(Bio)isosteres of ortho- and meta-substituted benzenes

• H. Erik Diepers and
• Johannes C. L. Walker

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 859–890, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.78

• could also be oxidised to acid 112, from which redox active ester 118 could be accessed. An alternative approach to 2-oxa-1,4-BCHs involves the C–H-borylation of monosubstituted 2-oxa-BCHs developed by Hartwig and co-workers (Scheme 12C) [57]. Functional groups including halides (in 120b), alcohols (in

Advancements in hydrochlorination of alkenes

• Daniel S. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 787–814, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.72

• only 10–25% of the primary chloride for the reaction of tert-butylethylene with HCl in the presence of benzoyl peroxide [33]. c) Several metal halides such as AlCl3, SnCl4, FeCl3, and CuCl exhibit catalytic activities for the hydrochlorination of alkenes. The enthalpy of formation for the hydrogen

Palladium-catalyzed three-component radical-polar crossover carboamination of 1,3-dienes or allenes with diazo esters and amines

• Geng-Xin Liu,
• Xiao-Ting Jie,
• Ge-Jun Niu,
• Li-Sheng Yang,
• Xing-Lin Li,
• Jian Luo and
• Wen-Hao Hu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 661–671, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.59

• be difficult to achieve using either radical or polar chemistry alone. In recent years, Gevorgyan, Glorius, Huang and their co-workers reported elegant examples of the carboamination of 1,3-dienes with unactivated alkyl halides and amines under photoinduced palladium catalysis via a radical-polar

• crossover process [47][48][49][50]. However, activated alkyl halides are not suitable for these carboamination reactions due to the direct nucleophilic substitution of activated alkyl halides with nucleophilic reagents under the necessary alkaline conditions [51]. Recently, a Pd-catalyzed alkyl Heck

Switchable molecular tweezers: design and applications

• Pablo Msellem,
• Maksym Dekthiarenko,
• Nihal Hadj Seyd and
• Guillaume Vives

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 504–539, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.45

• fullerene complexation. Other halides (Br− and F−) also allowed C60 and C70 complexation while tetrabutylammonium cations inhibited the fullerenes' complexation by competing for the cavity of the calix [72]. These calixpyrrole-based tweezers provide a good example of ON/OFF molecular sensors for neutral

Development of a chemical scaffold for inhibiting nonribosomal peptide synthetases in live bacterial cells

• Fumihiro Ishikawa,
• Sho Konno,
• Hideaki Kakeya and
• Genzoh Tanabe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 445–451, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.39

• cyanomethyl (7) groups at the 2′-OH. The synthetic routes to compounds 4–9 are shown in Scheme 1. The 2′-OH of adenosine was alkylated with several alkyl halides in the presence of sodium hydride (NaH). Both the 3′-OH and 5′-OH groups of compounds 10a–e were protected by a TBS group, followed by the selective

Mono or double Pd-catalyzed C–H bond functionalization for the annulative π-extension of 1,8-dibromonaphthalene: a one pot access to fluoranthene derivatives

• Nahed Ketata,
• Linhao Liu,
• Ridha Ben Salem and
• Henri Doucet

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 427–435, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.37

• bases in the presence of Pd(OAc)2 as the catalyst (5 mol %) in DMA at 150 °C. This catalyst precursor is known to efficiently promote the direct coupling of 5-membered ring heteroarenes with aryl halides [25]. Cs2CO3 and K2CO3 proved to be totally inefficient bases, while acetate bases gave the desired

Mechanisms for radical reactions initiating from N-hydroxyphthalimide esters

• Carlos R. Azpilcueta-Nicolas and
• Jean-Philip Lumb

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 346–378, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.35

• of RAEs with organozinc reagents under Co-catalysis, effecting diverse arylation, alkenylation, and alkynylation reactions [92]. The second type of reaction is referred to as cross-electrophile coupling and involves the Ni-catalyzed reaction of NHPI esters with aryl- and vinyl halides under reducing

