N-tert-Butanesulfinyl imines in the asymmetric synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocycles

• Joseane A. Mendes,
• Paulo R. R. Costa,
• Miguel Yus,
• Francisco Foubelo and
• Camilla D. Buarque

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1096–1140, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.86

• number of classical methodologies have been used for their synthesis, in which the key step is the generation of the six-membered ring, including the aldol reaction, the reductive amination, Mannich reaction, ring closing metathesis, Diels–Alder reaction with imines as dienophiles, aza-Prins cyclization

CF₃-substituted carbocations: underexploited intermediates with great potential in modern synthetic chemistry

• Anthony J. Fernandes,
• Armen Panossian,
• Bastien Michelet,
• Agnès Martin-Mingot,
• Frédéric R. Leroux and
• Sébastien Thibaudeau

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 343–378, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.32

Direct synthesis of anomeric tetrazolyl iminosugars from sugar-derived lactams

• Michał M. Więcław and
• Bartłomiej Furman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 115–123, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.12

• as the aldol reaction [30], Michael addition [31], Mannich reaction [32], and hydrogenation [33]. Results and Discussion Quite recently Xie and Dixon showed that it is possible to synthesize α-tetrazolylamines from simple and linear tertiary amides using an iridium-based catalytic protocol [19]. They

• widely used as organocatalysts. Such moieties are employed in a number of important synthetic transformations, including the aldol reaction [30], Michael addition [31], Mannich reaction [32], and hydrogenation [33]. We plan to test these possibilities in the near future. Stereochemistry and configuration

Recent progress in the synthesis of homotropane alkaloids adaline, euphococcinine and N-methyleuphococcinine

• Dimas J. P. Lima,
• Antonio E. G. Santana,
• Michael A. Birkett and
• Ricardo S. Porto

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 28–41, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.4

• forms. Key (homotropane construction) steps included: i) inter and intramolecular Mannich reaction; ii) double Michael addition in the cyclooctadienone derivative; and iii) intramolecular 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition. As shown in Scheme 1, the azabicyclononane ring is an interesting target for strategies

• based on the Mannich reaction. This methodology is mostly used in some cases, with few steps, and from commercially available reagents. Holmes synthesis – 1995 Davison and Holmes prepared racemic (±)-adaline (1) and (±)-euphococcinine (2). The key step in the synthesis involved the intramolecular

• on an intramolecular Mannich reaction that occurred in intermediate 31 (Scheme 4). Thus, thiolactam 26 was quantitatively converted to lactam 27, using the Belleau's reagent [43]. 27 was treated with Weinreb amide 33, prepared from commercially available bromoacetyl bromide [44] to provide the

Three-component reactions of aromatic amines, 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds, and α-bromoacetaldehyde acetal to access N-(hetero)aryl-4,5-unsubstituted pyrroles

• Wenbo Huang,
• Kaimei Wang,
• Ping Liu,
• Minghao Li,
• Shaoyong Ke and
• Yanlong Gu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2920–2928, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.241

• , the transformations can generally be realized through the following three approaches (Scheme 1): (i) [1 + 1 + 3] annulation, in which (hetero)arylamines are reacted with a C3 donor and a C1 donor to construct pyrrole scaffolds. Kumar et al. [26] developed a proline-catalyzed Mannich reaction

Asymmetric Mannich reactions of (S)-N-tert-butylsulfinyl-3,3,3-trifluoroacetaldimines with yne nucleophiles

• Ziyi Li,
• Li Wang,
• Yunqi Huang,
• Haibo Mei,
• Hiroyuki Konno,
• Hiroki Moriwaki,
• Vadim A. Soloshonok and
• Jianlin Han

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2671–2678, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.217

• afford diastereomerically pure compounds. The purified Mannich addition products were deprotected to give the target enantiomerically pure trifluoromethylpropargylamines. A mechanistic rationale for the observed stereochemical outcome is discussed. Keywords: arylethynes; asymmetric Mannich reaction; C

• compounds for the synthesis of biologically relevant targets and their self-disproportionation of enantiomers (SDE) properties [58][59][60] are currently under study and will be reported in due course. Experimental General procedure for the Mannich reaction of arylethynes with sulfinylimine: Into an oven

