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Recent advances in transition-metal-free arylation reactions involving hypervalent iodine salts

  • Ritu Mamgain,
  • Kokila Sakthivel and
  • Fateh V. Singh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2891–2920, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.243

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  • arylation; rearrangement reaction; Introduction The chemistry of hypervalent iodine compounds is well-established and they are prevalent as oxidants and electrophilic reagents in organic conversions [1][2][3]. They have gained significant attention due to their high reactivity and ability to carry out
  • various useful transformations under mild, eco-friendly reaction conditions [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. Various review articles [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] and books [27][28] have appeared on the chemistry of hypervalent iodine compounds. In the past two decades
  • , diaryliodonium salts (DAIS), a versatile category of hypervalent iodine compounds, have seen significant progress in hypervalent iodine chemistry. Their efficiency and environmentally friendly characteristics have positioned DAIS as next-generation arylation reagents [29][30]. Other than aromatic electrophiles
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Published 13 Nov 2024

N-Glycosides of indigo, indirubin, and isoindigo: blue, red, and yellow sugars and their cancerostatic activity

  • Peter Langer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2840–2869, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.240

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  • intermediate C which underwent extrusion of iodine and dipropyl disulfide to give intermediate D. Subsequent reaction with acetic anhydride, pyridine and KHF2 resulted in the replacement of the TMS by acetyl groups which was important for practical reasons (stability during chromatography). The reaction of 13
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Published 08 Nov 2024

The scent gland composition of the Mangshan pit viper, Protobothrops mangshanensis

  • Jonas Holste,
  • Paul Weldon,
  • Donald Boyer and
  • Stefan Schulz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2644–2654, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.222

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  • (DMDS, 50 µL) and a 0.24 M iodine solution in diethyl ether (5 µL). The mixture was allowed to stand sealed at 40 °C for 15 h. Subsequently, the mixture was diluted with pentane (200 µL) and washed with a saturated sodium thiosulfate solution. The organic phase was dried over sodium sulfate and
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A review of recent advances in electrochemical and photoelectrochemical late-stage functionalization classified by anodic oxidation, cathodic reduction, and paired electrolysis

  • Nian Li,
  • Ruzal Sitdikov,
  • Ajit Prabhakar Kale,
  • Joost Steverlynck,
  • Bo Li and
  • Magnus Rueping

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2500–2566, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.214

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  • ]. This mild method proceeds with a broad range of unactivated alkenes, including natural products and pharmaceutical derivatives such as sulbactam acid and oxaprozin. Mechanistic studies revealed that the reaction was initiated by the electrochemical oxidation of iodide ions, generating iodine radicals
  • that dimerize to form iodine (I2). Subsequent anodic oxidation of in-situ formed Et3N produced an α-amino radical. The iodine then reacts with the alkene to form an iodonium intermediate, which undergoes intramolecular cyclization with losing an electron, and a second water attack to yield the desired
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Published 09 Oct 2024

Hypervalent iodine-mediated cyclization of bishomoallylamides to prolinols

  • Smaher E. Butt,
  • Konrad Kepski,
  • Jean-Marc Sotiropoulos and
  • Wesley J. Moran

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2455–2460, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.209

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  • Pierre Angot, 64053 Pau Cedex 09, France School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5JX, United Kingdom 10.3762/bjoc.20.209 Abstract A change in mechanism was observed in the hypervalent iodine-mediated cyclization of N-alkenylamides when the carbon chain between
  • , reaction conditions were developed, and the scope of this cyclization studied. Keywords: cyclization; DFT; hypervalent iodine; mechanism; proline; Introduction Proline is one of the 20 DNA-encoded proteinogenic amino acids that are essential to life [1][2]. In addition, the pyrrolidine core is present in
  • enantioselective conjugate addition to α,β-unsaturated pyroglutamic acid derivatives followed by deoxygenation [10], and the enantioselective organocatalytic reaction between 2-acylaminomalonates and α,β-unsaturated aldehydes [11][12]. The development of new synthetic methods using hypervalent iodine reagents has
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Synthesis and conformational analysis of pyran inter-halide analogues of ᴅ-talose

