Facile preparation and conversion of 4,4,4-trifluorobut-2-yn-1-ones to aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds

• Takashi Yamazaki,
• Yoh Nakajima,
• Minato Iida and
• Tomoko Kawasaki-Takasuka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 132–138, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.14

• as a Michael acceptor. Stronger bases, such as NaH and t-BuOK seemed to be preferable (Table 2, entries 3 and 6), and amines such as DBU and 1,1,3,3-tetramethylguanidine (TMG) were found to be insufficient (Table 2, entries 10 and 11). Judging from the possible mechanism, this process was considered

Synthesis of aryl 2-bromo-2-chloro-1,1-difluoroethyl ethers through the base-mediated reaction between phenols and halothane

• Yukiko Karuo,
• Ayaka Kametani,
• Atsushi Tarui,
• Kazuyuki Sato,
• Kentaro Kawai and
• Masaaki Omote

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 89–96, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.9

• substrates that are susceptible to radical conditions, afforded the corresponding iodo- and alkenyl-substituted products, suggesting the reaction proceeds through an ionic process. 2-Hydroxychalcone (1o), which is a good Michael acceptor, also participated in the reaction to give the product 2o in 56% yield

One-pot and metal-free synthesis of 3-arylated-4-nitrophenols via polyfunctionalized cyclohexanones from β-nitrostyrenes

• Haruyasu Asahara,
• Minami Hiraishi and
• Nagatoshi Nishiwaki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1830–1836, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.150

• method toward the preparation of 3-arylated-4-nitrophenols. On the other hand, nitroalkenes possess an electron-deficient double bond, and hence, they serve as an excellent Michael acceptor and dienophile [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. When β-nitrostyrene (1, Ar = Ph) is subjected to the Diels–Alder

Et₃N/DMSO-supported one-pot synthesis of highly fluorescent β-carboline-linked benzothiophenones via sulfur insertion and estimation of the photophysical properties

• Dharmender Singh,
• Vipin Kumar and
• Virender Singh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1740–1753, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.146

• presence of two important pharmacophores along with the exocyclic double bond with Michael acceptor properties in the title compounds offers the opportunity to explore their biological potential. Moreover, these β-carboline-linked benzothiophenones displayed excellent fluorescence properties with quantum

Tuneable access to indole, indolone, and cinnoline derivatives from a common 1,4-diketone Michael acceptor

• Dalel El-Marrouki,
• Sabrina Touchet,
• Abderrahmen Abdelli,
• Hédi M’Rabet,
• Mohamed Lotfi Efrit and
• Philippe C. Gros

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1722–1731, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.144

• process, leading respectively to an indole 6 (after dehydration and aromatization) or an indolone 7. The reaction was first investigated by mixing the diketone 5b as the Michael acceptor and benzylamine under various conditions (Table 1). We first investigated the reactivity in the presence of a set of

• of the intermediately formed imine to the Michael acceptor (Scheme 3). We then investigated the synthesis of cinnoline derivatives by mixing the diketone 5a and hydrazine monohydrate under various conditions (Table 2). We first investigated the reactivity in ethanol, as a protic solvent, at room

• leading to the formation of the indolone 7 starts with an imine formation between the secondary amine and the nonconjugated carbonyl from the 1,4-diketone. After an imine–enamine equilibrium, an intramolecular 1,4-addition to the Michael acceptor part of the molecule occurs, followed by a prototropy

The McKenna reaction – avoiding side reactions in phosphonate deprotection

• Katarzyna Justyna,
• Joanna Małolepsza,
• Damian Kusy,
• Waldemar Maniukiewicz and
• Katarzyna M. Błażewska

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1436–1446, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.119

• Michael acceptor, as such is currently popular in the development of covalent inhibitors [43]. The reaction was carried out in the presence of 12 equiv BTMS at 35 °C. The disappearance of the signals originating from the vinyl protons (multiplets at δ 5.56–5.66 and 5.95–6.10 ppm) and the appearance of the

Photocatalysis with organic dyes: facile access to reactive intermediates for synthesis

• Stephanie G. E. Amos,
• Marion Garreau,
• Luca Buzzetti and
• Jerome Waser

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1163–1187, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.103

