1,4-Dithianes: attractive C2-building blocks for the synthesis of complex molecular architectures

• Bram Ryckaert,
• Ellen Demeyere,
• Frederick Degroote,
• Hilde Janssens and
• Johan M. Winne

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 115–132, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.12

• at room temperature to form the expected Diels–Alder adduct 32, while non-cyclic vinyl disulfones require heating to 80 °C for 20–48 h. Deoxygenation of the epoxide and desulfonylation with sodium amalgam affords barrelene (33) in an excellent overall yield from oxepin. The chlorinated 1,4-dithiin

Two-step continuous-flow synthesis of 6-membered cyclic iodonium salts via anodic oxidation

• Julian Spils,
• Thomas Wirth and
• Boris J. Nachtsheim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 27–32, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.2

• effect (Table 3, entry 3). We then investigated longer reaction times (4 × 50 min, 4 × 0.500 mmol), but without additional electrolyte the overall yield of 38% was significantly lower. It was possible to compensate for this to some degree by using TBABF4 as shown in Table 3, entry 2. This adjustment

• improved the overall yield to 43%. Finally, we investigated a variety of substituted benzyl acetates 3 (Figure 1). Substitutions para to the iodine led with F- and Cl-derivatives 1b and 1c to strongly diminished yields of 15% and 26%, respectively, due to expected lower yields in the Friedel–Crafts step

Combining the best of both worlds: radical-based divergent total synthesis

• Kyriaki Gennaiou,
• Antonios Kelesidis,
• Maria Kourgiantaki and
• Alexandros L. Zografos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1–26, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.1

• the latter, which is proven in the number of steps and the overall yield, hence establishing it as highly appealing for further development (Scheme 1). In order to identify the new pharmaceutical leads of tomorrow, drug discovery relies on the available chemical space rising from existing chemical

• chiral aldehyde 127 and Boc-protected amine 128, followed by zinc reduction of the nitro group and subsequent protection of the amine by a tosyl group in 27% overall yield. Irradiating 129 with blue light at 30 W in the presence of 1 mol % of [Ir(dtbbpy)(ppy)2]PF6 and 5 equiv of KHCO3 in THF resulted in

Total synthesis of grayanane natural products

• Nicolas Fay,
• Rémi Blieck,
• Cyrille Kouklovsky and
• Aurélien de la Torre

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1707–1719, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.181

• required. Luo's team used Davis’ oxaziridine followed by treatment with K2CO3 to equilibrate the hydroxyketone, delivering an inseparable epimeric mixture (1:3) of 63 in 31% overall yield. An additional TBS protection allowed separation of the epimers. After acidic treatment, pure rhodomollein XX and 3-epi

• -membered triflate 71 was synthesized from diketone 26 in 5 steps and 37% overall yield. Both fragments were assembled by a Sonogashira cross-coupling, affording 72 in 72% yield. In a first attempt, TBS protection was considered on the bicylo[3.2.1]octane. However, later in the strategy, the deprotection

Synthesis of (−)-halichonic acid and (−)-halichonic acid B

• Keith P. Reber and
• Emma L. Niner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1629–1635, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.174

• multigram scale, affording (−)-7-amino-7,8-dihydrobisabolene (4) and its C7-epimer as an 83:17 mixture of diastereomers in 87% overall yield. Unfortunately, these diastereomers were not separable by conventional column chromatography. Although this diastereomeric mixture could be converted into a variety of

A new route for the synthesis of 1-deazaguanine and 1-deazahypoxanthine

• Raphael Bereiter,
• Marco Oberlechner and
• Ronald Micura

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1617–1624, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.172

• desired triamine 9. After cyclization of the resulting 4-ethoxy-2,3,6-triaminopyridine (9) with formic acid leading to ethyl-protected compound 10 and liberation of the O6 with hydrogen bromide, 1-deazaguanine (11) was formed in 2 to 4% overall yield (Scheme 2) [18]. The approach by Gorton and Shive

• was carried out to obtain the desired 4-hydroxy-2,3,6-triaminopyridine (15) in unspecified yield (Scheme 3). This approach was optimized in 1975 by Schelling and Salemink using benzyl ether protection of the O4 during the imidazopyridine formation to increase the overall yield up to 37% [20]. The last

