Valorisation of plastic waste via metal-catalysed depolymerisation

• Francesca Liguori,
• Carmen Moreno-Marrodán and
• Pierluigi Barbaro

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 589–621, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.53

The synthesis of chiral β-naphthyl-β-sulfanyl ketones via enantioselective sulfa-Michael reaction in the presence of a bifunctional cinchona/sulfonamide organocatalyst

• Deniz Tözendemir and
• Cihangir Tanyeli

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 494–503, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.43

• , respectively) gave the two highest results, but the use of dioxane is best avoided due to its toxicity. Except for hexane (only 6% ee, Table 1, entry 13), which resulted in an almost racemic product presumably due to solubility issues, all other solvents afforded the target SMA adduct with similar moderate ee

• the chalcone derivatives employed in the model reaction, the best result in terms of enantioselectivity was attained with 4-methyl-substituted chalcone, which allowed the synthesis of the corresponding SMA adduct 12d with an excellent ee of 91% (Table 3, entry 4). Good to moderate results were

• unexpected result, we decided to revisit the solvent screening. For this purpose, the sulfa-Michael addition of naphthalene-1-thiol to 11c was carried out again in toluene, dioxane, DCM and THF (Table 4). In DCM, 93% ee was attained for adduct 12c. In the light of this striking result, we decided to repeat

Synthesis of trifluoromethyl ketones by nucleophilic trifluoromethylation of esters under a fluoroform/KHMDS/triglyme system

• Yamato Fujihira,
• Yumeng Liang,
• Makoto Ono,
• Kazuki Hirano,
• Takumi Kagawa and
• Norio Shibata

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 431–438, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.39

• that is used as a hemiaminaloate adduct [Me2NCH(O)CF3]- (Scheme 1b) [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. Although the taming CF3 anion had been an elusive problem for decades, it has been dramatically progressed in recent years by the substantial works by Grushin [51][52][53] and Prakash [54]. Our

• . Trifluoromethyl ketones. a) Hydrolysis of trifluoromethyl ketones. b) Selected examples of biologically active trifluoromethyl ketones. Chemistry of the CF3 anion generated from HCF3. a) Decomposition of the trifluoromethyl anion to difluorocarbene and fluoride. b) A hemiaminaloate adduct of CF3 anion to DMF. c

Annulation of a 1,3-dithiole ring to a sterically hindered o-quinone core. Novel ditopic redox-active ligands

• Sergey V. Norkov,
• Anton V. Cherkasov,
• Andrey S. Shavyrin,
• Maxim V. Arsenyev,
• Viacheslav A. Kuropatov and
• Vladimir K. Cherkasov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 273–282, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.26

• . Heating the mixture at 60 °C for 4 h does not result in any change of the color from that characteristic of o-quinone 4. After cooling of the solution red crystals of adduct 8 were isolated (see Figure 2 and Figure S6 in Supporting Information File 1). The X-ray diffraction study reveals that adduct 8 is

• -quinone 4. Each o-quinone molecule bridges two adjacent sodium ions. The bond lengths distribution in the o-quinone moiety in 8 is typical of sterically hindered o-quinones (Table S1 in Supporting Information File 1). According to 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy data, adduct 8 in CD3OD solution exists as

• stoichiometric mixture of 4 and monosodium salt of hfac, so that adduct 8 forms in a crystal phase only. Our studies indicate that the interaction of 4 with stable gem-dithiolates, such as sodium trithiocarbonate, malononitrile gem-dithiolate or 2,6-di-tert-butylphenol gem-dithiolate proceeds in a predictable

Insight into functionalized-macrocycles-guided supramolecular photocatalysis

• Minzan Zuo,
• Krishnasamy Velmurugan,
• Kaiya Wang,
• Xueqi Tian and
• Xiao-Yu Hu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 139–155, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.15

• between them. These nonbonding interactions could allow the double bonds to be placed at an optimal distance for the efficient [2 + 2]-photoadduct. However, this adduct could not be observed in the absence of the metal cation, indicating the importance of the preorganization of the substrates with Ba2

