Synthesis of medium and large phostams, phostones, and phostines

• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 687–699, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.50

• intramolecular esterification gave the cyclized products 74 and 75 in 82% yield with a 5:1 ratio of anti/cis diastereomers accompanied by a dimeric byproduct 76 in 2.5% yield. The anti-diastereomer with cis-PhO and Me groups as major product 74 is attributed to the stereoelectronic effect between the n-orbital

• of the etheric oxygen atom and the antibonding orbital of the P=O bond (the stereoelectronic effect), leading to the more stable anti-diastereomer 74 (Scheme 16) [38]. In the phostone 74 was installed a linker 2-(5-aminopentoxy) group via transesterification with benzyl N-(5-hydroxypentyl)carbamate

Enolates ambushed – asymmetric tandem conjugate addition and subsequent enolate trapping with conventional and less traditional electrophiles

• Péter Kisszékelyi and
• Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 593–634, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.44

• TMSOTf) promoted trapping gave the aldol adducts 4 in good to excellent diastereoselectivity (up to a single diastereomer), but the yields were relatively low (25–44%). To overcome this limitation, the authors used TMSOTf to prepare and isolate the corresponding silyl enol ethers, which were later

• high diastereoselectivity and good to excellent yields. In most cases, the authors detected only a single diastereomer in the crude reaction mixture (NMR). Using the enantiomeric form of the ligand or the chiral sulfoximine reagent, four diastereomeric β-aminoketones can be produced in excellent

• (Scheme 51B) [94]. Giving only a single diastereomer with good enantioselectivity using a Rh/bicyclo[2.2.2]octane-2,5-diene (bod) complex, a broad variety of spiro compounds were isolated in good to excellent yields. The authors have also shown that this skeleton provides a great opportunity to prepare

A new oxidatively stable ligand for the chiral functionalization of amino acids in Ni(II)–Schiff base complexes

• Alena V. Dmitrieva,
• Oleg A. Levitskiy,
• Yuri K. Grishin and
• Tatiana V. Magdesieva

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 566–574, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.41

• -stereocenter [32]; a significant downfield shift of this signal (up to 0.5 ppm) could be expected for the diastereomer with the ᴅ-α-stereocenter with respect to the ʟ-isomer. To prove the recyclability of the t-Bu-containing (S)-N-benzylproline-derived ligand L7, the ʟ-(pMeCysNi)L7 complex was decomposed by

Transition-metal-catalyzed domino reactions of strained bicyclic alkenes

• Austin Pounder,
• Eric Neufeld,
• Peter Myler and
• William Tam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 487–540, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.38

• investigated the Cu-catalyzed borylacylation of bicyclic alkenes 1 (Scheme 11) [45]. Like the previous borylative difunctionalization reactions, it was found the reaction generated a single exo,exo diastereomer. A brief investigation into an enantioselective variant of the borylacylation was investigated

Strategies to access the [5-8] bicyclic core encountered in the sesquiterpene, diterpene and sesterterpene series

• Cécile Alleman,
• Charlène Gadais,
• Laurent Legentil and
• François-Hugues Porée

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 245–281, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.23

• diastereomeric mixture (α-position of the lactone, OTES) (Scheme 11) [36]. Interestingly, in this transformation the G-II-mediated ring formation was performed in the presence of MgBr2, which acted as an epimerization agent at the lactol position yielding compound 67 as a single diastereomer in 65% yield. Of

• in α-position to the keto function. This terminal double bond prefigures the late RCM cyclization. trans-Hydrindanone 87 was isolated as a single diastereomer and possesses 5 out of the 10 stereogenic centers of nitidasin (93). In parallel, (−)-citronellene (88) was converted into derivative 89

• presence of a terminal methyl ketone function did not influence the reaction outcome as compound 133 produced cycloadduct 134 in the same low-moderate yield. Interestingly, the reaction was highly selective and only one single diastereomer was formed (Scheme 26). However, replacement of the allylic alcohol

Identification and determination of the absolute configuration of amorph-4-en-10β-ol, a cadinol-type sesquiterpene from the scent glands of the African reed frog Hyperolius cinnamomeoventris

