Distinctive reactivity of N-benzylidene-[1,1'-biphenyl]-2-amines under photoredox conditions

• Shrikant D. Tambe,
• Kwan Hong Min,
• Naeem Iqbal and
• Eun Jin Cho

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1335–1342, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.114

• brine. The organic layer was dried over anhydrous MgSO4 and concentrated in vacuo. The desired vicinal diamine product was purified by silica-gel column chromatography using hexane/EtOAc as the eluent. Photocatalytic transformations of imines. Substrate scope for the radical cross-couplings. Reaction

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

• , the ability of transition metal complexes to intercept alkyl radicals has been exploited for expanding the possibility of C–C bond formation reactions to cross-couplings. In all of these transformations, the substituents on the alkyl radical determine if it reacts as a nucleophile or an electrophile

Suzuki–Miyaura cross coupling is not an informative reaction to demonstrate the performance of new solvents

• James Sherwood

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1001–1005, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.89

• objective of this work was to reveal if there is a relationship between the productivity of Suzuki–Miyaura cross couplings and the properties of the solvent, and whether this could be used to justify solvent selection. The choice of solvent is one variable that dictates reaction rate, selectivity

• applicable) of Suzuki–Miyaura cross couplings [8]. Despite this, the reaction is generally tolerant of a wide range of solvents (often an ether or amide solvent is used, and water is a common co-solvent). This calls into question the benefits of using Suzuki–Miyaura cross coupling as a test of new solvents

• enough to definitively establish a measurement of solvent performance in Suzuki–Miyaura cross couplings, a short optimisation study was conducted to improve the conversion to 4-phenylacetophenone in 2-MeTHF (originally 16%). Reducing the water content to an 18:1 v/v ratio and increasing the excess of

Accelerating fragment-based library generation by coupling high-performance photoreactors with benchtop analysis

• Quentin Lefebvre,
• Christophe Salomé and
• Thomas C. Fessard

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 982–988, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.87

• findings on C–N cross-coupling conditions. In these works, nickel-photoredox-catalyzed cross-couplings were the most successful with success rates up to 50% [10]. This was an improvement from non-photocatalyzed conditions, where success rates of 11–33% were observed for palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling

• electrochemically-mediated nickel-catalyzed cross-couplings. Electron-deficient aniline products are less prone to oxidative decomposition. BCP-amines were viable coupling partners but gave the corresponding products 1a–e in poor purities. Simple azetidines partook the reaction to give 2a–c while azaspiro[3,3

Photocatalytic deaminative benzylation and alkylation of tetrahydroisoquinolines with N-alkylpyrydinium salts

• David Schönbauer,
• Carlo Sambiagio,
• Timothy Noël and
• Michael Schnürch

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 809–817, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.74

• , electrophilic alkyl radicals were used in several transformations, such as electrophilic cross couplings under nickel catalysis, either with boronic acids [35] or different (aryl)halides [36][37][38]. Furthermore, visible light-promoted uncatalyzed electron transfer via the formation of electron donor–acceptor

Combining enyne metathesis with long-established organic transformations: a powerful strategy for the sustainable synthesis of bioactive molecules

• Valerian Dragutan,
• Ileana Dragutan,
• Albert Demonceau and
• Lionel Delaude

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 738–755, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.68

• efficiently produce key 1,3-dienic frameworks, further subjected to sequential functionalization. The main focus was placed on strategies combining enyne metathesis with traditional chemical transformations such as Diels–Alder cycloaddition, Suzuki–Miyaura or Heck cross-couplings, aromatization, epoxidation

Recent advances in Cu-catalyzed C(sp³)–Si and C(sp³)–B bond formation

• Balaram S. Takale,
• Ruchita R. Thakore,
• Elham Etemadi-Davan and
• Bruce H. Lipshutz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 691–737, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.67

• , Ohmiya and co-workers envisioned inverting the polarity of an aldehyde 81 via conversion into the corresponding α-alkoxyalkyl Cu(I) anion 78. Utilizing 78, which undergoes transmetallation to an initially formed Pd(II) intermediate (from oxidative addition) led to cross couplings affording benzhydryl

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

• described previously [25]. We chose five chlorobithiophenes as monomer precursors for the alternating copolymers, as summarized in Scheme 3. The cross-couplings, as shown in Scheme 2, proceeded smoothly to afford the bithiophenes 4 in 46–92% yield. The synthesis of the alternating copolymers was carried out

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

• temperature, it is also carried out in benign acetone as solvent and does not require any additional oxidant. It circumvents the additional prefunctionalization of the BQ step usually required for Pd cross-couplings [15], while also showing greater functional group tolerance than radical-based methods [16][17

A new approach to silicon rhodamines by Suzuki–Miyaura coupling – scope and limitations

• Thines Kanagasundaram,
• Antje Timmermann,
• Carsten S. Kramer and
• Klaus Kopka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2569–2576, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.250