  • Olivier Lessard,
  • Mathilde Grosset-Magagne,
  • Paul A. Johnson and
  • Denis Giguère

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2442–2454, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.208

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  • depending on the incorporated halogen on the pyran core at C4: −208.33 ppm for 12 (fluorine), −197.95 ppm for 13 (chlorine), −192.80 ppm for 14 (bromine), and −184.56 ppm for 15 (iodine). Similarly, the increase in chemical shift of F2 is smaller as exemplified with an upfield shift of −205.46 ppm for 12 to
  • includes effective core potentials for iodine. Empirical dispersion was accounted with Grimme’s D3 [72][73] correction including Becke–Johnson damping [74]. Computations were performed both in the gas phase (i.e., individual molecules with thermal corrections at 298.15 K based on ideal gas assumptions) and
  • , 17, and α-ᴅ-talose 18. ORTEP diagram showing 50% thermal ellipsoid probability (except for 18): carbon (gray), oxygen (red), fluorine (green), chlorine (orange), bromine (dark red), iodine (purple), and hydrogen (white). Packing arrangement of compound compound 15; a) View down the b axis; b
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Evaluating the halogen bonding strength of a iodoloisoxazolium(III) salt

  • Dominik L. Reinhard,
  • Anna Schmidt,
  • Marc Sons,
  • Julian Wolf,
  • Elric Engelage and
  • Stefan M. Huber

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2401–2407, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.204

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  • . Finally, the potential as halogen-bonding activator was benchmarked in solution in the gold-catalyzed cyclization of a propargyl amide. Keywords: diaryliodonium; gold catalysis; halogen bonding; hypervalent iodine; non-covalent interactions; Introduction The compound class of diaryliodonium (DAI) salts
  • organocatalysis, previously only iodine(I)-based Lewis acids had been applied. However, after this study, the application of DAI salts as XB donors gained increasing interest and was investigated by several groups [11]. In the last years, important information about structure–activity relationships was also
  • applied as catalyst for the cyclization of propargylic amide 11, a typical benchmark reaction in gold catalysis (Scheme 2) [24][25][26][27], which had previously already been activated by iodine(I) and iodine(III)-based XB donors [15][18]. To evaluate the activity of the new iodoloisoxazolium 7BArF, it
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Published 23 Sep 2024

Hydrogen-bond activation enables aziridination of unactivated olefins with simple iminoiodinanes

  • Phong Thai,
  • Lauv Patel,
  • Diyasha Manna and
  • David C. Powers

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2305–2312, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.197

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  • Phong Thai Lauv Patel Diyasha Manna David C. Powers Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station TX, 77843, USA 10.3762/bjoc.20.197 Abstract Iminoiodinanes comprise a class of hypervalent iodine reagents that is often encountered in nitrogen-group transfer (NGT) catalysis. In
  • the potential for chemical non-innocence of fluorinated alcohol solvents in NGT catalysis. Keywords: aziridination; electrochemistry; H-bond activation; hypervalent iodine; nitrene transfer; Introduction Hypervalent iodine reagents find widespread application in selective oxidation chemistry due to
  • the combination of synthetically tunable iodine-centered electrophilicity and the diversity of substrate functionalization mechanisms that can be accessed [1][2]. Large families of iodine(III)- and iodine(V)-based reagents have been developed – including iodobenzene diacetate (PhI(OAc)2, PIDA
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Efficacy of radical reactions of isocyanides with heteroatom radicals in organic synthesis

  • Akiya Ogawa and
  • Yuki Yamamoto

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2114–2128, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.182

