Contribution of microreactor technology and flow chemistry to the development of green and sustainable synthesis

• Flavio Fanelli,
• Giovanna Parisi,
• Leonardo Degennaro and
• Renzo Luisi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 520–542, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.51

• " for safety reasons, such as those involving diazo compounds, hydrazine, azides, phosgene, cyanides and other hazardous chemicals could be performed with relatively low risk using flow technology [72][73][74][75][76]. Several research groups investigated this aspect, as highlighted by several available

• in Scheme 16, diazo species 18 could be generated from simple carbonyls 15 and hydrazine (16). Intermediate hydrazones 17 can be converted into the corresponding diazo compounds by oxidation using a recyclable oxidant based on N-iodo-p-toluenesulfonamide potassium salt. The possibility to regenerate

• to handle hazardous components such as hydrazine and molecular oxygen, which represent alternative reagents for selective reduction of C=C double bonds. In fact, combination of hydrazine hydrate (N2H4·H2O) and O2 provide diimide (HN=NH) as reducing agent. Nevertheless, this strategy is rarely used in

Synthesis and optical properties of new 5'-aryl-substituted 2,5-bis(3-decyl-2,2'-bithiophen-5-yl)-1,3,4-oxadiazoles

• Anastasia S. Kostyuchenko,
• Tatyana Yu. Zheleznova,
• Anton J. Stasyuk,
• Aleksandra Kurowska,
• Wojciech Domagala,
• Adam Pron and
• Alexander S. Fisyuk

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 313–322, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.34

• semiconducting and photoluminescent properties. First, alkaline hydrolysis of the esters 7b–g led to the corresponding carboxylic acids 12b–g in good yields (70–87%, Scheme 3). The corresponding hydrazide derivatives 13b,c were obtained in 67–73% yields by refluxing the esters 7b,c with hydrazine monohydrate in

• synthesis of 14d–g. These intermediates were synthesized by the reaction of the acid chlorides with hydrazine dihydrochloride in the presence of pyridine. The required acid chlorides were prepared in situ through the reaction of the corresponding carboxylic acids 12b–g with oxalyl chloride. The yields of

Total synthesis of a Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 12F CPS repeating unit hexasaccharide

• Peter H. Seeberger,
• Claney L. Pereira and
• Subramanian Govindan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 164–173, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.19

• C2-participating levulinyl ester protecting group ensured selective formation of the trans-glycoside upon activation of 11 by NIS/TfOH in the presence of the C5 linker to produce glucoside 12 in 70% yield [24]. Cleavage of the C2 levulinyl ester of 12 by treatment with hydrazine acetate furnished 13

Synthesis of acylhydrazino-peptomers, a new class of peptidomimetics, by consecutive Ugi and hydrazino-Ugi reactions

• Angélica de Fátima S. Barreto,
• Veronica Alves dos Santos and
• Carlos Kleber Z. Andrade

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2865–2872, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.285

• hydrazino-Ugi reaction (or a classical Ugi reaction). The hydrazides 3a–c used in the first MCR were prepared by the reaction of glycine-derived esters 2, 5 and 7 with hydrazine monohydrate (hydrazinolysis), following a known procedure [63][64] (Scheme 2). The obtained hydrazides were then reacted with

Continuous-flow synthesis of primary amines: Metal-free reduction of aliphatic and aromatic nitro derivatives with trichlorosilane

• Riccardo Porta,
• Alessandra Puglisi,
• Giacomo Colombo,
• Sergio Rossi and
• Maurizio Benaglia

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2614–2619, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.257

• conditions, but the presence of noble metal catalysts, packed into disposable cartridges, suffers from functional group compatibility and catalyst poisoning during time. In 2012 Kappe’s research group reported the microwave-assisted continuous-flow synthesis of anilines from nitroarenes using hydrazine as

Facile synthesis of a 3-deazaadenosine phosphoramidite for RNA solid-phase synthesis

• Elisabeth Mairhofer,
• Elisabeth Fuchs and
• Ronald Micura

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2556–2562, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.250

• . Only when treated with hydrazine, nucleophilic substitution was observed and after reduction with Raney nickel the desired 3-deazaadenosine was isolated. Our own attempts towards direct ammonolysis failed as well. Additionally, the limited commercial availability of hydrazine and its inconvenience in

• . c) Anhydrous hydrazine, steam bath, 1 h, not isolated. d) Raney nickel, water, reflux, 1 h. Synthesis of c3A described by Montgomery et al. in 1977 [23]. The final step, displacement of the 2-chlorine atom by a hydrogen atom, remains problematic [24][25][26]. a) 1,2,3,5-Tetraacetyl-ß-D-ribofuranose

