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Mechanochemical difluoromethylations of ketones

  • Jinbo Ke,
  • Pit van Bonn and
  • Carsten Bolm

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2799–2805, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.235

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  • was obtained. Furthermore, most isolated products had only purities of ca. 90% still containing inseparable impurities (as revealed by NMR spectroscopy). In the first series of substrates, acetophenone derivatives with various para-substituents were applied. Similar to methyl tolyl ketone (1a), which
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Published 04 Nov 2024

Copper-catalyzed yne-allylic substitutions: concept and recent developments

  • Shuang Yang and
  • Xinqiang Fang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2739–2775, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.232

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  • related to yne-allylic substitutions. Review Copper-catalyzed yne-allylic substitutions affording 1,3- and 1,4-enynes In 2022, Fang et al. [62] realized the copper-catalyzed yne-allylic substitution involving stabilized “soft” nucleophiles for the first time. Indoles and pyrroles with various substituents
  • :1 (Scheme 3, 3e). Carbonates with aryl or styryl residue can undergo the reaction smoothly (Scheme 3, 3f–k), but alkyl-substituted substrates showed low yields (Scheme 3, 3l and 3m). Moreover, secondary amines with various substituents, acyclic amines, primary amines, or even the amine moieties in
  • -, stereo-, and enantioselectivities, resulting in a series of chiral yne-allylic sulfone compounds with different substituents (Scheme 13, 14a–q). Due to the high steric hindrance of the γ-site, nucleophilic substitutions preferentially occur at the α-site. Through subsequent control experiments, they
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Published 31 Oct 2024

Synthesis of benzo[f]quinazoline-1,3(2H,4H)-diones

  • Ruben Manuel Figueira de Abreu,
  • Peter Ehlers and
  • Peter Langer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2708–2719, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.228

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  • known which allow for an individual introduction of substituents at both positions [37][38][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61]. In our previous work, we developed a new method which enables both positions to be independently functionalised by Sonogashira- and Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling
  • are known compounds, the synthesis of derivatives 4g–i has not been previously reported (Scheme 2). Yields were generally lower in case of the presence of electron-withdrawing substituents. Subsequently, the cyclisation of 4a–i to 5a–i by acid-mediated cycloisomerisation was studied. In our first
  • -group-containing compounds 5d and 5f are bathochromically shifted by ≈80 nm and ≈100 nm, respectively. The other compounds show similar emission maxima at ≈405 nm, hinting to a limited impact of the aryl substituents and their functional groups on the emission properties for these compounds. Moreover
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Published 28 Oct 2024

Synthesis of fluoroalkenes and fluoroenynes via cross-coupling reactions using novel multihalogenated vinyl ethers

  • Yukiko Karuo,
  • Keita Hirata,
  • Atsushi Tarui,
  • Kazuyuki Sato,
  • Kentaro Kawai and
  • Masaaki Omote

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2691–2703, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.226

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  • -chloro-1,1,1-trifluoroethane (halothane) in good yields (Scheme 1D) [42]. Compound 1 has a unique structure possessing three types of halogen atoms, namely bromine, chlorine, and fluorine, and it would be expected to afford multisubstituted fluoroalkenes by installing various substituents to bromine or
  • cross-coupling between 1e, derived from m-aminophenol, and 4a proceeded in only 15% yield (Table 3, entries 17 and 18). We performed Sonogashira cross-couplings between 1 and a variety of alkynes 5 (Table 4). Arylacetylenes, which have electron-donating substituents on the aromatic ring (5b–f), and 2
  • -naphthylacetylene (5g) provided the corresponding enynes (3b–g) in 43–92% yields (Table 4, entries 1–6). On the contrary, electron-withdrawing substituents such as chloro, trifluoromethyl and nitro groups resulted in low cross-coupling yields (3h–j) (Table 4, entries 7–9). p-Acetyl or p-formylphenylacetylene (5k or
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Published 24 Oct 2024

Photoluminescence color-tuning with polymer-dispersed fluorescent films containing two fluorinated diphenylacetylene-type fluorophores

