Amamistatins isolated from Nocardia altamirensis

• Till Steinmetz,
• Wolf Hiller and
• Markus Nett

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 360–367, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.40

• the basis of 2D NMR data. In the HMBC spectrum, the singlet methyl protons H3-17 and H3-18 show correlations to C-7, a quaternary carbon at 47.4 ppm (C-8), and an oxymethine carbon at 80.3 ppm (C-9). COSY and HMBC data established the alkyl chain from CH-9 to CH3-16. A correlation between H-9 and C-19

Organocatalytic asymmetric nitroso aldol reaction of α-substituted malonamates

• Ekta Gupta,
• Narendra Kumar Vaishanv,
• Sandeep Kumar,
• Raja Krishnan Purshottam,
• Ruchir Kant and
• Kishor Mohanan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 217–224, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.25

• with nitrosoarene which provides facile access to chiral hydroxyamino malonamates having a quaternary carbon stereocenter (Scheme 1). Results and Discussion Initially, we chose the Takemoto catalyst to promote the model reaction between methyl N-bromophenyl-α-methylmalonamate (1a) and nitrosobenzene

Regioselective synthesis of methyl 5-(N-Boc-cycloaminyl)-1,2-oxazole-4-carboxylates as new amino acid-like building blocks

• Jolita Bruzgulienė,
• Greta Račkauskienė,
• Aurimas Bieliauskas,
• Vaida Milišiūnaitė,
• Miglė Dagilienė,
• Gita Matulevičiūtė,
• Vytas Martynaitis,
• Sonata Krikštolaitytė,
• Frank A. Sløk and
• Algirdas Šačkus

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 102–109, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.11

• . The 1H,13C-HMBC spectrum of compound 4a revealed that the methylene protons from the azetidine moiety and the 1,2-oxazole methine proton H-3, exhibited long-range correlations with quaternary carbon C-5 (Figure 2c). The aforementioned protonated carbons C-3 and C-3’ showed correlations in the 1,1

Unsaturated fatty acids and a prenylated tryptophan derivative from a rare actinomycete of the genus Couchioplanes

• Shun Saito,
• Kanji Indo,
• Naoya Oku,
• Hisayuki Komaki,
• Masashi Kawasaki and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2939–2949, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.203

• former two fragments were intervened by an sp2 quaternary carbon (C-4) substituted by an allylic methyl group (H-11) based on HMBC correlations from H-11 to C-3, C-4, and C-5. Another intervention by a methylene unit (C-8) to connect the second and third fragments was supported by HMBC correlations from

Recent advances in the asymmetric phosphoric acid-catalyzed synthesis of axially chiral compounds

• Alemayehu Gashaw Woldegiorgis and
• Xufeng Lin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2729–2764, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.185

• regio- and stereoselective γ-addition reaction of isoxazol-5(4H)-ones 103 to β,γ-alkynyl-α-imino esters 102 for the synthesis of axially chiral tetrasubstituted α-amino allenoates 104 containing an adjacent quaternary carbon stereocenter and an axially chiral tetrasubstituted allene scaffold [104

Isolation and characterization of new phenolic siderophores with antimicrobial properties from Pseudomonas sp. UIAU-6B

• Emmanuel T. Oluwabusola,
• Olusoji O. Adebisi,
• Fernando Reyes,
• Kojo S. Acquah,
• Mercedes De La Cruz,
• Larry L. Mweetwa,
• Joy E. Rajakulendran,
• Digby F. Warner,
• Deng Hai,
• Rainer Ebel and
• Marcel Jaspars

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2390–2398, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.156

• acid unit, confirmed by long-range correlations observed in the HMBC spectrum from H-2, H-4 to C-6 (δC 113.2), and H-5 to the quaternary carbon C-7 (δC 170.0). On the other hand, the COSY spectrum confirmed the presence of a CH3–CH–CH spin system (H3-12, H-11, and H-9) reminiscent of a threonine unit

• carboxamide C-10 (δC 172.9) and the quaternary carbon C-16 (δC 140.2), between H2-15 and H-18/20 to the quaternary carbon C-16, and a strong correlation from H-15 and H-19 to C-17/20 (δC 129.9). The new oxazoline derivative 5 was named pseudomonbactin B. The absolute configuration of the threonine residue in

Advances in mercury(II)-salt-mediated cyclization reactions of unsaturated bonds

• Sumana Mandal,
• Raju D. Chaudhari and
• Goutam Biswas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2348–2376, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.153

• for the synthesis of 1,4-dihydroquinoline 129 possessing a quaternary carbon center from 128 [93]. The reaction was reported via a seven-membered bicyclic hemiaminal as mentioned in the mechanism. This catalytic rearrangement protocol was successfully applied for the construction of complex carbon

