Understanding X-ray-induced isomerisation in photoswitchable surfactant assemblies

• Beatrice E. Jones,
• Camille Blayo,
• Jake L. Greenfield,
• Matthew J. Fuchter,
• Nathan Cowieson and
• Rachel C. Evans

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2005–2015, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.176

• investigate the Z–E isomerisation on X-ray irradiation, UV–vis absorbance spectra were taken using a NanoDrop 1000 spectrometer. Samples (2 μL) were loaded onto the instrument and absorbance from 220 to 750 nm measured. E–Z isomerisation of (a) AzoTAB and (b) AAPTAB under UV light (365 nm) results in a change

• B. E. Jones et al., published by Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License). SAXS curves for AzoTAB (50 mM in water) showing the transition from the Z-rich PSS to the E-rich state with increasing X-ray exposure time

• . Fits to the data (black lines) indicate a morphology change from ellipsoidal to cylindrical micelles, as shown in the schematic insert (to scale). The grey circles indicate the original E-isomeric state before UV irradiation. The graphic is modified from [33] (© 2024 B. E. Jones et al., published by

Harnessing the versatility of hydrazones through electrosynthetic oxidative transformations

• Aurélie Claraz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1988–2004, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.175

• oxidation potential than the hydrazone, then the transformation initiates with the anodic generation of radical species Y•, that adds to the hydrazone leading ultimately to hydrazinyl radical F as well (route b). In both cases, a second SET anodic oxidation and deprotonation yields the functionalized

• . Initial SET oxidation of the partner As mentioned above, if the partner is more readily oxidized than the hydrazone, then the general mechanism of the process is as described in Scheme 20, following route (b) for the first anodic oxidation. While investigating the electrochemical oxidative C(sp2)–H

Allostreptopyrroles A–E, β-alkylpyrrole derivatives from an actinomycete Allostreptomyces sp. RD068384

• Marwa Elsbaey,
• Naoya Oku,
• Mohamed S. A. Abdel-Mottaleb and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1981–1987, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.174

• ; HRESITOFMS (m/z): [M – H]– calcd for C15H22NO4, 280.1554; found, 280.1550. Allostreptopyrrole B (2): greenish yellow amorphous solid; +15 (c 0.10, MeOH); UV (MeOH) λmax, nm (log ε): 235 (3.87), 273 sh (3.49); IR (ATR) νmax: 3263, 2964, 2925, 2854, 1658, 1556, 1417 cm−1; 1H and 13C NMR data, see Table 2

Development of a flow photochemical process for a π-Lewis acidic metal-catalyzed cyclization/radical addition sequence: in situ-generated 2-benzopyrylium as photoredox catalyst and reactive intermediate

• Masahiro Terada,
• Zen Iwasaki,
• Ryohei Yazaki,
• Shigenobu Umemiya and
• Jun Kikuchi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1973–1980, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.173

• , initiating further radical reactions through the formation of radical cations B. Nucleophilic arylmethyl radicals C, which are generated from radical cations B by desilylation, undergo an addition reaction with 2-benzopyrylium intermediates A, giving rise to the corresponding radical cation. Catalytic cycle

• before being introduced into the photoreactor (volume: 1.0 mL) (Table 1, top right). After several trials, we decided to fill syringe A with o-alkynylacetophenone 1a and syringe B with AgNTf2, P(4-CF3C6H4)3, benzyltrimethylsilane (2a, TMSBn), and TFA (see Supporting Information File 1 for details). At

• improved the yield of 3t (78%), presumably because of the retardation of the desilylation process (from B to C in Scheme 1a). Conclusion We have demonstrated a flow reaction system for a π-Lewis acidic metal-catalyzed cyclization/photochemical radical addition sequence, affording, in most cases, the 1H

Radical reactivity of antiaromatic Ni(II) norcorroles with azo radical initiators

• Siham Asyiqin Shafie,
• Ryo Nozawa,
• Hideaki Takano and
• Hiroshi Shinokubo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1967–1972, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.172

