Selected synthetic strategies to cyclophanes

• Sambasivarao Kotha,
• Mukesh E. Shirbhate and
• Gopalkrushna T. Waghule

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1274–1331, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.142

• reported the synthesis of [11](2,6)-pyridinophane (37), a normuscopyridine analogue, by an oxymercuration–oxidation strategy. The ketoolefin 34 was converted to the hydroxyketone 35 by treatment with Hg(OAc)2 and NaSH. Oxidation of the keto alcohol 35 gave diketone 36, which reacted with hydroxylamine

• key building block for the synthesis of calix[4]arene. Here, α,ω-bis(p-methoxyphenyl)alkanes 264 were used as starting materials. Compound 264 was treated with acetic anhydride and AlCl3 in nitrobenzene and 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane to generate diketone 265 in 58–93% yield. Diketone 265 was then

Design and synthesis of fused polycycles via Diels–Alder reaction and ring-rearrangement metathesis as key steps

• Sambasivarao Kotha and
• Ongolu Ravikumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1259–1264, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.140

• , and multiplet, respectively. Coupling constants (J) are reported in Hertz. Experimental procedures Synthesis of compound 4 Analogously as described in [2], to a stirred solution of diketone 3 (0.2 g, 0.83 mmol) in dry THF (10 mL) was added allylmagnesium bromide (4.2 mL, 1 M solution in ether) at 0 °C

• , CDCl3) δ 135.5, 134.7, 134.4, 118.3, 73.4, 52.3, 52.3, 50.6, 49.2, 45.8, 45.7, 44.8 ppm; HRMS (Q–ToF) m/z: [M + Na]+ calcd for C17H20ONa, 347.1982; found, 347.1980. Synthesis of compound 9 Analogously as described in [2], to a stirred solution of diketone 8 (0.5 g, 1.8 mmol) in dry THF (10 mL) was added

Novel carbocationic rearrangements of 1-styrylpropargyl alcohols

• Christine Basmadjian,
• Fan Zhang and
• Laurent Désaubry

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1017–1022, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.114

• . To determine whether the protection of the alkyne group was necessary for a rearrangement to take place, the reaction was carried out on compound 27. In the presence of perrhenic acid, 16% of the starting material was recovered along with 36% of diketone 28 (Scheme 6). No cyclization product was

Bis(vinylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene analogues of BEDT-TTF

• Erdal Ertas,
• İlknur Demirtas and
• Turan Ozturk

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 403–415, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.46

• molecules, obtained from 1,8-diketone ring closure reactions, and coupling reactions, published by our group. Review BVDT-TTF analogues from 1,8-diketones Bis(vinylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene (BVDT-TTF) 4 (R = Ph, 4-CH3OC6H4, 4-BrC6H4, 4-CH3C6H4, 4-O2NC6H4, 2-thienyl) is a fully unsaturated analogue of

• BEDT-TTF (ET) 3. It possesses a vinyl moiety at the peripheries in place of the ethylene group of ET. It can also be considered as a tetrathiafulvalene analogue having fused 1,4-dithiin rings as its peripheries. The synthesis was achieved through the reaction of a 1,8-diketone with Lawesson’s reagent

• of synthesizing fused 1,4-dithiin and thiophene ring systems, possessing functional groups such as Ph 4-MeOC6H4 and 4-O2NC6H4 (Scheme 1) [46]. The synthesis involved treatment of the diketone 6, produced through the reaction of the readily available dianion 5 [52] with α-haloketones, with Lawesson’s

Attempts to prepare an all-carbon indigoid system

• Şeref Yildizhan,
• Henning Hopf and
• Peter G. Jones

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 363–372, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.42

• that caused all these preparative difficulties, we next decided to investigate the behavior of diketone 19, in which this conjugation is interrupted. Although its methylenation under Wittig conditions was again unsuccessful, the reaction with the Tebbe’s reagent provided a product. This, however, was

Formal total syntheses of classic natural product target molecules via palladium-catalyzed enantioselective alkylation

