Experimental and theoretical studies on the synthesis of 1,4,5-trisubstituted pyrrolidine-2,3-diones

• Nguyen Tran Nguyen,
• Vo Viet Dai,
• Nguyen Ngoc Tri,
• Luc Van Meervelt,
• Nguyen Tien Trung and
• Wim Dehaen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1140–1153, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.118

• structures of the obtained compounds were elucidated by NMR and mass spectrometry. The reaction between 1,5-diphenyl-4-acetyl-3-hydroxy-3-pyrrolin-2-one (4a) and 4-methoxybenzylamine (9a) was chosen to optimize the reaction conditions, such as the reactant ratio and solvent. Heating 2-pyrrolidinone

• yield. The yield of 10aa could be increased to 62% when substrate 4a was reacted with the amine 9a in DMF at 95 °C (Table 4), meaning that the reaction does not require an acidic medium. Ethanol was also used as green solvent to test the above model reaction. As compared to CH3COOH, heating compounds 4a

Automated grindstone chemistry: a simple and facile way for PEG-assisted stoichiometry-controlled halogenation of phenols and anilines using N-halosuccinimides

• Dharmendra Das,
• Akhil A. Bhosle,
• Amrita Chatterjee and
• Mainak Banerjee

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 999–1008, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.100

• catalysts (Pd, Rh, Fe, etc.) were employed to boost the reactivity of NXS (Scheme 1b) [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43]. However, the use of toxic and expensive metals, high catalyst loading, and heating conditions are some sheer hurdles to achieving sustainability. Among notable other

Synthetic strategies for the preparation of γ-phostams: 1,2-azaphospholidine 2-oxides and 1,2-azaphospholine 2-oxides

• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 889–915, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.90

• (Scheme 7) [27]. Synthesis via P–N bond formation Since 1980, new strategies for the synthesis of γ-phosphonolactams and γ-phosphinolactams have been explored via cyclization by P–N bond formation [28]. Kleiner prepared 1-aryl-2-methyl-1,2-azaphospholidine 2-oxides 46 in 40–78% yields by heating 3

• azaphospholidine 2-sulfide 52 in only 21% yield by heating at 200 °C for 60 h (Scheme 8) [28]. In 1982, Collins and co-workers prepared both 1,3-dihydrobenzo[d][1,2]azaphosphole 2-oxides 56 and 2-sulfide 60 through heating zwitterionic 2-aminobenzyl(phenyl)phosphinic acid 54 and 2-aminobenzyl(phenyl

• -dihydrobenzo[d][1,2]azaphosphole 2-oxide (55), which was further alkylated with alkyl halides in the presence of NaH, affording 1-alkyl-2-phenyl-1,3-dihydrobenzo[d][1,2]azaphosphole 2-oxides 56. Alternatively, under heating, methyl 2-aminobenzyl(phenyl)phosphinate (53) underwent a transmethylation from the O

First series of N-alkylamino peptoid homooligomers: solution phase synthesis and conformational investigation

• Maxime Pypec,
• Laurent Jouffret,
• Claude Taillefumier and
• Olivier Roy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 845–854, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.85

• starting bromoacetate at rt or on heating to 50 °C. The further substitution reactions, during peptoid elongation, were carried out in a 1:1 MeOH/H2O mixture (1.25 M) at 60 °C, using three equivalents of the Boc-protected hydrazine reagent. These distinct substitution conditions, together with standard

Synthesis and HDAC inhibitory activity of pyrimidine-based hydroxamic acids

• Virginija Jakubkiene,
• Gabrielius Ernis Valiulis,
• Markus Schweipert,
• Asta Zubriene,
• Daumantas Matulis,
• Franz-Josef Meyer-Almes and
• Sigitas Tumkevicius

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 837–844, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.84

• -methylthiopyrimidines with m-CPBA and oxone and found that oxone gave better results, so we have chosen it for this reaction. Thus, heating compound 3 in dimethylformamide at 40 °C for 0.5 h with oxone gave compound 5 in 80% yield. In the NMR spectra of compound 5, the peaks of the methylsulfonyl group are downfield

• shifted by 0.8 ppm and 24.8 ppm in the 1H and 13C NMR spectra, respectively, in comparison with the signals of the methylthio group of compound 3 (see Supporting Information File 1, Figures S1, S2 and S5, S6). Heating compound 5 with primary and secondary amines in dimethyl sulfoxide at 50–70 °C for 0.5 h

• gave the corresponding (2-substituted pyrimidin-4-yloxy)acetates 6–9. In order to replace the 2-methylsulfonyl group with a hydroxy group, we tested several techniques. It was found that heating compound 5 with water in dimethyl sulfoxide at 100 °C or boiling for 1 h in water led to hydrolysis of both

