Palladium- catalyzed cross coupling reactions of 4-bromo- 6H-1,2-oxazines

• Reinhold Zimmer,
• Elmar Schmidt,
• Michal Andrä,
• Marcel-Antoine Duhs,
• Igor Linder and
• Hans-Ulrich Reissig

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 44, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.44

• contrast, when the same reaction conditions were applied to the coupling of 2a and methyl propargyl ether, product 9d was obtained only in very low yield. In addition, Sonogashira coupling of 2a and methyl propargyl ether performed by an alternative protocol (Pd(OAc)2, CuI, PPh3, NHiPr2 in DMF) afforded

• single product in 65% yield. When the Sonogashira coupling was performed with trimethylsilylethyne under the same reaction conditions an inseparable 85:15-mixture of mono-alkynylated product 10b and bis-alkynylated compound 11b was obtained in reasonable yield. These reactions certainly deserve further

• , Ph, C-4), 157.7 (s, C-3) ppm. IR (KBr): 3040–2930 (=C–H, C–H), 1620 (C=N), 1600 (C=C) cm−1. C18H17NO2 (279.3): calcd. C, 77.39; H, 6.13; N, 5.01; found: C, 77.82; H, 6.37; N, 5.08. Sonogashira-coupling of 4-bromo-substituted 6H-1,2-oxazine 2a, typical procedure 6H-1,2-Oxazine 2a (0.850 g, 3.19 mmol

Regioselective alkynylation followed by Suzuki coupling of 2,4-dichloroquinoline: Synthesis of 2-alkynyl- 4-arylquinolines

• Ellanki A. Reddy,
• Aminul Islam,
• K. Mukkanti,
• Venkanna Bandameedi,
• Dipal R. Bhowmik and
• Manojit Pal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 32, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.32

• . (a) arylation at C-4 followed by alkynylation at C-2 or (b) alkynylation at C-2 followed by arylation at C-4. Methodologies based on strategy ‘a’ have been reported earlier. For example, Sonogashira coupling of a terminal alkyne with 2-chloro-4-aryl substituted quinoline [3] in the presence of (PPh3

• singlet at δ 8.03 assigned to the C-3 hydrogen of the quinoline ring. If the alkyne was at C-4, NOE enhancement at C-5 is expected in addition to C-3. It is note worthy that the use of the Sonogashira coupling or its modified form has been employed for the preparation of 2-alkynylquinolines or related

Synthesis of novel photochromic pyrans via palladium- mediated reactions

• Christoph Böttcher,
• Gehad Zeyat,
• Saleh A. Ahmed,
• Elisabeth Irran,
• Thorben Cordes,
• Cord Elsner,
• Wolfgang Zinth and
• Karola Rueck-Braun

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 25, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.25

• transformations. Synthesis of the 2-bromo-3H-naphtho[2,1-b]pyran 1 and the 3-bromo-2H-1-benzopyrans 2a/b. Ring contraction observed during the cyanation approach towards the synthesis of 3. Palladium-catalyzed Sonogashira-coupling of 2-bromo-3H-naphtho[2,1-b]pyran 1. Palladium-catalyzed cyanation and

Convenient methods for preparing π-conjugated linkers as building blocks for modular chemistry

• Jiří Kulhánek,
• Filip Bureš and
• Miroslav Ludwig

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 11, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.11

• use as building blocks in Suzuki–Miyaura or Sonogashira coupling reactions. Keywords: boronic acid; donor/acceptor; linker; Sonogashira reaction; property tuning; push-pull; Suzuki–Miyaura reaction; Introduction Development of new organic compounds with improved and advanced properties is one of the

• . Overall 12 extended π-linkers have been easily synthesized (8 of them are new compounds) utilizing procedures such as a lithiation/reaction with triisopropyl borate/esterification with pinacol, Mizoroki–Heck coupling with vinylboronate pinacol ester, borylation with bis(pinacolato)diboron or Sonogashira

• coupling. Further application of the above boronic esters as well as terminal acetylenes for the construction of imidazole-based D-π-A systems by Suzuki–Miyaura and Sonogashira reaction is currently in progress in our laboratory. Basic and newly proposed π-conjugated linkers designed for the Suzuki–Miyaura

Recent progress on the total synthesis of acetogenins from Annonaceae

• Nianguang Li,
• Zhihao Shi,
• Yuping Tang,
• Jianwei Chen and
• Xiang Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 48, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.48

• constructed with excellent stereoselectivity by asymmetric alkynylation of α-tetrahydrofuranic aldehyde 114 with 1,6-heptadiyne (115). Then Sonogashira coupling of 116 and the iodide 117 followed by hydrogenation and deprotection provided murisolin (111). The spectroscopic data of synthetic 111 (1H NMR, 13C

Shape- persistent macrocycle with intraannular alkyl groups: some structural limits of discotic liquid crystals with an inverted structure

• Sigurd Höger,
• Jill Weber,
• Andreas Leppert and
• Volker Enkelmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 1, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-4-1

• compared to macrocycle 1. 3,5-Diiodo-4-methylbenzene (2) was treated with trimethylsilyl(TMS)acetylene under standard Hagihara-Sonogashira coupling conditions and subsequently deprotected with K2CO3 in MeOH/THF. As expected, the Pd-catalyzed coupling reaction runs under milder conditions and with higher

• (model reactions with 4-methylanisole showed that a direct diiodination could not be obtained under the conditions we used; for example, with N-iodosuccinimide and FeCl3 we could obtain cleanly 2-iodo-4-methylanisole). Pd-catalyzed Hagihara-Sonogashira coupling with 15, deprotection of the

• PAH substituents (Scheme 3). Pd-catalyzed coupling of the diiodo compound 14 with the mono protected bisacetylene 20, deprotection of the acetylenes with TBAF and subsequent coupling with an excess of the diiodo compound 5c gave the diiodide 23. Hagihara-Sonogashira coupling of 23 with an excess of

Flexible synthesis of poison- frog alkaloids of the 5,8-disubstituted indolizidine- class. II: Synthesis of (-)-209B, (-)-231C, (-)-233D, (-)-235B", (-)-221I, and an epimer of 193E and pharmacological effects at neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

• Soushi Kobayashi,
• Naoki Toyooka,
• Dejun Zhou,
• Hiroshi Tsuneki,
• Tsutomu Wada,
• Toshiyasu Sasaoka,
• Hideki Sakai,
• Hideo Nemoto,
• H. Martin Garraffo,
• Thomas F. Spande and
• John W. Daly

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 30, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-30

• the resulting aldehyde under Stork's conditions [11] provided the Z-iodoolefin 5 in a highly stereoselective manner. The Sonogashira coupling reaction [12] of 5 with TMS-acetylene followed by cleavage of the trimethylsilyl group with K2CO3 afforded (-)-231C. Although the rotation of the natural