• Yiyang Liu,
• Marc Liniger,
• Ryan M. McFadden,
• Jenny L. Roizen,
• Jacquie Malette,
• Corey M. Reeves,
• Douglas C. Behenna,
• Masaki Seto,
• Jimin Kim,
• Justin T. Mohr,
• Scott C. Virgil and
• Brian M. Stoltz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2501–2512, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.261

• was crossed with methyl vinyl ketone in 62% yield [34]. Reduction of enone 34 was achieved in the presence of Pd/C with H2 in EtOAc to furnish diketone 35 [34]. Chemoselective Wittig mono-olefination of 35 provided ω-enone (−)-32, spectroscopically identical to the material in Danishefsky’s racemic

(CF₃CO)₂O/CF₃SO₃H-mediated synthesis of 1,3-diketones from carboxylic acids and aromatic ketones

• JungKeun Kim,
• Elvira Shokova,
• Victor Tafeenko and
• Vladimir Kovalev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2270–2278, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.236

• JungKeun Kim Elvira Shokova Victor Tafeenko Vladimir Kovalev Laboratory of Macrocyclic Receptors, Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Lenin’s Hills, Moscow 119991, Russia 10.3762/bjoc.10.236 Abstract A very simple and convenient reaction for 1,3-diketone preparation from carboxylic

• the most important class of organic compounds, since they are applied as key structural blocks in organic syntheses, exhibit different kinds of biological activities, and display a broad range of ionophoric properties [1][2][3]. The method most frequently used for 1,3-diketone synthesis is the Claisen

• (2а), which was initially formed as the result of an intramolecular cyclization of 1a, underwent a further acylation with the formation of 1,3-diketone 3a. In contrast, γ-phenylbutanoic acid (1c) was quantitatively transformed only to the tetralone 2с (Table 1, entries 10 and 11). The acid-catalyzed

Syntheses of fluorooxindole and 2-fluoro-2-arylacetic acid derivatives from diethyl 2-fluoromalonate ester

• Antal Harsanyi,
• Graham Sandford,
• Dmitri S. Yufit and
• Judith A.K. Howard

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1213–1219, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.119

• use of 1,3-diketone, 1,3-ketoester and 1,3-diester derivatives in retrosynthetic planning is widespread in general organic chemistry and numerous terpenes, heterocycles and steroids originate from such simple yet synthetically versatile substrates [16][17][18][19]. In contrast, despite the

Self-assembly of metallosupramolecular rhombi from chiral concave 9,9’-spirobifluorene-derived bis(pyridine) ligands

• Rainer Hovorka,
• Sophie Hytteballe,
• Torsten Piehler,
• Georg Meyer-Eppler,
• Filip Topić,
• Kari Rissanen,
• Marianne Engeser and
• Arne Lützen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 432–441, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.40

• subjected to an acid-mediated condensation to give the 9,9’-spirobifluorene. Friedel–Crafts acylation with acetyl chloride gave rise to the racemic 2,2’-diketone which was transformed to the racemic diester in a Baeyer–Villiger oxidation. Saponification of the ester functions then afforded (rac)-1. One part

Recent applications of the divinylcyclopropane–cycloheptadiene rearrangement in organic synthesis

• Sebastian Krüger and
• Tanja Gaich

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 163–193, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.14

• , which underwent DVCPR under these conditions to give tetracycle 244 in 50% yield. Matsubara and coworkers [202] investigated the formation of cyclohepta-1,3-diones from 1,2-diketone starting materials. Treatment of 245 with bis(iodozincio)methane resulted in the formation of cis-divinylcyclopropane 246

Novel supramolecular affinity materials based on (−)-isosteviol as molecular templates

• Christina Lohoelter,
• Malte Brutschy,
• Daniel Lubczyk and
• Siegfried R. Waldvogel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2821–2833, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.317

• , (−)-isosteviol can be oxidized under Riley conditions (Table 1, reaction conditions a: selenium dioxide/xylene) [62][63] to give the corresponding diketone 9 [66]. Subsequent esterification with 3,5-dinitrobenzylic chloride under basic conditions (Table 1, reaction conditions b for R = DNB) [67] proceeds with a

