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Chiral phosphoric acid-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation of 3,3-difluoro-3H-indoles

  • Yumei Wang,
  • Guangzhu Wang,
  • Yanping Zhu and
  • Kaiwu Dong

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 205–211, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.20

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  • enantioselectivity dropped significantly (Table 1, entries 9 and 10). To further improve the enantioselectivity of this CPA-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation, we next explored the effect of the alcohol part of Hantzsch esters (Table 2). The experimental results showed that the ee value of product 2a increased as the
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Published 01 Feb 2024

Comparison of glycosyl donors: a supramer approach

  • Anna V. Orlova,
  • Nelly N. Malysheva,
  • Maria V. Panova,
  • Nikita M. Podvalnyy,
  • Michael G. Medvedev and
  • Leonid O. Kononov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 181–192, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.18

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  • inevitably change. This could lead to modifications of the structure of the corresponding supramers of reactants, hence their properties. Indeed, we have already addressed this issue and found that the stereoselectivity of the glycosylation of alcohol 3 by a related N,O-acetylsialyl thioglycoside may depend
  • procedure The glycosylation procedure followed that described in our previous publications [33][36][37]. A mixture of thioglycoside sialyl donor 1 [36] or 2 (1 equiv, 0.1 or 0.15 mmol) and alcohol 3 [54] (1 equiv) was dried in vacuo for 2 h, then anhydrous MeCN (2.0 mL for 0.1 mmol of sialyl donor and 1.0
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Published 31 Jan 2024

Tandem Hock and Friedel–Crafts reactions allowing an expedient synthesis of a cyclolignan-type scaffold

  • Viktoria A. Ikonnikova,
  • Cristina Cheibas,
  • Oscar Gayraud,
  • Alexandra E. Bosnidou,
  • Nicolas Casaretto,
  • Gilles Frison and
  • Bastien Nay

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 162–169, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.15

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  • reaction is possible upon elimination of the resulting benzylic alcohol on D, allowing another arylation forming E [18]. This complex sequence of transformations is herein applied to the synthesis of 1-aryltetralines, analogues of cyclolignan natural products having important medicinal applications [19][20
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Published 25 Jan 2024

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

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  • -carbonyl-based Michael acceptors. Results and Discussion Synthesis During our endeavors to identify potent Lewis-base catalysts for the oxa-Michael reaction [13][14], the triarylphosphine 1 was tested in a model reaction (2 equiv allyl alcohol, 1 equiv acrylonitrile, 0.05 equiv 1). However, no conversion
  • with allyl alcohol (in both cases using a molar ratio of 1:1.05 and dichloromethane as the solvent). While in the latter case only the starting materials were observed after 24 h at room temperature, the reaction of 1 with acrylonitrile turned yellow during the same time and exclusively yielded the
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Published 10 Jan 2024

A novel recyclable organocatalyst for the gram-scale enantioselective synthesis of (S)-baclofen

  • Gyula Dargó,
  • Dóra Erdélyi,
  • Balázs Molnár,
  • Péter Kisszékelyi,
  • Zsófia Garádi and
  • József Kupai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1811–1824, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.133

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  • ). The cinchona amine 3 was prepared starting from the naturally occurring quinine [31]. The gained catalyst was demethylated using BBr3 to give alcohol 4. The demethylated cinchona amine was reacted with half-squaramide [9] 5, resulting in demethylated squaramide 6. A short and flexible linker was
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Published 24 Nov 2023

Selectivity control towards CO versus H2 for photo-driven CO2 reduction with a novel Co(II) catalyst

  • Lisa-Lou Gracia,
  • Philip Henkel,
  • Olaf Fuhr and
  • Claudia Bizzarri

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1766–1775, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.129

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  • . Thus, aiming at enhancing the catalytic activity, we performed some additional photocatalytic tests, upon the addition of different concentrations of 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoropropan-2-ol (HFIP). This alcohol has interesting physical and chemical properties, and, being well miscible with many organic
  • solvents and with water, it has been used in a large variety of (electro)chemical reactions [53]. The hydroxy group of this alcohol has a pKa of 9.3 [54][55], so we can expect that it is a suitable proton donor for this kind of reaction. We performed the photocatalytic CO2 reduction by dissolving in 5 mL 1
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Published 17 Nov 2023