Synthesis of α-(perfluoroalkylsulfonyl)propiophenones: a new set of reagents for the light-mediated perfluoroalkylation of aromatics

• Durbis J. Castillo-Pazos,
• Juan D. Lasso and
• Chao-Jun Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 788–795, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.79

• obtain the corresponding sulfinate in limited yield, the decomposition of this compound after several days at 4 °C, and within a few minutes under heating deemed its applicability impractical. After this first step, we proceeded to test the nucleophilic substitution between our perfluoroalkylsulfinate

Continuous flow synthesis of azobenzenes via Baeyer–Mills reaction

• Jan H. Griwatz,
• Anne Kunz and
• Hermann A. Wegner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 781–787, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.78

• was still not satisfactory. Therefore, not only the temperatures, but also the residence time was gradually changed (Figure 2). At 70–90 °C and a residence time of 50.0 min the best results were observed. However, heating to 80–90 °C provided increasing amounts of azoxybenzene, which is a known side

Synthesis of bis-spirocyclic derivatives of 3-azabicyclo[3.1.0]hexane via cyclopropene cycloadditions to the stable azomethine ylide derived from Ruhemann's purple

• Alexander S. Filatov,
• Olesya V. Khoroshilova,
• Anna G. Larina,
• Vitali M. Boitsov and
• Alexander V. Stepakov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 769–780, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.77

• tetrahydrofuran (THF), and the resulting mixture was maintained at reflux. After heating for 2 h, completion of the reaction was indicated by both the colour change of the reaction mixture and TLC (thin-layer chromatography) analysis. The proposed cycloadduct was isolated after recrystallization from methanol

Complementarity of solution and solid state mechanochemical reaction conditions demonstrated by 1,2-debromination of tricyclic imides

• Petar Štrbac and
• Davor Margetić

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 746–753, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.75

• synthetic organic chemistry. Advantageously, more difficult substrates or limitations of the conditions can be overcome by the change of the reaction methods. One of the emerging synthetic methods is mechanochemistry [4][5][6][7], a greener alternative to carry out synthesis which complements heating

• . Dibromide 42 was prepared by Diels−Alder reaction of anthracene (13) and 2,3-dibromo-N-methylmaleimide (41) (Scheme 3). Heating of the reactants at 180 °C for 10 min provided the required cycloadduct 42 (98% yield). When 42 was subjected to Zn/Cu debromination in a ball mill in the presence of anthracene

Identification of the new prenyltransferase Ubi-297 from marine bacteria and elucidation of its substrate specificity

• Jamshid Amiri Moghaddam,
• Huijuan Guo,
• Karsten Willing,
• Thomas Wichard and
• Christine Beemelmanns

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 722–731, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.72

• membrane-like environment. Along these lines, no product formation was detectable when UbiA-297 was denaturated by heating prior to the assay (control), nor when a MenA-1335 (Maribacter sp. MS6) homolog was tested. Furthermore, different pH values and extended incubation times were investigated, however

Inductive heating and flow chemistry – a perfect synergy of emerging enabling technologies

• Conrad Kuhwald,
• Sibel Türkhan and
• Andreas Kirschning

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 688–706, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.70

• Conrad Kuhwald Sibel Turkhan Andreas Kirschning Institute of Organic Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Schneiderberg 1b, 30167 Hannover, Germany 10.3762/bjoc.18.70 Abstract Inductive heating has developed into a powerful and rapid indirect heating technique used in various fields of

• chemistry, but also in medicine. Traditionally, inductive heating is used in industry, e.g., for heating large metallic objects including bending, bonding, and welding pipes. In addition, inductive heating has emerged as a partner for flow chemistry, both of which are enabling technologies for organic

• synthesis. This report reviews the combination of flow chemistry and inductive heating in industrial settings as well as academic research and demonstrates that the two technologies ideally complement each other. Keywords: catalysis; enabling technologies; flow chemistry; inductive heating; multistep

Shift of the reaction equilibrium at high pressure in the continuous synthesis of neuraminic acid

• Jannis A. Reich,
• Miriam Aßmann,
• Kristin Hölting,
• Paul Bubenheim,
• Jürgen Kuballa and
• Andreas Liese

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 567–579, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.59

• sizes (600–1200 nm) that was used for the aldolase immobilization, suggesting that the residual content of moisture significantly influences the stability of the immobilized enzyme. The strongest influence on the stability is evoked by the heating of the immobilized enzymes. A reduction of the half-life

Terpenoids from Glechoma hederacea var. longituba and their biological activities

• Dong Hyun Kim,
• Song Lim Ham,
• Zahra Khan,
• Sun Yeou Kim,
• Sang Un Choi,
• Chung Sub Kim and
• Kang Ro Lee

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 555–566, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.58

