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Formaldehyde surrogates in multicomponent reactions

  • Cecilia I. Attorresi,
  • Javier A. Ramírez and
  • Bernhard Westermann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 564–595, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.45

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  • products (products 2 to 5, Scheme 4). In other cases, under acidic and thermal conditions, DMSO can undergo a Pummerer-type process in which, upon activation of the sulfoxide oxygen, a reactive methyl(methylene)sulfonium ion (MMS) is formed (Scheme 5) that acts as an active electrophile. Depending on the
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Published 13 Mar 2025

Vinylogous functionalization of 4-alkylidene-5-aminopyrazoles with methyl trifluoropyruvates

  • Judit Hostalet-Romero,
  • Laura Carceller-Ferrer,
  • Gonzalo Blay,
  • Amparo Sanz-Marco,
  • José R. Pedro and
  • Carlos Vila

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 533–540, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.41

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  • ] as electrophiles. It is noteworthy that the development of such vinylogous functionalizations of this nitrogen heterocycle with a fluorine-containing electrophile may be of interest to pharmaceutical and medicinal chemists. Results and Discussion 4-(Alkenyl)-5-aminopyrazoles 3 were selected as
  • electrophile activation. In certain reactions, we isolated compound A, the hydrate of methyl trifluoropyruvate. We hypothesized that preventing the formation of this byproduct could improve the reaction yield by using molecular sieves (entries 17 and 18, Table 1). However, when molecular sieves were added, the
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Published 10 Mar 2025

Synthesis of electrophile-tethered preQ1 analogs for covalent attachment to preQ1 RNA

  • Laurin Flemmich and
  • Ronald Micura

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 483–489, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.35

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  • vitro and in living cells using rationally designed electrophile-tethered derivatives of preQ1 (1) and its Watson–Crick diamino-faced counterpart DPQ1 (2, Scheme 1A). These ligands (compound classes 3 and 4, Scheme 1A) were tailored to target a conserved guanine nucleobase within a natural preQ1-binding
  • of the electrophile. We thus identified aldehydes 9 and 10 as suitable branching points, which were easily derivatized to their aminomethyl-modified preQ1 analogs by reductive amination (Scheme 3). Their syntheses by Raney-Ni reduction of nitriles 7 and 8, previously described by Gangjee and co
  • . First, the alkyl handles bearing a primary hydroxy group were introduced and then converted into the electrophile of choice. More specifically, to furnish compounds 4b–d, precursor 9 was treated with the corresponding amino alcohols in the presence of a desiccant. The imines formed were subjected to
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Published 04 Mar 2025

Beyond symmetric self-assembly and effective molarity: unlocking functional enzyme mimics with robust organic cages

  • Keith G. Andrews

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 421–443, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.30

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  • nucleophile and electrophile) [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Crucially, enzymes organize their polarization – they achieve both components in tandem. Supramolecular chemists have made significant advances in cavity catalysis [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] – albeit slowly [25] – but have
  • electrophile [175]. In terms of polarization, since cages are invariably charged [36], a few MOCs have demonstrated charge stabilization of transition states (Figure 5B). A key example uses the highly successful Raymond gallium-based cages, exploited by Raymond, Bergman and Toste [21][37][107][155][165][168
  • triad (red) was hoped to activate the benzyl alcohol nucleophile, but it does not activate (polarize) the electrophile (substrate ester group). (B) One of Rebek’s “clefts” [108][109]. The rigidly organized carboxylic acids both bind the substrate and the transition state for hydrolysis of an acetal. (A
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Published 24 Feb 2025

Dioxazolones as electrophilic amide sources in copper-catalyzed and -mediated transformations

  • Seungmin Lee,
  • Minsuk Kim,
  • Hyewon Han and
  • Jongwoo Son

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 200–216, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.12

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  • 1.0 equiv of 19 were used. Copper-catalyzed asymmetric hydroamidation of vinylarenes. a4 mol % + 2 mol % catalyst was used. b4 mol % + 4 mol % catalyst was used. cSlow addition of the amide electrophile solution. Copper-catalyzed anti-Markovnikov hydroamidation of alkynes. Copper-catalyzed preparation
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Published 22 Jan 2025

Recent advances in electrochemical copper catalysis for modern organic synthesis

  • Yemin Kim and
  • Won Jun Jang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 155–178, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.9