• attempt to refine the synthesis of Gorton and Shive, was described by Temple and co-workers in 1976 by their preparation of 1-deaza-6-thioguanine analogues with 28% overall yield [21]. Synthesis of 1-deazaguanine Our route to 1-deazaguanine 11 started from 6-iodo-1-deazapurine (16) (Scheme 4), which can

Formal total synthesis of macarpine via a Au(I)-catalyzed 6-endo-dig cycloisomerization strategy

• Jiayue Fu,
• Bingbing Li,
• Zefang Zhou,
• Maosheng Cheng,
• Lu Yang and
• Yongxiang Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1589–1595, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.169

• deprotection of the silyl group was accomplished in the presence of potassium carbonate (K2CO3) and methanol to provide the terminal alkyne 5 in 96% yield in two steps. The iodoarene 8 [12][16] was facilely synthesized from sesamol (6) via methylation and iodination in an overall yield of 67%. With the

Design, synthesis, and evaluation of chiral thiophosphorus acids as organocatalysts

• Karen R. Winters and
• Jean-Luc Montchamp

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1471–1478, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.154

• . The resolution of compound 1 was not conducted at this point because its synthesis was deemed problematic. While relatively short (5 steps), the overall yield was only 20% due to a low-yielding key step and a problematic thionation step immediately following. Unfortunately, thionation of 8 with an

• obtained in moderate yield. Crystallization gave a single diastereoisomer in 20% yield. Stec reaction [38][39][40] finally gave the desired CPA 4. Although the entire sequence proceeded in only 6% overall yield, it was conducted on a multigram-scale so that more than 0.4 g of 4 was obtained. Evaluation of

Mechanochemical synthesis of unsymmetrical salens for the preparation of Co–salen complexes and their evaluation as catalysts for the synthesis of α-aryloxy alcohols via asymmetric phenolic kinetic resolution of terminal epoxides

• Shengli Zuo,
• Shuxiang Zheng,
• Jianjun Liu and
• Ang Zuo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1416–1423, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.147

• were summarized in Table 1. We were surprised that the overall yield from ball milling was lower than the overall yield from grinding, suggesting a higher revolution per minute (RPM) could be necessary to increase the reaction yield using ball milling. It is assumed that the forces are not equivalent

Preparation of an advanced intermediate for the synthesis of leustroducsins and phoslactomycins by heterocycloaddition

• Anaïs Rousseau,
• Guillaume Vincent and
• Cyrille Kouklovsky

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1385–1395, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.143

• we wondered whether it was possible to perform the whole synthetic sequence with this protecting group. Accordingly, the enol phosphate 13 was synthesized in five steps (26% overall yield) from 1,4-butanediol (Scheme 5). Since cycloaddition with the Wightman reagent 6 releases hydrogen chloride in

Synthesis of C6-modified mannose 1-phosphates and evaluation of derived sugar nucleotides against GDP-mannose dehydrogenase

• Sanaz Ahmadipour,
• Alice J. C. Wahart,
• Jonathan P. Dolan,
• Laura Beswick,
• Chris S. Hawes,
• Robert A. Field and
• Gavin J. Miller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1379–1384, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.142

• -phosphate 17 as the sodium triethylamine salt. Overall, the synthesis of 17 was developed in 4 steps and 46% overall yield from 14. With the required C6-modified glycosyl 1-phosphates in hand, we next evaluated them as substrates for enzymatic sugar nucleotide synthesis. Enzymatic synthesis of C6-modified

Ionic multiresonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters for light emitting electrochemical cells

• Merve Karaman,
• Abhishek Kumar Gupta,
• Subeesh Madayanad Suresh,
• Tomas Matulaitis,
• Lorenzo Mardegan,
• Daniel Tordera,
• Henk J. Bolink,
• Sen Wu,
• Stuart Warriner,
• Ifor D. Samuel and
• Eli Zysman-Colman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1311–1321, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.136

• 23% overall yield. First, hydrolysis of 1, in situ conversion to the acyl chloride and subsequent Lewis acid-promoted Friedel–Crafts acylation reaction produced compound 2 (Scheme 1), where the AlCl3 was also responsible for the demethylation. Compound 2 was then subjected to monoalkylation with 1,4

