Mechanochemical synthesis of poly(trimethylene carbonate)s: an example of rate acceleration

• Sora Park and
• Jeung Gon Kim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 963–970, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.93

• biomedical applications [24]. The amidine base 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene (DBU) is one of the best studied and most popular organocatalysts for ring-opening polymerizations of cyclic carbonates and lactones [25][26][27]. In contrast to the high activity of lactone polymerization, cyclic carbonate

An improved synthesis of adefovir and related analogues

• David J. Jones,
• Eileen M. O’Leary and
• Timothy P. O’Sullivan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 801–810, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.77

• -benzyladenine (25) afforded the corresponding N9-regioisomers as the major product as determined by 1H NMR spectroscopy (Scheme 6a,b). The major isomers were then isolated and subsequently converted to phosphonate 6 in order to confirm the degree of regioselectivity. Interestingly, the amidine moiety in 28

• identification of a correlation between the methylene protons adjacent to the purine ring with C-5. A similar analysis by us revealed the same correlation, confirming 29 as the major product (Figure 4). While the amidine is itself an important moiety in medicinal chemistry [57], it can also be readily converted

• to other functional groups including nitrogen-containing heterocycles [58]. Consequently, the use of the amidine moiety to direct the N7-selective alkylation with iodide 14 may likewise facilitate the preparation of other N7-functionalised adefovir analogues for evaluation. Finally, we investigated

Synthesis of dihydroquinazolines from 2-aminobenzylamine: N³-aryl derivatives with electron-withdrawing groups

• Nadia Gruber,
• Jimena E. Díaz and
• Liliana R. Orelli

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2510–2519, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.227

• , some ruthenium complexes bearing a 3,4-dihydroquinazoline ligand have been studied as hydrogenation-transfer catalysts, showing good to excellent activity for the reduction of ketones [17]. In the context of our research on heterocyclic amidine N-oxides [18][19][20][21][22], we recently prepared some

• conditions that are incompatible with nitro or cyano groups. In this context, and as part of our ongoing research on heterocyclic amidines (vide infra) and amidine N-oxides we report herein the first method for the synthesis of 2-alkyl/aryl-N-aryl-3,4-DHQs 1 bearing electron-withdrawing groups in the aryl

Selective formation of a zwitterion adduct and bicarbonate salt in the efficient CO₂ fixation by N-benzyl cyclic guanidine under dry and wet conditions

• Yoshiaki Yoshida,
• Naoto Aoyagi and
• Takeshi Endo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2204–2211, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.194

• fixation of CO2 such as cycloaddition of CO2 to various epoxides and synthesis of carbonate derivatives from CO2 and alcohols [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. However, these kinds of catalysts often need high temperatures and pressure to completely achieve the CO2 fixation [6]. On the other hand, amidine and

• guanidine derivatives are well known as efficient catalysts for the cycloaddition of CO2 to epoxides at ambient temperature [7][14][15][16][17][18]. Previously, we reported that hydroiodides of amidine derivatives worked as significantly efficient catalysts for the cycloaddition of CO2 to epoxides under

• particular, CO2 capture–release behaviors of bicyclic and six-membered cyclic amidine derivatives have been well studied compared to that of five-membered derivatives, because the high ring strain of five-membered cyclic amidine derivatives was unfavorable for the binding between CO2 and the amidine moiety

Design, synthesis and structure of novel G-2 melamine-based dendrimers incorporating 4-(n-octyloxy)aniline as a peripheral unit

• Cristina Morar,
• Pedro Lameiras,
• Attila Bende,
• Gabriel Katona,
• Emese Gál and
• Mircea Darabantu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1704–1722, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.145

• 2008), X. K. Moreno and E. E. Simanek [47] demonstrated the validity of the above TGs in the case of amino-s-triazines, –N(H)–C(=N–)– ↔ –N+(H)=C(–N−–)–, as well, in DMSO-d6. Following this new insight, if the TG values of “amidine-like” protons in amino-s-triazines are more negative than −4 ppb K−1 in

Cobalt-catalyzed C–H cyanations: Insights into the reaction mechanism and the role of London dispersion

• Eric Detmar,
• Valentin Müller,
• Daniel Zell,
• Lutz Ackermann and
• Martin Breugst

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1537–1545, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.130

• structures resulted in barrierless reactions when a proton approaches the amidine substructure (→ 12a). As the cyanated 2-phenylpyridine 3a is less Lewis-basic compared to the starting material 1a, 12a could also react with 1a in a thermodynamically favorable ligand exchange reaction (ΔG = −2.2 kcal mol−1