• carried out (Scheme 4). Again, both paths A and B lead to the formation of the desired PNB protected diketone 11. Esterification was achieved by reaction with 4-nitrobenzyl chloride and cesium carbonate in DMF (Table 1, reaction conditions b for R = PNB) [68]. Both sequences A and B proceed with similar

• ester substituent, the detour via protecting groups in the synthesis of alkylated triptycene 17 was subsequently avoided. Therefore, alkylated diketone 18 was synthesized, starting from (−)-isosteviol (Scheme 8). Since alkenes are known to participate in Riley oxidations as well, rendering allylic

Synthesis of indole-based propellane derivatives via Weiss–Cook condensation, Fischer indole cyclization, and ring-closing metathesis as key steps

• Sambasivarao Kotha,
• Ajay Kumar Chinnam and
• Arti Tiwari

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2709–2714, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.307

• diversification: (i) various aryl and heteroaryl fused indole derivatives can be assembled by choosing an appropriate hydrazine derivative, (ii) during the alkylation of diketone 2 [43] various unsaturated alkenyl fragments may be incorporated either in a symmetrical or in an unsymmetrical manner, (iii) various

• [3.3.0]octane-3,7-dione (1) [44][45][46][47][48][49][50] was subjected to twofold Fischer indole cyclization to generate the diindole derivative 6 by using 1-methy-1-phenylhydrazine (5) under HCl/EtOH reflux conditions. Next, SeO2 oxidation of 6 in 1,4-dioxane under reflux gave the known diketone 2

• (Scheme 1). Later, diketone 2 was treated with allyl bromide in the presence of NaH to afford the mono-allylated product 7 in 65% yield. The allyl group attacks the molecule from the sterically less hindered convex side. Since the alkylation step can be performed stepwise, symmetrical as well as

Ambient gold-catalyzed O-vinylation of cyclic 1,3-diketone: A vinyl ether synthesis

• Yumeng Xi,
• Boliang Dong and
• Xiaodong Shi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2537–2543, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.288

• access to various vinyl ethers. A catalytic amount of copper triflate was identified as the significant additive in promoting this transformation. Both aromatic and aliphatic alkynes are suitable substrates with good to excellent yields. Keywords: alkyne; copper salt; diketone; gold catalysis; vinyl

• different binding ability toward water activation, we wondered whether the intermolecular O-addition could be achieved through ligand tuning. In this report, we focus on the cyclic 1,3-diketone nucleophiles due to A) the transformation is challenging and has never been reported in the past, B) vinyl ether

• . However, the corresponding TA-Au complexes indicated significantly improved selectivity towards the diketone addition over the hydration (Table 1, entry 4). Finally, the application of the XPhos ligand and the corresponding TA-Au complex largely promoted this reaction, giving 3a in 85% yield with 12

An overview of the synthetic routes to the best selling drugs containing 6-membered heterocycles

• Marcus Baumann and
• Ian R. Baxendale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2265–2319, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.265

• substituted pyridines is the direct condensation of ammonia (or hydroxylamine) with a corresponding 1,5-diketone. Alternatively, ammonia (or an ammonium salt), an aldehyde and two equivalents of a 1,3-dicarbonyl compound can react via a classical Hantzsch dihydropyridine synthesis. Similarly unsymmetrical

• to the thiazolidinedione moiety as experienced using other reducing systems. As an aside the synthesis of 2-pyridones (i.e. 1.42) can be achieved via a number of methods. For example the classical Guareschi–Thorpe condensation in which cyanoacetamide reacts with a 1,3-diketone delivers highly

The chemistry of isoindole natural products

• Klaus Speck and
• Thomas Magauer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2048–2078, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.243

Mechanistic studies on the CAN-mediated intramolecular cyclization of δ-aryl-β-dicarbonyl compounds

• Brian M. Casey,
• Dhandapani V. Sadasivam and
• Robert A. Flowers II

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1472–1479, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.167