• governed the regioselectivity. Reactivities of norcorroles with various reagents. Top and side views of the X-ray structures of a) 2a and b) 1 [2]. Mesityl groups and hydrogen atoms were omitted for clarity. Thermal ellipsoids are drawn at 50% probability. UV–vis–NIR absorption spectra of 1 and 2a in

Regioselective alkylation of a versatile indazole: Electrophile scope and mechanistic insights from density functional theory calculations

• Pengcheng Lu,
• Luis Juarez,
• Paul A. Wiget,
• Weihe Zhang,
• Krishnan Raman and
• Pravin L. Kotian

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1940–1954, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.170

• and mild Mitsunobu conditions for the preparation of N2-substituted indazole analogs 16a–q. By directly reacting compound 6 with alcohols 13a–q (2 equiv), diethyl azodicarboxylate (DEAD, 2 equiv), and triphenylphosphine (TPP, 2 equiv) in THF at 50 °C (conditions B), the corresponding N2-substituted

• products were isolated in excellent yields (>90%) and high regiocontrol. Crude product ratios as determined by LC–MS (averaging integrations at 254 nm and 260 nm) had an average error (standard deviation) of 3.2% (2.76%) and 13.7% (7.54%) for conditions A and B, respectively. The N1-isomer overlapped with

• this substrate to be reversed (19-OCs, 20-OP), such that conditions A would produce the N2-product and conditions B would produce the N1-product. This was found to be the case as can be observed in Figure 9. The N2-product 19 was isolated in 93% yield under conditions A, and the N1-product 20 was

A new platform for the synthesis of diketopyrrolopyrrole derivatives via nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions

• Vitor A. S. Almodovar and
• Augusto C. Tomé

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1933–1939, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.169

• chromatography (TLC) was carried out on precoated sheets with silica gel (Merck 60, 0.2 mm thick). Preparative TLC was carried out on 20 cm × 20 cm glass plates precoated with a layer of silica gel 60 (0.5 mm thick) and activated in an oven at 100 °C for 12 h. Melting points were determined with a Büchi B-540

• ), −144.36 to −144.49 (m, 2F), −149.67 (t, J = 20.8 Hz, 1F), −157.53 to −157.84 (m, 2F); ESIMS m/z: 792.1 (M + H+, 100%). (A) Absorption and (B) fluorescence spectra of compounds 3a–f, 4a, 4d and 4f, in DMF. Different concentrations of the compounds were used to allow visualization of each spectrum

Solvent-dependent chemoselective synthesis of different isoquinolinones mediated by the hypervalent iodine(III) reagent PISA

• Ze-Nan Hu,
• Yan-Hui Wang,
• Jia-Bing Wu,
• Ze Chen,
• Dou Hong and
• Chi Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1914–1921, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.167

• then undergoes a proton shift to provide intermediate B. Intermediate B collapses via reductive elimination to give nitrenium ion C, along with the release of iodobenzene and sulfamate. Finally, nucleophilic attack of the olefin moiety of C on the electrophilic nitrogen atom, followed by the

Novel oxidative routes to N-arylpyridoindazolium salts

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

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1906–1913, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.166

• into the reaction mixture (Figure 4a,b). Notably, the effect was more pronounced in the presence of lutidine, especially in the case of TEMPO. The difference between the oxidation potential of A3 and the potential of the TEMPO/TEMPO+ redox couple is rather significant (ca. 0.35 V); the base additives

• /TsONa solution (0.1 V/s, Pt). CV curves of bis(4-tert-butylphenyl)nitroxide (a) and TEMPO (b) with amine A3 and 2,6-lutidine added (DMF/TsONa, 0.1 V/s, Pt). Pyridoindazolium salts known to date and obtained in the present work. Synthesis of S1–S3 salts using PIFA as an oxidant and the resonance

Electrochemical radical cation aza-Wacker cyclizations

• Sota Adachi and
• Yohei Okada

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1900–1905, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.165

• mmol), Bu4NOTf (0.1 M), TFA (1 equiv), CH3CN (0.4 mL), and 1,2-DCE (3.6 mL). Yields reported here are isolated yields. Mechanistic studies of aza-Wacker cyclization. A: Electrochemical (Bu4NOTf in CH3CN/1,2-DCE), B: non-electrochemical (LiClO4 in CH3NO2). Control studies for electrochemical aza-Wacker

