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

• free amine. The first example from Smolka and Friedreich involved the preparation of unsubstituted biguanide by reacting cyanoguanidine with ammonium chloride in boiling ethanol [14]. Then, they used high-pressure autoclave conditions to increase the temperature. Ethylbiguanide and phenylbiguanide were

• . screened various conditions for the addition of TMG to different alkyl- and arylcarbodiimides [80]. In particular, the authors compared different approaches such as classical thermic conditions, microwave irradiation with or without Y(OTf)3, high-speed vibrational milling using stainless steel balls, high

• pressure and ultrasound sonication (Scheme 40). Microwave irradiation proved to be the most efficient conditions with regard to reaction time and conversion. Moderate to high isolated yields (43–95%) were obtained depending on the carbodiimides, the elevated temperatures sometimes required led to the

Highly regio- and stereoselective phosphinylphosphination of terminal alkynes with tetraphenyldiphosphine monoxide under radical conditions

• Dat Phuc Tran,
• Yuki Sato,
• Yuki Yamamoto,
• Shin-ichi Kawaguchi,
• Shintaro Kodama,
• Akihiro Nomoto and
• Akiya Ogawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 866–872, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.72

• carried out varying the reaction parameters such as the light source and the ratio of the radical initiator (V-40)/2a (Table 1). Using a xenon lamp as an artificial solar source [48][49], 3a was produced in 45% yield (Table 1, entry 1). Using UV light irradiation with a high-pressure mercury lamp [50], 3a

A sustainable strategy for the straightforward preparation of 2H-azirines and highly functionalized NH-aziridines from vinyl azides using a single solvent flow-batch approach

• Michael Andresini,
• Leonardo Degannaro and
• Renzo Luisi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 203–209, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.20

• ]. Subsequently, the process was examined under continuous flow conditions employing a special integrated coil reactor with two different operating temperatures (see Supporting Information File 1). A solution of 1-(1-azidovinyl)-4-methylbenzene (1a, 0.25 M in CPME) was introduced, via a high pressure syringe pump

• evolution, could be managed by using a high pressure pump, a stainless-steel reactor and a back-pressure regulator at 8 bar. Under the optimized conditions, the scope of the reaction was explored on vinyl azides 1a–l that were transformed into the corresponding 2H-azirines 2a–l (Scheme 2). The methodology

Controlled decomposition of SF₆ by electrochemical reduction

• Sébastien Bouvet,
• Bruce Pégot,
• Stéphane Sengmany,
• Erwan Le Gall,
• Eric Léonel,
• Anne-Marie Goncalves and
• Emmanuel Magnier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2948–2953, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.244

• expensive methods requiring a large input of energy (high temperature, high pressure). Many SF6 decomposition strategies so far developed use photoreduction, plasma discharges or even photolysis processes [10][11]. Beyond the energetic high cost of such processes, they produce side products that are highly

A new method for the synthesis of diamantane by hydroisomerization of binor-S on treatment with sulfuric acid

• Rishat I. Aminov and
• Ravil I. Khusnutdinov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2534–2539, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.205

• , PtO2) in glacial acetic acid under high pressure conditions at 70 °С and 200 psi of H2 [8][9]. In the presence of superacid catalysts, such as B(OSO2CF3)3, CF3SO3H/SbF5 1:1, CF3SO3H/B(OSO2CF3)3 1:1 [10], NaBH4/CF3SO3H [11], or zeolite Y in the NaH form (NaY) [12], hydrocarbons 3a–c isomerize to

Synthesis and highly efficient light-induced rearrangements of diphenylmethylene(2-benzo[b]thienyl)fulgides and fulgimides

• Vladimir P. Rybalkin,
• Sofiya Yu. Zmeeva,
• Lidiya L. Popova,
• Valerii V. Tkachev,
• Andrey N. Utenyshev,
• Olga Yu. Karlutova,
• Alexander D. Dubonosov,
• Vladimir A. Bren,
• Sergey M. Aldoshin and
• Vladimir I. Minkin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1820–1829, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.149