  • Kazuki Kobayashi,
  • Shigeyuki Yamada,
  • Motohiro Yasui and
  • Tsutomu Konno

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2682–2690, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.225

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  • structure (Figure 1a) [14][15][16]. Our extensive efforts have revealed that introducing electron-donating alkoxy and electron-withdrawing cyano groups at both ends of the diphenylacetylene scaffold slows the internal conversion to the πσ* excited state. Further incorporating four fluoro substituents in the
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Published 23 Oct 2024

Computational design for enantioselective CO2 capture: asymmetric frustrated Lewis pairs in epoxide transformations

  • Maxime Ferrer,
  • Iñigo Iribarren,
  • Tim Renningholtz,
  • Ibon Alkorta and
  • Cristina Trujillo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2668–2681, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.224

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  • an in silico approach to design asymmetric frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) aimed at controlling reaction stereochemistry. Four FLP scaffolds, incorporating diverse Lewis acids (LA), Lewis bases (LB), and substituents, were assessed via volcano plot analysis to identify the most promising catalysts. By
  • strategically modifying LB substituents to induce asymmetry, a stereoselective catalytic scaffold was developed, favouring one enantiomer from both epoxide enantiomers. This work advances the in silico design of FLPs, highlighting their potential as asymmetric CCU catalysts with implications for optimising
  • colleagues [1]. These compounds, which feature a Lewis acid (LA) and a Lewis base (LB), whose interaction is hindered by bulky substituents or chain strain, have garnered significant attention. Initially explored for their ability to trap small molecules [2][3], such as H2 [4], CO2 [5][6][7], N2O [8][9], and
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Published 22 Oct 2024

Transition-metal-free decarbonylation–oxidation of 3-arylbenzofuran-2(3H)-ones: access to 2-hydroxybenzophenones

  • Bhaskar B. Dhotare,
  • Seema V. Kanojia,
  • Chahna K. Sakhiya,
  • Amey Wadawale and
  • Dibakar Goswami

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2655–2667, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.223

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  • -absorbing as well as photo-antioxidant properties via an intramolecular hydrogen transfer [5]. The structure–activity relationship between the substituents of 2-hydroxybenzophenones and their UV-absorption properties has been reported previously [6]. It was concluded that the ability to absorb UV light and
  • of 3-arylbenzofuran-2(3H)-ones with both electron-donating as well as electron-withdrawing substituents reacted smoothly to afford the corresponding benzophenones 4aa–ka in good to high yields. Substitutions at the 5, 6, or 7 positions of the benzofuranones did not hamper the reaction, although a
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Published 21 Oct 2024

The scent gland composition of the Mangshan pit viper, Protobothrops mangshanensis

  • Jonas Holste,
  • Paul Weldon,
  • Donald Boyer and
  • Stefan Schulz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2644–2654, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.222

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  • substituents, which are usually separated by an odd number of carbons and located at even-numbered carbons due to their biosynthetic origin from methylmalonate units [26]. From these analytical data, we proposed that compounds A–F were 4,6-dimethyl-5-enoic acids, ranging from C9 to C14 in chain length (Figure
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Published 18 Oct 2024

Synthesis and cytotoxicity studies of novel N-arylbenzo[h]quinazolin-2-amines

  • Battini Veeraiah,
  • Kishore Ramineni,
  • Dabbugoddu Brahmaiah,
  • Nangunoori Sampath Kumar,
  • Hélène Solhi,
  • Rémy Le Guevel,
  • Chada Raji Reddy,
  • Frédéric Justaud and
  • René Grée

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2592–2598, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.218

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  • compounds with two substituents or with three fluorine atoms. All these compounds have been obtained in fair yields (51–70%) and they have spectral and analytical data in agreement with the indicated structures, as given in the experimental section and Supporting Information File 1. Cytotoxicity studies
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Published 14 Oct 2024

Base-promoted cascade recyclization of allomaltol derivatives containing an amide fragment into substituted 3-(1-hydroxyethylidene)tetronic acids

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

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2585–2591, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.217

