A metal-free approach for the synthesis of amides/esters with pyridinium salts of phenacyl bromides via oxidative C–C bond cleavage

• Kesari Lakshmi Manasa,
• Yellaiah Tangella,
• Namballa Hari Krishna and
• Mallika Alvala

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1864–1871, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.182

• work-up procedures and the requirement of stoichiometric amounts of coupling reagents. On the other hand, benzoylation reactions are usually performed with benzoyl chloride or benzoic anhydride which results in the formation of a substantial amount of undesired chemical waste. Moreover, these benzoic

• acid derivatives are commonly lachrymatory and are inconvenient to handle and store. Over the past decades, the thermodynamic stability of C–C bonds has attracted considerable attention of the synthesis community for the reorganization of organic compound by a sequential C–C cleavage and formation of

Enantioselective PCCP Brønsted acid-catalyzed aza-Piancatelli rearrangement

• Gabrielle R. Hammersley,
• Meghan F. Nichol,
• Helena C. Steffens,
• Jose M. Delgado,
• Gesine K. Veits and
• Javier Read de Alaniz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1569–1574, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.160

• hydrogen bond group afforded the best selectivity (7k). To simplify the purification process, all acid products were transformed into the corresponding methyl ester in situ using (trimethylsilyl)diazomethane. A slight drop in enantioselectivity is observed when the benzoic acid group was moved to the meta

Multicomponent reactions (MCRs): a useful access to the synthesis of benzo-fused γ-lactams

• Edorta Martínez de Marigorta,
• Jesús M. de Los Santos,
• Ana M. Ochoa de Retana,
• Javier Vicario and
• Francisco Palacios

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1065–1085, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.104

• acid derivative as one of the substrates of the reaction, together with an amine and a third reagent that provides the carbon atom needed to complete the cyclic moiety. Thus, Shi et al. [76] reacted benzoic acid derivatives 1, amides 2 and DMSO (3) in the presence of DDQ as oxidant and without any

• alkynylpalladium complex 25 in the proposed pathway. Other benzoic acid derivatives such as those bearing a formyl substituent at the ortho position also take part in several multicomponent cyclizations leading to isoindolinones. Thus, 2-formylbenzoate 29, primary amines 2 and terminal alkynes 18 react under

• of the reactive aryne 80 which is first trapped with the nucleophilic isocyanide to form 81 and then with the electrophilic CO2 (78), to furnish an intermediate benzoic acid derivative 82. Intramolecular cyclization would produce the corresponding isobenzofurane 83, which alternatively, could also be

Mechanochemical synthesis of poly(trimethylene carbonate)s: an example of rate acceleration

• Sora Park and
• Jeung Gon Kim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 963–970, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.93

• milling vessel was placed in a vibrational ball mill and vibrated at 30 Hz. After 2 hours, the vessel was opened and benzoic acid (10 mg) was added followed by an additional 5 minutes of milling to quench the polymerization. To avoid data inconsistency due to inhomogeneity, all material was dissolved in

Synthesis of pyrrolidine-based hamamelitannin analogues as quorum sensing inhibitors in Staphylococcus aureus

• Jakob Bouton,
• Kristof Van Hecke,
• Reuven Rasooly and
• Serge Van Calenbergh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2822–2828, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.260

• -propanediol (16), which was selectively monoprotected in high yield as TBS ether (Scheme 3) [25]. The remaining alcohol was then substituted for a phthalimide via Mitsunobu reaction. Phthalimide deprotection, acylation with benzoic acid, and removal of the silyl protecting group furnished 10. Fragments 9 and

Synthesis of a tyrosinase inhibitor by consecutive ethenolysis and cross-metathesis of crude cashew nutshell liquid

• Jacqueline Pollini,
• Valentina Bragoni and
• Lukas J. Gooßen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2737–2744, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.252

• conducted with crude CNSL, it would lead to the shortened derivatives of all unsaturated components. We reasoned that it might be possible to selectively precipitate the 2-hydroxy-6-(non-8-enyl)benzoic acid (2) from this product mixture and use this as a substrate for a consecutive cross-metathesis with 1

