The LANCA three-component reaction to highly substituted β-ketoenamides – versatile intermediates for the synthesis of functionalized pyridine, pyrimidine, oxazole and quinoxaline derivatives

• Tilman Lechel,
• Roopender Kumar,
• Mrinal K. Bera,
• Reinhold Zimmer and
• Hans-Ulrich Reissig

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 655–678, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.61

• ]. The methoxy-substituted compound PM2 requires harsh conditions employing trimethylsilyl iodide at 80 °C to provide the intermediate hydroxy derivative PM51. In contrast, the removal of the benzyl group in PM20 can be achieved by palladium-catalyzed hydrogenolysis at room temperature to give hydroxy

• alternative to the strongly acidic conditions, palladium-catalyzed hydrogenolysis of the benzyloxy-substituted derivatives is possible, thus avoiding the condensation to oxazoles. Scheme 25 shows the conversion of KE52 into 1,2-diketone DK14 (compare entry 3 of Table 6). Longer reaction times lead to a

Design and synthesis of multivalent α-1,2-trimannose-linked bioerodible microparticles for applications in immune response studies of Leishmania major infection

• Chelsea L. Rintelmann,
• Tara Grinnage-Pulley,
• Kathleen Ross,
• Daniel E. K. Kabotso,
• Angela Toepp,
• Anne Cowell,
• Christine Petersen,
• Balaji Narasimhan and
• Nicola Pohl

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 623–632, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.58

• , hydrogenolysis of the benzyl ethers under continuous flow (0.3–1 mL/min) and H2 pressure (30–60 bar) using an H-cube apparatus was found to be effective at removing the benzyl ethers, but arduously slow (>48 h) from the limited surface-mediated interactions with the Pd/C cartridge. By comparison, batch

• hydrogenolysis at 1 atm pressure hydrogen afforded the fully deprotected trimanose 16 in just 24 h. To further reduce the total number of benzyl groups, the simpler peracylated TCA donor 4 was used to cap the oligosaccharide. The benzyl-protected nitrogen proved unnecessary and was difficult to deprotect under

Synthesis of the aglycon of scorzodihydrostilbenes B and D

• Katja Weimann and
• Manfred Braun

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 610–616, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.56

• , the yield was lower (Scheme 2). In order to bring about the cleavage of the benzyl protecting groups in the ketones 8a and 8b by hydrogenolysis [17][18], various metal catalysts were tested. It turned out that palladium on charcoal was the only catalytic system that provided satisfying results. Ethyl

• , partial hydrogenation of the aromatic rings had to be suppressed. Nevertheless, the aglycon 9 of scorzodihydrostilbenes B and D (2 and 4) was obtained in good yield from 8a. Hydrogenolysis of ketone 8b led to hydroquinone 10, however, along with a minor amount of mono-deprotected phenol 11. The main

A chemoenzymatic synthesis of ceramide trafficking inhibitor HPA-12

• Seema V. Kanojia,
• Sucheta Chatterjee,
• Subrata Chattopadhyay and
• Dibakar Goswami

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 490–496, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.42

• the amine using LiAlH4 with concomitant debenzoylation, followed by the acylation of the amine with lauric acid to afford 9a, and finally, ii) reductive cleavage by hydrogenolysis using Pd–C/H2 leading to debenzylation (Scheme 3). However, during hydrogenolysis, the elimination of the -OBn group led

• to product 9b, which was undesirable. A similar elimination was earlier observed by Sharf et al. during hydrogenolysis of dibenzyl ether [55]. To avoid this, an oxidative debenzylation of 9a using DDQ/CH2Cl2–H2O was carried out. However, this led to a very poor yield of the target compound 2 (Scheme

Convergent synthesis of the pentasaccharide repeating unit of the biofilms produced by Klebsiella pneumoniae

• Arin Gucchait,
• Angana Ghosh and
• Anup Kumar Misra

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 431–436, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.37

• reaction conditions furnished the D-glucuronic acid containing pentasaccharide derivative, which on global deprotection under hydrogenolysis in the presence of Pearlman’s catalyst [40] afforded the target pentasaccharide as its 2-aminoethyl glycoside 1 in 61% yield (Scheme 4). Conclusion In summary, a

