Synthetic strategies for the preparation of γ-phostams: 1,2-azaphospholidine 2-oxides and 1,2-azaphospholine 2-oxides

• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 889–915, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.90

• as methanol, phenolic DTBMP, benzyl bromide, aldehydes, and benzophenone. For both benzyl bromide and benzophenone, their alkylations occurred only at the γ-position of the phenyl group in phenylphosphonodiamides due to less bulkyness (Scheme 28) [54]. They finally extended their strategy to alkyl

Thiophene/selenophene-based S-shaped double helicenes: regioselective synthesis and structures

• Mengjie Wang,
• Lanping Dang,
• Wan Xu,
• Zhiying Ma,
• Liuliu Shao,
• Guangxia Wang,
• Chunli Li and
• Hua Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 809–817, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.81

• others. Experimental General procedures and materials Tetrahydrofuran (THF) for use on vacuum line was freshly distilled from sodium/benzophenone prior to use. n-BuLi (hexane) were obtained from Energy Chemical; prior to use, its concentration was determined by titration with N-pivaloyl-o-toluidine [42

A Se···O bonding catalysis approach to the synthesis of calix[4]pyrroles

• Qingzhe Tong,
• Zhiguo Zhao and
• Yao Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 325–330, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.36

• obtained in 58% and 42% yield, respectively. Further investigation revealed that cyclobutanone was reactive in this transformation to give product 2f, albeit with 30% yield. However, benzophenone and 2,4-dimethylpentan-3-one with high steric hindrance failed to give desirable products 2g and 2h. Further

Efficient synthesis of ethyl 2-(oxazolin-2-yl)alkanoates via ethoxycarbonylketene-induced electrophilic ring expansion of aziridines

• Yelong Lei and
• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 70–76, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.6

• , MeCN, and 1,4-dioxane were refluxed over CaH2; toluene was refluxed over Na with benzophenone as an indicator, and all solvents were freshly distilled prior to use. Flash column chromatography was performed using silica gel (normal phase, 200–300 mesh) from Branch of Qingdao Haiyang Chemical. Petroleum

Photoredox catalysis in nickel-catalyzed C–H functionalization

• Lusina Mantry,
• Rajaram Maayuri,
• Vikash Kumar and
• Parthasarathy Gandeepan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2209–2259, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.143

• photoredox nickel catalysis was demonstrated by Rueping in 2020 (Scheme 43) [126]. Using substituted benzophenone 4-benzoylphenyl acetate as the photocatalyst, a variety of substituted methylbenzenes 25 were transformed into unsymmetrical ketones 79 under visible light irradiation. Both aromatic and

On the application of 3d metals for C–H activation toward bioactive compounds: The key step for the synthesis of silver bullets

• Renato L. Carvalho,
• Amanda S. de Miranda,
• Mateus P. Nunes,
• Roberto S. Gomes,
• Guilherme A. M. Jardim and
• Eufrânio N. da Silva Júnior

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1849–1938, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.126

A straightforward conversion of 1,4-quinones into polycyclic pyrazoles via [3 + 2]-cycloaddition with fluorinated nitrile imines

• Greta Utecht-Jarzyńska,
• Karolina Nagła,
• Grzegorz Mlostoń,
• Heinz Heimgartner,
• Marcin Palusiak and
• Marcin Jasiński

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1509–1517, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.108

• and benzophenone and freshly distilled before use; anhydrous DMF was purchased and used as received. The NMR spectra were measured on a Bruker AVIII instrument (1H at 600 MHz, 13C at 151 MHz, and 19F at 565 MHz). Chemical shifts are reported relative to residual undeuterated solvent peaks (for CDCl3

Synthesis of 1-indolyl-3,5,8-substituted γ-carbolines: one-pot solvent-free protocol and biological evaluation

• Premansh Dudhe,
• Mena Asha Krishnan,
• Kratika Yadav,
• Diptendu Roy,
• Krishnan Venkatasubbaiah,
• Biswarup Pathak and
• Venkatesh Chelvam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1453–1463, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.101

