Multistep flow synthesis of vinyl azides and their use in the copper-catalyzed Huisgen-type cycloaddition under inductive-heating conditions

• Lukas Kupracz,
• Jan Hartwig,
• Jens Wegner,
• Sascha Ceylan and
• Andreas Kirschning

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1441–1448, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.168

• good yield. The third step involves the formation of vinyl triazoles by a copper-catalyzed Huisgen-"click" cycloaddition. The required heat is generated by electromagnetic induction based on copper. Copper serves both as heatable as well as catalytically active packed-bed material inside the flow

• protocol starts from alkenes, which are transformed by a 1,2-addition of iodine azide and then to the corresponding vinyl azides. Furthermore, for the first time we present the copper-mediated Huisgen-type “click” cycloaddition of vinyl azides with alkynes to yield vinyl triazoles under inductive-heating

• -type cycloadditions The copper-catalyzed Huisgen-type cycloaddition (CuAAC) is a general and useful method for the synthesis of 1,4-disubstituted-1,2,3-triazoles and is based on the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of alkynes and azides [28]. Besides Cu(I) sources also Cu(0) sources, such as copper wire [29

NMR studies of anion-induced conformational changes in diindolylureas and diindolylthioureas

• Damjan Makuc,
• Jennifer R. Hiscock,
• Mark E. Light,
• Philip A. Gale and
• Janez Plavec

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1205–1214, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.140

• extensively employed in synthetic anion receptors comprising groups such as amides, pyrroles, indoles, ureas and triazoles, as well as in ammonium, guanidinium and imidazolium moieties used as hydrogen bond donors [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. Amongst neutral anion receptor systems, indole and related

Novel synthesis of pseudopeptides bearing a difluoromethyl group by Ugi reaction and desulfanylation

• Jingjing Wu,
• Hui Li and
• Song Cao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1070–1074, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.123

• ][30]. Recently, we reported a novel and general strategy for the construction of a difluoromethyl compound library, and we further illustrated this strategy by application to the synthesis of CF2H-bearing pseudopeptides and 1,2,3-triazoles through Ugi and click reaction, respectively [27][30]. In

Triazole–Au(I) complex as chemoselective catalyst in promoting propargyl ester rearrangements

• Dawei Wang,
• Yanwei Zhang,
• Rong Cai and
• Xiaodong Shi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1014–1020, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.115

• significant challenge in gold catalysis. Results and Discussions Recently, our group reported the synthesis and characterization of the 1,2,3-triazole [36][37][38][39][40] coordinated gold(I) complexes. As revealed by the X-ray crystal structures (Scheme 3), both neutral and anionic triazoles can coordinate

• with Au(I) cation, forming stable TA–Au complexes [41]. The preparation of these complexes was very straightforward. Simply treating the NH-triazoles with PPh3AuCl in methanol under basic conditions (K2CO3, 1 equiv) at room temperature gave the neutral TA–Au-1 in >90% yield. The “cationic” complex TA

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

• exhibit a broad spectrum of pharmacological activity such as antifungal, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and anticancer etc. Triazoles have increased our ability to treat many fungal infections, for example, candidiasis, cryptococcal meningitis, aspergillosis etc. However, mortality due to these

• antimicrobial [6][7][8][9][10], antitubercular [11], anticancer [12][13], anticonvulsant [14], anti-inflammatory, analgesic [15] and antiviral [16]. Triazoles have also been incorporated in a wide variety of therapeutically interesting drugs including H1/H2 histamine receptor blockers, CNS stimulants, anti

• well as in increasing solubility [20]. Moreover, triazoles can function as attractive linker units which could connect two pharmacophores to give an innovative bifunctional drug, and thus have become increasingly useful and important in constructing bioactive and functional molecules [21][22][23

An overview of the key routes to the best selling 5-membered ring heterocyclic pharmaceuticals

• Marcus Baumann,
• Ian R. Baxendale,
• Steven V. Ley and
• Nikzad Nikbin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 442–495, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.57

• (Scheme 52) [79]. Other synthetic routes to 1,2,4-triazoles have also been reported. For example, the desired triazole ring of anastrozole can be obtained by reacting an appropriately substituted hydrazine hydrochloride salt 269 with triazine (270) (Scheme 53) [80]. It has been proposed that this novel

Palladium- and copper-mediated N-aryl bond formation reactions for the synthesis of biological active compounds

• Carolin Fischer and
• Burkhard Koenig

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 59–74, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.10

• resulted in good yields [4][26]. Copper-diamine-catalysed N-arylation facilitated the arylation of pyrroles, pyrazoles, indazoles, imidazoles, triazoles, benzimidazoles and indoles [27][28][29]. Besides aryl halides as the aryl donor, arylsiloxanes [30], arylstannanes [31], iodonium salts [32], aryl lead

Synthetic incorporation of Nile Blue into DNA using 2′-deoxyriboside substitutes: Representative comparison of (R)- and (S)-aminopropanediol as an acyclic linker

• Daniel Lachmann,
• Sina Berndl,
• Otto S. Wolfbeis and
• Hans-Achim Wagenknecht

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 13, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.13

• ” ligation strategy has become an important strategy for postsynthetic labeling of DNA [12][13]. Huisgen described first the [2+3]-cycloaddition between alkynes and azides yielding 1,2,3-triazoles [14]. The utility of this reaction as a bioligation method has grown incredibly after Meldal [15] and – almost

Synthesis of 3-(phenylazo)-1,2,4-triazoles by a nucleophilic reaction of primary amines with 5-chloro- 2,3-diphenyltetrazolium salt via mesoionic 2,3-diphenyltetrazolium- 5-aminides

• Shuki Araki,
• Satoshi Hirose,
• Yoshikazu Konishi,
• Masatoshi Nogura and
• Tsunehisa Hirashita

