Isolation and characterization of new phenolic siderophores with antimicrobial properties from Pseudomonas sp. UIAU-6B

• Emmanuel T. Oluwabusola,
• Olusoji O. Adebisi,
• Fernando Reyes,
• Kojo S. Acquah,
• Mercedes De La Cruz,
• Larry L. Mweetwa,
• Joy E. Rajakulendran,
• Digby F. Warner,
• Deng Hai,
• Rainer Ebel and
• Marcel Jaspars

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2390–2398, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.156

• through deviation of the salimethyloxazolinyl-thioester intermediate 8 from the assembly line via an unusually facile C–N-bond opening of the ring to generate an ester bond, and followed directly by amination (+ NH3), the addition of histamine and phenethylamine units to form compounds 1, 2, and 3

• , respectively (Figure 3). Biochemical studies show that histamine and phenethylamine moieties were produced from histidine and phenylalanine substrates by a decarboxylase enzyme [41][42][43]. Pseudomobactin A (4) was proposed logically to have formed through direct amination of the unstable salimethyloxazolinyl

Catalyzed and uncatalyzed procedures for the syntheses of isomeric covalent multi-indolyl hetero non-metallides: an account

• Ranadeep Talukdar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2102–2122, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.137

• Buchwald amination led to the 4-amino-substituted compounds 158 or acids 159 after basic hydrolysis (Scheme 21) [108]. Compound 159c had the maximum potency against IDO1 and TDO with IC50 values of 2.72 mM and 3.48 mM, respectively compared to 159a and 159b, which is 15 and 28.5 times higher than that of

• were taken as partners in a Buchwald coupling (Scheme 22a) [44]. On the other hand, in 2015, Organ’s group performed a phosphine-ligand free Buchwald amination of 5-chloroindole (164) with amine 165 to give the desired product 167, where the use of the Pd-PEPPSI-IPentCl precatalyst 166 in presence of

On the application of 3d metals for C–H activation toward bioactive compounds: The key step for the synthesis of silver bullets

• Renato L. Carvalho,
• Amanda S. de Miranda,
• Mateus P. Nunes,
• Roberto S. Gomes,
• Guilherme A. M. Jardim and
• Eufrânio N. da Silva Júnior

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1849–1938, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.126

• applied in some very sophisticated protocols including several examples reported by the White group. In 2015, White and co-workers reported a new catalytic method using manganese tert-butylphthalocyanine [Mn(t-BuPc)Cl] for the chemoselective intramolecular amination of various C(sp3)–H bond types like

• isosteviol derivate furnished a useful and versatile oxathiazinane (46). The betulinic acid-derived sulfamate ester preferentially underwent amination at the γ primary C–H bond of the equatorial C23 methyl group with high site- and diastereoselectivity to furnish the oxathiazinane derivative in 76% yield

• (Scheme 17C). The White group also reported a series of manganese-catalyzed intermolecular benzylic C(sp3)–H amination reactions using 2,2,2-trichloroethyl sulfamate (TcesNH2) and PhI(OPiv)2 as the oxidant (Scheme 18A and 18B) [131]. The manganese perchlorophthalocyanine [MnIII(ClPc)Cl] catalyst enabled a

Sustainable manganese catalysis for late-stage C–H functionalization of bioactive structural motifs

• Jongwoo Son

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1733–1751, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.122

• trans-diazide Mn(IV) complex was proposed to furnish the formation of the C–N3 bond. Manganese-catalyzed late-stage C–H amination The installation of amine functional groups onto biologically active molecules is regarded as a potentially versatile synthetic transformation for accessing diverse potent

• ® (antiplatelet), Gleevec® (anticancer), and augmentin (antibiotic), also contain the benzylic amine motif. Therefore, C–H amination is synthetically important for the diversification of biologically active molecules. Transition metal catalysis has set the stage for C–H amination processes in organic syntheses

• [49]. To date, there are several examples of late-stage C–H amination methods that utilize iron and manganese as 3d transition metal catalysts [50][51][52]. However, intermolecular benzylic C–H amination has rarely been explored due to the challenges associated with selectivity and reactivity. In 2018