Access to 2-oxoazetidine-3-carboxylic acid derivatives via thermal microwave-assisted Wolff rearrangement of 3-diazotetramic acids in the presence of nucleophiles

• Ivan Lyutin,
• Vasilisa Krivovicheva,
• Grigory Kantin and
• Dmitry Dar’in

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1894–1899, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.164

• converted into the corresponding acids 4a,b by hydrogenolysis under mild conditions, which proceeded in quantitative yields (Scheme 4). It should be noted that this method of preparing β-lactam acids compares favorably with the alkaline hydrolysis of their methyl and ethyl esters, which does not always give

2-Heteroarylethylamines in medicinal chemistry: a review of 2-phenethylamine satellite chemical space

• Carlos Nieto,
• Alejandro Manchado,
• Ángel García-González,
• David Díez and
• Narciso M. Garrido

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1880–1893, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.163

• -hydroxytryptamine (a MAO-A substrate), in a molecular docking experiment tested against serotonin (Scheme 3). A similar class of benzofuran systems with attractive binding properties are those represented by 4-amino-3-(benzo[b]furan-2-yl)butanoic acids, baclofen analogs, elaborated to elucidate the structural

• requirements for access to γ-aminobutyric receptor type B (GABAB) [18]. Amino acids 10–12 were demonstrated [19][20][21] to act as substrates of GABAB (Scheme 3), key metabotropic receptors from the G-protein-coupled receptor superfamily responsible for CNS inhibitory synapses [22]. The authors concluded that

• decarboxylase (Scheme 8) [45][46][47]. Histamine is commonly degradated by two enzymes: diamine oxidase (DAO) to produce (imidazol-4-yl)acetic acid (44), or histamine N-methyltransferase (HMT) to N-methylhistamine 45. Monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B) transforms N-methylhistamine into (N-methylimidazol-4-yl)acetic

The Groebke–Blackburn–Bienaymé reaction in its maturity: innovation and improvements since its 21st birthday (2019–2023)

• Cristina Martini,
• Muhammad Idham Darussalam Mardjan and
• Andrea Basso

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1839–1879, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.162

• synthesis (DOS) where a single methodology should generate diverse scaffolds. This comprehensive review focuses on all these aspects, and has been divided into five chapters, describing, respectively: a) efforts to develop new and milder reaction conditions; b) the use of new building blocks; c) the

• et al. reported the first biocatalytic GBB reaction using lipase [21]. The model reaction depicted in Scheme 2 (R = t-Bu) was tested in ethanol at room temperature with various enzymes, where Candida antarctica lipase B (CALB) and Aspergillus niger gave best results, affording 3 in 63% and 64% yields

• into pentacycles 67. The same products were obtained when CoBr2 was used as external oxidant in the one-pot cascade reaction (Scheme 24, conditions b). No substantial improvement in the yields of 67 and 69 was observed when the synthesis was carried out in two steps, performing the GBB reaction under

A facile three-component route to powerful 5-aryldeazaalloxazine photocatalysts

• Ivana Weisheitelová,
• Radek Cibulka,
• Marek Sikorski and
• Tetiana Pavlovska

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1831–1838, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.161

• Discussion Regarding the synthesis of 5-aryldeazaalloxazines 2 (5-arylpyrimido[4,5-b]quinoline-2,4(1H,3H)-diones), the data in the literature are quite limited, and the known methodology describes the dehydrogenation of initially formed 5,10-dihydro analogues (5-aryl-5,10-dihydropyrimido[4,5-b]quinoline-2,4

• (1H,3H)-dione) by refluxing with thionyl chloride [20][23]. However, the preparation of partially hydrogenated 5,10-dihydropyrimido[4,5-b]quinolinediones has been repeatedly reported by one-pot condensation of substituted anilines, aldehydes and barbituric acids, usually in protic solvents (alcohols

• , water), which has become a common method for the synthesis of these derivatives [3][22][25][30][31][32][33]. In our previous studies [14][15][16][17][18][19] we have shown that the 5-aryl and 7,8-substitutients of the pyrimido[4,5-b]quinoline core have a significant effect on the photocatalytic activity

