A novel spirocyclic scaffold accessed via tandem Claisen rearrangement/intramolecular oxa-Michael addition

• Anastasia Vepreva,
• Alexander Yanovich,
• Dmitry Dar’in,
• Grigory Kantin,
• Alexander Bunev and
• Mikhail Krasavin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1649–1655, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.177

• hypertention [5], buspirone for anxiety disorders [6], cevimeline for dry mouth and dry eye syndrome [7], fluspirilene for schizophrenia [8] and ilbesartan for hypertention and diabetic nephropathy [9], to mention a few (Figure 1). Hence the development of novel synthetic methods to construct spirocycles [10

Rhodium-catalyzed intramolecular reductive aldol-type cyclization: Application for the synthesis of a chiral necic acid lactone

• Motoyuki Isoda,
• Kazuyuki Sato,
• Kenta Kameda,
• Kana Wakabayashi,
• Ryota Sato,
• Hideki Minami,
• Yukiko Karuo,
• Atsushi Tarui,
• Kentaro Kawai and
• Masaaki Omote

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1642–1648, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.176

• ]. Monocrotaline is used as compound for pulmonary hypertension model in rats. To date, some groups have reported synthetic methods and its synthetic supply will potentially contribute to hypertension treatment [54][55][56][57]. Although there have been a lot of reports of pyrrolizidine scaffolds or necine base

A novel bis-triazole scaffold accessed via two tandem [3 + 2] cycloaddition events including an uncatalyzed, room temperature azide–alkyne click reaction

• Ksenia Malkova,
• Andrey Bubyrev,
• Vasilisa Krivovicheva,
• Dmitry Dar’in,
• Alexander Bunev and
• Mikhail Krasavin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1636–1641, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.175

• ; Introduction 1,2,3-Triazoles are well-established heterocycles in drug discovery [1] and are even considered pharmacophores (i.e., structural motifs defining the compound’s biological activity profile) on their own [2]. Therefore, synthetic methods allowing to construct a 1,2,3-triazole heterocycle are a

One-pot double annulations to confer diastereoselective spirooxindolepyrrolothiazoles

• Juan Lu,
• Bin Yao,
• Desheng Zhan,
• Zhuo Sun,
• Yun Ji and
• Xiaofeng Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1607–1616, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.171

• synthetic methods, optimizing the reaction process and eliminating the step of intermediate purification to save resources and reduce waste [10][11][12]. The pot, atom, step and economic (PASE) approach [13][14][15][16][17] is one of the most distinguished representatives in the efficient synthesis of

Efficient synthesis of aziridinecyclooctanediol and 3-aminocyclooctanetriol

• Emine Salamci and
• Ayse Kilic Lafzi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1539–1543, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.163

• natural products and pharmaceuticals. Valienamine (3) and its analogues show inhibitory activity against certain glycosidases [11][12][13] (Figure 1). Many groups have described different synthetic methods for the synthesis of various aminocyclitols [13][14][15][16][17]. However, only few synthetic

• methods are available for the synthesis of eight-membered [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] aminocyclitols. On the other hand, the synthesis of a C8-cyclitol derivative containing the aziridine ring has not yet been reported. Therefore, in our continued efforts for efficient syntheses of

Synthesis of the biologically important dideuterium-labelled adenosine triphosphate analogue ApppI(d₂)

• Petri A. Turhanen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1466–1470, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.153

• available, and in fact only few papers describe corresponding synthetic methods [19][20][21][22]. It is well known that labelled compounds (such as those with 2H and 13C labels) can be used as internal standards for the quantitative measurements of the equal compound without label, e.g., straight from the

Synthesis of meso-pyrrole-substituted corroles by condensation of 1,9-diformyldipyrromethanes with pyrrole

• Baris Temelli and
• Pinar Kapci

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1403–1409, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.145

• devices and functional materials, the synthesis of corrole-based analogues has been rather limited due to very few synthetic methods developed to produce corroles with polymerizable substituents at the meso- or beta positions [10][11][12][13]. To date, meso-substituted corroles have been synthesized by

• temperatures (Supporting Information File 1, Table S1). However, the copper complex of the desired product 2a was obtained in 5% yield in the presence of Cu(OTf)2 catalyst at room temperature. When the synthetic methods in the literature are examined to obtain corrole compounds, it is observed that temperature

First example of organocatalysis by cathodic N-heterocyclic carbene generation and accumulation using a divided electrochemical flow cell

• Daniele Rocco,
• Ana A. Folgueiras-Amador,
• Richard C. D. Brown and
• Marta Feroci

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 979–990, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.98

• 1,3-diketones [21], etc. Electrosynthesis is considered as a more sustainable approach to perform chemical reactions, and an interesting alternative to conventional synthetic methods both in laboratory and industry processes. In fact, the electron may be considered to be a clean reagent, which

Synthetic strategies for the preparation of γ-phostams: 1,2-azaphospholidine 2-oxides and 1,2-azaphospholine 2-oxides

• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 889–915, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.90