• single run. One-pot cross-metathesis/hydrogenation We next sought for suitable conditions that would allow the cross-metathesis of 2 with 1-hexene to give 2-hydroxy-6-(tridec-8-enyl)benzoic acid (5). When performing the hexenolysis of 2 with 7 equivalents of 1-hexene using 1 mol % of Ru-1 in

• -metathesis and hydrogenation was developed for the synthesis of the tyrosinase inhibitor 3 from the non-edible waste product CNSL. The key step to this process is the ethenolysis of crude CNSL followed by a selective precipitation of 2-hydroxy-6-(non-8-enyl)benzoic acid (2), which transforms the complex

The design and synthesis of an antibacterial phenothiazine–siderophore conjugate

• Abed Tarapdar,
• James K. S. Norris,
• Oliver Sampson,
• Galina Mukamolova and
• James T. Hodgkinson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2646–2650, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.242

• . However, as our final conjugate contains an aromatic halide we wanted to avoid hydrogenation as the final step and we instead chose to use the para-methoxybenzyl (PMB) protecting group which can be removed under acidic conditions. PMB-protected benzoic acid building block 7 was prepared following a

Quinolines from the cyclocondensation of isatoic anhydride with ethyl acetoacetate: preparation of ethyl 4-hydroxy-2-methylquinoline-3-carboxylate and derivatives

• Nicholas G. Jentsch,
• Jared D. Hume,
• Emily B. Crull,
• Samer M. Beauti,
• Amy H. Pham,
• Julie A. Pigza,
• Jacques J. Kessl and
• Matthew G. Donahue

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2529–2536, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.229

• acids with triphosgene. Substituted 2-methyl-4-hydroxyquinolines from isatoic anhydrides and ethyl acetoacetate. Mechanistic hypothesis for the cyclocondensation reaction. Quinoline synthesis with ethyl acetylpyruvate. Elaboration of the benzoic acid ethyl ester to the acetic acid residue. Umpolung

Cobalt- and rhodium-catalyzed carboxylation using carbon dioxide as the C1 source

• Tetsuaki Fujihara and
• Yasushi Tsuji

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2435–2460, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.221

• carboxylation of aryl halides and pseudohalides using CO2 is an important reaction to yield benzoic acid derivatives. In 2009, Martin reported the Pd-catalyzed carboxylation of aryl bromides using ZnEt2 as the reductant [31]. In 2012, we first reported the Ni-catalyzed carboxylation of aryl chlorides and vinyl

• the ligand and AlMe2(OEt) as a reducing agent in a mixture of DMA and 1,1,3,3-tetramethylurea (TMU) as a solvent. Under the reaction conditions, benzene (32a) was converted into benzoic acid (33a, TON: 37) at 85 °C. The monosubstituted arenes such as toluene (32b), fluorobenzene (32c), and

Synthesis of diamido-bridged bis-pillar[5]arenes and tris-pillar[5]arenes for construction of unique [1]rotaxanes and bis-[1]rotaxanes

• Ying Han,
• Li-Ming Xu,
• Cui-Yun Nie,
• Shuo Jiang,
• Jing Sun and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1660–1667, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.142

• sequential alkylation of ω-bromoalkoxy-substituted pillar[5]arenes with methyl or ethyl p-hydroxybenzoate followed by a hydrolytic reaction under basic conditions. Under catalysis of HOBt/EDCl, the amidation reaction of pillar[5]arene mono(oxybutoxy)benzoic acid with monoamido-functionalized pillar[5]arenes

• ]arene di(oxybutoxy)benzoic acid with monoamido-functionalized pillar[5]arenes resulted in the diamido-bridged tris-pillar[5]arenes, which successfully form the unique bis-[1]rotaxanes bearing longer than diaminopropylene diamido bridges. Keywords: bis-[1]rotaxane; mechanically interlocked molecule

• have a longer chain functionalized group and a large macrocycle, which enabled them to be a good candidate as an efficient terminal stopper for the construction of rotaxanes. Therefore, the amidation reaction of pillar[5]arene mono(oxybutoxy)benzoic acid 3a with our previously reported amido

Anomeric modification of carbohydrates using the Mitsunobu reaction

• Julia Hain,
• Patrick Rollin,
• Werner Klaffke and
• Thisbe K. Lindhorst

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1619–1636, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.138

