Nucleophile-induced ring contraction in pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzothiazines: access to pyrrolo[2,1-b][1,3]benzothiazoles

• Ekaterina A. Lystsova,
• Maksim V. Dmitriev,
• Andrey N. Maslivets and
• Ekaterina E. Khramtsova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 646–657, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.46

• APBTT 1a with methanol (2a) were optimized. The best yield of PBTA 3aa was observed when methanol was used both as a solvent and a reagent and heated at 65 °C for 1 h (entry 7, Table 1). It is useful to note that, under these conditions, an increase in the heating time (up to 6 h) did not affect the

• of heating the reaction mixture at 65 °C, it contained trace amounts of product 5a and 81 % of product 3aa. Additionally, we have examined the scaling of the reaction of APBTT 1a with methanol (2a). We found that the proposed procedure could be readily scaled up to 1.5 mmol (0.5 g) of APBTT 1a. The

• the model reaction of APBTT 1a and aniline (11a) were optimized. The best yield of PBTA 12aa was observed when butyl acetate was used as the solvent and heated at 130 °C for 3 h (entry 3, Table 3). Heating the reaction mixture in toluene (entry 7, Table 3) showed a good yield too. Since the product

C3-Alkylation of furfural derivatives by continuous flow homogeneous catalysis

• Grédy Kiala Kinkutu,
• Catherine Louis,
• Myriam Roy,
• Juliette Blanchard and
• Julie Oble

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 582–592, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.43

• degradation under longer heating. In addition, we found that the comp1 [Ru3(CO)11(L1)] was more efficient when the reaction mixture was preheated before being introduced into the reactor at 200 °C. The setup was thus modified (Scheme 3) to include a 0.8-millimeter-diameter stainless-steel preheating loop

• imine in situ. Furthermore, the optimized conditions with the pulsed-flow device proved to be effective, as an NMR yield of 62% of the C3-alkylated imine I2a was obtained by preheating at 130 °C for 5 min in reactor 1 (after introduction of mixture B), followed by heating at 180 °C for 45 min in reactor

• furfural derivatives by C–H activation, a) in batch: previous works, and b) in continuous flow: this work. C3-alkylation of bidentate imine 1 performed in batch. Optimization of the heating for the alkylation reaction on the homemade pulsed-flow setup. Proposed reaction mechanism for the alkylation

A new oxidatively stable ligand for the chiral functionalization of amino acids in Ni(II)–Schiff base complexes

• Alena V. Dmitrieva,
• Oleg A. Levitskiy,
• Yuri K. Grishin and
• Tatiana V. Magdesieva

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 566–574, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.41

• heating of its MeOH/HCl solution at 60 °C under conditions similar to the ones previously reported for (RCysNi)L4 [42] (see Supporting Information File 1 for details). The corresponding amino acid was obtained, along with the L7 ligand which was recovered in ca. 70% yield and then reused. DFT study The

Phenanthridine–pyrene conjugates as fluorescent probes for DNA/RNA and an inactive mutant of dipeptidyl peptidase enzyme

• Josipa Matić,
• Tana Tandarić,
• Marijana Radić Stojković,
• Filip Šupljika,
• Zrinka Karačić,
• Ana Tomašić Paić,
• Lucija Horvat,
• Robert Vianello and
• Lidija-Marija Tumir

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 550–565, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.40

• decrease of UV–vis spectra upon heating up to 90 °C and a baseline increase indicated intermolecular stacking and aggregation of compounds, which was more pronounced for Phen-Py-2. Spectroscopic characterization data are given in the Table 1 and Supporting Information File 1, Figure S1. A linker between

• significantly solvent and pH-dependent. Namely, excimer fluorescence was mostly quenched in methanol, where the monomer fluorescence was also very low. Further, excimer fluorescence was quenched in acidic conditions and increased upon pH increase. Also, excimer emission was quenched upon heating without

• molecules around each system, and submitted to periodic simulations where the excess positive charge was neutralized with an equivalent number of chloride anions in monoprotonated systems corresponding to pH 5. Upon gradual heating from 0 K, MD simulations were performed at 300 K for a period of 300 ns

Access to cyclopropanes with geminal trifluoromethyl and difluoromethylphosphonate groups

• Ita Hajdin,
• Romana Pajkert,
• Mira Keßler,
• Jianlin Han,
• Haibo Mei and
• Gerd-Volker Röschenthaler

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 541–549, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.39

• ortho and meta-positions on the phenyl ring (6e, 6f, 6h, 6i), decelerated the process. In the case of α-methylstyrene, complete conversion of diazo reagent 5 to compound 6b was observed only after 48 hours of heating, which might result from the steric hindrance around the reaction centre. In almost all

