Synthesis and biological investigation of (+)-3-hydroxymethylartemisinin

• Toni Smeilus,
• Farnoush Mousavizadeh,
• Johannes Krieger,
• Xingzhao Tu,
• Marcel Kaiser and
• Athanassios Giannis

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 567–570, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.51

• not show any toxicity against L6 cells (a primary cell line derived from rat skeletal myoblasts). These results contribute to a better understanding of artemisinins mechanism of action. Keywords: artemisinin; biomimetic synthesis; Diels–Alder reaction; malaria; peroxides; Introduction The isolation

Copper(I)-catalyzed tandem reaction: synthesis of 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles from alkyl diacyl peroxides, azidotrimethylsilane, and alkynes

• Muhammad Israr,
• Changqing Ye,
• Munira Taj Muhammad,
• Yajun Li and
• Hongli Bao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2916–2922, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.270

• from alkyl diacyl peroxides, azidotrimethylsilane, and terminal alkynes is reported. The alkyl carboxylic acids is for the first time being used as the alkyl azide precursors in the form of alkyl diacyl peroxides. This method avoids the necessity to handle organic azides, as they are generated in situ

• , making this protocol operationally simple. The Cu(I) catalyst not only participates in the alkyl diacyl peroxides decomposition to afford alkyl azides but also catalyzes the subsequent CuAAC reaction to produce the 1,2,3-triazoles. Keywords: alkyl diacyl peroxides; azidotrimethylsilane; click reaction

• . Furthermore, the scope of the alkyl diacyl peroxides was then studied (Scheme 3). The alkyl diacyl peroxides 2 were synthesized from the corresponding aliphatic carboxylic acids in a single step by DCC-mediated dehydrative condensation with hydrogen peroxide, and were used directly after simple filtration

Hypervalent iodine compounds for anti-Markovnikov-type iodo-oxyimidation of vinylarenes

• Igor B. Krylov,
• Stanislav A. Paveliev,
• Mikhail A. Syroeshkin,
• Alexander A. Korlyukov,
• Pavel V. Dorovatovskii,
• Yan V. Zubavichus,
• Gennady I. Nikishin and
• Alexander O. Terent’ev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2146–2155, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.188

• of imide-N-oxyl radicals, in particular the hypervalent iodine compounds and peroxides [63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73], also generate electrophilic iodinating intermediates (Scheme 1). For several decades, a number of papers on the electrophilic iodination of C=C bonds by iodine

An unusual thionyl chloride-promoted C−C bond formation to obtain 4,4'-bipyrazolones

• Gernot A. Eller,
• Gytė Vilkauskaitė,
• Algirdas Šačkus,
• Vytas Martynaitis,
• Ashenafi Damtew Mamuye,
• Vittorio Pace and
• Wolfgang Holzer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1287–1292, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.110

• well documented in the literature and proceeds under different reaction conditions such as, for instance, by air oxidation [22], under O2 atmosphere using an O2 balloon [23], by organic peroxides [24], phenoxy radicals [25], by treatment with phenylhydrazine at high temperatures [26][27], by

Difunctionalization of alkenes with iodine and tert-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) at room temperature for the synthesis of 1-(tert-butylperoxy)-2-iodoethanes

• Hao Wang,
• Cui Chen,
• Weibing Liu and
• Zhibo Zhu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2023–2027, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.200

• light [19][20], hypervalent iodine reagents [21][22], acids [23], organoammonium iodides [24] and iodine [25]. These catalysts are often employed in combination with a peroxide and generally produce an organoperoxide. Organic peroxides are important and useful compounds because of their unique chemical

• and pharmacology as medicines and therapeutic drugs [31][32]. Although many methods have been developed to synthesize peroxides [33][34][35], they have a tendency to decompose because the peroxy (–OO–) bond is easily cleaved and peroxides are highly sensitivity to reducing agents. New and general

• methods to construct peroxides are still highly desirable and valuable, and highly regioselective and efficient syntheses of peroxides with structural control are still difficult to achieve. Herein, we report a metal-free iodination–peroxidation reaction for the direct vicinal difunctionalization of

α-Acetoxyarone synthesis via iodine-catalyzed and tert-butyl hydroperoxide-mediateded self-intermolecular oxidative coupling of aryl ketones

• Liquan Tan,
• Cui Chen and
• Weibing Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1079–1084, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.107