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 8, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.8

• amines have been examined. In the presence of an inorganic base such as NaHCO3, primary and secondary amines undergo a nucleophilic substitution to give the corresponding 5-aminotetrazolium salts. When triethylamine is used as a base, primary amines give 3-phenylazo-1,2,4-triazoles. A plausible dual-path

• mechanism is proposed for the formation of the triazoles via Type B mesoionic tetrazolium-5-aminides. Keywords: formazan; mesoionic compounds; nucleophilic substitution; tetrazolium; 1,2,4-triazole; Introduction Mesoionic compounds can be classified into two families, type A and type B mesoions, according

• , such as ethanolamine and ethyl glycinate gave the corresponding triazoles 3c and 3d. Interestingly, sterically bulky primary amines as well as secondary amines gave the respective 5-aminotetrazolium salts 4d–h. It is worthy to note that the reaction of isopropylamine/triethylamine gave 3

Dimerization of propargyl and homopropargyl 6-azido- 6-deoxy- glycosides upon 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition

• Nikolas Pietrzik,
• Daniel Schmollinger and
• Thomas Ziegler

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 30, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.30

• -butynyl 2,3,4-tri-O-acetyl-6-azido-6-deoxy-glycopyranosides in the D-gluco, D-galacto and D-manno series afford the corresponding dimeric cycloaddition products. Keywords: click reaction; cyclodimerization; glycosides; triazoles; Introduction Our ongoing interest in constructing combinatorial libraries

• -triazoles which are known to be easily generated through a copper-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of an organic azide and an alkynyl derivative (Click Reaction) [5][6][7]. For review articles on copper-catalyzed Click Reactions see references [8][9][10][11]. Recently, we applied this approach to a

Synthesis of 2-substituted 9-oxa-guanines {5-aminooxazolo[5,4-d]pyrimidin- 7(6H)-ones} and 9-oxa-2-thio- xanthines {5-mercaptooxazolo[5,4-d]pyrimidin- 7(6H)-ones}

• Subrata Mandal,
• Wen Tai Li,
• Yan Bai,
• Jon D. Robertus and
• Sean M. Kerwin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 26, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.26

• with benzyl azide or 2-morpholinoethyl azide in the presence of catalytic CuSO4 and sodium ascorbate to afford the triazoles 9 and 10, respectively, in good yield (Figure 5). The copper-catalyzed Huisgen cycloaddition of terminal alkynes and alkyl azides favors formation of the 1,4-triazole

Synthesis of new triazole- based trifluoromethyl scaffolds

• Michela Martinelli,
• Thierry Milcent,
• Sandrine Ongeri and
• Benoit Crousse

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 19, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.19

• derivatives to afford 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles through a Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition. The reaction is catalyzed by a Cu(I) species in acetonitrile, and the corresponding products are obtained in good yields. This process thus offers an entry to new trifluoromethyl peptidomimetics as interesting

• peptidomimetics has been widely reported [6], the application of 1,2,3-triazoles in the field of conformational studies has occurred only recently [7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. In particular, Angelo and co-workers [8][12] reported the synthesis of triazole foldamers able to adopt specific protein-like conformations

• trifluoromethyl groups on the conformation of peptidomimetics, we decided to explore the preparation of trifluoromethyl triazole derivatives. Herein we turn our attention to the synthesis of new triazoles from trifluoromethyl propargylamines using the Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition [27][28][29]. Results and

Development of potential manufacturing routes for substituted thiophenes – Preparation of halogenated 2-thiophenecarboxylic acid derivatives as building blocks for a new family of 2,6-dihaloaryl 1,2,4-triazole insecticides

• John W. Hull Jr.,
• Duane R. Romer,
• David E. Podhorez,
• Mezzie L. Ash and
• Christine H. Brady

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 23, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-23

• development have been the 2,6-dihalo 1,2,4-triazoles XR-693 and XR-906, which require a supply of the halogenated 2-thiophenecarboxylic acid derivatives 1, 2, and 3 for assembly of the C-ring portion of the triazole products. Results Potential manufacturing routes to three halogenated 2-thiophenecarboxylic

• pests in mind, this family of compounds has been under investigation for aphid, mite, and whitefly control in food crop protection as well as ornamental applications. Two specific target molecules for development have been the 2,6-dihalo 1,2,4-triazoles XR-693 and XR-906, each containing a halogenated

2-Arylhydrazononitriles as building blocks in heterocyclic synthesis: A novel route to 2-substituted- 1,2,3-triazoles and 1,2,3-triazolo[4,5-b]pyridines

• Saleh M. Al-Mousawi and
• Moustafa Sh. Moustafa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 12, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-12

• . Instead the hydrolyzed product 5 was formed. Introduction Interest in 1,2,3-triazole chemistry has recently been revived. [1][2][3][4] Zaprinast (1) is used as cyclic AMP phosphodiasterase inhibitor. [5] Plenty of 1,2,3-triazoles have also been reported to have useful pharmaceutical potential. [6][7][8

• refluxing 2a with hydroxylamine hydrochloride in DMF/piperidine afforded 1,2,3-triazoles whose structure was established by X-ray crystal structure. [11] On the other hand reacting 2b with hydroxylamine hydrochloride in DMF/piperidine afforded 5-amino-1,2,4-triazole via a rare Tiemann-like rearrangement. In

• that can be assigned as 1,2,4-oxadiazolylphenylhydrazone structure 4 or the isomeric acetylamino-1,2,3-triazole structure 6. Phenylhydrazono-1,2,4-oxadiazoles have been reported to rearrange thermally into acylamino-1,2,3-triazoles. [12] Compound 5 could be obtained via refluxing 3 in DMF in the