• Yamamoto et al [116]. The catalytic pathway was proved to involve the direct H-transfer to the vinylmercury complex from the aromatic ring. It involved Hg(OTf)2-catalyzed cyclization of aryl 1,1-disubstituted allenes with the formation of a quaternary carbon center followed by the formation of a cationic

Nomimicins B–D, new tetronate-class polyketides from a marine-derived actinomycete of the genus Actinomadura

• Zhiwei Zhang,
• Tao Zhou,
• Taehui Yang,
• Keisuke Fukaya,
• Enjuro Harunari,
• Shun Saito,
• Katsuhisa Yamada,
• Chiaki Imada,
• Daisuke Urabe and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2194–2202, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.141

• then coupled with the other COSY-defined fragment, C22/C21/C29/C30, by the correlations from H22 to C18 and C23, yielding a cyclohexene ring. This ring was joined together with the dehydrodecalin moiety at the quaternary carbon atom C18 by HMBC correlations from H17 to C18, C19, and C23. As for the

• , 13C NMR, and HSQC spectra revealed the presence of four oxygenated sp2 carbon atoms, three nonprotonated sp2 carbon atoms, six sp2 methine groups, one sp2 methylene unit, one quaternary carbon atom, six sp3 methine groups (two are oxygenated), four sp3 methylene units, and five sp3 methyl groups

Enantioenriched α-substituted glutamates/pyroglutamates via enantioselective cyclopropenimine-catalyzed Michael addition of amino ester imines

• Zara M. Seibel,
• Jeffrey S. Bandar and
• Tristan H. Lambert

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2077–2084, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.134

• unusual di-tert-butylmethyl ester moiety and was limited solely to the alanine derivative [38]. Finally, a Baylis–Hillman-type approach has been employed to realize enantioselective reactions, albeit with a limited scope of substituents at the quaternary carbon [39]. Thus, the development of a general

A study on selective transformation of norbornadiene into fluorinated cyclopentane-fused isoxazolines

• Zsanett Benke,
• Attila M. Remete and
• Loránd Kiss

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2051–2066, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.132

• the selectivity of olefin bonds during a CM reaction [38][39][40][41][42][43]. Investigations of various types of olefins in CM, such as substituted and functionalized styrenes, unsaturated tertiary alcohols, olefins with quaternary carbon centers, acrylates, allyl ethers or allyl acetates gave a

Methodologies for the synthesis of quaternary carbon centers via hydroalkylation of unactivated olefins: twenty years of advances

• Thiago S. Silva and
• Fernando Coelho

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1565–1590, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.112

• established as an excellent strategy for the construction of elaborate molecules. In particular, the hydroalkylation of olefins represents a straightforward strategy for the synthesis of new C(sp3)–C(sp3) bonds, with concomitant formation of challenging quaternary carbon centers. In the last 20 years

• reactions an ideal platform for the synthesis of molecules with increased molecular complexity. Keywords: hydroalkylation; hydrogen atom transfer; quaternary carbon center; radical addition; unactivated olefins; Introduction Natural product structures remain some of the main sources of inspiration for the

• the relevance of this moiety was given by Overman in 2014 [14], who stated that about 12% of the 200 most predicted drugs in the U.S.A. in 2011 had at least one quaternary carbon center, but this center was not synthetically constructed in any of them. Interest is currently growing in increasing the

Chemical synthesis of C6-tetrazole ᴅ-mannose building blocks and access to a bioisostere of mannuronic acid 1-phosphate

• Eleni Dimitriou and
• Gavin J. Miller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1527–1532, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.110

• of modified hyaluronic acid fragments [16]. 13C NMR of 5 confirmed the presence of a new quaternary carbon (tetrazole Cq, δC = 155.8 ppm) alongside disappearance of the C6-nitrile (δC = 117.0 ppm). Furthermore, 1H NMR analysis indicated the common H5 doublet was further downfield (δH = 5.64 ppm

Iodine-catalyzed electrophilic substitution of indoles: Synthesis of (un)symmetrical diindolylmethanes with a quaternary carbon center

• Thanigaimalai Pillaiyar,
• Masoud Sedaghati,
• Andhika B. Mahardhika,
• Lukas L. Wendt and
• Christa E. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1464–1475, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.102

• unsymmetrical 3,3'-diindolylmethanes (DIMs) with a quaternary carbon center has been developed via iodine-catalyzed coupling of trifluoromethyl(indolyl)phenylmethanols with indoles. In contrast to previously reported methods, the new procedure is characterized by chemoselectivity, mild conditions, high yields

• ]. However, synthetic methods for efficient synthesis of unsymmetrical 3,3'-DIMs with a quaternary carbon center, including trifluoromethyl-substituted 3,3'-DIMs, are still rare. Sasaki et al. reported the reaction of trifluoromethyl(indolyl)phenylmethanols with indoles in the presence of trifluoroacetic

• substrate scope and functional group tolerance is highly desirable. As part of our continuous efforts to prepare biologically active DIM derivatives [38], we herein report an innovative approach to synthesize unsymmetrical 3,3'-diindolylmethanes (DIMs) with a fluoromethyl-containing quaternary carbon center

Analogs of the carotane antibiotic fulvoferruginin from submerged cultures of a Thai Marasmius sp.