Facile preparation and conversion of 4,4,4-trifluorobut-2-yn-1-ones to aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds

• Takashi Yamazaki,
• Yoh Nakajima,
• Minato Iida and
• Tomoko Kawasaki-Takasuka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 132–138, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.14

• ]. As expected for this model system, a very efficient addition was observed within a period of 0.5 h at 0 °C, leading to an isolated yield of 69% for the adduct 3aa when 1.5 equiv of acetylacetone and NaH in Et2O were used (Table 2, entries 1−3), which unambiguously demonstrated the high potency of 2a

• to proceed under the action of a catalytic amount of a base, and only 2 mol % of t-BuOK led to the formation of the desired adduct 3aa as a sole stereoisomer in 84% isolated yield under the same reaction conditions (Table 2, entries 6−8). The E-stereochemistry of 3aa was deduced from the NMR data of

Progress in the total synthesis of inthomycins

• Bidyut Kumar Senapati

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 58–82, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.7

• %). Deprotection of the TBDMS ether of stannane 40 with tetra-n-butylammonium fluoride (TBAF) in THF and then subsequent Swern oxidation of the crude alcohol gave aldehyde 41 in 71% yield. The aldehyde 41 was treated with ethyl isobutyrate (42) in the presence of LDA to afford the aldol adduct (Z)-(rac)-43 in the

• diastereoisomers. Then, the key aldol reaction of 123 with silyl enol ether 53 under optimized Mukaiyama–Kiyooka conditions, followed by TIPS deprotection, afforded adduct (3R)-(+)-11 in 63% yield and with 94% ee. Ester hydrolysis followed by acetylation of (3R)- (+)-11 produced acid derivative (+)-76 [50] in 87

Recent progress in the synthesis of homotropane alkaloids adaline, euphococcinine and N-methyleuphococcinine

• Dimas J. P. Lima,
• Antonio E. G. Santana,
• Michael A. Birkett and
• Ricardo S. Porto

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 28–41, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.4

• tricyclic adduct (+)-23b, a precursor to (−)-adaline (1). This methodology, based on the synthesis of optically active β-sulfinyl nitrones, was proved to be efficient in the synthesis of (+)-euphococcinine (2) in 7 steps from piperidine (17), in an overall yield of 2.1%. Specific rotation for (+)-2 was [α

• –dehydration reactions, via intermediate anti-aldol (−)-67 (Scheme 8). The addition of Grignard reagent to the enone (E)-(−)-68 occurred anti to the group TpMo(CO)2 to give adduct (E)-69, which was used in the next step without purification. The treatment of this adduct with HCl in dioxane promoted

Amine–borane complex-initiated SF₅Cl radical addition on alkenes and alkynes

• Audrey Gilbert,
• Pauline Langowski,
• Marine Delgado,
• Laurent Chabaud,
• Mathieu Pucheault and
• Jean-François Paquin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 3069–3077, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.256

• -containing adduct, with yields of 80% and 89% with EtOAc and hexane, respectively (Table 3, entries 3 and 4). Finally, we performed the reaction in hexane with no amine–borane complex added, and only trace amounts of the final compound 2a were detected (Table 3, entry 5). We next wondered if it could be

All-carbon [3 + 2] cycloaddition in natural product synthesis

• Zhuo Wang and
• Junyang Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 3015–3031, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.251

• ] cycloaddition of activated octalone 26 and the trimethylenemethane precursor 27 selectively produced adduct 28 in 98% yield, which is a synthetic precursor of 3β-hydroxykemp-7(8)-en-6-one (7). Another two syntheses of (±)-hirsutene (14), after Little’s pioneering work [22], were accomplished by Krische [25] and

• give 56 in 83% yield over two steps [31] (Scheme 2C). This transformation was rationalized as follows: freshly prepared 52b was converted to diazo 53, which was subjected to [3 + 2] cycloaddition to give adduct 54. Formation of diyl 55 from 54 and subsequent [3 + 2] cycloaddition produced the