• Angelique Ladwig,
• Markus Kroll and
• Stefan Schulz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 167–175, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.16

• conformation of the transition state. A chair transition state is less preferred because of inherent non-bonding interactions of some hydrogens. This has been discussed in detail in the original publication by Taber and Gunn, favoring 9 as the main diastereomer [13]. Our results confirm these data. To increase

• ) (for mass spectra see Supporting Information File 1). A minor diastereomer 14 was obtained in 9% yield after isolation by RP-HPLC using a LiChroPrep RP-18 phase because conventional column chromatography did not allow for good separation from the major products. Only one face of the carbonyl groups

• underwent nucleophilic attack, leading the formation of the three desired compounds. The diastereomer 14 showed the same linear retention index I = 1596 and the same mass spectrum as A. After detailed NMR analysis, the relative configuration of the natural product could be determined. The most stable

1,4-Dithianes: attractive C2-building blocks for the synthesis of complex molecular architectures

• Bram Ryckaert,
• Ellen Demeyere,
• Frederick Degroote,
• Hilde Janssens and
• Johan M. Winne

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 115–132, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.12

• chemoselective and stereospecific mild hydrodesulfurization with Raney nickel in acetic acid affords the target compound 59 as a single Z-diastereomer. Interestingly, glacial acetic acid proved to be the only solvent that could avoid both undesired overreduction and cis–trans isomerization of the alkene bond. It

Catalytic aza-Nazarov cyclization reactions to access α-methylene-γ-lactam heterocycles

• Bilge Banu Yagci,
• Selin Ezgi Donmez,
• Onur Şahin and
• Yunus Emre Türkmen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 66–77, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.6

• acyl chloride 6a proceeds well at 23 °C in CH2Cl2 with the use of a stoichiometric amount (1.3 equiv) of AgOTf providing the aza-Nazarov product 7a in 57% yield and as single diastereomer, whereas no cyclization was observed in the absence of AgOTf (Table 1, entries 1 and 2). When the same reaction was

• chloride at 60 °C in 95% yield (2.6 g) and with a dr (E:Z) of 3:1 (Scheme 2a). When imine 5b was reacted with 6b on an 8.0 mmol scale with the use of AgOTf (20 mol %) in acetonitrile at 80 °C, the aza-Nazarov product 7c was isolated in 61% yield (1.42 g) as a single diastereomer. This result clearly

• 19b–d in good yields (54–69%). We were pleased to see that the CF3-substituted aza-Nazarov product 19e was isolated as single diastereomer in 76% yield along with only 8% of the minor diastereomer. Surprisingly, aza-Nazarov products 19f with a 4-Cl substituent on the phenyl ring as well as 19g and 19h

Total synthesis of grayanane natural products

• Nicolas Fay,
• Rémi Blieck,
• Cyrille Kouklovsky and
• Aurélien de la Torre

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1707–1719, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.181

• ). This intermediate was then allylated, the ester group selectively reduced with Zn(TMP)2 and LiBH3NMe2 and the resulting primary alcohol was protected as a TBS ether, providing intermediate 23 as a single diastereomer. This key intermediate 23 was then submitted to a Ni-catalyzed α-vinylation and direct

• a TBS ether, α,β-desaturation, dithiane addition, MOM protection and dithiane deprotection. The fragment 25 was lithiated with t-BuLi and the fragment 29 was then added, forming the coupling product as a 5:5:1:1 separable mixture of diastereomers (Scheme 5). The desired diastereomer 30 was isolated

• single diastereomer. The stereochemistry and absolute configuration of the obtained tetracyclic structure 32 was confirmed by NOESY NMR and X-ray crystallography. Some additional modifications were required on the structure to synthesize principinol D: oxidation of the secondary alcohol to the

A novel spirocyclic scaffold accessed via tandem Claisen rearrangement/intramolecular oxa-Michael addition

• Anastasia Vepreva,
• Alexander Yanovich,
• Dmitry Dar’in,
• Grigory Kantin,
• Alexander Bunev and
• Mikhail Krasavin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1649–1655, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.177

