Synthetic study toward the diterpenoid aberrarone

• Liang Shi,
• Zhiyu Gao,
• Yiqing Li,
• Yuanhao Dai,
• Yu Liu,
• Lili Shi and
• Hong-Dong Hao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1625–1628, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.173

• functional transformation from 10, which itself would be prepared through methylation and conjugate addition from Pauson–Khand adduct 11. This cyclopentenone could be readily accessed from 1,7-enyne 12 which could be obtained through the reported procedure [35] from the commercially available 5-hexenoic acid

• strategy, the stereogenic center at C1 was synthesized, along with a smooth attachment of the cyanate group served for further functional group transformation to construct the C ring through C–H insertion. The stereochemistry finding of this conjugate addition from the convex face of the 6-5 ring system

• constructing the D ring is currently undergoing. Conclusion In summary, we have developed an approach to assemble the tricyclic skeleton of aberrarone through stereoselective methylation, conjugate addition and gold-catalyzed C–H insertion from the readily accessed cyclopentenone. Further work to access

Oxa-Michael-initiated cascade reactions of levoglucosenone

• Julian Klepp,
• Thomas Bousfield,
• Hugh Cummins,
• Sarah V. A.-M. Legendre,
• Jason E. Camp and
• Ben W. Greatrex

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1457–1462, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.151

• product 6n was also isolated (Table 1, entry 17), analogous to that reported for the reaction of 1, furfural and hydroxide in water [16]. The isolation of 6n was attributed to a slow second conjugate addition of the enolate (the reaction of 6 and 8, Scheme 1), while 7 was formed via an endocyclic

Heteroleptic metallosupramolecular aggregates/complexation for supramolecular catalysis

• Prodip Howlader and
• Michael Schmittel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 597–630, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.62

• differently sized triangles (S)-40 and (S)-41 depending on the length of the organic spacer in the acceptor unit (Figure 9) [75]. Since the interior cavity of the homochiral macrocycles was equipped with BINOL units, they were utilized as catalysts for the asymmetric conjugate addition of chalcone 42 with

• one of the three ZnPor units being available for the attachment (immobilization) of an organocatalyst, we wondered about the catalytic activity of the dynamic three-component ensembles 89•(82•X) using N-methylpyrrolidine (89) as organocatalyst. For assessment, the conjugate addition of 86 and 87 was

Menadione: a platform and a target to valuable compounds synthesis

• Acácio S. de Souza,
• Ruan Carlos B. Ribeiro,
• Dora C. S. Costa,
• Fernanda P. Pauli,
• David R. Pinho,
• Matheus G. de Moraes,
• Fernando de C. da Silva,
• Luana da S. M. Forezi and
• Vitor F. Ferreira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 381–419, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.43

Selective sulfonylation and isonitrilation of para-quinone methides employing TosMIC as a source of sulfonyl group or isonitrile group

• Chuanhua Qu,
• Run Huang,
• Yong Li,
• Tong Liu,
• Yuan Chen and
• Guiting Song

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2822–2831, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.193

• reaction without adding bases, and unexpectedly found Ag salts could catalyze the 1,6-conjugate addition of TosMIC (2a) and p-QM 1a to provide aryl(phenol)methane isonitrile 4a under base-free conditions (Table 1, entries 6–8). When the silver salt was removed from the reaction conditions, the reaction did

• , under air atmosphere for 10 min; yields are reported for the isolated products. Cases encountered by other p-QMs examinations. DBU-catalyzed 1,6-conjugate addition for the synthesis of isonitrile diarylmethanes 4a–h. Reaction conditions unless otherwise specified: 1 (0.2 mmol), 2 (0.4 mmol), DBU (0.06

Highly stereocontrolled total synthesis of racemic codonopsinol B through isoxazolidine-4,5-diol vinylation

• Lukáš Ďurina,
• Anna Ďurinová,
• František Trejtnar,
• Ľuboš Janotka,
• Lucia Messingerová,
• Jana Doháňošová,
• Ján Moncol and
• Róbert Fischer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2781–2786, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.188

• )-enantiomer [18]. We have used ᴅʟ-proline for three reasons: first, it provides the target compounds 1 and 2 in their racemic form, second, it is able to catalyze the conjugate addition between N-EWG-protected hydroxylamines and enals effectively, and third, based on our experience, the products obtained by

