Reaction of indoles with aromatic fluoromethyl ketones: an efficient synthesis of trifluoromethyl(indolyl)phenylmethanols using K₂CO₃/n-Bu₄PBr in water

• Thanigaimalai Pillaiyar,
• Masoud Sedaghati and
• Gregor Schnakenburg

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 778–790, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.71

• trifluoroacetophenones did not significantly influence the yield of the reaction. The trifluoromethyl ketones having electron-rich heteroaromatics such as 2-(trifluoroacetyl)furan (2g) and 2-(trifluoroacetyl)thiophene (2h) gave the desired products 3g (97%) and 3h (98%) in excellent yields. Next, the role of fluorine in

Copper-catalyzed O-alkenylation of phosphonates

• Nuria Vázquez-Galiñanes,
• Mariña Andón-Rodríguez,
• Patricia Gómez-Roibás and
• Martín Fañanás-Mastral

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 611–615, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.56

• , although low conversion and yield were observed (Table 1, entry 1). A screening of copper complexes at a higher temperature (50 °C) revealed that CuTC (TC = thiophene-2-carboxylate) is the most efficient catalyst for this transformation (Table 1, entries 2–6). Finally, by using 2 equiv of 2a full

KOt-Bu-promoted selective ring-opening N-alkylation of 2-oxazolines to access 2-aminoethyl acetates and N-substituted thiazolidinones

• Qiao Lin,
• Shiling Zhang and
• Bin Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 492–501, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.44

• proceeded well with heterocycle-containing chlorides such as 2-chloro-5-(chloromethyl)thiophene (4e), leading to 2-aminoethyl acetate product 3k in 66% yield which has potential as bifunctional monomer for polymerization. Furthermore, oxazole derivative 2,4,4-trimethyl-4,5-dihydrooxazole (2b) was also

• directly obtained without reaction of C≡N bond. Substrates with pyridyl and thiophene groups were also applied to the synthesis of the corresponding thiazolidine derivatives 5j and 5k in 77% and 50% yields, respectively. On the other hand, further transformation of the 2-aminoethyl acetate product 3a was

Recent advances in photocatalyzed reactions using well-defined copper(I) complexes

• Mingbing Zhong,
• Xavier Pannecoucke,
• Philippe Jubault and
• Thomas Poisson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 451–481, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.42

• ]. Under green light irradiation, a large panel of styrene derivatives was converted into the corresponding α-azidoketones in good to excellent yields. Interestingly, the reaction was extended to the heteroaromatic derivatives, such as thiophene or benzofuran and to β-substituted styrenes. The authors

Room-temperature Pd/Ag direct arylation enabled by a radical pathway

• Amy L. Mayhugh and
• Christine K. Luscombe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 384–390, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.36

• -temperature, Pd/Ag-catalyzed direct arylation systems are radical-mediated. This is in contrast to the commonly proposed two-electron mechanisms for direct arylation and appears to extend to other substrates such as benzo[b]thiophene and pentafluorobenzene. Keywords: direct arylation; indole; palladium

• mechanism has been recently supported by 13C and 2H KIE experiments for the arylation of benzo[b]thiophene, although at C3 [13]. In contrast to these pathways, the radical trap and dark experiments reported above indicate a hybrid Pd(I) radical species induced by visible light is involved in the catalytic

• iodobenzene. Moreover, other substrates such as benzo[b]thiophene and pentafluorobenzene appear to undergo a radical-mediated Pd/Ag room-temperature direct arylation. This is a useful insight for advancing the direct arylation knowledge base, and serves as inspiration for designing new polymerization systems

Formal preparation of regioregular and alternating thiophene–thiophene copolymers bearing different substituents

• Atsunori Mori,
• Keisuke Fujita,
• Chihiro Kubota,
• Toyoko Suzuki,
• Kentaro Okano,
• Takuya Matsumoto,
• Takashi Nishino and
• Masaki Horie

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 317–324, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.31

• Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe 657-8501, Japan Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, 101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan 10.3762/bjoc.16.31 Abstract Differently substituted thiophene–thiophene-alternating copolymers were formally synthesized employing a halo-bithiophene as