• Michael-type spirocyclization as detailed in Scheme 4. In two cases (7a and 7c), the major (syn) and minor (anti) diastereomers were separated chromatographically and characterized. In one case (7a), the structure of the major (syn) diastereomer was unequivocally confirmed by single-crystal X-ray

• crystallography. In all other cases, only the pure syn diastereomer was isolated and characterized. The yields of spirocyclic products were generally modest to good over two steps. An electron-accepting group in the benzylidene portion (5j) or an N-benzyl substitution in the starting material (5g) lowered the

• the formation of complex product mixtures at the Claisen rearrangement step. 3,5-Dimethylphenoxy-substituted substrate 5h gave the best diastereomeric ratio in the series. The preference for the formation of the syn diastereomer in each case (and for 5a→7a in particular) can, in principle, be

Rhodium-catalyzed intramolecular reductive aldol-type cyclization: Application for the synthesis of a chiral necic acid lactone

• Motoyuki Isoda,
• Kazuyuki Sato,
• Kenta Kameda,
• Kana Wakabayashi,
• Ryota Sato,
• Hideki Minami,
• Yukiko Karuo,
• Atsushi Tarui,
• Kentaro Kawai and
• Masaaki Omote

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1642–1648, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.176

• ) moieties (Table 1, entry 7). Interestingly, using the higher coordinating solvents, DMF or DMPU, preferentially gave the opposite diastereomer, i.e., the major product being the anti-form with regard to CH3 (Cα) and OH (Cβ) moieties (anti-2a, Table 1, entries 10 and 11). For stereochemistry assignment, the

• . In addition, we demonstrated a new approach to a necic acid lactone 2j that is a diastereomer of monocrotalic acid, a key intermediate of monocrotalin. Bioactive natural products bearing a 3-hydroxy-2-methyllactone scaffold. Monocrotaline and its structural components. Molecular structure of necic

Synthesis of (−)-halichonic acid and (−)-halichonic acid B

• Keith P. Reber and
• Emma L. Niner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1629–1635, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.174

• by 1H NMR based on integration of the C7-methyl signals). A second recrystallization from cyclohexane afforded 5 as a single stereoisomer (>99:1 dr) with 42% overall recovery of material (corresponding to 51% recovery of the major diastereomer 5). Having finally separated the C7-diastereomers, we

A facile approach to spiro[dihydrofuran-2,3'-oxindoles] via formal [4 + 1] annulation reaction of fused 1H-pyrrole-2,3-diones with diazooxindoles

• Pavel A. Topanov,
• Anna A. Maslivets,
• Maksim V. Dmitriev,
• Irina V. Mashevskaya,
• Yurii V. Shklyaev and
• Andrey N. Maslivets

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1532–1538, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.162

• crystal X-ray analysis (CCDC 2201614). As evinced by the NMR data, only one diastereomer of product 3aa was obtained. Contrary to the isoxazole-annulated products of a [3 + 2] cycloaddition of nitrones to FPDs [35], product 3aa appears to be stable on storage in solution, which was confirmed by the fact

• the same diastereomer 3ia with a good 54% yield. Conclusion To conclude, we have developed a facile synthetic approach to spirofuranoxindoles 3 via the highly diastereoselective formal [4 + 1] cycloaddition reaction of FPDs 1 with diazooxindoles 2. The obtained compounds 3 were found to be stable

Vicinal ketoesters – key intermediates in the total synthesis of natural products

• Marc Paul Beller and
• Ulrich Koert

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1236–1248, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.129

• 27. Subsequent oxidation gave α-ketoester 28 which was used in an intramolecular, Lewis acid-mediated aldol reaction, presumably via tridentate complex transition state III, to give diol 29 as a single diastereomer. Inversion of the secondary alcohol and deprotection gave preussochromone D (30

• diastereomer not shown) via transition state VII where pseudo-1,3-strain is minimized. Nineteen further steps were necessary to give the naturally occurring jatrophen 51. (−)-Hopeanol In the synthesis of the polyphenolic natural product (−)-hopeanol (59), Nicolaou et al. used an α-ketoester moiety as a

• alcohol 56, which was dehydroxylated to the diastereomeric cations VIII and IX. Friedel–Crafts reaction gave diastereomeric lactones 57 and 58. The major diastereomer 58 could be converted to the complex polyphenol (−)-hopeanol (59) in seven further steps. (+)-Camptothecin In the formal synthesis of the