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  • Figure 11. Initially, the Cu(II) catalyst 50 coordinates with substrate 47 and amine electrophile 48 to generate Cu(II) intermediate 51, which is then oxidized by the iodine radical to form Cu(III) complex 52. Cu(III) complex 52 undergoes electron transfer to produce radical cation intermediate 53
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Efficient synthesis of fluorinated triphenylenes with enhanced arene–perfluoroarene interactions in columnar mesophases

  • Yang Chen,
  • Jiao He,
  • Hang Lin,
  • Hai-Feng Wang,
  • Ping Hu,
  • Bi-Qin Wang,
  • Ke-Qing Zhao and
  • Bertrand Donnio

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3263–3273, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.270

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  • ring was obtained using the same reaction as previously reported for PHn (Figure 1) [45], between 2,2’-dilithiobiphenyl derivatives but this time with the electrophile decafluorobiphenyl C6F5–C6F5 instead of C6H5–C6F5 (Fn, n = 3–12, Scheme 1). The presence of the terminal fluoroarene group in Fn
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Published 16 Dec 2024

Non-covalent organocatalyzed enantioselective cyclization reactions of α,β-unsaturated imines

  • Sergio Torres-Oya and
  • Mercedes Zurro

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3221–3255, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.268

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  • reviews [17][18]. Review Hydrogen bond donors: bifunctional thioureas and squaramides The use of bifunctional catalysts is commonplace in organocatalyzed transformations [19][20][21][22][23]. These catalysts are able to activate an electrophile and a nucleophile simultaneously and in IEDADA reactions they
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Published 10 Dec 2024

Enantioselective regiospecific addition of propargyltrichlorosilane to aldehydes catalyzed by biisoquinoline N,N’-dioxide

  • Noble Brako,
  • Sreerag Moorkkannur Narayanan,
  • Amber Burns,
  • Layla Auter,
  • Valentino Cesiliano,
  • Rajeev Prabhakar and
  • Norito Takenaka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3069–3076, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.255

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  • propargyltrichlorosilane and significantly activates the C1–H1 bond (1.11 Å). It is noteworthy that the nitrogen atom can also interact with the Si atom of propargyltrichlorosilane which is a stronger electrophile compared to the H1 atom. However, the bulky groups around nitrogen and three chlorine atoms coordinated to Si
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Published 25 Nov 2024

gem-Difluorovinyl and trifluorovinyl Michael acceptors in the synthesis of α,β-unsaturated fluorinated and nonfluorinated amides

  • Monika Bilska-Markowska,
  • Marcin Kaźmierczak,
  • Wojciech Jankowski and
  • Marcin Hoffmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2946–2953, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.247

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  • also tried to perform a substitution reaction by treating compounds 1a and 2a with tert-BuLi, employing methyl iodide as the electrophile. However, similar to previous reactions, this did not yield substitution products at the alpha position, but to the addition–elimination reaction products. More
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Published 15 Nov 2024

Recent advances in transition-metal-free arylation reactions involving hypervalent iodine salts

  • Ritu Mamgain,
  • Kokila Sakthivel and
  • Fateh V. Singh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2891–2920, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.243

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  • K2CO3 at 55 °C to yield the corresponding products 62 in good to excellent yield (Scheme 25) [76]. It was observed that both electronic as well as steric effects on the aryl electrophile and phenol nucleophile were well tolerated. Further, this study was used for the one-pot synthesis of diaryl ethers
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Published 13 Nov 2024

Synthesis of spiroindolenines through a one-pot multistep process mediated by visible light

  • Francesco Gambuti,
  • Jacopo Pizzorno,
  • Chiara Lambruschini,
  • Renata Riva and
  • Lisa Moni

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2722–2731, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.230

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  • reacts with an isocyanide and an electron-rich aniline in a three-component Ugi-type reaction to give an α-aminoamidine. This compound might undergo an additional visible light-mediated oxidation to furnish a second iminium intermediate, which acts as electrophile in an intramolecular electrophilic
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Stereoselective mechanochemical synthesis of thiomalonate Michael adducts via iminium catalysis by chiral primary amines

  • Michał Błauciak,
  • Dominika Andrzejczyk,
  • Błażej Dziuk and
  • Rafał Kowalczyk

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2313–2322, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.198

