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

• -arylpropanoic and 4-arylbutanoic acids has been reported in 2015 by Le et al. [22]. The authors applied a microwave-assisted intramolecular Friedel–Crafts acylation catalyzed by metal triflate in triflate-anion containing ionic liquids. This synthesis proceeded with the goals of green chemistry and allowed to

Extrusion – back to the future: Using an established technique to reform automated chemical synthesis

• Deborah E. Crawford

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 65–75, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.9

• final milling process step typically employed in the conventional synthesis to increase the surface area was removed. Deep eutectic solvents Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) – regarded as a new generation of ionic liquids – are two-component ionic solvents with melting points lower than either constituent

β-Amino functionalization of cinnamic Weinreb amides in ionic liquid

• Yi-Ning Wang,
• Guo-Xiang Sun and
• Gang Qi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2372–2377, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.231

• -protecting groups is relatively easier than those shown above; and 3) the ionic liquids are environmentally friendly and can be readily recycled. Results and Discussion The first attempt was to conduct the aminochlorination reaction of N-methoxy-N-methylcinnamoylamide (5a) in acetonitrile by using 2-NsNCl2

• as the nitrogen source and Cu(I)OTf as the metal catalyst [33][34]. However, there no aminochlorination products were observed. Next, we turned our attention to the use of ionic liquids, which have shown many significant advantages in the reported aminochlorination reactions [35][36][37]. However

Isosorbide and dimethyl carbonate: a green match

• Fabio Aricò and
• Pietro Tundo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2256–2266, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.218

• glucose by hydrolysis. Hydrogenation of glucose to D-sorbitol. An appropriate catalyst for this process should provide both acid sites (hydrolysis) and metallic sites (hydrogenation). Thus, several bifunctional catalytic systems have been investigated [40][41][42][43][44]. The use of ionic liquids as

Ionic liquids as transesterification catalysts: applications for the synthesis of linear and cyclic organic carbonates

• Maurizio Selva,
• Alvise Perosa,
• Sandro Guidi and
• Lisa Cattelan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1911–1924, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.181

• Maurizio Selva Alvise Perosa Sandro Guidi Lisa Cattelan Dipartimento di Scienze Molecolari e Nanosistemi, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Via Torino, 155 – Venezia Mestre, Italy 10.3762/bjoc.12.181 Abstract The use of ionic liquids (ILs) as organocatalysts is reviewed for transesterification

• reactions, specifically for the conversion of nontoxic compounds such as dialkyl carbonates to both linear mono-transesterification products or alkylene carbonates. An introductory survey compares pros and cons of classic catalysts based on both acidic and basic systems, to ionic liquids. Then, innovative

• /nucleophilic) activation of reactants. Keywords: ionic liquids; transesterification; organocatalysts; organic carbonates; Review Introduction Transesterification catalysts The transesterification is one of the classical organic reactions that has found numerous applications in laboratory practice as well as

Rearrangements of organic peroxides and related processes

• Ivan A. Yaremenko,
• Vera A. Vil’,
• Dmitry V. Demchuk and
• Alexander O. Terent’ev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1647–1748, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.162

• studies on this topic [196][239][240][241][242][243][244][245][246]. Hydroxylated and methoxylated benzaldehydes 69 (Scheme 21) and acetophenones 72 (Scheme 22) can be oxidized to the corresponding phenols 70a–d, and 73 in good yields in the presence of the H2O2/MeReO3 system in ionic liquids [bmim]BF4 or

Microwave-assisted synthesis of (aminomethylene)bisphosphine oxides and (aminomethylene)bisphosphonates by a three-component condensation

• Erika Bálint,
• Ádám Tajti,
• Anna Dzielak,
• Gerhard Hägele and
• György Keglevich

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1493–1502, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.146

• [15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. The use of crown ethers with an NH unit, or thienopyrimidine amines as starting materials was also reported [22][23]. The catalyst- and solvent-free methods required long reaction times and/or a high temperature [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][21][22][23]. Ionic liquids

Mutagenic activity of quaternary ammonium salt derivatives of carbohydrates

• Barbara Dmochowska,
• Karol Sikora,
• Anna Woziwodzka,
• Jacek Piosik and
• Beata Podgórska

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1434–1439, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.138

• construction [7][8][9]. Moreover, QASs are applied in industry, agriculture (as pesticides and herbicides) [10], and chemistry (as catalysts and solvents) [11][12]. QASs are also used as ingredients in hair conditioners, shampoos, and toothpastes [13]. Ionic liquids (IL) are recognized as a particularly

A practical way to synthesize chiral fluoro-containing polyhydro-2H-chromenes from monoterpenoids

• Oksana S. Mikhalchenko,
• Dina V. Korchagina,
• Konstantin P. Volcho and
• Nariman F. Salakhutdinov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 648–653, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.64

• appropriate halogen-containing Lewis acids or ionic liquids are usually used (Scheme 2) [10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. However, only a few examples of reactions for introducing a fluorine atom via the halo-Prins cyclization have been reported to date [15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. In these reactions, BF3·Et2O