Hetero-polycyclic aromatic systems: A data-driven investigation of structure–property relationships

• Sabyasachi Chakraborty,
• Eduardo Mayo Yanes and
• Renana Gershoni-Poranne

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1817–1830, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.160

• constructing the COMPAS-2 dataset, we opted to maintain equal percentages of the different types of heterocycles (~10% of each type). This was done to avoid biasing the construction of molecules towards specific motifs. However, because there are multiple types of B-containing and N-containing heterocycles

• number of heteroatoms of a certain type (section 2 of Supporting Information File 1). These plots (Figure S6 in Supporting Information File 1) made it readily apparent that the B atoms unsurprisingly accumulate in the regions of lower LUMO value and, to a lesser extent, higher HOMO values. The N, O, and

• across the HOMO range, while it decreases for N and increases for B as the HOMO values rise. The trends are more pronounced for the LUMO: the B atoms are clearly most prevalent at the lower LUMO levels and steadily decrease towards the higher LUMO levels, concurrent with a steady rise in the likelihood

Discovery of antimicrobial peptides clostrisin and cellulosin from Clostridium: insights into their structures, co-localized biosynthetic gene clusters, and antibiotic activity

• Moisés Alejandro Alejo Hernandez,
• Katia Pamela Villavicencio Sánchez,
• Rosendo Sánchez Morales,
• Karla Georgina Hernández-Magro Gil,
• David Silverio Moreno-Gutiérrez,
• Eddie Guillermo Sanchez-Rueda,
• Yanet Teresa-Cruz,
• Brian Choi,
• Armando Hernández Garcia,
• Alba Romero-Rodríguez,
• Oscar Juárez,
• Siseth Martínez-Caballero,
• Mario Figueroa and
• Corina-Diana Ceapă

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1800–1816, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.159

• represents the precursor peptides identified in this work. Each line represents a minimum of 27% of sequence identity (EFI – enzyme similarity tool [51]). B. Alignment of clostrisin with FlvA.2g [43], enterocin Wβ [44], plantaricin Wβ [45], and thusin α [46]. C. Alignment of cellulosin with lichenicidin A1

• the samples. A. Precursor peptide for CloA1 and clostrisin and B. precursor peptide for CloA2 and cellulosin with the bacteria: 1. S. epidermidis MIQ43 and the 2. P. aeruginosa ATCC PA14 and 3. P. aeruginosa MIQPA25. Tests were performed in sterile polystyrene 96-well flat-bottom-shaped microtiter

Oxidative fluorination with Selectfluor: A convenient procedure for preparing hypervalent iodine(V) fluorides

• Samuel M. G. Dearman,
• Xiang Li,
• Yang Li,
• Kuldip Singh and
• Alison M. Stuart

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1785–1793, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.157

• difluoroiodanes 7a and 7b containing the amide sidearms would have an even more acute N–I–N bond angle (156.6–156.9 °). Furthermore, the internal chelate NCC bond angle in 7a/b (111.7°) was calculated to be bigger than the corresponding OCC angle (108.3(5)° to 109.2(5)°) in 6 due to the sp2-hybridised carbon in

• 7a/b and an sp3-hybridised carbon in 6. This NCC bond angle (111.7°) would certainly increase the angle strain in 7a/b and this, combined with the acute N–I–N bond angle (156.6–156.9°) caused by these two five-membered rings, could be the reason that we could not prepare these compounds. Stability

Ugi bisamides based on pyrrolyl-β-chlorovinylaldehyde and their unusual transformations

• Alexander V. Tsygankov,
• Vladyslav O. Vereshchak,
• Tetiana O. Savluk,
• Serhiy M. Desenko,
• Valeriia V. Ananieva,
• Oleksandr V. Buravov,
• Yana I. Sakhno,
• Svitlana V. Shishkina and
• Valentyn A. Chebanov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1773–1784, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.156

