Synthesis of the B-seco limonoid core scaffold

• Hanna Bruss,
• Hannah Schuster,
• Rémi Martinez,
• Markus Kaiser,
• Andrey P. Antonchick and
• Herbert Waldmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 194–208, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.15

• alcohol 18 and Mitsunobu reaction installed the required stereochemistry at C14. The free C14 hydroxy group was masked with protecting groups (MOM and TIPS) of different size and chemical nature to examine the face-selectivity of the [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement. After selective desilylation, alcohols

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

• -adamantane-2-spiro-3’-8’-[[(1’-methyl-1’H-tetrazol-5’-yl)thio]methyl]-1’,2’,4’-trioxaspiro[4.5]decane 186 through nucleophilic substitution of the mesyl group by the thio group of tetrazole 185 (Scheme 49) [297]. Ozonide 188 was synthesized by Mitsunobu reaction of alcohol 183 with pyridin-4-ol (187) (Scheme

The total synthesis of D-chalcose and its C-3 epimer

• Jun Sun,
• Song Fan,
• Zhan Wang,
• Guoning Zhang,
• Kai Bao and
• Weige Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2620–2624, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.296

• achieved using a similar route in 24% overall yield. Key epimeric intermediates 4 and 4′ could be interconverted via Mitsunobu reaction, and their absolute configurations were assigned after their transformation into D-chalcose (I) and its C-3 epimer (I′), respectively. Notably, the stereocenter on C3 was

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

• . The phthalimido-protected chiral hydroxypropyl benzoate 5a could be synthesized by the reaction of nitrogen heterocyclic carbene, benzaldehyde and phthalimido-epoxide 4a. Phthalimido-epoxide 4a was synthesized by treating (S)-glycidol (3) with phthalimide (2) under Mitsunobu reaction conditions

• (Scheme 2). The Mitsunobu reaction yielded the product (S)-2-(oxiran-2-ylmethyl)isoindoline-1,3-dione (4a) [23][24][25][26][27] in 80% yield and in 99% ee. Then 4a was converted to hydroxypropyl benzoate 5a [28][29][30][31][32] by NHC-mediated oxidative esterification of aryl aldehydes (7a–f) [33][34][35

Amyloid-β probes: Review of structure–activity and brain-kinetics relationships

• Todd J. Eckroat,
• Abdelrahman S. Mayhoub and
• Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1012–1044, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.116

• installation of a trifluoroacetamide and O-demethylation gave the intermediate 118 used in a Mitsunobu reaction with 2-hydroxyethyl tosylate (119). Amine deprotection to 120 and installation of the [18F] label gave the target compound 98. Both 97 and 98 showed good affinity for Aβ1-42 aggregates (Ki = 4.5 nM

Asymmetric synthesis of host-directed inhibitors of myxoviruses

• Terry W. Moore,
• Kasinath Sana,
• Dan Yan,
• Pahk Thepchatri,
• John M. Ndungu,
• Manohar T. Saindane,
• Mark A. Lockwood,
• Michael G. Natchus,
• Dennis C. Liotta,
• Richard K. Plemper,
• James P. Snyder and
• Aiming Sun

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 197–203, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.23

• excess (>98% ee), we utilized the Mitsunobu reaction of 2-mercaptobenzimidazoles with an amide obtained from (L)-lactic acid (17). Using one equivalent each of 2-mercaptobenzimidazole and α-hydroxyamide 13 (prepared from thionyl chloride-mediated coupling of (L)-lactic acid (17) and 2-chloro-4

Iridium-catalyzed intramolecular [4 + 2] cycloadditions of alkynyl halides

• Andrew Tigchelaar and
• William Tam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1765–1770, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.201

• ). Deprotonation of 8 with sodium hydride, followed by trapping with propargyl bromide provided 9 in 60% yield, and a Mitsunobu reaction between 8 and sulfonamide 10 (prepared as per reference [47]) provided 11 in 74% yield. Bromination of 9 and 11 provided diene-tethered alkynyl halides 1c (57%) and 1e (83

