Cascade radical reaction of substrates with a carbon–carbon triple bond as a radical acceptor

• Hideto Miyabe,
• Ryuta Asada and
• Yoshiji Takemoto

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1148–1155, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.128

• the cyclization step is an important factor to achieve the highly asymmetric induction. We next investigated the reactivity of internal alkynes as electron-rich acceptors (Scheme 6). The internal alkyne 14 has shown a good reactivity comparable to that of the terminal alkynes 6A–C. In the absence of a

Camera-enabled techniques for organic synthesis

• Steven V. Ley,
• Richard J. Ingham,
• Matthew O’Brien and
• Duncan L. Browne

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1051–1072, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.118

• preparative synthetic chemistry. Ozone was used to oxidatively cleave a variety of alkenes whereas oxygen was used to aid the oxidative homo-coupling of terminal alkynes (Figure 19). Our use of camera imagery became more sophisticated as we began to acquire data on the precise concentrations of the gases in

Gold-catalyzed oxycyclization of allenic carbamates: expeditious synthesis of 1,3-oxazin-2-ones

• Benito Alcaide,
• Pedro Almendros,
• M. Teresa Quirós and
• Israel Fernández

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 818–826, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.93

• readily accessed from (S)-prolinol by using a modified known procedure [58]. Alkynylcarbamate 1j was achieved through the reaction of 3-bromo-1H-indole-2-carbaldehyde with the Ohira–Bestmann reagent followed by the addition of Boc2O. Terminal alkynes 1 were conveniently converted into allenic carbamates 2

Direct alkenylation of indolin-2-ones by 6-aryl-4-methylthio-2H-pyran-2-one-3-carbonitriles: a novel approach

• Sandeep Kumar,
• Ramendra Pratap,
• Abhinav Kumar,
• Brijesh Kumar,
• Vishnu K. Tandon and
• Vishnu Ji Ram

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 809–817, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.92

• ][28][29][30][31]. More recently, Kamijo, Yamamoto and co-workers [32] have developed a palladium-catalyzed cyclization of acetylenic aryl isocyanates in the presence of terminal alkynes. Halogenated arylpropionamides are commonly employed for the preparation of 3-alkenylindolin-2-ones involving tin

Titanium-mediated reductive cross-coupling reactions of imines with terminal alkynes: An efficient route for the synthesis of stereodefined allylic amines

• Kebin Mao,
• Guoqin Fan,
• Yuanhong Liu,
• Shi Li,
• Xu You and
• Dan Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 621–627, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.69

• Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, People’s Republic of China 10.3762/bjoc.9.69 Abstract Low-valency titanium species, generated in situ by using Ti(OiPr)4/2 c-C5H9MgCl reagent, react with imines to give a titanium-imine complex that can couple with terminal alkynes to provide azatitanacyclopentenes

• appeared in this report (1-octyne). Sato’s group further applied this reaction for the synthesis of optically active allylic amines with chiral imines and terminal alkynes [36]. However, the imine substrates employed in their reactions were all N-alkyl substituted ones [35][36]. Until now the scope and

• limitations for titanium-mediated reductive cross-coupling reactions of imines with terminal alkynes have been far less studied. Our group has developed a series of reactions using low-valency titanium reagents [37][38][39], including selective coupling of 1,3-butadiynes with aldehydes using Ti(OiPr)4/2 n

Recent advances in transition-metal-catalyzed intermolecular carbomagnesiation and carbozincation

• Kei Murakami and
• Hideki Yorimitsu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 278–302, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.34

• reactions of simple terminal alkynes (Scheme 39) [121][122]. They proposed that the catalytic cycle (Scheme 40) would be triggered by the transmetalation of AgOTs with iBuMgCl to afford isobutylsilver complex 4C. Complex 4C would react with tert-butyl iodide to generate tert-butylsilver intermediate 4D

• . Carbometalation of terminal alkynes with 4D, probably by addition of a t-Bu radical, would yield vinylsilver 4E. Finally, transmetalation with iBuMgCl would give the corresponding vinylmagnesium intermediate 4g. Due to the intermediacy of radical intermediates, the carbomagnesiation is not stereoselective. In

Tandem aldehyde–alkyne–amine coupling/cycloisomerization: A new synthesis of coumarins

• Maddi Sridhar Reddy,
• Nuligonda Thirupathi and
• Madala Haribabu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 180–184, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.21

• )). Similarly, Patil and Raut [24] reported an elegant method for the synthesis of 2-substituted quinolines from 2-aminobenzaldehydes and terminal alkynes by a tandem A3/6-endo-dig-cycloisomerization (Scheme 1, (b)) using a cooperative catalytic system consisting of CuI and pyrrolidine. Prior to these two

Intramolecular carbolithiation of N-allyl-ynamides: an efficient entry to 1,4-dihydropyridines and pyridines – application to a formal synthesis of sarizotan

