Multicomponent synthesis of spiropyrrolidine analogues derived from vinylindole/indazole by a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction

• Manjunatha Narayanarao,
• Lokesh Koodlur,
• Vijayakumar G. Revanasiddappa,
• Subramanya Gopal and
• Susmita Kamila

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2893–2897, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.288

• stereospecific cyclic adducts. Keywords: L-proline; ninhydrin; sarcosine; spiropyrrolidine; 5-vinylindazole; 5-vinylindole; Introduction The [3 + 2] cycloaddition between azomethine ylides and olefins/acetylene as dipolarophiles is an important reaction to access a number of novel heterocyclic spiro scaffolds

• of biological importance [1][2]. The regio- and stereoselective construction of spiro compounds by utilizing the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of azomethine ylides has been reported [3][4][5][6]. However, unlike the previous reports, the present method is concise and facilitates the one-pot

• in the construction of functionalized spiro compounds. We report herein the facile synthesis of novel spiropyrrolidine compounds through a one-pot three-component reaction involving N-substituted vinylindole/indazole, ninhydrin and sarcosine/L-proline. The present multicomponent reaction (MCR) leads

Synthesis of spiro[isoindole-1,5’-isoxazolidin]-3(2H)-ones as potential inhibitors of the MDM2-p53 interaction

• Salvatore V. Giofrè,
• Santa Cirmi,
• Raffaella Mancuso,
• Francesco Nicolò,
• Giuseppe Lanza,
• Laura Legnani,
• Agata Campisi,
• Maria A. Chiacchio,
• Michele Navarra,
• Bartolo Gabriele and
• Roberto Romeo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2793–2807, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.278

• Farmaco, Università di Catania, Viale A. Doria, 95100 Catania, Italy Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Pavia, Via Taramelli 12, 27100 Pavia, Italy 10.3762/bjoc.12.278 Abstract A series of spiro[isoindole-1,5-isoxazolidin]-3(2H)-ones has been synthesized by 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of N

• be linked to the inhibition of the protein–protein p53-MDM2 interaction. Docking measurements support the biological data. Keywords: antitumor agents; DFT studies; 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition; docking studies; spiro-compounds; Introduction The p53 tumor suppressor protein is a transcriptional factor

• construction of the spiro[isoxazolidin-isoindolinone] system. The synthetic scheme (Figure 2) exploits the strategy of the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of nitrones on the substrate isoindolin-3-methylene-1-one 2, obtained by a recent methodology of a PdI2 catalyzed aminocarbonylation-N-heterocyclization of 2

An effective one-pot access to polynuclear dispiroheterocyclic structures comprising pyrrolidinyloxindole and imidazothiazolotriazine moieties via a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition strategy

• Alexei N. Izmest’ev,
• Galina A. Gazieva,
• Natalya V. Sigay,
• Sergei A. Serkov,
• Valentina A. Karnoukhova,
• Vadim V. Kachala,
• Alexander S. Shashkov,
• Igor E. Zanin,
• Angelina N. Kravchenko and
• Nina N. Makhova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2240–2249, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.216

• ; nitrogen heterocycles; spiro compounds; Introduction A global trend in modern organic chemistry is the design of molecular systems with various degrees of complexity to maximize the incorporation of useful properties while optimizing cost and efficiency [1]. A very extended and powerful approach for

• interest to synthesize the other types of spiro compounds such as the 2,3’-spiropyrrolidinyloxindole structure which is isosteric with the 3,3’-spiropyrrolidinyloxindole and to study the diastereoselectivity of its formation. It could be expected that the cycloaddition of more bulky azomethine ylides

• the {1H-13C}HMBC spectrum of 4f, the N(1’)Me protons (2.17 ppm) correlate with the C-5’ (57.52 ppm) and spiro C-2’ (80.29 ppm) carbons; the proton of C(4’)H (4.63 ppm) of the pyrrolidine ring correlates with the spiro carbon C-3’ (68.47 ppm) and the carbon atoms of the C(5’)H2 and C(7)=O (167.31 ppm