• Birthe Sandargo,
• Leon Kaysan,
• Rémy B. Teponno,
• Christian Richter,
• Benjarong Thongbai,
• Frank Surup and
• Marc Stadler

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1385–1391, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.97

• -14, and a methine (C-10, δC 39.3) instead of a hydroxylated quaternary carbon. The presence of the methine C-11 was confirmed by measuring 1D/2D NMR spectra of 3 in chloroform-d (see Table S1 in Supporting Information File 1). The corresponding proton H-11 (δH 3.38) forms again a spin system with H-5

All-carbon [3 + 2] cycloaddition in natural product synthesis

• Zhuo Wang and
• Junyang Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 3015–3031, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.251

• , biologically important natural products [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] (Figure 1). Meanwhile, the construction of quaternary carbon stereocenter(s) is, at present, a distinct challenge in modern synthetic chemistry [8][9][10][11]. Therefore, the synthesis of highly-substituted five-membered carbocycles bearing

• quaternary carbon stereocenters in 86% yield. Reduction of aldehyde 119 and subsequent transesterification produced a lactone (not shown). It was exposed to SeO2 to install the allylic hydroxy group to give 120 in 65% yield. Upon catalytic hydrogenation of 120, alcohol 121 was formed. This alcohol 120 was

• in biologically significant natural products. Natural product synthesis featuring the all-carbon [3 + 2] cycloaddition. (Quaternary carbon center(s) created by all-carbon [3 + 2] cyclization are highlighted in cyan; quaternary carbon center(s) created that are removed by subsequent transformations

Controlling the stereochemistry in 2-oxo-aldehyde-derived Ugi adducts through the cinchona alkaloid-promoted electrophilic fluorination

• Yuqing Wang,
• Gaigai Wang,
• Anatoly A. Peshkov,
• Ruwei Yao,
• Muhammad Hasan,
• Manzoor Zaman,
• Chao Liu,
• Stepan Kashtanov,
• Olga P. Pereshivko and
• Vsevolod A. Peshkov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1963–1973, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.163

• should be stressed that the exploration of methods for the enantioselective fluorination continues to be an important topic considering the ever-growing role of fluorine derivatives in drug design and development [82][83]. An alternative strategy to prepare related quaternary carbon-containing adducts

Oxime radicals: generation, properties and application in organic synthesis

• Igor B. Krylov,
• Stanislav A. Paveliev,
• Alexander S. Budnikov and
• Alexander O. Terent’ev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1234–1276, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.107

• (products 135a,d–h) and alkyl substituents (products 135b,c) at the oxime fragment (R1). An oxime with a disubstituted double bond (R2 = Me) also reacts with the formation of isoxazoline 135g having a quaternary carbon atom. Under the action of t-BuOOH (TBHP), β,γ-unsaturated oximes 136 undergo a cascade

Recent advances in Cu-catalyzed C(sp³)–Si and C(sp³)–B bond formation

• Balaram S. Takale,
• Ruchita R. Thakore,
• Elham Etemadi-Davan and
• Bruce H. Lipshutz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 691–737, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.67

• Suginome’s reagent along with LiCl, which completely overrode the need for a Grignard reagent and led to good chemical yields of the desired product (e.g., 272). In one case examined, a bulky silyl Grignard reagent gave the linear silyl derivative selectively. In addition, a quaternary carbon bearing the

Controlling alkyne reactivity by means of a copper-catalyzed radical reaction system for the synthesis of functionalized quaternary carbons

• Goki Hirata,
• Yu Yamane,
• Naoya Tsubaki,
• Reina Hara and
• Takashi Nishikata

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 502–508, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.45

• reaction of 3 equivalents of terminal alkyne 1 (aryl substituted alkyne) and an α-bromocarbonyl compound 2 (tertiary alkyl radical precursor) undergoes tandem alkyl radical addition/Sonogashira coupling to produce 1,3-enyne compound 3 possessing a quaternary carbon in the presence of a copper catalyst

• . Moreover, the reaction of α-bromocarbonyl compound 2 and an alkyne 4 possessing a carboxamide moiety undergoes tandem alkyl radical addition/C–H coupling to produce indolinone derivative 5. Keywords: copper catalyst; 1,3-enyne; functionalized quaternary carbon; indolinone; tandem alkyl radical addition