Syntheses and chemical properties of β-nicotinamide riboside and its analogues and derivatives

• Mikhail V. Makarov and
• Marie E. Migaud

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 401–430, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.36

• the corresponding protected derivative 30 was low (Scheme 15). Yet, this particular protecting group is easily removed under mild acidic conditions, such as diluted HCl in organic solvents (THF/MeOH) or 90% aqueous trifluoroacetic acid or hydrogenolysis. 3.3. Reduction of the pyridinium core of NR

Sigmatropic rearrangements of cyclopropenylcarbinol derivatives. Access to diversely substituted alkylidenecyclopropanes

• Guillaume Ernouf,
• Jean-Louis Brayer,
• Christophe Meyer and
• Janine Cossy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 333–350, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.29

• achieved in the presence of Pd/C as a catalyst. Concomitant hydrogenolysis of two carbon–chlorine bonds also took place under these conditions and a 71:29 diastereomeric mixture of the monochloracetamides 19f/19’f was obtained (41%). The rather small difference of steric hindrance between the methyl and

Application of olefin metathesis in the synthesis of functionalized polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) and POSS-containing polymeric materials

• Patrycja Żak and
• Cezary Pietraszuk

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 310–332, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.28

• mild conditions, hydrogenolysis of the benzyl ester group to the carboxylic acid and hydrogenation of the C=C double bonds at the silicon atoms (Scheme 7). The ability of the obtained derivatives, in particular the carboxylic acids, to generate nanostructured materials through self-organization

Synthesis of nonracemic hydroxyglutamic acids

• Dorota G. Piotrowska,
• Iwona E. Głowacka,
• Andrzej E. Wróblewski and
• Liwia Lubowiecka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 236–255, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.22

• basic hydrolysis of the formate to afford the acid (2S,3R)-61. Its allylation provided the ester (2S,3R)-62, a protected precursor of 3-hydroxyglutamate, from which (2S,3R)-2 can be prepared by catalytic hydrogenolysis (Scheme 15) [67]. 4-Hydroxyglutamic acids All enantiomers of 4-hydroxyglutamic acid

• protected 3,4-dihydroxy-L-glutamic acid 96 and the respective γ-lactone 97 formed from 96 in the presence of acids. Benzyl alcohol was selected to refrain from decomposition of the final amino acids during the acid hydrolysis of, e.g., methyl esters [99] since for a mixture of 96 and 97 hydrogenolysis

• final step transesterification of methyl to benzyl esters was successfully performed in the presence of titanium(IV) benzyloxide to afford dibenzyl esters 102 and 103, respectively. Their hydrogenolysis cleanly produced (2S,3S,4S)-104 and (2S,3S,4S)-105 [103]. From tartaric acids Four-carbon chirons

Synthesis of 1,4-imino-L-lyxitols modified at C-5 and their evaluation as inhibitors of GH38 α-mannosidases

• Maroš Bella,
• Sergej Šesták,
• Ján Moncoľ,
• Miroslav Koóš and
• Monika Poláková

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2156–2162, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.189

• of acetonides 9 and 12 gave target compounds 2a (64%) and 3a (68%, Scheme 1). As amines prepared by catalytic hydrogenolysis of N-benzylpyrrolidines 9 and 12 were extremely volatile they were immediately subjected to acetonide hydrolysis without isolation. So-obtained hydrochlorides were used

• achieved by N-debenzylation under catalytic hydrogenolysis conditions followed by protection of the liberated amines with CbzCl furnishing fully protected pyrrolidines 14 [35] and 15. Exposure of 14 to a catalytic amount of PTSA (0.04 equiv) in a mixture of CH2Cl2/MeOH 30:1 (v/v) resulted in rapid cleavage

• hydrogenolysis conditions furnished the free amine which was subsequently subjected to N-benzylation with the corresponding (4-halo)benzyl bromide to afford N-(4-halo)benzylpyrrolidines 19a–c. Acidic hydrolysis of the acetonide protecting group in 19a–c provided target compounds 4a–c in good yields (Scheme 3

