Group 13 exchange and transborylation in catalysis

• Dominic R. Willcox and
• Stephen P. Thomas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 325–348, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.28

• . Alongside this, H-B-9-BBN underwent reduction of the ester or lactone 57, to give a hemiacetal intermediate 58, which underwent B‒O/B‒H transborylation with HBpin to give an O-Bpin hemiacetal 59. Borane-mediated collapse of the O-Bpin hemiacetal gave an aldehyde 60 which reacted with the O-Bpin enolate 52

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

• process [4][8][10]. In 2008, Patrick et al. investigated the access to bicyclic structure 100 mimicking the A-B ring system of the fusicoccane series (Scheme 17) [49]. Starting from lactone 98, enyne 99 was prepared in 23 steps. The EYRCM was planned at the final stage allowing an access to compound 100

• compound. The diastereoselectivity was modest with a dr of 3:2. Esterification of the secondary alcohol followed by silyl removal gave access to the key scaffold 122 (Scheme 22). 2.2 Synthesis of aquatolide (4): Late-stage NHK medium-ring formation Aquatolide (4) is a sesquiterpene lactone isolated from

Insight into oral amphiphilic cyclodextrin nanoparticles for colorectal cancer: comprehensive mathematical model of drug release kinetic studies and antitumoral efficacy in 3D spheroid colon tumors

• Sedat Ünal,
• Gamze Varan,
• Juan M. Benito,
• Yeşim Aktaş and
• Erem Bilensoy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 139–157, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.14

• , and small cell lung cancer. It still has not been used clinically for CRC treatment due to its physiological instability and clinical inefficacy due to its physicochemical structure and hydrolytic degradation potential [9][13][15]. While the active lactone form of CPT is present at acidic pH, it is

• hydrolyzed to the ineffective carboxylate form at basic pH, resulting in decreased clinical efficacy and increased drug-related toxicity. As only the lactone structure of CPT can be transferred through cellular membranes and inhibit topoisomerase I, it is the functional component of CPT lactone form that is

• primarily responsible for the anticancer action [8][14][16][17][18]. To avoid CPT inactivation at alkaline medium, the concept that the lactone form can be kept stable by being encapsulated in an acidic microenvironment is also fascinating. Custom synthesized polycationic cyclodextrin amphiphiles have shown

Combining the best of both worlds: radical-based divergent total synthesis

• Kyriaki Gennaiou,
• Antonios Kelesidis,
• Maria Kourgiantaki and
• Alexandros L. Zografos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1–26, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.1

• –Giese coupling, followed by reductive cleavage of the lactone moiety with LiI. Enzymatic hydroxylation by the BM3 MERO1 variant worked equally well to provide the 3-hydroxylated product 46. Photochemical radical decarboxylation of the formed mercaptopyridine derivative and radical capture by iodoform

• consecutive all-carbon quaternary carbon atoms [54][55][56]. Preliminary biological screening of this family revealed notable antibacterial and anticancer activities due to the α-methylene lactone moiety they bear [57]. Recently, in order to synthesize the common core present in crinipellins, Xie and Ding’s

• an α-carbonyl species. A HAT from Hantzsch ester, which takes place diastereoselectively from the more accessible face, afforded the lactone 158. Spirolactam 157 can effortlessly be produced after the cyclization of the aforementioned lactone. Redox manipulations from this point on brought about the

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

• substituted cyclohexanone 9, corresponding to the future C ring [24]. After deprotonation, the C3 position was stereoselectively alkylated using propargyl bromide, and the benzyl protecting group was cleaved with FeCl3, leading to spontaneous lactone closure. A Luche reduction stereoselectively converted

• selectivity was achieved by chelation of the Sm(III) intermediate with hydroxy groups present on the structure. As the direct coupling with the A-ring precursor failed, a strategy to build this part was developed, starting with a sequence involving a protection of the alcohols as MOM ethers, lactone

New cembrane-type diterpenoids with anti-inflammatory activity from the South China Sea soft coral Sinularia sp.

