Recent advances and perspectives in ruthenium-catalyzed cyanation reactions

• Thaipparambil Aneeja,
• Cheriya Mukkolakkal Abdulla Afsina,
• Padinjare Veetil Saranya and
• Gopinathan Anilkumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 37–52, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.4

• aromatic amines with electron-donating substituents than electron-withdrawing ones. Under the optimized conditions, tributylamine was found inactive to afford the desired product. Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES) analysis confirmed the purity of the prepared compounds

Recent advances in the asymmetric phosphoric acid-catalyzed synthesis of axially chiral compounds

• Alemayehu Gashaw Woldegiorgis and
• Xufeng Lin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2729–2764, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.185

• the yields, whereas the electronic properties of the substituents on the indole ring did. In 2019, Lin and co-workers reported the asymmetric three-component cascade reaction of 2,3-diketo esters 28, aromatic amines 29, and 1,3-cyclohexanediones 30 to prepare axially chiral arylindoles 31 in a highly

• with α-methylene carbonyl derivatives 78 catalyzed by a chiral phosphoric acid. In the presence of (R)-CPA 9, the Friedländer heteroannulation reaction between aromatic amines 77 and the carbonyl derivative 78 was carried out to form imine I-21, which tautomerized to generate intermediate I-22. Under

Recent advances in organocatalytic asymmetric aza-Michael reactions of amines and amides

• Pratibha Sharma,
• Raakhi Gupta and
• Raj K. Bansal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2585–2610, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.173

• aromatic amines, amides, imides, etc. require the use of an appropriate catalyst to undergo a Michael addition with a suitable acceptor. In view of this, chemists endeavoured to develop different types of catalysts, particularly the chiral catalysts to accomplish asymmetric aza-MRs. The development of

• the nitrogen nucleophiles, such as aromatic amines and amides which are otherwise averse to reacting. The organocatalysts have emerged as catalysts of choice due to various reasons, such as their compatibility with the ‘Green Chemistry’ and possibility of tailoring them according to the requirements

Visible-light-mediated copper photocatalysis for organic syntheses

• Yajing Zhang,
• Qian Wang,
• Zongsheng Yan,
• Donglai Ma and
• Yuguang Zheng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2520–2542, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.169

• undergoes radical addition with the N-substituted maleimide (Scheme 25). In 2017, Wu and co-workers [94] reported the α-amino C−H functionalization of aromatic amines 51 with nucleophiles, including arynes or aromatic olefins 52, indoles, acyclic β-ketoester 53, and β-diketone 54 (Scheme 26). Mechanistic

• quinolones 56, indolo[3,2-c]quinolines 57, β-amino acids 58, and 1,4-dihydropyridine derivatives 59 were obtained through this route in moderate yields (Scheme 26). Besides nucleophiles, aromatic amines also reacted with redox-active radical precursors, such as NHPI [95] and N-alkoxyphthalimides 55 [96]. The

• and heteroarenes. Benzylic or α-amino C–H functionalization. α-Amino C–H functionalization of aromatic amines. C–H functionalization of aromatic amines. α-Amino-C–H and alkyl C–H functionalization reactions. Other copper-photocatalyzed reactions. Cross-coupling of oxime esters with phenols or amines

Recent advances in the tandem annulation of 1,3-enynes to functionalized pyridine and pyrrole derivatives

• Yi Liu,
• Puying Luo,
• Yang Fu,
• Tianxin Hao,
• Xuan Liu,
• Qiuping Ding and
• Yiyuan Peng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2462–2476, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.163

• standard conditions in moderate yield (40–71%). Notably, aromatic amines bearing electron-donating or electron-withdrawing groups were compatible. When 2-naphthylamine was used under standard conditions, α-trifluoromethyl-substituted 2-naphthylamine was obtained as major product (51% yield), and only a

• -nitro-1,3-enynes 34 with amines, and trimethylsilyl azide (TMSN3, Scheme 16) [61]. The reaction could be carried out efficiently in the presence of 2.0 equiv of Cu(OAc)2·H2O. Interestingly, the addition of 10 mol % MnCl2 could promote the reaction more smoothly. A wide range of substituted aromatic

• amines were reacted well, while amines substituted with strongly electron-withdrawing (such as nitro and trifluoromethyl) groups, heteroaryl amines, and aliphatic amines were not compatible. Control experiments showed that the addition of 2.0 equiv of (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-1-yl)oxyl (TEMPO) under

