Pyridine C(sp²)–H bond functionalization under transition-metal and rare earth metal catalysis

• Haritha Sindhe,
• Malladi Mounika Reddy,
• Karthikeyan Rajkumar,
• Akshay Kamble,
• Amardeep Singh,
• Anand Kumar and
• Satyasheel Sharma

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 820–863, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.62

• also achieving selectivity is difficult due to its ubiquitous nature [40]. The metal-catalyzed C–H bond functionalization is a good strategy for synthesizing highly functionalized organic frameworks. In this context, the C–H alkylation is one of the most important C–C bond-formation reactions [41][42

Synthesis of medium and large phostams, phostones, and phostines

• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 687–699, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.50

• applied for the synthesis of seven to fourteen-membered phostam, phostone, and phostine derivatives. 1.1 Synthesis via C–C bond formation Most medium and large phostams, phostones, and phostines were prepared via C–C bond formation, especially via ring-closing metathesis (RCM). 1.1.1 Synthesis via C–C

• -azaphosphepane 2-oxide and 1,2-azaphosphocane 2-oxide derivatives. Thus, the strategy is an efficient method for the synthesis of 1,2-azaphosphepine 2-oxides, 1,2-azaphosphocine 2-oxides, 1,2-azaphosphepane 2-oxides, and 1,2-azaphosphocane 2-oxides via C–C bond formation. All phostams 5, 6, 9 and 10 are

• and NaCl. Only one example was reported for this class of the synthesis via C–C bond formation (Scheme 10) [30]. 1.2 Synthesis via C–O bond formation Halocyclization has been widely applied in the syntheses of phostone and phostine derivatives via C–O bond formation [13][17]. Both bromo and iodo

Strategies to access the [5-8] bicyclic core encountered in the sesquiterpene, diterpene and sesterterpene series

• Cécile Alleman,
• Charlène Gadais,
• Laurent Legentil and
• François-Hugues Porée

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 245–281, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.23

• found multiple applications in natural product synthesis [65]. Employed in C–C bond-formation reactions, this single-electron reducing agent has been particularly useful for five- to eight-membered ring cyclizations [65]. Its tunable reactivity opens access to both radical and anionic processes, hence

Total synthesis of insect sex pheromones: recent improvements based on iron-mediated cross-coupling chemistry

• Eric Gayon,
• Guillaume Lefèvre,
• Olivier Guerret,
• Adrien Tintar and
• Pablo Chourreu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 158–166, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.15

• to overall processes with a low atom economy, generating a significant amount of chemical waste, and which can be expensive when noble metals such as palladium salts are required (Scheme 1). The high efficiency of transition-metal-catalyzed cross-coupling methods in C–C bond formation processes

Redox-active molecules as organocatalysts for selective oxidative transformations – an unperceived organocatalysis field

• Elena R. Lopat’eva,
• Igor B. Krylov,
• Dmitry A. Lapshin and
• Alexander O. Terent’ev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1672–1695, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.179

• substrates. DDQ is a popular mediator for oxidation reactions. It has been used for intramolecular dehydrogenative C–C bond formation between aromatic groups [127]. Using this method, the formation of polyaromatic systems was achieved in good yields (Scheme 26). The cross-dehydrogenative C–N coupling of

Rhodium-catalyzed intramolecular reductive aldol-type cyclization: Application for the synthesis of a chiral necic acid lactone

• Motoyuki Isoda,
• Kazuyuki Sato,
• Kenta Kameda,
• Kana Wakabayashi,
• Ryota Sato,
• Hideki Minami,
• Yukiko Karuo,
• Atsushi Tarui,
• Kentaro Kawai and
• Masaaki Omote

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1642–1648, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.176

• , the reductive aldol-type reaction could also be applied to an asymmetric system, although the diastereoselectivity was poor. On the other hand, reductive Mannich-type reactions were achieved in good to excellent yields with high diastereoselectivity [45][46]. As part of a wider program of C–C bond

• formation systems, we herein report a rhodium-catalyzed intramolecular reductive aldol-type cyclization and its application for the synthesis of a chiral necic acid lactone. Results and Discussion Rh-catalyzed intramolecular cyclization When applying our previously reported conditions [43], the

Electrochemical formal homocoupling of sec-alcohols

• Kosuke Yamamoto,
• Kazuhisa Arita,
• Masashi Shiota,
• Masami Kuriyama and
• Osamu Onomura

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1062–1069, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.108

• electrolysis; Introduction Carbon–carbon bond formation is one of the most fundamental and important reactions in synthetic organic chemistry. Reductive coupling of carbonyl compounds known as pinacol coupling would be a powerful method to construct vic-1,2-diol scaffolds through C–C bond formation [1][2

Molecular diversity of the base-promoted reaction of phenacylmalononitriles with dialkyl but-2-ynedioates

• Hui Zheng,
• Ying Han,
• Jing Sun and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 991–998, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.99

• base to catalyze the C–C bond formation via a Michael addition of active methylene groups [31]. Therefore, in the presence of TBAB, the bromide assisted with the deprotonation of the phenacylmalononitrile to give a carbanion intermediate A. Secondly, the nucleophilic addition of carbanion A to electron

