Palladium-catalyzed C–N and C–O bond formation of N-substituted 4-bromo-7-azaindoles with amides, amines, amino acid esters and phenols

• Rajendra Surasani,
• Dipak Kalita,
• A. V. Dhanunjaya Rao and
• K. B. Chandrasekhar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 2004–2018, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.227

• 7-azaindole scaffolds appear in various pharmaceutically important molecules (Figure 1), which are very challenging and lengthy to prepare by the traditional methods [40][41]. In general, nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr) reaction of a halo-precursor of 7-azaindole with a large excess of

Exploring chemical diversity via a modular reaction pairing strategy

• Joanna K. Loh,
• Sun Young Yoon,
• Thiwanka B. Samarakoon,
• Alan Rolfe,
• Patrick Porubsky,
• Benjamin Neuenswander,
• Gerald H. Lushington and
• Paul R. Hanson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1293–1302, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.147

• nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr) diversification pathway is reported. Eight benzofused sultam cores were generated by means of a sulfonylation/SNAr/Mitsunobu reaction pairing protocol, and subsequently diversified by intermolecular SNAr with ten chiral, non-racemic amine/amino alcohol building blocks

• . Computational analyses were employed to explore and evaluate the chemical diversity of the library. Keywords: benzoxathiazocine 1,1-dioxides; chemical diversity; informatics; nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr); sultams; Introduction The demand for functionally diverse chemical libraries has emerged, as

Screening of ligands for the Ullmann synthesis of electron-rich diaryl ethers

• Nicola Otto and
• Till Opatz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1105–1111, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.122

• formation; diaryl ethers; nucleophilic aromatic substitution; Ullmann-type coupling; Introduction The diaryl ether linkage is a common structural motif encountered in numerous classes of natural products. Moreover, various diaryl ethers have been shown to possess antibacterial, anti-inflammatory

Multistep organic synthesis of modular photosystems

• Naomi Sakai and
• Stefan Matile

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 897–904, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.102

• crude dibromo cNDA 32. Microwave-assisted reaction [15] with amines 14 and 15 gave the mixed cNDI 44 together with the symmetric side products. The obtained mixture of 2,6- and 3,7-regioisomers was not separated throughout the entire synthesis of photosystem 1. Nucleophilic aromatic substitution with

Directed aromatic functionalization

• Victor Snieckus

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1215–1218, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.141

• extent, nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr) [2][6][7] reactions as taught to many generations of students in their first organic chemistry courses [8] (Figure 1). Being less steeped in history, radical nucleophilic substitution (SRN1) [9] and vicarious nucleophilic substitution (VNS) [10][11][12

Unusual behavior in the reactivity of 5-substituted-1H-tetrazoles in a resistively heated microreactor

• Bernhard Gutmann,
• Toma N. Glasnov,
• Tahseen Razzaq,
• Walter Goessler,
• Dominique M. Roberge and
• C. Oliver Kappe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 503–517, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.59

• in a 3 μL fused-silica capillary, albeit not under continuous flow conditions, is the nucleophilic aromatic substitution reaction of 4-fluoro-1-nitrobenzene (15) with pyrrolidine (16) in THF (ΔV≠ = −58 cm3/mol) (Scheme 5) [71]. In order to confirm that these pressure enhancements can also be

• , significant corrosion of the reactor material can result, leading to unwanted side reactions. In addition, in specific cases reaction pressure can influence reaction rates as evidenced by the nucleophilic aromatic substitution reaction of 1-fluoro-4-nitrobenzene with pyrrolidine in the 60–180 bar pressure

• fresh 100 mL portions of KCN/m-nitrobenzenesulfinic acid sodium salt in water mixture before the reactor was finally washed with distilled water for 30 min to remove any remaining residues of the KCN/m-nitrobenzenesulfinic acid sodium salt in water mixture. Pressure dependence of nucleophilic aromatic

An overview of the key routes to the best selling 5-membered ring heterocyclic pharmaceuticals

• Marcus Baumann,
• Ian R. Baxendale,
• Steven V. Ley and
• Nikzad Nikbin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 442–495, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.57

• group unmasks the aniline which undergoes nucleophilic aromatic substitution to introduce the pyrimidine system with the formation of 253. Methylation of the secondary amine function with methyl iodide prior to a second SNAr reaction with a sulfonamide-derived aniline affords pazopanib (Scheme 50) [76

Aromatic and heterocyclic perfluoroalkyl sulfides. Methods of preparation

• Vladimir N. Boiko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, 880–921, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.88