• to drive the process towards the desired hydrolysis of the secondary amide group, we performed the post-Ugi transformation under MW activation in ethanol or acetonitrile (Scheme 3, conditions B or C). However, the application of MW irradiation did not change the course of the reaction, and as under

• ) and p-anisidine (2a), the product that precipitated first from the reaction mixture was 2-oxo-4-(1H-pyrrol-3-yl)but-3-enoic acid amide 10b (Scheme 4; Table 1, footnote b). Pure Ugi bisamide 6a could only be obtained when the reaction was carried out in MeCN or EtOH. The same was observed in the case

• Ugi bisamide 5d in the presence of HCl. Conditions: (A) 5 equiv HCl, MeOH, 80 °C, 3 h; (B) 5 equiv HCl, EtOH, MW 120 °C, 15 min; (C) 5 equiv HCl, MeCN, MW 100 °C, 20 min. The Ugi-4CR with the participation of p-anisidine and benzyl isocyanide. Successful attempt at tandem one-pot coupling of the Ugi

Synthesis and characterization of 1,2,3,4-naphthalene and anthracene diimides

• Adam D. Bass,
• Daniela Castellanos,
• Xavier A. Calicdan and
• Dennis D. Cao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1767–1772, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.155

• analogous to that observed for 7-Ph (Figure 2c). These pairs, however, are then infinitely packed such that adjacent 8-Ph molecules are aligned in the same direction to create an AA–BB stacking pattern, unlike the more common A–B–A–B stacking pattern found for 7-Ph. Additionally, it is worth observing that

• 1,2,3,4-naphthalene and -anthracene diimide motifs as productive building blocks in imide-based organic materials. a) Structures of previously reported naphthalene and anthracene diimide isomers. b) The novel 1,2,3,4-naphthalene and -anthracene diimides reported here. Superstructures for a) 7-Ph and b) 8

• = green, N = blue, and O = red. a) Absorption and b) emission spectra of the compounds dissolved in CH2Cl2. Cyclic voltammograms of the compounds collected on ca. 1 mM solutions of the analyte in CH2Cl2 with 0.1 M Bu4NPF6 as electrolyte. The major y-axis tick mark spacing corresponds to 5 μA. Structural

Harnessing unprotected deactivated amines and arylglyoxals in the Ugi reaction for the synthesis of fused complex nitrogen heterocycles

• Javier Gómez-Ayuso,
• Pablo Pertejo,
• Tomás Hermosilla,
• Israel Carreira-Barral,
• Roberto Quesada and
• María García-Valverde

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1758–1766, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.154

• characterisation. Funding Funding from MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 [grant PID2020-117610RB-I00] is gratefully acknowledged. J. G.-A. and I. C.-B. thank Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Castilla y León, European Social Fund (ESF) and ERDF for their predoctoral (J. G.-A.) and post-doctoral (I. C.-B

Synthesis of polycyclic aromatic quinones by continuous flow electrochemical oxidation: anodic methoxylation of polycyclic aromatic phenols (PAPs)

• Hiwot M. Tiruye,
• Solon Economopoulos and
• Kåre B. Jørgensen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1746–1757, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.153

• Hiwot M. Tiruye Solon Economopoulos Kare B. Jorgensen Department of Chemistry, Bioscience and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Stavanger, P.O Box 8600 Forus, N-4036 Stavanger, Norway Advanced Optoelectronic Nanomaterials Research Unit, Department of

• after removal of solvents from the reaction mixture. Thus, Et4NOTs can easily be recycled and reused for a greener reaction. Voltammetric studies To investigate their redox behaviour, PAPs 1a,b (Figure 1A), 3a–c (Figure 1C), and 6a–c (Figure 1E) were scanned between +2.2 V and −1.5 V. All compounds

• structure B, which is further destabilized by the neighbouring ketone. A similar resonance hybrid will be formed for molecules substituted in the 4-position, like 6b, explaining the selectivity towards p-quinones. Abstraction of a proton rearomatizes the molecule before another cation is formed in the

Syntheses and medicinal chemistry of spiro heterocyclic steroids

• Laura L. Romero-Hernández,
• Ana Isabel Ahuja-Casarín,
• Penélope Merino-Montiel,
• Sara Montiel-Smith,
• José Luis Vega-Báez and
• Jesús Sandoval-Ramírez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1713–1745, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.152

