 (Scheme 3B). Following this, the diketone-containing substituent of 9 reacts with a second equivalent of amine, forming the final enaminone 7. After this general synthetic method for enaminone targets had been

• pyrrolopyridinones 1. To investigate this, first, enaminone 7a was chosen as a model compound in a test reaction in acidic medium in order to identify the most efficient conditions for the transformation to 1a (Table 3). Several organic and inorganic acids and mixtures thereof were tested for this conversion. As it

• to give the crude enaminone 7a as a brown solid. The obtained residue was then heated in an AcOH/HCl mixture to give the target pyrrolopyridinone 1a. In addition, the described one-pot synthesis, besides from being more straightforward, provided better yields as compared to the standard two-step

Recent advances on the transition-metal-catalyzed synthesis of imidazopyridines: an updated coverage

• Gagandeep Kour Reen,
• Ashok Kumar and
• Pratibha Sharma

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1612–1704, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.165

• that the presence of copper salt is mandatory for the formation of the fused heterocycle as its absence resulted in the formation of the enaminone only. The imines 118, generated in situ via the loss of nitrogen from azide derivatives, were found to be reactive towards 1,3-dipoles 117 to form diverse

Catalyst-free synthesis of 4-acyl-NH-1,2,3-triazoles by water-mediated cycloaddition reactions of enaminones and tosyl azide

• Lu Yang,
• Yuwei Wu,
• Yiming Yang,
• Chengping Wen and
• Jie-Ping Wan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2348–2353, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.210

• synthesis of N-substituted 1,2,3-triazoles via the reactions of organoazides and the in situ prepared N,N-dimethylenaminones by 150 °C microwave irradiation and subsequent heating in toluene at 100 °C, providing an effective protocol of enaminone-based 1,2,3-triazole synthesis. Interestingly, our continuous

• adventure in enaminone-based organic transformations has led us to the discovery that the cycloaddition of N,N-dimethylenaminones and tosyl azide efficiently affords NH-1,2,3-triazoles with water as the only medium, and not any catalyst or additive is required. Considering the featured functions of NH-1,2,3

• -triazoles [56][57][58][59][60][61] as well as the urgent desire in finding more sustainable methods enabling 1,2,3-triazole synthesis, we report herein our results in the water-mediated, catalyst-free synthesis of NH-1,2,3-triazoles through the cycloaddition of enaminone and sulfonyl azide with mild heating

Synthesis of chiral 3-substituted 3-amino-2-oxindoles through enantioselective catalytic nucleophilic additions to isatin imines

• Hélène Pellissier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1349–1369, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.114

• catalytic asymmetric construction of the cyclic enaminone-based 3-substituted 3-amino-2-oxindole scaffold with potential bioactivity on the basis of enantioselective additions of cyclic enaminones to N-Boc-isatin imines [40]. As shown in Scheme 7, the addition of dimedone-derived enaminones 22 to a variety

• of N-Boc-isatin imines 3 was optimally promoted by chiral phosphoric acid 23 exhibiting a bulky 2,4,6-(iPr)3C6H2 group, which provided at 50 °C in 1,4-dioxane as solvent the corresponding chiral cyclic enaminone-based 3-substituted 3-amino-2-oxindoles 24 in moderate to quantitative yields (54–99

One-pot sequential synthesis of tetrasubstituted thiophenes via sulfur ylide-like intermediates

• Jun Ki Kim,
• Hwan Jung Lim,
• Kyung Chae Jeong and
• Seong Jun Park

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 243–252, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.16

• and 2B), Al-Showiman and co-workers reported a trisubstituted 5-(pyridin-2-yl)thiophene, obtained from the reaction of 5-(enaminone)thiophene with 2,4-pentanedione in glacial acetic acid in the presence of ammonium acetate [54][55]. Ila and co-workers reported the synthesis of tri- and

5-Aminopyrazole as precursor in design and synthesis of fused pyrazoloazines

• Ranjana Aggarwal and
• Suresh Kumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 203–242, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.15

• pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridine nucleus 37 (Scheme 6). Aziz et al. [51] developed an acid-catalyzed synthesis of pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridine derivatives 40 through the reaction of enaminone 38 with 5-aminopyrazole (R = Ph, 16) in acetic acid (Scheme 7). The proposed reaction mechanism involves the generation of new