• to afford the regioregular polythiophene in which 2,5-dihalo-3-substituted thiophene 1 is employed as a monomer precursor, converting to the corresponding organometallic monomer by a halogen−magnesium exchange reaction with a Grignard reagent. The employment of 1 leading to polythiophene has been

• shown to proceed in a dehalogenative manner [3]. We have recently shown that the generation of the organometallic monomer species can alternatively also be achieved by deprotonation, using 2-halo-3-substituted thiophene 2 or 3 with a bulky magnesium amide Knochel–Hauser base (TMPMgCl⋅LiCl) [7], followed

A green, economical synthesis of β-ketonitriles and trifunctionalized building blocks from esters and lactones

• Daniel P. Pienaar,
• Kamogelo R. Butsi,
• Amanda L. Rousseau and
• Dean Brady

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2930–2935, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.287

• for the production of a commercially important pharmaceutical intermediate, thiophene-substituted β-ketonitrile precursor 18 of the antidepressant drug duloxetine (Cymbalta®) [21][22]. It was interesting to note that, although 38% of the thiophene product could be obtained using methyl tert-butyl

Synthesis of aryl-substituted thieno[3,2-b]thiophene derivatives and their use for N,S-heterotetracene construction

• Nadezhda S. Demina,
• Nikita A. Kazin,
• Nikolay A. Rasputin,
• Roman A. Irgashev and
• Gennady L. Rusinov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2678–2683, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.261

• . N. Yeltsin, Mira St., 19, Ekaterinburg, 620002, Russia 10.3762/bjoc.15.261 Abstract Fiesselmann thiophene synthesis was applied for the convenient construction of thieno[3,2-b]thiophene derivatives. Thus, new 5- or 6-aryl-3-hydroxythieno[3,2-b]thiophene-2-carboxylates were obtained by condensation

• ketones were used to synthesize new N,S-heterotetracenes, namely 9H-thieno[2',3':4,5]thieno[3,2-b]indoles by their treatment with arylhydrazines in accordance with the Fischer indolization reaction. Keywords: Fiesselmann thiophene synthesis; Fischer indole synthesis; N,S-heteroacene; thieno[3,2-b

• ]thiophene; thieno[2',3':4,5]thieno[3,2-b]indole; Introduction The thieno[3,2-b]thiophene (TT) unit is highly demanded in modern organic synthesis since TT-based compounds have a variety of applications, e.g., in the field of organic electronics. Indeed, TT-based polymers and small molecules are used as

Combining the Ugi-azide multicomponent reaction and rhodium(III)-catalyzed annulation for the synthesis of tetrazole-isoquinolone/pyridone hybrids

• Gerardo M. Ojeda,
• Prabhat Ranjan,
• Pavel Fedoseev,
• Lisandra Amable,
• Upendra K. Sharma,
• Daniel G. Rivera and
• Erik V. Van der Eycken

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2447–2457, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.237

• isoquinolones is very wide and may be extended to the preparation of complex compounds having heterocyclic moieties such as pyridone, furan, thiophene and pyrrole, as well as the corresponding benzo-fused derivatives. The developed procedure is simple, reproducible and does not require inert conditions

• rings, such as furan, benzofuran, pyrrole, benzopyrrole, thiophene, benzothiophene and naphthalene were also successfully synthesized (5d–l) in moderate to very good yields. The exceptions were the cases of indolopyridone 5i and thiazolopyridone 5k, the latter one could not be obtained even after many

Photochromic diarylethene ligands featuring 2-(imidazol-2-yl)pyridine coordination site and their iron(II) complexes

• Andrey G. Lvov,
• Max Mörtel,
• Anton V. Yadykov,
• Frank W. Heinemann,
• Valerii Z. Shirinian and
• Marat M. Khusniyarov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2428–2437, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.235

• good accordance with previous DFT calculations [37], the molecule shows exclusively antiparallel conformation [8] of the thiophene and imidazole groups of the photoactive diarylethene moiety, with the respective α-methyl groups pointing in different directions. The thiophene and imidazole rings are