• Wafa Gati,
• Mohamed M. Rammah,
• Mohamed B. Rammah and
• Gwilherm Evano

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 2214–2222, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.250

• -mediated cross-coupling between bromoalkynes 9 and nitrogen nucleophiles [42] turned out to be the most convenient one, the use of terminal alkynes [43], gem-dibromoalkenes [7], potassium alkynyltrifluoroborates [8] or copper acetylides [12] being less efficient when bulky N-Boc-allylamines 10 were used as

Highly stereocontrolled synthesis of trans-enediynes via carbocupration of fluoroalkylated diynes

• Tsutomu Konno,
• Misato Kishi and
• Takashi Ishihara

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 2207–2213, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.249

• [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. Thus, treatment of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro-1-iodo-1-propene (1), which could be easily prepared from 2,2,3,3,3-pentafluoropropanol in three steps [23], with 1.2 equiv of terminal alkynes 2 and 1.5 equiv of Et3N in the presence of 5 mol % of Pd(OAc)2 and 10 mol % each of

• stereoselective manner. Finally, we attempted the Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction of the obtained iodide 13a (Scheme 4). Thus, treatment of 13a with 1.2 equiv of terminal alkynes and 40 equiv of Et3N in the presence of 10 mol % each of Pd(PPh3)4 and CuI in THF at 70 °C for 2–5 h gave the corresponding

Parallel solid-phase synthesis of diaryltriazoles

• Matthias Wrobel,
• Jeffrey Aubé and
• Burkhard König

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1027–1036, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.115

• of water occurred in the presence of TFA. The dehydrated products were obtained in 57 and 71%. The remaining material was the corresponding hydroxylated product. Parallel synthesis of a compound library A larger compound library was prepared by using resins 7 and 9, 15 different terminal alkynes 10f

• , DMSO-d6). Compounds 13, with the exception of compound 13f, were only characterized by mass spectrometry during the synthesis of the compound library. The copper-mediated [2 + 3] cycloadditions are restricted to terminal alkynes. However, the ruthenium-catalysis allows the use of internal alkynes. In

• – Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of solid-phase-immobilized azides with terminal alkynes by copper(I) catalysis: An azide-functionalized Wang resin 7 or 9 (1 equiv) was preswollen in dimethylformamide (1.5 mL/100 mg resin) for 2 h at room temperature. The copper(I) catalyst was prepared in situ by using

A concise synthesis of 3-(1-alkenyl)isoindolin-1-ones and 5-(1-alkenyl)pyrrol-2-ones by the intermolecular coupling reactions of N-acyliminium ions with unactivated olefins

• Nianhong Lu,
• Lihong Wang,
• Zhanshan Li and
• Wei Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 192–200, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.21

• terminal alkynes to give the doubly alkyl-substituted acetylenes [1][2][3]; the Brønsted acid and Lewis acid catalyzed coupling of alcohols with indoles to give the 3-alkyl-substituted indoles [4][5][6]; and the Brønsted acid and Lewis acid-catalyzed coupling of alcohols with 1,3-dicarbonyls to give the 2

Access to pyrrolo-pyridines by gold-catalyzed hydroarylation of pyrroles tethered to terminal alkynes

• Elena Borsini,
• Gianluigi Broggini,
• Andrea Fasana,
• Chiara Baldassarri,
• Angelo M. Manzo and
• Alcide D. Perboni

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1468–1474, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.170

• either from direct cyclization or from a formal rearrangement of the carboxamide group. Terminal alkynes are essential to achieve bicyclic pyrrolo-fused pyridinones by a 6-exo-dig process, while the presence of a phenyl group at the C–C triple bond promotes the 7-endo-dig cyclization giving pyrrolo

• terminal alkynes with pyrroles is shown in Scheme 2. It is highly probable that the products arise from the vinyl gold species B and F, in turn generated from alkynes 4 after coordination to AuCl3. The formation of F can result by a migration of the acyl group from the spiro center of the transient

Amines as key building blocks in Pd-assisted multicomponent processes

• Didier Bouyssi,
• Nuno Monteiro and
• Geneviève Balme

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1387–1406, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.163

• pyrazoles in a consecutive fashion from terminal alkynes, acid chlorides, and hydrazine derivatives. Classical approaches to these valuable compounds are notably based on the cyclocondensation of hydrazine derivatives with 1,3-disubstituted three-carbon units, including α,β-unsaturated ketones, and

• particularly alkynones. In situ generation of the latter is an interesting means of overcoming the poor commercial availability of these compounds and also offers the flexibility needed for library production (Scheme 15). Thus various (hetero)aryl acid chlorides and terminal alkynes were heated in THF in the