• ., Japan), and Diaion HP-20 (Mitsubishi Chemical Co., Japan) were used for column chromatography. Merck precoated silica gel F254 plates and reversed-phase (RP)-18 F254s plates (Merck) were used for thin-layer chromatography (TLC). Spots of compounds on TLC were detected under UV light or by heating after

Synthesis of sulfur karrikin bioisosteres as potential neuroprotectives

• Martin Pošta,
• Václav Zima,
• Lenka Poštová Slavětínská,
• Marika Matoušová and
• Petr Beier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 549–554, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.57

• (14), respectively, following a published procedure [21][23], while karrikin KAR2 (2) was synthesized from ᴅ-xylose [24]. The conversion of karrikins 1–4 to the corresponding C2 thiones 9–12 was accomplished using microwave-assisted heating with Lawesson’s reagent and hexamethyldisiloxane (HMDO

• ][31], microwave heating did not improve the yields; therefore, conventional heating was used in our case. Generally, 5 is the most reactive among the substrates and the experiments proved that only 5 and not 13 or 14 can be partially converted to thiopyranthione 6b in the presence of P4S10 without

• heating. This observation explains the formation of side-product 8 in the original Flematti’s synthesis [21] (Scheme 1). With thiopyranthiones 6b, 15b, 16b in hand, we carried out the esterification step with 2-chloropropionyl chloride, followed by intramolecular cyclization which provided the desired

Chemistry of polyhalogenated nitrobutadienes, 17: Efficient synthesis of persubstituted chloroquinolinyl-1H-pyrazoles and evaluation of their antimalarial, anti-SARS-CoV-2, antibacterial, and cytotoxic activities

• Viktor A. Zapol’skii,
• Isabell Berneburg,
• Ursula Bilitewski,
• Melissa Dillenberger,
• Katja Becker,
• Stefan Jungwirth,
• Aditya Shekhar,
• Bastian Krueger and
• Dieter E. Kaufmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 524–532, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.54

• -Elimination of an azole from A leads to formation of an isolable diene B. Upon further heating, the amino group attacks the electrophilic C–Cl position of the trichlorovinylic group intramolecularly, leading to a 2,3-dihydro-1H-pyrazole C. Finally, pyrazoles 3 are obtained upon 1,3-elimination of hydrochloric

Substituent effect on TADF properties of 2-modified 4,6-bis(3,6-di-tert-butyl-9-carbazolyl)-5-methylpyrimidines

• Irina Fiodorova,
• Tomas Serevičius,
• Rokas Skaisgiris,
• Saulius Juršėnas and
• Sigitas Tumkevicius

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 497–507, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.52

• the simplicity of the method, we chose the Liebeskind–Srogl cross-coupling reaction for the synthesis of the target 2-arylpyrimidine derivatives. Thus, heating tCbz-mPYR with phenyl-, 4-cyanophenyl-, 3-cyanophenyl-, or 3-bromophenylboronic acid at 130 °C in dioxane in the presence of Pd(PPh3)4, copper

Cs₂CO₃-Promoted reaction of tertiary bromopropargylic alcohols and phenols in DMF: a novel approach to α-phenoxyketones

• Ol'ga G. Volostnykh,
• Olesya A. Shemyakina,
• Anton V. Stepanov and
• Igor' A. Ushakov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 420–428, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.44

• reductive coupling of acid halides with ketones [36][37] and acetolyses of α-phenoxy-α-diazoketones [38] were also employed. Recently, F. P. Cossío et al. [39] have described a method for the preparation of benzo[b]furans by thermal heating of a dispersion of α-phenoxyketones in Al2O3. We involved the

Menadione: a platform and a target to valuable compounds synthesis

• Acácio S. de Souza,
• Ruan Carlos B. Ribeiro,
• Dora C. S. Costa,
• Fernanda P. Pauli,
• David R. Pinho,
• Matheus G. de Moraes,
• Fernando de C. da Silva,
• Luana da S. M. Forezi and
• Vitor F. Ferreira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 381–419, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.43

• an equimolar ratio of 500 mM, the Diels–Alder reaction achieved 98% and 2% recovery of starting material after 72 h, at an estimated product generation rate of 142.5 μM/h. In this context, it was possible to apply a green methodology without the application of heating or the use of Lewis acids

Borylated norbornadiene derivatives: Synthesis and application in Pd-catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reactions

• Robin Schulte and
• Heiko Ihmels

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 368–373, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.41

• recently gained considerable attention because of its ability to store light-energy by the photo-induced intramolecular [2 + 2] cycloaddition to the metastable quadricyclane [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. The latter may be transformed back to the starting norbornadiene in an exothermic process upon heating or