Recent applications of porphyrins as photocatalysts in organic synthesis: batch and continuous flow approaches

• Rodrigo Costa e Silva,
• Luely Oliveira da Silva,
• Aloisio de Andrade Bartolomeu,
• Timothy John Brocksom and
• Kleber Thiago de Oliveira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 917–955, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.83

Complexation of chiral amines by resorcin[4]arene sulfonic acids in polar media – circular dichroism and diffusion studies of chirality transfer and solvent dependence

• Bartosz Setner and
• Agnieszka Szumna

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1913–1924, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.187

• effect on stability and ordering, and, additionally we aimed to test the possibility of formation of water-soluble capsules, which are of particular interest to supramolecular chemists. Results and Discussion RSAs can be readily synthesized by the Mannich reaction of upper-rim unsubstituted resorcin[4

• column anion exchange using DOWEX® 50W resin. Chiral resorcinarenes (R)-2 and (S)-2 were synthesized by the Mannich reaction of C-(3-hydroxypropyl)resorcin[4]arene with (R)- or (S)-2-phenylethylamine and formaldehyde in methanol in 38% yield for (R)-2 and 36% yield for (S)-2 yields according to modified

Efficiency Eff_syn of complex syntheses as multicomponent reactions, its algorithm and calculations based on concrete criteria

• Heiner Eckert

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1425–1433, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.142

• synthesis steps yn (Equation 1). An extreme example for the impact of the overall yield is the tropinone synthesis by Willstätter (yoa = 0.75%) [7][8] compared to the Robinson–Schöpf synthesis (yoa = 90%) [9][10]) using a double Mannich reaction, a multicomponent reaction (MCR) [11][12][13]. The Mannich-3CR

Steroid diversification by multicomponent reactions

• Leslie Reguera,
• Cecilia I. Attorresi,
• Javier A. Ramírez and
• Daniel G. Rivera

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1236–1256, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.121

• [68] increased the diversity of MCRs that can be used to ligate peptides to steroids with the development of a novel multicomponent conjugation process based on the Petasis-3CR. The Petasis reaction [69] also known as the borono-Mannich reaction, is a MCR comprising the condensation of an aldehyde or

A chemoenzymatic synthesis of ceramide trafficking inhibitor HPA-12

• Seema V. Kanojia,
• Sucheta Chatterjee,
• Subrata Chattopadhyay and
• Dibakar Goswami

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 490–496, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.42

• researches involving CERT inhibition. For this, a number of groups have successfully accomplished the synthesis of HPA-12 [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. The first synthesis of HPA-12 comprised [13] a three-component asymmetric Mannich reaction catalyzed by a chiral zirconium catalyst

Microwave-assisted synthesis of N,N-bis(phosphinoylmethyl)amines and N,N,N-tris(phosphinoylmethyl)amines bearing different substituents on the phosphorus atoms

• Erika Bálint,
• Anna Tripolszky,
• László Hegedűs and
• György Keglevich

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 469–473, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.40

• ][3][4]. In addition, a few Pt, Ru and Au complexes incorporating phosphine ligands show significant anticancer activity [5][6]. One of the most common synthetic routes to α-aminophosphine oxides is the Kabachnik–Fields (phospha-Mannich) reaction, where an amine, an oxo compound (aldehyde or ketone

Silanediol versus chlorosilanol: hydrolyses and hydrogen-bonding catalyses with fenchole-based silanes

• Falco Fox,
• Jörg M. Neudörfl and
• Bernd Goldfuss

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 167–186, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.17

• )–2.05(2) Å) than with chlorosilanol 8 (OH···2.16(0) Å). Due to its two hydroxy units, the silanediol 9 shows higher catalytic activity as hydrogen bond donor than chlorosilanol 8, e.g., C–C coupling N-acyl Mannich reaction of silyl ketene acetals 11 with N-acylisoquinolinium ions (up to 85% yield and 12

• ion catalyses The N-acyl Mannich reaction of isochinolin (16), which is activated with 2,2,2-trichloroethoxycarbonyl chloride (17, TrocCl) to carbamate 10, and different silyl ketene acetals 11a–d yielding product 12 (Scheme 6) [45][47], is studied. Mattson et al. proposed a mechanism where the