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

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  • indispensable role in drug discovery and design since the hydrogen atom can act as lipophilic hydrogen-bond donor and act as a bioisostere for the alcohol moiety [81][82][83]. Thus, many effective difluoromethylation strategies have been developed in recent years. Difluoroacetohydrazonoyl bromides were chosen
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Published 15 Nov 2023

A series of perylene diimide cathode interlayer materials for green solvent processing in conventional organic photovoltaics

  • Kathryn M. Wolfe,
  • Shahidul Alam,
  • Eva German,
  • Fahad N. Alduayji,
  • Maryam Alqurashi,
  • Frédéric Laquai and
  • Gregory C. Welch

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1620–1629, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.119

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  • film, but use of such alcohol-based solvents limits the types of organic materials to be used as CILs. With ethyl acetate as a processing solvent a wider range of organic materials can be developed and studied as CILs. Herein, we report on the design, synthesis, and application of four new CILs using
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Published 26 Oct 2023

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

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  • dissolved initiators in the liquid phase during the process. A suspending agent, e.g., polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), is added to the system to prevent coalescence. The viscosity in suspension polymerization is low throughout the process which brings good heat transfer and temperature control, and therefore well
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Published 18 Oct 2023

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

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  • method, diverse β-alkoxy sulfides were synthesized without the need to any catalyst, or additive. The reaction proceeded through the formation of carbonium ion intermediate I, which underwent electrophilic addition of alcohol to provide product 152. In the meantime, N-(arylthio)succinimide 1 as a
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Published 27 Sep 2023

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

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  • . Two complexes, 61 and 65 (see Scheme 21), were found equally efficient. The products were obtained in 95 to 99% yield and the range of functionalities tolerated included nitro, nitrile, ether, carbonyl, alcohol, and amine [35]. Gautier and co-workers studied the effect of the addition of aromatic N
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Published 20 Sep 2023

Functional characterisation of twelve terpene synthases from actinobacteria

  • Anuj K. Chhalodia,
  • Houchao Xu,
  • Georges B. Tabekoueng,
  • Binbin Gu,
  • Kizerbo A. Taizoumbe,
  • Lukas Lauterbach and
  • Jeroen S. Dickschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1386–1398, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.100

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  • , Supporting Information File 1). The closest characterised terpene synthase with an amino acid sequence identity of 25% is the (1(10)E,4E,6S,7R)-germacradien-6-ol synthase from Streptomyces pratensis [33]. The recombinant enzyme efficiently converted FPP into one sesquiterpene alcohol whose electron
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Published 15 Sep 2023

Synthesis of ether lipids: natural compounds and analogues

  • Marco Antônio G. B. Gomes,
  • Alicia Bauduin,
  • Chloé Le Roux,
  • Romain Fouinneteau,
  • Wilfried Berthe,
  • Mathieu Berchel,
  • Hélène Couthon and
  • Paul-Alain Jaffrès

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1299–1369, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.96

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  • alkenyl compounds, the vinyl ether function is characterized by a (Z)-configuration as shown in Figure 1. In addition, an acyl group is present on the secondary alcohol of the glycerol. This acyl group is constituted by a saturated or unsaturated lipid chain or, in the case of platelet-activating factor
  • of the secondary alcohol produced 2.3. The primary alcohol was deprotected in acidic conditions to produce 2.4. The installation of the phosphocholine polar head group was achieved in two steps starting with the reaction of 2.4 with bromoethyl dichlorophosphate (2.5) to produce the phosphate
  • derivative 2.6. The treatment of 2.6 with trimethylamine produced an ammonium salt. A treatment with silver carbonate was applied to remove any traces of bromide salts. Then, the secondary alcohol was deprotected by hydrogenolysis to produce 2.7 (lyso-PAF). Finally, the acetylation of the secondary alcohol
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Published 08 Sep 2023