• olefins with different aliphatic chains. The total conversion of the diazo compound 5 was achieved after 2.5–3.5 hours of heating and the corresponding cyclopropanes 7a–g were obtained in moderate to good yield (28–53%). The highest yield (53%) as well as the best diastereoselectivity were recorded for

Computational studies of Brønsted acid-catalyzed transannular cycloadditions of cycloalkenone hydrazones

• Manuel Pedrón,
• Jana Sendra,
• Irene Ginés,
• Tomás Tejero,
• Jose L. Vicario and
• Pedro Merino

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 477–486, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.37

• File 1). Only the reactions corresponding to the reaction of 1a and 1b show barriers close to 20 kcal/mol thus being plausible to work at ambient temperature or under some heating, which is consistent with the fact that the formation of these adducts were experimentally observed to happen with good

• the reagent the higher is the barrier (for similar transition-state energies) justifying the observed reactivity. Only the two systems (a and b) with lower values of the integration parameter have barriers compatible with observed reactions upon heating, the rest presenting too high barriers to allow

Discrimination of β-cyclodextrin/hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.) oil/flavonoid glycoside and flavonolignan ternary complexes by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy coupled with principal component analysis

• Nicoleta G. Hădărugă,
• Gabriela Popescu,
• Dina Gligor (Pane),
• Cristina L. Mitroi,
• Sorin M. Stanciu and
• Daniel Ioan Hădărugă

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 380–398, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.30

• (heating rate 6 °C/min), injector temperature 300 °C, detector temperature 300 °C, carrier gas He (99.9999% purity), injected sample volume 2 µL, delay time 4 min. The MS conditions were: energy source EI 70 eV, temperature 150 °C, scan range 50–300 amu, scan rate 1/s. RI values were determined using a C8

• a Netzsch 204 F1 Phoenix apparatus (both from Netzsch Group, Selb, Germany). The TG–DTG and DSC conditions were similar: temperature program of 25–500 °C, with a heating rate of 10 °C/min, nitrogen purge and protection flow of 40 mL/min, the data acquisition and handling by Netzsch Proteus-Thermal

Strategies to access the [5-8] bicyclic core encountered in the sesquiterpene, diterpene and sesterterpene series

• Cécile Alleman,
• Charlène Gadais,
• Laurent Legentil and
• François-Hugues Porée

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 245–281, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.23

An efficient metal-free and catalyst-free C–S/C–O bond-formation strategy: synthesis of pyrazole-conjugated thioamides and amides

• Shubham Sharma,
• Dharmender Singh,
• Sunit Kumar,
• Vaishali,
• Rahul Jamra,
• Naveen Banyal,
• Deepika,
• Chandi C. Malakar and
• Virender Singh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 231–244, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.22

• amounts of β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) [81] under aqueous conditions at room temperature as well as under heating at 100 °C (entries 1 and 2, Table 1). Unfortunately, the model reactants remained unreacted and similar observations were recorded using a mixture of H2O/MeOH 1:4, and methanol as a reaction medium

• reaction under heating conditions at 70 °C, afforded the desired product 1C in 82% yield with a drastic reduction in the reaction time to 1 hour (entry 16, Table 1). Moreover, an increase in the amount of base had a negligible effect on the yield of the thioamide conjugate 1C (entries 17 and 18, Table 1

• reaction with 5.0 equiv of H2O2 in DMSO as the reaction medium under heating, whereas, a poor yield of the product was obtained (entry 8, Table 2). Moreover, different combinations of H2O2 and DMSO were examined for the oxidative amidation of pyrazole-3-carbaldehyde 1 (entries 9 and 10, Table 2

Investigation of cationic ring-opening polymerization of 2-oxazolines in the “green” solvent dihydrolevoglucosenone

• Solomiia Borova and
• Robert Luxenhofer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 217–230, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.21

• from 25 °C to 900 °C with a 10 K/min heating rate and the mass loss measured. The resulting data were evaluated with the NETZSCH Proteus – Thermal Analysis – V.5.2.1 software. Dynamic scanning calorimetry (DSC) was performed on a DSC 204F1 Phoenix (NETZSCH, Selb, Germany) under a N2 atmosphere (20.0 mL

• /min). Samples were placed in aluminum pans, heated up to 200 °C and then cooled to −50 °C (10 K/min). The heating/cooling was repeated two additional times. The resulting thermograms were analyzed with the NETZSCH Proteus – Thermal Analysis – V.5.2.1 software. The polymerization of 2-alkyl-2