A new paradigm for designing ring construction strategies for green organic synthesis: implications for the discovery of multicomponent reactions to build molecules containing a single ring

• John Andraos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2420–2442, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.236

• -membered heterocycle containing two adjacent nitrogen atoms. Pyrazole Pyrazole is a well-studied 5-membered heterocycle that has been traditionally synthesized either via the Knorr [151] (1,3-diketone and hydrazine) or von Pechmann [152] (olefin and diazomethane followed by oxidation) strategies. Figure 7

Three-component synthesis of highly functionalized aziridines containing a peptide side chain and their one-step transformation into β-functionalized α-ketoamides

• Lena Huck,
• Juan F. González,
• Elena de la Cuesta and
• J. Carlos Menéndez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1772–1777, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.166

• of 1,4-diacetyl-2,5-piperazinedione with aldehydes in the presence of potassium tert-butoxide, followed by deacetylation with hydrazine hydrate (see the Supporting Information File 1 for further details). As shown in Scheme 2, treatment of these materials with N-bromosuccinimide and methanol in

Automated glycan assembly of a S. pneumoniae serotype 3 CPS antigen

• Markus W. Weishaupt,
• Stefan Matthies,
• Mattan Hurevich,
• Claney L. Pereira,
• Heung Sik Hahm and
• Peter H. Seeberger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1440–1446, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.139

• maintained for 30 min. The temporary Fmoc protecting group was cleaved with triethylamine in DMF (N,N-dimethylformamide; 10% v/v). The Lev protecting group was removed using hydrazine monohydrate in pyridine/acetic acid (3:2 v/v). The crude oligosaccharide products were cleaved from the solid support by

• -protected 3. The use of the buffered hydrazine solution for the cleavage of Lev TPGs was expected to prevent any undesired benzoyl ester cleavage. The trisaccharide synthesis was repeated using the same glycosylation conditions as in the previous synthesis (Scheme 2). After each glycosylation step, the pH

• tetrasaccharide addition sequence, resulting from benzoyl ester cleavage and a double glycosylation in the last step (see Supporting Information File 1). This result was not expected as the buffered hydrazine deprotection protocol had never favored the formation of side products in our hands. However, this

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

• phosphonates via ring opening through an intramolecular nucleophilic attack at the 2-position of the pyrone. Thus, the three-component reaction of 75 with hydrazine derivatives 76 or hydroxylamine 79 in the presence of diethyl phosphonate led to pyrazolylphosphonate 78 and oxazolylphosphonate 81, respectively

• -aryl-3-oxoisoindolin-1-yl)phosphonates. FeCl3 and PdCl2 co-catalyzed three-component reaction of 2-alkynylbenzaldehydes, anilines, and diethyl phosphonate. Three-component reaction of 6-methyl-3-formylchromone (75) with hydrazine derivatives or hydroxylamine in the presence of diethyl phosphonate

Unusual traits of cis and trans-2,3-dibromo-1,1-dimethylindane on the way from 1,1-dimethylindene to 2-bromo-, 3-bromo-, and 2,3-dibromo-1,1-dimethylindene

• Rudolf Knorr,
• David S. Stephenson,
• Ernst Lattke,
• Petra Böhrer and
• Jakob Ruhdorfer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1178–1184, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.113

• -phenylbutan-2-ol, N-(1,1-dimethylindan-3-ylidene)hydrazine, and N,N´-bis(1,1-dimethylindan-3-ylidene)hydrazine. Acknowledgements This article is dedicated to Professor Manfred Heuschmann on the occasion of his retirement. Technical support of this research by the Organic Chemistry Division of the Department

Enabling technologies and green processes in cyclodextrin chemistry

• Giancarlo Cravotto,
• Marina Caporaso,
• Laszlo Jicsinszky and
• Katia Martina

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 278–294, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.30

• azido β-CD was obtained by a Staudinger reaction or in the presence of hydrazine. A new generation of organophosphate scavengers has been obtained by Le Provost et al. [25] in which β-CD was regioselectively monosubstituted at O-2 using a bromomethyl pyridine derivative under US irradiation to avoid

• (GO) by MW irradiation (450 W) at different temperatures ranging from 50 to 100 °C for 10, 30, 60 and 90 min. After reduction with hydrazine hydrate, this HP-β-CD-RGO modified glassy carbon electrode showed good results in supramolecular recognition a set of six different phenolic organic pollutants

Hydroquinone–pyrrole dyads with varied linkers

• Hao Huang,
• Christoffer Karlsson,
• Maria Strømme,
• Martin Sjödin and
• Adolf Gogoll

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 89–96, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.10

