Total synthesis of natural products based on hydrogenation of aromatic rings

• Haoxiang Wu and
• Xiangbing Qi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2026, 22, 88–122, doi:10.3762/bjoc.22.4

• , Aggarwal and co-workers reported a concise and enantioselective synthesis of (−)-finerenone via an asymmetric hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) strategy, completing the total synthesis in just six steps with high efficiency and stereoselectivity [94]. Starting from the 2-pyridone derivative 178, the authors

Competitive cyclization of ethyl trifluoroacetoacetate and methyl ketones with 1,3-diamino-2-propanol into hydrogenated oxazolo- and pyrimido-condensed pyridones

• Svetlana O. Kushch,
• Marina V. Goryaeva,
• Yanina V. Burgart,
• Marina A. Ezhikova,
• Mikhail I. Kodess,
• Pavel A. Slepukhin,
• Alexandrina S. Volobueva,
• Vladimir V. Zarubaev and
• Victor I. Saloutin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 2716–2729, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.209

• ]. In general, the developed approach allows pyridone derivatives to be generated in various environments of condensed carbo- and heterocyclic structures. Among the synthesized pyridone derivatives we have found analgesic [20][26], antibacterial [20] and antifungal [20] agents, which show practical

Comparative analysis of complanadine A total syntheses

• Reem Al-Ahmad and
• Mingji Dai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 2334–2344, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.178

• , which continued with an amide-ketone condensation to finally produce 31 in this highly efficient one-step biomimetic cascade sequence. The secondary amine of 31 was selectively protected as a Boc carbamate and the dihydropyridone moiety was oxidized to a pyridone with Pb(OAc)4. Pyridone 32 was prepared

• in 55% from 25 and 26 in three steps. Triflation of the pyridone gave 33 with a triflate at the C2 position for cross coupling to form the C2–C3’ linkage. At this stage, the Sarpong group needed to install a functional group at the C3 position of the pyridine. They creatively solved this challenge

Recent advances in Norrish–Yang cyclization and dicarbonyl photoredox reactions for natural product synthesis

• Peng-Xi Luo,
• Jin-Xuan Yang,
• Shao-Min Fu and
• Bo Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 2315–2333, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.177

• 82, followed by dehydrogenation, delivered compound 83 in 49% yield over three steps. Pyridone 83 could be funneled into pyridine 85 through O-triflation followed by Pd-catalyzed reductive detriflation. Ir-catalyzed meta-selective C–H borylation of 85, followed by bromodeborylation of the pyridine

Electrochemical cyclization of alkynes to construct five-membered nitrogen-heterocyclic rings

• Lifen Peng,
• Ting Wang,
• Zhiwen Yuan,
• Bin Li,
• Zilong Tang,
• Xirong Liu,
• Hui Li,
• Guofang Jiang,
• Chunling Zeng,
• Henry N. C. Wong and
• Xiao-Shui Peng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 2173–2201, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.166

• electro-oxidative annulation of alkyne and benzamide afforded chiral pyridine-N-oxide [102], isoquinoline was synthesized successfully via electrochemical annulation of alkyne and benzamide [103] or imidate [104], electrochemical annulation of alkyne and acrylamide afforded α-pyrone and α-pyridone [105

Recent advances in synthetic approaches for bioactive cinnamic acid derivatives

• Betty A. Kustiana,
• Galuh Widiyarti and
• Teni Ernawati

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 1031–1086, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.85

Antibiofilm and cytotoxic metabolites from the entomopathogenic fungus Samsoniella aurantia

• Rita Toshe,
• Syeda J. Khalid,
• Blondelle Matio Kemkuignou,
• Esteban Charria-Girón,
• Paul Eckhardt,
• Birthe Sandargo,
• Kunlapat Nuchthien,
• J. Jennifer Luangsa-ard,
• Till Opatz,
• Hedda Schrey,
• Sherif S. Ebada and
• Marc Stadler

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 327–339, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.23

• and five 2-pyridone derivatives that revealed potential antibiofilm activity against Staphylococcus aureus biofilms [7]. These results encouraged us to explore a member of the Cordycipitaceae, in the genus Samsoniella that was segregated from Akanthomyces based on morphological and molecular evidence

• that it is a related derivative to two yellow pyridone pigments, farinosones A and B, that were previously reported from Cordyceps farinosa syn. Paecilomyces farinosus [8][9]. A detailed comparison of the 1H and 13C NMR data of 1 and farinosones A/B revealed that instead of a deshielded pyridone