• enaminone intermediate 39 which underwent condensation and cyclization within C-4 of 5-aminopyrazole and the carbonyl group of the enaminone to generate pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridine derivatives 40. However, the formation of pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine 41, a structural isomer of 40 was obtained when 1-NH-5

• -aminopyrazole (R = H, 16) was condensed with 38. It was attributed to cyclocondensation between 1-NH (5-aminopyrazole) and the carbonyl carbon of the enaminone. The compounds were found to have cytotoxicity against the normal fibroblast (BHK) cell line and antitumor activity against the colon cancer cell line

Synthesis, effect of substituents on the regiochemistry and equilibrium studies of tetrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine/2-azidopyrimidines

• Elisandra Scapin,
• Paulo R. S. Salbego,
• Caroline R. Bender,
• Alexandre R. Meyer,
• Anderson B. Pagliari,
• Tainára Orlando,
• Geórgia C. Zimmer,
• Clarissa P. Frizzo,
• Helio G. Bonacorso,
• Nilo Zanatta and
• Marcos A. P. Martins

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2396–2407, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.237

• cyclocondensation reaction [CCC + NCN] was developed. The NCN corresponds to 5-aminotetrazole and CCC to β-enaminone. Two distinct products were observed in accordance with the β-enaminone substituent. When observed in solution, the compounds can be divided into two groups: (a) precursor compounds with R = CF3 or

• the β-enaminone precursor and (iii) elucidate the azide–tetrazole equilibrium when the compound is in solid form or dissolved in distinct solvents. The tetrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine synthesis was conducted from a cyclocondensation reaction of the type [CCC + NCN], in which the CCC block is a series of β

• conditions for the preparation of tetrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines, the reaction of β-enaminone 1a with 5-aminotetrazole (2) was carried out under several conditions using conventional solvents and ionic liquids (ILs) to provide 5-phenyltetrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine (3a). Two conditions in which the product exceeded

Transition-metal-free synthesis of 3-sulfenylated chromones via KIO₃-catalyzed radical C(sp²)–H sulfenylation

• Yanhui Guo,
• Shanshan Zhong,
• Li Wei and
• Jie-Ping Wan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2017–2022, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.199

• efforts in exploring enaminone C(sp2)–H bond sulfenylation [40][41] reactions have led us to establish the synthesis of 3-sulfenylated chromones via KIO3-catalyzed tandem reactions of o-hydroxylphenylenaminone and thiophenols via tandem C–H sulfenylation and intramolecular C–N bond oxygenation (B, Scheme

• Discussion Initially, the reaction of enaminone 1a and sulfonyl hydrazine 2a was tentatively subjected to different iodine reagents or catalyst-free conditions. The results indicated that no product was observed in the reaction without catalyst (entry 1, Table 1), and different types of iodine reagents such

• to excellent yields. A strong electron-withdrawing group such as a nitro group at the phenyl ring of the enaminone was found to have a negative influence on the product yields (3d and 3l, Scheme 2). On the other hand, the substituent on the aryl fragment of 2 also influenced the product yields. The

High-speed vibration-milling-promoted synthesis of symmetrical frameworks containing two or three pyrrole units

• Marco Leonardi,
• Mercedes Villacampa and
• J. Carlos Menéndez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1957–1962, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.190

• with a three-component pyrrole synthesis related to the classical Hantzsch reaction. The intermediacy of species 5 and 6 was proved by the following experimental observations: They could be isolated by suitably interrupting our process. As a representative example, the bis-β-enaminone arising from

Mechanochemical synthesis of small organic molecules

• Tapas Kumar Achar,
• Anima Bose and
• Prasenjit Mal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1907–1931, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.186

• intermediate β-enaminone which further reacted with α-iodoketone following by a cyclo-condensation which resulted in the substituted pyrroles shown in Scheme 31. The Biginelli reaction is a well-known 3-component reaction for the synthesis of dihydropyrimidinones [124][125]. During the last few decades many

Derivatives of the triaminoguanidinium ion, 5. Acylation of triaminoguanidines leading to symmetrical tris(acylamino)guanidines and mesoionic 1,2,4-triazolium-3-aminides