• related coupling reactions [2][3][4]. Although there are many reports on alkyne transformations, one recent development in this area has been the reaction of alkynes with tertiary alkyl electrophiles to produce functionalized quaternary carbon atoms via addition [5][6][7][8][9][10] or coupling [11][12][13

Combination of multicomponent KA² and Pauson–Khand reactions: short synthesis of spirocyclic pyrrolocyclopentenones

• Riccardo Innocenti,
• Elena Lenci,
• Gloria Menchi and
• Andrea Trabocchi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 200–211, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.23

• reaction to achieve spirocyclic pyrrolocyclopentenone derivatives. Specifically, the KA2 reaction was envisaged taking into account cyclic ketones, to install a quaternary carbon atom carrying the required 1,6-enyne moiety for the subsequent Pauson–Khand reaction, thus achieving the corresponding tricylic

• phenylacetylene (2) were taken into account for the optimization of the KA2 reaction conditions with allylamine, in order to attain a quaternary carbon atom containing suitable alkenyl and alkynyl appendages for subsequent Pauson–Khand intramolecular cycloaddition (Scheme 2). The KA2 reaction was assayed

• 3–39 possess lower tendency to stay in the rod side of the triangle, as compared to BB drugs, suggesting for these compounds a higher shape complexity, as due to the presence of quaternary carbon atoms introduced by the KA2 coupling reaction. The intramolecular Pauson–Khand cyclization proved to be

SnCl₄-catalyzed solvent-free acetolysis of 2,7-anhydrosialic acid derivatives

• Kesatebrhan Haile Asressu and
• Cheng-Chung Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2990–2999, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.295

• with the quaternary carbon atom of the acetyl group in position O-7 (Figure 3). The anomeric configuration of the acetolysis products was identified by the coupling constant for the correlation C-1–C-2–C-3–H-3ax ( = 1.6–2.2 Hz, see Supporting Information File 1) and indicated the β-anomer [12][13][14

A review of asymmetric synthetic organic electrochemistry and electrocatalysis: concepts, applications, recent developments and future directions

• Munmun Ghosh,
• Valmik S. Shinde and
• Magnus Rueping

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2710–2746, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.264

• 169 substituted with chiral auxiliaries to methyl vinyl ketone for stereoselective construction of the quaternary carbon centers in 170 (Scheme 54). While screening a number of chiral auxiliaries, the authors found that upon electrolysis under galvanostatic conditions at low temperature, the

Nanangenines: drimane sesquiterpenoids as the dominant metabolite cohort of a novel Australian fungus, Aspergillus nanangensis

• Heather J. Lacey,
• Cameron L. M. Gilchrist,
• Andrew Crombie,
• John A. Kalaitzis,
• Daniel Vuong,
• Peter J. Rutledge,
• Peter Turner,
• John I. Pitt,
• Ernest Lacey,
• Yit-Heng Chooi and
• Andrew M. Piggott

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2631–2643, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.256

• DBE and thus requiring 1 to be tricyclic. The 1H and 13C NMR data also revealed the presence of one hydroxylated quaternary carbon (C-9), two aliphatic quaternary carbons (C-4, C-10), two oxymethines (C-1, C-6), one aliphatic methine (C-5), one oxymethylene (C-12), two aliphatic methylenes (C-2, C-3

Sugar-derived oxazolone pseudotetrapeptide as γ-turn inducer and anion-selective transporter

• Sachin S. Burade,
• Sushil V. Pawar,
• Tanmoy Saha,
• Navanath Kumbhar,
• Amol S. Kotmale,
• Manzoor Ahmad,
• Pinaki Talukdar and
• Dilip D. Dhavale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2419–2427, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.234

• stereochemically stable quaternary carbon center [1]. For example, TAA-derived peptides containing a cyclopropane ring and ʟ/ᴅ-dimethyl tartrate showed an α-turn and form 310-helical conformations in higher oligomers [2][3][4]. While, TAA-derived peptides having a tetrahydrofuran ring demonstrated a β-turn type

Isolation of fungi using the diffusion chamber device FIND technology

• Benjamin Libor,
• Henrik Harms,
• Stefan Kehraus,
• Ekaterina Egereva,
• Max Crüsemann and
• Gabriele M. König

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2191–2203, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.216

• 58.6) and C-8 (δC 38.2) confirmed the presence of a verbenone moiety and connected the methylpentenoic acid moiety to the quaternary carbon C-7, completing the planar structure of 1. Compound 1 is thus a bergamotene type sesquiterpene, containing a bicyclo[3.1.1] ring system as well as a 2-methylpent-2