Enantioconvergent catalysis

• Justin T. Mohr,
• Jared T. Moore and
• Brian M. Stoltz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2038–2045, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.192

• nucleophilic, but in this case the stereoablative step in the mechanism leads to an electrophilic intermediate. The use of Cu(box) complex 9 rendered the reaction enantioselective, forming C-3 quaternary oxindole 12 in 91% ee (up to 94% ee for related substrates). This strategy is useful for constructing spiro

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

• of homoallylic brosylates 174a–c or spiro cyclopropyl carbinols 175a–c in the THF/H2O2 system, resulting in the increase in the ring size by two atoms and the formation of hydroperoxy oxabicyclo derivatives 176a–c (Table 11). The mechanism of the solvolysis of 174 or 175 in the THF/H2O2 system

Biosynthesis of oxygen and nitrogen-containing heterocycles in polyketides

• Franziska Hemmerling and
• Frank Hahn

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1512–1550, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.148

• , 3,4-dihydroxy-L-phenylalanine (L-DOPA), 4-coumaric acid or caffeic acid. Grisanes. Many fungal spirobenzofuranones contain the grisane (191) moiety as the central structural motif (Scheme 26a). The spiro linkage between the B and C rings is installed by oxidative phenol coupling starting from type II

One-pot synthesis of tetracyclic fused imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines via a three-component reaction

• Bo Yang,
• Chuanye Tao,
• Taofeng Shao,
• Jianxian Gong and
• Chao Che

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1487–1492, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.145

• species from 2-aminopyridine and isatin which then undergoes a formal [4 + 1] cycloaddition with isocyanide to generate a spiro intermediate b. The spiro compound then undergoes a retro-aza–ene reaction via a [1,5]-hydride shift resulting in an aromatic imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine having an isocyanate

Synthesis of ferrocenyl-substituted 1,3-dithiolanes via [3 + 2]-cycloadditions of ferrocenyl hetaryl thioketones with thiocarbonyl S-methanides

• Grzegorz Mlostoń,
• Róża Hamera-Fałdyga,
• Anthony Linden and
• Heinz Heimgartner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1421–1427, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.136

• -Tetramethyl-8-thia-5,6-diazaspiro[3.4]oct-5-en-2-one (3c) [20] and spiro[1,3,4-thiadiazole-2(5H),2’-tricyclo[3.3.1.13,7]decane] (3d) [21] were obtained by known methods according to the literature protocols. Diazomethane was prepared in a 5 mmol scale either from N-nitroso-N-methylurea or from N

• -Ferrocenyl-5-(selenophen-2-yl)spiro[1,3-dithiolane-4,2’-tricyclo[3.3.1.13,7]decane] (5l); 4-Ferrocenyl-4-(selenophen-2-yl)spiro[1,3-dithiolane-2,2’-tricyclo[3.3.1.13,7]decane] (6l): Isolated as a mixture of regioisomers. Yield: 393 mg (73%; crude product ratio 67:33). Yellow solid; IR (KBr) ν: 3085 (w), 3072

3,6-Carbazole vs 2,7-carbazole: A comparative study of hole-transporting polymeric materials for inorganic–organic hybrid perovskite solar cells

• Wei Li,
• Munechika Otsuka,
• Takehito Kato,
• Yang Wang,
• Takehiko Mori and
• Tsuyoshi Michinobu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1401–1409, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.134

• performances. So far, 2,2’,7,7’-tetrakis(N,N-di(p-methoxyphenyl)amino)-9,9-spirobifluorene (spiro-OMeTAD) is regarded as the most conventional solid state hole transporter for the PSCs [6][7][8][9][10]. Despite the high PCEs conferred by this hole transporting layer, spiro-OMeTAD has several limitations, such

From N-vinylpyrrolidone anions to modified paraffin-like oligomers via double alkylation with 1,8-dibromooctane: access to covalent networks and oligomeric amines for dye attachment

• Daniela Obels,
• Melanie Lievenbrück and
• Helmut Ritter

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1395–1400, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.133