Germacrene B – a central intermediate in sesquiterpene biosynthesis

• Houchao Xu and
• Jeroen S. Dickschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 186–203, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.18

• ., by heating with sulphur, to the blue azulene derivative 62 (Scheme 16C) [121][122][124][125][126], but the structure elucidation of this compound was only completed in 1936 [127]. Based on a comparison of IR spectra of natural terpenes, their hydrogenation and dehydrogenation products, the correct

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

• carbons of the diene to allow a Diels–Alder-type reaction. Chou and co-workers developed an elegant synthesis of a 1,4-dithiane-fused sulfolane 45 (Scheme 9b) [56]. Oxidation of the 1,4-dithiane-fused sulfolane 44 to the hexoxide and heating to 130 °C afforded the pure 1,4-dithiane-tethered diene 45 via

Practical synthesis of isocoumarins via Rh(III)-catalyzed C–H activation/annulation cascade

• Qian-Ci Gao,
• Yi-Fei Li,
• Jun Xuan and
• Xiao-Qiang Hu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 100–106, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.10

• heating module was used for the preparation of isocoumarin products 3.) Significance of isocoumarins (a), classic methods for the synthesis of isocoumarins (b) and reaction design (c). Scope of enaminones. Scope of iodonium ylides. Gram-scale reaction (a) and synthetic transformation (b). Proposed

Preparation of β-cyclodextrin/polysaccharide foams using saponin

• Max Petitjean and
• José Ramón Isasi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 78–88, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.7

• of tubes and sheets. For these particular samples, the freeze-dried mixtures produce a spherical material in the heating step, covered by a fragile and brilliant layer but possessing a highly porous inner structure. This thin layer is more evident for the β-csp sample produced using the liquid path

Catalytic aza-Nazarov cyclization reactions to access α-methylene-γ-lactam heterocycles

• Bilge Banu Yagci,
• Selin Ezgi Donmez,
• Onur Şahin and
• Yunus Emre Türkmen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 66–77, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.6

• , screening a variety of conditions including the use of stoichiometric and substoichiometric amounts of Lewis acids such as AgOTf and BF3·OEt2 with and without heating (23 and 80 °C) did not afford any targeted aza-Nazarov product 30 (for details see Table S1 in Supporting Information File 1). The reactivity

Modern flow chemistry – prospect and advantage

• Philipp Heretsch

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 33–35, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.3

• stage in the last decades [1]. Originating from the petrochemical industry, where it enabled high productivity and scalability even for the most standard processes of heating, cracking, and refining of crude oil to bulk chemicals [2], it has since entered the production of pharmaceuticals and other fine

Synthetic study toward tridachiapyrone B

• Morgan Cormier,
• Florian Hernvann and
• Michaël De Paolis

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1741–1748, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.183

• feature a bicyclo[3.1.0]hexene core which photochemically arises from 1,3-cyclohexadiene precursors, tridachiapyrone A or 9,10-deoxytridachione, as demonstrated by Ireland [16][17]. In turn, the ring system arises from α-tetraenyl-α’-methoxy-γ-pyrone precursor 1a upon heating through 6π-electrocyclization

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

• was selectively reduced in the presence of LiEt3BH, while the Peterson adduct was eliminated concurrently, upon heating. Finally, treatment with H2SO4 allowed total deprotection of the MOM ethers, leading to the formation of principinol D, in complete correspondence with reported spectral data

A novel spirocyclic scaffold accessed via tandem Claisen rearrangement/intramolecular oxa-Michael addition

• Anastasia Vepreva,
• Alexander Yanovich,
• Dmitry Dar’in,
• Grigory Kantin,
• Alexander Bunev and
• Mikhail Krasavin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1649–1655, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.177

• cyclohexanone (as well as other cyclic ketones) which delivered spiro-annulated 2-benzoxepines (such as 2a) along with a minor byproduct 3a identified by 1H NMR as the product of formal insertion of the rhodium(II) carbene species into the O–H bond of cyclohexanone enol form. This minor byproduct, on heating at

A novel bis-triazole scaffold accessed via two tandem [3 + 2] cycloaddition events including an uncatalyzed, room temperature azide–alkyne click reaction

• Ksenia Malkova,
• Andrey Bubyrev,
• Vasilisa Krivovicheva,
• Dmitry Dar’in,
• Alexander Bunev and
• Mikhail Krasavin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1636–1641, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.175

• reaction. The use of homopropargylamine (18) in the reaction of 1 with aldehyde 3a abolished the facility of the intramolecular azide–alkyne click reaction which now required heating at 120 °C for 2 hours for the eight-membered (1,5-diazocane) ring to form (notably, the presence of the azide–alkyne