• cyclohexenone moiety no longer forms the out-of-plane corner. Instead, the unsubstituted CH2 position twists out of the plane towards the thiophene moiety of another ligand 6. Long time precipitation of crystalline material resulted in a tetranuclear species [Fe2(H2B(pz)2)2Fe2(B(OMe)3(pz))2(6-H)2] (complex 9

Mono- and bithiophene-substituted diarylethene photoswitches with emissive open or closed forms

• A. Lennart Schleper,
• Mariano L. Bossi,
• Vladimir N. Belov and
• Stefan W. Hell

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2344–2354, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.227

• asymmetric DAEs with oxidized 2-ethylbenzo[b]thiophene-3-yl units have high cycloreversion quantum yields (a desirable feature for super-resolution RESOLFT microscopy), large Stokes shifts and acceptable absorptivity [5]. Yet unknown asymmetric “thiophenylated” DAEs may have unique properties

• . Oligothiophenes are highly fluorescent [6][7], and therefore, we reasoned that their incorporation into DAEs with oxidized 2-alkylbenzo[b]thiophene units might produce fluorescent open forms in addition to the intrinsic fluorescence of the closed forms. In particular, we expected that the prolonged conjugation

• ]thiophene core. The structures of “thiophenylated” DAEs AsTh1, AsTh2, SyTh1, SyTh2, AsOTh1, AsOTh2, SyOTh1, and SyOTh2 prepared and studied in this work are given in Figure 1. Methyl esters of the thiophene carboxylic acids were chosen as model building blocks, because they possess optical properties

Recent advances in transition-metal-catalyzed incorporation of fluorine-containing groups

• Xiaowei Li,
• Xiaolin Shi,
• Xiangqian Li and
• Dayong Shi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2213–2270, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.218

• (Scheme 79). Also, phenyl, thiophene, and pyridine derivatives achieved regioselectively trifluoromethylation with N-pivalamide as a directing group. The authors also proposed a possible radical pathway for this reaction. The final trifluoromethylated compounds were generated from pivalamido arenes and

Aggregation-induced emission effect on turn-off fluorescent switching of a photochromic diarylethene

• Luna Kono,
• Yuma Nakagawa,
• Ayako Fujimoto,
• Ryo Nishimura,
• Yohei Hattori,
• Toshiki Mutai,
• Nobuhiro Yasuda,
• Kenichi Koizumi,
• Satoshi Yokojima,
• Shinichiro Nakamura and
• Kingo Uchida

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2204–2212, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.217

• summarized in Table 1. The quantum yields of cyclization and cycloreversion reactions of 1o in THF are obtained to be 0.31 and 6.2 × 10−3, respectively. They are a little bit smaller than those of simple diarylethene switches having thiophene rings as aryl groups [26]. It may be due to the connection with an

• substrate [19]. The X-ray analysis data of a single crystal of 1o is shown in Figure S1 and Table S1 in Supporting Information File 1. The distance between two reactive carbon atoms in the thiophene rings was obtained to be 3.534 Å, which is less than 4.2 Å. It indicates the molecule is photoreactive in the

Functional panchromatic BODIPY dyes with near-infrared absorption: design, synthesis, characterization and use in dye-sensitized solar cells

• Quentin Huaulmé,
• Cyril Aumaitre,
• Outi Vilhelmiina Kontkanen,
• David Beljonne,
• Alexandra Sutter,
• Gilles Ulrich,
• Renaud Demadrille and
• Nicolas Leclerc

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1758–1768, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.169

• spacer [14][21][23][24]. Introduction of such units on those positions is known to lead to a larger bathochromic shift of the S0→S1 absorption band than the same substitution on its 2nd and 6th positions [25]. A thiophene-triphenylamine unit was selected among the reported electron-donating units, due to

• thiophene ring. As we are dealing with charge-transfer electronic excitations, we have adopted a tuned range-separated CAM-B3LYP functional and the polarizable continuum model (PCM) to account for (implicit) solvent effects (in THF). The one-electron energy diagram reported in Figure 2 shows that: (i