A selective removal of the secondary hydroxy group from ortho-dithioacetal-substituted diarylmethanols

• Anna Czarnecka,
• Emilia Kowalska,
• Agnieszka Bodzioch,
• Joanna Skalik,
• Marek Koprowski,
• Krzysztof Owsianik and
• Piotr Bałczewski

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1229–1237, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.105

• tried to remove the OH group using the Pd-catalytic hydrogenolysis (Scheme 3). In case of 6b (X = S), no reaction occurred and only the substrate was recovered, most probably due to poisoning of the catalyst by the 1,3-dithianyl sulfur atoms. However, the successful catalytic hydrogenolysis (5% Pd/C) of

• hydrogenolysis or pyrolysis of the corresponding ortho-1,3-dioxolanyl [65] and ortho-hydroxymethyl [66] substituted diarylmethanols, respectively. It is worth mentioning that the reduction of 9 with ZnI2–Na(CN)BH3 caused decomposition of the starting material. The described reduction process involving 1,3

• )methanes in 26–95% yields under mild reaction conditions. Thus, the ortho-1,3-dithianyl moiety joins other functionalities tolerated by this reagent system [47]. Since analogous 1,3-dioxanyl derivatives, in our hands, decomposed or led to other products during the attempted catalytic hydrogenolysis, the

The first Pd-catalyzed Buchwald–Hartwig aminations at C-2 or C-4 in the estrone series

• Ildikó Bacsa,
• Dávid Szemerédi,
• János Wölfling,
• Gyula Schneider,
• Lilla Fekete and
• Erzsébet Mernyák

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 998–1003, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.85

• with benzophenone imine and subsequent hydrogenolysis. Keywords: aminoestrones; Buchwald–Hartwig amination; 13α-estrone; functionalization; microwave assisted reactions; Introduction Aminoestrones are of particular interest thanks to their diverse biological applications [1][2][3][4]. There exist

• -13α-estrone (13). The efficient C(sp2)–N coupling method elaborated above proved to be suitable for the reaction of 2-bromo-3-benzyl ether 2 and benzophenone imine as an amine precursor (Scheme 2). The deprotection was achieved by hydrogenolysis using a Pd/C catalyst. The resulting newly-synthesized 2

Latest development in the synthesis of ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA): a critical review

• Fabio Tonin and
• Isabel W. C. E. Arends

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 470–483, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.33

• mechanism for this step is analogous to the mechanism for ketal or acetal formation except sulphur replaces oxygen as the nucleophile attacking the carbonyl group. In a second step, the dithioketal is reduced to the corresponding methylene compound by hydrogenolysis in presence of Raney Nickel (actually

Synthetic and semi-synthetic approaches to unprotected N-glycan oxazolines

• Antony J. Fairbanks

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 416–429, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.30

• residues. Acid catalysed hydrolysis of the 4,6-benzylidene was followed by regioselective glycosylation of the primary 6-OH with a different pentasaccharide, this time comprised of five mannoses. Conversion of the azide to acetamide and removal of all benzyl groups by hydrogenolysis produced a completely

Aminomethylation/hydrogenolysis as an alternative to direct methylation of metalated isoquinolines – a novel total synthesis of the alkaloid 7-hydroxy-6-methoxy-1-methylisoquinoline

• Benedikt C. Melzer,
• Jan G. Felber and
• Franz Bracher

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 130–134, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.8

• , after quaternization with iodomethane, is easily converted into the desired 1-methylisoquinoline by hydrogenolysis of both the benzylamine and benzyl ether groups. Keywords: alkaloid; aminomethylation; hydrogenolysis; isoquinoline; metalation; methylation; Introduction The isoquinoline ring system has

• hydrogenolysis experiments with 5, which were aimed at simultaneous O-debenzylation at the 7-position and conversion of the N,N-dimethylaminomethyl group at C1 into a methyl group. Hydrogenation in presence of palladium as catalyst at 1 bar in the presence or absence of small amounts of sulfuric acid gave the