One-pot double annulations to confer diastereoselective spirooxindolepyrrolothiazoles

• Juan Lu,
• Bin Yao,
• Desheng Zhan,
• Zhuo Sun,
• Yun Ji and
• Xiaofeng Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1607–1616, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.171

• (Table 1, entries 2–4) superior to 86% yield for 3 h (Table 1 entry 1), and followed by decarboxylative [3 + 2] cycloaddition with the second equivalent of compound 1a and olefinic oxindole 4a under reflux heating for 12 h. It indicates that the one-pot reaction process with EtOH and iPrOH afforded the

A facile approach to spiro[dihydrofuran-2,3'-oxindoles] via formal [4 + 1] annulation reaction of fused 1H-pyrrole-2,3-diones with diazooxindoles

• Pavel A. Topanov,
• Anna A. Maslivets,
• Maksim V. Dmitriev,
• Irina V. Mashevskaya,
• Yurii V. Shklyaev and
• Andrey N. Maslivets

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1532–1538, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.162

• to decreased reaction yields (Table 2, entries 2–5). The reaction with diazooxindole 2b having an electron-withdrawing group (-Br) in the C(5) position (Table 2, entries 2 and 3) required additional heating to obtain the product 3ab. On the other hand, the reaction of diazooxindoles 2c and 2d (Table

•  2, entries 4 and 5) bearing an EDG (electron-donating group) in positions N(1) (Bn-) or C(5) (MeO-) did not require heating and proceeded under conditions similar to the ones with unsubstituted diazooxindole 2a. Next, we investigated the substrate scope using different FPDs 2 (Table 3). FPDs 1а–f

• the yield of the target reaction product, without affecting the reaction rate (Table 3, entry 7). Quinoxaline-annulated FPDs 1h–j required heating, as these compounds reacted too slowly at room temperature (Table 3, entries 8–10). It should be noted that FPDs 1h–j gave yields of the target products

1,4,6,10-Tetraazaadamantanes (TAADs) with N-amino groups: synthesis and formation of boron chelates and host–guest complexes

• Artem N. Semakin,
• Ivan S. Golovanov,
• Yulia V. Nelyubina and
• Alexey Yu. Sukhorukov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1424–1434, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.148

• derivatives involves the intramolecular cyclotrimerization of C=N bonds in a suitable trisimine precursor (Scheme 1). Previously, 3O-TAADs 2 were prepared by cyclization of corresponding trisoximes 1 [21]. However, this reaction is slow and reversible (upon heating adamantane structure 2 reverts to the tris

• by X-ray analysis (vide infra). Unlike 3O-TAAD derivatives 2 [21], the obtained 3N-TAADs, 2N,1O-TAADs, and 1N,2O-TAADs are thermally stable and do not suffer from retro-[2 + 2 + 2]-cyclotrimerization to the open-chain tris-imines upon heating. Thus, the presence of at least one N-amido group

• , treatment of adamantanes 4a and 4b with excess hydrazine (100–200 equiv) upon heating did not lead to any conversion. Also attempts to deprotect Boc-derivatives 4c, 4e, 6a, and 8a with trifluoroacetic acid or hydrochloric acid (in water or dioxane) were not successful and led to complex mixtures of products

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

• . Oxidation of the latter compound to the α-keto-β-hydroxy ester IV using DMDO and subsequent heating in PhCF3 triggered an α-ketol rearrangement which led to ketol V. Diastereoselective reduction gave α,β-dihydroxyester 35 which was converted to (−)-jiadifenoxolane A (36) in five further steps. Palau’amine

• was synthesized by a Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction of phosphonate 48 with aldehyde 47. Enantiopure aldehyde 47 was easily accessible from oxazolidinone 46 via Evans-aldol chemistry [23]. Heating of the α-ketoester 49 led to the highly substituted cyclopentanol 50 in a good dr of ≈5:1 (minor

Reductive opening of a cyclopropane ring in the Ni(II) coordination environment: a route to functionalized dehydroalanine and cysteine derivatives

• Oleg A. Levitskiy,
• Olga I. Aglamazova,
• Yuri K. Grishin and
• Tatiana V. Magdesieva

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1166–1176, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.121

• kinetically controlled product when no Et3N is added into the solution (entry 5, Table 2). In contrast, pure (R,S) diastereomer was obtained when the solution containing 1 mol equiv of Et3N was kept for 72 h under slight heating (40 °C, entry 6); though in the expense of the yields decrease (a significant