• % (Table 9, entry 7). For 11a, b and d and silanediol 9 as catalyst, an enantiomeric inversion is observed (Table 9, entries 5, 6 and 8). The substrate scope is broadened with 1-chloroisochroman (18) as alternative substrate (Table 10). The reaction mechanism is analogue to the N-acyl Mannich reaction

A novel and practical asymmetric synthesis of eptazocine hydrobromide

• Ruipeng Li,
• Zhenren Liu,
• Liang Chen,
• Jing Pan,
• Kuaile Lin and
• Weicheng Zhou

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2340–2347, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.209

• Mannich reaction to construct the tricyclic framework of 6. The study started with the alkylation under catalysis of 3 in a two-phase system of chlorobenzene and 50% aqueous NaOH solution based on our previous report [14]. When the reaction was run at 0–5 °C, an excellent yield (70%) and enantiomeric

• -methyl-7-methoxy-2-tetralone and a Mannich reaction to construct the tricyclic compound in eight linear steps. The optimization of reaction conditions were carried out to get a practical route delivering the product in excellent yield and purity (>99%). Experimental All solvents and reagents were from

• replaced with HOAc/H2O (2:1) or Pd/C was selected as a catalyst, the reaction gave a similar result as with Raney-Ni as catalyst in NH3/CH3OH. It seems that compound 5 easily reacted with the carbonyl group to form the five-membered ring. Since the carbonyl group is necessary for the following Mannich

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

• also proved to be highly efficient for a range of transformations. Review Enantioselective Mannich reactions Organocatalyzed reactions Originally, the Mannich reaction is a three-component process occurring between an aldehyde, an amine and a ketone, providing β-amino carbonyl compounds [23][24][25

• 2015 by Enders et al. at a remarkably low catalyst loading (0.0225 mol %) to promote the enantioselective Mannich reaction of ethyl nitroacetate (2) with N-Boc-isatin imines 3 [35]. The process afforded, after a subsequent denitration, the corresponding chiral 3-amino-2-oxindoles 4 in moderate to high

• products were converted into useful intermediates for the synthesis of pyrroloindoline alkaloids and related drugs, such as psychotrimine and (+)-folicanthine. Later in 2016, Trivedi et al. reported the synthesis of chiral 3-amino-2-oxindoles through the Mannich reaction of N-Boc-isatin imines 3 with 1,3

Mannich base-connected syntheses mediated by ortho-quinone methides

• Petra Barta,
• Ferenc Fülöp and
• István Szatmári

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 560–575, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.43

• adducts. Due to the important pharmacological activities of these reactive o-QM intermediates, special attention is paid to the biological activity of these compounds. Keywords: aminophenols; [4 + 2] cycloaddition; dienophile; Mannich reaction; ortho-quinone methide; Review Introduction The Mannich

• secondary amine. Recently, one of its special variations called modified Mannich reaction, has gained ground, in which the C–H acid is replaced by electron-rich aromatic compounds such as 1- and 2-naphthols as active hydrogen sources [6]. At the beginning of the 20th century, Mario Betti reported the

• -aminoalkyl-2-naphthol derivatives by a simple amide hydrolysis. The mechanism of the Mannich reaction is depicted in Scheme 1. First, the reaction between the aldehyde and 2-naphthol, induced by the catalyst, leads to the generation of o-QM intermediate 3 that reacts further with the amide component to form

Regioselective decarboxylative addition of malonic acid and its mono(thio)esters to 4-trifluoromethylpyrimidin-2(1H)-ones

• Sergii V. Melnykov,
• Andrii S. Pataman,
• Yurii V. Dmytriv,
• Svitlana V. Shishkina,
• Mykhailo V. Vovk and
• Volodymyr A. Sukach

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2617–2625, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.259

• from the group of Ma described the development of a chiral thiourea-catalyzed enantioselective decarboxylative Mannich reaction of malonic acid monoesters with 4-trifluoromethylquinazolin-2(1H)-ones as heterocyclic trifluoromethylketimine substrates for the preparation of enantioenriched 3,4