• spectrum to two sp3 carbon atoms at δC 67.8 (C-2') and 72.6 (C-3'), respectively. These results suggested that compound 1 possesses a tetramic acid moiety similar to prototenellin D (Figure 1), a precursor in the biosynthesis of tenellin [10], a 2-pyridone derivative purified from the entomopathogenic

Synthesis of acenaphthylene-fused heteroarenes and polyoxygenated benzo[j]fluoranthenes via a Pd-catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura/C–H arylation cascade

• Merve Yence,
• Dilgam Ahmadli,
• Damla Surmeli,
• Umut Mert Karacaoğlu,
• Sujit Pal and
• Yunus Emre Türkmen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3290–3298, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.273

• )-catalyzed [2 + 2 + 2] cycloaddition reactions with 1,8-dialkynylnaphthalenes to access azafluoranthenes and 2-pyridone-fused naphthalenes [27]. In 2017, we reported a Pd-catalyzed cascade reaction that involves a sequential Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling and a subsequent intramolecular C–H arylation between

5th International Symposium on Synthesis and Catalysis (ISySyCat2023)

• Anthony J. Burke and
• Elisabete P. Carreiro

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2704–2707, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.227

• pyridone and thiazolopyridone derivatives. This work is interesting from the point of view that it involved the emerging technique of “chemical editing”. The pyridone and thiazolopyridone derivatives were the most promising inhibitors, with IC50 values below 90 µM. Marques et al. described the synthesis of

Efficient modification of peroxydisulfate oxidation reactions of nitrogen-containing heterocycles 6-methyluracil and pyridine

• Alfiya R. Gimadieva,
• Yuliya Z. Khazimullina,
• Aigiza A. Gilimkhanova and
• Akhat G. Mustafin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2599–2607, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.219

• , including drugs and alkaloids [8]. Several drugs are known to contain the 2-pyridone structure, such as the cardiotonic drugs milrinone (Figure 1c) and amrinone (Figure 1d) [9][10], as well as the antibiotic pilicide (Figure 1e) [11][12]. As described in [13] during preliminary experiments, it was

• ) > PcMn > PcNi > PcZn. In previous studies, various pyridine derivatives such as 2-pyridone, its derivatives, and 4-pyridone [23][24][25][26][27][28], were subjected to the Elbs peroxydisulfate oxidation, resulting in yields of up to 38% for the corresponding 5-hydroxy derivatives (2,5-dihydroxy

Synthesis of 4-functionalized pyrazoles via oxidative thio- or selenocyanation mediated by PhICl₂ and NH₄SCN/KSeCN

• Jialiang Wu,
• Haofeng Shi,
• Xuemin Li,
• Jiaxin He,
• Chen Zhang,
• Fengxia Sun and
• Yunfei Du

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1453–1461, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.128

• efficient method for a smooth selenocyanation of pyrazole compounds. Results and Discussion In our previous work we reported that a regioselective C-5 thiocyanation of the 2-pyridone skeleton could be realized via a PhICl2-mediated electrophilic thiocyanation approach [54]. Inspired by this previous work

Novel analogues of a nonnucleoside SARS-CoV-2 RdRp inhibitor as potential antivirotics

• Luca Julianna Tóth,
• Kateřina Krejčová,
• Milan Dejmek,
• Eva Žilecká,
• Blanka Klepetářová,
• Lenka Poštová Slavětínská,
• Evžen Bouřa and
• Radim Nencka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1029–1036, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.91

• simple molecules led to a series of pyridone derivatives. Out of these, 3a had already been synthesized by a different approach [22]. However, this study presents a novel and notably simpler synthetic route. Furthermore, as part of the systematic truncation of the core, we synthesized thiazolopyridone

• the benzoxazole ring-opening reaction, namely 16. Simplification of the hit molecule: synthesis of pyridone derivatives We decided to simplify the relatively large structure of HeE1-2Tyr (1) in order to obtain smaller, more accessible inhibitors with similar or better properties. The employed novel

• compensate this difference. The pyridone derivatives 3a–c exerted an activity resulting in IC50 values of 128.7 μM, 203.8 μM and 88.1 μM, respectively, highlighting that even significantly truncated molecules are capable of RdRp inhibition. A thiophene substituent in position 5 (i.e., 3c) proved to be the

Ligand effects, solvent cooperation, and large kinetic solvent deuterium isotope effects in gold(I)-catalyzed intramolecular alkene hydroamination

• Ruichen Lan,
• Brock Yager,
• Yoonsun Jee,
• Cynthia S. Day and
• Amanda C. Jones

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 479–496, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.43