• of a set of azomethine ylides and the 16-arylidene steroids 48a,b. Ylides were generated in situ by the nitrogen attack of the thiazolidine ring from 1,3-thiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid to a carbonyl group of acenaphthenequinone. The resulting reaction produced an iminium group, which promoted the

• decarboxylation of the carboxylic residue when heated at reflux of methanol. After the regioselective cycloadditions, spiro compounds 49a,b were obtained in yields ranging from 75% to 91% (Scheme 15). Related derivatives have similarly been achieved in good to excellent yields [32][33]. Recently, López et al

• starting material (35%). 16-Spiropyrazoline steroids In 2009 Mernyák et al. described the synthesis of 16-spiropyrazolines from 16-methylene-13α-estrone derivatives via a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction between the methylene of α,β-unsaturated ketones 53a,b and the ylide produced from the

Chemo-enzymatic total synthesis: current approaches toward the integration of chemical and enzymatic transformations

• Ryo Tanifuji and
• Hiroki Oguri

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1693–1712, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.151

• through directed evolution [11]. P450 catalysis during the oxidation phase enabled the total synthesis of mitrephorone A [12], chevalone A [13], polysin [14], excolide B [15], and gedunin [16]. Fe(II)/2OG-dependent dioxygenases, such as FtmOx1, were employed as versatile catalysts in the synthesis of 13

• of scaffold 6 yield a series of intermediates and natural products, including cotylenol (1) and brassicicenes I and B (9 and 10), as well as brassicicene O (12), which possesses a distinct scaffold resulting from a skeletal rearrangement. To the core scaffold 6, the P450 enzymes, BscB and BscC

• ]. The P450 enzyme BscF is responsible for regioselective abstraction of a hydrogen at C12 and subsequent diastereoselective hydroxylation of the radical intermediate B to produce brassicicene B (10). Meanwhile, further single-electron oxidation of the intermediate B would trigger a Wagner–Meerwein-type

A fiber-optic spectroscopic setup for isomerization quantum yield determination

• Anouk Volker,
• Jorn D. Steen and
• Stefano Crespi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1684–1692, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.150

• molecular photoswitch generally has a stable state A and a metastable state B, which would be the trans- and cis-isomers, respectively, for azobenzene. The rate equations of the isomerization can be described in terms of the quantum yields and the molar absorption coefficients. It is possible to show that

• the change in the concentration of A is given by Equation 2 [47]: The first term gives the photochemical reaction from A to B, which is governed by the number of photons absorbed at a given wavelength, qA, as well as the quantum yield ΦA→B for this reaction. NA is Avogadro’s number, V is the total

• law, the light absorbed by the sample, Abstot, in a setup with a given path length l can be expressed as the sum of the absorbances of the single species A and B and consequently in terms of the concentrations of A and B and their respective molar absorption coefficients (εA and εB): For absorbances

Oxidation of benzylic alcohols to carbonyls using N-heterocyclic stabilized λ³-iodanes

• Thomas J. Kuczmera,
• Pim Puylaert and
• Boris J. Nachtsheim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1677–1683, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.149

• optimized conditions, revealing the tetrazole-substituted iodane 1a to be the best oxidant for this reaction (Table 2). The two suitable methods (A: HCl in EtOAc; B: TBACl in MeCN) were then applied to a variety of activated alcohols. The best option is shown in Figure 5. Model substrate 4a could be

• decomposition for thiophenylmethanol 3y. Regarding the reaction mechanism, two plausible pathways can be discussed based on literature examples (Scheme 1, path a [17] and path b [33]). In either path, initial ligand exchange to the hydroxy(chloro)iodane I-OH is proposed. For getting an indication of a chloride

• the alkyl hypochlorite IIa. The second mechanism (path b) requires a direct ligand exchange of I-OH with the alcohol and subsequent β-elimination of the alkoxy(hydroxy)iodane IIb to form the desired aldehyde 4. Conclusion In conclusion, this study has successfully introduced N-heterocycle-stabilized