• halides [93][94], bromoalkynes [95], bromoalkanes [96], and pyridyl thioesters [97] (Scheme 26A). Likewise, the Rousseaux group has recently documented the arylation of NHPI esters obtained from cyclopropanecarboxylic acids [98] and malonic acid half amides [99], while the Reisman lab has pioneered an

• . Finally, single electron oxidation of 169 at the anode, followed by rearomatization via proton-transfer forms the alkylated heterocycle 170. As discussed in Scheme 25, the Ni-catalyzed cross-electrophile coupling between redox-active esters and aryl halides requires the addition of a stoichiometric

Using the phospha-Michael reaction for making phosphonium phenolate zwitterions

• Matthias R. Steiner,
• Max Schmallegger,
• Larissa Donner,
• Johann A. Hlina,
• Christoph Marschner,
• Judith Baumgartner and
• Christian Slugovc

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 41–51, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.6

• trifluoromethyl groups [20] and the cross-coupling of aryl halides [21]. Like phosphonium salts in general are used as catalysts [22][23], phosphonium salts based on ortho-hydroxy-substituted phosphines received particular attention because of their zwitterionic nature and have been used as catalysts in the

Beyond n-dopants for organic semiconductors: use of bibenzo[d]imidazoles in UV-promoted dehalogenation reactions of organic halides

• Kan Tang,
• Megan R. Brown,
• Chad Risko,
• Melissa K. Gish,
• Garry Rumbles,
• Phuc H. Pham,
• Oana R. Luca,
• Stephen Barlow and
• Seth R. Marder

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1912–1922, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.142

• dimers reduce halides that have reduction potentials less cathodic than ca. −2 V vs ferrocenium/ferrocene, especially under UV photoexcitation (using a 365 nm LED). In the case of benzyl halides, the products are bibenzyl derivatives, whereas aryl halides are reduced to the corresponding arenes. The

• potentials of the halides that can be reduced in this way, quantum-chemical calculations, and steady-state and transient absorption spectroscopy suggest that UV irradiation accelerates the reactions via cleavage of the dimers to the corresponding radical monomers. Keywords: dehalogenation; n-dopant

• ; reduction; reductive dimerization; Introduction Reductive dehalogenation reactions of organic halides can be used in organic synthesis as a means of generating carbon-centered radical or anion intermediates and could have relevance to the treatment of waste halogenated polymers. While such reactions can be

Controlling the reactivity of La@C₈₂ by reduction: reaction of the La@C₈₂ anion with alkyl halide with high regioselectivity

• Yutaka Maeda,
• Saeka Akita,
• Mitsuaki Suzuki,
• Michio Yamada,
• Takeshi Akasaka,
• Kaoru Kobayashi and
• Shigeru Nagase

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1858–1866, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.138

• , such as alkyl halides. In this study, the thermal reaction of the La@C2v-C82 anion with benzyl bromide derivatives 1 at 110 °C afforded single-bonded adducts 2–5 with high regioselectivity. The products were characterized by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry

• and visible–near infrared spectroscopy. The reaction of La@C2v-C82 with alkyl halides using the same conditions showed no consumption of La@C2v-C82, indicating that the reactivity of La@C2v-C82 toward alkyl halides was effectively increased by one-electron reduction. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction

• produced chemically or electrochemically. C602− is a strong electron donor and potential nucleophile that reacts with electrophiles [6][7][8][9][10][11]. The mechanism for the reaction of C602− with alkyl halides has been studied in detail by Fukuzumi et al., who found that the reaction occurs via electron

Recent advancements in iodide/phosphine-mediated photoredox radical reactions

• Tinglan Liu,
• Yu Zhou,
• Junhong Tang and
• Chengming Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1785–1803, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.131

• electrophile compared to other alkyl halides, such as related bromides and chlorides. As a result, an effective iododecarboxylation provides a versatile platform for a range of decarboxylative reactions. Shang and co-workers recently found that aliphatic carboxylates and lithium iodide could undergo

