A facile three-component route to powerful 5-aryldeazaalloxazine photocatalysts

• Ivana Weisheitelová,
• Radek Cibulka,
• Marek Sikorski and
• Tetiana Pavlovska

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1831–1838, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.161

• have been successfully synthesised through a one-pot, three-component reaction involving N,N-dimethylbarbituric acid, an aromatic aldehyde and aniline. By utilizing readily available reagents, this approach opens up the opportunity for the efficient formation of a variety of 5-aryldeazaalloxazines

• various anilines and aromatic aldehydes with electron-donating groups or electron-withdrawing halogen atoms. However, the reaction yield was affected by the nature of the substituent on the aniline moiety. The results suggest that substrates bearing electron-donating groups on anilines have higher

• were recorded on Agilent Cary 8454 spectrophotometer at 25 °C in analytical-grade DMF. Absorption spectra were processed by using Microsoft Excel and Origin 2018 (OriginLab). Typical procedure for the synthesis of 5-aryldeazaalloxazines 2: An equimolar mixture (3.0 mmol) of the corresponding aniline 3

Ugi bisamides based on pyrrolyl-β-chlorovinylaldehyde and their unusual transformations

• Alexander V. Tsygankov,
• Vladyslav O. Vereshchak,
• Tetiana O. Savluk,
• Serhiy M. Desenko,
• Valeriia V. Ananieva,
• Oleksandr V. Buravov,
• Yana I. Sakhno,
• Svitlana V. Shishkina and
• Valentyn A. Chebanov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1773–1784, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.156

• of p-CF3-substituted aniline when synthesizing bisamide 6d. The yield of the amide 10c was about 8% and it was also the first to precipitate. In addition, it is worth mentioning that the corresponding amides 10 were observed in 1H NMR spectra and LC–MS analysis in many mother liquors after filtration

Synthesis and characterization of 1,2,3,4-naphthalene and anthracene diimides

• Adam D. Bass,
• Daniela Castellanos,
• Xavier A. Calicdan and
• Dennis D. Cao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1767–1772, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.155

• . Heating 5 with hexylamine or aniline in refluxing acetic acid successfully led to the formation of the targeted aromatic diimides bearing either N-hexyl (7-Hex) or N-phenyl (7-Ph) substitutions in good yields. The same strategy was employed to create the imide-capped anthracenes 8-Hex and 8-Ph

Syntheses and medicinal chemistry of spiro heterocyclic steroids

• Laura L. Romero-Hernández,
• Ana Isabel Ahuja-Casarín,
• Penélope Merino-Montiel,
• Sara Montiel-Smith,
• José Luis Vega-Báez and
• Jesús Sandoval-Ramírez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1713–1745, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.152

• % by condensing unsaturated ketones 84 with aniline under refluxing ethanol. These intermediates were then subjected to a reaction with excess mercaptoacetic acid (also known as thioglycolic acid) in refluxing benzene, resulting in the formation of spiro 1,3-thiazolidin-4-one derivatives with good

New triazinephosphonate dopants for Nafion proton exchange membranes (PEM)

• Fátima C. Teixeira,
• António P. S. Teixeira and
• C. M. Rangel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1623–1634, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.145

• desired product. Compound 6 [51] was subsequently reduced to the corresponding aniline derivative 4 [52] in the presence of H2 and Pd/C (Scheme 1). The synthesis of diethyl (4-hydroxyphenyl)methylphosphonate (7) [53] started from [4-(benzyloxy)phenyl]methanol (8). Compound 8 was submitted to a

Electrocatalytic hydrogenation of cyanoarenes, nitroarenes, quinolines, and pyridines under mild conditions with a proton-exchange membrane reactor

• Koichi Mitsudo,
• Atsushi Osaki,
• Haruka Inoue,
• Eisuke Sato,
• Naoki Shida,
• Mahito Atobe and
• Seiji Suga

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1560–1571, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.139

• cyanoarenes is a straightforward and powerful method for the synthesis of primary amines [5], and the reduction of nitroarenes is useful for the synthesis of aniline derivatives [6][7][8][9][10][11]. Nitrogen-containing aliphatic heterocycles, such as piperidines and tetrahydroquinolines, are key motifs in