Atom-economical group-transfer reactions with hypervalent iodine compounds

• Andreas Boelke,
• Peter Finkbeiner and
• Boris J. Nachtsheim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1263–1280, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.108

• substituted acrylamidines 35 (Scheme 19). The proposed reaction mechanism starts with the activation of DMSO (A) via the iodine(III) species 20b. Iodosoarene C is released under basic conditions, forming the sulfonium intermediate D. This intermediate reacts with the amidine 34 to give the sulfide E, which is

An overview of recent advances in duplex DNA recognition by small molecules

• Sayantan Bhaduri,
• Nihar Ranjan and
• Dev P. Arya

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1051–1086, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.93

• also replaced by various amidine-like groups, such as cyanoamidine, N-methylamidine, N,N-dimethylamidine, and guanidino moieties either to increase the stability, cytotoxicity and enhance solubility at physiological pH. Comparable cytotoxicity was observed in these cases suggesting a general behavior

• of these classes of molecules including the amidine modification. In addition, a novel class of cytotoxic MGBs comprising of α-bromo or chloroacrylamide moieties linked to distamycin were identified. Among all different synthetic analogs, brostacillin (PNU-166196, Figure 3) was found to be a potent

• . Suckling et al. designed a set of 31 Strathclyde minor groove binders (S-MGBs), derived from distamycin, by varying the head groups (amidine, amide, or alkene), heterocyclic building blocks and their alkyl substituents and the basicity of the C-terminal tail group in order to investigate their antimalarial

Phosphodiester models for cleavage of nucleic acids

• Satu Mikkola,
• Tuomas Lönnberg and
• Harri Lönnberg

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 803–837, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.68

• suggested to be a general base-catalyzed formation of dianionic phosphorane (Scheme 5). The second-order term, which was important especially in guanidine and amidine buffer, was assumed to refer to binding of BH+ to the anionic phosphodiester linkage more or less concerted with the general base-catalyzed

• on buffer concentration was observed. It should be, however, noted that kinetic measurements in the most interesting guanidine and amidine buffers failed, evidently owing to partial decomposition of the buffer constituents during the prolonged incubation at 90 °C. Both cleavage and isomerization were

Synthesis and stability of strongly acidic benzamide derivatives

• Frederik Diness,
• Niels J. Bjerrum and
• Mikael Begtrup

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 523–530, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.38

• in a ruthenium-catalyzed C–H activation reaction [36]. Most other reported transformations pass via the imidoyl chloride intermediates (equivalent to 10) to the amidine derivatives, which have been used in rearrangement reaction studies [9][37][38][39]. By these means also N,N’-bis(triflyl

Mechanochemical synthesis of thioureas, ureas and guanidines

• Vjekoslav Štrukil

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1828–1849, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.178

• –N bond of benzamide and the formation of N-acylsulfonylguanidine 48 extended by two atoms (Scheme 21b). Biguanides The attachment of an amidine subunit onto the guanidine core, which is typically accomplished by the addition of a carbodiimide molecule, leads to a biguanide framework. In a paper by

A practical and efficient approach to imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine-fused isoquinolines through the post-GBB transformation strategy

• Taofeng Shao,
• Zhiming Gong,
• Tianyi Su,
• Wei Hao and
• Chao Che

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 817–824, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.82

• combination of the Ugi reaction with other transformations proved to be powerful strategies for the efficient synthesis of novel heterocycles. In 1998, the Groebke–Blackburn–Bienaymé (GBB) reaction, an Ugi-3CR variant was discovered by three groups independently [36][37][38]. The GBB reaction of an amidine

• -ethynylbenzaldehydes 2 and tert-butylisocyanide (3). Indeed, the acetylene group in the aldehyde component had no obvious steric effect on the efficiency of the GBB reaction affording the GBB product in good to excellent yields in most cases. On the other hand, the substituent ortho to the amino group in the amidine

• moderate to good yields, and their structures were unambiguously confirmed by 1H NMR, 13C NMR, and HRMS analysis. Various functionalities related to the amidine and aldehyde components, including electron-donating methoxy and methyl groups or electron-withdrawing halides, were well tolerated. Generally

Regiochemistry of cyclocondensation reactions in the synthesis of polyazaheterocycles

• Patrick T. Campos,
• Leticia V. Rodrigues,
• Andrei L. Belladona,
• Caroline R. Bender,
• Juliana S. Bitencurt,
• Fernanda A. Rosa,
• Davi F. Back,
• Helio G. Bonacorso,
• Nilo Zanatta,
• Clarissa P. Frizzo and
• Marcos A. P. Martins

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 257–266, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.29