Trifluoromethylated hydrazones and acylhydrazones as potent nitrogen-containing fluorinated building blocks

• Zhang Dongxu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1741–1754, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.127

• building blocks offers another mainstream approach to introducing fluorine. Among these, di/trifluorodiazoethane [19][20][21][22], trifluoromethyl aldimines [23][24][25], trifluoroacetimidoyl halides [26], and fluoroalkyl N-sulfonyl hydrazones [27] have emerged as powerful nitrogen-containing fluorinated

• -withdrawing property of the trifluoromethyl group is key to this coupling reaction [45] (Scheme 7). Trifluoromethylated hydrazonoyl halides Hydrazonoyl halides, which offer a reactive 1,3-dipole, can easily be transformed to nitrile imines in the presence of a base, and they have shown to be useful building

• blocks for the synthesis of heterocycles [46][47]. The resultant heterocycles bearing a fluorine or fluorine-containing group have been used in a broad array of pharmaceutical applications [48][49]. The use of di/trifluoromethylated hydrazonoyl halides as building blocks for the synthesis of di

Synthesis of 7-azabicyclo[4.3.1]decane ring systems from tricarbonyl(tropone)iron via intramolecular Heck reactions

• Aaron H. Shoemaker,
• Elizabeth A. Foker,
• Elena P. Uttaro,
• Sarah K. Beitel and
• Daniel R. Griffith

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1615–1619, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.118

• best among those screened, yields remained modest (44%). X-ray analysis provided confirmation of the structure of bicycle 8 (CCDC No. 2263675). While searching for methods to improve the yield of our desired azabicycle, we came across the observation of Andrade and Kokkonda that vinylic halides with

• ) AcOH, hν (360 nm), 23 °C, 6 h, 74%. Screening of conditions for intramolecular Heck reaction of vinyl halides 7 and 9. Intramolecular Heck reactions of various substituted vinyl halides.a Supporting Information Supporting Information File 10: Experimental procedures for all new compounds and summary

Radical chemistry in polymer science: an overview and recent advances

• Zixiao Wang,
• Feichen Cui,
• Yang Sui and
• Jiajun Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1580–1603, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.116

• diazonium salts produces highly reactive aryl radicals (Scheme 18) [153]. The chemical conversion can be initiated by electrochemical reduction [154], a reducing agent [155][156][157], a base [158], heating [159], or photochemically [160]. Aryl radicals may act as a halogen abstractor for alkyl halides and

N-Sulfenylsuccinimide/phthalimide: an alternative sulfenylating reagent in organic transformations

• Fatemeh Doraghi,
• Seyedeh Pegah Aledavoud,
• Mehdi Ghanbarlou,
• Bagher Larijani and
• Mohammad Mahdavi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1471–1502, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.106

• important factors, and the commonly utilized chemicals include thiols [16][17][18], disulfides [19][20][21][22], sulfenyl halides [23][24][25], sulfonamides [26], sulfenate esters [27][28], and methyl(bismethylthio)sulfonium salts [29][30]. Among various organic molecules, aryl sulfides are recognized as

• as a sulfenylating source gave the target product in 93% yield. Knochel and co-workers found that copper acetate can catalyze the cross-coupling reaction between (hetero)aryl, alkyl and benzylic zinc halides 36 with N-thiophthalimides 14 (Scheme 18) [55]. Various metal catalysts, including CrCl2

• functionalization of aryl C(sp2)–H bonds. FeCl3-catalyzed carbosulfenylation of unactivated alkenes. Copper-catalyzed electrophilic thiolation of organozinc halides. h-BN@Copper(II) nanomaterial catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of sulfoximines and N‑(arylthio)succinimide. AlCl3‑mediated cyclization and

Application of N-heterocyclic carbene–Cu(I) complexes as catalysts in organic synthesis: a review

• Nosheen Beig,
• Varsha Goyal and
• Raj K. Bansal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1408–1442, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.102

