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The chemistry and biology of mycolactones

  • Matthias Gehringer and
  • Karl-Heinz Altmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1596–1660, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.159

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Published 11 Aug 2017

Synthesis of D-manno-heptulose via a cascade aldol/hemiketalization reaction

  • Yan Chen,
  • Xiaoman Wang,
  • Junchang Wang and
  • You Yang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 795–799, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.79

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  • chain elongations of aldoses employing the Henry reaction, the aldol reaction, and the Wittig reaction for the preparation of ketoheptoses [20][21][22], sugar lactones were also often utilized for the synthesis of D-manno-heptulose via reactions with C-nucleophiles or conversion into exocyclic glycals
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Published 28 Apr 2017

Exploring endoperoxides as a new entry for the synthesis of branched azasugars

  • Svenja Domeyer,
  • Mark Bjerregaard,
  • Henrik Johansson and
  • Daniel Sejer Pedersen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 644–647, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.63

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  • was a Wittig reaction with methyltriphenylphosphonium iodide to provide 14–16. Compound 14 was found to be volatile and thus was only isolated in a poor yield. For diene 15 the low yield was largely due to complications with removing the triphenylphosphine oxide side product. However, at this stage
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Published 03 Apr 2017

Synthesis of 1-indanones with a broad range of biological activity

  • Marika Turek,
  • Dorota Szczęsna,
  • Marek Koprowski and
  • Piotr Bałczewski

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 451–494, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.48

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  •  82). Masui et al. have synthesized 1-indanone 299 in 5% as a result of the Diels–Alder reaction between homophthalic anhydride (298) and cyclopentynone 297 generated from the phosphorane 296 by the intramolecular Wittig reaction (Scheme 83) [115]. Jończyk et al. have synthesized cyano-substituted 1
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Published 09 Mar 2017

Efficient access to β-vinylporphyrin derivatives via palladium cross coupling of β-bromoporphyrins with N-tosylhydrazones

  • Vinicius R. Campos,
  • Ana T. P. C. Gomes,
  • Anna C. Cunha,
  • Maria da Graça P. M. S. Neves,
  • Vitor F. Ferreira and
  • José A. S. Cavaleiro

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 195–202, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.22

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  • , affording in such way important intermediates for different synthetic strategies [4][17][18]. There are methods available allowing the insertion of alkenyl groups into porphyrin macrocycles (e.g., Heck reaction [4], metathesis [7][19][20][21], Wittig reaction [22][23]). However, palladium-catalyzed cross
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Published 30 Jan 2017

Benzothiadiazole oligoene fatty acids: fluorescent dyes with large Stokes shifts

  • Lukas J. Patalag and
  • Daniel B. Werz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2739–2747, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.270

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  • isomerization has to take place. To access the benzothiadiazole (BTD) fatty acid 3 with just one conjugated double bond we made use of the Wittig reaction starting with commercially available aldehyde 1. As expected, the (Z)-isomer was the major product; thus, we performed a subsequent cis–trans isomerization
  • presence of a Lewis acid and DIBAL at low temperatures. MnO2-mediated oxidation afforded the respective aldehyde that was immediately transformed by Wittig reaction. Iodine-catalyzed cis–trans isomerization yielded the desired fatty acid 7 in 35% over three steps (Scheme 2). The analogue with three
  • ]. Whereas the second double bond is the result of the HWE reaction the third one is generated in the final Wittig reaction furnishing BTD-equipped triene fatty acid 11c in an overall yield of 32% (Scheme 3). Notably, the ester intermediate 9 showed already a strong fluorescence at ambient light. By choosing
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Published 14 Dec 2016

Catalytic Wittig and aza-Wittig reactions

  • Zhiqi Lao and
  • Patrick H. Toy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2577–2587, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.253

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  • covers the field of related catalytic aza-Wittig reactions that are catalyzed by both phosphine oxides and phosphines. Keywords: aza-Wittig reactions; catalysis; phosphines; phosphine oxides; reduction; silanes; Wittig reactions; Introduction The Wittig reaction is a venerable transformation for
  • inexpensive reagents to generate the necessary phosphonium ylide (phosphorane) reactant (a phosphine, typically Ph3P (1), an alkyl halide and a base), also adds to its appeal [3][4]. However, despite its proven utility, the Wittig reaction suffers from limitations that may deter from its use, especially on a
  • a by-product from the desired product when they are formed in equal molar amounts. These major deficiencies of the Wittig reaction have led to numerous efforts towards developing variations of it which are catalytic in the required phosphine, or a surrogate for it, and this research is the major
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Published 30 Nov 2016