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  • reactivity by chiral quaternary ammonium salt in the asymmetric variant of the phase-transfer catalysis. Nevertheless, no product was formed despite several conditions being examined. Finally, an attempt to activate the electrophile was performed. We chose iminium salt catalysis particularly employing chiral
  • stabilized by an intramolecular hydrogen bond with a protonated amine unit activates the Michael acceptor (Scheme 4). Moreover, a strong but reversible covalent bond locates the electrophile upon the quinoline unit of the catalyst and thus subsequently blocks the bottom approach of the thiomalonate. Hence
  • -thiomalonate 3 was applied to cyclopentenone, which exhibits electrophilicity on the Mayer scale of −20.60 compared to cyclohexenone (E = −22.10, in DMSO) [41], comparable results were obtained both in solution and in a ball mill (Scheme 5). Therefore, a slightly more reactive electrophile does not
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Catalysing (organo-)catalysis: Trends in the application of machine learning to enantioselective organocatalysis

  • Stefan P. Schmid,
  • Leon Schlosser,
  • Frank Glorius and
  • Kjell Jorner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2280–2304, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.196

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  • the ML model by being considered as a nucleophile or electrophile, depending on the reaction mechanism. Descriptors allowed for the inclusion of a variety of co-catalysts, ranging from Fe-piano stool complexes to copper complexes. The consideration of co-catalysis into model development further
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Published 10 Sep 2024

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

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  • that ninhydrin (150), as an electrophile, reacts with the enol tautomeric form 153 of pyrazolone 152 to give ninhydrin-substituted pyrazoles 151 in a three-component reaction, as depicted in Scheme 52 [158]. The two-component formation of pyrazolone 156 from acetylenedicarboxylates and phenylhydrazine
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Published 16 Aug 2024

Development of a flow photochemical process for a π-Lewis acidic metal-catalyzed cyclization/radical addition sequence: in situ-generated 2-benzopyrylium as photoredox catalyst and reactive intermediate

  • Masahiro Terada,
  • Zen Iwasaki,
  • Ryohei Yazaki,
  • Shigenobu Umemiya and
  • Jun Kikuchi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1973–1980, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.173

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  • feature of this sequential transformation is that the in situ-generated 2-benzopyrylium intermediates A are used not only as an electrophile but also as a photoredox catalyst. However, as this reaction is carried out under relatively harsh conditions (i.e., light irradiation, use of an excess amount of
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Radical reactivity of antiaromatic Ni(II) norcorroles with azo radical initiators

  • Siham Asyiqin Shafie,
  • Ryo Nozawa,
  • Hideaki Takano and
  • Hiroshi Shinokubo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1967–1972, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.172

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  • the electrophile [16][17][18]. In addition, C–C double bonds of the norcorrole skeleton outside the π-delocalization pathway exhibit a reactivity similar to an alkene to afford hydrogenated norcorroles by hydrogenation [19] or reduction with hydrazine [20] and [3 + 2]-cycloadducts with 1,3-dipoles [21
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Published 12 Aug 2024

Regioselective alkylation of a versatile indazole: Electrophile scope and mechanistic insights from density functional theory calculations

  • Pengcheng Lu,
  • Luis Juarez,
  • Paul A. Wiget,
  • Weihe Zhang,
  • Krishnan Raman and
  • Pravin L. Kotian

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1940–1954, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.170

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  • reactions with compound 6 afforded the N1-substituted indazole analogs 15a–q with excellent yields (>90%), except for 15m, which failed to form after multiple attempts likely due to an instability of the electrophile 14m under optimized conditions (conditions A: 1.5 equiv tosylate, 1.0 equiv 6, 2.0 equiv
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A new platform for the synthesis of diketopyrrolopyrrole derivatives via nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions

  • Vitor A. S. Almodovar and
  • Augusto C. Tomé

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1933–1939, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.169

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  • generating new DPP derivatives through nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions with thiols and phenols. The main objective of this study was to employ the N,N’-bis(pentafluorobenzyl)-DPP 2 as an electrophile and investigate its reactivity with thiols and phenols (Scheme 1). All SNAr reactions were
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The Groebke–Blackburn–Bienaymé reaction in its maturity: innovation and improvements since its 21st birthday (2019–2023)

  • Cristina Martini,
  • Muhammad Idham Darussalam Mardjan and
  • Andrea Basso

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1839–1879, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.162