Synthetic strategies for the preparation of γ-phostams: 1,2-azaphospholidine 2-oxides and 1,2-azaphospholine 2-oxides

• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 889–915, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.90

• an efficient method for the synthesis of 1,2-azaphospholidine 2-oxides via the C–C bond formation. Our research group achieved the synthesis of 1-alkyl-3-benzoyl-2-ethoxy-1,3-dihydrobenzo[d][1,2]azaphosphole 2-oxide derivatives 106 from ethyl N-alkyl-N-aryl-1-diazo-2-oxo-2-phenylethylphosphonamidates

Identification of the new prenyltransferase Ubi-297 from marine bacteria and elucidation of its substrate specificity

• Jamshid Amiri Moghaddam,
• Huijuan Guo,
• Karsten Willing,
• Thomas Wichard and
• Christine Beemelmanns

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 722–731, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.72

• preferences. While the microbial UbiA Ptase catalyzes the C–C-bond formation between an isoprenyl chain and the meta-position of p-hydroxybenzoate (PHB) in the ubiquinone-Coenzyme Q10 biosynthesis (Figure 1), Ptases of type MenA perform the key step in the menaquinone biosynthesis by prenylating 1,4-dihydroxy

Regioselectivity of the S_EAr-based cyclizations and S_EAr-terminated annulations of 3,5-unsubstituted, 4-substituted indoles

• Jonali Das and
• Sajal Kumar Das

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 293–302, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.33

• 18 via a concerted protonation and C–C bond formation. Weakened dispersive interactions caused by a substituent or heteroatom resulted in low yields and reduced regioselectivities. In 2020, Li and Van der Eycken and co-workers reported the synthesis of densely functionalized, polycyclic azepino[5,4,3

Recent developments and trends in the iron- and cobalt-catalyzed Sonogashira reactions

• Surendran Amrutha,
• Sankaran Radhika and
• Gopinathan Anilkumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 262–285, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.31

• emphasis given to green strategies. This is the first review on iron- and cobalt-catalyzed Sonogashira coupling reactions which comprehends literature up to 2020. Keywords: C–C bond formation; cobalt; green reaction; iron; nanoparticles; Sonogashira; Introduction The palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling

1,2-Naphthoquinone-4-sulfonic acid salts in organic synthesis

• Ruan Carlos B. Ribeiro,
• Patricia G. Ferreira,
• Amanda de A. Borges,
• Luana da S. M. Forezi,
• Fernando de Carvalho da Silva and
• Vitor F. Ferreira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 53–69, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.5

• exhibiting solid-state fluorescence, although the fluorescence partially disappears in solution, and there is a large shift to red and blue [98][99]. Carbon–carbon bond formation The main steps in a synthesis usually involve C–C bond formation, which is usually the main reaction step, or functional group

• transformations. Organometallics are the most commonly used catalysts to promote C–C bond formation. In addition, other so-called classical reactions are also widely used, such as Friedel–Crafts alkylation and acylation, Wittig and Horner–Emmons reactions, carbonyl addition/substitution, α-alkylation, aldol

• bond from β-NQS. Method A: NaOH, EtOH/H2O, 40 °C, 2 h; Method B: t-BuOK, PEG-300, rt, 6–10 min. C=C bond formation from β-NQS and substituted acetonitriles. Funding Fellowships granted by CNPq (301873/2019-4 and 306011/2020-4), CAPES (Financial Code 001), and FAPERJ (E-26/203.191/2017, E-26/202.800

Iron-catalyzed domino coupling reactions of π-systems

• Austin Pounder and
• William Tam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2848–2893, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.196

• reported a similar approach towards the assembly of 2,2-disubstituted indolines from N-sulfonylanilines and substituted styrene derivatives [93]. In 2014, the Jiao group investigated the carbosulfonation of alkenes 60 for the synthesis of oxindoles 90 through sequential C–S/C–C-bond formation (Scheme 16

Synthesis of highly substituted fluorenones via metal-free TBHP-promoted oxidative cyclization of 2-(aminomethyl)biphenyls. Application to the total synthesis of nobilone

• Ilya A. P. Jourjine,
• Lukas Zeisel,
• Jürgen Krauß and
• Franz Bracher

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2668–2679, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.181

• aldehyde (33%) being generated (Table 2, entry 11). Similar results were obtained when adding iodine to promote benzylic oxidation [56] (Table 2, entry 12). Finally, Pd(OAc)2 was added in hopes of improving the mediation of C–C bond formation [38] (Table 2, entry 13). Interestingly, here the yield of

Synthesis of phenanthridines via a novel photochemically-mediated cyclization and application to the synthesis of triphaeridine

• Songeziwe Ntsimango,
• Kennedy J. Ngwira,
• Moira L. Bode and
• Charles B. de Koning

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2340–2347, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.152

• furnishing the central ring through C–C bond formation. Indeed, this strategy has been employed for decades in reactions such as dehydrative cyclization of acyl-O-aminobiphenyls at very high temperatures (the Pictet–Hubert reaction and Morgan–Walls reaction) [5][6], which is also reflected in modern methods