• ). However, decreasing the amount of Na2CO3 from 1.0 equiv to 0.1 equiv significantly decreased the product yield. The effects of other peroxides, i.e., di-tert-butyl peroxide (DTBP), benzoyl peroxide, dicumyl peroxide (DCP), cumene hydroperoxide (CHP), potassium hydrogen persulfate, and 3

• -chloroperoxybenzoic acid (m-CPBA), on the reaction were investigated. All these peroxides gave sluggish reactions with poor yields, except m-CPBA, which gave the desired product 2a in 81% yield (Table 1, entries 13–18). Finally, we investigated the effect of reaction temperature to this transformation, which

Contribution of microreactor technology and flow chemistry to the development of green and sustainable synthesis

• Flavio Fanelli,
• Giovanna Parisi,
• Leonardo Degennaro and
• Renzo Luisi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 520–542, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.51

• -butyl esters, avoiding the use of inflammable and explosive gaseous isobutylene [35], the use of harsh conditions [36], the use of peroxides [37], the use of toxic gas such as CO or transition metals [38][39][40][41][42]. The flow process, for the direct C-tert-butoxycarbonylation of organolithiums, has

TBHP-mediated highly efficient dehydrogenative cross-oxidative coupling of methylarenes with acetanilides

• Cui Chen,
• Weibing Liu and
• Peng Zhou

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2250–2255, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.217

• , entries 1–3). The results show that the reaction was completed after 24 h and led to the desired N-phenylbenzamide 3aa in 62% GC yield (Table 1, entry 2). Disappointingly, other peroxides like di-tert-butylperoxide (DTBP), benzoyl peroxide, dicumyl peroxide (DCP), methyl ethyl ketone peroxide (MEKP), tert

Rearrangements of organic peroxides and related processes

• Ivan A. Yaremenko,
• Vera A. Vil’,
• Dmitry V. Demchuk and
• Alexander O. Terent’ev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1647–1748, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.162

• unnamed rearrangement reactions of peroxides. It should be noted, that in the chemistry of peroxides two types of processes are considered under the term rearrangements. These are conventional rearrangements occurring with the retention of the molecular weight and transformations of one of the peroxide

• moieties after O–O-bond cleavage. Detailed information about the Baeyer−Villiger, Criegee, Hock, Kornblum−DeLaMare, Dakin, Elbs, Schenck, Smith, Wieland, and Story reactions is given. Unnamed rearrangements of organic peroxides and related processes are also analyzed. The rearrangements and related

• processes of important natural and synthetic peroxides are discussed separately. Keywords: artemisinin; Baeyer−Villiger; Criegee; Hock; peroxide; rearrangement; Introduction The chemistry of organic peroxides has more than a hundred-year history. Currently, organic peroxides are widely used as oxidizing

Base metal-catalyzed benzylic oxidation of (aryl)(heteroaryl)methanes with molecular oxygen

• Hans Sterckx,
• Johan De Houwer,
• Carl Mensch,
• Wouter Herrebout,
• Kourosch Abbaspour Tehrani and
• Bert U. W. Maes

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 144–153, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.16

• conditions. Oxidations of this kind using Oxone® [10][11], NaOCl [12] or especially peroxides [13][14][15][16][17][18][19] as the terminal oxidant are quite numerous. However, transformations using molecular oxygen are rare. Ishii showed that organocatalysts such as N-hydroxyphthalimide (NHPI) in combination

Copper-catalyzed intermolecular oxyamination of olefins using carboxylic acids and O-benzoylhydroxylamines

• Brett N. Hemric and
• Qiu Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 22–28, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.4

• -oxazolidinone motifs (Scheme 1D) [16]. Metal-free intermolecular oxyamination reactions have also been accomplished; examples were reported by the Zhu lab with the use of peroxides [17] and by the Studer lab with the use of hypervalent iodo-azide reagents [18]. Furthermore, the intramolecular oxyamination of

Photoinduced 1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyridine ring conversions

• Baiba Turovska,
• Henning Lund,
• Viesturs Lūsis,
• Anna Lielpētere,
• Edvards Liepiņš,
• Sergejs Beljakovs,
• Inguna Goba and
• Jānis Stradiņš

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2166–2170, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.234

• ; photoinduced electron transfer; pyrrolidine; tetrahydropyridine; Introduction Increased attention has been paid to the chemistry of cyclic organic peroxides since it was found that naturally occurring representatives of this group possess biological activity, particular antimalarial [1][2]. Significantly less

