Silica-supported sulfonic acids as recyclable catalyst for esterification of levulinic acid with stoichiometric amounts of alcohols

• Raimondo Maggi,
• N. Raveendran Shiju,
• Veronica Santacroce,
• Giovanni Maestri,
• Franca Bigi and
• Gadi Rothenberg

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2173–2180, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.207

• sulfonated catalyst (1%), an equimolecular amount of reagents under solvent free conditions, and varying the temperature between 50–100 °C. Results are reported in Table 3. In all cases, the selectivity towards the esterification product 3a remained complete. A comparable yield of 3a was recovered reducing

Solvent-free synthesis of novel para-menthane-3,8-diol ester derivatives from citronellal using a polymer-supported scandium triflate catalyst

• Lubabalo Mafu,
• Ben Zeelie and
• Paul Watts

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2046–2054, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.193

• was used. Moreover, all the reactions were carried-out under solvent-free conditions. Reaction parameters such as temperature, reaction time and reagent molar ratio were studied towards the substrate conversion and product selectivity. Effect of reaction temperature and reaction time In order to

Microwave-assisted cyclizations promoted by polyphosphoric acid esters: a general method for 1-aryl-2-iminoazacycloalkanes

• Jimena E. Díaz,
• María C. Mollo and
• Liliana R. Orelli

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2026–2031, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.190

• trimethylsilyl polyphosphate (PPSE) in solvent-free conditions allowed for the synthesis of 1-aryl-2-iminopiperidines and hitherto unreported 1-aryl-2-iminoazepanes. The cyclization reaction involves good to high yields and short reaction times, and represents a novel application of PPA esters in heterocyclic

• under certain conditions [45][46]. Using a dichloromethane solution of PPSE, compound 4a was obtained exclusively (Table 2, entries 4–6), while working under solvent-free conditions further improved the yield (Table 2, entry 7). Employing the optimized reaction conditions (neat PPSE, 30 min at 150 °C

• reaction under solvent-free conditions at 150 °C, compound 7a was obtained in modest yield (Table 4, entry 5). Significantly better results were achieved by increasing the temperature to 200 °C (Table 4, entry 6). Employing the optimized reaction conditions, we synthesized some novel 1-aryl-2-iminoazepanes

Ionic liquids as transesterification catalysts: applications for the synthesis of linear and cyclic organic carbonates

• Maurizio Selva,
• Alvise Perosa,
• Sandro Guidi and
• Lisa Cattelan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1911–1924, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.181

• -value chemicals. This holds true also for enzyme-catalyzed transesterification reactions. To cite a few examples, the literature claims the use of lipase as a biocatalyst for i) the reaction of glycerol with DMC for the synthesis of glycerol carbonate (GlyC) under solvent-free conditions. A 60% yield

TMSBr-mediated solvent- and work-up-free synthesis of α-2-deoxyglycosides from glycals

• Mei-Yuan Hsu,
• Yi-Pei Liu,
• Sarah Lam,
• Su-Ching Lin and
• Cheng-Chung Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1758–1764, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.164

• University, Taipei 106, Taiwan Department of Chemistry, National Central University, Jhongli 320, Taiwan 10.3762/bjoc.12.164 Abstract The thio-additions of glycals were efficiently promoted by a stoichiometric amount of trimethylsilyl bromide (TMSBr) to produce S-2-deoxyglycosides under solvent-free

• conditions in good to excellent yields. In addition, with triphenylphosphine oxide as an additive, the TMSBr-mediated direct glycosylations of glycals with a large range of alcohols were highly α-selective. Keywords: 2-deoxyglycosides; glycals; trimethylsilyl bromide (TMSBr); triphenylphosphine oxide (TPPO

Rearrangements of organic peroxides and related processes

• Ivan A. Yaremenko,
• Vera A. Vil’,
• Dmitry V. Demchuk and
• Alexander O. Terent’ev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1647–1748, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.162

• -dioxolanes 151 are rearranged similarly to the Criegee mechanism into diketone derivatives 152 (Scheme 44) [298]. Unlike the Baeyer–Villiger rearrangement, in which only mono-O-insertion can take place, the Criegee rearrangement of peroxide 153 in an acidic medium and under solvent-free conditions does not

Multicomponent reactions: A simple and efficient route to heterocyclic phosphonates

• Mohammad Haji

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1269–1301, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.121