• absorption spectra were recorded on a Varian Cary 100 spectrophotometer. The irradiation of acetonitrile solutions in quartz cells (l = 10 mm, V = 2.mL) with a high pressure Hg lamp (250 W) was performed on a Newport 66941 equipment supplied with a set of interferential light filters. The intensity of light

Mechanochemical green synthesis of hyper-crosslinked cyclodextrin polymers

• Alberto Rubin Pedrazzo,
• Fabrizio Caldera,
• Marco Zanetti,
• Silvia Lucia Appleton,
• Nilesh Kumar Dhakar and
• Francesco Trotta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1554–1563, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.127

• between the NS and the IM, the high pressure (120 bar) in PSE allowed the removal of the encapsulated IMH. The second treatment was longer and involved maintaining a small amount of material in water at 40 °C for 8 h, in order to effect hydrolysis (Figure 6): Every 2 h, aliquots were withdrawn, washed

• carbonate NS synthesized in a solvent and displayed insolubility in water and organic solvents. FTIR and TG analyses were performed on the new material, confirming the structure with a carbonate bond. Nanoparticles, after cycles of ball milling and high-pressure homogenization had a mean diameter of less

Heterogeneous photocatalysis in flow chemical reactors

• Christopher G. Thomson,
• Ai-Lan Lee and
• Filipe Vilela

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1495–1549, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.125

• in high-pressure and -temperature systems, such as stainless steel (FeCrAl) substrates used in car exhaust catalytic converters [141][142]. TiO2 has been deposited on stainless steel previously by thermal atomic layer deposition [143], dip-coating [144], chemical vapour deposition [145], and plasma

An overview on disulfide-catalyzed and -cocatalyzed photoreactions

• Yeersen Patehebieke

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1418–1435, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.118

• disulfide-catalyzed isomerization of allyl alcohols to carbonyl compounds under high-pressure mercury lamp irradiation (λ > 300 nm) at room temperature. The yield of the reaction reached up to 91% (Scheme 23) [30]. Using the water-soluble dendrimer disulfide, the photoinduced isomerization in water was also

Recent synthesis of thietanes

• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1357–1410, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.116

• Synthesis via intramolecular photochemical [2+2] cycloadditions: In 1985, Machida’s group reported the intramolecular photo-assisted [2 + 2] cycloadditions of N-allylthiosuccinimides 327 applying 1 kW high-pressure mercury lamp irradiation under a nitrogen atmosphere, giving the highly strained tricyclic

Disposable cartridge concept for the on-demand synthesis of turbo Grignards, Knochel–Hauser amides, and magnesium alkoxides

• Mateo Berton,
• Kevin Sheehan,
• Andrea Adamo and
• D. Tyler McQuade

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1343–1356, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.115

• reagents for lab-scale purposes using a combination of liquid and solid pods or cartridges. We envisioned a system that requires: (1) pumps; (2) tubular reactors; (3) valves; (4) fittings, and (5) chemical containers. Challenges: The need to develop new design concepts to achieve (1) low-cost high-pressure

• pumps (10 bar); (2) disposable tubular reactors; (3) robust valves; (4) leakproof bonding process, and (5) chemically compatible and high-pressure containers. System design: The pod-style concept is achieved by making the entire fluidic circuit that is needed to run a specific chemistry with prearranged

• elastomer, and thus dispensing fluid. The elastomer sheets fully embrace the reagent bag, providing mechanical support. In this way, a soft polymer bag can be squeezed at a relatively high pressure: our prototype achieved pumping pressures up to about 1 MPa (10 bar). This type of pressure-driven pump, where

[3 + 2] Cycloaddition with photogenerated azomethine ylides in β-cyclodextrin

• Margareta Sohora,
• Leo Mandić and
• Nikola Basarić

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1296–1304, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.110

• 1 was very inefficient in aprotic solvents, and it gave a mixture of simple decarboxylation product 4, formed from 1AMY by 1,4-H shift, in addition to the cycloadducts 5a and 5b (Scheme 1). Only use of a strong irradiation source such as a high pressure Hg lamp (400 W) provided higher yields of the