• that aniline (B) is not derived from either chloro- (A) and iodo- (C)-sulfides, and iodo-product (C) is not formed from chlorosulfide (A). It is known [164] that photochemical nucleophilic aromatic substitution is promoted by electron-donating groups. Therefore, it appears most likely that the sulfides

Chromo- and fluorophoric water-soluble polymers and silica particles by nucleophilic substitution reaction of poly(vinyl amine)

• Katja Hofmann,
• Ingolf Kahle,
• Frank Simon and
• Stefan Spange

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 79, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.79

• chromophoric and fluorescent carbonitrile-functionalized poly(vinyl amine) (PVAm) and PVAm/silica particles were synthesized by means of nucleophilic aromatic substitution of 8-oxo-8H-acenaphtho[1,2-b]pyrrol-9-carbonitrile (1) with PVAm in water. The water solubility of 1 has been mediated by 2,6-O-β

• potential which can be used for versatile subsequent derivatization reactions [17][19][20][21]. In previous articles we reported the nucleophilic aromatic substitution of activated fluoroaromatic compounds with PVAm [22][23][24]. Reactions of PVAm with derivatization agents seem at first glance to be simple

• with nitrogen-, oxygen-, or sulfur-containing nucleophiles by nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions (SNArH) [32][33][34][35][36]. The reaction of 1 with 3-thiopropionic acid has used to produce a fluorescent sensor for cys/Hcy with a 75-fold fluorescence enhancement [34]. The SNArH reaction of 1

9,10-Dioxa-1,2-diaza-anthracene derivatives from tetrafluoropyridazine

• Graham Pattison,
• Graham Sandford,
• Dmitrii S. Yufit,
• Judith A. K. Howard,
• John A. Christopher and
• David D. Miller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 45, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.45

• systems. Keywords: benzodioxinopyridazine; 9,10-dioxa-1,2-diaza-anthracene; heterocyclic synthesis; nucleophilic aromatic substitution; perfluoroheteroaromatic; tetrafluoropyrazine; Introduction Drug discovery programmes are continually searching for viable synthetic routes to highly novel classes of

• highly novel classes of polyfunctional heterocyclic compounds. Several dipyrido[1,2-a:3′,4′-d]imidazole analogues 2 were prepared by the displacement of the remaining ring fluorine atoms by nucleophilic aromatic substitution processes (Scheme 1). We were interested in further expanding the use of highly

• regioselectivity of the nucleophilic aromatic substitution processes (Scheme 2). Both 5 and 6 have ring fluorine atoms present that may, in principle, be displaced by nucleophiles which could lead to the synthesis of many analogues of these systems. The dioxa-1,2-diaza-anthracene (or 3,4-difluorobenzo[5,6][1,4

Preparation, structures and preliminary host–guest studies of fluorinated syn-bis-quinoxaline molecular tweezers

• Markus Etzkorn,
• Jacob C. Timmerman,
• Matthew D. Brooker,
• Xin Yu and
• Michael Gerken

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 39, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.39

• reported procedures [29][30][31][32] did not significantly alter the outcome. It should be noted that all fluorinated bis-quinoxalines are stable compounds which do not show any decomposition over extended periods of time; loss of fluorine has only been observed under typical nucleophilic aromatic

• substitution conditions. Although the new compounds, in particular the cyclohexadiene-derived species 15b–c, were reasonably soluble in dipolar aprotic solvents (DMSO, DMF) or halogenated aromatic solvents (C6H5Cl), they only displayed poor solubility in several standard organic solvents (CHCl3, CH2Cl2, CH3OH

Perhalogenated pyrimidine scaffolds. Reactions of 5-chloro- 2,4,6-trifluoropyrimidine with nitrogen centred nucleophiles

• Emma L. Parks,
• Graham Sandford,
• John A. Christopher and
• David D. Miller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 22, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.22

• in parallel synthesis. 5-Chloro-2,4,6-trifluoropyrimidine may be used as a scaffold for the synthesis of polyfunctional pyrimidine systems if sequential nucleophilic aromatic substitution processes are regioselective. Results Use of 5-chloro-2,4,6-trifluoropyrimidine as a core scaffold for the

• synthesis of functionalised pyrimidine systems is assessed in reactions with a small range of nitrogen centred nucleophiles. Mixtures of products arising from nucleophilic aromatic substitution processes are formed, reflecting the activating effect of ring nitrogen and the steric influences of the chlorine

• derivatives can be isolated in acceptable yields using this methodology. Keywords: pyrimidine; rapid analogue synthesis; perfluoroheteroaromatic; nucleophilic aromatic substitution; Introduction Highly functionalised pyrimidine derivatives are of great importance to the life-science industries and, indeed