Non-noble metal-catalyzed cross-dehydrogenation coupling (CDC) involving ether α-C(sp3)–H to construct C–C bonds

  • Hui Yu and
  • Feng Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1259–1288, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.94

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  • oxidative alkylation of cyclic benzyl ethers with malonates or ketones. Oxygen is used as a terminal oxidant at atmospheric pressure. The key intermediate of this oxidative coupling reaction is benzyl alcohol intermediate C (Scheme 4) [52]. The generation of N–O radicals from NHPI in the presence of oxygen
  • coupling process. Initially, ether 64 interacts with tert-butoxyl radicals via hydrogen atom transfer reaction to generate radical A with release of tert-butyl alcohol. Subsequently, the radical A adds to the C=C bond of α-oxo ketene dithioacetal 107 to form radical B, which further reacts with Fe(III) to
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Published 06 Sep 2023

Metal catalyst-free N-allylation/alkylation of imidazole and benzimidazole with Morita–Baylis–Hillman (MBH) alcohols and acetates

  • Olfa Mhasni,
  • Jalloul Bouajila and
  • Farhat Rezgui

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1251–1258, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.93

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  • direct amination of MBH alcohols 4a–d, with a poor leaving group (OH). Under the previous conditions (2 equiv of imidazole, toluene, reflux), the conversion of alcohol 4a [28] into the corresponding imidazole 6a was very slow and the starting materials were almost recovered. However, the continuous
  • removal of water formed from the direct amination of alcohol 4a by azeotropic distillation shifted the position of the equilibrium in direction to the formation of the allylated imidazole 6a which was obtained in good 88% yield (Table 1, entry 6). The protocol was also successfully extended to the
  • reaction of the primary five-membered alcohol 4b [29] with imidazole (2a) as well as to that of alcohols 4a,b with benzimidazole (2b), leading to the SN2-type products 6b and 7b,c, respectively, in 55–80% yields (Table 1, entries 7–9). In addition, we have shown that the direct amination of the available
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  • to the core TEMPO or ferrocene charge-carrying moiety. This both increases the solubility of the species and the oxidation potential in aqueous media. TEMPOL uses an alcohol group to the same effect. Redox couples for RFB catholytes are optimized for increasing the oxidation which decreases their
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New one-pot synthesis of 4-arylpyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridin-6-ones based on 5-aminopyrazoles and azlactones

  • Vladislav Yu. Shuvalov,
  • Ekaterina Yu. Vlasova,
  • Tatyana Yu. Zheleznova and
  • Alexander S. Fisyuk

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1155–1160, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.83

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  • ). Their diluted alcohol solutions luminesce with a quantum yield of 0.09–0.23. Pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridinones 4a–i, 9a, and 10a are characterized by an abnormally high Stokes shift (107–152 nm, 1.07–1.49 eV, Table 2). Such luminophores, which are colorless in daylight but become colored when irradiated with
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Published 02 Aug 2023

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

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Published 28 Jul 2023

CO2 complexation with cyclodextrins

  • Cecilie Høgfeldt Jessen,
  • Jesper Bendix,
  • Theis Brock Nannestad,
  • Heloisa Bordallo,
  • Martin Jæger Pedersen,
  • Christian Marcus Pedersen and
  • Mikael Bols

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1021–1027, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.78

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  • solved in Olex2 using SHELXT and refined using SHELXL (Table 3) [19]. There is some disorder in one water molecule, which was modelled over two positions and some disorder in at least two of the primary alcohol groups, which was modelled. The latter disorder is not uncommon in α-cyclodextrin structures
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Linker, loading, and reaction scale influence automated glycan assembly

  • Marlene C. S. Dal Colle,
  • Manuel G. Ricardo,
  • Nives Hribernik,
  • José Danglad-Flores,
  • Peter H. Seeberger and
  • Martina Delbianco

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1015–1020, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.77