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

• -trifluoromethylpropargyl alcohol are very important for the reaction. Li and co-workers developed a chiral phosphoric acid-catalyzed asymmetric remote 1,8-conjugate addition of thiazolones 111 and azlactones 112 to propargyl alcohols 110 for the synthesis of the chiral allenes 113 and 114, respectively. In the presence of

• diastereoselectivity (10:1 to >20:1 dr). In addition, the enantioselective 1,8-conjugate addition of azlactones 112 to para-quinone methides generated in situ from propargyl alcohols 110 were carried out in the presence of 1 mol % chiral phosphoric acid CPA 7 and afforded the chiral allenes 114 in high yields (65–97

• reaction. Moreover, both electron-withdrawing and donating groups on the aromatic rings of propargyl alcohols or azlactones smoothly participated in the asymmetric 1,8-conjugate addition and afforded the corresponding chiral allenes in good yields with high enantioselectivity. The control experiments

Solvent-free synthesis of enantioenriched β-silyl nitroalkanes under organocatalytic conditions

• Akhil K. Dubey and
• Raghunath Chowdhury

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2642–2649, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.177

• Akhil K. Dubey Raghunath Chowdhury Bio-Organic Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400085, India Homi Bhabha National Institute, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai-400094, India 10.3762/bjoc.17.177 Abstract An enantioselective 1,4-conjugate addition of nitromethane to β-silyl α,β

• -nitrosilanes through a Cu(II)–chiral bipyridine complex catalyzed enantioselective silyl transfer reaction to nitroalkenes using Suginome’s silylboron reagent (Scheme 1a) [28]. Recently, we have reported the synthesis of chiral β-nitrosilanes via an organocatalytic conjugate addition of nitromethane to β

• our work, the same group disclosed an organocatalyzed conjugate addition of thiols to β-silyl enones for the synthesis of chiral α-mercaptosilanes (Scheme 1g) [36]. As a part of our ongoing program for the development of asymmetric catalytic approaches for the synthesis of enantioenriched

Enantioenriched α-substituted glutamates/pyroglutamates via enantioselective cyclopropenimine-catalyzed Michael addition of amino ester imines

• Zara M. Seibel,
• Jeffrey S. Bandar and
• Tristan H. Lambert

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2077–2084, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.134

• achieved [31], Michael reactions with these nucleophiles have met with limited success [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. In terms of enantioselective catalytic strategies, Kobayashi has reported the conjugate addition of azlactones to acrylates using a calcium pybox complex, but with enantioselectivities

• strategy for the enanantioselective conjugate addition of amino acid derivatives for this reaction remains an unmet goal. Our group previously described a chiral cyclopropenimine catalyst that displayed outstanding reactivity for addition reactions of glycine imines [40][41]. We hypothesized that this

Asymmetric organocatalyzed synthesis of coumarin derivatives

• Natália M. Moreira,
• Lorena S. R. Martelli and
• Arlene G. Corrêa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1952–1980, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.128

• acid (4) as catalyst [30]. Based on this pioneer work, our research group described an efficient, highly stereoselective, one-pot process comprising an organocatalytic conjugate addition of dimedone or 4-hydroxycoumarin 1 to α,β-unsaturated aldehydes 2 followed by an intramolecular isocyanide-based

• conjugate addition of 4-hydroxycoumarin (1) to β,γ-unsaturated α-ketoesters 106 was reported the Kim’s group [69]. In this case, a bifunctional binaphthyl-modified thiourea organocatalyst 108 was used, and among the solvents probed (such as CH2Cl2, CH3CN and toluene), the best results were achieved when the

• , respectively, has proved to be the most effective for the promotion of the conjugate addition of 4-hydroxycoumarins 1 to 2-hydroxycinnamaldehydes 109, leading to chiral bridged bicyclic acetal products 110 with high ee (Scheme 35). The mechanistic study performed showed that possibly the phenolic hydroxy group

Electron-rich triarylphosphines as nucleophilic catalysts for oxa-Michael reactions

• Susanne M. Fischer,
• Simon Renner,
• A. Daniel Boese and
• Christian Slugovc

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1689–1697, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.117

• chemistry; organocatalysis; phosphine; solvent-free synthesis; Introduction Phosphines are potent nucleophiles that are used as catalysts in many reactions, like Rauhut–Currier, Morita–Baylis–Hillman or Michael reactions [1][2][3]. The first step of these reactions is a conjugate addition of the phosphine