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  • aliphatic substituents at the ring nitrogen atom. Besides that, we managed to perform the investigated reaction using the corresponding aniline derivative 4r. It should be mentioned that in this case the considered recyclization proceeded in lower yield comparing with other amides and was accompanied by
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Published 14 Oct 2024

Anion-dependent ion-pairing assemblies of triazatriangulenium cation that interferes with stacking structures

  • Yohei Haketa,
  • Takuma Matsuda and
  • Hiromitsu Maeda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2567–2576, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.215

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  • modifications of the N-aryl units as sterically hindered substituents significantly affect the assembling behaviors, their solid-state packing structures are largely unknown. In this study, ion pairs (salts) of an N-aryl-substituted TATA+ as a bulky cation with various counteranions were prepared for
  • assemblies without stacking of the TATA+ planes owing to the steric hindrance of the bulky N-substituents, indicating that the arrangement of the TATA+ cation was largely dependent on the coexisting counteranions. In particular, the TATA+ cation in the BF4− and PF6− ion pairs formed herringbone structures by
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Published 10 Oct 2024

Visible-light-mediated flow protocol for Achmatowicz rearrangement

  • Joachyutharayalu Oja,
  • Sanjeev Kumar and
  • Srihari Pabbaraja

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2493–2499, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.213

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  • -flow platform to provide the corresponding dihydropyranone products (3a–p) with moderate to good yields (51–85%), Figure 1. We investigated several furanol derivatives by altering the substituents at two critical positions: the hydroxymethyl carbon and the 5-position of the furan ring, that were
  • essential for the Achmatowicz reaction. Figure 1 demonstrates that even when there was no substituent at the hydroxymethyl position (in 2b), the reaction proceeded effectively, leading to the formation of 3b with an 80% yield inferring that the absence of substituents at the hydroxymethyl group does not
  • prevent the formation of the desired product. At the same position, introducing more substituents such as n-butyl (2c), dimethyl (2d), cyclohexyl (2e) and sterically crowded diphenyl (2f) groups also led to the corresponding products (3c–f) with average to good yields that were comparable to that obtained
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Published 08 Oct 2024

Photoredox-catalyzed intramolecular nucleophilic amidation of alkenes with β-lactams

  • Valentina Giraldi,
  • Giandomenico Magagnano,
  • Daria Giacomini,
  • Pier Giorgio Cozzi and
  • Andrea Gualandi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2461–2468, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.210

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  • lactams. Notably, all reported structures have alkyl or aryl substituents in position 3 of the clavam ring. Conversely, clavams substituted with alkyl chains at the 2-position, to the best of our knowledge, have not been previously reported and are absent from common organic compound databases. To explore
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Published 01 Oct 2024

Synthesis and conformational analysis of pyran inter-halide analogues of ᴅ-talose

  • Olivier Lessard,
  • Mathilde Grosset-Magagne,
  • Paul A. Johnson and
  • Denis Giguère

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2442–2454, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.208

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  • Table 4. The Newman projections of the halogenated analogues show deviations from parallel alignment for the C2–F and C4–X substituents of 12.08° for 17, 17.08° for 13, 18.18° for 14, and 18.59° for 15 (talopyranose, 18: 5.92°). This deviation is responsible for the distance between F2 and the halogen
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Published 27 Sep 2024

Phenylseleno trifluoromethoxylation of alkenes

  • Clément Delobel,
  • Armen Panossian,
  • Gilles Hanquet,
  • Frédéric R. Leroux,
  • Fabien Toulgoat and
  • Thierry Billard

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2434–2441, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.207

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  • were usually obtained when the substituents at the double bond differed significantly. When the substituent hindrance was less pronounced, the ratio was less significant (2f, 2j). Interestingly, a reverse regioselectivity was observed depending on the starting alkenes. For the terminal alkenes, the
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Published 26 Sep 2024

Facile preparation of fluorine-containing 2,3-epoxypropanoates and their epoxy ring-opening reactions with various nucleophiles

  • Yutaro Miyashita,
  • Sae Someya,
  • Tomoko Kawasaki-Takasuka,
  • Tomohiro Agou and
  • Takashi Yamazaki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2421–2433, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.206