• and co-workers disclosed the palladium-catalyzed intermolecular carboxylative TMM [3 + 2] cycloaddition [36] (Scheme 3). Exposure of coumarin 61 to the silyl-substituted TMM precursor 62 in the presence of a catalytic amount of Pd(PPh3)4 afforded adduct 63 in 81% yield as a single diastereomer (Scheme

Bifurcated synthesis of methylene-lactone- and methylene-lactam-fused spirolactams via electrophilic amide allylation of γ-phenylthio-functionalized γ-lactams

• Tetsuya Sengoku,
• Koki Makino,
• Ayumi Iijima,
• Toshiyasu Inuzuka and
• Hidemi Yoda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2769–2775, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.227

• sodium hydride, affording the corresponding adduct in 50% and 81% yields, respectively (Table 1, entries 6 and 7). Surprisingly, the desired allylation underwent even in the absence of palladium catalyst, probably due to high nucleophilicity of the deprotonated intermediate, to give 3b in 87% yield

Selective and reversible 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of 6-aryl-1,5-diazabicyclo[3.1.0]hexanes with 1,3-diphenylprop-2-en-1-ones under microwave irradiation

• Alexander P. Molchanov,
• Mariia M. Efremova,
• Mariya A. Kryukova and
• Mikhail A. Kuznetsov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2679–2686, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.218

• polar species in the ionic medium. Therefore, we carried out the reaction of DABCH 1a with propenone 2f in bmimCl in the presence of BF3·Et2O at 80 °C for 8 h, that led to the formation of adduct 3m and pyrazoline 4a. The reaction of DABCH 1b and propenone 2a under the same conditions resulted in the

• formation of adduct 3m and pyrazoline 4b (Scheme 3). Thus, the azomethine imine A, formed by heating of DABCH 1a, either reacts with propenone 2f giving the adduct 3m or undergoes isomerization affording pyrazoline 4a. On the basis of this observation we suppose that the reaction products undergo

• cycloreversion, i.e., under the reaction conditions the adduct 3m may undergo a ring-opening with the liberation of the starting propenone 2f and the new isomeric azomethine imine B. The latter is able to isomerize into pyrazoline 4b or it reacts with propenone 2f leading to adduct 3f (Scheme 4). To prove this

Water-soluble host–guest complexes between fullerenes and a sugar-functionalized tribenzotriquinacene assembling to microspheres

• Si-Yuan Liu,
• Xin-Rui Wang,
• Man-Ping Li,
• Wen-Rong Xu and
• Dietmar Kuck

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2551–2561, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.207

• ppm in the 13C NMR spectrum were attributed to the acetylene protons and carbons, respectively. The electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectrum showed the most intense peak at m/z 641.1923, which corresponds to the [M + Na]+ molecular adduct ion and matches well with the calculated value (m/z 641.1935

• -hydroxycinnamic acid (CHCA) as a matrix, exhibits the base peak at m/z 2879 along with an adjacent intense peak at m/z 2896, which are assigned to the [M + Na]+ and [M + K]+ molecular adduct ions, respectively. Unfortunately, attempts to perform accurate mass measurements were unsuccessful. However, the MALDI

• peak group with the maximum component at m/z 1505.9690 and Δ(m/z) = 0.5, indicating the presence of doubly charged ions. The most intense peak is assigned to the doubly charged [M + 1] isotopolog of the molecular adduct [M + 6H2O + 2Na]2+, the theoretical value of which is calculated to be m/z

Computational tools for drawing, building and displaying carbohydrates: a visual guide

• Kanhaya Lal,
• Rafael Bermeo and
• Serge Perez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2448–2468, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.199

• tool has been particularly upgraded for MS spectrum annotation by adding an intuitive interface with additional features. The upgraded version can depict bond fragmentation, repeating structural unit anomeric groups, adduct ions, different types of glycosidic linkages etc. These advanced features make