Preparative semiconductor photoredox catalysis: An emerging theme in organic synthesis

• David W. Manley and
• John C. Walton

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1570–1582, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.173

• surface from the Sun is in fact in the IR, visible and UVA regions, at wavelengths matching the energy of only a few particularly weak bonds. The result is that unappealing initiators such as peroxides or azo compounds normally have to be employed. Two different classes of materials, collectively known as

Cross-dehydrogenative coupling for the intermolecular C–O bond formation

• Igor B. Krylov,
• Vera A. Vil’ and
• Alexander O. Terent’ev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 92–146, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.13

• these radicals are often non-selective and are accompanied by the formation of alcohols, carbonyl compounds, and fragmentation products. The examples of the C–O bond formation between two molecules using O-electrophiles are rare; electron-deficient peroxides with a specific structure can act as O

• benzylideneaniline were subjected to the acetoxylation using the Pd(OAc)2/PhI(OAc)2 system [33]. More recently, reactions involving the same and some other directing groups were studied in more detail. In most of the studies, Pd(OAc)2 was used as the catalyst, and PhI(OAc)2 or peroxides served as the oxidants. The

• TEMPO and t-BuOCl, to yield anhydride 173. 2.5 Oxidative systems based on transition metal salts and peroxides Esters 177 were synthesized by the oxidative C–O coupling of aldehydes 175 with alkylarenes 176 using the Cu(OAc)2/t-BuOOH system (Scheme 36) [151]. The coupling was performed with toluene

First chemoenzymatic stereodivergent synthesis of both enantiomers of promethazine and ethopropazine

• Paweł Borowiecki,
• Daniel Paprocki and
• Maciej Dranka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 3038–3055, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.322

• )-(+)-5 with excellent enantiomeric excess (>99% ee) are even better. It is obvious that since methyl tert-butyl ether is free from dangerous peroxides, hence it was chosen for further optimization studies concerning Novozym 435 lipase. In turn, while investigating the acylation of (±)-3 catalyzed by

Cyclization–endoperoxidation cascade reactions of dienes mediated by a pyrylium photoredox catalyst

• Nathan J. Gesmundo and
• David A. Nicewicz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1272–1281, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.128

• challenges. Classical approaches to the introduction of cyclic peroxides typically rely on cycloadditions of alkenes and dienes with singlet oxygen. However, ene processes can often compete, leading to complex mixtures of hydroperoxide adducts [1][6][7][8]. More recently, cyclization reactions of

Synthesis of five- and six-membered cyclic organic peroxides: Key transformations into peroxide ring-retaining products

• Alexander O. Terent'ev,
• Dmitry A. Borisov,
• Vera A. Vil’ and
• Valery M. Dembitsky

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 34–114, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.6

• .10.6 Abstract The present review describes the current status of synthetic five and six-membered cyclic peroxides such as 1,2-dioxolanes, 1,2,4-trioxolanes (ozonides), 1,2-dioxanes, 1,2-dioxenes, 1,2,4-trioxanes, and 1,2,4,5-tetraoxanes. The literature from 2000 onwards is surveyed to provide an update

• on synthesis of cyclic peroxides. The indicated period of time is, on the whole, characterized by the development of new efficient and scale-up methods for the preparation of these cyclic compounds. It was shown that cyclic peroxides remain unchanged throughout the course of a wide range of

• fundamental organic reactions. Due to these properties, the molecular structures can be greatly modified to give peroxide ring-retaining products. The chemistry of cyclic peroxides has attracted considerable attention, because these compounds are used in medicine for the design of antimalarial, antihelminthic

N,N'-(Hexane-1,6-diyl)bis(4-methyl-N-(oxiran-2-ylmethyl)benzenesulfonamide): Synthesis via cyclodextrin mediated N-alkylation in aqueous solution and further Prilezhaev epoxidation

• Julian Fischer,
• Simon Millan and
• Helmut Ritter

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2834–2840, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.318

• concentrations [10][11][12]. An alternative route is a two-step reaction via N-allylation and further Prilezhaev epoxidation with peroxides [13][14][15]. The solubility of hydrophobic reactants in water can be increased significantly by cyclodextrins (CD) and thereby the use of organic solvents can be reduced

Recent advances in transition metal-catalyzed Csp²-monofluoro-, difluoro-, perfluoromethylation and trifluoromethylthiolation