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  • , University of Hyogo, 3-2-1 Koto, Kamigori-cho, Ako-gun, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan 10.3762/bjoc.20.206 Abstract We describe herein a facile method to access 2,3-epoxyesters with fluorine-containing substituents at their 3-position starting from the corresponding enoates by utilization of the low-costed and easy
  • ) Grignard-based cuprates. These processes usually yielded the addition products along with the epoxy ring opening at the 2 position via the SN2 mechanism, affording 3-Rf-3-hydroxyesters with the incorporation of a variety of substituents at the 2-position in a highly anti-selective fashion. We believe that
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Published 25 Sep 2024

Evaluating the halogen bonding strength of a iodoloisoxazolium(III) salt

  • Dominik L. Reinhard,
  • Anna Schmidt,
  • Marc Sons,
  • Julian Wolf,
  • Elric Engelage and
  • Stefan M. Huber

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2401–2407, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.204

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  • that six-membered core structures are also weaker XB donors (iodininium 3OTf) than iodolium 1OTf [13]. Furthermore, the importance of substituents in the core and on the outer rings was demonstrated (XB donors 2OTf and 4OTf). Nachtsheim reported the synthesis of N-heterocyclic substituted monocationic
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Published 23 Sep 2024

Synthesis, electrochemical properties, and antioxidant activity of sterically hindered catechols with 1,3,4-oxadiazole, 1,2,4-triazole, thiazole or pyridine fragments

  • Daria A. Burmistrova,
  • Andrey Galustyan,
  • Nadezhda P. Pomortseva,
  • Kristina D. Pashaeva,
  • Maxim V. Arsenyev,
  • Oleg P. Demidov,
  • Mikhail A. Kiskin,
  • Andrey I. Poddel’sky,
  • Nadezhda T. Berberova and
  • Ivan V. Smolyaninov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2378–2391, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.202

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  • established for these compounds. The electrochemical behavior of the studied compounds is influenced by several factors: the nature of the heterocycle and its substituents, the presence of a sulfur atom in the catechol ring, or a thione group in the heterocyclic core. The radical scavenging activity and
  • neuroprotective, antihypoxic effects, act as antiparkinsonian agents [3][4][5], exhibit antitumor and antibacterial activity [6][7][8], possess antioxidant properties for regulating free radical processes [9][10][11]. The functionalization of polyphenolic compounds by introducing various substituents or
  • average lengths of the С–С bonds of six-membered carbon cycle С(1–6) (1.396 ± 0.013 Å in 5, 1.397 ± 0.009 Å in 6, 1.396 ± 0.012 Å in 8) are typical for catechols [50][55][56]. The presence of complex polyfunctional substituents affects their spatial location regarding a catechol fragment. In most cases
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Published 19 Sep 2024

Asymmetric organocatalytic synthesis of chiral homoallylic amines

  • Nikolay S. Kondratyev and
  • Andrei V. Malkov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2349–2377, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.201

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  • slightly more efficient with electron-poor substrates. On the other hand, high enantioselectivity was maintained over the aldehyde scope regardless of steric size and position of the substituents. A few years later, Wulff and co-workers [42] further elaborated the aza-Cope rearrangement methodology by
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Published 16 Sep 2024

Tandem diazotization/cyclization approach for the synthesis of a fused 1,2,3-triazinone-furazan/furoxan heterocyclic system

  • Yuri A. Sidunets,
  • Valeriya G. Melekhina and
  • Leonid L. Fershtat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2342–2348, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.200

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  • derivatives bearing both aromatic and aliphatic substituents. The NO-donor ability of the synthesized furoxano[3,4-d][1,2,3]triazin-7(6H)-ones was additionally evaluated. The elaborated method provides access to novel nitrogen heterocyclic compounds with potential applications as drug candidates or
  • ][1,2,3]triazin-7(6H)-one 2-oxides 1 (Scheme 2). Note, that triazinones 1a–d bearing aryl substituents at position 6 were obtained in high yields, however, in the case of the 2-methoxyphenyl derivative the yield of target triazinone 1e was somewhat lower arguably due to steric hindrance. To our delight
  • , furoxancarboxamides 2f–h bearing aliphatic substituents or amino acid residues also smoothly underwent the studied tandem protocol and the corresponding biheterocyclic compounds 1f–h were obtained in yields of 45–77%. After having developed a general method for the synthesis of target furoxanotriazinones 1a–h, we
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Hydrogen-bond activation enables aziridination of unactivated olefins with simple iminoiodinanes