• ) Grafting the triphenylamine donor moieties on the thiophene-vinylene bridge only slightly (by ca. 0.1 eV) lowers the ionization potential of the dyes, compare (1,2) to (3,4); this is explained by the fact that the HOMO molecular orbital mostly spreads on the BODIPY-vinylthiophene core of the molecules

Synthesis, photophysical and electrochemical properties of pyridine, pyrazine and triazine-based (D–π–)₂A fluorescent dyes

• Keiichi Imato,
• Toshiaki Enoki,
• Koji Uenaka and
• Yousuke Ooyama

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1712–1721, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.167

• and OUJ-2 with two (diphenylamino)carbazole thiophene units as D (electron-donating group)–π (π-conjugated bridge) moiety and a pyridine, pyrazine or triazine ring as electron-withdrawing group (electron-accepting group, A) have been designed and synthesized. The photophysical and electrochemical

• group, we have designed and synthesized the (D–π–)2A fluorescent dyes OUY-2, OUK-2 and OUJ-2 with two (diphenylamino)carbazole thiophene units as the D–π moiety and a pyridine, pyrazine or triazine ring as the A moiety (Figure 1), although we have already reported the synthesis of (D–π–)2A fluorescent

• two (diphenylamino)carbazole thiophene units as D–π moiety to a pyridine, pyrazine or triazine ring as A moiety. For OUK-2, the shoulder band was observed at around 430 nm. Thus, the ICT-based photoabsorption band of the three dyes appears at a longer wavelength region in the order of OUY-2 < OUK-2

Recent advances on the transition-metal-catalyzed synthesis of imidazopyridines: an updated coverage

• Gagandeep Kour Reen,
• Ashok Kumar and
• Pratibha Sharma

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1612–1704, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.165

• groups (EDGs) at different positions on the phenyl ring. However, the use of aliphatic aldehydes such as 3-methylbutanal and cyclohexanecarbaldehyde and aliphatic acetylene viz., hex-1-yne resulted in a comparatively lower yield of 66, 70 and 60%, respectively. Heteroaromatic aldehydes such as thiophene

Selenophene-containing heterotriacenes by a C–Se coupling/cyclization reaction

• Pierre-Olivier Schwartz,
• Sebastian Förtsch,
• Astrid Vogt,
• Elena Mena-Osteritz and
• Peter Bäuerle

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1379–1393, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.138

• investigated and successfully used as building blocks for high-performance organic electronic materials and devices [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. Among the different heteroatoms that can be introduced into heteroacenes and in contrast to corresponding thiophene-based systems, selenium (Se) has only

• sparingly been used most probably because of the high price of selenophene itself, the limited number of commercially available derivatives, and the less explored chemistry. Nevertheless, the implementation of selenophenes as heteroanalogues of thiophene-based materials is highly attractive, because

• molecules containing selenophene fragments instead of thiophene showed promising optical and electrochemical properties [17][18][19] and improved charge transport characteristics [20]. With respect to fused selenoloacenes, only the shortest parent system consisting of two fused heterocycles, mixed thieno

Multicomponent reactions (MCRs): a useful access to the synthesis of benzo-fused γ-lactams

• Edorta Martínez de Marigorta,
• Jesús M. de Los Santos,
• Ana M. Ochoa de Retana,
• Javier Vicario and
• Francisco Palacios

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1065–1085, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.104

• , including a thiophene derivative. With the aid of several dedicated experiments, the researchers proposed a mechanism initiated by the formation of an arylsulfonyl radical 72, which then would add to the alkene moiety in 67 to produce a radical intermediate 73 (Scheme 22). The photocatalyst-assisted

The LANCA three-component reaction to highly substituted β-ketoenamides – versatile intermediates for the synthesis of functionalized pyridine, pyrimidine, oxazole and quinoxaline derivatives

• Tilman Lechel,
• Roopender Kumar,
• Mrinal K. Bera,
• Reinhold Zimmer and
• Hans-Ulrich Reissig

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 655–678, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.61

• various examples (Table 1, entries 15–19, 26–28, and 34). Even with acrylic acid the expected product KE15 was isolated in 91% yield. Although we did not systematically study nitriles with heterocyclic substituents, we showed that thiophene-2-carbonitrile is an excellent substrate leading to KE32–35 in