• Grégory Landelle,
• Armen Panossian,
• Sergiy Pazenok,
• Jean-Pierre Vors and
• Frédéric R. Leroux

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2476–2536, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.287

• sphere of the metal”. Indeed, the present radicals led to less side-reactions – in particular, oligomerization in the case of alkenes as substrates –, which shows that they exhibit “restricted reactivity” in comparison with “that of free radicals initiated by peroxides or diazo compounds and by

Synthesis of enantiomerically pure N-(2,3-dihydroxypropyl)arylamides via oxidative esterification

• Akula Raghunadh,
• Satish S More,
• T. Krishna Chaitanya,
• Yadla Sateesh Kumar,
• Suresh Babu Meruva,
• L. Vaikunta Rao and
• U. K. Syam Kumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2129–2136, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.250

• ][6] or (ii) catalytic oxidations with peroxides and chiral transition metal complexes [7][8][9]. The oxidative esterification of aldehydes involving oxidation followed by a C–O or C–N bond formation has received significant synthetic interest of late. Various transition metal complexes are employed

Re₂O₇-catalyzed reaction of hemiacetals and aldehydes with O-, S-, and C-nucleophiles

• Wantanee Sittiwong,
• Michael W. Richardson,
• Charles E. Schiaffo,
• Thomas J. Fisher and
• Patrick H. Dussault

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1526–1532, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.174

• hemiacetals is relatively low [13]. The differences in reactivity between hemiacetals of cyclic ethers (displaced by alcohols and allyltrimethylsilane) and those of cyclic peroxides (reactive only towards alcohols) demonstrates that the extent of activation is dependent on the nature of the substrate, and

Metal-free aerobic oxidations mediated by N-hydroxyphthalimide. A concise review

• Lucio Melone and
• Carlo Punta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1296–1310, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.146

• processes, especially in the field of the selective oxygenation of hydrocarbons. Review Radical initiation by thermal decomposition Thermal decomposition of peroxides and azo-compounds is a well-known technique generally used to generate radicals in solution. Ishii and co-workers widely investigated the key

Synthesis of compounds related to the anti-migraine drug eletriptan hydrobromide

• Suri Babu Madasu,
• Nagaji Ambabhai Vekariya,
• M. N. V. D. Hari Kiran,
• Badarinadh Gupta,
• Aminul Islam,
• Paul S. Douglas and
• Korupolu Raghu Babu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1400–1405, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.162

• [18]. This impurity is forming only in aprotic solvents, e.g., acetonitrile in the presence of peroxides at higher temperature. It was prepared by treating eletriptan hydrobromide (1) with aqueous hydrogen peroxide (30% w/w) in aqueous acetonitrile at 80–85 °C (Scheme 7). Formation of this impurity

Synthesis of spiroannulated and 3-arylated 1,2,4-trioxanes from mesitylol and methyl 4-hydroxytiglate by photooxygenation and peroxyacetalization

• Axel G. Griesbeck,
• Lars-Oliver Höinck and
• Jörg M. Neudörfl

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 61, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.61

• hydroperoxy alcohol 4 and benzaldehyde derivatives, was investigated by X-ray crystallography. Keywords: ene reaction; peracetalization; peroxides; singlet oxygen; trioxanes; Introduction The antimalaria-active molecule artemisinin (1) is a naturally occurring sesquiterpene peroxide with remarkable

• singlet oxygen ene reaction of allylic alcohols as a route to ß-hydroperoxy alcohols that can be transformed into 1,2,4-trioxanes by reaction with carbonyl compounds in the presence of Lewis acids [11]. This approach leads to simple cyclic peroxides (e.g. 2) which in some cases show similar antimalarial

• effects as the natural compound (Figure 1) [12]. An apparently useful structural feature is a large 3,3-spirofused hydrophobic group. The adamantane skeleton is a unique motif in other cyclic peroxides with antimalarial activities [13][14] which additionally exhibit other remarkable pharmaceutical

The development and evaluation of a continuous flow process for the lipase- mediated oxidation of alkenes

• Charlotte Wiles,
• Marcus J. Hammond and
• Paul Watts

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 27, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.27

• , coatings and paints [1][2], with some epoxides even exhibiting biological activity [3][4]. As such, over the years, convenient and efficient techniques have been sought for their preparation. Within the research laboratory, epoxidation of alkenes is achieved using organic peroxides and metal catalysts [5