• overlap of its absorption with the one of the norbornadiene. However, upon heating to 60 °C in MeCN solution the norbornadiene was regained after 25 h, as shown by photometric monitoring of the reaction (Scheme 3 and Figure 1, inset). These photochemical properties are comparable to the ones of literature

A resorcin[4]arene hexameric capsule as a supramolecular catalyst in elimination and isomerization reactions

• Tommaso Lorenzetto,
• Fabrizio Fabris and
• Alessandro Scarso

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 337–349, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.38

• and hexameric capsule A (16·8H2O) Compound 1 (500 mg) was triturated with cyclohexane (10 mL) and the latter was removed under vacuum with gentle heating in order to remove the azeotropic mixture of water/cyclohexane. The treatment with cyclohexane was repeated two more times. The solid product was

Unexpected chiral vicinal tetrasubstituted diamines via borylcopper-mediated homocoupling of isatin imines

• Marco Manenti,
• Leonardo Lo Presti,
• Giorgio Molteni and
• Alessandra Silvani

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 303–308, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.34

• most effectively, further promoting the conversion of the substrate. Other changes in reaction conditions, such as heating at 70 °C, increasing the amount of copper catalyst to 10 mol % and switching the copper salt from CuSO4 to the more soluble Cu(OTf)2, did not improve the yield significantly (Table

Recent developments and trends in the iron- and cobalt-catalyzed Sonogashira reactions

• Surendran Amrutha,
• Sankaran Radhika and
• Gopinathan Anilkumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 262–285, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.31

• aqueous medium under aerobic conditions (Scheme 26) [39]. The graphene support was prepared by oxidation of graphite, treatment of the resulting graphene oxide with ethylene diamine in an autoclave followed by freeze-drying to obtain three dimensional graphene with a high nitrogen content. Heating of the

• ) [46]. The catalyst was found to be efficient to promote the Sonogashira coupling of arylhalides and phenylacetylene under microwave and conventional heating conditions. Rather than applying a set of reaction conditions, the desired reaction could be achieved by the modification of the catalyst

Synthesis of novel [1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-b][1,2,4,5]tetrazines and investigation of their fungistatic activity

• Anna V. Korotina,
• Svetlana G. Tolshchina,
• Rashida I. Ishmetova,
• Natalya P. Evstigneeva,
• Natalya A. Gerasimova,
• Natalya V. Zilberberg,
• Nikolay V. Kungurov,
• Gennady L. Rusinov,
• Oleg N. Chupakhin and
• Valery N. Charushin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 243–250, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.29

• cyclization of products 2a–i (Scheme 2). It has been shown that the oxidative cyclization of 1,2,4,5-tetrazines 2a–i into triazolo[1,5-b][1,2,4,5]tetrazines 3a–i takes place by action of (diacetoxyiodo)benzene on heating in trifluoroethanol. The target products were obtained in 10–86% yield. According to TLC

• ) was only 10%. It can be explained by a low stability of the starting tetrazine 2i containing the formamidine moiety, since the latter on heating is easily transformed into the amino group, thus leading to 3-amino-6-(3,5-dimethylpyrazol-1-yl)-1,2,4,5-tetrazine. It has been found that N-bromosuccinimide

• formation of difficult-to-separate reaction mixtures with a low content of the target products 3a,b,g, which could not be isolated in a pure form. Heating of tetrazines 2 with N-bromosuccinimide in refluxing acetonitrile without microwave irradiation made it possible to obtain the product 3j in a low yield

Trichloroacetic acid fueled practical amine purifications

• Aleena Thomas,
• Baptiste Gasch,
• Enzo Olivieri and
• Adrien Quintard

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 225–231, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.26

• 1). Presence of TCA in the 1H NMR spectra is easily monitored through a broad peak around 9 ppm and also through the upfield migration of the other peaks of the amine ammonium salt. Heating the amine salt precipitate neat at 100 °C also provided partial decarboxylation (Table 1, entry 2). In sharp

• (Et3N) was incorporated to catalyze the TCA decarboxylation while heating at 60 °C in a rotary evaporator under reduced pressure. Through this technique, the pure free amine could be isolated after 15 minutes of gentle heating, simultaneously evaporating the generated chloroform as well as CH3CN and

Anomeric 1,2,3-triazole-linked sialic acid derivatives show selective inhibition towards a bacterial neuraminidase over a trypanosome trans-sialidase

• Peterson de Andrade,
• Sanaz Ahmadipour and
• Robert A. Field

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 208–216, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.24

• ) and compounds were visualised by UV irradiation (λ = 254 nm) and/or dipping in ethanol/sulfuric acid (95:5 v/v) followed by heating. A Biotage SP4 flash chromatography system was used for purification of the protected sugars with normal phase silica (pre-packed SNAP Ultra cartridges). Deprotected