Synthesis of C₃-symmetric star-shaped molecules containing α-amino acids and dipeptides via Negishi coupling as a key step

• Sambasivarao Kotha and
• Saidulu Todeti

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 371–377, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.33

• product was directly treated with thiophene-2-carboxylic acid in the presence of 2-(1H-benzotriazol-1-yl)-1,1,3,3-tetramethyluronium hexafluorophosphate (HBTU) and N,N-diisopropylethylamine (DIPEA) in CH2Cl2 at room temperature for 5 h to give trimer 11 in 86% yield (Scheme 3). In addition, different amino

• the reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for 1 h. Then, the mixture was concentrated at reduced pressure to remove the solvent and dried under vacuum. Later, without further purification the Negishi coupling deprotection product was reacted with 3 equiv of thiophene 2-carboxylic acid or

A convenient and practical synthesis of β-diketones bearing linear perfluorinated alkyl groups and a 2-thienyl moiety

• Ilya V. Taydakov,
• Yuliya M. Kreshchenova and
• Ekaterina P. Dolotova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 3106–3111, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.290

• condensation; copper chelate; β-diketones; perfluorinated esters; thiophene; Introduction Classical β-diketones have been studied for more than a century, and no doubt, they are the most popular O,O-ligands in the coordination chemistry of d- and f-elements [1][2][3]. These compounds are widely used as

• to suppression of multiphonon non-radiative relaxation [7][12][13]. Among all β-diketones, one derivative of thiophene, namely 2-thenoyltrifluoroacetone (Htta, 4,4,4-trifluoro-1-(2-thienyl)butane-1,3-dione), is produced on industrial scale and extensively used in the nuclear fuel separation cycle [14

• for the isolation of the β-diketones. Several methods for decomposition of copper chelates were described in literature. Usually sulfuric acid with various concentrations (10–95%) was applied [22][23][34][35], but the thiophene ring is known to be sensitive to sulfuric acid. For this reason, we

Oxidative and reductive cyclization in stiff dithienylethenes

• Michael Kleinwächter,
• Ellen Teichmann,
• Lutz Grubert,
• Martin Herder and
• Stefan Hecht

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2812–2821, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.259

• the Z-isomers of sDTEs are able to undergo oxidative cyclization. In contrast, in the dianionic state formal cross-conjugation between the thiophene moieties and the central double bond persists and no rotation takes place. Thus, only the dianion of the Z-isomer undergoes cyclization while the

Targeting the Pseudomonas quinolone signal quorum sensing system for the discovery of novel anti-infective pathoblockers

• Christian Schütz and
• Martin Empting

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2627–2645, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.241

• (His71) sidechain via π-stacking. For the thiophene-containing fragment 26 a π–π interaction of the sulfur with Phe195 can be observed. In vitro evaluation was performed using a combined PqsDE assay due to the aforementioned instability of 2-ABA-CoA which in this scenario is generated in situ from

Cobalt- and rhodium-catalyzed carboxylation using carbon dioxide as the C1 source

• Tetsuaki Fujihara and
• Yasushi Tsuji

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2435–2460, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.221

• , respectively. The reaction of unsymmetrical 1-phenyl-1-hexyne with 18a afforded 19d-H and 19d-Et regioselectively. In addition, an alkyne with a thiophene ring regioselectively produced the desired product 19e-Me after methylation with MeI. It is noteworthy that an alkynoate was also converted into the

Synergistic electrodeposition of bilayer films and analysis by Raman spectroscopy

• Saadeldin E. T. Elmasly,
• Luca Guerrini,
• Joseph Cameron,
• Alexander L. Kanibolotsky,
• Neil J. Findlay,
• Karen Faulds and
• Peter J. Skabara

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2186–2189, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.191

• dependent on the π-electron delocalisation within the polymer and, therefore, produce dramatic changes both in frequency and intensity due to the different electronic structure of each polymer. In particular, in the p-doped PEDOT spectrum (Figure 2a), Raman features corresponding to the thiophene ring at