Exploring chemical diversity via a modular reaction pairing strategy

• Joanna K. Loh,
• Sun Young Yoon,
• Thiwanka B. Samarakoon,
• Alan Rolfe,
• Patrick Porubsky,
• Benjamin Neuenswander,
• Gerald H. Lushington and
• Paul R. Hanson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1293–1302, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.147

• nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr) diversification pathway is reported. Eight benzofused sultam cores were generated by means of a sulfonylation/SNAr/Mitsunobu reaction pairing protocol, and subsequently diversified by intermolecular SNAr with ten chiral, non-racemic amine/amino alcohol building blocks

Combined bead polymerization and Cinchona organocatalyst immobilization by thiol–ene addition

• Kim A. Fredriksen,
• Tor E. Kristensen and
• Tore Hansen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1126–1133, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.125

• organocatalyst 2 was prepared from quinine, via the azide, in a two-step sequence by using the Bose–Mitsunobu reaction followed by Staudinger reduction, as described by others [15]. Thiourea Cinchona organocatalyst 3 was easily obtained from catalyst 2 by reaction with the appropriate aromatic isothiocyanate [15

Two-directional synthesis as a tool for diversity-oriented synthesis: Synthesis of alkaloid scaffolds

• Kieron M. G. O’Connell,
• Monica Díaz-Gavilán,
• Warren R. J. D. Galloway and
• David R. Spring

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 850–860, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.95

• intramolecular conjugate addition. Three of these compounds (1–3) were obtained from the corresponding alcohols [19][20] in three steps: Mitsunobu reaction with NH-Boc-tosylate, followed by tosyl deprotection with magnesium, and finally two-directional cross metathesis with ethyl acrylate to install the desired

Synthesis of (−)-julocrotine and a diversity oriented Ugi-approach to analogues and probes

• Ricardo A. W. Neves Filho,
• Bernhard Westermann and
• Ludger A. Wessjohann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1504–1507, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.175

• heterocyclic precursor as an amino input in Ugi four-component reactions (Ugi-4CR) [1]. Keywords: diversity oriented synthesis; julocrotine; leishmania; Mitsunobu reaction; Ugi reaction; Introduction Julocrotine (1) is a natural glutarimide alkaloid isolated from several plants of the genus Croton [2][3][4

• chiral center of 4 can be observed even in the presence of weak bases such as potassium carbonate [17]. Thus, we decided to use a base-free N-alkylation protocol, namely the Mitsunobu reaction of 3 and the readily available 2-phenylethanol [18]. This protocol gave the desired optically active product in

Amine-linked diglycosides: Synthesis facilitated by the enhanced reactivity of allylic electrophiles, and glycosidase inhibition assays

• Ian Cumpstey,
• Jens Frigell,
• Elias Pershagen,
• Tashfeen Akhtar,
• Elena Moreno-Clavijo,
• Inmaculada Robina,
• Dominic S. Alonzi and
• Terry D. Butters

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1115–1123, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.128

• secondary alcohols [24]. Some examples of successful reactions do exist, though, for oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur nucleophiles [25][26][27][28]. Unsaturated carbohydrates, similar to those described here, have also been reported to undergo Mitsunobu reaction with simple, non-carbohydrate nucleophiles [29][30

Long-range diastereoselectivity in Ugi reactions of 2-substituted dihydrobenzoxazepines

• Luca Banfi,
• Andrea Basso,
• Valentina Cerulli,
• Valeria Rocca and
• Renata Riva

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 976–979, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.109

• condensation of 1 with racemic alcohols 2a,b through a Mitsunobu reaction. The moderate yields are due to the consumption of alcohols 2, which undergo side-reactions, resulting in incomplete transformation of 1, even when using 1.3–1.5 equiv of 2. The use of a larger excess of 2 would probably increase the