• Scheme 2. It is similar to that of HOTf-catalyzed intramolecular sulfonamide hydroamination (−34 ± 5 cal/mol·K) [31] and different from that measured for intramolecular pyridone hydroamination (−6.2 ± 0.8 cal/mol·K) [11]. Isotope effects. The presence or absence of kinetic deuterium isotope effect is

Mechanochemical bottom-up synthesis of phosphorus-linked, heptazine-based carbon nitrides using sodium phosphide

• Blaine G. Fiss,
• Georgia Douglas,
• Michael Ferguson,
• Jorge Becerra,
• Jesus Valdez,
• Trong-On Do,
• Tomislav Friščić and
• Audrey Moores

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1203–1209, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.125

• ratio of pyridinic and pyridone nitrogen being 68% and 29%, respectively, compared to 62% and 38% in g-h-PCN (Figure 2e). Phosphorus 2p focused scans of g-h-PCN300 showed a slight reduction in P–O and P=O bond character from g-h-PCN to g-h-PCN300 down from 69% to 66% (Figure 2f). Analysis by infrared

Lewis acid-catalyzed Pudovik reaction–phospha-Brook rearrangement sequence to access phosphoric esters

• Jin Yang,
• Dang-Wei Qian and
• Shang-Dong Yang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1188–1194, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.123

• recognized as challenging since there is no single report on such a sequence under Lewis acid catalysis. Herein, we report the synthesis of phosphoric esters by a Lewis acid Cu(OTf)2-catalyzed one-pot Pudovik reaction–phospha-Brook rearrangement sequence between pyridinyl-substituted aldehyde or pyridone

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

• -triaryl-substituted and 1,2,5,6-tetrasubstituted nicotinates. Keywords: isoxazole; methyl nicotinate; molybdenum hexacarbonyl; 4-pyridone; ring expansion; Introduction Pyridine moieties are present in many natural products, drugs, pesticides and industrial materials. Pyridine fragments are used in drugs

• formation of pyridone 5 (route b), is less likely due to the lower electrophilicity of the ester carbon compared to the acyl carbon. To check this, isoxazole 1g was synthesized and reacted with Mo(CO)6 in wet acetonitrile at 60 °C for 2 d to give pyridone 2g in 45% yield. The reaction at 70 °C was completed

• in a day to give pyridone 2g in 74% yield. A further increase in temperature, although it led to a reduction in the reaction time, was accompanied by resinification of the reaction mixture and, as a result, led to a decrease in the yields of pyridone 2g (80 °C, 3 h, 63%; 85 °C, 3 h, 42%). Enamine 6

Copper-catalyzed monoselective C–H amination of ferrocenes with alkylamines

• Zhen-Sheng Jia,
• Qiang Yue,
• Ya Li,
• Xue-Tao Xu,
• Kun Zhang and
• Bing-Feng Shi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2488–2495, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.165

• in MeCN, the yield could be improved to 32% (Table 1, entry 4). Further screening of other oxidants revealed that NMO was the optimal (Table 1, entries 9–11). When the reaction was conducted in neat in the presence of 2-pyridone, 3a was obtained in 36% yield (Table 1, entry 12). However, significant

Development of N-F fluorinating agents and their fluorinations: Historical perspective

• Teruo Umemoto,
• Yuhao Yang and
• Gerald B. Hammond

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1752–1813, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.123

• fluorinated organic compounds attractive in many research areas and therefore fluorinating agents are important. N-F agents have proven useful by virtue of their easy handling. This reagent class includes many types of N-F compounds: perfluoro-N-fluoropiperidine, N-fluoro-2-pyridone, N-fluoro-N

• detected, but N-fluoroimides 2-1 and 2-2 were formed. The stability of these N-F compounds was low, since they decomposed to H2NCO(CF2)nCOOH upon standing with air. 1-3. 1-Fluoro-2-pyridone In 1983, Purrington and co-worker synthesized 1-fluoro-2-pyridone (3-1) as a fluorination agent [24]. When 2

• -(trimethylsiloxy)pyridine was allowed to react with 5% F2 diluted with N2 in a freon solvent at −78 °C, 1-fluoro-2-pyridone was obtained in 63% yield (Scheme 5). The fluorination efficiency of 3-1 was higher than perfluoro-N-fluoropiperidine (1-1) and the yields of reaction with sodium diethyl malonates improved

Icilio Guareschi and his amazing “1897 reaction”

• Gian Cesare Tron,
• Alberto Minassi,
• Giovanni Sorba,
• Mara Fausone and
• Giovanni Appendino