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  • methods. For these reasons, it is no exaggeration to say that radical reactions of group 17 interelement compounds with isocyanides have hardly been developed. Upon exposure to near-UV light, perfluoroalkyl iodides (RFI) undergo homolysis to form perfluoroalkyl radicals (RF•) and iodine radical (I•). The
  • perfluoroalkyl radical, as a carbon radical, rather than iodine radical can add to isocyanides to form imidoyl radicals. Then, the iodine atom of RFI can trap the imidoyl radicals to give the corresponding 1,1-adducts (R–N=C(I)–RF) in good yields [25][26]. Radical addition of group 16 compounds to isocyanides In
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Multicomponent syntheses of pyrazoles via (3 + 2)-cyclocondensation and (3 + 2)-cycloaddition key steps

  • Ignaz Betcke,
  • Alissa C. Götzinger,
  • Maryna M. Kornet and
  • Thomas J. J. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2024–2077, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.178

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  • solvents (DES) [83]. Catalysis can also be achieved using molecular iodine [84], AlCl3 [85], sodium ascorbate [86], and even solid-state and nanoparticle-mediated catalysts like CuO/ZrO2 [87], Fe3O4@Si@MoO2 [88], caspacin-cyclodextrin functionalized magnetite nanoparticles (CPS CD) [89], and Mg-Fe
  • generated hydrazones were cyclized with simple ketones to pyrazolines. The oxidation to the corresponding 4-halo-substituted pyrazoles 69 can be achieved in a one-pot fashion by halogenation with iodine chloride or elemental bromine (Scheme 24) [102]. When cyclic ketones are used, fused products 70 are
  • esters are tolerated in the method [113]. Starting from enaminone 86 functionalization, the hypervalent iodine compound 87 facilitates the introduction of a difluoromethanesulfonyl group in the copper(I) bromide-mediated consecutive three-component synthesis of difluoromethanesulfonyl-functionalized
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Published 16 Aug 2024

Harnessing the versatility of hydrazones through electrosynthetic oxidative transformations

  • Aurélie Claraz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1988–2004, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.175

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  • of the iodide anion generated molecular iodine which reacted with 39 to furnish unstable hypoiodous anhydride 40, thereby triggering the key CO2 extrusion. The resulting C(sp2)-centered radical 42 underwent a SET anodic oxidation/cyclization/deprotonation sequence to yield the oxadiazole derivative
  • 38. As such, the iodide electrolyte served as an electromediator to both promote the decarboxylation process and protect the aniline product from overoxidation. Importantly, a control experiment without electricity but in the presence of molecular iodine instead proceeded smoothly, thereby confirming
  • the critical role of in situ-generated molecular iodine (Scheme 8) [44]. Formal cycloaddition Hydrazones constitute a versatile building block for the construction of azacycles through formal cycloaddition reactions. Under oxidative electrochemical conditions, either the oxidation of the hydrazone or
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Published 14 Aug 2024

1,2-Difluoroethylene (HFO-1132): synthesis and chemistry

  • Liubov V. Sokolenko,
  • Taras M. Sokolenko and
  • Yurii L. Yagupolskii

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1955–1966, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.171

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  • ], respectively, while reference [68] provides UV-spectral data of both isomers. 1H, 19F, and 13C NMR data [69][70] are given in Table 2. Chemistry of HFO-1132 Isomerization Iodine-catalyzed cis–trans isomerization of 1,2-difluoroethylene and corresponding equilibrium measurements were described in the 1960s [47
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Published 12 Aug 2024

Negishi-coupling-enabled synthesis of α-heteroaryl-α-amino acid building blocks for DNA-encoded chemical library applications

  • Matteo Gasparetto,
  • Balázs Fődi and
  • Gellért Sipos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1922–1932, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.168

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  • iodine (see page 11 Supporting Information File 1), affording final concentrations between 0.35 to 0.45 M in THF. The solution can be stored in the fridge under argon for one week before being used in the Negishi reaction. With concentrations above 0.4 M we observed crystallization of ethyl (bromozinc
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Solvent-dependent chemoselective synthesis of different isoquinolinones mediated by the hypervalent iodine(III) reagent PISA

  • Ze-Nan Hu,
  • Yan-Hui Wang,
  • Jia-Bing Wu,
  • Ze Chen,
  • Dou Hong and
  • Chi Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1914–1921, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.167