• noting that the Mitsunobu reaction is not effective on unprotected salicylaldehyde. 2,3-Dihydrobenzo[f][1,4]oxazepines similar to 5a,b have been previously prepared, but through less general routes [22][23][24]. Compounds 5a,b were reacted with a series of isocyanides and carboxylic acids to give, in

Asymmetric synthesis of tertiary thiols and thioethers

• Jonathan Clayden and
• Paul MacLellan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 582–595, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.68

• regioselective invertive epoxide opening. 1.1.3 Mitsunobu reactions The Mitsunobu reaction offers an operationally straightforward method for activating simple alcohols to invertive substitution, and it is widely used for constructing new stereodefined carbon–heteroatom bonds [24][25]. The Mitsunobu reaction

• proceeds by reaction of a phosphine and DIAD or DEAD with an alcohol 23 to form an O-phosphinite leaving group (Scheme 9). SN2 substitution to yield 24 is accompanied by formation of a phosphine oxide. There are many examples of the use of sulfur nucleophiles in the Mitsunobu reaction [25][26][27]: The

• successful synthesis of the revised structure matched the published data for the natural compound [32]. A modification of the Mitsunobu reaction, that does allow the formation of sulfur-substituted tertiary carbon atoms with inversion of stereochemistry, was reported by Mukaiyama and co-workers [33][34]. The

Carbasugar analogues of galactofuranosides: α-O-linked derivatives

• Jens Frigell and
• Ian Cumpstey

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, 1127–1131, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.129

• , our best results were obtained using an oxidation–reduction approach. Attempted SN2 reactions (Mitsunobu reaction or sulfonate displacement) gave inferior results. Hence the C2 alcohols 8 and 11 were oxidised under Swern conditions to give the ketones 15 and 16. Reduction of ketone group in ethyl

Mitomycins syntheses: a recent update

• Jean-Christophe Andrez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 33, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.33

• sequence using dihydroxylation with osmium tetroxide, mesylation and displacement with azide was used to produce leucoaziridinomitosane 45, whose spectral data matched those of an authentic sample derived from natural mitomycin C. 3.3. Williams. Mitsunobu reaction R.M. Williams successfully used this

• D-ribose 193. Treatment of D-ribose in acetone with allylic alcohol in presence of catalytic amount of sulfuric acid provided the corresponding protected acetonide allyl glycoside. The primary alcohol was transformed into a N-Boc amine by successive Mitsunobu reaction, reduction and acylation to

Synthesis and enzymatic evaluation of 2- and 4-aminothiazole- based inhibitors of neuronal nitric oxide synthase

• Graham R. Lawton,
• Haitao Ji,
• Pavel Martásek,
• Linda J. Roman and
• Richard B. Silverman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 28, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.28

• diastereomers was formed, but both were oxidized to α-bromoketone 12. Condensation with thiourea gave the 2-aminothiazole (13). Diprotection of the amine with Boc groups and deprotection of the TBS ether gave trans-alcohol 15. A Mitsunobu reaction was used to install a nitrogen atom in the form of a phthalimide

• does not need to be diprotected to allow the Mitsunobu reaction with phthalimide as the nucleophile to proceed (28a-c). This is presumably because the thiazole nitrogen is less nucleophilic. Cleavage of the phthalimide group gave amines 29a-c. The syntheses of 4a-c were completed by reductive amination

Recent progress on the total synthesis of acetogenins from Annonaceae

• Nianguang Li,
• Zhihao Shi,
• Yuping Tang,
• Jianwei Chen and
• Xiang Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 48, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.48

• different fluorous PMB tags, was transformed into alkene M-120 and was then followed by two splits. First, each of the two mixtures was subjected to a Shi epoxidation with enantiomeric ketone catalysts. Later, these two mixtures were split again, half being subjected to a Mitsunobu reaction and the other