• substituted isatins 30 with aniline (32) and dimethyl- or diethyl phosphite under solvent-free conditions in the presence of magnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticle-supported phosphotungstic acid as a recyclable catalyst at 80 °C furnished α-aminophosphonates 33 in yields from 80% to 98% depending on the reaction time

• -methyl-3-formylchromone (75) with some 1,2-, 1,3- and 1,4-bi-nucleophiles and diethyl phosphonate under solvent-free conditions have been developed by E. Ali et al. [46]. The resulting α-aminophosphonate intermediates 77 and 80 were non-isolable and interconverted to the corresponding heterocyclic

• 1,2-dihydropyridine-3-phosphonate 259. Yavari et al. have described the phosphorylation of benzothiazole (263) and isoquinoline (246) through a one-pot three-component reaction with activated acetylenes 260 and diphenyl phosphonate (261) under solvent-free conditions at room temperature (Scheme 54

Supported bifunctional thioureas as recoverable and reusable catalysts for enantioselective nitro-Michael reactions

• José M. Andrés,
• Miriam Ceballos,
• Alicia Maestro,
• Isabel Sanz and
• Rafael Pedrosa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 628–635, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.61

• (1a) under solvent-free conditions in a ball mill providing the addition product 7aa in excellent yield, total diastereoselectivity, and very good enantioselectitvity. Experimental General remarks 13C NMR (126 MHz) and 1H NMR (500 MHz) spectra were recorded in CDCl3 as the solvent. Chemical shifts for

(Thio)urea-mediated synthesis of functionalized six-membered rings with multiple chiral centers

• Giorgos Koutoulogenis,
• Nikolaos Kaplaneris and
• Christoforos G. Kokotos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 462–495, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.48

• screening of various catalysts, organocatalyst 43 and 4-methoxybenzoic acid as a cocatalyst, was identified as the optimum for the reaction of (E)-2-nitroallyl acetate 40 with cyclohexanone 41 to provide nitrobicyclo[3.3.1]nonan-9-one 42, in solvent-free conditions. This reaction provides products with

Enantioselective additions of copper acetylides to cyclic iminium and oxocarbenium ions

• Jixin Liu,
• Srimoyee Dasgupta and
• Mary P. Watson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2696–2706, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.290

• report is the first and only example to date of alkynylation of an imine or iminium ion to form a chiral tetrasubstituted center with high ee. Enantioselective, copper-catalyzed alkynylations have also been accomplished under solvent-free conditions. In 2013, Su and co-workers established that the CDC

Efficient synthetic protocols for the preparation of common N-heterocyclic carbene precursors

• Morgan Hans,
• Jan Lorkowski,
• Albert Demonceau and
• Lionel Delaude

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2318–2325, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.252

• and ZnCl2. This Friedel–Crafts alkylation was carried out under solvent-free conditions and afforded high yields of the bulky aniline needed to follow the Arduengo formylative cyclization path. It was originally performed in a sealed tube under autogeneous pressure at 160 °C. We checked that the

Olefin metathesis in air

• Lorenzo Piola,
• Fady Nahra and
• Steven P. Nolan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2038–2056, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.221

• % of Ru at 150 °C in air, under solvent-free conditions for several days, to afford 1,2-bis(silyl)ethenes in moderate to good yields [33]. Reactions without oxygen showed no conversion, highlighting the important role that the latter plays in the activation of the catalyst. In 1992, Grubbs and co

• 2nd generation catalyst (33) and a variation of the latter (66, Figure 8) in the RCM of diethyl diallylmalonate (29) [66]. Reactions were performed with very low catalyst loading (from 2.5 to 0.04 mol %), at 30 °C, under air in nondegassed DCM, nondegassed methyl decanoate and under solvent-free

• conditions in nondegassed substrates. Full conversions were achieved in the majority of cases, in both CM and RCM reactions, with all catalysts. In these reactions, catalyst 66 gave the highest performance. It should be noted that the results obtained by Meier with 33 were in contrast with the previous

Investigation on the reactivity of α-azidochalcones with carboxylic acids: Formation of α-amido-1,3-diketones and highly substituted 2-(trifluoromethyl)oxazoles

• Kandasamy Rajaguru,
• Arumugam Mariappan,
• Rajendran Suresh,
• Periasamy Manivannan and
• Shanmugam Muthusubramanian

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2021–2028, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.219

• temperature, it affords highly substituted 2-(trifluoromethyl)oxazoles. These flexible transformations proceed under solvent free conditions in good to excellent yields without any catalyst. Keywords: α-amido-1,3-diketones; α-azidochalcones; carboxylic acids; 2H-azirines; oxazoles; Introduction α