• . However, in contrast to the restricted monoalkylation of N-vinylcaprolactam [24], the five-membered ring of N-VP can be double alkylated in α-position. In this connection, 1-bromo-2-(2-bromoethoxy)ethane was used as alkylation reagent to allow the preparation of a spiro-type monomer [25] due to

Synthesis of 2-oxindoles via 'transition-metal-free' intramolecular dehydrogenative coupling (IDC) of sp² C–H and sp³ C–H bonds

• Nivesh Kumar,
• Santanu Ghosh,
• Subhajit Bhunia and
• Alakesh Bisai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1153–1169, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.111

• synthetic methodology was further explored in the construction of spiro-fused oxindole ring systems (Scheme 3). The spiro-fused oxindoles such as coerulescine (15a) [68][69][70][71][72], horsfiline (15b) [73], and elacomine (16), are prevalently found in a huge number of indole-based alkaloids having

Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of biologically important 3-hydroxyoxindoles: an update

• Bin Yu,
• Hui Xing,
• De-Quan Yu and
• Hong-Min Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1000–1039, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.98

• -workers also established a CPA (cat. 38)-catalyzed asymmetrc [3 + 2] cycloaddition of 3-indolylmethanols with 3-methyl-2-vinylindoles, affording spiro[cyclopenta[b]indole-1,3’-oxindole] scaffolds in moderate to good yields (72–99% yield) and with excellent diastereoselectivities (>95:5 dr) and

(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

• prochiral ketones 35 or 36, catalyzed by a primary amine-thiourea 37 developed by Jacobsen. The proposed pathway is based on desymmetrization of 35 or 36 by an intramolecular Michael addition of the corresponding enamines to an α,β-unsaturated ester, to yield bicyclic or spiro-bicyclic products 38 and 39

• malononitriles 104 and α,α-dicyanoalkenes 105. The process yielded highly functionalized spiro-oxindole dienes 106. The products were obtained in good to excellent yields (up to 97%) and enantioselectivities (up to 96%), but the diastereoselectivities were moderate (up to 7.9:1) (Scheme 34) [53]. In 2015, Soós

• -dioxocyclohexanecarboxyalate 124 to produce bicyclo[3.2.1]octane unit (Scheme 40) [60]. The reaction proceeded smoothly to afford a wide variety of products 125 in good to excellent yields and selectivities. In 2010, Gong and co-workers developed an asymmetric process en route to spiro[4-cyclohexanone-1,3’-oxindoline] 126

Recent advances in N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-catalysed benzoin reactions

• Rajeev S. Menon,
• Akkattu T. Biju and
• Vijay Nair

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 444–461, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.47

• product 81 (Scheme 45). The yields are moderate; however excellent diastereo- and enantioselectivities were observed for the one-pot reaction [62]. In a similar fashion, an asymmetric multicatalytic cascade reaction involving the dienal 82 and unsaturated cyclic sulfonylimine 83 afforded spiro-fused

Effective in silico prediction of new oxazolidinone antibiotics: force field simulations of the antibiotic–ribosome complex supervised by experiment and electronic structure methods

• Jörg Grunenberg and
• Giuseppe Licari

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 415–428, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.45

• guest 14 and 15 by 5.1 kJ/mol and 18.2 kJ/mol, respectively) none of the spiro-bicyclic compounds shows a promising affinity to the bacterial ribosome. The same is true for guests 17 and 18. The introduction of the new aromatic cycle in the B ring increases the steric hindrance with far-reaching

Organocatalytic asymmetric Henry reaction of 1H-pyrrole-2,3-diones with bifunctional amine-thiourea catalysts bearing multiple hydrogen-bond donors

• Ming-Liang Zhang,
• Deng-Feng Yue,
• Zhen-Hua Wang,
• Yuan Luo,
• Xiao-Ying Xu,
• Xiao-Mei Zhang and
• Wei-Cheng Yuan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 295–300, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.31

• -diones is mainly focused on three-component spiro-heterocyclization reactions [30][31][32]. However, for the catalytic asymmetric transformation, only one example of an aldol reaction of 1H-pyrrole-2,3-diones with ketones has been reported so far (Scheme 1) [33]. Recently, our group developed a chiral