• alkyl halides (Scheme 38) [53]. Carbonylative silylation of unactivated alkyl halides was achieved by using the commercially available Si nucleophile PhMe2Si-Bpin in the presence of IPrCuCl complex 106 as catalyst (Scheme 38). This allowed to obtain alkyl-substituted acylsilanes 107 in high yields from

• primary, secondary, and tertiary alkyl halides. The mechanistic investigation revealed the generation of a silyl–copper intermediate which activates the alkyl halides by a single electron transfer to form alkyl radical intermediates [54]. It was suggested that substituting B2pin2 for PhMe2Si-Bpin would

• isomerization-induced alkenylation of electron-rich heteroarenes 187 and 188 utilizing allyl halides as reactants. The same catalyst system was found to effectively promote double-bond migration of the initially formed allylarenes resulting in vinylarene products. This method has been successfully used to

One-pot nucleophilic substitution–double click reactions of biazides leading to functionalized bis(1,2,3-triazole) derivatives

• Hans-Ulrich Reissig and
• Fei Yu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1399–1407, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.101

• aminopyrans [54], should be converted into divalent compounds via coupling of the terminal propynyl group with benzylic biazides. Since biazides are potentially explosive [22] it was very desirable to avoid their isolation and to generate these reactive species in situ from the corresponding benzylic halides

Consecutive four-component synthesis of trisubstituted 3-iodoindoles by an alkynylation–cyclization–iodination–alkylation sequence

• Nadia Ledermann,
• Alae-Eddine Moubsit and
• Thomas J. J. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1379–1385, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.99

• generated by a consecutive four-component reaction starting from ortho-haloanilines, terminal alkynes, N-iodosuccinimide, and alkyl halides in yields of 11–69%. Initiated by a copper-free alkynylation, followed by a base-catalyzed cyclizive indole formation, electrophilic iodination, and finally

• electrophilic trapping of the intermediary indole anion with alkyl halides provides a concise one-pot synthesis of 3-iodoindoles. The latter are valuable substrates for Suzuki arylations, which are exemplified with the syntheses of four derivatives, some of them are blue emitters in solution and in the solid

• nitrogen protection or activation using KOt-Bu in DMSO as a base. Under these conditions, the formation of the terminal (aza)indole anion is the driving force (Scheme 1) [34]. As a consequence, the electrophilic trapping of this intermediate with alkyl halides provides as concise access to N-substituted

Visible-light-induced nickel-catalyzed α-hydroxytrifluoroethylation of alkyl carboxylic acids: Access to trifluoromethyl alkyl acyloins

• Feng Chen,
• Xiu-Hua Xu,
• Zeng-Hao Chen,
• Yue Chen and
• Feng-Ling Qing

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1372–1378, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.98

• carboxylic acid and pivalic anhydride than aryl bromide. The halides provided versatile synthetic handles for further transformations. Substrates bearing thiophene (3k) furan (3j) and other heterocycle (3l,m) moieties were also applicable to this reaction. This protocol allowed for the coupling of not only

Photoredox catalysis harvesting multiple photon or electrochemical energies

• Mattia Lepori,
• Simon Schmid and
• Joshua P. Barham

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1055–1145, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.81

• , commercially available aryl halides are chlorides [37][38], with potentials for reduction that almost exclusively lie beyond the threshold of monophotonically-excited photoredox catalysts (i.e., more deeply negative than E1/2 = −2.0 V vs SCE). Considering this, state-of-the-art developments have focused on the

• halides and the coupling products were obtained in good yields (52–74%) (Figure 4B). To suppress the rapid HAT with solvent DMF that yields the dehalogenated product, DMSO was chosen as solvent for the C–H arylation. When applying the catalytic protocol to 2-allyloxy-1,3,5-tribromobenzene, the 5-exo-trig

• was mostly limited to electron-poor aryl halides, *Rh-6G• could reach a step further and reductively activate electron-rich aryl bromides such as 4-bromotoluene and 4-bromoanisole, albeit providing low (27% and 25%) yields of the coupled products 4d and 4e, respectively. Building on this work, König