Aerobic addition of secondary phosphine oxides to vinyl sulfides: a shortcut to 1-hydroxy-2-(organosulfanyl)ethyl(diorganyl)phosphine oxides

• Svetlana F. Malysheva,
• Alexander V. Artem’ev,
• Nina K. Gusarova,
• Nataliya A. Belogorlova,
• Alexander I. Albanov,
• C. W. Liu and
• Boris A. Trofimov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1985–1990, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.214

• Chemistry, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien 97401, Taiwan 10.3762/bjoc.11.214 Abstract Secondary phosphine oxides react with vinyl sulfides (both alkyl- and aryl-substituted sulfides) under aerobic and solvent-free conditions (80 °C, air, 7–30 h) to afford 1-hydroxy-2-(organosulfanyl)ethyl(diorganyl

• addition of P–H species to the C=C bonds readily proceeds in the absence of any catalyst or initiator (Scheme 1). The reactions occur under mild solvent-free conditions (70–80 °C, inert atmosphere, 3–15 h) to chemo- and regioselectively furnish the anti-Markovnikov adducts in excellent yields (up to 99

Robust bifunctional aluminium–salen catalysts for the preparation of cyclic carbonates from carbon dioxide and epoxides

• Yuri A. Rulev,
• Zalina Gugkaeva,
• Victor I. Maleev,
• Michael North and
• Yuri N. Belokon

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1614–1623, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.176

• free conditions. Catalyst recycling experiments are also reported and show the robustness of this system. Results and Discussion The preparation of salen ligands 8a and 8b was conducted according to Scheme 2, starting from tert-butylphenol, which was formylated and then nitrated to produce 5-nitro-3

• salts and increasing the steric hindrance around the ammonium salts. Herein, we report the synthesis of two aluminium–salen complexes incorporating quaternary ammonium salts directly attached to the salen ligand and their catalytic activities for the coupling of epoxides and carbon dioxide under solvent

Single-molecule conductance of a chemically modified, π-extended tetrathiafulvalene and its charge-transfer complex with F₄TCNQ

• Raúl García,
• M. Ángeles Herranz,
• Edmund Leary,
• M. Teresa González,
• Gabino Rubio Bollinger,
• Marius Bürkle,
• Linda A. Zotti,
• Yoshihiro Asai,
• Fabian Pauly,
• Juan Carlos Cuevas,
• Nicolás Agraït and
• Nazario Martín

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1068–1078, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.120

• -free conditions as recently reported [27]. Hence, as a starting point, we followed the same sample preparation conditions as previously with the OPE3-dithiol [27]. We prepared 0.1–1 mM solutions of compound 5 in both 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene (TCB) or mesitylene/tetrahydrofuran (Mes/THF 4:1), and exposed

• -dithiol compound (where 3 indicates the total number of phenyl rings), in which the central phenyl ring has been substituted by an exTTF unit. We could, therefore, expect compound 5 to form molecular junctions in a similar way to the OPE3-dithiol, which readily does so either in solution, or under solvent

On the strong difference in reactivity of acyclic and cyclic diazodiketones with thioketones: experimental results and quantum-chemical interpretation

• Andrey S. Mereshchenko,
• Alexey V. Ivanov,
• Viktor I. Baranovskii,
• Grzegorz Mloston,
• Ludmila L. Rodina and
• Valerij A. Nikolaev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 504–513, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.57

• diazo compounds 1a–f with cycloaliphatic thioketone 2b were calculated (Table 2). All calculations refer to the gas phase, since all reactions of DDC 1 with the thioxocyclobutanedione 2b were carried out under solvent-free conditions [20]. The driving force behind the DDC 1a–d reactions with

A green approach to the synthesis of novel phytosphingolipidyl β-cyclodextrin designed to interact with membranes

• Yong Miao,
• Florence Djedaïni-Pilard and
• Véronique Bonnet

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2654–2657, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.278

• medium. The mixture was left to react for 10 minutes. The use of TLC indicated the end of the reaction. After the purification, yields of above 70% were obtained. It was indeed observed that solvent-free conditions can be employed in this reaction. The reaction is much faster without solvent due to the

Regio- and stereoselective synthesis of new diaminocyclopentanols

• Evgeni A. Larin,
• Valeri S. Kochubei and
• Yuri M. Atroshchenko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2513–2520, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.262