• ), in the presence of the sacrificial electron donor DIPEA, can reduce these species under green light irradiation. The ensuing decarboxylation provides a C(sp3) radical, which undergoes a radical conjugate addition with a suitable Michael acceptor 4.2, providing the desired alkylation products 4.3. A

• a suitable Michael acceptor 24.2 to obtain the corresponding allylation product 24.3 after a desulfonylation. Enones can also be subject to SET reductions through photoredox catalysis, and this can lead to [2 + 2] cycloadditions [2][108]. Similar intermediates can also be generated through the

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

• chiral natural products and bioactive molecules. Hence, this review focuses on the progress made over the past 20 years for heterocyclic acceptors. Keywords: conjugate addition; copper catalysis; heterocyclic Michael acceptor; organometallics; Introduction The copper-catalysed asymmetric addition of

• enantioselectivity have been reported for conjugate additions of both organoaluminium and organozinc reagents, these reagents also present major drawbacks, namely their commercial availability and atom efficiency, given that only one alkyl group is transferred from the organometallic reagent to the Michael acceptor

Copper-catalyzed enantioselective conjugate addition of organometallic reagents to challenging Michael acceptors

• Delphine Pichon,
• Jennifer Morvan,
• Christophe Crévisy and
• Marc Mauduit

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 212–232, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.24

• accomplished in this stimulating field. Keywords: acylimidazole; N-acyloxazolidinone; N-acylpyrrole; N-acylpyrrolidinone; aldehyde; amide; copper catalysis; electron-deficient alkenes; enantioselective conjugate addition; Michael acceptor; thioester; Introduction Generating high molecular complexity and

• efficient one, giving the 1,4 product with moderate to good yields (34–86%) and excellent enantioinduction (86 to 95% ee, Scheme 16). The methodology was successfully applied to various extended Michael acceptor systems (dienic or trienic acylimidazoles), leading preferably to the corresponding 1,4 products

• regeneration of the α,β-unsaturated 2-acyl-1-methylimidazole moiety was performed in high yield and E/Z selectivity via a two-step protocol. The resulting Michael acceptor was then engaged in an ECA to afford the expected 1,3-dimethyl product in 69% yield and a good diastereomeric excess of 94% (Scheme 17

Chemical synthesis of tripeptide thioesters for the biotechnological incorporation into the myxobacterial secondary metabolite argyrin via mutasynthesis

• David C. B. Siebert,
• Roman Sommer,
• Domen Pogorevc,
• Michael Hoffmann,
• Silke C. Wenzel,
• Rolf Müller and
• Alexander Titz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2922–2929, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.286

• approach where simpler and fully synthetic intermediates of the natural product’s biosynthesis can be biotechnologically incorporated. Here, we report the synthesis of a series of tripeptide thioesters as mutasynthons containing the native sequence with a dehydroalanine (Dha) Michael acceptor attached to a

• . One further possibility for the lack of successful incorporation into argyrins is an intrinsically limited chemical stability of compound 14 which possesses a thioester function and a Michael acceptor motif. Stability of the ᴅ-Ala-Dha-Sar thioester 14, was evaluated by measuring its degradation

• desired thioester probably due to the higher reactivity of the Michael acceptor system. Revision of the synthetic approach into a convergent synthesis with initial formation of the thioester at the amino acid level and subsequent coupling to a dipeptide finally yielded the desired mutasynthon carrying the

Design, synthesis and investigation of water-soluble hemi-indigo photoswitches for bioapplications

• Daria V. Berdnikova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2822–2829, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.275

• and time, changing the ratio of the reactants and addition of NaI as a catalyst, did not suppress this decomposition to a significant extent. A possible reason for this side process is the reactivity of the double bond carbon atom (Michael acceptor) [20]. The intramolecular nucleophilic attack of the

Electrophilic oligodeoxynucleotide synthesis using dM-Dmoc for amino protection

• Shahien Shahsavari,
• Dhananjani N. A. M. Eriyagama,
• Bhaskar Halami,
• Vagarshak Begoyan,
• Marina Tanasova,
• Jinsen Chen and
• Shiyue Fang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1116–1128, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.108

• large excess aniline for scavenging the Michael acceptor side product during cleavage and deprotection was no longer needed. This makes the technology more convenient to use and could extend its scope on incorporating different sensitive functionalities into ODNs. In addition, we found that the sodium