A selective and mild glycosylation method of natural phenolic alcohols

• Mária Mastihubová and
• Monika Poláková

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 524–530, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.51

• organic media or ionic liquids as co-solvents [24][25][26][27]. The enzymatic transglucosylation using 4-nitrophenyl β-D-glucopyranoside as the donor and almond β-glucosidase as biocatalyst gave salidroside (2) in moderate yield [28]. Recently, we have published the enzymatic glycosylation of tyrosol (2

Supramolecular polymer assembly in aqueous solution arising from cyclodextrin host–guest complexation

• Jie Wang,
• Zhiqiang Qiu,
• Yiming Wang,
• Li Li,
• Xuhong Guo,
• Duc-Truc Pham,
• Stephen F. Lincoln and
• Robert K. Prud’homme

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 50–72, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.7

• complexation of the anions of the ionic liquids 1-butyl-3-vinylimidazolium-adamantanecarboxylate, -bis(trifluoromethylsulfonylamide and –nonafluorobutansulfonate, (b’), (c’) and (d’), respectively in Figure 19, by the β-CD substituent of the copolymer to form the copolymer complexes (b), (c) and (d) [103]. (β

Reaction of allene esters with Selectfluor/TMSX (X = I, Br, Cl) and Selectfluor/NH₄SCN: Competing oxidative/electrophilic dihalogenation and nucleophilic/conjugate addition

• A. Srinivas Reddy and
• Kenneth K. Laali

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1641–1648, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.180

• ionic liquids [BMIM][NTf2] and [BMIM][PF6] as solvent, in the presence and absence of Selectfluor. Comparative product analysis studies demonstrate that the ability of Selectflour to promote oxidative/electrophilic dihalogenation/dithiocyanation with TMSX/NH4SCN (as observed previously for 1-arylallenes

• ionic liquids (ILs) as solvent in which Selectfluor is soluble. Previous studies have shown that the major products arising from the reaction of 2,3-allenoates with MX/HX are hydrohalogenated compounds [19][20][21]. Similarly, reactions with NuH lead to Michael-type nucleophilic additions, but in the

Grubbs–Hoveyda type catalysts bearing a dicationic N-heterocyclic carbene for biphasic olefin metathesis reactions in ionic liquids

• Maximilian Koy,
• Hagen J. Altmann,
• Benjamin Autenrieth,
• Wolfgang Frey and
• Michael R. Buchmeiser

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1632–1638, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.178

• access to metathesis reactions in either aqueous solution [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] or under biphasic conditions [11][12][13][14]. Particularly the latter aspect is of utmost relevance in case of ionic liquids (ILs) can be used as the phase in which the catalyst is dissolved. The ionic character of

Surprisingly facile CO₂ insertion into cobalt alkoxide bonds: A theoretical investigation

• Willem K. Offermans,
• Claudia Bizzarri,
• Walter Leitner and
• Thomas E. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1340–1351, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.144

• alkylmethylimidazolium chlorine ionic liquids [37]. They identified competitive three-step and two-step pathways, both having the ring opening of propylene oxide as the rate-determining step. In the three-step pathway, the ring opening precedes the CO2 insertion. By contrast, in the two-step pathway, the ring opening

Quarternization of 3-azido-1-propyne oligomers obtained by copper(I)-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition polymerization

• Shun Nakano,
• Akihito Hashidzume and
• Takahiro Sato

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1037–1042, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.116

• 1,2,3-triazole is quarternized with alkyl halides or others [38][39]. Recently, it has been reported that quarternized 1,2,3-triazole derivatives act as ionic liquids [40][41], and polymeric ionic liquids have been also prepared from polymers possessing 1,2,3-triazole moieties [42][43][44]. Therefore

• the quarternized AP oligomer may be applied as a polymeric ionic liquid or a precursor of polymeric ionic liquids. In this study, we investigate quarternization of an AP oligomer with methyl iodide to obtain a soluble oligomer (Scheme 1b) and characterize the quarternized oligomer in dilute solutions

• quarternization reagents and counterions are employed, a new type of polymeric ionic liquids may be provided. Experimental IR spectra were recorded on a JASCO FT/IR-8300 spectrometer equipped with a JASCO ATR PRO410-S cell. 1H and 13C NMR spectra were recorded on an Agilent 600 NMR spectrometer at 30 °C using

Highly selective palladium–benzothiazole carbene-catalyzed allylation of active methylene compounds under neutral conditions

• Antonio Monopoli,
• Pietro Cotugno,
• Carlo G. Zambonin,
• Francesco Ciminale and
• Angelo Nacci

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 994–999, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.111

• conventional solvents [37] and in ionic liquids [38]. Complex I is easily prepared from the corresponding thiazolium salt V and Pd(OAc)2, and due to its high stability the complex can be purified by silica gel chromatography. We report here the use of dicarbenediiodopalladium(II) complex I, prepared in situ

CO₂ Chemistry

• Thomas E. Müller and
• Walter Leitner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 675–677, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.76