• Jan Szabo,
• Julian Greiner and
• Gerhard Maas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 579–588, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.57

• went on to a 3,6-di(pyrazol-1-yl)-1,2,4,5-tetrazine [11], and with 1,1,1-trifluoro-2,4-pentanedione two branches of TAG-Cl were converted into pyrazoline moieties and the third one into an enaminone [12]. Not much is known about the acylation of triaminoguanidines. Reactions with carboxylic acids have

New syntheses of (±)-tashiromine and (±)-epitashiromine via enaminone intermediates

• Darren L. Riley,
• Joseph P. Michael and
• Charles B. de Koning

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2609–2613, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.256

• of the naturally occurring indolizidine alkaloid (±)-tashiromine and its unnatural epimer (±)-epitashiromine are demonstrated through the use of enaminone chemistry. The impact of various electron-withdrawing substituents at the C-8 position of the indolizidine core on the preparation of the bicyclic

• system is described. Keywords: alkaloid; enaminone; epitashiromine; indolizidine; tashiromine; Introduction Tashiromine (1) is a monosubstituted indolizidine alkaloid originally isolated from the Asian deciduous shrub Maackia tashiroi [1] and subsequently from the genera Poecilanthe [2] and Crotalaria

• piperidine or a pyrrolidine-based precursor, with few reports of alternative approaches. The approach adopted by our research group to the synthesis of these and related bicyclic alkaloids takes advantage of enaminone chemistry [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. Our interest in the enaminone manifold

An intramolecular C–N cross-coupling of β-enaminones: a simple and efficient way to precursors of some alkaloids of Galipea officinalis

• Hana Doušová,
• Radim Horák,
• Zdeňka Růžičková and
• Petr Šimůnek

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 884–892, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.99

• leading to the above-mentioned tetrahydroquinoline moiety. The methodology is superior to the methods published to date. Keywords: C–N cross-coupling; copper; enaminone; palladium; tetrahydroquinoline; Introduction Galipea officinalis Hancock is a Venezuelan shrub, the bark (angostura bark) of which is

• ]. As part of our ongoing interest in the preparation of polarized ethylenes and their application in organic synthesis, we have been attracted by the procedure published by Zhou [30]. Here, the authors used heterocyclic enaminone 1b as the reactant for an asymmetric reduction followed by N-methylation

• to give (S)-cuspareine in high yields and excellent stereoselectivity (Scheme 1). This method, however, suffers from a low-yielding (28%) synthesis of the enaminone 1a [30]. Only two methods for the synthesis of tetrahydroquinolines 1 have been described in the literature [30][31][32] based on a

One-pot three-component synthesis and photophysical characteristics of novel triene merocyanines

• Christian Muschelknautz,
• Robin Visse,
• Jan Nordmann and
• Thomas J. J. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 599–612, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.51

• ][40] and pyranoindoles [41] via domino sequences. Interestingly, our versatile three-component enaminone synthesis [42][43] could be readily extended in a vinylogous fashion with enamines furnishing orange or deep red diene chromophores 2 and 3 that display aggregation induced emission [31]. In

A catalyst-free multicomponent domino sequence for the diastereoselective synthesis of (E)-3-[2-arylcarbonyl-3-(arylamino)allyl]chromen-4-ones

• Pitchaimani Prasanna,
• Pethaiah Gunasekaran,
• Subbu Perumal and
• J. Carlos Menéndez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 459–465, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.43

• relatively few methods, which allow the preparation of hybrid structures containing chromone derivatives attached to other heterocyclic systems due to the lack of suitable building blocks. In order to come up with such building blocks, we planned the preparation of chromones containing a β-enaminone

• –5p. In a similar manner as described in [55], a mixture of 3-formylchromone (1, 1 mmol), enaminone 2 (1 mmol) and aniline 3 (1 mmol) in DMF (5 mL) was heated at 130 °C for 6–7 h. The reaction progress was monitored by TLC. After completion of the reaction, the solvent was removed and the product was

• isolation of intermediates 4. A mixture of the suitable enaminone 2 (1 mmol) and aniline 3 (1 mmol) in DMF (5 mL) was heated at 130 °C for 3 h. The reaction progress was monitored by TLC. After completion of the reaction, the solvent was removed and the product was purified by column chromatography with a