Formation of an exceptionally stable ketene during phototransformations of bicyclo[2.2.2]oct-5-en-2-ones having mixed chromophores

• Asitanga Ghosh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2297–2303, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.190

• ][18] and dibenzoyl acetylene (9) followed by hydrolysis of the silyloxy adduct (Scheme 4). Both 7a and 7b showed an enhanced (n,π*) absorption band near 300 nm (log ε ≈ 3.5) along with an additional weak band near 343 nm (log ε ≈ 2.5) in their UV spectra as expected for δ-keto-α,β-enone [7

Synthetic approaches to bowl-shaped π-conjugated sumanene and its congeners

• Shakeel Alvi and
• Rashid Ali

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2212–2259, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.186

• sumanene provided the covalent adduct 171 with Cl atoms attached onto the Te atoms, confirmed by an X-ray analysis (Scheme 44). Having the quinone derivatives 166 and 167 in hands, they were next subjected to the condensation reaction with a variety of aryl-1,2-diamines 168 in the presence of AcOH to

Reactions of 3-aryl-1-(trifluoromethyl)prop-2-yn-1-iminium salts with 1,3-dienes and styrenes

• Thomas Schneider,
• Michael Keim,
• Bianca Seitz and
• Gerhard Maas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2064–2072, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.173

• –Alder reaction of 1-CF3-substituted propyn-1-iminium salt 1a with cyclopentadiene was carried out in order to assess the dienophilic reactivity of the cation. High conversion into cycloaddition product 2 was observed already within one hour at 0 °C. Because of its high hydrolytic lability, adduct 2 was

Controlling the stereochemistry in 2-oxo-aldehyde-derived Ugi adducts through the cinchona alkaloid-promoted electrophilic fluorination

• Yuqing Wang,
• Gaigai Wang,
• Anatoly A. Peshkov,
• Ruwei Yao,
• Muhammad Hasan,
• Manzoor Zaman,
• Chao Liu,
• Stepan Kashtanov,
• Olga P. Pereshivko and
• Vsevolod A. Peshkov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1963–1973, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.163

• dichloromethane results in the assembly of an α-acyloxyamide adduct 4. Just a few protocols for the asymmetric P-3CR [37][38][39][40] and its modifications [41][42][43][44][45][46][47] have been reported over the course of the last two decades (Table 1). In the majority of those protocols [37][38][39], the

• -component reaction (U-4CR) a carboxylic acid 1, an aldehyde 2, and an isocyanide 3 are complemented by a primary amine 5 that altogether undergo a condensation into a peptide-like adduct 6. These reactions are typically conducted in polar protic solvents such as methanol or water. Several examples of

• , a cinchona alkaloid derivative was allowed to react with an electrophilic fluorinating agent to afford an N-fluoroammonium salt of the cinchona alkaloid via transfer fluorination. In the second step, the Ugi adduct 8a was added to this in situ generated N-fluorocinchona intermediate to afford the

Regiodivergent synthesis of functionalized pyrimidines and imidazoles through phenacyl azides in deep eutectic solvents

• Paola Vitale,
• Luciana Cicco,
• Ilaria Cellamare,
• Filippo M. Perna,
• Antonio Salomone and
• Vito Capriati

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1915–1923, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.158

• at 50 °C, we were able to isolate by column chromatography on silica gel a product which was characterized as 2-benzoyl-(4 or 5)-phenyl-(1H)-imidazole (3a/3a', Scheme 2). This adduct was formed as a mixture of two tautomers (3a and 3a'; 3a/3a' ratio: 57:43, Supporting Information File 1) [28][29] in

• the para-position delivered the expected adduct 3k/3k' in 32% yield even by prolonging the reaction time to 16 h, most probably because of the poor solubility in the eutectic mixture and/or the higher thermal stability towards the loss of N2 (vide infra) of the corresponding phenacyl azide 2k as it is

• -azide 4a, would undergo either dimerization to give 6a, and then imidazoles 3a/3a' after cyclization and dehydration (see Scheme 5), or trimerization to afford adduct 8a further to an additional attack of 5a to the internal imino group of 6a and dehydration. Consecutive tautomerization, followed by an