• times ranging from 0.5 to 20 h, was not effective in forming the imidazolone of interest. The only product observed was the acylated amidine generated through a nucleophilic addition of the amidine to the ester carbonyl. For the latter compound the best result was obtained for the reaction in ethanol

• reaction mechanism involves a nucleophilic attack on the ester carbonyl, which leads to the formation of an amide intermediate. This means that the amidine does not attack the (more reactive) ketone carbonyl as expected, which would lead to an intermediate imine. Since the more reactive center of the

• , thiophene-2-glyoxylic acid, and N-(2-amino-4-nitrophenyl)acetamide, in accordance with the mechanism proposed in this work. To rationalize why the cyclization reaction between the amidines 8g,h and the α-ketoester did not occur, the HOMO coefficient and charge densities for the nitrogens of the amidine were

Facile synthesis of a 3-deazaadenosine phosphoramidite for RNA solid-phase synthesis

• Elisabeth Mairhofer,
• Elisabeth Fuchs and
• Ronald Micura

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2556–2562, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.250

• amidine protection of the exocyclic C6-NH2 group. At the same time, the applied excess of the reagent allowed to transiently form the corresponding nucleoside 2’,3’-O-acetal [32], leaving the primary 5’-OH group available for selective tritylation with 4,4’-dimethoxytrityl chloride to give compound 6

p-Nitrophenyl carbonate promoted ring-opening reactions of DBU and DBN affording lactam carbamates

• Madhuri Vangala and
• Ganesh P Shinde

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2086–2092, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.197

• Madhuri Vangala Ganesh P Shinde Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune 411 008, India 10.3762/bjoc.12.197 Abstract The amidine bases DBU (1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene) and DBN (1,5-diazabicyclo[4.3.0]non-5-ene) display nucleophilic behaviour

• nucleophiles towards halo derivatives of main group elements where the DBU and DBN bicyclic rings remained unaffected [10][11]. Later in 1994, Lammers et al. observed the nucleophilicity of amidine bases with 4-halo-3,5-dimethyl-1-nitro-1H-pyrazole and their subsequent ring opening leading to the lactam

• carbohydrate–protein interactions [25], ligation and surfactant properties [26][27]. Although p-nitrophenyl carbonates were extensively utilized in these reactions, the nucleophilicity of amidine bases towards these carbonates was not encountered so far. In continuation of our interest in carbohydrates [28][29

A modular approach to neutral P,N-ligands: synthesis and coordination chemistry

• Vladislav Vasilenko,
• Torsten Roth,
• Clemens K. Blasius,
• Sebastian N. Intorp,
• Hubert Wadepohl and
• Lutz H. Gade

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 846–853, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.83

• . In addition, the resulting ligand families should provide nitrogen and phosphorus donors with varying donor strength (amidine vs imine, phosphine vs heteroatom-bound phosphorus) and different bite angles (five- vs six-membered chelate rings). Results and Discussion Ligand synthesis We based the

Synthesis of α-amino amidines through molecular iodine-catalyzed three-component coupling of isocyanides, aldehydes and amines

• Praveen Reddy Adiyala,
• D. Chandrasekhar,
• Jeevak Sopanrao Kapure,
• Chada Narsimha Reddy and
• Ram Awatar Maurya

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2065–2070, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.214

• were found suitable for conversion of substrates into products when water was used as a nucleophile for amide preparations [13][14]. In the direction of amidine synthesis using isocyanide MCRs, a few catalysts such as p-toluenesulfinic acid [15], metal triflates [16], bromodimethylsulfonium bromide [17

• development of a mild, inexpensive and efficient catalytic protocol for the amidine synthesis is highly needed. Iodine is expected to act as a Lewis acid or Brønsted acid in methanol [20]. Apart from oxidation, catalytic iodine provides mild and efficient ways for the formation of C–C and C–N bonds [20]. As a

• part of our ongoing interest towards the synthesis of new molecular libraries [21][22][23][24], we were interested in developing a one-pot MCR strategy for the synthesis of amidines. Results and Discussion To check the feasibility of the iodine-catalyzed amidine synthesis through the modified Ugi

Efficient CO₂ capture by tertiary amine-functionalized ionic liquids through Li⁺-stabilized zwitterionic adduct formation

• Zhen-Zhen Yang and
• Liang-Nian He

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1959–1966, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.204

• in the respective carbamates (onium salts) [39]. As previously reported, strong amidine and guanidine bases such as 1,5,7-triazabicyclo[4.4.0]dec-5-ene (TBD) can form the base-CO2 zwitterionic adduct in a 1:1 manner under strictly anhydrous conditions (Scheme 1c) [40][41]. Herein, we present such a