• obtain a better understanding of the impact of arene substitution on the intramolecular cyclization, DFT calculations were performed at UB3LYP/6-31G(d) level by using Gaussian 03/09 [28]. Previous research from our group has shown that the oxidation of the enol tautomer of a diketone initially forms a

• obtain the minima. For the aryl diketone radical, two conformers for the ketones were considered, one with the carbonyl groups syn to each other and the other with the carbonyl groups in the anti orientation. For every substrate, two transition structures were identified on the energy surface along the

• compared to the parent aryl diketone radical, and the rotational transition structure has a comparable barrier of 2.5 kcal/mol. While it is evident why electron-rich systems should more readily cyclize, the observed site selectivity in products 2g and 2j warranted further investigation. For these

Synthesis of the tetracyclic core of Illicium sesquiterpenes using an organocatalyzed asymmetric Robinson annulation

• Lynnie Trzoss,
• Jing Xu,
• Michelle H. Lacoske and
• Emmanuel A. Theodorakis

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1135–1140, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.126

• represents an efficient route toward a diversity-oriented synthesis of several Illicium sesquiterpenes. The enantioselective entry to these molecules is based on an organocatalyzed asymmetric Robinson annulation that allows access to the enantiomerically enriched bicyclic motif 8 from achiral diketone 11

• enantioselectivity and short reaction time, we decided to pursue this conversion at 40 °C where we obtained an enantiomeric excess of 90% (70% yield after 14 days). The enantiomerically enriched Hajos–Wiechert-like diketone 8 (ee > 90%) was then subjected to a selective protection of the C-6 enone motif to yield

Tandem dinucleophilic cyclization of cyclohexane-1,3-diones with pyridinium salts

• Mostafa Kiamehr,
• Firouz Matloubi Moghaddam,
• Satenik Mkrtchyan,
• Volodymyr Semeniuchenko,
• Linda Supe,
• Alexander Villinger,
• Peter Langer and
• Viktor O. Iaroshenko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1119–1126, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.124

• pyridinium salt 2a should be used in a ratio of two to one. In addition, the optimization study showed the essential role of a non-nucleophilic base as well as that of the potassium cation. This optimization study afforded a general procedure and optimal reaction conditions: 2.0 mmol of diketone, 1.0 mmol of

• -diketone deprotonation and nucleophilic attack of potassium 3-oxocyclohex-1-enolate on pyridinium cation, which yields an intermediate with a new C–C bond, and this is a key stage in the reaction. The C–O bond formation can be excluded in the initial stage (see Supporting Information File 2 for the

• because this base is presumed to operate; it is formed from neutral carbonate when it deprotonates the cyclic diketone. However, the mechanism involving any other base should not differ significantly. A plausible mechanism is presented in Figure 2. After initial deprotonation of the diketone and formation

Substituent effect on the energy barrier for σ-bond formation from π-single-bonded species, singlet 2,2-dialkoxycyclopentane-1,3-diyls

• Jianhuai Ye,
• Yoshihisa Fujiwara and
• Manabu Abe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 925–933, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.106

• cyclopentadienes, and followed by a hydrogenation reaction [30][31]. The synthesis of AZg (Ar = 3,5-dimethoxyphenyl, Ar’ = H) was performed from the corresponding 1,3-diketone 4 (Scheme 3b). 2,2-Dimethoxy-1,3-diarylpropane-1,3-dione 5g was prepared from 1,3-dione 4 (R = 3,5-dimethoxybenzene) according to the

Asymmetric synthesis of a highly functionalized bicyclo[3.2.2]nonene derivative

• Toshiki Tabuchi,
• Daisuke Urabe and
• Masayuki Inoue

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 655–663, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.74

• -membered 25 was induced by treatment with NaNO2 in acetic acid [28][29], resulting in the formation of eight-membered 27 through the intermediary of 26. Finally, the desilylation of 27 with TBAF and the subsequent oxidation of the resultant hydroxy group delivered the symmetric diketone 1 in optically