• -dibromobutane in moderate yield, followed by a second alkylation step with 1-methylimidazole in very good yield. DiKTa-OBuIm was isolated as its hexafluorophosphate salt following anion metathesis with NH4PF6. DiKTa-DPA-OBuIm was obtained also in three steps at 35% overall yield from compound 4 using a similar

Enantioselective total synthesis of putative dihydrorosefuran, a monoterpene with an unique 2,5-dihydrofuran structure

• Irene Torres-García,
• Josefa L. López-Martínez,
• Rocío López-Domene,
• Manuel Muñoz-Dorado,
• Ignacio Rodríguez-García and
• Miriam Álvarez-Corral

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1264–1269, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.132

• dihydrorosefuran, a compound allegedly identified in Artemisia pallens and Tagetes mendocina, has been developed. The key steps in the five-step 36% overall yield synthesis are a CpTiIIICl2 mediated Barbier-type allenylation of a linear aldehyde and the formation of a 2,5-dihydrofuran scaffold through a Ag(I

Vicinal ketoesters – key intermediates in the total synthesis of natural products

• Marc Paul Beller and
• Ulrich Koert

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1236–1248, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.129

• with a medium pressure mercury lamp in Pyrex® glassware triggered a 1,6-HAT leading to biradical X which combined to the racemic pyrrolizidine 68 as a 1:1 mixture of diastereomers. Three more steps gave the target compound 69 in 31% overall yield. Corynoxine Hiemstra et al. used the α-ketoester moiety

• aniline 94 in three steps (Scheme 16). Subsequent deprotection and condensation with dimethyl mesoxalate (90b) gave imidazolidine 95. With compound 95 at hands, five further steps gave (−)-aplaminal (96) in a good overall yield of 19%. Cladoniamide G The unsymmetrical mesoxalic acid amide 102 was used by

Synthesis of tryptophan-dehydrobutyrine diketopiperazine and biological activity of hangtaimycin and its co-metabolites

• Houchao Xu,
• Anne Wochele,
• Minghe Luo,
• Gregor Schnakenburg,
• Yuhui Sun,
• Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt and
• Jeroen S. Dickschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1159–1165, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.120

• diminished yield for 15 (70%), lowering the overall yield of TDD to 33% over eight steps. The major enantiomer of 4 obtained from this second route was identical to natural TDD (Figure 1D) which is thus S-configured, i.e., derived from ʟ-tryptophan. Moreover, the olefinic double bond in 4 is Z-configured as

Synthesis and HDAC inhibitory activity of pyrimidine-based hydroxamic acids

• Virginija Jakubkiene,
• Gabrielius Ernis Valiulis,
• Markus Schweipert,
• Asta Zubriene,
• Daumantas Matulis,
• Franz-Josef Meyer-Almes and
• Sigitas Tumkevicius

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 837–844, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.84

• increase in the overall yield (from 52 to 71%) and selectivity (from 1.4:1 to 2.5:1) in favor of the O-isomer 24a were observed (compare entries 5 and 6 in Table 1). The best alkylation results were obtained when the alkylation reaction was carried out at 50–60 °C. These reaction conditions proved to be

Synthesis of odorants in flow and their applications in perfumery

• Merlin Kleoff,
• Paul Kiler and
• Philipp Heretsch

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 754–768, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.76

• . For compound 6, both individual steps were combined for a two-step aldol condensation/hydrogenation flow sequence providing raspberry ketone methyl ether (6) on a gram scale in 75% overall yield. Interestingly, also alternative flow protocols for the synthesis of 4-aryl-3-buten-2-ones 3 and 4 were

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

• in a 1:1.3 ratio (inseparable mixture, 32% overall yield). The minor isomer has a linear structure with carbomethoxy groups in the equatorial plane as depicted for 37, whereas in the major isomer 38 the carbomethoxy groups are positioned in axial plane of the molecule. The bent structure of 38 was

BINOL as a chiral element in mechanically interlocked molecules

• Matthias Krajnc and
• Jochen Niemeyer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 508–523, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.53

• -capping. The resulting compounds were treated with chloroacetic anhydride and then with thiazole. After anion exchange the chiral thiazolium salts (R)-35a/b, which differ in the chain length of the axle, were obtained in 9%/42% overall yield (see Figure 8a). For comparison, a rotaxane containing a BINOL