• performed using silica gel (100–200 mesh or 230–400 mesh) and neutral alumina (175 mesh). DMF, DCM, DMA, toluene, and acetonitrile were dried using CaH2 and distilled over flame-dried 4 Å molecular sieves. THF and Et2O were dried over Na/benzophenone and stored over flame-dried 4 Å molecular sieves under an

A comprehensive review of flow chemistry techniques tailored to the flavours and fragrances industries

• Guido Gambacorta,
• James S. Sharley and
• Ian R. Baxendale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1181–1312, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.90

[2 + 1] Cycloaddition reactions of fullerene C₆₀ based on diazo compounds

• Yuliya N. Biglova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 630–670, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.55

• (Scheme 30). An interesting approach was used in reference [150], and the syntheses of phenylacetylene dendrimers of the 1st (see 179) and 2nd generation (see 180) are reported (Figure 13). In reference [151], the reaction of fullerene with 3.3',4.4'-tetrakis(methoxycarbonyl)benzophenone tosylhydrazone

Synthesis of legonmycins A and B, C(7a)-hydroxylated bacterial pyrrolizidines

• Wilfred J. M. Lewis,
• David M. Shaw and
• Jeremy Robertson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 334–342, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.31

• details Dry solvents were obtained from an MBraun SPS-800 solvent purification system, except that THF was freshly distilled from Na/benzophenone. All other reagents or solvents were used as received from commercial suppliers, unless indicated otherwise. Column chromatography was performed using Merck

Exploring the possibility of using fluorine-involved non-conjugated electron-withdrawing groups for thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters by TD-DFT calculation

• Dongyang Chen and
• Eli Zysman-Colman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 210–223, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.21

• explore their potential computationally within TADF emitter design. We cross-compare their optoelectronic properties with analog materials using well-studied conjugated electron-withdrawing groups (cyano, benzophenone, and triazine). We investigated two families of structures. The first family consists of

• acceptors correlate linearly to the Hammett substituent constant, σp, (Figure 2c) [35]. All of these fluorinated acceptors are much weaker than the more commonly investigated benzonitrile (BN, −1.30 eV), triphenyltriazine (TRZ, −1.72 eV) and benzophenone (BP, −1.58 eV) acceptors. These results indicate that

Dawn of a new era in industrial photochemistry: the scale-up of micro- and mesostructured photoreactors

• Emine Kayahan,
• Mathias Jacobs,
• Leen Braeken,
• Leen C.J. Thomassen,
• Simon Kuhn,
• Tom van Gerven and
• M. Enis Leblebici

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2484–2504, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.202

• -benzophenone (DMBP) was studied. A single multisyringe pump was used to supply the reactants to the photomicroreactors. This kind of scaling up is called external numbering up since each reactor is fed directly by the pump. This numbering-up strategy allowed to run ten parallel microreactors at the same time

Recent developments in enantioselective photocatalysis

• Callum Prentice,
• James Morrisson,
• Andrew D. Smith and
• Eli Zysman-Colman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2363–2441, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.197

• ] photocycloaddition of quinolone 170. The proposed mechanism proceeds via hydrogen-bonded complex 171, which is sensitised by the pendant benzophenone to its triplet excited state 171*. The following cycloaddition completes the cycle and generates the desired cyclobutane product 173 in excellent conversion but poor

• triplet excited state 182* (Scheme 27) [79][80]. However, the enantioselectivities for this reaction were poor (70:30 er), which prompted further catalyst design by changing the photosensitising group from benzophenone to xanthone 183 to improve enantioselectivity [79]. Xanthone has a higher triplet

• energy than benzophenone (3.2 eV vs 3.0 eV) and the authors attribute this difference to the increased efficiency; however, the efficiency of energy transfer is governed by spectral overlap between donor and acceptor. The much higher enantioselectivities observed (95:5 er) are attributed to a reduced

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

Photosensitized direct C–H fluorination and trifluoromethylation in organic synthesis

• Shahboz Yakubov and
• Joshua P. Barham

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2151–2192, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.183