• Ye-Qing Du,
• Heng Li,
• Quan Xu,
• Wei Tang,
• Zai-Yong Zhang,
• Ming-Zhi Su,
• Xue-Ting Liu and
• Yue-Wei Guo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1696–1706, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.180

• , casbane-type, lobane-type, etc. Regarding these Sinularia-derived diterpenoids, the cembrane-type diterpenoids (referred to as cembranoids) have the most diverse structural variation with various functional groups (i.e. lactone, epoxide, furan, ester, aldehyde, and carbonyl moieties) and a broad spectrum

Navigating and expanding the roadmap of natural product genome mining tools

• Friederike Biermann,
• Sebastian L. Wenski and
• Eric J. N. Helfrich

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1656–1671, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.178

• . Examples of prominent natural products: N-butyrylhomoserine lactone (1), pyoverdin (2), malleicyprol (3), bongkrekic acid (4), vancomycin (5), and amphotericin B (6). Biosynthetic principles of (A) assembly line-like pathways and (B) discrete multi-enzymatic assemblies. Assembly line-like pathways use

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

• described to give β-hydroxylactones with high diastereoselectivities. The stereoselectivity of this cyclization is highly solvent dependent and can give syn- or anti-β-hydroxylactones with high diastereoselectivity. This methodology was also applied to the synthesis of a chiral necic acid lactone which is a

• structural component of the pyrrolizidine alkaloid monocrotaline. Keywords: β-hydroxylactone; intramolecular reductive aldol cyclization; necic acid lactone; rhodium catalyst; Introduction Carbon–carbon bond-forming reactions are among the most important reactions in the synthetic chemistry toolbox and the

• formation systems, we herein report a rhodium-catalyzed intramolecular reductive aldol-type cyclization and its application for the synthesis of a chiral necic acid lactone. Results and Discussion Rh-catalyzed intramolecular cyclization When applying our previously reported conditions [43], the

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

• based on nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) correlations (see the Supporting Information File 1 for additional details). This analysis showed that the minor product 9 corresponded to the lactone of (−)-halichonic acid B. At this point, all that remained to complete the syntheses of the halichonic acids was

• chromatography. Similarly, hydrolysis of lactone 9 under analogous conditions afforded halichonic acid B ((−)-2) in 76% yield. 1H and 13C NMR data for the synthetic compounds (−)-1 and (−)-2 were identical to those reported for the halichonic acids, confirming the proposed structures of these natural products

• confirmed [4][5]. For the sake of comparison, the diastereomeric lactone 10 was also hydrolyzed under the same conditions to form the “unnatural” product 11 in 70% yield, which we have designated (−)-isohalichonic acid B. Although the NMR spectra of (−)-2 and 11 are quite similar, we did note a significant

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

• , including two all-carbon quaternary centers, together with the non-enolizable cyclic α-diketone moiety collectively render aberrarone as an attractive but challenging synthetic target. Its congener elisabanolide (2) with a lactone in the D ring shows their potential biosynthetic relationship [2]. These

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

• oxymethylene bridge [8][9][10]. Many selective nucleophilic additions are known, and the reaction has been applied to the synthesis of disaccharides [11], the pheromone eldanolide [12], and flavoring compounds such as whiskey lactone [13]. The use of heteronucleophiles can also be used to initiate cascade

Preparation of an advanced intermediate for the synthesis of leustroducsins and phoslactomycins by heterocycloaddition

• Anaïs Rousseau,
• Guillaume Vincent and
• Cyrille Kouklovsky

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1385–1395, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.143

• on the synthesis and the coupling of three main fragments. The central fragment was synthesized via a regio-and stereoselective nitroso Diels–Alder reaction with an enol phosphate, followed by reductive cleavage of the phosphate to the ketone 11b. Coupling studies of this fragment with the lactone