Multicomponent reactions (MCRs): a useful access to the synthesis of benzo-fused γ-lactams

• Edorta Martínez de Marigorta,
• Jesús M. de Los Santos,
• Ana M. Ochoa de Retana,
• Javier Vicario and
• Francisco Palacios

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1065–1085, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.104

• three-component reaction between aryl iodides, incorporating a Michael acceptor 105, amines and amides 2 and carbon monoxide (23) (Scheme 30) [108]. It is remarkable that not only aromatic but also aliphatic amines and even amides and sulfonamides can be used as the nitrogen-containing substrate. With

• chiral amines, very low diastereoselectivity was obtained, probably due to the harsh reaction conditions employed. In addition to carbonyl and carboxyl derivatives, pyridine was also used successfully as an electron-withdrawing group (EWG) in the Michael acceptor 105. A simple control experiment allowed

Efficient synthesis of pyrazolopyridines containing a chromane backbone through domino reaction

• Razieh Navari,
• Saeed Balalaie,
• Saber Mehrparvar,
• Fatemeh Darvish,
• Frank Rominger,
• Fatima Hamdan and
• Sattar Mirzaie

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 874–880, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.85

• -one as a suitable Michael acceptor that can react with benzylamine or any primary amine to produce the intermediate A. There is a conjugated system in intermediate A that allows malononitrile to attack through Michael addition and produces the intermediate B (Scheme 2). Due to the presence of acidic

• hydrogen in intermediate B, it is possible to form chromonyl-malononitrile conjugated system C and to eliminate the phenylhydrazine. Intermediate C is a highly potent Michael acceptor that may allow the addition of hydrazine to the nitrile group resulting in intermediate D that after elimination of water

Synthesis and SAR of the antistaphylococcal natural product nematophin from Xenorhabdus nematophila

• Frank Wesche,
• Hélène Adihou,
• Thomas A. Wichelhaus and
• Helge B. Bode

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 535–541, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.47

• . Compounds 11 and 12 were separated during the isolation process and initially constructed to enable target identification. Compounds 11 and 12 might act as Michael acceptor (α,β-unsaturated carbonyl) and attach irreversibly and covalently to a potential target [23]. After purification and characterization

An amine protecting group deprotectable under nearly neutral oxidative conditions

• Shahien Shahsavari,
• Chase McNamara,
• Mark Sylvester,
• Emily Bromley,
• Savannah Joslin,
• Bao-Yuan Lu and
• Shiyue Fang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1750–1757, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.149

• protection. With Dmoc protection, such transformations would be unattainable or require fine tuning of reaction conditions to keep the protection. In addition, the side product 2 from deprotection of dM-Dmoc is less likely to act as a Michael acceptor to react with the amine product than 1 from deprotection

Methyl isocyanide as a convertible functional group for the synthesis of spirocyclic oxindole γ-lactams via post-Ugi-4CR/transamidation/cyclization in a one-pot, three-step sequence

• Amarendar Reddy Maddirala and
• Peter R. Andreana

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 875–883, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.74

• ) and methyl isocyanide (4) in a one-pot reaction process to generate compound 6b from 5b. In all cases, the Michael acceptor [52] (intermediate II) was generated in situ from 6b, under basic conditions (Table 1, entry 1, K2CO3/MeCN/reflux), followed by the intramolecular cyclization proceeding through

Diastereoselective auxiliary- and catalyst-controlled intramolecular aza-Michael reaction for the elaboration of enantioenriched 3-substituted isoindolinones. Application to the synthesis of a new pazinaclone analogue

• Romain Sallio,
• Stéphane Lebrun,
• Frédéric Capet,
• Francine Agbossou-Niedercorn,
• Christophe Michon and
• Eric Deniau

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 593–602, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.46

• intramolecular aza-Michael reaction by means of both a chiral auxiliary and a catalyst for stereocontrol is reported for the synthesis of optically active isoindolinones. A selected cinchoninium salt was used as phase-transfer catalyst in combination with a chiral nucleophile, a Michael acceptor and a base to

• reached only for specific substitution patterns on the amide nitrogen atom and to a lesser extent on the Michael acceptor. In order to overcome these limitations, we decided to incorporate a chiral auxiliary in our substrates combined with a proper chiral phase-transfer organocatalyst to operate an