Total synthesis of ent-pavettamine

• Memory Zimuwandeyi,
• Manuel A. Fernandes,
• Amanda L. Rousseau and
• Moira L. Bode

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1440–1446, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.99

• functional groups as they were unveiled. The functionalized C5 fragments were coupled via reductive amination revealing the C10 carbon backbone. Deprotection of the alcohol and amine functional groups successfully provided ent-pavettamine as a TFA salt. Keywords: chiral sulfoxide; ent-pavettamine

• , whose values differ for the syn-1,3 diol when compared to the anti-1,3-diol as described after an extensive study by Rychnovsky et al. [21]. The reductive amination of the aldehyde with benzylamine allowed for the introduction of a protected terminal amine group to the C5 fragment, yielding 19 in a

• reductive amination employing sodium triacetoxyborohydride as the reducing agent. The desired product precursor 27 was successfully recovered as a yellow oil in a yield of 95%. HRMS showed the desired mass whilst NMR spectroscopy showing a single set of signals for each half of the structure, confirmed the

A comprehensive review of flow chemistry techniques tailored to the flavours and fragrances industries

• Guido Gambacorta,
• James S. Sharley and
• Ian R. Baxendale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1181–1312, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.90

N-tert-Butanesulfinyl imines in the asymmetric synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocycles

• Joseane A. Mendes,
• Paulo R. R. Costa,
• Miguel Yus,
• Francisco Foubelo and
• Camilla D. Buarque

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1096–1140, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.86

• number of classical methodologies have been used for their synthesis, in which the key step is the generation of the six-membered ring, including the aldol reaction, the reductive amination, Mannich reaction, ring closing metathesis, Diels–Alder reaction with imines as dienophiles, aza-Prins cyclization

Kinetics of enzyme-catalysed desymmetrisation of prochiral substrates: product enantiomeric excess is not always constant

• Peter J. Halling

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 873–884, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.73

• -pong second (ketone amination, diol esterification, desymmetrisation in the second half reaction); ping-pong first (diol ester hydrolysis) and ping-pong both (prochiral diacids). For plausible values of enzyme kinetic parameters, the product enantiomeric excess (ee) can decline substantially as the

Total synthesis of pyrrolo[2,3-c]quinoline alkaloid: trigonoine B

• Takashi Nishiyama,
• Erina Hamada,
• Daishi Ishii,
• Yuuto Kihara,
• Nanase Choshi,
• Natsumi Nakanishi,
• Mari Murakami,
• Kimiko Taninaka,
• Noriyuki Hatae and
• Tominari Choshi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 730–736, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.62

• synthesis of the 2,3-dihydroquinolin-4-one moiety of trigonoine B (1) by cycloamination of 22c (Scheme 4). The Buchwald–Hartwig amination of 22c was conducted in the presence of t-BuONa, BINAP, and Pd2(dba)3·CHCl3; however, the desired tetrahydroquinoline 23 was not obtained and only 22c was recovered. We

• introduction of a tetrahydroquinoline moiety by direct amination to triflate 7. Retrosynthetic analysis of the pyrrolo[2,3-c]quinoline ring construction. Synthesis of N-substituted 4-aminopyrrolo[3,2-c]quinoline 18. Synthesis of the tetrahydroquinoline moiety through cycloamination. Synthesis of trigonoine B

Amino- and polyaminophthalazin-1(2H)-ones: synthesis, coordination properties, and biological activity

• Zbigniew Malinowski,
• Emilia Fornal,
• Agata Sumara,
• Renata Kontek,
• Karol Bukowski,
• Beata Pasternak,
• Dariusz Sroczyński,
• Joachim Kusz,
• Magdalena Małecka and
• Monika Nowak

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 558–568, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.50

• Group, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Lodz, Pomorska 163/165, 90-236 Łódź, Poland 10.3762/bjoc.17.50 Abstract Amino- and polyaminophthalazinones were synthesized by the palladium‐catalyzed amination (alkyl- and arylamines, polyamines) of 4-bromophthalazinones in good yields. The coordinating