• experiments was performed under solvent-free conditions at 100 °C. In case of morpholine (7a), the best catalytic effect was observed with LiClO4 [36] and Zn(ClO4)2·6H2O [37] affording 56 and 76% yield of 8a after isolation and purification, therefore the absence of the solvent seems crucial for the reaction

• nucleophilicity. Moreover, there was not much effect on the outcome of the reactions conducted either under solvent-free conditions or using DMSO as a solvent. The regioisomers 9a–d and 10a–d were isolated through column chromatographic separation and fully characterized in order to avoid ambiguity. The

• diaminocyclopentanols in good yields. It has been shown that using Zn(ClO4)2·6H2O under solvent-free conditions and Cs2CO3 in DMSO is preferable to the ring opening of di-N-protected cyclopentanamine epoxides. We have highlighted the influence of the nature of the N,N-disubstituted amino moiety and the orientation of

Multicomponent reactions in nucleoside chemistry

• Mariola Koszytkowska-Stawińska and
• Włodzimierz Buchowicz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1706–1732, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.179

• phosphite were carried out under solvent-free conditions at 60 °C (for 14) or at 80 °C (for 27). Products 28 and 29 were obtained in good to excellent yields as 1:1 diastereoisomeric mixtures arising from the generation of a stereogenic center at the aminophosphonate chain. The mixtures were not separated

• , microwave irradiation (600 W), 6–10 min (solvent-free conditions). Reagents and reaction conditions: i. Montmorillonite K-10 clay, microwave irradiation (560 W), 6–10 min (solvent-free conditions). Reagents and reaction conditions: i. CeCl3·7H2O (20 mol %), NaI (20 mol %), microwave irradiation (90 °C), 6–8

Preparation of phosphines through C–P bond formation

• Iris Wauters,
• Wouter Debrouwer and
• Christian V. Stevens

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1064–1096, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.106

• also been shown to take place at room temperature in the absence of a catalyst [86][87] and even under solvent-free conditions [88]. More recently also metal complex-assisted or organocatalyzed hydrophosphinations have been reported. Several reviews focusing on hydrophosphination have been pusblished

• corresponding triflate under similar conditions [196][197]. The reaction also proceeded under solvent-free conditions with slightly higher yields [198]. A heterogeneous Pd/C catalyst has been applied as well [199][200]. The group of Glueck has reported the first asymmetric palladium-catalyzed C–P bond formation

Silver and gold-catalyzed multicomponent reactions

• Giorgio Abbiati and
• Elisabetta Rossi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 481–513, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.46

• recently, silver–NHC complexes were found to be valuable catalysts for this MCR. Their first application was reported by Wang and co-workers in 2008 [12], who developed a polystyrene-supported NHC–Ag(I) complex as an efficient catalyst for the A3-coupling under solvent-free conditions, at room temperature

Simple two-step synthesis of 2,4-disubstituted pyrroles and 3,5-disubstituted pyrrole-2-carbonitriles from enones

• Murat Kucukdisli,
• Dorota Ferenc,
• Marcel Heinz,
• Christine Wiebe and
• Till Opatz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 466–470, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.44

• . Gratifyingly, yield and purity of pyrrole 7a increased when 6a was heated with microwaves to 250 °C under air cooling of the reaction vessel without any additive under solvent-free conditions. The results of the application of these conditions to cyanopyrrolines 6a–j are summarized in Table 1. This compound

Practical synthesis of aryl-2-methyl-3-butyn-2-ols from aryl bromides via conventional and decarboxylative copper-free Sonogashira coupling reactions

• Andrea Caporale,
• Stefano Tartaggia,
• Andrea Castellin and
• Ottorino De Lucchi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 384–393, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.36

• variants have been introduced to perform efficiently this reaction with regard to synthetic and industrial aspects, including protocols in aqueous media [14][15][16][17], amine-free [18] or solvent-free conditions [19]. Moreover efficient reusable Pd catalysts [20][21][22][23][24] and even palladium-free

Less reactive dipoles of diazodicarbonyl compounds in reaction with cycloaliphatic thioketones – First evidence for the 1,3-oxathiole–thiocarbonyl ylide interconversion

• Valerij A. Nikolaev,
• Alexey V. Ivanov,
• Ludmila L. Rodina and
• Grzegorz Mlostoń

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2751–2761, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.309

• intensive red or orange color of thioketone 1. In order to enhance the concentration of the reagents and thereby increase the rate of the reaction, experiments with liquid diazocompounds 2a,c–e,h and i and thioketone 1a were carried out under solvent-free conditions. On the other hand, reactions of solid