Reductive opening of a cyclopropane ring in the Ni(II) coordination environment: a route to functionalized dehydroalanine and cysteine derivatives

• Oleg A. Levitskiy,
• Olga I. Aglamazova,
• Yuri K. Grishin and
• Tatiana V. Magdesieva

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1166–1176, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.121

• ). Complex 4 was easily separated from the minor diastereomer by column chromatography. The structure and purity of (S)-4 was confirmed by NMR data, including HMBC, HSQC and COSY 2D techniques. The assignment of the α-stereocenter as (S) was based on the NOESY data (see Supporting Information File 1 and

• , the (R,S):(R,R) diastereomeric ratio was changed from 1:1 to 13:1 in favor of the thermodynamically more stable (R,S) diastereomer. The experiment with thiophenol performed under the same reaction conditions (a two-fold excess of thiol and the Et3N additive) gave the cysteine derivatives in 88% yield

• and with 12:1 diastereoselectivity; again, the (R,S) diastereomer was the dominant (entry 4, Table 2), in line with the previous results with tolylthiol. In case of an aliphatic thiol (benzylthiol), the results were qualitatively similar. The diastereomeric ratio is inverted in favor of the

Synthesis of tryptophan-dehydrobutyrine diketopiperazine and biological activity of hangtaimycin and its co-metabolites

• Houchao Xu,
• Anne Wochele,
• Minghe Luo,
• Gregor Schnakenburg,
• Yuhui Sun,
• Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt and
• Jeroen S. Dickschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1159–1165, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.120

• [17] gave (Z)-4 as a single diastereomer through anti elimination. Overall, TDD was obtained from ʟ-tryptophan in a high yield of 37% over eight linear steps. HPLC analysis on a chiral stationary phase showed that 4 obtained through this second route was enantiomerically enriched (80% ee by peak

Facile and diastereoselective arylation of the privileged 1,4-dihydroisoquinolin-3(2H)-one scaffold

• Dmitry Dar’in,
• Grigory Kantin,
• Alexander Bunev and
• Mikhail Krasavin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1070–1078, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.109

• diastereoselectivity and the principal diastereomer was rightly deemed to be trans-configured (vide infra). The order of mixing the reagents was found to be crucial for the successful arylation of compound 10a. Specifically, the arylation was conducted on adding a DCM solution of substrate 10a to a vigorously stirred

Synthesis of bis-spirocyclic derivatives of 3-azabicyclo[3.1.0]hexane via cyclopropene cycloadditions to the stable azomethine ylide derived from Ruhemann's purple

• Alexander S. Filatov,
• Olesya V. Khoroshilova,
• Anna G. Larina,
• Vitali M. Boitsov and
• Alexander V. Stepakov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 769–780, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.77

• diastereoselectively with TPC (2a), resulting in the formation of bis-spirocyclic meso compound 3a in which the three phenyl substituents attached to the cyclopropane ring are oriented in the same direction (Scheme 2). This suggests that the diastereomer 3a resulting from the approach of the 1,3-dipole 1 from the less

• cyclopropene 2e led to the formation of the diastereomer with all three substituents (at the cyclopropane ring) oriented in the same direction. A notable substituent effect on the reactivity of cyclopropene dipolarophiles 2 was observed for the reactions between PRP (1) and derivatives of 2,3-diphenylcycloprop

• observed signals were at the limit of detection and whether they actually correspond to a minor diastereomer could not be ascertained unambiguously. The major product 4 was purified by recrystallization of the crude mixture from MeOH and obtained in 62% yield. The structure and relative configuration of

A study of the photochemical behavior of terarylenes containing allomaltol and pyrazole fragments

• Constantine V. Milyutin,
• Andrey N. Komogortsev,
• Boris V. Lichitsky and
• Valeriya G. Melekhina

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 588–596, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.61

• diastereospecificity of the studied process, which leads to the formation of a trans-diastereomer (mixture of S/S- and R/R-enantiomers). The structure of vicinal diol 18 was unambiguously established by single-crystal X-ray diffraction (Figure 4). Conclusion In summary, we have studied the photochemical behavior of