• the two possible regioisomers was obtained preferentially depending on the hydrazine derivatives used, N-alkyl- and N-arylhydrazines giving opposite regioselectivities [15]. The carbonylative coupling of terminal alkynes with aryl (and heteroaryl) halides was proposed by Mori and coworkers as a

Cyclization of 5-hexynoic acid to 3-alkoxy-2-cyclohexenones

• Anne T. Hylden,
• Eric J. Uzelac,
• Zeljko Ostojic,
• Ting-Ting Wu,
• Keely L. Sacry,
• Krista L. Sacry,
• Lin Xi and
• T. Nicholas Jones

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1323–1326, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.155

• terminal alkynes [8]. Additionally, the preference for formation of the 6-membered cyclization product is likely biased by geometric factors due to the propylene tether linking the acyl chloride and alkyne moieties. Recently we have developed one-pot conditions for this reaction starting from 5-hexynoic

Combined directed ortho-zincation and palladium-catalyzed strategies: Synthesis of 4,n-dimethoxy-substituted benzo[b]furans

• Verónica Guilarte,
• M. Pilar Castroviejo,
• Estela Álvarez and
• Roberto Sanz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1255–1260, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.146

• ring system, the cyclodehydration of α-aryloxy ketones [29], the Claisen rearrangement of an allyl aryl ether followed by Pd-catalyzed intramolecular oxidative cyclization [30], and the tandem Sonogashira coupling/heterocyclization of 2-halophenols with terminal alkynes [31], are some of the most used

• haloanisoles bearing an additional methoxy group, followed by electrophilic quenching with iodine allows the regioselective and straightforward synthesis of highly functionalized dihalodimethoxybenzene derivatives. A subsequent selective Sonogashira coupling with terminal alkynes, followed by direct

One-pot four-component synthesis of pyrimidyl and pyrazolyl substituted azulenes by glyoxylation–decarbonylative alkynylation–cyclocondensation sequences

• Charlotte F. Gers,
• Julia Rosellen,
• Eugen Merkul and
• Thomas J. J. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1173–1181, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.136

• , followed by Pd/Cu-catalyzed decarbonylative alkynylation with terminal alkynes 2, and finally by cyclocondensation of the ynone intermediates with substituted amidine hydrochlorides 4, pyrimidylazulenes 5 were obtained in moderate to good yields in a one-pot fashion (Scheme 5) (for experimental details

Recent advances in the gold-catalyzed additions to C–C multiple bonds

• He Huang,
• Yu Zhou and
• Hong Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 897–936, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.103

• gold-catalyzed synthesis of dihydrofuran-3-ones 63, in which terminal alkynes 62 were used as equivalents of α-diazo ketones to generate α-oxo gold carbenes (Scheme 12) [37]. The α-oxo gold carbenes were produced via gold-catalyzed intermolecular oxidation of 62. This provides improved synthetic

• played an activation role but also acted as a reactant in the reaction (Scheme 32). A simple, convenient, and green synthetic approach to diverse fused xanthines 182 has also been developed by gold-complex catalyzed intramolecular hydroamination of terminal alkynes 181 under microwave irradiation in

• carbon–carbon bond coupling reactions have been less explored [88][89]. In 2008, Li et al. reported a gold(I) iodide catalyzed Sonogashira reaction [88]. Terminal alkynes 197 reacted smoothly with aryl iodides and bromides 198 in the presence of 1 mol % AuI and 1 mol % dppf to generate the corresponding

Gold-catalyzed propargylic substitutions: Scope and synthetic developments

• Olivier Debleds,
• Eric Gayon,
• Emmanuel Vrancken and
• Jean-Marc Campagne

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 866–877, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.99

• with propargylic alcohol 1b bearing a phenyl group and no reaction was observed when an electron-withdrawing group such as ester was present on the propargylic alcohol 1c. It is worth noting that with terminal alkynes, the product 2d was obtained in low yield (9%). The presence of various substituted

• even after prolonged reaction at reflux (Scheme 14). Very recently, Darcel described the iron(III) hydration of terminal alkynes [65]. These conditions were attempted to cyclize 22a but in our hands only extensive decomposition was observed. We thus turned our attention to gold-catalyzed cyclization of

When gold can do what iodine cannot do: A critical comparison

• Sara Hummel and
• Stefan F. Kirsch

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 847–859, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.97

• alkynes. For example, Toste and co-workers investigated the previously unreported 5-endo carbocyclization of 43 which involves the cyclization of ß-keto esters onto non-terminal alkynes by use of gold catalysts (Scheme 13) [105], where traditional transition metal-catalyzed Conia-ene type cyclizations are

• possible only with terminal alkynes [106]. It was proposed that the exclusive formation of the 5-endo product occurred with non-terminal alkynes because 5-exo cyclization, analogous to the traditional Conia-ene mechanism, results in too much strain in the transition state during gold-activation, and