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  • isoquinolinone derivatives. The method provides highly chemoselective access to 3- or 4-substituted isoquinolinone derivatives by reacting o-alkenylbenzamide derivatives with PISA in either acetonitrile or wet hexafluoro-2-isopropanol. Keywords: annulation; C–H amination; hypervalent iodine reagent; iodine(III
  • option for the preparation of isoquinolinone derivatives. In 2020, two reports have been published on the conversion of alkyne-tethered N-alkoxybenzamides to isoquinolinones by intramolecular oxidative annulation, either electrochemically or using the hypervalent iodine reagent phenyliodine(III
  • zwitterionic water-soluble hypervalent iodine reagent (phenyliodonio)sulfamate (PISA). In water, PISA is strongly acidic, and the pH value can reach 2.05 in a saturated aqueous solution. With PISA, various indoles have been synthesized via C–H amination of 2-alkenylanilines involving an aryl migration
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Oxidative fluorination with Selectfluor: A convenient procedure for preparing hypervalent iodine(V) fluorides

  • Samuel M. G. Dearman,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Yang Li,
  • Kuldip Singh and
  • Alison M. Stuart

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1785–1793, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.157

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  • investigate hypervalent iodine(V) fluorides has been limited primarily by their difficult preparation traditionally using harsh fluorinating reagents such as trifluoromethyl hypofluorite and bromine trifluoride. Here, we report a mild and efficient route using Selectfluor to deliver hypervalent iodine(V
  • ) fluorides in good isolated yields (72–90%). Stability studies revealed that bicyclic difluoro(aryl)-λ5-iodane 6 was much more stable in acetonitrile-d3 than in chloroform-d1, presumably due to acetonitrile coordinating to the iodine(V) centre and stabilising it via halogen bonding. Keywords: fluorination
  • ; fluorobenziodoxoles; halogen bonding; hypervalent iodine; Selectfluor; Introduction An important strategy in the drug discovery process is the incorporation of fluorine into biologically active molecules because fluorine can improve bioactivity and pharmacokinetic properties [1]. Consequently, 22% of all small
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Synthesis of polycyclic aromatic quinones by continuous flow electrochemical oxidation: anodic methoxylation of polycyclic aromatic phenols (PAPs)

  • Hiwot M. Tiruye,
  • Solon Economopoulos and
  • Kåre B. Jørgensen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1746–1757, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.153

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  • radical (potassium nitrosodisulfonate) [13] or catalytic systems like methyltrioxorhenium(VII) (MeReO3) [14] and 2-iodobenzenesulfonic acids (IBS)/Oxone® [15] led to either p-quinones or o-quinones, depending on the substituents in the para-position to the hydroxy group. Recently, hypervalent iodine
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Syntheses and medicinal chemistry of spiro heterocyclic steroids

  • Laura L. Romero-Hernández,
  • Ana Isabel Ahuja-Casarín,
  • Penélope Merino-Montiel,
  • Sara Montiel-Smith,
  • José Luis Vega-Báez and
  • Jesús Sandoval-Ramírez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1713–1745, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.152

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  • protecting group yielded the corresponding hydroxyalkynyl derivative 4. Subsequent Lindlar reduction resulted in the (Z)-alkene and a chemoselective tosylation of the primary alcohol led to the formation of tosylate 5. This intermediate underwent a stereospecific 4-exo cyclization upon exposure to iodine
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Oxidation of benzylic alcohols to carbonyls using N-heterocyclic stabilized λ3-iodanes

  • Thomas J. Kuczmera,
  • Pim Puylaert and
  • Boris J. Nachtsheim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1677–1683, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.149