Solvent-free, visible-light photocatalytic alcohol oxidations applying an organic photocatalyst

  • Martin Obst and
  • Burkhard König

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2358–2363, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.229

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  • for mechanochemical syntheses include stoichiometric reactions such as the Knoevenagel condensation and the Wittig reaction, but also reactions catalyzed by metal catalysts, like the Sonogashira coupling and the Suzuki coupling [1]. Photocatalysis, as a part of Ostwald’s sub-discipline photochemistry
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Published 09 Nov 2016

Total synthesis of leopolic acid A, a natural 2,3-pyrrolidinedione with antimicrobial activity

  • Atul A. Dhavan,
  • Rahul D. Kaduskar,
  • Loana Musso,
  • Leonardo Scaglioni,
  • Piera Anna Martino and
  • Sabrina Dallavalle

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1624–1628, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.159

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  • DIBAL-H gave the corresponding primary alcohol, which was converted into bromide 5 by Appel reaction with PPh3 and CBr4. The phosphonium salt obtained from this bromide was subjected to a Wittig reaction with nonanal, to afford compound 6 [12]. Attempts to remove the PMB protecting group (CAN, DDQ, TFA
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Published 29 Jul 2016

Muraymycin nucleoside-peptide antibiotics: uridine-derived natural products as lead structures for the development of novel antibacterial agents

  • Daniel Wiegmann,
  • Stefan Koppermann,
  • Marius Wirth,
  • Giuliana Niro,
  • Kristin Leyerer and
  • Christian Ducho

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 769–795, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.77

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  • muraymycins. The latest and optimised synthesis is shown in Scheme 2 [92]. Oxidation of the isopropylidene-protected uridine 12 to the 5'-aldehyde and a Wittig reaction [93] gave olefin 13. The key step was a subsequent asymmetric Sharpless aminohydroxylation [94] furnishing (5'S,6'S)-nucleosyl amino acid 14
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Published 22 Apr 2016

Hydroquinone–pyrrole dyads with varied linkers

  • Hao Huang,
  • Christoffer Karlsson,
  • Maria Strømme,
  • Martin Sjödin and
  • Adolf Gogoll

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 89–96, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.10

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  • material, a Wittig reaction was chosen as an alternative. The Wittig reaction approach is shown in Scheme 2. In this reaction, phosphonium salt 7 was prepared in quantitative yield from 5 and triphenylphosphine by reflux in toluene, according to a procedure reported for dimethoxybenzyl chloride [21]. The
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Published 18 Jan 2016

Synthesis of α,β-unsaturated esters via a chemo-enzymatic chain elongation approach by combining carboxylic acid reduction and Wittig reaction

  • Yitao Duan,
  • Peiyuan Yao,
  • Yuncheng Du,
  • Jinhui Feng,
  • Qiaqing Wu and
  • Dunming Zhu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2245–2251, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.243

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  • chain elongation approach to access α,β-unsaturated esters by combining an enzymatic carboxylic acid reduction and Wittig reaction. Recently, we have found that Mycobacterium sp. was able to reduce phenylacetic acid (1a) to 2-phenyl-1-ethanol (1c) and two sequences in the Mycobacterium sp. genome had
  • aromatic and aliphatic carboxylic acids, including ibuprofen. The Mycobacterium CAR catalyzed carboxylic acid reduction to give aldehydes, followed by a Wittig reaction to afford the products α,β-unsaturated esters with extension of two carbon atoms, demonstrating a new chemo-enzymatic method for the
  • synthesis of these important compounds. Keywords: α,β-unsaturated esters; carboxylic acid reductase; chemoenzymatic synthesis; reduction; Wittig reaction; Introduction α,β-Unsaturated esters are versatile building blocks for organic synthesis and of significant importance for industrial applications [1][2
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Published 19 Nov 2015

A new approach to ferrocene derived alkenes via copper-catalyzed olefination

  • Vasily M. Muzalevskiy,
  • Aleksei V. Shastin,
  • Alexandra D. Demidovich,
  • Namiq G. Shikhaliev,
  • Abel M. Magerramov,
  • Victor N. Khrustalev,
  • Rustem D. Rakhimov,
  • Sergey Z. Vatsadze and
  • Valentine G. Nenajdenko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2072–2078, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.223