• -929 cell line, proved that some amino derivatives of phthalazinone show interesting anticancer activities. The detailed synthesis, spectroscopic data, and biological assays are reported. Keywords: amination; complexes; cytotoxicity; Pd cross-coupling; phthalazinone; Introduction Phthalazine and its

• 77% yield. Moreover, it turned out that this amination reaction also proceeded with a reduced amount of Pd2(dba)3 from 15 mol % to 2 mol % without loss of the product yield. These results showed that the coordination of the amine to the (BINAP)Pd complex probably leads to the formation of a (BINAP)Pd

Metal-free visible-light-enabled vicinal trifluoromethyl dithiolation of unactivated alkenes

• Xiaojuan Li,
• Qiang Zhang,
• Weigang Zhang,
• Jinzhu Ma,
• Yi Wang and
• Yi Pan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 551–557, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.49

• approaches for the trifluoromethylthio (SCF3) difunctionalization of alkenes, such as cyanation [23], etherification [24][25][26][27], amination [28][29][30], chlorination [31][32], hydrogenation [33], trifluoromethylation [34], phosphonization [35], arylation [36][37][38], trifluoromethylthiolation [39

Deoxygenative C2-heteroarylation of quinoline N-oxides: facile access to α-triazolylquinolines

• Geetanjali S. Sontakke,
• Rahul K. Shukla and
• Chandra M. R. Volla

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 485–493, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.42

• simplicity of the developed protocol. The current transformation was also found to be compatible for the late-stage modification of natural products. Keywords: amination; heteroarylation; quinoline N-oxides; regioselective; triazoles; Introduction Quinoline is a key heterocyclic moiety found in many

• ][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45]. For example, Yin and co-workers developed a protocol for the deoxygenative C2-amination of pyridine/quinoline N-oxides using t-BuNH2 and Ts2O/TFA in 2007 (Scheme 1a) [48]. Later, Londregan and co-workers were successful in achieving C2-amination employing

• to amination and amidation, there are few reports on metal-free C2-heteroarylation of pyridine N-oxides. In 1984, Rogers demonstrated the synthesis of 2-triazolylpyridines from 2-azidopyridines and phenylacetylene [51]. Along the same lines, Keith reported methodologies for the C2-imidazolylation and

Synthetic strategies of phosphonodepsipeptides

• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 461–484, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.41

• and oxidation with sodium periodate, benzyl 2-azido-3-(((benzyloxy)(2-oxoethyl)phosphoryl)oxy)-2-methylpropanoate (69) was obtained. The latter was further transformed to the final phosphonodepsipeptide library 64 after the reductive amination with pyrrolidine derivatives 70 and acylation with a

• the synthesis, diethyl 3,3-diethoxypropylphosphonate (187) was hydrolyzed to 3-oxopropylphosphonate 188, which underwent a reductive amination with benzyloxyamine to give diethyl 3-benzyloxyaminopropylphosphonate (189). After the sequential treatment with acetyl chloride and TMSBr, alkylation with

Synthesis, crystal structures and properties of carbazole-based [6]helicenes fused with an azine ring

• Daria I. Tonkoglazova,
• Anna V. Gulevskaya,
• Konstantin A. Chistyakov and
• Olga I. Askalepova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 11–21, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.2

• ethers of 3,6-diacetylcarbazole with p-benzoquinone (Scheme 1B) [49], the double Buchwald–Hartwig amination of 4,4'-biphenanthrene derivatives (Scheme 1C) [45] and a enantioselective Fischer indolization–oxidation protocol (Scheme 1D) [43]. Each method is not without drawbacks such as hardly available

Synthesis and characterization of S,N-heterotetracenes

• Astrid Vogt,
• Florian Henne,
• Christoph Wetzel,
• Elena Mena-Osteritz and
• Peter Bäuerle

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2636–2644, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.214

• nitrogen heteroatoms were synthesized in multistep synthetic routes. A Buchwald–Hartwig amination of brominated precursors, thermolysis of azide precursors, and a Cadogan reaction of nitro-substituted precursors were successfully applied to eventually build-up pyrrole rings to stable and soluble fused