• due to the oligomerization of the substrate. Reduction of nitroarenes to anilines Next, we reduced nitroarenes using a PEM reactor. First, the electrocatalyst and solvent were optimized (Table 3). While 6.0 F mol−1 of electricity should be required for the reduction of nitrobenzene (4a) to aniline (5a

• more π-extended aniline was easily obtained in a high yield. Reduction of quinolines to tetrahydroquinolines The electrochemical reduction of quinolines was performed using a PEM reactor. First, several different cathode catalyst were examined for the reduction of quinoline (6a) (Table 5). Because 4.0

Benzylic C(sp³)–H fluorination

• Alexander P. Atkins,
• Alice C. Dean and
• Alastair J. J. Lennox

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1527–1547, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.137

• -(trifluoromethyl)aniline in conjunction with external ligand 5 facilitated the formation of a series of fluorinated α-amino acids. Xu and co-workers also disclosed a palladium-catalysed protocol for the fluorination of simple benzylic substrates bearing a bidentate directing group (Figure 8) [42]. Yields varied

Synthesis of 2-benzyl N-substituted anilines via imine condensation–isoaromatization of (E)-2-arylidene-3-cyclohexenones and primary amines

• Lu Li,
• Na Li,
• Xiao-Tian Mo,
• Ming-Wei Yuan,
• Lin Jiang and
• Ming-Long Yuan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1468–1475, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.130

• additive-free synthesis of 2-benzyl N-substituted anilines from (E)-2-arylidene-3-cyclohexenones and primary amines has been reported. The reaction proceeds smoothly through a sequential imine condensation–isoaromatization pathway, affording a series of synthetically useful aniline derivatives in

• acceptable to high yields. Mild reaction conditions, no requirement of metal catalysts, operational simplicity and the potential for scale-up production are some of the highlighted advantages of this transformation. Keywords: aniline; (E)-2-arylidene-3-cyclohexenone; imine condensation; isoaromatization

• ; primary amine; Introduction Aniline derivatives possessing arylmethyl substituents at the ortho position are an important class of amines. They have a wide variety of practical applications, ranging from anti-depression [1], being δ receptor stimulants in analgesic pharmaceuticals [2], to antioxidant

Synthesis and physical properties of tunable aryl alkyl ionic liquids based on 1-aryl-4,5-dimethylimidazolium cations

• Stefan Fritsch and
• Thomas Strassner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1278–1285, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.110

• scalability [38][39][40][41][42]. The substituted imidazoles 1–9 were synthesized using a condensation reaction between the corresponding aniline and diacetyl monoxime (Scheme 1), since the condensation using diacetyl was not successful for electron-poor aniline derivatives. This reaction leads to the

Competing electrophilic substitution and oxidative polymerization of arylamines with selenium dioxide

• Vishnu Selladurai and
• Selvakumar Karuthapandi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1221–1235, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.105

• Vishnu Selladurai Selvakumar Karuthapandi Department of Chemistry, School of Advanced Sciences, VIT-AP University, Amaravati-522237, Andhra Pradesh, India 10.3762/bjoc.20.105 Abstract This article describes the detailed analysis of the reaction between arylamines, such as aniline, o-anisidine

• polymerization, and solvent oxidation. For aniline and o-anisidine, predominant oxidative polymerization occurred, leading to the formation of the respective polyaniline polymers as major products. For methyl anthranilate, the oxidative polymerization was suppressed due to the delocalization of amine lone pair

• ]. This reaction comprises four main steps: (i) iodide-mediated aryl transfer from boronic acid to selenium dioxide, (ii) reduction of arylseleninic acid to diaryl diselenide, (iii) oxidation of diaryl diselenide to aryl selenenyl iodide with iodine, and (iv) electrophilic substitution of aniline

Manganese-catalyzed C–C and C–N bond formation with alcohols via borrowing hydrogen or hydrogen auto-transfer

• Mohd Farhan Ansari,
• Atul Kumar Maurya,
• Abhishek Kumar and
• Saravanakumar Elangovan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1111–1166, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.98

• -alkylation of aniline with secondary alcohols required a high temperature (100 °C) compared to substituted benzylic alcohols (60 °C). Interestingly, this protocol was used to synthesize the drug cinacalcet, via alkylating the challenging benzylamine substrate under non-optimized conditions. Later, Madsen’s

Carbonylative synthesis and functionalization of indoles

• Alex De Salvo,
• Raffaella Mancuso and
• Xiao-Feng Wu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 973–1000, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.87