• analogues of γ-lactams, showing various biological activities, such as anti-inflammatory [15][16], antioxidant [17][18], and antitumor [18][19][20] (Figure 1). Various synthetic methods of 1,2-azaphospholidine 2-oxide and 1,2-azaphospholine 2-oxide derivatives have been developed to date. Two major

• + 1] Annulations have been mainly utilized in the construction of the 1,2-azaphospholidine ring, while the [3 + 2] annulation has been seldomly used in the synthesis of pyridine-fused 1,2-azaphospholidine 2-oxide only. Few asymmetric synthetic methods have been developed to date. Thus, highly

• stereoselective asymmetric synthetic methods to access 1,2-azaphospholidine 2-oxides and 1,2-azaphospholine 2-oxides, and their fused and spiro derivatives are in high demand and should be developed in the near future. Biologically active 1,2-azaphospholine 2-oxide derivatives. Diverse synthetic strategies for

Efficient production of clerodane and ent-kaurane diterpenes through truncated artificial pathways in Escherichia coli

• Fang-Ru Li,
• Xiaoxu Lin,
• Qian Yang,
• Ning-Hua Tan and
• Liao-Bin Dong

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 881–888, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.89

• group or a combination of enzymatic and chemical tools (chemoenzymatic synthesis) [8][9][10][11]. Despite great efforts spanning several decades, de novo organic synthetic methods access to the core diterpene skeletons are still highly challenging owing to their numerous chiral centers and polycyclic

Complementarity of solution and solid state mechanochemical reaction conditions demonstrated by 1,2-debromination of tricyclic imides

• Petar Štrbac and
• Davor Margetić

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 746–753, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.75

• synthetic organic chemistry. Advantageously, more difficult substrates or limitations of the conditions can be overcome by the change of the reaction methods. One of the emerging synthetic methods is mechanochemistry [4][5][6][7], a greener alternative to carry out synthesis which complements heating

An isoxazole strategy for the synthesis of 4-oxo-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylates

• Timur O. Zanakhov,
• Ekaterina E. Galenko,
• Mikhail S. Novikov and
• Alexander F. Khlebnikov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 738–745, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.74

• , contain the fragment of 4-oxo-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxamide [5][6][7]. Finding new synthetic methods for the preparation of derivatives of 4-oxo-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylic acid are therefore relevant. Some alkyl 6-aryl-2-methyl-4-oxo-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylates were prepared by refluxing

Tri(n-butyl)phosphine-promoted domino reaction for the efficient construction of spiro[cyclohexane-1,3'-indolines] and spiro[indoline-3,2'-furan-3',3''-indolines]

• Hui Zheng,
• Ying Han,
• Jing Sun and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 669–679, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.68

• , spirooxindoles can be constructed by introduction of various carbocyclic and heterocyclic units, which made them suitable for chemistry and many potential applications [6][7][8][9]. The development of unique spirooxindole systems and efficient synthetic methods for these compounds have attracted continual

Rapid gas–liquid reaction in flow. Continuous synthesis and production of cyclohexene oxide

• Kyoko Mandai,
• Tetsuya Yamamoto,
• Hiroki Mandai and
• Aiichiro Nagaki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 660–668, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.67

• has contributed to the development of science and technology. With the rapid advances in the 21st century, increasing demand for organic synthesis has led to a strong need for faster and more sophisticated methods. The gas–liquid reaction is one of the organic synthetic methods of importance because

New synthesis of a late-stage tetracyclic key intermediate of lumateperone

• Mátyás Milen,
• Bálint Nyulasi,
• Tamás Nagy,
• Gyula Simig and
• Balázs Volk

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 653–659, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.66

• lumateperone ((±)-1)). Planned new synthesis of key intermediate (±)-9a. New synthesis of key intermediate (±)-9a. Trifluoroacetylation of tetrahydroquinoxaline (37). Summary of known synthetic methods leading to tetracyclic compound 9a. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 164: General

A study of the photochemical behavior of terarylenes containing allomaltol and pyrazole fragments

• Constantine V. Milyutin,
• Andrey N. Komogortsev,
• Boris V. Lichitsky and
• Valeriya G. Melekhina

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 588–596, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.61

• organic synthesis. Thus, an actual problem is to study the photochemical behavior of various compounds capable of photogeneration of these unstable intermediates. Moreover, the results of such investigations can be used for the development of UV-promoted synthetic methods. Among the photochemical

• bifunctional objects provides access to novel UV irradiation-based synthetic methods. Continuing our studies devoted to the photochemistry of terarylenes [27][28][29][30][31][32], in this communication we studied the UV-promoted reaction of pyrazole derivatives 12 containing a 3-hydroxypyran-4-one fragment

The asymmetric Henry reaction as synthetic tool for the preparation of the drugs linezolid and rivaroxaban

• Martin Vrbický,
• Karel Macek,
• Jaroslav Pochobradský,
• Jan Svoboda,
• Miloš Sedlák and
• Pavel Drabina

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 438–445, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.46