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  • reaction can be considered the third in importance after Ugi [3] and Passerini [4] ones, and, as the two venerable reactions, is an α-addition of an electrophile and a nucleophile to an isocyanide, followed by a suitable rearrangement, as depicted in Scheme 1. Compared with the Passerini and Ugi reactions
  • its nucleophilicity and improving its orientation. Furthermore, Ser105 formed a strong hydrogen bond also with benzaldehyde, making it a better electron acceptor. Interestingly, also the imine intermediate showed strong interaction with Thr40 and Ser105 residues, so becoming a good electrophile for
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Divergent role of PIDA and PIFA in the AlX3 (X = Cl, Br) halogenation of 2-naphthol: a mechanistic study

  • Kevin A. Juárez-Ornelas,
  • Manuel Solís-Hernández,
  • Pedro Navarro-Santos,
  • J. Oscar C. Jiménez-Halla and
  • César R. Solorio-Alvarado

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1580–1589, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.141

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  • generated in situ simply by mixing PIFA with a Lewis acid, in this case AlCl3. The importance of this protocol arises from the oxidation of an AlCl3-based chlorine atom, which is an available and cheap reagent. Then it is used as an electrophile source in the chlorination process with an umpolung reactivity
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Published 15 Jul 2024

Challenge N- versus O-six-membered annulation: FeCl3-catalyzed synthesis of heterocyclic N,O-aminals

  • Giacomo Mari,
  • Lucia De Crescentini,
  • Gianfranco Favi,
  • Fabio Mantellini,
  • Diego Olivieri and
  • Stefania Santeusanio

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1412–1420, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.123

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  • providing intermediate A. The latter, by loss of a trichloro(alkoxy)ferrate(III) anion, generates a strong electrophile such as the oxocarbenium cation intermediate B. The released trichloro(alkoxy)ferrate(III) splits into FeCl3, which enters the catalytic cycle, and a free alkoxide, which acts as a base
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Computation-guided scaffold exploration of 2E,6E-1,10-trans/cis-eunicellanes

  • Zining Li,
  • Sana Jindani,
  • Volga Kojasoy,
  • Teresa Ortega,
  • Erin M. Marshall,
  • Khalil A. Abboud,
  • Sandra Loesgen,
  • Dean J. Tantillo and
  • Jeffrey D. Rudolf

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1320–1326, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.115

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  • functional groups at C6 (Figure 4). The goals were to evaluate the scope of electrophile-mediated cyclization and diversify the gersemiane skeleton for bioactivity assays. A structural similarity search of 5 and 6 revealed that several natural products, including the coral gersemiols [24] and plagicosin N
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Competing electrophilic substitution and oxidative polymerization of arylamines with selenium dioxide

  • Vishnu Selladurai and
  • Selvakumar Karuthapandi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1221–1235, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.105

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  • using SeO2 as an electrophile source in aromatic electrophilic substitution reactions. Keywords: arylamines; electrophilic substitution; oxamides: polymerization; selenium dioxide; Introduction Organoselenium compounds have received considerable attention due to interesting medicinal properties, such
  • monoselenides is shown in Scheme 5. The first step is the electrophilic substitution of SeO2 on the aromatic ring, either in the ortho or para position. The resulting arylseleninic acid acts as an electrophile, substituting a proton in another aniline molecule, leading to a hydrated selenoxide. This can give
  • anthranilate, polymerization was suppressed, and selenated compounds were obtained with an appreciable yield. Further, when SeO2 was used as electrophile, solvent oxidation (e.g., interaction between solvent and acidic α-CH unit) and oxidation of reactive functions (e.g., NH2 group) had to be taken into
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Three-component N-alkenylation of azoles with alkynes and iodine(III) electrophile: synthesis of multisubstituted N-vinylazoles

  • Jun Kikuchi,
  • Roi Nakajima and
  • Naohiko Yoshikai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 891–897, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.79

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  • Jun Kikuchi Roi Nakajima Naohiko Yoshikai Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, 6-3 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan 10.3762/bjoc.20.79 Abstract A stereoselective N-alkenylation of azoles with alkynes and iodine(III) electrophile is reported. The reaction
  • between various azoles and internal alkynes is mediated by benziodoxole triflate as the electrophile in a trans-fashion, affording azole-bearing vinylbenziodoxoles in moderate to good yields. The tolerable azole nuclei include pyrazole, indazole, 1,2,3-triazole, benzotriazole, and tetrazole. The iodanyl
  • reaction of azoles with alkynes and iodine(III) electrophile, benziodoxole triflate (BXT, 1; Scheme 1c). Displaying exclusive trans-selectivity, the reaction tolerates a broad range of azoles, including pyrazole, 1,2,3-triazole, tetrazole, indazole, and benzotriazole, with internal alkynes as coupling
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