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  • ] and L2 [3] are based on the o-nitrobenzyl scaffold [23][24] and expose a hydroxy group that serves as glycosyl acceptor in the first AGA cycle (Figure 1B). While L1 displays a flexible aliphatic chain terminating with a primary alcohol, L2 carries a secondary benzylic alcohol. Upon irradiation with UV
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Five new sesquiterpenoids from agarwood of Aquilaria sinensis

  • Hong Zhou,
  • Xu-Yang Li,
  • Hong-Bin Fang,
  • He-Zhong Jiang and
  • Yong-Xian Cheng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 998–1007, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.75

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  • ) and H-6/C-4 indicates the presence of a carboxyl group at C-4. Finally, the HMBC correlations of H-13/C-7 (δC 43.9), C-11 (δC 154.7), and C-12 (δC 65.0) demonstrate that C-7 is connected with acryl alcohol. Thus, the planar structure of 1 was assigned (Figure 1). However, the ROSEY data cannot provide
  • mg) was separated by PTLC (petroleum ether/isopropyl alcohol 10:1) to afford eight fractions (Fr.6.7.9.5.14.1–Fr.6.7.9.5.14.8). Fr.6.7.9.5.14.3 (25.4 mg) was further purified by semi-preparative HPLC on YMC-PACK-ODS-A (aqueous MeCN, 65%) to yield 1 (12.7 mg, tR = 28.1 min, flow rate: 3 mL/min). Fr
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  • after recrystallization. Subsequent ozonolysis of the terminal alkene functionality with a follow-up reduction furnished primary alcohol 134 which was transformed into the azide 135. Reduction of the azide 135 was accompanied by debenzylation, was followed by tosylation of the primary amine and exchange
  • provided ketone 138 which was reacted with an α-keto ester in an intramolecular 5-endo-trig-cyclization process to afford 139. Treatment of compound 139 with sodium borohydride afforded secondary alcohol 140 which after conversion of the tosyl group into a methyl group gave the final product 141 (Scheme 35
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Published 28 Jun 2023

Photoredox catalysis enabling decarboxylative radical cyclization of γ,γ-dimethylallyltryptophan (DMAT) derivatives: formal synthesis of 6,7-secoagroclavine

  • Alessio Regni,
  • Francesca Bartoccini and
  • Giovanni Piersanti

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 918–927, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.70

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  • ]. Although not yet completely clarified, some previous studies on the detailed mode of closure of the C ring in ergot alkaloids from DMAT have been shown to involve, before decarboxylative cyclization, oxidation on the C4-prenyl chain to give the stable rearranged allyl alcohol and/or the relatively unstable
  • interconvertible to each other by hydration or dehydration, i.e., a plausible precursor of the allylic alcohol would be the diene, and vice versa [90]. Since both 8 and 10 are easily obtainable from 2 by Mozoroki–Heck coupling with commercially available 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol, ester hydrolysis (LiOH in THF/H2O
  • ), and, finally for 10, dehydration of the tertiary alcohol (mesylation and elimination) (Scheme 3), we decided to test their roles in the photoredox-catalyzed decarboxylative cyclization. With 8 and 10 in hand with the C4-prenyl side-chain already oxidized/functionalized, we recognized that this
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Intermediates and shunt products of massiliachelin biosynthesis in Massilia sp. NR 4-1

  • Till Steinmetz,
  • Blaise Kimbadi Lombe and
  • Markus Nett

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 909–917, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.69

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  • carbon atoms C-13 and C-14 of the thiazole moiety, the loss of one degree of unsaturation and a loss of 2 Da in mass, it can be deduced that compound 5 possesses an alcohol function. Compound 6 (0.4 mg) was obtained as a brown oil. It possesses a molecular ion at m/z 291.1165 [M + H]+, which suggests a
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Cyclodextrins as building blocks for new materials

  • Miriana Kfoury and
  • Sophie Fourmentin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 889–891, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.66

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  • reactivity of their alcohol functions. This allows regioselective chemical modification at either the primary or secondary rim [13]. As a result, these molecular hosts can be specifically linked either covalently or noncovalently to a wide variety of ligands. CDs are a significant part of almost all areas of
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