• . achieved a total yield of 70% [11], however, their procedure relies on a Wolff–Kishner reduction of the corresponding acylpyrrole with hydrazine hydrate, making it impractical in countries where the use of hydrazine has been restricted by law [12]. As an alternative, the Suzuki–Miyaura reaction can be

A convenient four-component one-pot strategy toward the synthesis of pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines

• Mingxing Liu,
• Jiarong Li,
• Hongxin Chai,
• Kai Zhang,
• Deli Yang,
• Qi Zhang and
• Daxin Shi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2125–2131, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.229

• results in hand, two possible reaction mechanisms were proposed and shown in Scheme 3. 5-Aminopyrazole-4-carbonitrile 6 was obtained from the reaction of hydrazine 1 and methylenemalononitrile 2 through nucleophilic addition, cyclization and aromatization. The nucleophilic attack of the amino group of 6

A new approach to ferrocene derived alkenes via copper-catalyzed olefination

• Vasily M. Muzalevskiy,
• Aleksei V. Shastin,
• Alexandra D. Demidovich,
• Namiq G. Shikhaliev,
• Abel M. Magerramov,
• Victor N. Khrustalev,
• Rustem D. Rakhimov,
• Sergey Z. Vatsadze and
• Valentine G. Nenajdenko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2072–2078, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.223

• , 28 Vavilov Street, Moscow 119991, Russia 10.3762/bjoc.11.223 Abstract A new approach to ferrocenyl haloalkenes and bis-alkenes was elaborated. The key procedure involves copper catalyzed olefination of N-unsubstituted hydrazones, obtained from ferrocene-containing carbonyl compounds and hydrazine

Polythiophene and oligothiophene systems modified by TTF electroactive units for organic electronics

• Alexander L. Kanibolotsky,
• Neil J. Findlay and
• Peter J. Skabara

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1749–1766, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.191

• cation radical [31][32]. The doped film exhibited excellent stability and its absorption characteristics did not change despite treatment with hydrazine. However, de-doping was achieved with repetitive scanning of the polymer film over the range of −0.3–0 V vs Ag/AgCl for 2 hours [73]. After de-doping

The facile construction of the phthalazin-1(2H)-one scaffold via copper-mediated C–H(sp²)/C–H(sp) coupling under mild conditions

• Wei Zhu,
• Bao Wang,
• Shengbin Zhou and
• Hong Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1624–1631, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.177

• hydrazine hydrate and sodium hydroxide. Results and Discussion We initiated our investigation of the direct carbon–carbon coupling of N-(quinolin-8-yl)benzamide (1a) and phenylacetylene (2a). After extensive attempts, 3-benzylidene-2-(quinolin-8-yl)isoindolin-1-one (3a) was formed in 18% yield via the

• quinolin-8-amine was easily removed and recycled by treatment of 3a with hydrazine hydrate and NaOH in EtOH at 120 °C under microwave irradiation (Scheme 4). Both electron-rich and electron-deficient 4-benzylphthalazin-1(2H)-one derivatives were obtained in good yields (4b, 4k). The halo-substituted phenyl

• phthalazin-1(2H)-one scaffold by treatment with hydrazine hydrate and sodium hydroxide. As the phthalazin-1(2H)-one scaffold is identified as a privilege moiety and bioactive nucleus in pharmaceuticals, this modified procedure will be of importance to medicinal chemists. Experimental General procedure for

The enantioselective synthesis of (S)-(+)-mianserin and (S)-(+)-epinastine

• Piotr Roszkowski,
• Jan. K. Maurin and
• Zbigniew Czarnocki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1509–1513, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.164

• reacting amine 7 and ethyl chloro(oxo)acetate in dichloromethane in the presence of triethylamine. The removing of the phthaloyl protecting group from 8 using hydrazine gave an intermediate with a free amino group which is cyclised in situ to dioxopiperazine 9 in 90% yield. In the next step

• (S)-(+)-7 with hydrazine led to derivative 13 with deprotected amine function. Subsequent condensation with cyanogen bromide gave (S)-(+)-epinastine (2) in nearly quantitative yield. Conclusion In summary, we have presented a simple enantioselective synthesis of (S)-(+)-mianserin and (S

The synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) using continuous flow chemistry

• Marcus Baumann and
• Ian R. Baxendale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1194–1219, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.134

• precipitation and clogging problems, thus a pressure chamber was developed [94] that would act as a pressure regulator allowing this step to be scaled up in flow in order to provide 114 on multigram scale (134 g/h). A Knorr pyrazole formation between 114 and commercially available hydrazine 115 had previously

Reactions of nitroxides 15. Cinnamates bearing a nitroxyl moiety synthesized using a Mizoroki–Heck cross-coupling reaction

• Jerzy Zakrzewski and
• Bogumiła Huras

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1155–1162, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.130