Towards new NIR dyes for free radical photopolymerization processes

• Haifaa Mokbel,
• Guillaume Noirbent,
• Didier Gigmes,
• Frédéric Dumur and
• Jacques Lalevée

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2067–2076, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.133

• and the tertiary aromatic amines 3-(dimethylamino)benzyl alcohol (DABA) and N-phenylglycine (NPG), respectively, for the polymerization of a benchmark monomer (PETIA, Scheme 2). The polymerization profiles were recorded by real-time Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR, the procedure is

A recent overview on the synthesis of 1,4,5-trisubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles

• Pezhman Shiri,
• Ali Mohammad Amani and
• Thomas Mayer-Gall

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1600–1628, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.114

• using aliphatic secondary (aromatic) amines. In the next step, the effect of R1 and R2 groups on the triazole ring was also screened. These groups could be aliphatic or aromatic scaffolds. In almost all cases, the desired triazole compounds were formed in good to high yield. The short reaction time

Synthetic accesses to biguanide compounds

• Oleksandr Grytsai,
• Cyril Ronco and
• Rachid Benhida

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1001–1040, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.82

• and aromatic amines. Being free amines aliphatic amines reacted better with arylcyanoguanidine in the presence of excess copper(II) salts in aqueous ethanol, whereas aniline derivatives were more prompt to react as hydrochloride salts in a suitable high boiling point solvent. The reaction with copper

• the addition of aliphatic or aromatic amines to an activated cyanoguanidine derivative in a suitable solvent. The temperature requirements are lower compared to the fusion approach, and the work-up procedures are facilitated by the absence of copper complexes. Interestingly, microwave activation was

• biguanides by the sequential addition of various primary and secondary aliphatic and aromatic amines to sodium dicyanamide in acidic aqueous alcohol mixtures (Scheme 24). The first addition on the sodium dicyanamide occurred in variable yields depending on the structure of the amine with lower reactivities

Effective microwave-assisted approach to 1,2,3-triazolobenzodiazepinones via tandem Ugi reaction/catalyst-free intramolecular azide–alkyne cycloaddition

• Maryna O. Mazur,
• Oleksii S. Zhelavskyi,
• Eugene M. Zviagin,
• Svitlana V. Shishkina,
• Vladimir I. Musatov,
• Maksim A. Kolosov,
• Elena H. Shvets,
• Anna Yu. Andryushchenko and
• Valentyn A. Chebanov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 678–687, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.57

• products 6aba, 6aca and 6bba, based on aromatic amines, a higher temperature was required. In contrast to IAAC on terminal alkynes, the yields for the cyclization of internal alkynes were significantly lower due to the abovementioned difficulties with isolation and thermal degradation. Conclusion In

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

• variety of defensive alkaloids that makes them unpleasant for various predators [1]. Over 50 alkaloids have been characterized from ladybirds until now, including perhydroazaphenalenes, aliphatic and aromatic amines, piperidines, pyrrolidines, azamacrolides, dimeric alkaloids and homotropanes [2]. 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

Synthetic approaches to bowl-shaped π-conjugated sumanene and its congeners

• Shakeel Alvi and
• Rashid Ali

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2212–2259, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.186

• transformed into acid anhydrides which on further treatment with different aromatic amines afforded a variety of polyheterocylic compounds [82][86]. Furthermore, Shao’s group has also assembled the diimide-based heterocycles as depicted in Scheme 48 [83]. Quite recently, Tan et al. has disclosed a simple yet

Controlling the stereochemistry in 2-oxo-aldehyde-derived Ugi adducts through the cinchona alkaloid-promoted electrophilic fluorination

• Yuqing Wang,
• Gaigai Wang,
• Anatoly A. Peshkov,
• Ruwei Yao,
• Muhammad Hasan,
• Manzoor Zaman,
• Chao Liu,
• Stepan Kashtanov,
• Olga P. Pereshivko and
• Vsevolod A. Peshkov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1963–1973, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.163

• with the ee value consistently higher than 50%. Turning to the substrates 8d–g derived from aromatic amines we were able to achieve improved enantioselectivity. The best results were obtained with Q-Bn, DHQ-Bn, DHQD, and QD-Bn that performed consistently well with each of the substrates 8d–g delivering