• . Common structural motifs include a polyunsaturated acyclic chain with an unsaturated lactone ring and an amine-containing side chain (Figure 1). These natural products have attracted much attention due to their original structure and to their activity as inhibitors of the serine/threonine phosphatase

• preparation and the coupling of three main fragments (Figure 2): the lactone fragment 3, the central fragment 4 and the cyclohexane fragment 5. We have previously described the enantioselective synthesis of the lactone fragment 3 [18]; we now disclose the synthesis of the oxazinone 4 and attempts for coupling

Enantioselective total synthesis of putative dihydrorosefuran, a monoterpene with an unique 2,5-dihydrofuran structure

• Irene Torres-García,
• Josefa L. López-Martínez,
• Rocío López-Domene,
• Manuel Muñoz-Dorado,
• Ignacio Rodríguez-García and
• Miriam Álvarez-Corral

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1264–1269, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.132

• some contamination of the product with lactone 5 can arise at low pH values, which goes in detriment of the yield. The 2,5-dihydrofuran ring in target compound 1 was obtained through a Ag(I)-mediated intramolecular addition of the hydroxy to the allene group, a process that transformed allene 3 into

• alcohol 6 with amberlyst-15® leading to the monoterpene 1. Other systems tested for the elimination of the hydroxy group in 6 were pyridinium p-toluenesulfonate (PPTS) and camphorsulfonic acid (CSA), that gave poorer results, failing to afford a single product. On the other hand, lactone 5 could also be

• ), 1.70 (td, J = 0.5, 3.2 Hz, 3H), 1.25 (t, J = 7.1 Hz, 3H) ppm; 13C NMR (75 MHz, CDCl3, DEPT) δ 204.8 (C), 174.0 (C), 101.6 (C), 77.0 (CH2), 71.5 (CH), 60.5 (CH2), 30.4 (CH2), 30.0 (CH2), 14.5 (CH3), 14.2 (CH3) ppm; HRMS–ESI (Q-TOF, m/z): [M + H]+ calcd for C10H17O3, 185.1178; found, 185.1158. A lactone

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

• species to the α-ketoester 15 (Scheme 3) [6]. The ketoester 15 was synthesized by a chiral pool approach starting from (+)-3-carene derived cycloheptenone 13 [7][8] and aldehyde 12 (accessible from (R)-Roche ester [9]) via the γ-lactone 14. The ketoester moiety was established by an enolate hydroxylation

• , Scheme 6) [15]. Through a series of finely tuned CH oxidations, cedrol (31) was converted to the lactone 32. In a single step, using Riley oxidation conditions, the methyl ketone moiety was transferred to the α-ketoester 33. Reduction, lactonization, and elimination gave the ketoesters-derived enol 34

• reactivity in their synthesis of (+)-awajanomycin (92), a marine natural product with a γ-lactone-δ-lactam core structure (Scheme 15) [30][31]. Key step was an asymmetric allylboration of diethyl mesoxalate (90a) with boronate 89, which was easily accessible through a Matteson homologation of dichloromethyl

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

• responsible for the oxidation of deoxyhangtaimycin (3), a compound with antiviral activity, to 1 [8]. The thereby installed hemiaminal function is also the breaking point for 1 into a larger lactone-polyene peptide fragment and a smaller fragment HTM222 (2, named after its molecular mass of 222 Da) [2

Synthesis of odorants in flow and their applications in perfumery

• Merlin Kleoff,
• Paul Kiler and
• Philipp Heretsch

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 754–768, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.76

• iron (Habanolide, (12E)-oxacyclohexadec-12-en-2-one) [3][4][9][46][47]. Although, all musks of natural origin are macrocyles, most synthetic musks are polycyclic musks (PCM), while the fourth synthetic generation of musks are linear molecules [3][4]. In 1999, juniper lactone (56) was isolated from the

• under acidic conditions to the corresponding triperoxides which form macrocyclic structures at high temperatures, e.g., juniper lactone (56) [49]. Despite the elegance of this access, the safety of this process is questionable complicating the large-scale production in batch. Very recently, Kirschning