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

• ]. Mechanochemical methods of the Mannich reaction, Paal–Knorr synthesis, Bigineli reaction, Hantzsch reaction, and syntheses of substituted pyran, thiophene, isoquinoline derivatives, etc. are also reported [104][107][112][113]. Isocyanide-based multi-component reactions are also well known [114][115]. Recently, in

1-Imidoalkylphosphonium salts with modulated C_α–P⁺ bond strength: synthesis and application as new active α-imidoalkylating agents

• Jakub Adamek,
• Roman Mazurkiewicz,
• Anna Węgrzyk and
• Karol Erfurt

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1446–1455, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.142

• aldehydes or ketones (mainly formaldehyde) with ammonia or aliphatic amines and CH-acidic carbonyl compounds, known as the Mannich reaction, plays an important role in organic synthesis, despite some limitations of this reaction. α-Amidoalkylation reactions are considered an important extension of the

• Mannich reaction [1][2][3]. They are crucial methods for the formation of >NC–C and >NC–Het bonds used, inter alia, for the generation of the β-aminocarbonyl substructure and for the construction of new carbo- or heterocyclic systems, especially in pharmaceutical chemistry and in the synthesis of natural

A speedy route to sterically encumbered, benzene-fused derivatives of privileged, naturally occurring hexahydropyrrolo[1,2-b]isoquinoline

• Olga Bakulina,
• Alexander Ivanov,
• Vitalii Suslonov,
• Dmitry Dar’in and
• Mikhail Krasavin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1413–1424, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.138

• ) N-acylation of the imine component followed by intramolecular Mannich reaction or (b) Mannich-type addition of the HPA enolate to a protonated imine component followed by intramolecular aminolysis of the cyclic anhydride moiety in Mannich adduct 13 (Scheme 3) [1]. Investigation of the CCR leading to

Exploring endoperoxides as a new entry for the synthesis of branched azasugars

• Svenja Domeyer,
• Mark Bjerregaard,
• Henrik Johansson and
• Daniel Sejer Pedersen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 644–647, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.63

• TEMPO, whereas oxidation of 6 using the Parikh–Doering method gave a good yield of aldehyde 10. Next, aldehydes 7, 9 and 10 were subjected to a Mannich reaction using the method by Erkkilä and Pihko to give the α,β-unsaturated aldehydes 11–13 in good yields [20]. The final step of the diene synthesis

Synthesis of 1-indanones with a broad range of biological activity

• Marika Turek,
• Dorota Szczęsna,
• Marek Koprowski and
• Piotr Bałczewski

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 451–494, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.48

• 116 was isolated in 60% yield and further used in the synthesis of the natural product. Hexamethylenetetramine (HMTA) is a commonly used promoter of aryl alkyl ketones in the Mannich reaction which has been applied in the synthesis of α,β-unsaturated ketones 119 [64]. The HMTA/acetic anhydride

Synthesis of structurally diverse 3,4-dihydropyrimidin-2(1H)-ones via sequential Biginelli and Passerini reactions

• Andreas C. Boukis,
• Baptiste Monney and
• Michael A. R. Meier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 54–62, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.7

• dihydropyridine synthesis (1882), the Biginelli dihydropyrimidone synthesis (1891), the Mannich reaction (1912), the Passerini three-component reaction (1921) and the Ugi four-component reaction (1959) [9]. In this work, we used Biginelli and Passerini reactions to synthesize highly functionalized compounds

New approaches to organocatalysis based on C–H and C–X bonding for electrophilic substrate activation

• Pavel Nagorny and
• Zhankui Sun

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2834–2848, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.283

• -methylpiperidinium iodide. Both L5 and L6 were found to promote the Mannich reaction between N-Troc-isoquinolinium chlorides and silyl enol ethers. Catalyst L6 with non-coordinating BArF− counterion was found to have a significantly higher activity than L5 with iodide counterion, probably, due to the competitive

β-Amino functionalization of cinnamic Weinreb amides in ionic liquid

• Yi-Ning Wang,
• Guo-Xiang Sun and
• Gang Qi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2372–2377, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.231

• towards the preparation of β-amino carbonyl compounds is the Mannich reaction [8][9]. However, there are few reported methods specifically focused on this target, which include oxidation of γ-amino alcohols [10], hydrolysis of 1,3-oxazines [11], rearrangement of 2,3-aziridinio alcohols [12], etc. N