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1335–1351, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.93

• to name type-I Guareschi pyridone synthesis the two-component reaction between a β-aminocarbonyl and a cyanoacetic ester, a reaction first reported in 1893 [34]. It is a classic combination of a Knoevenagel condensation and ester aminolysis typical for many heterocyclic syntheses. The type-II

• amine, affording a 6-aminopyridone, which, after acidic treatment, is turned into the same β,β-disubstituted glutarate formed by hydrolysis of the pyridone from the type-IV Guareschi reaction. This modification of the type-IV Guareschi reaction is the “real” Guareschi–Thorpe reaction, which in many

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

• pharmaceuticals and biologically active molecules (116–118) [103]. Similarly, heterocycles having pyridone nucleus are pharmacologically important as they can act as potent anticancer (119), antibacterial (120) and antiviral agents (121, Figure 9) [104][105][106]. Shamsuzzaman and co-workers [107] demonstrated

• first time reported a microwave-assisted four-component domino reaction involving acyclic 1,3-diketones 54, amines 32, diethyl malonate (126) and triethyl orthoformate (111) for the synthesis of substituted pyridone derivatives 127 at 120 °C under catalyst- and solvent-free conditions. The reaction

4-Hydroxy-3-methyl-2(1H)-quinolone, originally discovered from a Brassicaceae plant, produced by a soil bacterium of the genus Burkholderia sp.: determination of a preferred tautomer and antioxidant activity

• Dandan Li,
• Naoya Oku,
• Yukiko Shinozaki,
• Yoichi Kurokawa and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1489–1494, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.124

• ) [19], N-methyl-2-pyridone 7 (δ 139.5) [20], 2,4-dimethoxy-3-methylquinoline (8, δ 147.0) [21], and 2-methoxypyridine 9 (δ 147.2) [22] supported a 2-quinolone form 1 but not 2-quinolinol 2 (Figure 2, Table 1). The same structure was synthesized from diethyl malonate and aniline (see Supporting

Copper-catalysed alkylation of heterocyclic acceptors with organometallic reagents

• Yafei Guo and
• Syuzanna R. Harutyunyan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1006–1021, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.90

• promoted the addition of Grignard reagents to N-Cbz-pyridone and N-Cbz-2,3-dihydropyridone Michael acceptors with high enantioselectivity and yield. It is worth mentioning that in copper-catalysed additions of Grignard reagents to N-Cbz-pyridone, the use of a Lewis acid (BF3·OEt2) together with the copper

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

• fragments proceeds first, followed by intramolecular cyclization (Scheme 4B). The structure of the 4-chloro-substituted pyrrolopyrimidinone 1e was proven by single crystal X-ray analysis (Figure 1). Despite the unambiguous dominance of the pyridone-based conformation in the solid state of 1e, two tautomers

Anion-driven encapsulation of cationic guests inside pyridine[4]arene dimers

• Anniina Kiesilä,
• Jani O. Moilanen,
• Anneli Kruve,
• Christoph A. Schalley,
• Perdita Barran and
• Elina Kalenius

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2486–2492, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.241

• further calculations were carried out for the most stable tautomer. The conformational analysis revealed that the pyridone tautomer (1) is ≈150 kJ/mol lower in energy than the dihydroxy tautomer (1OH). The geometry optimizations showed that the geometry of [12 + Me4Nendo]+ is similar without and with

Combining the Ugi-azide multicomponent reaction and rhodium(III)-catalyzed annulation for the synthesis of tetrazole-isoquinolone/pyridone hybrids

• Gerardo M. Ojeda,
• Prabhat Ranjan,
• Pavel Fedoseev,
• Lisandra Amable,
• Upendra K. Sharma,
• Daniel G. Rivera and
• Erik V. Van der Eycken

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2447–2457, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.237

• rhodium(III)-catalyzed intermolecular annulation has been established for the preparation of tetrazole-isoquinolone/pyridone hybrids. Several N-acylaminomethyltetrazoles were reacted with arylacetylenes to form the hybrid products in moderate to very good yields. The method relies on the capacity of the

• isoquinolones is very wide and may be extended to the preparation of complex compounds having heterocyclic moieties such as pyridone, furan, thiophene and pyrrole, as well as the corresponding benzo-fused derivatives. The developed procedure is simple, reproducible and does not require inert conditions

• could form isoquinolones and pyridones linked to a tetrazole ring, since such class of hybrid compounds is not described in the literature. Several protocols based on C–H activation or metal-catalyzed cyclizations are known to generate the isoquinolone and pyridone moieties and further assist their post