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  • methods for the preparation of ethynylferrocenes [24][25][26][27][28][29]. In most cases, the key reagents for the synthesis of ethynylferrocene are the corresponding mono- and dihalogenvinylferrocene derivatives. These compounds are generally prepared using a variation of the Wittig reaction (the Corey
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Published 03 Nov 2015

Preparation of conjugated dienoates with Bestmann ylide: Towards the synthesis of zampanolide and dactylolide using a facile linchpin approach

  • Jingjing Wang,
  • Samuel Z. Y. Ting and
  • Joanne E. Harvey

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1815–1822, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.197

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  • , if the α-phosphoranylidene ester or amide is formed in the presence of an aldehyde, ketone or ester, an additional in situ Wittig reaction can occur [12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. In this way, amides, esters and thioesters can be obtained through three-component couplings [14][16]. Intramolecular
  • and Michael addition, followed by a Wittig reaction [19][20]. Although the utility of the Bestmann ylide in the synthesis of acyclic α,β-unsaturated esters and dienamides has already been reported [11][13][16], its application to the synthesis of α,β,γ,δ-unsaturated esters (i.e., dienoates) remains
  • uncharted. In this paper, a three-component reaction between α,β-unsaturated aldehydes, alcohols and the Bestmann ylide is described. The scope of this esterification–Wittig reaction sequence in the synthesis of α,β,γ,δ-unsaturated esters is studied, and the method is applied in an approach towards the
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Published 05 Oct 2015

Cross-metathesis reaction of α- and β-vinyl C-glycosides with alkenes

  • Ivan Šnajdr,
  • Kamil Parkan,
  • Filip Hessler and
  • Martin Kotora

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1392–1397, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.150

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  • vinyl β-C-deoxyribofuranoside was based on transformation of 6-O-tert-butyldiphenylsilyl-3,5-dideoxy-5-iodo-L-lyxo-hexofuranose [14]. A reaction sequence relying on Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons/ring closure–halogenation/Ramberg–Bäcklund/Wittig reaction gave rise to the equimolar mixture of styryl α- and β-C
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Published 10 Aug 2015

Selected synthetic strategies to cyclophanes

  • Sambasivarao Kotha,
  • Mukesh E. Shirbhate and
  • Gopalkrushna T. Waghule

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1274–1331, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.142

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Published 29 Jul 2015

Direct access to pyrido/pyrrolo[2,1-b]quinazolin-9(1H)-ones through silver-mediated intramolecular alkyne hydroamination reactions

  • Hengshuai Wang,
  • Shengchao Jiao,
  • Kerong Chen,
  • Xu Zhang,
  • Linxiang Zhao,
  • Dan Liu,
  • Yu Zhou and
  • Hong Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 416–424, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.47

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  • -insertion reaction [7], the cycloaddition of anthranilic acid iminoketene to a methyl butyrolactam through a sulfinamide anhydride intermediate [9], the intramolecular aza-Wittig reaction with an azide substrate [10], and the cycloaddition of anthranilamide [11]. For the synthesis of vasicinone (5
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Published 30 Mar 2015

Attempts to prepare an all-carbon indigoid system

  • Şeref Yildizhan,
  • Henning Hopf and
  • Peter G. Jones

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 363–372, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.42

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  • , and then oxidizing the presumably resulting carbanion to 21 (a known compound [19]) with Cu(OTf)2, which gave cleaner results than the chloride employed previously. Unfortunately, all efforts to convert 21 into 4 failed. Thus neither the Wittig reaction of 21 (MeP(Ph)3Br/n-BuLi, THF) nor its treatment
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Published 18 Mar 2015

Electrochemical selenium- and iodonium-initiated cyclisation of hydroxy-functionalised 1,4-dienes

  • Philipp Röse,
  • Steffen Emge,
  • Jun-ichi Yoshida and
  • Gerhard Hilt

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 174–183, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.18

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  • adopt a Z-configuration. Accordingly, the products of type 2 are formed in high selectivity in terms of regio- and diastereomeric control. The starting materials of type 1 were generated from the aromatic aldehydes and allyltriphenylphosphonium bromide in a Wittig reaction following a known protocol [53
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Published 28 Jan 2015