• replacement of sulfur by nitrogen atoms in the tetra- and hexacyclic systems leads to a red-shift in absorption, a decrease in oxidation potential and energy gap. On the other hand, the replacement of a thiophene ring by benzene leads to the opposite effects. Keywords: Buchwald–Hartwig amination; Cadogan

• -heteroacenes, dimeric thieno[3,2-b]pyrrole [8] and trimeric dithieno[3,2-b:2’,3’-d]pyrrole (DTP) [9], are long known but still frequently used as building block for organic electronic materials [10]. By application of Pd-catalyzed Buchwald–Hartwig amination/cyclization reactions of brominated thiophene-based

Design and synthesis of a bis-macrocyclic host and guests as building blocks for small molecular knots

• Elizabeth A. Margolis,
• Rebecca J. Keyes,
• Stephen D. Lockey IV and
• Edward E. Fenlon

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2314–2321, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.192

• bromide in 1-bromo-4-chlorobutane (16) with sodium azide to give azide 17 in 52% yield (Scheme 5). Treatment of 17 with potassium phthalimide and catalytic potassium iodide was followed by hydrazine unmasking to give the desired aminoazide 18 in 37% over the two steps. Reductive amination of 18 with dial

Synthetic approaches to bowl-shaped π-conjugated sumanene and its congeners

• Shakeel Alvi and
• Rashid Ali

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2212–2259, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.186

• ferrocene–sumanene conjugates by employing reductive amination reaction for the formation of compounds 110 and 116. Whereas compounds 111, 113, and 117 were prepared by means of condensation reaction as depicted in Scheme 27. On the other hand, Lentz’s group has reported the synthesis of sumanenylferrocene

Syntheses of spliceostatins and thailanstatins: a review

• William A. Donaldson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1991–2006, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.166

• amination of the tetrahydropyranone 50 to generate the (all-cis)-tetrahydropyran fragment. This group reported multiple different routes to 50. In an abortive route, the addition of allyl-Grignard to 5-methylfurfural, followed by the resolution of the racemic homoallylic alcohol with Amano lipase gave

• -methyl-3-buten-1-yl tosylate in the presence of Grubbs’ 2nd generation catalyst yielded 59, which, upon elimination with potassium tert-butoxide led to the diene 50. The reductive amination of 50 afforded an inseparable mixture of the C-14 amines (6:1 ratio). However, the amidation of this mixture with

Design, synthesis and application of carbazole macrocycles in anion sensors

• Alo Rüütel,
• Ville Yrjänä,
• Sandip A. Kadam,
• Indrek Saar,
• Mihkel Ilisson,
• Astrid Darnell,
• Kristjan Haav,
• Tõiv Haljasorg,
• Lauri Toom,
• Johan Bobacka and
• Ivo Leito

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1901–1914, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.157

• lead to acceptable results. Therefore, we decided to modify the reaction scheme. After alkylation, compound 2 was instead brominated, followed by amination of 4 leading to the desired diamino product 5a. Amine protection and subsequent coupling procedures, leading to 8, were the same as described in

When metal-catalyzed C–H functionalization meets visible-light photocatalysis

• Lucas Guillemard and
• Joanna Wencel-Delord

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1754–1804, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.147

• . Thus, an efficient method for the synthesis of carbazoles via an intramolecular C–H amination was developed, using N-substituted 2-aminobiaryl derivatives as the substrates (Figure 11) [76]. This procedure was carried out at 80 °C and led to the formation of various interesting coupling products with

Photocatalysis with organic dyes: facile access to reactive intermediates for synthesis

• Stephanie G. E. Amos,
• Marion Garreau,
• Luca Buzzetti and
• Jerome Waser

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1163–1187, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.103

• ] for a decarboxylative amination of indoline-2-carboxylic acids with azodicarboxylate esters. Another photocatalytic strategy for accessing C(sp3) radicals from carboxylic acids proceeds through a reductive decarboxylation pathway. This approach relies on the conversion of the acid into an easy