• Q favored the formation of the same enantiomer of 12). In contrast, for the substrates 8d–g derived from aromatic amines a reversed trend was observed. In case of 8d–g, benzyl ether derivatives of cinchona alkaloids favored the formation of the opposite enantiomer of 12 as compared to the one

Microwave-assisted efficient one-pot synthesis of N²-(tetrazol-5-yl)-6-aryl/heteroaryl-5,6-dihydro-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamines

• Moustafa Sherief Moustafa,
• Ramadan Ahmed Mekheimer,
• Saleh Mohammed Al-Mousawi,
• Mohamed Abd-Elmonem,
• Hesham El-Zorba,
• Afaf Mohamed Abdel Hameed,
• Tahany Mahmoud Mohamed and
• Kamal Usef Sadek

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1706–1712, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.142

• the synthesis of 6-substituted-N2-aryl-1,6-dihydro-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamines via the reaction of aromatic amines, cyanoguanidine, and ketones which afforded the corresponding 1-aryl-1,6-dihydro-6-substituted-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamines in 21–56% yields followed by Dimroth rearrangement utilizing

Preparation and in situ use of unstable N-alkyl α-diazo-γ-butyrolactams in Rh^II-catalyzed X–H insertion reactions

• Maria Eremeyeva,
• Daniil Zhukovsky,
• Dmitry Dar’in and
• Mikhail Krasavin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 607–610, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.55

• found to be unstable and to undergo unproductive dimerization to bishydrazones, were successfully converted immediately to various X–H insertion products with alcohols, aromatic amines and thiols via an in situ RhII-catalyzed reaction. With aliphatic amines or unreactive, sterically hindered anilines

• formation, in various RhII-catalyzed X–H insertion reactions, particularly the recently described rhodium carbene insertion into O–H [1], N–H [2] and S–H [3] bonds of alcohols, aromatic amines, and thiols, respectively. Herein, we report the results of these studies. Results and Discussion Three N-alkyl-α

• experimentation, the reactions with alcohols and thiols were found to be efficiently catalyzed by 1 mol % of Rh2(OAc)4 and completed within 30 min. For aromatic amines, this catalyst proved inefficient and was replaced by 0.5 mol % of Rh2(esp)2. The attempted change of the catalyst to Rh2(esp)2 in the reactions

Installation of -SO₂F groups onto primary amides

• Jing Liu,
• Shi-Meng Wang,
• Njud S. Alharbi and
• Hua-Li Qin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1907–1912, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.186

• aromatic amines with SO2F2 or the fluorosulfurylimidazolium salt have been achieved for assembly of N-sulfonyl fluorides [1][30], which have served as important active precursors for the development of noncovalent inhibitors (Scheme 1, (1)) [1][30][31]. Amides are the key connections in proteins, amides

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

• functionality. This can be explained by the higher reactivity of the aldehyde functionalities upon imine formation with both aliphatic and aromatic amines. However, steroidal ketones can also participate in Ugi reactions if no additional, more reactive carbonyl components are present. As shown in Scheme 6, this

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

• copper catalysis to furnish several propargylisoindolinones 30 with modest to good yields (Scheme 7) [81]. Although aryl- and alkylacetylenes can be used in this method, only aromatic amines 2 which are not ortho-substituted work well under these reaction conditions. The reaction probably takes place

• acid catalyst for this transformation. At room temperature, the product of this environmentally friendly Strecker reaction is nitrile derivative 53 (R2 = CN, Scheme 15, method A), while at reflux carboxamide 53 (R2 = CONH2, Scheme 15, method A) is obtained. Notoriously, aromatic amines 2 did not work

• -formylbenzonitriles 85, diaryliodonium salts 87 and ketones 89 and 91. Proposed mechanism for the formation of 2,3-diarylisoindolinones 88, 89 and 92. Palladium-catalysed three-component reaction of chloroquinolinecarbaldehydes 97 with isocyanides 42 and aromatic amines 2. Palladium-catalysed three-component reaction

Easy, efficient and versatile one-pot synthesis of Janus-type-substituted fullerenols

• Marius Kunkel and
• Sebastian Polarz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 901–905, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.87

• amphiphiles. The reaction includes a wide range of primary amines reaching from aliphatic amines over aromatic amines to further functionalized amines. All resulting compounds have the general formula (OH)19+/−3C60(HNR)5, whereas, mainly hydroxy and ether moieties are included. They have been characterized