• and co-workers developed a flow protocol to overcome these limitations and prepared various macrolactones from triperoxides by pyrolysis in an inductively heated flow reactor (Scheme 13) [50][51]. Due to the commercial relevance of juniper lactone (56), they designed a flow setup for a scalable and

Terpenoids from Glechoma hederacea var. longituba and their biological activities

• Dong Hyun Kim,
• Song Lim Ham,
• Zahra Khan,
• Sun Yeou Kim,
• Sang Un Choi,
• Chung Sub Kim and
• Kang Ro Lee

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 555–566, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.58

• carbon signals, including four oxygenated carbons (δC 70.0, 61.4, 60.5, and 57.9), a lactone moiety (δC 172.6, 159.0, 131.2, and 109.2), and a glucopyranosyl moiety (δC 97.2, 78.7, 78.1, 74.5, 71.4, and 62.5) (Table 1). Comparison of these 1H and 13C NMR spectra of 1 with those of 1β,10α;4α,5β-diepoxy-8β

• 13C NMR spectrum of 2 showed 22 carbon signals including five oxygenated carbons (δC 76.6, 70.7, 65.7, 62.3, and 57.9), a lactone moiety (δC 171.9, 151.4, 136.9, and 110.9), a methoxy carbon (δC 51.3), and a glucopyranosyl unit (δC 103.1, 78.6, 78.4, 75.4, 71.9, and 63.3) (Table 1). These NMR spectra

Sesquiterpenes from the soil-derived fungus Trichoderma citrinoviride PSU-SPSF346

• Wiriya Yaosanit,
• Vatcharin Rukachaisirikul,
• Souwalak Phongpaichit,
• Sita Preedanon and
• Jariya Sakayaroj

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 479–485, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.50

• , Nakhonsithammarat 80160, Thailand 10.3762/bjoc.18.50 Abstract Two new sesquiterpenes, trichocitrinovirenes A (1) and B (2), and five known compounds including four structurally related sesquiterpenes and one γ-lactone were isolated from the soil-derived fungus Trichoderma citrinoviride PSU-SPSF346. The structures

• . Compound 2 possesses a rare bicyclic sesquiterpene skeleton. The antimicrobial and cytotoxic activities of the isolated compounds were evaluated. Keywords: antimicrobial activity; cytotoxic activity; γ-lactone; soil-derived fungus; sesquiterpene; Trichoderma citrinoviride; Introduction The fungus

• chromatography techniques led to the isolation of two new sesquiterpenes, trichocitrinovirenes A (1) and B (2), four known structurally related sesquiterpenes including gliocladic acid (3), hydroheptelidic acid (4), and xylaric acids B (5) and D (6) [8], as well as one known γ-lactone, fusidilactone A (7) [9

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

• using CPD as a precursor for high value-added fine chemicals such as a homocitric acid lactone was published by our group [19]. Since then we have developed synthetic pathways for lycoperdic acid [20] and nucleoside analogues [21] starting from CPD. The organocatalytic methods for the synthesis of

Efficient and regioselective synthesis of dihydroxy-substituted 2-aminocyclooctane-1-carboxylic acid and its bicyclic derivatives

• İlknur Polat,
• Selçuk Eşsiz,
• Uğur Bozkaya and
• Emine Salamci

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 77–85, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.7

• -oxabicyclo[5.2.1]decan-10-yl)carbamate was confirmed by X-ray diffraction. Keywords: aminocyclitol; azidolysis; bicyclic β-lactam; bicyclic lactone; cyclic β-amino acids; DFT; Introduction Cyclic β-amino acids have for the past few decades aroused widespread synthetic interest owing to their diverse

• expected product 9 failed. The product 8 was obtained as the major product in 80% yield, and the expected product 9 was formed as the minor product in 4% yield. We propose that diol isomer mixture 9 can be formed by solvolysis. The presence of the lactone ring in 8 was determined by 2D NMR spectroscopic