• ,19S,20S)-cis-murisolin (112), and (15R,16R,19R,20S)-murisolin A (121) (Scheme 18). The mono-THF moieties were synthesized from epoxy alcohol 122 by using Sharpless AD-mix-β for the threo-trans-threo THF moiety 123, a AD-mix-β followed by the Mitsunobu reaction for the erythro-cis-threo THF moiety 125

N-1 regioselective Michael- type addition of 5-substituted uracils to (2-hydroxyethyl) acrylate

• Sławomir Boncel,
• Dominika Osyda and
• Krzysztof Z. Walczak

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 40, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-40

• ] Mitsunobu reaction;[8] or reactions that operate through ANRORC-mechanisms that require the presence of strongly electron-withdrawing groups.[9] Recently, we have described an N1- and N3-regioselective Michael-type addition of 5-substituted uracil derivatives to methyl acrylate and acrylonitrile.[10

A convenient allylsilane- N-acyliminium route toward indolizidine and quinolizidine alkaloids

• Roland Remuson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 32, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-32

• hydroxyalkylallylsilane 32 is accomplished in 40% yield following Trost's procedure. [48] Reaction of glutarimide with alcohol 32 under Mitsunobu reaction conditions afforded imide 33 in 67% yield. Reduction of 33 was carried out with an excess of sodium borohydride in methanol at 0°C to give 34 as a mixture of two

• , (-)-lasubine II and (+)-subcosine II A similar strategy was attempted from (+)-(3R)-ethyl 3-hydroxy-3-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)propionate but racemisation was observed during the Mitsunobu reaction. [69] So we developed another strategy to prepare these natural optically active compounds based on the

The use of silicon- based tethers for the Pauson- Khand reaction

• Adrian P. Dobbs,
• Ian J. Miller and
• Saša Martinović

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 21, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-21

• both for the formation of the silyl ethers and from the Pauson-Khand reaction were the corresponding silanols, we wondered if it would be possible to use these compounds for the preparation of our desired ethers via a Mitsunobu reaction. There are examples in the chemical literature in which silanols

• may be used analogously to alcohols in the Mitsunobu reaction.[29] Unfortunately, neither triisopropylsilanol (synthesised by the hydrolysis of commercially available triisopropylsilyl chloride) or diisopropyl(1-methylallyl)-silanol and but-2-enyldiisopropylsilanol gave any product and quantitative

ADDP and PS-PPh₃: an efficient Mitsunobu protocol for the preparation of pyridine ether PPAR agonists

• Paul S. Humphries,
• Quyen-Quyen T. Do and
• David M. Wilhite

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2006, 2, No. 21, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-2-21

• at the Mitsunobu reaction between pyridinol 2 and alcohol 3, utilizing a modification of the conditions originally reported by Mitsunobu,[18] afforded pyridyl ether 4 in 54% yield (Scheme 1). Interestingly, the reaction did not reach completion and pyridinol 2 was recovered, despite the fact that it

• Information File 1 and Supporting Information File 2]. With the above result in hand, we then pursued a variety of targets by performing the modified Mitsunobu reaction of 2 and a variety of primary alcohols (Table 1). In general, a variety of diverse alcohols afforded the expected products in excellent yield

• modified Mitsunobu coupling of pyridinols and alcohols proved to be versatile, efficient and amenable to parallel synthesis. A full account of the medicinal chemistry of these compounds will be given elsewhere. Thiazolidine-2,4-dione mimic & chosen lead scaffold. Proposed mechanism of the Mitsunobu

Methods for the synthesis of polyhydroxylated piperidines by diastereoselective dihydroxylation: Exploitation in the two-directional synthesis of aza-C-linked disaccharide derivatives

• Andrew Kennedy,
• Adam Nelson and
• Alexis Perry

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2005, 1, No. 2, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-1-2

• ] although the reducing agent still approaches the ketone from a pseudo-axial direction, the net stereochemical outcome is different (see Figure 6). The configuration of both alcohols in the bis-allylic alcohols trans-27 and cis-27 was cleanly inverted using a Mitsunobu reaction, and the resulting diesters