• application in STED (stimulated emission depletion) microscopy, as sensor molecules for, e.g., ions and as fluorophores for the optical imaging of tumors. Different strategies were already employed for their synthesis. Because of just three known literature examples in which Suzuki–Miyaura cross couplings

Recent advances in transition-metal-catalyzed incorporation of fluorine-containing groups

• Xiaowei Li,
• Xiaolin Shi,
• Xiangqian Li and
• Dayong Shi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2213–2270, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.218

• review covers mainly two types of transition-metal-catalyzed reactions: 1) cross-couplings with a fluorinated organometallic species or a halogenated fluorinated species and 2) the direct introduction of fluorinated moieties into nonfunctionalized substrates with a fluorinated reagent. We hope that this

Remarkable effect of alkynyl substituents on the fluorescence properties of a BN-phenanthrene

• Alberto Abengózar,
• David Sucunza,
• Patricia García-García and
• Juan J. Vaquero

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1257–1261, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.122

• BN-phenanthrenes 1 and 5 in cyclohexane (≈0.02 mM). Solutions of 1a–f and 5 (from left to right) under UV irradiation. Synthesis of Cl-substituted BN-phenanthrene 1b. Palladium-catalyzed cross-couplings of Cl-substituted BN-phenanthrene 1b. Pd-catalyzed Sonogashira reactions of Cl-substituted BN

Tandem copper and photoredox catalysis in photocatalytic alkene difunctionalization reactions

• Nicholas L. Reed,
• Madeline I. Herman,
• Vladimir P. Miltchev and
• Tehshik P. Yoon

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 351–356, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.30

• transition metals, Lewis acids, and organocatalysts has been productively utilized in asymmetric transformations [7][8][9], cross-couplings [10][11][12], and oxidative decarboxylation reactions [13][14], among others. The use of a cocatalyst to control these photochemical transformations enables reactions

Transition metal-free oxidative and deoxygenative C–H/C–Li cross-couplings of 2H-imidazole 1-oxides with carboranyl lithium as an efficient synthetic approach to azaheterocyclic carboranes

• Lidia A. Smyshliaeva,
• Mikhail V. Varaksin,
• Pavel A. Slepukhin,
• Oleg N. Chupakhin and
• Valery N. Charushin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2618–2626, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.240

• 10.3762/bjoc.14.240 Abstract The direct C–H functionalization methodology has first been applied to perform transition metal-free C–H/C–Li cross-couplings of 2H-imidazole 1-oxides with carboranyllithium. This atom- and step-economical approach, based on one-pot reactions of nucleophilic substitution of

• . An alternative approach to exploit the C–X/C–M cross-coupling reactions, leading to heterocyclic boron clusters, is based on the C–H/C–M coupling strategy. One of the ways to realize these cross couplings is the transition metal-free methodology for direct C–H functionalization of azaheterocyclic

• metal-catalyzed C–Br/C–M (M = Li, Mg, Zn, etc.) and C–Br/C–H cross-couplings reactions leading to more complex organic compounds. Mono-substituted imidazolyl carboranes 4a–d and their N-oxide analogues 5a–d were characterized by the data of elemental analysis, IR, NMR spectroscopy (1H, 13C{1H} (APT

Hypervalent organoiodine compounds: from reagents to valuable building blocks in synthesis

• Gwendal Grelier,
• Benjamin Darses and
• Philippe Dauban

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1508–1528, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.128

• complementary solution has provided opportunities to explore a new chemical space. This review aims to highlight the main achievements reported in this context since the first study described in 1995 on the palladium-catalyzed cross couplings of symmetrical diphenyl-λ3-iodanes with sodium tetraphenylborate [25

Metal-free formal synthesis of phenoxazine

• Gabriella Kervefors,
• Antonia Becker,
• Chandan Dey and
• Berit Olofsson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1491–1497, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.126

• recently, Bolm and co-workers reported a metal-free cyclization of iodo-substituted diaryl ethers with a broad scope (Scheme 1b) [18]. Transition metal-catalyzed cross couplings have also been employed to form the required C–O and C–N bonds, e.g., by Cu-catalyzed cyclization of 2-(2-bromophenoxy)anilines

One hundred years of benzotropone chemistry

• Arif Dastan,
• Haydar Kilic and
• Nurullah Saracoglu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1120–1180, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.98

Fluorogenic PNA probes

• Tirayut Vilaivan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 253–281, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.17

• uracils have also been extensively studied as fluorescent nucleobases in the context of aegPNA. Modifications have invariably been made at the 5-position of uracil, which could be functionalized by various aromatics or alkynes via palladium-catalyzed cross couplings of the corresponding iodouridine

Synthesis of substituted Z-styrenes by Hiyama-type coupling of oxasilacycloalkenes: application to the synthesis of a 1-benzoxocane