Spiro-fused carbohydrate oxazoline ligands: Synthesis and application as enantio-discrimination agents in asymmetric allylic alkylation

• Jochen Kraft,
• Martin Golkowski and
• Thomas Ziegler

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 166–171, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.18

• present work, we describe a convenient synthesis of spiro-fused D-fructo- and D-psico-configurated oxazoline ligands and their application in asymmetric catalysis. The ligands were synthesized from readily available 3,4,5-tri-O-benzyl-1,2-O-isopropylidene-β-D-fructopyranose and 3,4,5-tri-O-benzyl-1,2-O

• benzylation, fully characterized and subjected to palladium catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura coupling with 2-pyridineboronic acid N-phenyldiethanolamine ester to give the corresponding 2-pyridyl spiro-oxazoline (PyOx) ligands. The spiro-oxazoline ligands showed high asymmetric induction (up to 93% ee) when applied as

• ; carbohydrates; oxazolines; palladium; spiro compounds; Introduction The design of new chiral ligands for stereo-differentiating metal catalysts that enable asymmetric syntheses is still a highly active field of research in organic chemistry, for there is a continuously growing demand for enantiomeric pure

Recent highlights in biosynthesis research using stable isotopes

• Jan Rinkel and
• Jeroen S. Dickschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2493–2508, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.271

• precursors to gain insight into the used building blocks for the unusual polyketide core [26]. Compound 9 features a trisketal structure in addition to the spiro-epoxide at C-14, which is believed to be the active part of the molecule for interaction with DNA. This was supported by the isolation of

Copper-catalyzed asymmetric conjugate addition of organometallic reagents to extended Michael acceptors

• Thibault E. Schmid,
• Sammy Drissi-Amraoui,
• Christophe Crévisy,
• Olivier Baslé and
• Marc Mauduit

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2418–2434, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.263

• ring closing metathesis to afford the bicyclic product 53. Finally, the RCM of the 1,4-adduct resulting from the addition of 3-butenylmagnesium bromide yielded the spiro compound 54. Interestingly, the conversion of bicyclic compound 40 catalyzed by the same system also occurred selectively in the 4

• converted to the spiro compounds 62 and 63 (Scheme 17). The same protocol was later applied to conjugated enynones featuring additional unsaturated units and a total regioselectivity towards the 1,4-adducts was recorded under the standard conditions (Scheme 17) [36]. The chiral polyconjugated products (64

Synthesis of D-fructose-derived spirocyclic 2-substituted-2-oxazoline ribosides

• Madhuri Vangala and
• Ganesh P. Shinde

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2289–2296, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.249

• spirooxazolines are stable and were obtained in good yield with high stereoselectivity due to the conformational rigidity imparted by the 3,4-isopropylidene group. Keywords: fructose; oxazoline; riboside; Ritter reaction; spiro; Introduction 2-Oxazolines represent a unique class of 5-membered heterocyclic

• spiro [42] 2-oxazolines [43] are limited, to the best of our knowledge. With our interest in the area of glycopeptides [44] and carbohydrates [45], and owing to the importance of ribosides in general and spiroribofuranoses [46] in particular for drug discovery, in this paper, we report the synthesis of

• spiro 2-substituted-2-oxazoline ribosides utilizing a Ritter-like reaction having the general structure 6 (Figure 1). Results and Discussion García Fernández et al. isolated the fused and spiroglycooxazolines by activating 1,2;4,5-di-O-isopropylidene-β-D-fructopyranose and 3,4,6-tri-O-benzyl or benzoyl

Recent applications of ring-rearrangement metathesis in organic synthesis

• Sambasivarao Kotha,
• Milind Meshram,
• Priti Khedkar,
• Shaibal Banerjee and
• Deepak Deodhar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1833–1864, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.199

• with the RCM product 78 in 71% (Scheme 15). Burnell and co-workers [20] have demonstrated the RRM of unsaturated spirocycles with two alkenyl chains by employing catalyst 2 to generate a unsaturated spiro-fused tricyclic system. In this context, the compounds 80 and 81 were subjected to RRM with