Recent advances in the syntheses of anthracene derivatives

• Giovanni S. Baviera and
• Paulo M. Donate

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2028–2050, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.131

• anthracene derivatives 33. The strategy involved a palladium(II)-catalyzed tandem transformation with diphenyl carboxylic acids 31 and acrylates 32 (Scheme 7) [41]. This new methodology involved a carboxyl-directed C–H alkenylation, a carboxyl-directed secondary C–H activation, an intramolecular C–C-bond

• formation, and further decarboxylative aromatization. The authors used several diphenyl carboxylic acids bearing electron-donating and electron-withdrawing groups on the aromatic rings to produce the corresponding substituted anthracenes, such as compounds 33a–f, in good yields [41]. Recently, Kim and co

On the application of 3d metals for C–H activation toward bioactive compounds: The key step for the synthesis of silver bullets

• Renato L. Carvalho,
• Amanda S. de Miranda,
• Mateus P. Nunes,
• Roberto S. Gomes,
• Guilherme A. M. Jardim and
• Eufrânio N. da Silva Júnior

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1849–1938, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.126

Prins cyclization-mediated stereoselective synthesis of tetrahydropyrans and dihydropyrans: an inspection of twenty years

• Asha Budakoti,
• Pradip Kumar Mondal,
• Prachi Verma and
• Jagadish Khamrai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 932–963, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.77

• cyclization, Scheidt and co-workers introduced a new method to access highly functionalized chiral THP efficiently (Scheme 17) [52]. Furthermore, the possible reaction pathway indicates the formation of oxocarbenium ion 82, followed by C–C bond formation via a chair-like transition state to afford 83 (Scheme

• DDQ and the subsequent abstraction of hydride from the benzylic or allylic position generated a charge-transfer complex 298. The complex 298 formed a tin-containing ate oxocarbenium ion complex 299 with SnBr4, and then rapid C–C bond formation took place to generate the cyclic intermediate 300. The

Synthetic reactions driven by electron-donor–acceptor (EDA) complexes

• Zhonglie Yang,
• Yutong Liu,
• Kun Cao,
• Xiaobin Zhang,
• Hezhong Jiang and
• Jiahong Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 771–799, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.67

• conditions, more attention has been paid to this efficient strategy for C–C-bond formation. In 2015, Yu and colleagues [27] proposed a method for direct C–H trifluoromethylation of aromatic hydrocarbons through an EDA complex. Trifluoromethylated product 61 was synthesized by employing tryptamine derivative

Helicene synthesis by Brønsted acid-catalyzed cycloaromatization in HFIP [(CF₃)₂CHOH]

• Takeshi Fujita,
• Noriaki Shoji,
• Nao Yoshikawa and
• Junji Ichikawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 396–403, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.35

• bisacetal precursors, which were readily prepared through C–C bond formation by Suzuki–Miyaura coupling. This cyclization was efficiently realized by a catalytic amount of trifluoromethanesulfonic acid (TfOH) in a cation-stabilizing solvent, 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoropropan-2-ol (HFIP), which readily allowed

• derivatives readily underwent intramolecular Friedel–Crafts-type C–C bond formation followed by dehydration or alcohol elimination, leading to the construction of benzene rings in the biaryl systems (Scheme 2) [20][21]. The reaction proceeded via oxocarbenium ion intermediates stabilized by HFIP. This method

All-carbon [3 + 2] cycloaddition in natural product synthesis

• Zhuo Wang and
• Junyang Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 3015–3031, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.251

• cation, which is intercepted by the titanium enolate and results in the new C–C bond formation to give the five-membered carbocycle 169. Conclusion The all-carbon [3 + 2] cycloaddition, together with the [3 + 2] annulation, continue to be an attractive class of reactions for the synthesis of highly

Hierarchically assembled helicates as reaction platform – from stoichiometric Diels–Alder reactions to enamine catalysis

• David Van Craen,
• Jenny Begall,
• Johannes Großkurth,
• Leonard Himmel,
• Oliver Linnenberg,
• Elisabeth Isaak and
• Markus Albrecht

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2338–2345, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.195

• providing the stereoinformation necessary for induction during the C–C bond formation. Catalytic approaches for C–C bond-forming reactions even found their way into the relatively young field of supramolecular chemistry, e.g., regioselective Diels–Alder reactions within supramolecular hosts as described by

Metal-free synthesis of phosphinoylchroman-4-ones via a radical phosphinoylation–cyclization cascade mediated by K₂S₂O₈

• Qiang Liu,
• Weibang Lu,
• Guanqun Xie and
• Xiaoxia Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1974–1982, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.164

• under metal-free conditions and uses cheap K2S2O8 as oxidant with easy handling and a broad substrate scope. The reaction proceeds through a radical phosphinoylation–cyclization via a tandem C–P and C–C-bond formation. Biologically active compounds featuring the chroman-4-one framework. X-ray structure

When metal-catalyzed C–H functionalization meets visible-light photocatalysis

• Lucas Guillemard and
• Joanna Wencel-Delord

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1754–1804, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.147