• conditions (200 °C and 80 bar CO) for 5 hours in the presence of catalysts such as Fe(CO)5, Ru3(CO)12, or Rh6(CO)16 [21]. The process was not selective because aniline derivatives and other byproducts were also formed; moreover, the substrate conversion, in some cases, was not complete (Scheme 8). In

Palladium-catalyzed three-component radical-polar crossover carboamination of 1,3-dienes or allenes with diazo esters and amines

• Geng-Xin Liu,
• Xiao-Ting Jie,
• Ge-Jun Niu,
• Li-Sheng Yang,
• Xing-Lin Li,
• Jian Luo and
• Wen-Hao Hu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 661–671, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.59

• also compatible with these mild conditions (4y–aa, 51–72%). Additionally, the diazo derivative of epiandrosterone was reactive in this protocol, giving the product 4ab in 59% yield. Delightedly, this procedure was successfully applied to aromatic amine (N-methylaniline), primary amine (aniline) and

Entry to new spiroheterocycles via tandem Rh(II)-catalyzed O–H insertion/base-promoted cyclization involving diazoarylidene succinimides

• Alexander Yanovich,
• Anastasia Vepreva,
• Ksenia Malkova,
• Grigory Kantin and
• Dmitry Dar’in

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 561–569, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.48

• presented in Scheme 5. As can be seen, the yields of the target compounds 4 vary from good to moderate per two steps of synthesis. The introduction of acceptor substituents in both the aniline and arylidene moieties of the DAS molecule leads to a decrease in the yield of the final spirocycle. The structure

Nucleophilic functionalization of thianthrenium salts under basic conditions

• Xinting Fan,
• Duo Zhang,
• Xiangchuan Xiu,
• Bin Xu,
• Yu Yuan,
• Feng Chen and
• Pan Gao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 257–263, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.26

• outlined in Scheme 3. To our delight, various amines (2p–r), including aniline, N-methylaniline, and naphthylmethylamine are also compatible under the optimal conditions to give the corresponding amination products (3ap–ar) in moderate to high yields. For this amination method, it was necessary to

Photochromic derivatives of indigo: historical overview of development, challenges and applications

• Gökhan Kaplan,
• Zeynel Seferoğlu and
• Daria V. Berdnikova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 228–242, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.23

• ]. After the determination of the molecular structure of indigo in 1883, various precursors such as isatin (1), cinnamic acid (2), 2-nitrobenzaldehyde (3), aniline (4), 2-aminobenzoic acid (5), phenylglycine (6), 1-(1H-indol-1-yl)ethan-1-one (7) and indole (8) have been used in the synthesis (Figure 1) [4

• significant difference in the values of β-angles, which results in some differences in the densities [10]. The solubility of crystalline indigo is poor even in polar solvents such as aniline, nitrobenzene, phenol, phthalic anhydride, DMSO, and DMF upon heating. The reason for the low solubility and high

Metal-catalyzed coupling/carbonylative cyclizations for accessing dibenzodiazepinones: an expedient route to clozapine and other drugs

• Amina Moutayakine and
• Anthony J. Burke

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 193–204, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.19

• careful review of the product structure it was revealed that the purported dibenzodiazepine products were, in fact, diarylimines, which resulted from a nucleophilic addition of the aniline reagents to the aldimine substrates, followed by elimination of an tosylamine product. This was one of the principle

• reactions described in Table 1, involving Mo(CO)6 were 20 °C higher than the reactions described in Table 2 and/or (b) Mo(CO)6 acts as a co-catalyst. An investigative study was thus undertaken to elucidate the effect of the molybdenum reagent on the reaction using a simple model system consisting of aniline

Perspectives on push–pull chromophores derived from click-type [2 + 2] cycloaddition–retroelectrocyclization reactions of electron-rich alkynes and electron-deficient alkenes

• Michio Yamada

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 125–154, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.13

• when the TCBD moiety was incorporated at the axial position of the subphthalocyanine (SubPc) core (Figure 3) [131]. Axially chiral SubPc–TCBD–aniline conjugates 59 and 60 were characterized via optical-resolution analysis through chiral HPLC using a Chiralpak IC column. The researchers unequivocally

• perpendicular to that of the aniline moiety. The calculations indicated the presence of accessible S1/S0 CIs. In the lowest-energy S1/S0 CI geometry, the aniline moiety exhibited a pronounced quinoidal character and the carbon atom directly linked to the butadiene moiety exhibited a conspicuous radical nature