• developed a 5-endo approach to the iodocarbocyclization between ß-keto esters and non-terminal alkynes (Scheme 13b) [108]. Initially, 1,2-addition of iodine to alkynes such as 45 proved problematic, which was resolved by decreasing the molarity of the iodine in CH2Cl2 from 0.3 M to 0.05 M. This favored the

Au(I)/Au(III)-catalyzed Sonogashira-type reactions of functionalized terminal alkynes with arylboronic acids under mild conditions

• Deyun Qian and
• Junliang Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 808–812, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.92

• , Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ling Ling Road 345 Shanghai 200032 (P. R. China) 10.3762/bjoc.7.92 Abstract A straightforward, efficient, and reliable redox catalyst system for the Au(I)/Au(III)-catalyzed Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction of functionalized terminal alkynes with arylboronic acids under

• cross-coupling, as well as expanding the substrate scope [11][12][13][14]. Various examples have recently been reported for the palladium-catalyzed Sonagashira-type cross-coupling of terminal alkynes with arylboronic acids [13], and the Pd(0)/Pd(II) catalytic cycles have been well studied. Nevertheless

• required [23]. Herein, we report a straightforward, efficient and robust catalyst system for the Sonogashira-type cross-coupling, in which Au(I)/Au(III) catalyzed Csp2–Csp bond formation of terminal alkynes from arylboronic acids under mild conditions. By analogy with other d10 species, Au(I) has the same

Advances in synthetic approach to and antifungal activity of triazoles

• Kumari Shalini,
• Nitin Kumar,
• Sushma Drabu and
• Pramod Kumar Sharma

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 668–677, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.79

• -lactams and terminal alkynes of bile acids in the presence of a Cu(I) catalyst (click chemistry) by Vatmurge et al. The synthesized compounds were evaluated for their antifungal activity against different fungal strains such as Candida albicans, Cryptococcus neoformans, Benjaminiella poitrasii, Yarrowia

One-pot gold-catalyzed synthesis of 3-silylethynyl indoles from unprotected o-alkynylanilines

• Jonathan P. Brand,
• Clara Chevalley and
• Jérôme Waser

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 565–569, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.65

• access to 3-silylalkynyl indoles. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first example of a one-pot process combining a Au(III) and a Au(I) catalyst. Findings 2-Alkynylanilines 2 can be efficiently prepared from 2-iodoanilines 4 and terminal alkynes via Sonogashira reaction with Et3N as solvent

A rapid and efficient synthetic route to terminal arylacetylenes by tetrabutylammonium hydroxide- and methanol-catalyzed cleavage of 4-aryl-2-methyl-3-butyn-2-ols

• Jie Li and
• Pengcheng Huang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 426–431, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.55

• reaction time under much milder conditions. Keywords: 4-aryl-2-methyl-3-butyn-2-ol; deprotection reaction; 2-methyl-3-butyn-2-ol; terminal alkynes; tetrabutylammonium hydroxide; Introduction Terminal arylacetylenes are key precursors for the construction of conjugated oligo- or polyarylacetylenes, which

Synthesis of glycoconjugate fragments of mycobacterial phosphatidylinositol mannosides and lipomannan

• Benjamin Cao,
• Jonathan M. White and
• Spencer J. Williams

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 369–377, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.47

• ) lipophilicity allowing biphasic partitioning between butanol/water or purification by reversed-phase extraction, (ii) ability to be reduced to an aminooctyl chain for use in squarate conjugation chemistry, and (iii) capacity to be conjugated with fluorescent terminal alkynes using the Cu(I)-catalyzed azide

C–C (alkynylation) vs C–O (ether) bond formation under Pd/C–Cu catalysis: synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of 4-alkynylthieno[2,3-d]pyrimidines

• Dhilli Rao Gorja,
• K. Shiva Kumar,
• K. Mukkanti and
• Manojit Pal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 338–345, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.44

• /C–CuI–PPh3 catalytic system facilitated C–C bond formation between 4-chlorothieno[2,3-d]pyrimidines and terminal alkynes in methanol with high selectivity without generating any significant side products arising from C–O bond formation between the chloro compounds and methanol. A variety of novel 4

• halopyrimidines with terminal alkynes [1][2][3] (for a review see [8]). While alkynylation of the thiophene ring of thienopyrimidines under Sonogashira conditions [9] has previously been reported [6], a similar coupling reaction on the pyrimidine ring of thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidines is uncommon in the literature [10

• 6,7,8,9-tetrahydro-5H-cyclohepta[4,5]thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-one (5) which on treatment with POCl3 under refluxing conditions provided the desired 4-chloro derivative 1d. All the terminal alkynes used were commercially available. Initially, we chose to examine the coupling reaction of 4-chloro-5,6,7,8