• phenolic product 6 in high yield with unchanged N,N-dimethylaminomethyl group. The same result was obtained at high pressure (40 bar) and upon addition of formic acid for accelerating hydrogenolysis [21]. Obviously, and in contrast to earlier reports on related naphthol Mannich bases [20], the benzylamine

Aminosugar-based immunomodulator lipid A: synthetic approaches

• Alla Zamyatina

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 25–53, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.3

• TBS ether by treatment with HF in pyridine, followed by phosphorylation using tetrabenzyl pyrophosphate in the presence of lithium bis(trimethyl)silylamide [76] in THF at −78 °C. Final deprotection by catalytic hydrogenolysis over Pd-black provided target lipid A derivatives 8 and 9 corresponding

• hydroxyl group was regio- and stereoselectively phosphorylated using tetrabenzyl diphosphate in the presence of lithium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide [76] to provide glycosyl phosphotriester as exclusively α-anomer. Global deprotection was accomplished by catalytic hydrogenolysis over Pd-black to give

• pyrophosphate to furnish exclusively α-configured fully protected glycosyl phosphotriester. Global deprotection by catalytic hydrogenolysis over Pd-black gave E. coli lipid A functionalized with the glutaryl-Glc linker 23 which served as a key precursor for the preparation of fluorescent- or biotin-labeled

From dipivaloylketene to tetraoxaadamantanes

• Gert Kollenz and
• Curt Wentrup

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1–10, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.1

• 21 and 22, but carboxylic acid derivatives are preserved to yield compounds 20, 23, 25, 28, and 29. A hydrogenolysis of the dibenzyl ester 23 yields the free dicarboxylic acid 24. The tetraoxaadamantanes are formed in high yields (65–95%) in most cases, but the addition of water to the concave inside

• reaction (Scheme 7), and not in the final products, which are not prone to decarboxylation: the stable bis-carboxylic acid 24 can be obtained by hydrogenolysis of the dibenzyl ester 23 (Scheme 6) [30]. The reaction may be seen as a decarboxylative [31][32] oxa-Michael addition (Scheme 7) and may be related

The synthesis of the 2,3-difluorobutan-1,4-diol diastereomers

• Robert Szpera,
• Nadia Kovalenko,
• Kalaiselvi Natarajan,
• Nina Paillard and
• Bruno Linclau

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2883–2887, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.280

• a very small extent. Separation of the diastereomers proved not possible. Finally, deprotection of (±)-syn-4 by palladium catalysed hydrogenolysis led to (±)-syn-5. Recrystallization to remove the minor diastereomer was not successful. Conclusion A gram-scale synthesis of both syn- and anti-2,3

Phosphonic acid: preparation and applications

• Charlotte M. Sevrain,
• Mathieu Berchel,
• Hélène Couthon and
• Paul-Alain Jaffrès

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2186–2213, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.219

• monohydrolysis can be also achieved using NaI as nucleophile in acetone [147] or butanone as solvent [148]. 3.2. Catalytic hydrogenolysis Dibenzyl phosphonates are readily synthesized using dibenzyl or tribenzyl phosphite. This type of phosphonate offers an alternative to the use of acidic conditions to prepare

• phosphonic acid since the benzyl moieties can be removed by hydrogenolysis (Figure 12). Palladium on charcoal, which is the most used method to prepare phosphonic acid from dibenzyl phosphonate [149], was the catalyst used to prepare the phosphonic acids 33 [150], 34 [151] and 35 [152] (Figure 12). Of note

• as exemplified by the preparation of the compounds 36 [154] and 37 [155] (Figure 13). It is also worth noticing that phosphonic acid can be prepared by the hydrogenolysis of diallyl phosphonates. For this purpose the use of the Wilkinson catalyst (ClRh(PPh3)3) was reported [156]. 3.3. McKenna’s

A mechanochemical approach to access the proline–proline diketopiperazine framework

• Nicolas Pétry,
• Hafid Benakki,
• Eric Clot,
• Pascal Retailleau,
• Farhate Guenoun,
• Fatima Asserar,
• Chakib Sekkat,
• Thomas-Xavier Métro,
• Jean Martinez and
• Frédéric Lamaty