• ; found, 331.2078. C2-symmetric diketone 1: TBAF (1.0 M in THF, 130 μL, 0.13 mmol) was added to a solution of 27 (13 mg, 42 μmol) in THF (0.9 mL) at room temperature. The reaction mixture was stirred for 1.5 h at room temperature and at 40 °C for 1.5 h. TBAF (1.0 M in THF, 83 μL, 83 μmol) was added again

• mL × 3). The combined organic layers were washed with brine (5 mL), dried over Na2SO4, filtered and concentrated. The residue was purified by flash column chromatography (silica gel 1 g, pentane/Et2O 5:1 to 2:1) to afford C2-symmetric diketone 1 (7.5 mg, 39 μmol) in 93% yield over two steps: crystal

The chemistry of bisallenes

• Henning Hopf and
• Georgios Markopoulos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1936–1998, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.225

• reaction. In this case the diketone 107 was obtained by a Zn/Cu-couple-induced coupling reaction between excess phenacyl bromide (105) and the enyne 106 (Scheme 27) [83]. Besides 107 its diyne and propargylallene dimers were produced, requiring a chromatographic separation of the product mixture. The

Organocatalytic asymmetric addition of malonates to unsaturated 1,4-diketones

• Sergei Žari,
• Tiiu Kailas,
• Marina Kudrjashova,
• Mario Öeren,
• Ivar Järving,
• Toomas Tamm,
• Margus Lopp and
• Tõnis Kanger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1452–1457, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.165

• catalysts were screened in the reaction of phenyl disubstituted unsaturated 1,4-diketone 1a with diethyl malonate (2a, Table 1). The reaction was run in DCE at room temperature in the presence of 10 mol % of catalyst with a five-fold excess of malonate. In all cases, the yields of the products were very

• ) was used. This did not influence the reaction time or the enantioselectivity, but afforded easier purification of the crude product. 1,4-Diketone 1a reacted smoothly with a variety of malonates 2a–2f, affording the products 3a–3f in high yields and with moderate to high stereoselectivities. In the

• -substituent of unsaturated 1,4-diketone 1 on the reaction was investigated (Table 3). Electron-withdrawing groups, such as bromo and nitro, (Table 3, entries 10 and 13) as well as the electron-donating methoxy group (Table 3, entry 7) led to an increase in stereoselectivity, but the reaction time was also

Two-directional synthesis as a tool for diversity-oriented synthesis: Synthesis of alkaloid scaffolds

• Kieron M. G. O’Connell,
• Monica Díaz-Gavilán,
• Warren R. J. D. Galloway and
• David R. Spring

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 850–860, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.95

• % yield of the nitroketone. Two-directional synthesis of diketone 18 in this fashion did not prove to be feasible; however, it was achieved in good yield by Michael addition of the nitroketone anion to phenylvinylketone. Subjecting diketone 18 to H2 gas and Raney-nickel then reduced the nitro group and

Catalyst-free and solvent-free Michael addition of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds to nitroalkenes by a grinding method

• Zong-Bo Xie,
• Na Wang,
• Ming-Yu Wu,
• Ting He,
• Zhang-Gao Le and
• Xiao-Qi Yu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 534–538, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.61

• method. Herein, we report a green protocol for the Michael addition of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds to nitroalkenes under catalyst- and solvent-free conditions (Scheme 1). Utilizing this simple, rapid, low-cost and effective procedure, various nitro diketone derivatives were synthesized in high yields

Branching out at C-2 of septanosides. Synthesis of 2-deoxy-2-C-alkyl/aryl septanosides from a bromo-oxepine

• Supriya Dey and
• Narayanaswamy Jayaraman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 522–527, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.59

• methodology include the formation of vinyl halide, vinyl ether, diketone and diol intermediates, which are potential sites for varied types of functionalizations. While exploring such features, we undertook the preparation of septanoside derivatives that are branched out at C-2, so as to afford 2-deoxy-2-C

• oxygen at C-2 of oxyglycal I was retained throughout until the septanoside V was obtained. More importantly, vinyl halide III and diketone IV also form as intermediates of the reaction and these intermediates provide an avenue to expand the scope of the reaction sequence. In the present work, we