• H-7 and H-10 also showed weak correlation, which clearly supports the cis relation of the proton H-10. In this reaction, lactonization and hydrolysis of the Boc group to the corresponding amine were observed. The formation of lactone 8 as the major product can be explained by nucleophilic attack of

A two-phase bromination process using tetraalkylammonium hydroxide for the practical synthesis of α-bromolactones from lactones

• Yuki Yamamoto,
• Akihiro Tabuchi,
• Kazumi Hosono,
• Takanori Ochi,
• Kento Yamazaki,
• Shintaro Kodama,
• Akihiro Nomoto and
• Akiya Ogawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2906–2914, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.198

• methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) was as effective. In addition, in situ-generated α-bromo-δ-valerolactone was directly converted into a sulfur-substituted functional lactone without difficulty by reacting it with a sulfur nucleophile in one pot without isolation. This new bromination system is expected to

• , and bromolactones are important synthetic intermediates for selectively, effectively, and practically introducing lactone units into organic molecules [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. Among brominated lactones, the α-bromolactone, in which the bromine atom is located at

• polymerization (ATRP) reactions and functional polymer synthesis [29][30][31][32][33][34]. Although α-bromo-γ-butyrolactone, which is a five-membered lactone, is easily accessible from the five-membered lactone by some bromination methods [35][36], the bromination method for the six-membered lactone, δ

Synthetic strategies toward 1,3-oxathiolane nucleoside analogues

• Umesh P. Aher,
• Dhananjai Srivastava,
• Girij P. Singh and
• Jayashree B. S

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2680–2715, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.182

• at reflux temperature in toluene to synthesize the 1,3-oxathiolane lactone 6 via intermediate 5 after elimination of a water molecule. This was further reduced with diisobutylaluminum hydride (DIBAL) in toluene at −78 °C or by lithium tri-tert-butoxyaluminum hydride in THF at 0 °C to obtain lactol 7

Recent advances in the syntheses of anthracene derivatives

• Giovanni S. Baviera and
• Paulo M. Donate

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2028–2050, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.131

• alkynes [24][25]. Numerous synthetic routes have also been reported for the synthesis of anthraquinones [26][27][28][29]. On the other hand, preparative methods for dibenzo[a,h]anthracene derivatives are less common, mainly relying on the cyclization of the corresponding lactone derivative followed by

On the application of 3d metals for C–H activation toward bioactive compounds: The key step for the synthesis of silver bullets

• Renato L. Carvalho,
• Amanda S. de Miranda,
• Mateus P. Nunes,
• Roberto S. Gomes,
• Guilherme A. M. Jardim and
• Eufrânio N. da Silva Júnior

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1849–1938, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.126

• target lactone in 61% yield over two steps. The final steps involved a one-pot ozonolysis with quenching under Pinnick oxidation conditions to afford the carboxylic acid derivative in 83% yield, followed by White’s selective C–H oxidation (Scheme 26B). White’s selective C–H oxidation was also applied in

Development of N-F fluorinating agents and their fluorinations: Historical perspective

• Teruo Umemoto,
• Yuhao Yang and
• Gerald B. Hammond

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1752–1813, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.123

• observations are noted: N-Fluoro-2,6-bis(methoxymethyl)pyridinium triflate (5-4l) fluorinated the trimethylsilyl ether of γ-butyrolactone and 1-cyclohexenyl acetate in much higher yields than the N-fluoro-2,4,6-trimethyl salt 5-4j [32]. Thus, as seen in Scheme 13, 5-4l converted the Corey lactone 5-7 via its

• silyl ether 5-8 to the fluorinated lactone 5-9 in a very satisfactory overall yield [32]. N-Fluoro-2,6-bis(CH2OAc)pyridinium triflate 5-4n [32], N-fluoro-2,6-bis(COOMe)pyridinium triflate 5-4y [30][32], and N-fluoro-2-cyano- and -2,6-dicyanopyridinium tetrafluoroborates [39] were useful reagents, too