• formed by the conjugate addition of the phosphine to the Michael acceptor, is believed to be protonated by the alcohol forming the actual catalytically active species namely ion pair ii, consisting of a phosphonium cation and an alkoxide. The alkoxide in ii then reacts with another electrophile

• MCA is not correlating with the phosphines’ activities in conjugate addition reactions. Another approach for assessing the nucleophilicity of the phosphines is to compare their HOMO energy. The nucleophilicity should decrease with increasing s character of the orbital containing the lone pair, which

Chemical approaches to discover the full potential of peptide nucleic acids in biomedical applications

• Nikita Brodyagin,
• Martins Katkevics,
• Venubabu Kotikam,
• Christopher A. Ryan and
• Eriks Rozners

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1641–1688, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.116

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

• converted to fused sultams (Scheme 30) [56]. Anand et al. reported a Cu-catalyzed one-pot method for the preparation of 1,2,3-triazole-fused tricyclic heterocycles 106 via an intramolecular [3 + 2]-annulation. This strategy includes the 1,6-conjugate addition of Me3SiN3 to o-alkynylated p-quinone methides

• for this transformation can be assumed. First, the o-alkynylated p-quinone methide 105 undergoes a 1,6-conjugate addition with Me3SiN3 to give the intermediate 111, followed by the intramolecular Click annulation to afford the final product. A further possibility may be the creation of the 1,2,3

• -triazole intermediate 107, followed by intramolecular 1,6-conjugate addition to afford the final product. To find the exact mechanism, the reaction was performed in CDCl3 as solvent in an NMR tube with a catalytic amount of AgSbF6 and then, the reaction mixture was analyzed using 1H NMR spectroscopy. The

Methodologies for the synthesis of quaternary carbon centers via hydroalkylation of unactivated olefins: twenty years of advances

• Thiago S. Silva and
• Fernando Coelho

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1565–1590, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.112

• radical conjugate addition triggered by the HAT process (see Scheme 22 intermediate D) allowed the construction of complex polycyclic units containing quaternary carbon centers. In the first case, a cascade radical addition/conjugate addition promoted by a HAT process to the terminal olefin of 53 (Scheme

• stereogenic centers were constructed by this cascade reaction. As exemplified above (Scheme 23), the hypothesized enolate intermediate produced in the radical conjugate addition promoted by a MHAT process could be engaged in sequential reactions, offering a range of possibilities for the design of new

• ). The most likely mechanism starts with a 6-exo-trig cyclization step via radical conjugate addition triggered by a MHAT process that results in the formation of a stabilized tertiary radical B (Scheme 31). The cyclization between the radical B and the aromatic ring then leads to the stabilized radical

Breaking paracyclophane: the unexpected formation of non-symmetric disubstituted nitro[2.2]metaparacyclophanes

• Suraj Patel,
• Tyson N. Dais,
• Paul G. Plieger and
• Gareth J. Rowlands

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1518–1526, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.109

• is formed than we isolate. The compound can react further. Simply treating it with silica and methanol during filtration leads to the conjugate addition of methanol to the doubly activated alkene to give a cyclohexenone cyclophane 14 (Scheme 3). Attempting to force this reaction with acid leads to a

• mixture of starting material 6, the conjugate addition product 14, and a trace of the denitration product 15. The structure of both compounds was confirmed by single X-ray crystallography (Figure 4 and Figure 5). The addition of methanol is stereoselective with only a single diastereomer of 14 being

• than three repeats quoted). Possible mechanism for the formation of [2.2]metaparacyclophane 5 and cyclohexadienone cyclophane 6 from [2.2]paracyclophane 1. Conjugate addition of methanol and subsequent elimination. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 208: Metaparacyclophane spectra

Organocatalytic asymmetric Michael/acyl transfer reaction between α-nitroketones and 4-arylidenepyrrolidine-2,3-diones

• Chandrakanta Parida and
• Subhas Chandra Pan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1447–1452, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.100

• development of catalytic asymmetric conjugate addition reactions [3][4][5]. In particular, the conjugate addition of nitroalkanes and their derivatives to enones has drawn the attention of organic chemists as the corresponding products can be chemoselectively converted to a variety of useful structures [6