Synthesis of aliphatic nitriles from cyclobutanone oxime mediated by sulfuryl fluoride (SO₂F₂)

• Xian-Lin Chen and
• Hua-Li Qin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 901–908, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.68

• ) carbon, which leads to side reactions of the alkyl intermediates [14][19][20]. Besides, most of the C(sp2)–C(sp3) reactions employ organic halides or organometallic reagents [21][22][23], which are not environmentally friendly. Recently, based on the activation effect of O-acyloximes on N–O bonds [24][25

Asymmetric tandem conjugate addition and reaction with carbocations on acylimidazole Michael acceptors

• Brigita Mudráková,
• Renata Marcia de Figueiredo,
• Jean-Marc Campagne and
• Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 881–888, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.65

• , imines, other Michael acceptors, or alkyl halides. Our group is developing trapping of metal enolates with stabilized carbocations and could show that magnesium enolates generated from enones [22], unsaturated amides [23], or heterocycles reacted with tropylium, dithiolylium or flavylium cations [24

Pyridine C(sp²)–H bond functionalization under transition-metal and rare earth metal catalysis

• Haritha Sindhe,
• Malladi Mounika Reddy,
• Karthikeyan Rajkumar,
• Akshay Kamble,
• Amardeep Singh,
• Anand Kumar and
• Satyasheel Sharma

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 820–863, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.62

• catalyst using 2-arylpyridines (Scheme 15). Earlier reports described the propenylation took place on the ortho-position of the phenyl ring [76][77], whereas this group achieved the propenylation of the pyridine moiety. The authors screened different allyl halides and Ru complexes as catalysts. With the

• alkenylated product 109 (Scheme 21b). Arylation C-2 Arylation Owing to the remarkable role of aromatic C–H arylation reactions in organic synthesis abundant methods have been reported for aromatic C–H arylations using different arylating coupling partners, such as for instance, aryl halides. In 2014, using

• groups used Pd(OAc)2 as catalyst with 1,10-phenanthroline as ligand. The group of Yu used aryl halides 137 as coupling partner, whereas the group of Tan utilized aryl tosylates 142 as coupling partner (Scheme 26). The Yu group also applied the developed protocol for the synthesis of the drug molecule

Strategies in the synthesis of dibenzo[b,f]heteropines

• David I. H. Maier,
• Barend C. B. Bezuidenhoudt and
• Charlene Marais

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 700–718, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.51

• thioethers from aryl halides and triflates through palladium catalysis [50][51]. Scheme 10 provides a retrosynthesis of amination in the synthesis of dibenzo[b,f]azepine 45 as an example. Arnold et al. [30] reported an excellent method for the convergent synthesis of variable sized dibenzo-fused heterocycles

• . Among these, Heck reaction conditions allowed for the coupling of aryl acrylates 50 to aryl halides 48 and 49, followed by intramolecular Pd-catalysed amination or etherification to give C-10 carboxylates of dibenzo[b,f]azepine 55 and dibenz[b,f]oxepine 54 in good yield (Scheme 11). However, no ring

• , whereafter Buchwald–Hartwig amination afford the various diarylazepines. A three-component one-pot process allowed for a second in situ Buchwald–Hartwig amination of the diarylazepine with aryl or benzyl halides to give the respective N-aryl and N-benzylazepine derivatives 83 and 84 (Scheme 16). 3.2 Mizoroki

Enolates ambushed – asymmetric tandem conjugate addition and subsequent enolate trapping with conventional and less traditional electrophiles

• Péter Kisszékelyi and
• Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 593–634, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.44

• enolate-trapping tandem sequence using various vinylsilanes 33 (Scheme 8B), allyl halides 35, and benzyl bromide (37) (Scheme 8C) [36]. Although the asymmetric conjugate addition step routinely provided excellent selectivity (93–96% ee), only a moderate to good diastereomeric ratio was achieved