• efficient systems for CO2 capture are being developed on the basis of amine-functionalised ionic liquids where zwitterionic adduct formation is the key to higher efficiency [13]. Furthermore, many physical properties of carbon dioxide are outstanding, making supercritical carbon dioxide a solvent like no

Chemoselective O-acylation of hydroxyamino acids and amino alcohols under acidic reaction conditions: History, scope and applications

• Tor E. Kristensen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 446–468, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.51

• , making the crystalline hydrochlorides unavailable from MeSO3H medium, thereby complicating the isolation and purification process due to the poor crystallinity of methanesulfonate salts, which in fact, quite frequently are ionic liquids. On the positive side, MeSO3H is biodegradable. In addition to the

Electrochemical oxidation of cholesterol

• Jacek W. Morzycki and
• Andrzej Sobkowiak

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 392–402, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.45

• immobilized on carbon nanotubes [59], metal nanoparticles [60] or graphene [61], and additionally decorated with metal nanoparticles [62] or modified with ionic liquids [63]. The application of composite electrodes, including silica sol–gel matrix with Prussian Blue [64], carbon nanotubes with zinc oxide

IR and electrochemical synthesis and characterization of thin films of PEDOT grown on platinum single crystal electrodes in [EMMIM]Tf₂N ionic liquid

• Andrea P. Sandoval,
• Marco F. Suárez-Herrera and
• Juan M. Feliu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 348–357, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.40

• ) < Pt(110) < Pt(111) [6]. The synthesis of other conducting polymers on well-defined surfaces [7][8][9][10] and templates [11] also has shown how the surface affects their adhesion, coverage, morphology and redox kinetics. On the other hand, the synthesis of conducting polymers in ionic liquids (ILs

• of the polymer is less probable and the average length of the polymer chains is higher in ionic liquids than in molecular solvents [15]. In this work, Pt single crystals electrodes and the moisture stable IL 1-ethyl-2,3-dimethylimidazolium triflimide, [EMMIM]Tf2N [16], are used to carry out the

• . However, it is still unclear if the two oxidation signals in ionic liquids correspond to two different redox states (polarons and bipolarons) or if they are related to different polymer structures [4]. Voltammetric profiles of PEDOT thin films in Figure 2 show that there are no significant differences

Photovoltaic-driven organic electrosynthesis and efforts toward more sustainable oxidation reactions

• Bichlien H. Nguyen,
• Robert J. Perkins,
• Jake A. Smith and
• Kevin D. Moeller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 280–287, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.32

• electrolyte is recycled. A number of research groups have addressed this issue by either providing alternative electrolytes that can be easily recycled [6] or conducting the reactions in ionic liquids [7]. An alternative approach takes advantage of flow technology. In these experiments, the electrolysis

The Shono-type electroorganic oxidation of unfunctionalised amides. Carbon–carbon bond formation via electrogenerated N-acyliminium ions

• Alan M. Jones and
• Craig E. Banks

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 3056–3072, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.323

• having the nucleophile solid-supported [53]. The use of ionic liquids as a green electrolyte/solvent [54] and using solar power to provide the electrical current [55] are some of the recent additions to make electrosynthesis even more environmentally friendly. Further advances have been made using

Cyclodextrin-grafted polymers functionalized with phosphanes: a new tool for aqueous organometallic catalysis

• Jonathan Potier,
• Stéphane Menuel,
• David Mathiron,
• Véronique Bonnet,
• Frédéric Hapiot and
• Eric Monflier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2642–2648, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.276

• supercritical CO2, ionic liquids or fluorous phases have been used to immobilize the organometallic catalyst [3][4][5]. Co-solvents, surfactants, amphiphilic phosphanes, molecular receptors, polymers or dispersed particles have also been investigated to favour contacts between the aqueous and the organic

Electrocarboxylation: towards sustainable and efficient synthesis of valuable carboxylic acids

• Roman Matthessen,
• Jan Fransaer,
• Koen Binnemans and
• Dirk E. De Vos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2484–2500, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.260

• ]. Therefore, the electrocarboxylation of aromatic ketones with sacrificial anodes has been extensively investigated [75][76][77][81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90][91][92][93][94][95][96][97][98]. Some researchers focused on replacing toxic and volatile organic solvents with ionic liquids [81][82][83

• cobalt complexes [133][134][135][136][137]. Similar to what was mentioned above for aromatic ketones, benzylic chlorides can also be converted to 2-arylpropionic acids (Scheme 18), with applications in the pharmaceutical industry, mainly as NSAIDs. Here too, some articles described the use of ionic

• liquids as solvent for electrocarboxylation reactions, in order to increase the safety and efficiency of the process [120][122]. The industrial potential of this reaction has been assessed in several pilot applications, for example, using a setup with a sacrificial anode. In a 400 L reactor, a narrow and

Organophosphorus chemistry

• Paul R. Hanson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2087–2088, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.217

• their use as recyclable heterogeneous reagents, the Atherton–Todd reaction, cyclic phosphonium ionic liquids with distinct properties, photo-removable phosphate protecting groups, new methods of C–H functionalization using phosphoryl-related directing groups, the exciting chemistry of substituted