• , conveniently, mildly and on large-scale using Ph3P, with either DIAD or DEAD and a carboxylic acid in THF at either –50 °C or at room temperature”. Hence, several protected mono- and disaccharides, such as 1–4 (Scheme 3) were selectively esterified with simple benzoic acid to give 5–7 and 9, respectively. In

Recent applications of chiral calixarenes in asymmetric catalysis

• Mustafa Durmaz,
• Erkan Halay and
• Selahattin Bozkurt

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1389–1412, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.117

• ). The corresponding tetrahydropyridine derivatives 124 were obtained in good to excellent yields but the enantioselectivity remained moderate. Calixarene phosphonic acid (cR,pR)-121 was also tested in the asymmetric ring opening of several cyclic meso epoxides 125 with benzoic acid (Scheme 41). Good

Atom-economical group-transfer reactions with hypervalent iodine compounds

• Andreas Boelke,
• Peter Finkbeiner and
• Boris J. Nachtsheim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1263–1280, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.108

• -iodobenzoic acid is formed as a quantitative waste product, thus lowering the atom efficiency of these transformations. An atom-economical application of benziodoxolones 36 would involve the utilization of the nucleophilic properties of the released benzoic acid 37, after the initial electrophilic group

Selective carboxylation of reactive benzylic C–H bonds by a hypervalent iodine(III)/inorganic bromide oxidation system

• Toshifumi Dohi,
• Shohei Ueda,
• Kosuke Iwasaki,
• Yusuke Tsunoda,
• Koji Morimoto and
• Yasuyuki Kita

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1087–1094, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.94

• acids, such as propionic acid, cyclohexyl carboxylic acid, pivalic acid, and benzoic acid, were also possible by simply replacing PIDA with iodosobenzene (Scheme 3). Here, the addition of 3 Å molecular sieves was essential for removing water derived from the iodosobenzene and to suppress the benzylic

Preparation, structure, and reactivity of bicyclic benziodazole: a new hypervalent iodine heterocycle

• Akira Yoshimura,
• Michael T. Shea,
• Cody L. Makitalo,
• Melissa E. Jarvi,
• Gregory T. Rohde,
• Akio Saito,
• Mekhman S. Yusubov and
• Viktor V. Zhdankin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1016–1020, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.87

• and N,N-dimethyl-4-aminopyridine (DMAP) in chloroform solution under reflux conditions afforded the desired product 11a in good yield. As expected, the reactions of benzoic acid (9b) with benzyl alcohol (10a) or 1-pentanol (10b) under the same conditions gave the corresponding esters 11b or 11c in

Anodic oxidation of bisamides from diaminoalkanes by constant current electrolysis

• Tatiana Golub and
• James Y. Becker

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 861–868, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.72

• comparison to the above results, oxidation of II-3 on a Pt anode (Table 2, entries 3 and 4) affords similar products but with less selectivity because of the formation of an additional fragmentation product, benzoic acid (II-3e) in 10–20% yield. Other anodes were tested as well (Table 2, entries 5–7) at an

• undergoes methoxylation in methanol, as described in Scheme 11. Plausible mechanisms for the formation of various fragmentation products are described in Scheme 12. Actually whenever benzoic acid or methyl benzoate were formed (top of Scheme 12), the corresponding aldehyde from the other part of the

Synthesis and stability of strongly acidic benzamide derivatives

• Frederik Diness,
• Niels J. Bjerrum and
• Mikael Begtrup

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 523–530, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.38

• stability under acidic and basic conditions are also reported. Keywords: benzoic acid; cross-coupling; hydrolysis; SNAr; trifluoromethanesulfonamide; Introduction Very strong organic acids are interesting as catalysts for chemical reactions [1][2] and for facilitation of proton conduction [3]. In order to

• ) or trifluoroacetic acid (3) are not readily modified, and changing substituents on these acids will heavily impact their pKa value (Figure 1). In contrast, halogenated benzoic acid derivatives are easily functionalized through cross-coupling [4][5] or nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions

• (SNAr) [6][7]. Benzoic acids (e.g., 2) are relatively weak acids, even with highly electron-withdrawing substituents on the aromatic core [8]. Very strong benzoic acid derivatives (e.g., 4 and 6) have been synthesized by replacing one or both of the oxygens of the carboxylate group with the

5-Aminopyrazole as precursor in design and synthesis of fused pyrazoloazines

• Ranjana Aggarwal and
• Suresh Kumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 203–242, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.15

• products in small amounts namely 3(5)-methyl-5(3)-phenyl-1H-pyrazole (121) obtained by CN bond cleavage and benzoic acid (122) was also observed (Scheme 33). The structure of the regioisomer was established unequivocally by performing 1H,13C-HMQC, 1H,13C- and 1H,15N-HMBC experiments. Aqueous mediated

Photocatalytic formation of carbon–sulfur bonds

• Alexander Wimmer and
• Burkhard König

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 54–83, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.4

• metal-free method for the synthesis of benzothiophenes via a photocatalyzed tandem addition/cyclization reaction (Scheme 11) [41]. Aryl thiols were coupled with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate, applying 9-mesityl-10-methylacridinium perchlorate (Acr+-Mes ClO4−) as organic photocatalyst and benzoic acid

Dialkyl dicyanofumarates and dicyanomaleates as versatile building blocks for synthetic organic chemistry and mechanistic studies

• Grzegorz Mlostoń and
• Heinz Heimgartner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2235–2251, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.221

• [64]. The yields of the products are in the range of 57–72%. A different type of heterocyclization was reported in the reactions of carbohydrazides 67 derived from benzoic acid and some hetarylcarboxylic acids with E-1a [65][66]. In these cases, the formation of mixtures of two products is described

Synthesis of benzannelated sultams by intramolecular Pd-catalyzed arylation of tertiary sulfonamides

• Valentin A. Rassadin,
• Mirko Scholz,
• Anastasiia A. Klochkova,
• Armin de Meijere and
• Victor V. Sokolov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1932–1939, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.187

• distilled dioxane, the sultams 10d and 10e were isolated in 78 and 86% yield, respectively. However, when commercial dioxane was used, both sulfonamide 8d as well as 8e gave the same product, namely the benzoic acid derivative 10h in 65 and 71% yield, respectively. Apparently, the commercial dioxane

Mechanochemical synthesis of small organic molecules

• Tapas Kumar Achar,
• Anima Bose and
• Prasenjit Mal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1907–1931, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.186

• -free conditions were performed using a combination of (S)-binam-L-Pro (A, 5 mol %) and benzoic acid (10 mol %) as organocatalyst [49]. Juaristi and co-workers investigated the mechanistic aspects of α,α-dipeptide derivatives of a (S)-proline- (A′)-catalyzed asymmetric aldol reaction (Scheme 2b) under

• 74% yield (Scheme 28) [116]. Juaristi and co-workers have also reported a mechanochemical Passerine 3-component reaction (3-CR). tert-Butyl isocyanide, benzaldehyde and benzoic acid in equimolar proportion under milling conditions for 90 min led to 73% of Passerine product (Scheme 29). Both electron

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

Development of a method for the synthesis of 2,4,5-trisubstituted oxazoles composed of carboxylic acid, amino acid, and boronic acid

• Kohei Yamada,
• Naoto Kamimura and
• Munetaka Kunishima

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1478–1485, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.146

• carboxylic acid 1 and amino acid 2 under conditions improved from [23] (Table 1). A one-pot sequence involving formation of an activated ester from benzoic acid (1a) with DMT-MM, N-benzoylation of alanine (2a), cyclodehydration, and introduction of the triazinyl group was conducted in 1,4-dioxane/H2O to give

Syntheses of 3,4- and 1,4-dihydroquinazolines from 2-aminobenzylamine

• Jimena E. Díaz,
• Silvia Ranieri,
• Nadia Gruber and
• Liliana R. Orelli

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1470–1477, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.145

• , the selective acylation of the aliphatic amino group was achieved by the treatment of the diamine with benzoic acid in the presence of Zr(azobenzene-4,4´-dicarboxylate) [43], with tert-butylperoxybenzoate [44] and with isopropenyl acetate [45], or by a DCC-mediated coupling with a carboxylic acid [38