• , rotaxane (R)-38 was obtained in 35% overall yield (see Figure 8b). These rotaxanes where then used as catalysts for the asymmetric benzoin condensation of benzaldehyde (39). The best yield (90%) could be generated at 0 °C in methanol with 10 mol % of catalyst (R)-35a, albeit with a low stereoselectivity

• pyridine axle, followed by ion exchange, gave rise to the cationic rotaxanes 64a/b in 23/37% overall yield, both of which feature four iodotriazoles as XB donors. While rotaxane (S)-64a only possesses the BINOL unit as a stereogenic element, the system (S,S,S)-64b features two additional chiral centers on

Menadione: a platform and a target to valuable compounds synthesis

• Acácio S. de Souza,
• Ruan Carlos B. Ribeiro,
• Dora C. S. Costa,
• Fernanda P. Pauli,
• David R. Pinho,
• Matheus G. de Moraes,
• Fernando de C. da Silva,
• Luana da S. M. Forezi and
• Vitor F. Ferreira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 381–419, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.43

• -naphthoquinone (18) were obtained in 80% yield with a 75:25 ratio, respectively (Scheme 2, method A). In the methylation reaction using methyl radicals generated by the redox decomposition of H2O2 in DMSO solution, compounds 10 and 18 were obtained in an overall yield of 80–90% with a 77:23 ratio, respectively

• 1,3-butadiene, followed by dehydrogenation gave menadione (10). This proved to be a good synthetic route, leading to menadione in approximately 80% overall yield (Scheme 6). Another interesting synthetic approach was reported by Mal and co-workers, who synthetized menadione (10) via a

Borylated norbornadiene derivatives: Synthesis and application in Pd-catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reactions

• Robin Schulte and
• Heiko Ihmels

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 368–373, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.41

• with t-BuLi and the following reaction with bis(pinacolato)diborone in 15% overall yield (Scheme 1) [27]. The low yield of this reaction as compared with the ones of resembling reactions of the substrate 1b [27] may be caused by the unfavorable clash of the sterically demanding borylating reagent and

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

• intermediate 7a. In the presence of K2CO3 in CH3CN at refluxing temperature, the 3,4-dihydroquinazoline 8a was finally obtained in 84% yield (Table 1, entry 1, the overall yield is 73%) by intramolecular nucleophilic substitution. The reaction conditions for the transformation of guanidine intermediate 7a into

• obtained in the presence of K2CO3/CH3CN probably due to the lower reactivity of the -OAc leaving group. In case when R was a 4-NO2C6H4 group, 86% yield of the product 8a was obtained, however, in this case the Passerini product 4a (R = 4-NO2C6H4) was obtained only in 62% yield and the overall yield of

Iridium-catalyzed hydroacylation reactions of C1-substituted oxabenzonorbornadienes with salicylaldehyde: an experimental and computational study

• Angel Ho,
• Austin Pounder,
• Krish Valluru,
• Leanne D. Chen and
• William Tam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 251–261, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.30

• revolutionized the modern chemist’s synthetic toolbox, prior installation of these functional groups requires a number of steps, leading to undesired side-products and reduced overall yield. An attractive alternative is the catalytic activation and subsequent functionalization of otherwise inert carbon–hydrogen

Anomeric 1,2,3-triazole-linked sialic acid derivatives show selective inhibition towards a bacterial neuraminidase over a trypanosome trans-sialidase

• Peterson de Andrade,
• Sanaz Ahmadipour and
• Robert A. Field

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 208–216, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.24

• acid derivatives was synthesised as outlined in Figure 2B. Emulating our previous work with anomeric azide CuAAC click chemistry [17][22][23][24], the well-known α-azidosialic acid 1 [25] was synthesised from N-acetylneuraminic acid in four steps [26] in good overall yield (55%). The assignment of the

Ready access to 7,8-dihydroindolo[2,3-d][1]benzazepine-6(5H)-one scaffold and analogues via early-stage Fischer ring-closure reaction

• Irina Kuznetcova,
• Felix Bacher,
• Daniel Vegh,
• Hsiang-Yu Chuang and
• Vladimir B. Arion

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 143–151, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.15

• closely related analogues, one containing a bromo substituent and the other one incorporating an 8-membered instead of a 7-membered ring. The key transformation in this four-step synthesis, with an overall yield of 29%, is the Fischer indole reaction of 2-nitrophenylacetyl acetoacetate with 1-benzyl-1