• -nitroketones have been found to be a popular nucleophilic acyl transfer reagent. In 2011, three research groups namely Wang, Yan and Kwong independently revealed the organocatalytic asymmetric conjugate addition of α-nitroketones to β,γ-unsaturated α-keto esters with the concomitant acyl transfer reaction to

• presence of the quinine-derived bifunctional squaramide catalyst I in dichloromethane at room temperature (Table 1). Delightfully, after stirring for 12 hours, a product was isolated in 70% yield that was characterized as compound 3a and was supposed to be formed through conjugate addition followed by

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

N-tert-Butanesulfinyl imines in the asymmetric synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocycles

• Joseane A. Mendes,
• Paulo R. R. Costa,
• Miguel Yus,
• Francisco Foubelo and
• Camilla D. Buarque

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1096–1140, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.86

Recent advances in palladium-catalysed asymmetric 1,4–additions of arylboronic acids to conjugated enones and chromones

• Jan Bartáček,
• Jan Svoboda,
• Martin Kocúrik,
• Jaroslav Pochobradský,
• Alexander Čegan,
• Miloš Sedlák and
• Jiří Váňa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1048–1085, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.84

• first heterogeneous polystyrene-supported recyclable catalyst for asymmetric conjugate addition reactions of arylboronic acids to five and six-membered enones. In our laboratory, we also attempted to perform this reaction under flow conditions. However, the change from batch to flow arrangement itself

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

• Sandford group clarified the high potency of these compounds for the conjugate addition of N- as well as O-nucleophiles [21]. On the basis of such an idea, we tried two routes to gain access to 1) 4-substituted 6-(trifluoromethyl)salicylate derivatives (C-nucleophiles) and 2) 6-substituted 4

• (that is, one of the two methyl groups in acetylacetone was formally substituted for an isopropyl or a t-Bu moiety, respectively), but no reaction was observed at all. The conjugate addition of amines to this type of ynone has already been reported [21], where the authors pointed out the significant

• cyclization/aromatization reactions allowed us to explore a brief scope and limitation of the present reaction by using four representative types of crude ynones 2 starting from the conjugate addition step either with acetylacetone or ethyl acetoacetate (Table 4). In all instances, the desired products 4 were

Using multiple self-sorting for switching functions in discrete multicomponent systems

• Amit Ghosh and
• Michael Schmittel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2831–2853, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.233

• three self-sorting events (three-state switching). Finally, the consequences of forward and backward walking of the biped ligand 29 were studied in the presence of two equiv of N-methylpyrrolidine (75). The latter should be able to catalyze the conjugate addition of thiophenol (44) to 2-cyclopentenone

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

• hydrolysis provides the radical conjugate addition (RCA) products 55 with a quaternary stereocentre in excellent yields and enantioselectivities (21 examples, up to 99:1 er). The quantum yield was measured to be <1 (Φ = 0.4) for the iridium-catalysed reaction, suggesting that a radical chain process is not

Reactions of 3-aryl-1-(trifluoromethyl)prop-2-yn-1-iminium salts with 1,3-dienes and styrenes

• Thomas Schneider,
• Michael Keim,
• Bianca Seitz and
• Gerhard Maas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2064–2072, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.173

• NOESY NMR experiments and confirmed by an X-ray structure determination (see Figure 3). A mechanistic scheme for the formation of indenes 12 and benzo[a]fluorenes 13 is proposed in Scheme 5. The electrophilic propyn-1-iminium ion 1a adds chemoselectively (by conjugate addition) and regioselectively

Pauson–Khand reaction of fluorinated compounds

• Jorge Escorihuela,
• Daniel M. Sedgwick,
• Alberto Llobat,
• Mercedes Medio-Simón,
• Pablo Barrio and
• Santos Fustero

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1662–1682, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.138

• this sense, while the addition of hard organometallic nucleophiles, such as lithium dialkylcuprates or Grignard reagents, failed, softer nucleophiles such as nitroalkanes cleanly added to the β-position, providing the Michael adduct 61. Unexpectedly, the conjugate addition reaction resulted in

• in wet nitromethane under reflux, clean conjugate addition/detrifluoromethylation was observed, in this case followed by retro-Michael reaction of nitromethane achieving enones 65 in moderate to good yields (Scheme 37). Interestingly, the overall reaction sequence results in the formal inversion of

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