• wavelength corresponding to the low-energy CT absorption), the direct formation of a CS state, characterized as ZnPc•+–TCBD•−, can be observed. SubPc–TCBD–aniline conjugates 59 and 60 exhibited distinct physicochemical properties, depending on whether the peripheral substituents introduced into the SubPcs

Morpholine-mediated defluorinative cycloaddition of gem-difluoroalkenes and organic azides

• Tzu-Yu Huang,
• Mario Djugovski,
• Sweta Adhikari,
• Destinee L. Manning and
• Sudeshna Roy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1545–1554, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.111

• -difluoroalkenes and the co-elution of the aniline byproducts during column chromatography with the desired products affected the overall yield of the reaction. For a complete optimization list with all conditions that were screened, see Supporting Information File 1. With the optimized conditions in hand, we

• chemistry applications. In the reaction with piperidine, we observed unreacted organic azide 2b by TLC and 1H NMR analyses. Based on the 1H NMR analysis, 0.4 equiv of 2b had reacted to form the product, 0.9 equiv of 2b had decomposed to form aniline, and the remaining 0.2 equiv of 2b was unreacted

• . Additionally, 30% of the aniline byproduct was also isolated, which explains the modest yields of this reaction and the sluggish nature. To investigate the mechanism of the current transformation, we conducted a series of experiments including a time course of the reaction using 19F NMR spectroscopy (Figure 3

N-Sulfenylsuccinimide/phthalimide: an alternative sulfenylating reagent in organic transformations

• Fatemeh Doraghi,
• Seyedeh Pegah Aledavoud,
• Mehdi Ghanbarlou,
• Bagher Larijani and
• Mohammad Mahdavi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1471–1502, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.106

• the para-position to the amino group, and when the para-position of aniline was occupied by another group, ortho-substituted products were identified. Fu′s research group established an isothiocyanatoalkylthiation of styrenes 9 in the presence of isothiocyanate 154 and N-(organothio)succinimides 1

α-(Aminomethyl)acrylates as acceptors in radical–polar crossover 1,4-additions of dialkylzincs: insights into enolate formation and trapping

• Angel Palillero-Cisneros,
• Paola G. Gordillo-Guerra,
• Fernando García-Alvarez,
• Olivier Jackowski,
• Franck Ferreira,
• Fabrice Chemla,
• Joel L. Terán and
• Alejandro Perez-Luna

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1443–1451, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.103

• allylation of lithium (trimethylsilyl)amides prepared in situ from the parent amines by a lithiation/silylation/lithiation sequence (Table 1). Using this protocol, α-(aminomethyl)acrylates 5 and 6 derived from benzhydrylamine and aniline were prepared in high yields (Table 1, entries 1 and 2). The procedure

Application of N-heterocyclic carbene–Cu(I) complexes as catalysts in organic synthesis: a review

• Nosheen Beig,
• Varsha Goyal and
• Raj K. Bansal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1408–1442, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.102

• effective. This method afforded the products with high selectivity and it could be extended to a variety of substrates, such as benzoxazole, benzothiazole, oxazole, and even acidic hydrocarbons and aniline. Fukuzama and co-workers [91] accomplished the C–H carboxylation of benzoxazole and benzothiazole

Selective construction of dispiro[indoline-3,2'-quinoline-3',3''-indoline] and dispiro[indoline-3,2'-pyrrole-3',3''-indoline] via three-component reaction

• Ziying Xiao,
• Fengshun Xu,
• Jing Sun and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1234–1242, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.91

• in this three-component reaction. For investigating the scope of this reaction, aniline was also used in the reaction, but in this case no expected dispirooxindoles could be obtained. In order to investigate the scope of this reaction, similar dimedone adducts of 3-phenacylideneoxindoles were used in

Photoredox catalysis harvesting multiple photon or electrochemical energies

• Mattia Lepori,
• Simon Schmid and
• Joshua P. Barham

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1055–1145, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.81

The effect of dark states on the intersystem crossing and thermally activated delayed fluorescence of naphthalimide-phenothiazine dyads

• Liyuan Cao,
• Xi Liu,
• Xue Zhang,
• Jianzhang Zhao,
• Fabiao Yu and
• Yan Wan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1028–1046, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.79