• [128]. These employ photosensitizers such as 9-fluorenone [127], 1,2,4,5-tetracyanobenzene (TCB) [129][130], 1,4-dicyanobenzene (CB) [126][131] and benzophenone [128] and proceed in low (23%) to excellent (96%) yields [126][128]. One of the most efficient and high-energy (79.4 kcal⋅mol−1) triplet

• −H monofluorination photosensitized by 9-fluorenone demonstrated a remarkable scope and reaction efficiency. A range of different photosensitizers (acetone, benzophenone, 9-fluorenone and Ir(ppy)3) were investigated. Acetone as a PSCat gave no product, likely due to its absorption bands (≈280 nm) well

• out of reach of even the lowest emission wavelength range of the CFL bulb. Ir(ppy)3 also gave no reaction. This was interesting, considering that its triplet energy (T1 = 57.8 kcal⋅mol−1) was similar to Selectfluor® (T1 = 61.4 kcal⋅mol−1). Benzophenone (T1 = 69.1 kcal⋅mol−1) and 9-fluorenone (T1

Nonenzymatic synthesis of anomerically pure, mannosyl-based molecular probes for scramblase identification studies

• Giovanni Picca,
• Markus Probst,
• Simon M. Langenegger,
• Oleg Khorev,
• Peter Bütikofer,
• Anant K. Menon and
• Robert Häner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1732–1739, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.145

• -mannose (the α-anomer also shows biological activity, but to a lesser extent) [13][14][15], a short-chain (citronellol) mimic of dolichol [1][2][13], and a functional tag. The latter may either be a chemically reactive group (in MPC-1) or a fluorescent reporter group (in MPC-2). MPC-1 bears a benzophenone

• MPC-1 and MPC-2. Compound β-4Ac-Man-CEP was prepared in 4 steps from ᴅ-mannose (see Supporting Information File 1) [35][36]. Compound Cit-BZP-yne was prepared via a Mitsunobu reaction of tetrahydropyranyl (THP)-protected citronellol and a hydroxylated benzophenone derivative [10][37][38]. Compound Cit

Oxime radicals: generation, properties and application in organic synthesis

• Igor B. Krylov,
• Stanislav A. Paveliev,
• Alexander S. Budnikov and
• Alexander O. Terent’ev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1234–1276, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.107

• radicals with the formation of a C–O bond (dimer 4b, oxidation of diisopropyl oxime 1b), an O–N bond (dimer 4c, oxidation of benzophenone oxime 1c), and an N–N bond (dimer 4d, oxidation of benzaldoxime 1d, see also [58]) was observed. As a rule, the initial dimers of iminoxyl radicals are unstable, which

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

• compared to other methods for radical generation [56]. Within this field, organic dyes can act as competent photocatalysts for direct HAT processes. Specifically, upon light excitation, photoactive carbonyl compounds, such as benzophenone and its derivatives, reach an electronically excited triplet state

• : a biradical capable of abstracting an H atom from C–H bonds. Recently, Martin exploited this feature in a nickel-catalyzed process for the alkylation of arenes (Scheme 8) [57]. In this report, the excited state of a push–pull benzophenone OD10 can abstract an H atom from the substrate

• -hydroxyphthalimide (NHPI, OD22, similar to the benzophenone photocatalysts OD9 and OD10) can abstract an H atom from the aldehyde substrate 20.1. The resulting acyl radical adds to the (E)-β-nitrostyrene 20.2, and the following denitrosylation affords the chalcones 20.3. Alkenyl and aryl radical ions (radical

Development of fluorinated benzils and bisbenzils as room-temperature phosphorescent molecules

• Shigeyuki Yamada,
• Takuya Higashida,
• Yizhou Wang,
• Masato Morita,
• Takuya Hosokai,
• Kaveendra Maduwantha,
• Kaveenga Rasika Koswattage and
• Tsutomu Konno

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1154–1162, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.102