• be responsible for forming the amidine, guanidine or tertiary amine-functionalized ILs, after reaction with CO2 to form zwitterionic adducts in a 1:1 manner. Coordination effects between various lithium salts and neutral ligands, and the CO2 capacity of the obtained chelated ILs were investigated

Application of cyclic phosphonamide reagents in the total synthesis of natural products and biologically active molecules

• Thilo Focken and
• Stephen Hanessian

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1848–1877, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.195

• tricyclic intermediate 121. Cleavage of the TBS ethers and hydrogenolysis of the benzyl ester in presence of amidine 122 yielded trinem 23a as its amidinium salt 123. Trinem 123 exhibited antibacterial activity against a variety of strains, with MIC’s of 1.0 μg/mL against Staphylococcus aureus 853E and 0.1

Solid-phase-supported synthesis of morpholinoglycine oligonucleotide mimics

• Tatyana V. Abramova,
• Sergey S. Belov,
• Yulia V. Tarasenko and
• Vladimir N. Silnikov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1151–1158, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.115

• . An attractive feature of these new morpholino oligonucleotide analogues is the absence of additional chiral centers. Unlike commercially available PMO and PPMO, which are mixtures of diastereomers, oligomers constructed with the use of phosphoromonoamidate [7], oxalyl diamide [8], amidine [9] and

Organobase-catalyzed three-component reactions for the synthesis of 4H-2-aminopyrans, condensed pyrans and polysubstituted benzenes

• Moustafa Sherief Moustafa,
• Saleh Mohammed Al-Mousawi,
• Maghraby Ali Selim,
• Ahmed Mohamed Mosallam and
• Mohamed Hilmy Elnagdi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 141–149, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.11

• produced by a sequence including an initial condensation reaction of the 2-amino-4H-pyrans 9a and 9b with dimethylformamide dimethylacetal (DMFDMA) to yield the amidine-substituted derivatives 32a and 32b. Stirring solutions of these substances in refluxing AcOH/NH4OAc gave the respective pyranopyrimidines

• reacts with DMFDMA to form amidine 38, which undergoes cyclization in refluxing AcOH/NH4OAc to form the 1-amino-pyrrolo[3,4-f]quinazoline 39. We also found that 37a reacts with hydroxylamine hydrochloride in ethanolic sodium acetate solution to form isoindolone derivative 40 (Scheme 11 and Figure 13

Studies on the interaction of isocyanides with imines: reaction scope and mechanistic variations

• Ouldouz Ghashghaei,
• Consiglia Annamaria Manna,
• Esther Vicente-García,
• Marc Revés and
• Rodolfo Lavilla

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 12–17, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.3

• . Compounds 4 and 5 could not be detected (Scheme 2). When the process was run as a true MCR (mixing the amine, the aldehyde and two equivalents of isocyanide 2a), the adduct 3a was produced in trace amounts and the main product was the α-amino-amidine 4, in good agreement with previous reports [5][6][7][8

Micro-flow synthesis and structural analysis of sterically crowded diimine ligands with five aryl rings

• Shinichiro Fuse,
• Nobutake Tanabe,
• Akio Tannna,
• Yohei Konishi and
• Takashi Takahashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2336–2343, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.268

• ligands exerted high polymerization activity in the ethylene homopolymerization and copolymerization of ethylene with polar monomers. Keywords: amidine formation; diimine; flow chemistry; polymerization; Introduction The design of a ligand is a key step in the development of new catalysts because the

• 10 min. After an aqueous workup, the desired product 3b was obtained in a moderate yield (44%) with the concomitant generation of naphthylamine (5) and amide 8. Reportedly, 3a can form an HCl adduct, and the adduct decomposes to the corresponding amidine and imidochloride [25]. It is conceivable that

• Table 1. We speculated that the slightly lower yield of 3c compared to 3b came from the instability of 3c during purification process. The compound 3c was less stable than 3b. Rojas et al. reported that the regioselectivity in the nucleophilic addition of an amidine to an imidochloride depends on the

An overview of the synthetic routes to the best selling drugs containing 6-membered heterocycles

• Marcus Baumann and
• Ian R. Baxendale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2265–2319, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.265

α-Bromodiazoacetamides – a new class of diazo compounds for catalyst-free, ambient temperature intramolecular C–H insertion reactions

• Åsmund Kaupang and
• Tore Bonge-Hansen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1407–1413, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.157

• introduced by our group, both employing an N-halosuccinimide as the halogen source in combination with either the amidine base 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene (DBU) or sodium hydride (NaH). In these reports, the obtained α-halodiazoacetates and α-halodiazophosphonates were successfully applied in