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2169–2178, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.217

• it would avoid a potential pressure build-up (release of CO2) which could occur with NaHCO3. Noteworthy, no epimerization could be detected by NMR or HPLC analyses. Both peptides 7 and 8 were then deprotected and cyclized into the corresponding diketopiperazine 9. Palladium-catalyzed hydrogenolysis

• ). Pyrrolidine cis-11 is an N-protected amino ester, which can be used in the synthesis of diketopiperazines by deprotecting either the amino group or the ester function. Hydrogenolysis of the benzyl group of cis-11 provided the nitrogen-free pyrrolidine derivative 12 in excellent yield and purity after

Remarkable functions of sn-3 hydroxy and phosphocholine groups in 1,2-diacyl-sn-glycerolipids to induce clockwise (+)-helicity around the 1,2-diacyl moiety: Evidence from conformation analysis by ¹H NMR spectroscopy

• Yoshihiro Nishida,
• Mengfei Yuan,
• Kazuo Fukuda,
• Kaito Fujisawa,
• Hirofumi Dohi and
• Hirotaka Uzawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1999–2009, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.196

• -glycerols, which play essential roles in the metabolism and anabolism of glycerolipids [25][26][27][28]. Compound 3 is prepared by the catalytic hydrogenolysis of benzyl ether 2 (for the synthetic details, see Supporting Information File 1). The 1H NMR spectrum of 3 in a CDCl3 solution (Figure 2a) shows a

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

A new member of the fusaricidin family – structure elucidation and synthesis of fusaricidin E

• Marcel Reimann,
• Louis P. Sandjo,
• Luis Antelo,
• Eckhard Thines,
• Isabella Siepe and
• Till Opatz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1430–1438, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.140

• unstabilized THF [22] while stabilized THF was used in our case. Due to solubility problems in 1,4-dioxane and other solvents suitable for hydrogenolysis, the deprotection was thus performed in DMF [23][24]. Unfortunately, an O→N acyl shift to product 26 could be observed as judged by NMR spectroscopy when

• aged DMF was used for this purpose. In fresh DMF, hydrogenolysis smoothly produced amine 7 instead. When the crude peptide was coupled to the GHPD side chain unit 3, HPLC showed only a single peak with the correct m/z ratio. This compound 24 was isolated by preparative HPLC and NMR analysis showed a

Strategies toward protecting group-free glycosylation through selective activation of the anomeric center

• A. Michael Downey and
• Michal Hocek

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1239–1279, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.123

• perfect stereoselectivity (Scheme 30). Glycosylation of the resulting DBT-β-glycosides was carried out in various alcohols (selected examples shown in Table 7) under Pd/C-catalyzed hydrogenolysis conditions to liberate the desired 1,2-cis glycoside and cyanuric acid. The reductant was either H2 (non

• -alkynyl acceptors) or Et3SiH (alkynyl acceptors). In all cases the yields were very good and the stereoselectivity pretty good for the 1,2-cis glycoside diastereomer. The mechanism is thought to proceed through an initial hydrogenolysis of the benzyl groups to produce a reactive dihydroxytriazinyl

A strategic approach to [6,6]-bicyclic lactones: application towards the CD fragment of DHβE

• Tue Heesgaard Jepsen,
• Emil Glibstrup,
• François Crestey,
• Anders A. Jensen and
• Jesper Langgaard Kristensen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 988–994, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.98

• similar system [22], the final hydrogenolysis of the Cbz protecting group with H2 and either Pd/C or Pd(OH)2 (up to 50 mol % catalyst loading) in EtOAc, MeOH or AcOH was attempted, but no trace of the desired lactone 9 was observed. A control experiment with the addition of tosyl chloride after the

• hydrogenolysis to form the known tosyl-protected intermediate 7 indicated no signs of product and therefore the CBz strategy was also abandoned. Second strategy without protecting group Since the protective group removal was problematic we decided to preinstall the desired N-substituent and thereby avoid any N