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  • )iodane is proposed as the reactive intermediate. Keywords: alcohol oxidation; hypervalent iodine; N-heterocycles; Introduction The oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes and ketones is an essential transformation in organic chemistry [1][2]. Generating aldehydes is particularly challenging as they are
  • oxidants in combination with transition-metal catalysts. Metal-free methods employ chlorodimethylsulfonium compounds as the reactive species and have gained great popularity under the name Swern oxidation or the Corey–Kim oxidation [11]. Hypervalent iodine compounds have also been studied and are well
  • -iodanes have drawbacks, in particular low solubility and moisture sensitivity [11]. Hypervalent iodine compounds in a lower oxidation state (λ3-iodanes), such as iodosobenzene (PhIO)n or phenyliodine(III) diacetate (PIDA) have been reported in alcohol oxidations but they often result in overoxidation to
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Divergent role of PIDA and PIFA in the AlX3 (X = Cl, Br) halogenation of 2-naphthol: a mechanistic study

  • Kevin A. Juárez-Ornelas,
  • Manuel Solís-Hernández,
  • Pedro Navarro-Santos,
  • J. Oscar C. Jiménez-Halla and
  • César R. Solorio-Alvarado

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1580–1589, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.141

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  • halogenation via PhIX2. Keywords: aromatic bromination; aromatic chlorination; density functional theory (DFT); hypervalent iodine; iodine(III); Introduction Hypervalent iodine(III) reagents have gained attention as strong oxidants with a low toxicity [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] and due to the ability to mimic
  • reactivity [9] usually associated with transition metals [10][11]. Iodine(III) compounds have been used for the formation of different bond types, such as C–C [12][13], C–O [14][15], C–N [16], C–S [17], C–CN [18], C–F [19][20][21], C–I [22][23], C–NO2 [24][25] and, in the context of this work, C–X (X = Cl
  • , Br) [26][27][28][29][30][31]. So far, different protocols for the halogenation of arenes using iodine(III) reagents have been described, mainly using (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (PIDA)/TMSCl, PIDA/TMSBr [32], and [bis(trifluoroacetoxy)iodo]benzene (PIFA)/TMSBr [33]. We have recently developed a new
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Benzylic C(sp3)–H fluorination

  • Alexander P. Atkins,
  • Alice C. Dean and
  • Alastair J. J. Lennox

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1527–1547, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.137

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  • iodine as a super-stoichiometric oxidant. The catalyst system has precedent for also facilitating oxygenation reactions [82], which was observed as a competing pathway under these conditions. The catalytic cycle proposed by the authors begins at resting state I (Figure 31), which is generated in situ and
  • is subsequently oxidised to Mn(V)-oxo species II by hypervalent iodine oxidant PhIO. This can perform a HAT from the benzylic substrate, in turn generating a benzylic radical and Mn(IV)-hydroxy species III. Ligand exchange with the fluoride source affords complex IV, which performs FAT with the
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Published 10 Jul 2024

Tetrabutylammonium iodide-catalyzed oxidative α-azidation of β-ketocarbonyl compounds using sodium azide

  • Christopher Mairhofer,
  • David Naderer and
  • Mario Waser

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1510–1517, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.135

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  • addition, the recent years have seen remarkable progress in utilizing electrophilic azide-transfer reagents, i.e., hypervalent iodine-based compounds, for (asymmetric) α-azidations [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. Besides these valuable approaches, which either require appropriate pre-functionalization of
  • mechanistic scenario. Application scope. Proof-of-concept for the analogous oxidative α-nitration. Optimization of the α-azidation of β-ketoester 1aa. Control experiments using different hypervalent iodine speciesa. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 24: Full experimental and analytical
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Synthesis of 4-functionalized pyrazoles via oxidative thio- or selenocyanation mediated by PhICl2 and NH4SCN/KSeCN

  • Jialiang Wu,
  • Haofeng Shi,
  • Xuemin Li,
  • Jiaxin He,
  • Chen Zhang,
  • Fengxia Sun and
  • Yunfei Du

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1453–1461, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.128