• 235 has been used in RRM. To this end, compound 235 was subjected to a RRM under the influence of catalyst 3 to deliver the spiro heterocyclic compound 236 (41%). Similarly, compound 237 was treated with catalyst 2 under the same reaction conditions to produce the spiro heterocycle 238 (91%) (Scheme

• the fruiting body of P. igniarius, is a well-known anticancer agent. To assemble the spiro-fused furanone core of phelligridin G, Wright and Cooper [55] have used a RRM process as a key step. Wittig olefination of furylbenzaldehyde derivative 265 using methyltriphenylphosphonium bromide in the

Fates of imine intermediates in radical cyclizations of N-sulfonylindoles and ene-sulfonamides

• Hanmo Zhang,
• E. Ben Hay,
• Stephen J. Geib and
• Dennis P. Curran

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1649–1655, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.181

• /fragmentation. Tin hydride-mediated cyclizations of 2-halo-N-(3-methyl-N-sulfonylindole)anilines provide spiro[indoline-3,3'-indolones] or spiro-3,3'-biindolines (derived from imine reduction), depending on the indole C2 substituent. Cyclizations of 2-haloanilide derivatives of 3-carboxy-N-sulfonyl-2,3

• -dihydropyrroles also presumably form spiro-imines as primary products. However, the lactam carbonyl group facilitates the ring-opening of these cyclic imines by a new pathway of hydration and retro-Claisen-type reaction, providing rearranged 2-(2'-formamidoethyl)oxindoles. Keywords: ene-sulfonamide; imine

• ; radical cyclization; radical fragmentation; spiro-indoles; Introduction Radical additions and cyclizations of ene-sulfonamides are useful reactions in a number of settings. The primary products of these reactions, α-sulfonamidoyl radicals, are often thought to undergo elimination reactions of sulfonyl

Synthesis of a tricyclic lactam via Beckmann rearrangement and ring-rearrangement metathesis as key steps

• Sambasivarao Kotha,
• Ongolu Ravikumar and
• Jadab Majhi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1503–1508, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.163

• -caprolactam from cyclohexanone oxime involving the BR. The activation energy for the BR is almost the same as that of the nucleophilic substitution at sp2 nitrogen. To synthesize various aza-arenes and cyclic imines, such as quinolines, aza-spiro compounds and dihydropyrroles, the intramolecular SN2-type

Spiro annulation of cage polycycles via Grignard reaction and ring-closing metathesis as key steps

• Sambasivarao Kotha,
• Mohammad Saifuddin,
• Rashid Ali and
• Gaddamedi Sreevani

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1367–1372, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.147

• Sambasivarao Kotha Mohammad Saifuddin Rashid Ali Gaddamedi Sreevani Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400 076, India, Phone: +91-22-2576 7160, Fax: +91(22)-2572 7152 10.3762/bjoc.11.147 Abstract A simple synthetic strategy to C2-symmetric bis-spiro

• antiviral properties [22]. Although, several methods are available for the construction of cage compounds [7][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33], the synthesis of symmetrical spiro-cage molecule 7 seems to be a synthetic challenge due to the proximity of the two carbonyl groups in dione 10 which

• provides a hemiketal with various nucleophiles [34][35][36][37][38][39]. In view of various applications of cage molecules and the documented difficulties in their synthesis, we conceived a short synthetic route to C2-symmetric bis-spiro-pyrano cage compound 7. To this end, the Grignard addition and ring

Design and synthesis of fused polycycles via Diels–Alder reaction and ring-rearrangement metathesis as key steps

• Sambasivarao Kotha and
• Ongolu Ravikumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1259–1264, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.140

• associated with one of the hydroxy groups (Figure 2). Later, the triallyl compound 5 was subjected to RRM in the presence of G-II catalyst (Figure 1) under ethylene atmosphere to deliver the hexacyclic rearranged product 6a in 70% yield and ring-closing spiro product 6b in 28% yield (Scheme 1). To expand