• , sometimes using of hydrazobenzene [51][52] or pentafluorophenyl hydrazine [35] as reducing agents have been reported, as well. The E geometry of 5a–i was confirmed by 1H NMR spectroscopy. The values of the coupling constants of the doublets visible in the 1H NMR spectra of 5a–i belonging to the double bond

Synthetic strategies for the fluorescent labeling of epichlorohydrin-branched cyclodextrin polymers

• Milo Malanga,
• Mihály Bálint,
• István Puskás,
• Kata Tuza,
• Tamás Sohajda,
• László Jicsinszky,
• Lajos Szente and
• Éva Fenyvesi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 3007–3018, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.319

• branched β-CD-polymer is a difficult task. 2) Reduction of the azido groups to amino moieties There are several and selective ways to perform the azido→amino conversion [22] and for compound 1 the hydrogenolytic method [23] based on hydrazine, catalyzed by Pd/C (Scheme 2) was selected. The reaction using

• hydrazine-Pd/C is fast and exhaustive (based on the evaluation of the IR spectra, Figure 3), but because of the laborious work-up (filtration, centrifugation, membrane filtration) and the partial inefficacy of the dialysis purification, this method needed further development. The overall progress of the

Synthesis of the pentasaccharide repeating unit of the O-antigen of E. coli O117:K98:H4

• Pintu Kumar Mandal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2724–2728, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.287

• ),4.35 (d, J = 7.8 Hz, 1H, H-1A) and at δ 104.0 (C-1A), 101.2 (C-1D), 98.9 (C-1B), 98.3 (C-1C), 97.4 (C-1E) in the 1H and 13C NMR spectra, respectively]. The N-phthaloyl group was removed using hydrazine hydrate and the free amine thus formed was acetylated using acetic anhydride in pyridine [35]. Then

One-pot four-component reaction for convenient synthesis of functionalized 1-benzamidospiro[indoline-3,4'-pyridines]

• Chao Wang,
• Yan-Hong Jiang and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2671–2676, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.281

• generation of Huisgen’s 1,4-dipoles are aromatic heterocycles such as N-alkylimidazole, pyridine, quinoline, isoquinoline and primary aromatic amines. In recent years, other nitrogen-containing nucleophiles such as hydrazine and arylhydrazines are also used to generate Huisgen’s 1,4-dipoles in domino

• -3,4’-pyridine] derivatives can be synthesized by employing other nitrogen-containing nucleophiles such as hydrazine and imines in the similar four-component reactions. In fact, the four-component reaction of hydrazine, acetylenedicarboxylate, isatin and malononitrile for the formation of spiro

• triethylamine as the base catalyst were introduced into reaction system. The subsequent reaction proceeded very smoothly at room temperature to give the 1'-benzamidospiro[indoline-3,4’-pyridines] 1a–d in satisfactory yields (Table 1, entries 1–4). It is known that hydrazine reacts firstly with

Facile synthesis of 1H-imidazo[1,2-b]pyrazoles via a sequential one-pot synthetic approach

• András Demjén,
• Márió Gyuris,
• János Wölfling,
• László G. Puskás and
• Iván Kanizsai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2338–2344, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.243

• [1,2-b]pyrazole library in sequential one-pot protocol utilizing four components such as hydrazine hydrate, ethoxymethylene substituted malononitrile or ethyl cyanoacetate derivatives, isocyanides and aldehydes. Results and Discussion In the initial stage, a model GBB-3CR was performed between 5

• envisage a sequential one-pot access to 1H-imidazo[1,2-b]pyrazole species through the in situ microwave-assisted formation of 1a followed by a GBB-3CR. A comparative study for the optimum synthesis of 6 revealed that the cyclocondensation of ethoxymethylene malononitrile (4a) with hydrazine (5) under

(CF₃CO)₂O/CF₃SO₃H-mediated synthesis of 1,3-diketones from carboxylic acids and aromatic ketones

• JungKeun Kim,
• Elvira Shokova,
• Victor Tafeenko and
• Vladimir Kovalev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2270–2278, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.236

• following reaction with hydrazine hydrate gave the pyrazoles 6a–d in 62–76% yield. The products were identified by 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy, microanalysis and by spectral comparison with the known compounds. The molecular structures of compounds 3с, 3u, 4a, 6b were confirmed by X-ray diffraction [26

• . Then TfOH (44 μL, 0.5 mmol) was added, and the reaction mixture was kept for 2 h. On completion of the reaction, the solvent was removed under reduced pressure. The crude 3a was dissolved in 5 mL ethanol and heated under reflux with hydrazine hydrate (0.1 mL, 2 mmol). After 2 h the solvent was