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  • Engineering, Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang 050018, China 10.3762/bjoc.20.128 Abstract A series of 4-thio/seleno-cyanated pyrazoles was conveniently synthesized from 4-unsubstituted pyrazoles using NH4SCN/KSeCN as thio/selenocyanogen sources and PhICl2 as the hypervalent iodine
  • to give (SeCN)2 [60]. Then, one selenium atom of (SeCN)2 nucleophilically attacks the iodine center in PhICl2 to generate intermediate A, which was further transformed into intermediate B by release of one molecule of iodobenzene. Next, the nucleophilic attack of chloride anion to the bivalent
  • , we have accomplished the synthesis of a series of C-4 thio/selenocyanated pyrazoles via a hypervalent iodine-mediated electrophilic thio/selenocyanation approach under mild reaction conditions. Furthermore, the obtained S/SeCN-containing pyrazoles can be converted to S/SeCF3- and S/SeMe-containing
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Predicting bond dissociation energies of cyclic hypervalent halogen reagents using DFT calculations and graph attention network model

  • Yingbo Shao,
  • Zhiyuan Ren,
  • Zhihui Han,
  • Li Chen,
  • Yao Li and
  • Xiao-Song Xue

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1444–1452, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.127

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  • , University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, P. R. China, School of Chemistry and Material Sciences, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou 310024, P. R. China 10.3762/bjoc.20.127 Abstract Although hypervalent iodine(III) reagents have
  • ; machine learning; Introduction Hypervalent iodine reagents are increasingly gaining attention in the fields of organic synthesis and catalysis due to their environmental benefits, accessibility, and cost-efficiency [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. Over the last three decades, a series of cyclic
  • hypervalent iodine(III) reagents has been developed [12][13][14][15][16][17] (Figure 1), including the well-known Zhdankin reagents [13] and Togni reagents [14]. These reagents are popularly used as electrophilic group transfer reagents [18][19] in a variety of reactions, such as C–H functionalization [20][21
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A comparison of structure, bonding and non-covalent interactions of aryl halide and diarylhalonium halogen-bond donors

  • Nicole Javaly,
  • Theresa M. McCormick and
  • David R. Stuart

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1428–1435, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.125

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  • that, for a set of monovalent iodine-based halogen-bond donors, a linear combination of σ-hole and σ* energy provides a superior predictive ability than σ-hole alone [26]. In this work we compare a set of both monovalent and nominally hypervalent halogen-bond donors in which the central halogen atom is
  • engage in halogen-bonding interactions [29][30]. In this work, a series of halogen-bond donor molecules and their halogen bond complexes with chloride anion were optimized at the M062x/6-311+G(d) level of theory [31] with def2-tzvpp used for iodine and astatine, and with SMD solvation in tetrahydrofuran
  • (THF) incorporating Huber, Truhlar, and Cramer’s correction for bromine and iodine [32] using Gaussian 09 [33]. Our prior work on the orbital analysis of diarylhalonium salts [21], showed good agreement between crystal structure data and energy-minimized structures at the B3LYP/cc-pvtz level with def2
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Hypervalent iodine-catalyzed amide and alkene coupling enabled by lithium salt activation

  • Akanksha Chhikara,
  • Fan Wu,
  • Navdeep Kaur,
  • Prabagar Baskaran,
  • Alex M. Nguyen,
  • Zhichang Yin,
  • Anthony H. Pham and
  • Wei Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1405–1411, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.122

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  • .20.122 Abstract Hypervalent iodine catalysis has been widely utilized in olefin functionalization reactions. Intermolecularly, the regioselective addition of two distinct nucleophiles across the olefin is a challenging process in hypervalent iodine catalysis. We introduce here a unique strategy using
  • simple lithium salts for hypervalent iodine catalyst activation. The activated hypervalent iodine catalyst allows the intermolecular coupling of soft nucleophiles such as amides onto electronically activated olefins with high regioselectivity. Keywords: amide coupling; hypervalent iodine catalysis
  • ; lithium salt activation; olefin oxyamination; oxazoline; Introduction Hypervalent iodine(III) reagents, also known as λ3–iodanes, have been well established and used in organic synthesis for the past decades [1][2][3][4][5]. The pioneering works of Fuchigami and Fugita, Ochiai, Kita, and later the
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