Indium-mediated allylation in carbohydrate synthesis: A short and efficient approach towards higher 2-acetamido-2-deoxy sugars

  • Christopher Albler,
  • Ralph Hollaus,
  • Hanspeter Kählig and
  • Walther Schmid

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2230–2234, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.231

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  • decomposition of these labile compounds. Conversion of the carbonyl moiety to an acetal group followed by treatment with azide nucleophiles also failed to yield any desired products. Therefore we decided to mask the aldehyde as an olefin. A Wittig reaction with methyl (triphenylphosphoranylidene)acetate (Ph3P
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Photochemical approach to functionalized benzobicyclo[3.2.1]octene structures via fused oxazoline derivatives from 4- and 5-(o-vinylstyryl)oxazoles

  • Ivana Šagud,
  • Simona Božić,
  • Željko Marinić and
  • Marija Šindler-Kulyk

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2222–2229, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.230

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  • isocyanide (TosMIC) [38][39]. For the preparation of 5-(2-vinylstyryl)oxazole (2) by this method 3-(2-vinylphenyl)acrylaldehyde (6) was needed. This new o-substituted phenylacrylaldehyde 6 was prepared using (formylmethylene)triphenylphosphorane by a Wittig reaction from o-vinylbenzaldehyde (5). The yield of
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Palladium-catalysed cyclisation of alkenols: Synthesis of oxaheterocycles as core intermediates of natural compounds

  • Miroslav Palík,
  • Jozef Kožíšek,
  • Peter Koóš and
  • Tibor Gracza

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2077–2086, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.216

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  • –Wadsworth–Emmons olefination of aldehyde 15 furnished the corresponding separable mixture of Z and E alkenes 16 and 17. In the case of utilising stabilised phosphorane ylides, the Wittig reaction provided only Z alkenes 18 and 19. Following acidic hydrolysis provided α-O-benzyl substrates 20–23 in good
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Application of cyclic phosphonamide reagents in the total synthesis of natural products and biologically active molecules

  • Thilo Focken and
  • Stephen Hanessian

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1848–1877, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.195

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  • ]. Kishi and co-workers adopted a convergent approach to fumonisin B2, with the molecule being cleaved into three main fragments 103–105 [45][46]. The connection of 103 and 104 under formation of the fumonisin backbone would employ a Wittig reaction, followed by attachment of two molecules of
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Published 13 Aug 2014

Multicomponent reactions in nucleoside chemistry

  • Mariola Koszytkowska-Stawińska and
  • Włodzimierz Buchowicz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1706–1732, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.179

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  • group has developed the synthesis of D-glucopyranose-derived counterparts of compounds 25 and 26 [73]. The formation of an intermediate imine from a sugar azide and an aldehyde by Staudinger/aza-Wittig reaction was the key step of the synthesis. 2. The Kabachnik–Fields reaction The Kabachnik–Fields
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Published 29 Jul 2014

Streptopyridines, volatile pyridine alkaloids produced by Streptomyces sp. FORM5

  • Ulrike Groenhagen,
  • Michael Maczka,
  • Jeroen S. Dickschat and
  • Stefan Schulz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1421–1432, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.146

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  • synthesized by Wittig reaction using different conditions (Scheme 1). A Wittig–Schlosser reaction [15] starting from a commercially available 5:1 E/Z-mixture of 1-bromobut-2-ene (17) led to preferentially (1E)-configured products. After conversion of 17 into the respective Wittig salt 18 and reaction with 2
  • ]+ (17), 146 (29), 133 (11), 132 (100), 119 (17), 118 (30), 117 (47), 106 (25), 93 (77), 79 (17), 78 /14), 65 (18), 51 (13), 39 (19); HREIMS m/z: calcd for C10H13N, 147.1048; found, 147.1054; GC (BPX-5) I = 1208. The synthesis of compounds 9 and 12 was achieved by Wittig reaction starting with the
  • )pyridine (streptopyridine A, 9), c) 2-((1E,3E)-penta-1,3-dien-1-yl)pyridine (streptopyridine B, 12). Total ion chromatograms of the product mixtures of isomers 9–12 synthesized under E-selective (a) and Z-selective Wittig reaction conditions (b). Structures of piperidine derivatives 20–26. a) Mass spectrum
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