Synthesis and properties of quinazoline-based versatile exciplex-forming compounds

• Rasa Keruckiene,
• Simona Vekteryte,
• Ervinas Urbonas,
• Matas Guzauskas,
• Eigirdas Skuodis,
• Dmytro Volyniuk and
• Juozas V. Grazulevicius

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1142–1153, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.101

• occurred by coupling a gas chromatograph and a high-pressure liquid chromatograph. The samples were prepared as dilute solutions of the compounds and were ionized by using electrospray ionization. The mass spectra are presented as an abundance of the ion versus the mass-to-charge ratio (m/z). Melting

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

• ) as the photoinitiator for the photografting of MAA (42) onto high-density polyethylene (39) in an aqueous solution [46]. The light source was a high-pressure mercury UV lamp (2 kW), and a cooling fan was used in order to maintain ambient temperature. Acetaldehyde (36) proved to be more efficient than

• 42 in aqueous solutions [47]. For the cases where the ketones or the aldehydes were not soluble in, or miscible with water, an amount of ethanol was added. The light source employed was a UV high-pressure mercury lamp (2 kW). All aliphatic ketones tested, including acetone (4), butanone, and pentan-2

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

• the cis-disubstituted double bond in the latter was performed under a high pressure of hydrogen, leading to the saturated tricyclic scaffold that was used as a key intermediate in the total synthesis of lycoflexine (15, Scheme 18). Manzamine alkaloids A highly interesting application of a metathesis

Rhodium-catalyzed reductive carbonylation of aryl iodides to arylaldehydes with syngas

• Zhenghui Liu,
• Peng Wang,
• Zhenzhong Yan,
• Suqing Chen,
• Dongkun Yu,
• Xinhui Zhao and
• Tiancheng Mu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 645–656, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.61

• could be due to the general difficulty of using gases as raw materials and the requirement of high-pressure equipment. In addition, relatively little attention has been paid to carbonylation chemistry using CO in academic research. Also, H2 as representative clean energy source is far more

• heterogeneous systems contained: PdO/Co3O4 with K2CO3 [33], MCM-41-S-PdCl2 [34], and MCM-41-2P-PdCl2 [35]. However, the aforementioned systems often suffer from high toxicity of solvents, high pressure of gases or high reaction temperatures, which make these protocols inapplicable for large scale applications

Carbazole-functionalized hyper-cross-linked polymers for CO₂ uptake based on Friedel–Crafts polymerization on 9-phenylcarbazole

• Dandan Fang,
• Xiaodong Li,
• Meishuai Zou,
• Xiaoyan Guo and
• Aijuan Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2856–2863, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.279

• those of P6 and P7 were a combination of type I and II nitrogen sorption isotherms, which emerged two steep N2 adsorption abilities at the low pressure region (P/P0 < 0.1) and the high pressure region (P/P0 > 0.9), indicating that micropores and macropores appeared in the polymers [40]. The BET specific

Reactions of 2-carbonyl- and 2-hydroxy(or methoxy)alkyl-substituted benzimidazoles with arenes in the superacid CF₃SO₃H. NMR and DFT studies of dicationic electrophilic species

• Dmitry S. Ryabukhin,
• Alexey N. Turdakov,
• Natalia S. Soldatova,
• Mikhail O. Kompanets,
• Alexander Yu. Ivanov,
• Irina A. Boyarskaya and
• Aleksander V. Vasilyev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1962–1973, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.191

• . Then, we studied reactions of 2-hydroxyalkylbenzimidazoles 3a–c, 4, 7, and 8. It was found that these reactions needed extremely harsh reaction conditions, heating in neat TfOH at 140 °C in glass high pressure tubes (Table 4, Scheme 2). Only at this high temperature the formation of Friedel–Crafts

Mechanochemical Friedel–Crafts acylations

• Mateja Đud,
• Anamarija Briš,
• Iva Jušinski,
• Davor Gracin and
• Davor Margetić

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1313–1320, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.130