• restriction of intramolecular motions [23]. Moreover, crystalline 2,5-dihexyloxy-4-bromobenzaldehyde displays green phosphorescence, which stems from rapid ISC due to the heavy atom effect via halogen bonding (C=O···Br) [24]. Moreover, benzophenone- or benzil-type molecules can achieve long-lived

Fluorinated phenylalanines: synthesis and pharmaceutical applications

• Laila F. Awad and
• Mohammed Salah Ayoup

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1022–1050, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.91

• -[18F]fluorophenylalanines 72a,b [54] were achieved by a copper-mediated nucleophilic radiofluorination of arylstannanes 71a,b with [18F]KF (Scheme 17). 1.6. Alkylation of benzophenone imine of glycine ester Pentafluoro-ʟ-phenylalanine (77a) and 2,4-ditrifluoromethyl-ʟ-phenylalanine (77b) were

• synthesized through alkylation of the benzophenone imine of glycine ester 73, with perfluorinated benzylbromide 19c or 2,4-bis(trifluoromethyl)benzyl bromide (74) in the presence of 2,7-bis[O(9)-allylhydrocinchonidinium-N-methyl]naphthalene dibromide, to afford the fluorinated phenylalanine imines 75a,b with

Aldehydes as powerful initiators for photochemical transformations

• Maria A. Theodoropoulou,
• Nikolaos F. Nikitas and
• Christoforos G. Kokotos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 833–857, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.76

• capable to induce other types of reactions, such as hydrogen atom abstraction (HAT) processes or triplet state energy transfer processes (EnT). Carbonyl compounds, especially diaryl ketones, have shown great potential as far as their catalytic scope is concerned. Benzophenone or acetophenone (64) and

• that did not react with the excited benzaldehyde (9, Scheme 2). Photoorganocatalysts are known for their ability to abstract hydrogen atoms from various substrates, furnishing radical species. Benzophenone is a very well-studied example of this category. Alongside with benzophenone and acetophenone

• , McGinniss and co-workers reported the polymerization of methyl methacrylate (26, MMA) by employing 4,4’-bis(N,N-diethylamino)benzophenone (27, DEABP) as the photoinitiator (Scheme 7) [35]. It was already well-accepted that aminoaromatic compounds, such as Michler’s ketone (28) and DEABP (27), present large

Photophysics and photochemistry of NIR absorbers derived from cyanines: key to new technologies based on chemistry 4.0

• Bernd Strehmel,
• Christian Schmitz,
• Ceren Kütahya,
• Yulian Pang,
• Anke Drewitz and
• Heinz Mustroph

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 415–444, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.40

• -free ATRP strategy [132][133][134][135][136][137]. Latter reference provided a comprehensive overview demonstrating the function of phenothiazine derivatives, perylene, diaryl dihydrophenazines, anthracene or pyrene. In addition, type II photoinitiators including benzophenone, and thioxanthones were

Formal preparation of regioregular and alternating thiophene–thiophene copolymers bearing different substituents

• Atsunori Mori,
• Keisuke Fujita,
• Chihiro Kubota,
• Toyoko Suzuki,
• Kentaro Okano,
• Takuya Matsumoto,
• Takashi Nishino and
• Masaki Horie

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 317–324, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.31

• RINT-2000(CuKα) device. Concerning the solvent of the nickel- and palladium-catalyzed reactions, THF (anhydrous grade) was purchased from Kanto Chemical Co. Ltd. and passed through alumina and copper columns (Nikko Hansen & Co. Ltd.) or distilled from a sodium dispersion in mineral oil/benzophenone

Synthesis and optoelectronic properties of benzoquinone-based donor–acceptor compounds

• Daniel R. Sutherland,
• Nidhi Sharma,
• Georgina M. Rosair,
• Ifor D. W. Samuel,
• Ai-Lan Lee and
• Eli Zysman-Colman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2914–2921, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.285

• Table 2. In the absorption spectra, 2 and 5 both showed intense π–π* absorption bands localized on the benzophenone at 326 and 310 nm, respectively [37]. The extra TPA donor in 5 contributed to a red-shifting of this absorption band. There were low-energy CT bands from the TPA donor to the BQ acceptor