• James R. Vyvyan,
• Courtney A. Engles,
• Scott L. Bray,
• Erik D. Wold,
• Christopher L. Porter and
• Mikhail O. Konev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2122–2127, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.209

• . The siloxanes 8 participated efficiently in Hiyama-type cross-couplings with aryl iodides in the presence of Pd2(dba)3 catalyst and tetrabutylammonium fluoride (TBAF, Table 1). Both electron-rich (Table 1, entries 1, 2, and 7) and electron-poor (Table 1, entries 5 and 6) iodides give coupled products

Synthesis of tetrasubstituted pyrazoles containing pyridinyl substituents

• Josef Jansa,
• Ramona Schmidt,
• Ashenafi Damtew Mamuye,
• Laura Castoldi,
• Alexander Roller,
• Vittorio Pace and
• Wolfgang Holzer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 895–902, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.90

• the main product, but also containing biphenyl, traces of the desired product 6a, the homocoupling dimer 7a as well as a compound 8, obviously resulting from attack of PhLi to the pyridine system attached to pyrazole N-1 (Scheme 4). Negishi cross-couplings with 4-iodopyrazoles 3a–d The Negishi cross

Rapid regio- and multi-coupling reactivity of 2,3-dibromobenzofurans with atom-economic triarylbismuths under palladium catalysis

• Maddali L. N. Rao,
• Jalindar B. Talode and
• Venneti N. Murty

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2065–2076, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.195

• -dibromobenzofuran with arylboronic acids under palladium catalyzed conditions [29][30]. Bach et al. reported site-selective studies involving the Sonogashira, Negishi, Kumada cross-couplings employing 2,3-dibromobenzofuran and 2,3,5-tribromobenzofuran substrates [31][32][33]. Additionally, Langer et al. reported

• -dimethylformamide (DMF) and N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMA) furnished lowered yields (Table 1, entries 6 and 7) in comparison with NMP solvent. Carrying out the cross-couplings at different temperatures also gave lower yields (Table 1, entries 8 and 9). Additionally, the stoichiometric combination of 3 equiv of 2,3

• been tested with differently functionalized triphenylbismuth reagents under the optimized conditions (Table 2). This study was performed with triphenylbismuth reagents substituted with electronically activating and deactivating groups. The cross-couplings performed with these reagents demonstrated an

Synthesis of highly functionalized 2,2'-bipyridines by cyclocondensation of β-ketoenamides – scope and limitations

• Paul Hommes and
• Hans-Ulrich Reissig

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1170–1177, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.112

• couplings. Thus, a library of specifically substituted bipyridine derivatives was generated, showing the versatility of the simple 1,3-diketone-based approach to this important class of ligands. Keywords: 2,2-bipyridines; cross couplings; cyclocondensation; β-ketoenamides; nonaflates; Introduction In 2009

A convenient route to symmetrically and unsymmetrically substituted 3,5-diaryl-2,4,6-trimethylpyridines via Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reaction

• Dariusz Błachut,
• Joanna Szawkało and
• Zbigniew Czarnocki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 835–845, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.82

• construction of unsymmetrically arylated pyrroles, thiophenes and 2,6- and 3,5-diarylpyridines. In order to test the utility of the above mentioned approach, a series of trial cross couplings were performed on a microscale according to route 3 with a variety of electron-poor and electron-rich boronic acids

• diarylpyridines 46–56, directly from 1 by two sequential cross couplings with the isolation and full characterization of the intermediates 3 and 43–45. Thus, the treatment of 1 with 1.1 equiv of phenyl-, 2-methylphenyl-, 4-methylphenyl and 2-naphthylboronic acid in dioxane in the presence of PdCl2(dppf) × CH2Cl2

Copper-mediated arylation with arylboronic acids: Facile and modular synthesis of triarylmethanes

• H. Surya Prakash Rao and
• A. Veera Bhadra Rao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 496–504, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.49

• towards transition metal-catalyzed cross-couplings [43][44][45][46][47][48] or CH arylation followed by an arylative desulfonation [49][50]. The coupling reactions provide an opportunity to install an unactivated aryl group on a carbon bearing two more aryl groups to synthesize the triarylmethane motif

Versatile synthesis and biological evaluation of novel 3’-fluorinated purine nucleosides

• Hang Ren,
• Haoyun An,
• Paul J. Hatala,
• William C. Stevens Jr,
• Jingchao Tao and
• Baicheng He

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2509–2520, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.272

• -ribofuranosyl purine derivatives began with a palladium-catalyzed cross coupling [45][46] to install the aromatic moieties to the 6-position of the purine ring. In order to accomplish efficient cross-couplings of a wide range of aromatic rings, we utilized three different protocols that were employed for Stille

• deprotected with a saturated solution of ammonia in methanol to give the desired analogue 5 with furan-2-yl substituent at position 6 of the purine base. Considering the possible toxicity of organostannyl reagents, we then utilized various organoboronic acids for Suzuki cross couplings [49][50][51] to