• -Acr+ scaffold. In 2015, they developed a site-selective C–H amination of arenes (Scheme 25) [110]. The arenes 25.1 could be aminated by various N-heterocycles 25.2 for the synthesis of the C–H functionalization products 25.3 with fine-tuned Mes-di(t-Bu)Acr+ (OD4) as a photocatalyst. In this

• generation, the use of hydroxylamine derivatives has turned out to be very efficient [128][139]. The generation of amidyl radicals using organophotoredox catalysis was first reported by Pandey and Laha in 2015 (Scheme 30) [146]. They developed an intermolecular cross-dehydrogenative benzylic C(sp3) amination

Fluorinated phenylalanines: synthesis and pharmaceutical applications

• Laila F. Awad and
• Mohammed Salah Ayoup

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1022–1050, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.91

• catalytic amination of (E)-cinnamic acid The enzyme phenylalanine aminomutase (PAM) from Taxus chinensis catalyzes the stereoselective isomerization of α-phenylalanine to β-phenyalanine 111a–c. Mechanistic studies showed that (E)-cinnamic acid is an intermediate in this transformation [63]. Accordingly

• hand, Wade et al. reported that ester 138b (R = iPr) afforded the isopropyl 3-fluorophenylalaninate (139b) as racemate in 45–50% yield [70] under similar reaction conditions (Scheme 31). 2.6. Fluorination and reductive amination of phenylpyruvate A direct fluorination of the ester derivatives of

• phenylpyruvic acids 140a,b with F2 followed by hydrolysis of the resulting fluoropyruvates in 50% isopropanol in the presence of NaHCO3 gave 3-fluoro-3-phenylpyruvate 141 in 40–50% yields [68]. The direct reductive amination gave a partially racemized mixture of threo and erythro-136 with the erythro

Efficient synthesis of piperazinyl amides of 18β-glycyrrhetinic acid

• Dong Cai,
• ZhiHua Zhang,
• Yufan Meng,
• KaiLi Zhu,
• LiYi Chen,
• ChangXiang Yu,
• ChangWei Yu,
• ZiYi Fu,
• DianShen Yang and
• YiXia Gong

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 798–808, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.73

• bases, such as K2CO3, Na2CO3, NaHCO3, etc. Another approach for the synthesis of compound 17 is the amination of compound 15 to give compound 16. Subsequently, compound 17 was obtained by hydrolysis of compound 16 using TFA in DCM. The synthesis of compounds 15–17 was described in a similar manner in

Design and synthesis of diazine-based panobinostat analogues for HDAC8 inhibition

• Sivaraman Balasubramaniam,
• Sajith Vijayan,
• Liam V. Goldman,
• Xavier A. May,
• Kyra Dodson,
• Sweta Adhikari,
• Fatima Rivas,
• Davita L. Watkins and
• Shana V. Stoddard

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 628–637, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.59

• acrylate aldehyde 9 in 61% yield. The next step involved the crucial reductive amination reaction between aldehyde 9 with indolamine 10, which had been obtained via Fischer indole synthesis – the reaction of phenylhydrazine with 5-chloro-2-pentanone [35]. Initial reduction attempts using sodium

• final two steps, the reductive amination reaction and the hydroxamic acid preparation. Using the same reaction conditions developed for TOI1, we proceeded with precursors 22 and 23, which were obtained in 61% and 68% yield, respectively. The desired hydroxamic acid TOI2 and TOI3-rev were obtained in 49

Recent advances in photocatalyzed reactions using well-defined copper(I) complexes

• Mingbing Zhong,
• Xavier Pannecoucke,
• Philippe Jubault and
• Thomas Poisson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 451–481, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.42

• amination of NHP esters. Photocatalytic decarboxylative alkynylation using [Cu(I)(dq)(binap)]BF4. Copper-photocatalyzed alkylation of glycine esters. Copper-photocatalyzed borylation of organic halides. aUnder continuous flow conditions. Copper-photocatalyzed α-functionalization of alcohols with glycine