Pauson–Khand reaction of fluorinated compounds

• Jorge Escorihuela,
• Daniel M. Sedgwick,
• Alberto Llobat,
• Mercedes Medio-Simón,
• Pablo Barrio and
• Santos Fustero

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1662–1682, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.138

• this sense, while the addition of hard organometallic nucleophiles, such as lithium dialkylcuprates or Grignard reagents, failed, softer nucleophiles such as nitroalkanes cleanly added to the β-position, providing the Michael adduct 61. Unexpectedly, the conjugate addition reaction resulted in

Azidophosphonium salt-directed chemoselective synthesis of (E)/(Z)-cinnamyl-1H-triazoles and regiospecific access to bromomethylcoumarins from Morita–Baylis–Hillman adducts

• Soundararajan Karthikeyan,
• Radha Krishnan Shobana,
• Kamarajapurathu Raju Subimol,
• J. Helen Ratna Monica and
• Ayyanoth Karthik Krishna Kumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1579–1587, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.130

• the MBH adduct 1a (1 equiv) and propargyl alcohol (2a, 1.2 equiv) in presence of the AzPS [Ph3P+CBr3]N3− (see Supporting Information File 1 for the substituent patterns of the compounds 1a–o). In this precedent reaction, the adduct 1a and propargyl alcohol (2a) in THF were treated with the AzPS (1

• derivatives 3a–d/g–k/m–q in a yield of 70–88%. Distinctively, the cyano acrylate-substituted MBH adduct stereoselectively afforded the (Z)-cinnamyl-1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazole derivatives 3e/f/l in a yield of 82–92%. Irrespective of the acetylene moiety, the MBH adducts derived from acrylonitrile

• attack on the AzPS by the allylic alcohol of the MBH adduct Ia. Subsequently, the azide ion undergoes a nucleophilic attack on the allylic carbon atom of the oxyphosphonium intermediate IIa and generates the 2-azidoalkene IIIa. Interestingly, the consecutive nucleophilic attack by the azido ion smoothly

NHC-catalyzed enantioselective synthesis of β-trifluoromethyl-β-hydroxyamides

• Alyn T. Davies,
• Mark D. Greenhalgh,
• Alexandra M. Z. Slawin and
• Andrew D. Smith

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1572–1578, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.129

• precatalyst 3 [58], reversible addition of the free NHC I to the aldehyde leads to adduct II [59]. A subsequent deprotonation allows access to Breslow intermediate III, which can eliminate para-nitrobenzoate to leave azolium enol IV. Deprotonation gives azolium enolate intermediate V, which undergoes a formal

Heterogeneous photocatalysis in flow chemical reactors

• Christopher G. Thomson,
• Ai-Lan Lee and
• Filipe Vilela

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1495–1549, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.125

4-Hydroxy-3-methyl-2(1H)-quinolone, originally discovered from a Brassicaceae plant, produced by a soil bacterium of the genus Burkholderia sp.: determination of a preferred tautomer and antioxidant activity

• Dandan Li,
• Naoya Oku,
• Yukiko Shinozaki,
• Yoichi Kurokawa and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1489–1494, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.124

• (5.2 mg) with sufficient purity for structure characterization. The molecular formula of 1 was determined to be C10H9NO2 based on a sodium adduct molecular ion peak at m/z 198.0525 observed by a HRESITOFMS measurement (calcd 198.0526). The broad IR absorption band around 3100 cm−1 and an intense peak

One-pot synthesis of 1,3,5-triazine-2,4-dithione derivatives via three-component reactions

• Gui-Feng Kang and
• Gang Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1447–1455, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.120

• nucleophilic addition of another molecule 2 takes place to furnish the tricomponent adduct 4, which undergoes elimination of ammonia to afford the corresponding ring-closed intermediate 7 [37]. The latter undergoes a proton-transfer process to form intermediate 10 [38]. Thereafter, the subsequent step involves