Unusual highly diastereoselective Rh(II)-catalyzed dimerization of 3-diazo-2-arylidenesuccinimides provides access to a new dibenzazulene scaffold

• Anastasia Vepreva,
• Alexander S. Bunev,
• Andrey Yu. Kudinov,
• Grigory Kantin,
• Mikhail Krasavin and
• Dmitry Dar’in

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 533–538, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.55

• of DAS 1a in dichloromethane in the presence of Rh2(esp)2 (0.1 mol %) led to the formation of a mixture of the major product ‒ dimer 2a, and minor indene 3a (Table 1, entry 1). The target dimer was isolated in 74% yield as a single diastereomer. Its structure was reliably confirmed by X-ray analysis

• formation of a single diastereomer at the cyclopropanation step can be explained by the preferred approach of carbene A from the least sterically hindered side of indene C and the π-stacking interaction of the aromatic fragment of indene and the benzylidene substituent of the carbene. The conversion of

• diastereomer 2a is indicative of a sequence of concerted processes with an unambiguous stereochemistry control at each step where stereogenic centers are formed. Dibenzoazulenodipyrroles 2 have a pronounced three-dimensional character which make this chemotype promising as probe for protein–protein

BINOL as a chiral element in mechanically interlocked molecules

• Matthias Krajnc and
• Jochen Niemeyer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 508–523, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.53

• ). Next, the authors showed that the application of the chiral BINOL-based bisbipyridinium precursor 19 (in combination with 15 and 17) leads to the corresponding catenane 20, which contains two BINOL-based macrocycles (see Figure 5b). When using (rac)-15 and (R)-19, the (S,R)-diastereomer of the product

Tosylhydrazine-promoted self-conjugate reduction–Michael/aldol reaction of 3-phenacylideneoxindoles towards dispirocyclopentanebisoxindole derivatives

• Sayan Pramanik and
• Chhanda Mukhopadhyay

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 469–478, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.49

• diffraction analysis also revealed the presence of four chiral stereocenters with two oxindole moieties at 1,3-possition that are in trans orientation to the 2-benzoyl group and the 5-aryl group is in cis orientation (Figure 2). This observation proved that the most thermodynamically stable diastereomer was

The asymmetric Henry reaction as synthetic tool for the preparation of the drugs linezolid and rivaroxaban

• Martin Vrbický,
• Karel Macek,
• Jaroslav Pochobradský,
• Jan Svoboda,
• Miloš Sedlák and
• Pavel Drabina

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 438–445, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.46

• experiments with de values of 84% and 88%, respectively. Hence, the higher temperature led to a slight drop of the de, nevertheless, the higher amount of the undesired diastereomer was considered as convenient here, in terms of the study of its separation. The nitroaldols 24 and 26 were isolated as an oil

Asymmetric organocatalytic Michael addition of cyclopentane-1,2-dione to alkylidene oxindole

• Estelle Silm,
• Ivar Järving and
• Tõnis Kanger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 167–173, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.18

• compounds with non-aromatic substituents at the double bond (3i and 3o). The relative anti-configuration of the vicinal diastereotopic hydrogens was determined by comparing the 3JHH coupling constants of the major diastereomer with those of the minor diastereomer. The constants were larger for the major

• diastereomer, meaning vicinal hydrogens were in anti-configuration. In all previous experiments only E-isomers were used. In the case of the 3-nitro-substituted starting material 2q we managed to separate isomers and carried out the reaction with both the E- and Z-isomer. In these experiments, both isomers

Peptide stapling by late-stage Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling

• Hendrik Gruß,
• Rebecca C. Feiner,
• Ridhiwan Mseya,
• David C. Schröder,
• Michał Jewgiński,
• Kristian M. Müller,
• Rafał Latajka,
• Antoine Marion and
• Norbert Sewald

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1–12, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.1

• isomer tends to be more helical than the cis variant. The CD spectra of P5.1 and P5.2 indicate that the latter has a more helical character, which leads us to speculate that P5.1 corresponds to the cis diastereomer, while P5.2 presents the amide bond in the staple in a trans configuration. Furthermore