• substances, because the reduction of the amount of the undesirable stereoisomer to a minimum can suppress possible side effects. The oxazolidine-2-one-type drugs are usually prepared following synthetic methods that utilize available chiral building blocks (e.g., epichlorohydrine, glycidol, 3-chloropropane

Synthesis of piperidine and pyrrolidine derivatives by electroreductive cyclization of imine with terminal dihaloalkanes in a flow microreactor

• Yuki Naito,
• Naoki Shida and
• Mahito Atobe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 350–359, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.39

• ]. Conventional synthetic methods for piperidine derivatives include nucleophilic substitution (route (1) in Scheme 1), reductive amination (route (2)), intramolecular cyclization of amines and alkenes (route (3)), the Diels–Alder reaction and subsequent reduction (route (4)), and the radical cyclization reaction

A Se···O bonding catalysis approach to the synthesis of calix[4]pyrroles

• Qingzhe Tong,
• Zhiguo Zhao and
• Yao Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 325–330, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.36

• , several synthetic methods to access these compounds have been reported [54][55]. The classical approaches to synthesis of calix[4]pyrrole derivatives mainly involved a stepwise synthesis and Lewis acid as well as Brønsted acid catalysis [54][55]. Notably, a noncovalent catalysis approach to accessing

New efficient synthesis of polysubstituted 3,4-dihydroquinazolines and 4H-3,1-benzothiazines through a Passerini/Staudinger/aza-Wittig/addition/nucleophilic substitution sequence

• Long Zhao,
• Mao-Lin Yang,
• Min Liu and
• Ming-Wu Ding

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 286–292, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.32

• from aldehydes, a carboxylic acid, and a isonitrile as the three components [23]. The sequences of Passerini reactions, followed by post-condensation reactions, constitute useful synthetic methods in the preparation of structurally diverse heterocyclic compounds [24][25][26][27][28][29]. The aza-Wittig

Efficient and regioselective synthesis of dihydroxy-substituted 2-aminocyclooctane-1-carboxylic acid and its bicyclic derivatives

• İlknur Polat,
• Selçuk Eşsiz,
• Uğur Bozkaya and
• Emine Salamci

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 77–85, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.7

• β-amino acid derivatives have antibiotic (oryzoxymycin) and antifungal activities (Figure 1) [12][13]. Among the cyclic β-amino acids, the most widely investigated derivatives are the five- and six-membered derivatives [8][9][10][14][15], but only a few synthetic methods are available for the

Efficient synthesis of ethyl 2-(oxazolin-2-yl)alkanoates via ethoxycarbonylketene-induced electrophilic ring expansion of aziridines

• Yelong Lei and
• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 70–76, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.6

• gel column chromatography (PE/EA 2:1, v/v) to give product 3. Oxazoline-containing bioactive natural products. Synthetic methods of oxazoline derivatives. Scopes of aziridines and diazo esters. Proposed reaction mechanism. Direction of tautomerization. Optimization of reaction conditionsa. Supporting

Polymer chemistry: fundamentals and applications

• Bernhard V. K. J. Schmidt

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2922–2923, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.200

• materials [6]. This thematic issue covers a broad range of current topics in polymer chemistry, from synthesis to materials and applications. In the area of synthetic methods, the use of click photochemistry in polymer and organic molecule synthesis is presented, as well as the combination of polymers with

A two-phase bromination process using tetraalkylammonium hydroxide for the practical synthesis of α-bromolactones from lactones

• Yuki Yamamoto,
• Akihiro Tabuchi,
• Kazumi Hosono,
• Takanori Ochi,
• Kento Yamazaki,
• Shintaro Kodama,
• Akihiro Nomoto and
• Akiya Ogawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2906–2914, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.198

• reaction with bromine (Scheme 1a) [37][38]. While the industrial demand for α-bromolactones has grown in recent years, the above-mentioned laboratory-level synthetic methods are not suitable for scale-up because LDA, TMSCl, and enol silyl ethers are sensitive to moisture and air, as well as being expensive

Photophysical, photostability, and ROS generation properties of new trifluoromethylated quinoline-phenol Schiff bases

• Inaiá O. Rocha,
• Yuri G. Kappenberg,
• Wilian C. Rosa,
• Clarissa P. Frizzo,
• Nilo Zanatta,
• Marcos A. P. Martins,
• Isadora Tisoco,
• Bernardo A. Iglesias and
• Helio G. Bonacorso

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2799–2811, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.191

• damage caused by oxidative stress, especially by eliminating reactive oxygen species (ROS) such as hydroxyl radicals (•OH), superoxide anions (O2•‒), and singlet oxygen (1O2) [3][22][23]. Therefore, research in recent years has focused on new compounds obtained from natural sources or by synthetic

• methods, which provide active ingredients to prevent or reduce the effects of oxidative stress in cells. Recently, our research group reported the synthesis of 6-amino-4-(trifluoromethyl)quinolines, which were obtained through an electrophilic aromatic substitution reaction catalyzed by sulfuric acid from