Synthesis of a novel category of pseudo-peptides using an Ugi three-component reaction of levulinic acid as bifunctional substrate, amines, and amino acid-based isocyanides

• Maryam Khalesi,
• Azim Ziyaei Halimehjani and
• Jürgen Martens

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 852–857, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.82

• -peptides. For this purpose, aliphatic amines such as o-chlorobenzylamine and tryptamine and aromatic amines such as aniline, 4-chloroaniline, 4-aminophenol, p-toluidine, 4-fluoroaniline, and m-anisidine were applied successfully in this protocol. In addition, all three prepared isocyanides from DL

An efficient and concise access to 2-amino-4H-benzothiopyran-4-one derivatives

• Peng Li,
• Yongqi Wu,
• Tingting Zhang,
• Chen Ma,
• Ziyun Lin,
• Gang Li and
• Haihong Huang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 703–709, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.65

• the desired products in high yields in a relatively short reaction time compared to aromatic amines, exemplified by entries 1, 7 vs entries 3, 5, 8–10 in Table 2. Both primary and secondary aliphatic amines could smoothly afford the corresponding products (Table 2, entries 3, 5 and 8–11). Having

• amines such as arylamines successfully afforded the targeted compounds 4r,s albeit in only about 50% yield. The results indicated that the nucleophilicity of the amine exerts a more pronounced effect on the reactivity (i.e., aliphatic amines vs aromatic amines) under the above optimal conditions

• process. The direct C–N bond formation reaction at the 2-position smoothly took place using ethylsulfinyl as the optimal leaving group and various nucleophiles such as aliphatic and aromatic amines. A variety of 2-aminobenzothiopyranones were obtained in moderate to excellent yields without the assistance

Synthesis and selected transformations of 2-unsubstituted 1-(adamantyloxy)imidazole 3-oxides: straightforward access to non-symmetric 1,3-dialkoxyimidazolium salts

• Grzegorz Mlostoń,
• Małgorzata Celeda,
• Katarzyna Urbaniak,
• Marcin Jasiński,
• Vladyslav Bakhonsky,
• Peter R. Schreiner and
• Heinz Heimgartner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 497–505, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.43

• Scheme 1 occur smoothly with formaldimines 3 derived from aliphatic amines, but in the case of primary aromatic amines harsher reaction conditions are required [6]. To date, no synthesis of 1-alkoxyimidazole N-oxides derived from alkoxyamines (‘hydroxyamine ethers’) has been reported. An alternative

Synthesis of a tyrosinase inhibitor by consecutive ethenolysis and cross-metathesis of crude cashew nutshell liquid

• Jacqueline Pollini,
• Valentina Bragoni and
• Lukas J. Gooßen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2737–2744, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.252

• ][10]. These include aromatic amines as polymers [11][12], cardanol-based phosphates as modifiers for epoxy resins [13], cardanol grafted natural rubber as rubber plasticizers [14], amine-based surfactants [15] and phenol/cardanol-formaldehyde based adhesives [16]. The chemical valorization of

Revisiting ring-degenerate rearrangements of 1-substituted-4-imino-1,2,3-triazoles

• James T. Fletcher,
• Matthew D. Hanson,
• Joseph A. Christensen and
• Eric M. Villa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2098–2105, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.184

• ortho positions (Table 3, entries 1–4) and reaction rates increased with increasing electron-donating character of para substituents (Table 3, entries 5–7). Reaction rates also increased as the size (and corresponding polarizability) of aromatic amines increased (Table 3, entries 8–10). Similar steric

• directly measuring complex mixtures of aldehyde and imine products resulting from a dynamic combination of condensation, rearrangement and hydrolysis reactions between 1-substituted-4-formyl-1,2,3-triazoles and aromatic amines, additional insight regarding substituent effects on this process was defined

Applications of organocatalysed visible-light photoredox reactions for medicinal chemistry

• Michael K. Bogdos,
• Emmanuel Pinard and
• John A. Murphy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2035–2064, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.179

• . Aliphatic aldehydes gave poor yields, with sterically hindered examples not reacting at all. The author attributed this to the formation of enamines. Under the reported reaction conditions primary aliphatic and aromatic amines all produced imines. The benzamide moiety is somewhat common in biologically