• increase resulted from a match effect [65][66][67] of the diastereomeric ion pair formed by the chiral nucleophile, the conjugated ketone and the cinchoninium salt. Hence, in our case, the chirality of the new stereochemical center was shown to be controlled by both Michael acceptor and donor interacting

Investigations towards the stereoselective organocatalyzed Michael addition of dimethyl malonate to a racemic nitroalkene: possible route to the 4-methylpregabalin core structure

• Denisa Vargová,
• Rastislav Baran and
• Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 553–559, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.42

• reaction mixture. Nitroaldol product 5 was then dehydrated using the CuCl/DCC protocol [16] to nitroalkene 6. Overall, this sequence afforded the desired racemic Michael acceptor 6 in total 36% yield over four steps. With Michael acceptor 6 in hands, we started to investigate the 1,4-addition of dimethyl

Et₃B-mediated and palladium-catalyzed direct allylation of β-dicarbonyl compounds with Morita–Baylis–Hillman alcohols

• Ahlem Abidi,
• Yosra Oueslati and
• Farhat Rezgui

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2402–2409, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.234

• -dicarbonyl compounds with MBH alcohols [39][40] 1a and 1b (Figure 1) considered as multi-functionalized starting materials bearing both allyl alcohol and Michael acceptor moieties. The interest of this reaction is the fact that it would be possible to directly convert, both cyclic 2-(hydroxymethyl)cyclohex-2

Conjugate addition–enantioselective protonation reactions

• James P. Phelan and
• Jonathan A. Ellman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1203–1228, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.116

• –enantioselective protonation reactions that have been reported in the literature. These reports have been grouped by class of Michael acceptor and further subdivided by the type of catalyst system used (Lewis acids, organocatalysts and transition metals). While numerous efficient methods have been developed for

Regiodefined synthesis of brominated hydroxyanthraquinones related to proisocrinins

• Joyeeta Roy,
• Tanushree Mal,
• Supriti Jana and
• Dipakranjan Mal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 531–536, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.52

• at δ 111.7 ppm in the 13C NMR spectrum. The Michael acceptor 13 was prepared according to the literature procedure starting from cyclohex-3-enecarbaldehyde (25) [38]. The diol 26 was oxidized with activated MnO2, leading to selective oxidation of the secondary alcohol forming 27 in 83% yield. The

The aminoindanol core as a key scaffold in bifunctional organocatalysts

• Isaac G. Sonsona,
• Eugenia Marqués-López and
• Raquel P. Herrera

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 505–523, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.50

• reactions were performed in trifluorotoluene at room temperature with the Michael acceptor 30 (R1, R2, R3 = Me, H, Me) and O-benzylhydroxylamine (31, R4 = PhCH2), using a stoichiometric amount of the chiral activator and MS 4 Å as an additive. Some of the reported experiments supported the ability of the

(Thio)urea-mediated synthesis of functionalized six-membered rings with multiple chiral centers

• Giorgos Koutoulogenis,
• Nikolaos Kaplaneris and
• Christoforos G. Kokotos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 462–495, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.48

• 2010, Zhao and his group demonstrated the synthesis of bicyclo[3.2.1]octan-8-ones 80, via a domino Michael–Henry reaction using quinine-derived catalyst 57 (Scheme 28) [47]. The nucleophile in this process is cyclohexane-1,2-dione (81) and the Michael acceptor is nitroolefin 82. A wide range of

• amine of the organocatalyst to provide an enolate, which in turn reacts with the Michael acceptor 111. Cascade/domino/tandem reactions producing six-membered rings initiated by Michael addition of activated methylenes and derivatives In 2004, Takemoto and co-workers demonstrated the enantioselective

Recent advances in N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-catalysed benzoin reactions

• Rajeev S. Menon,
• Akkattu T. Biju and
• Vijay Nair

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 444–461, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.47

• over two steps. A conceptually similar enamine-NHC dual-catalytic Michael–benzoin cascade was also developed by Rovis. The reaction proceeds via the generation of an enamine from the enolizable aldehyde 62 in presence of the prolinol catalyst 60 and its subsequent addition to the Michael acceptor 63