• mixture of 19 and 18 (3:2 ratio), accompanied with a small amount of 22. As a substitute for dianthracene 19, thermally more stable substrate, anthracene-N-methyl maleimide adduct 25 [54] was prepared by Diels–Alder reaction under high pressure conditions as well as by microwave-assisted reaction and

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

• catalyst in acetonitrile, and a high pressure of both, CO and air, are needed in order to perform an oxidative carbonylation on 2-ethynylbenzamide 21. Up to ten compounds were obtained with yields ranging from 65 to 96%. Butyl, phenyl, benzyl or absence of substitution on the amide nitrogen produced, in

Cyclopropene derivatives of aminosugars for metabolic glycoengineering

• Jessica Hassenrück and
• Valentin Wittmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 584–601, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.54

• following conditions. Column: EC125/4 Nucleodur C18 from Macherey-Nagel, flow: 0.4 mL min−1; mobile phase: gradient of acetonitrile with 0.1% formic acid (solvent B) in water with 0.1% formic acid (solvent A). Semi-preparative HPLC was performed on a LC20A Prominence system (high-pressure pumps LC-20AT

Gold-catalyzed ethylene cyclopropanation

• Silvia G. Rull,
• Andrea Olmos and
• Pedro J. Pérez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 67–71, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.7

• × 320 μm × 0.25 μm. Method: 50 °C × 1.5 min, 10 °C/min, 250 °C × 25 min. Catalytic experiments Ethylene cyclopropanation with EDA. A 175 mL high pressure Fischer–Porter vessel equipped with a manometer and a valve was charged with 0.02 mmol of IPrAuCl (24 mg) and 0.02 mmol of NaBArF4 (17 mg). The vessel

Novel solid-phase strategy for the synthesis of ligand-targeted fluorescent-labelled chelating peptide conjugates as a theranostic tool for cancer

• Sagnik Sengupta,
• Mena Asha Krishnan,
• Premansh Dudhe,
• Ramesh B. Reddy,
• Bishnubasu Giri,
• Sudeshna Chattopadhyay and
• Venkatesh Chelvam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2665–2679, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.244

• chromatography method). Acetonitrile was removed under reduced pressure, and pure fractions were freeze-dried to yield DUPA rhodamine B conjugate 13 as red solid. The yield of 13 was 76% (41 mg) and the purity of the conjugate 13 is further confirmed by reverse phase analytical high-pressure liquid

• analytical high-pressure liquid chromatography, (RP-HPLC) tR = 3.09 min. The molecular mass is determined by LCMS and HRMS (+ESI) calcd for [M − Cl]+ (C66H84N15O12S)+: 1310.6139; found, 1310.6352. Analytical HPLC method The purity of bioconjugates 13 and 17 were analyzed using a Dionex HPLC-Ultimate 3000

Cobalt- and rhodium-catalyzed carboxylation using carbon dioxide as the C1 source

• Tetsuaki Fujihara and
• Yasushi Tsuji

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2435–2460, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.221

• kinetic stability of CO2 sometimes limits its utility. Classically, harsh reaction conditions such as high temperature and high pressure of CO2 were required. To overcome these problems, the use of transition-metal catalysts has been considered as a fundamental and reliable method. In the last decade

• reductant is crucial: other reductants such as Et2AlCl and Et3B yielded the corresponding product in low yields even after using a stoichiometric amount of Co(acac)2 at high pressure. Under the optimal reaction conditions with the Co(acac)2/Et2Zn system, various α,β-unsaturated nitriles were carboxylated to

Tetrathiafulvalene – a redox-switchable building block to control motion in mechanically interlocked molecules

• Hendrik V. Schröder and
• Christoph A. Schalley

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2163–2185, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.190

• rotaxane 13 (Figure 11) [73]. The [2]rotaxane was obtained in 8% yield by a high-pressure clipping procedure in which the wheel 3 was formed around the pre-synthesized axle. In DMSO, the macrocycle is predominantly located on the central TTF moiety. However, in acetone, which has a lower polarity, the