  • Phong Thai,
  • Lauv Patel,
  • Diyasha Manna and
  • David C. Powers

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2305–2312, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.197

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  • -trifluoromethylsulfonyl)aziridine 6c was furnished in 47% yield. Similarly, 2,6-difluorosulfonyl-substituted iminoiodinane 2d afforded aziridine 6d in 52% yield. The aziridination procedure was tolerant of heterocyclic substituents on the iminoiodinane, N-(5-methylpyridin-2-ylsulfonyl)aziridine 6e could be obtained in 46
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Published 11 Sep 2024

Catalysing (organo-)catalysis: Trends in the application of machine learning to enantioselective organocatalysis

  • Stefan P. Schmid,
  • Leon Schlosser,
  • Frank Glorius and
  • Kjell Jorner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2280–2304, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.196

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  • by observing the influence of substituents on a reaction outcome. However, Hammett parameters have shown to not fully describe observed trends. Therefore, complementary representations capturing other properties of a molecule have been derived (vide infra) [28]. While traditional linear free energy
  • Hammett parameters account only for the electronic effect of substituents, much research has been devoted to develop physical-organic descriptors, which consider steric effects and separate the electronic effect into contributions from resonance and induction, among others [27][77][78][79][80][81]. In
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Published 10 Sep 2024

Synthesis and reactivity of the di(9-anthryl)methyl radical

  • Tomohiko Nishiuchi,
  • Kazuma Takahashi,
  • Yuta Makihara and
  • Takashi Kubo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2254–2260, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.193

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  • aromatic hydrocarbon radicals, which can persist in air-saturated solutions for several days to months, have been synthesized by employing bulky substituents around the spin-localized carbon center [13][14][15]. These stable radicals have paved the way to elucidate the nature of radical species, advancing
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Published 05 Sep 2024

Metal-free double azide addition to strained alkynes of an octadehydrodibenzo[12]annulene derivative with electron-withdrawing substituents

  • Naoki Takeda,
  • Shuichi Akasaka,
  • Susumu Kawauchi and
  • Tsuyoshi Michinobu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2234–2241, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.191

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  • the field of bioconjugation and materials research. We previously reported a regioselective double addition of organic azides to octadehydrodibenzo[12]annulene derivatives with electron-rich alkyloxy substituents. In order to increase the reaction rate, electron-withdrawing substituents were
  • ], and crosslinked polymers [14][15][16][17]. Since crosslinking polymers requires high reaction efficiency under mild conditions, developing such reactions is crucial. We previously reported the regioselective double azide addition to octadehydrodibenzo[12]annulene with hexyloxy substituents (DBA-OHex
  • ), which are readily accessible by the oxidative acetylenic coupling of a 1,2-diethynylbenzene derivative (Figure 1) [18]. The chemical stability of DBAs depends on the electronic character of the substituents. Electron-donating alkyloxy groups are known to enhance the stability of DBAs. On the other hand
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Selective hydrolysis of α-oxo ketene N,S-acetals in water: switchable aqueous synthesis of β-keto thioesters and β-keto amides

  • Haifeng Yu,
  • Wanting Zhang,
  • Xuejing Cui,
  • Zida Liu,
  • Xifu Zhang and
  • Xiaobo Zhao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2225–2233, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.190

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  • well as electron-withdrawing substituents on the two phenyl rings in compounds 1, such as methyl, methoxy, halogen atoms (F, Cl, Br, I), CF3 and SO2CH3, were well tolerated, and their electronic effects insignificantly impacted the formation of 3. Similarly, N-benzyl-3-oxo-3-phenylpropanamide (3w
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