A simple and easy to perform synthetic route to functionalized thienyl bicyclo[3.2.1]octadienes

• Dragana Vuk,
• Irena Škorić,
• Valentina Milašinović,
• Krešimir Molčanov and
• Željko Marinić

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1092–1099, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.96

• [3.2.1]octadiene derivatives by irradiating the toluene solution of compound's 3–7 mixture of cis- and trans-isomers in the presence of iodine (Scheme 2 and Scheme 3). The electrocyclization reactions were successfully implemented in most cases and photoproducts 8–11 were obtained in moderate yields. The

Synthesis and properties of tetrathiafulvalenes bearing 6-aryl-1,4-dithiafulvenes

• Aya Yoshimura,
• Hitoshi Kimura,
• Kohei Kagawa,
• Mayuka Yoshioka,
• Toshiki Itou,
• Dhananjayan Vasu,
• Takashi Shirahata,
• Hideki Yorimitsu and
• Yohji Misaki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 974–981, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.86

• ion complexes with DDQ or iodine were reported [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. Peripherally thiophene-functionalized TTFs, as potential precursors to conducting polymers, and organic metals were also prepared and characterized [25][26][27][28][29]. To design more tempting molecules, the attachment

Recent applications of porphyrins as photocatalysts in organic synthesis: batch and continuous flow approaches

• Rodrigo Costa e Silva,
• Luely Oliveira da Silva,
• Aloisio de Andrade Bartolomeu,
• Timothy John Brocksom and
• Kleber Thiago de Oliveira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 917–955, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.83

• and HEH act respectively as electron and hydrogen donors. The protocol was efficient for dehalogenations with bromine- and iodine-containing acetophenone derivatives (75–98% yields). However, it was much less efficient with chloro ketones (12–40% yields) and not effective with α-bromo esters and α

Recent advances in Cu-catalyzed C(sp³)–Si and C(sp³)–B bond formation

• Balaram S. Takale,
• Ruchita R. Thakore,
• Elham Etemadi-Davan and
• Bruce H. Lipshutz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 691–737, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.67

• leading to an electron transfer to the iodine atom, thereby liberating iodide, an alkyl radical, and a radical cation of the Cu complex. Recombination of the latter radicals leads to the formation of the desired silane along with the regeneration of the active Cu species (Scheme 8). This strategy was also

Copper-catalyzed O-alkenylation of phosphonates

• Nuria Vázquez-Galiñanes,
• Mariña Andón-Rodríguez,
• Patricia Gómez-Roibás and
• Martín Fañanás-Mastral

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 611–615, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.56

• valuable enol phosphonates in very good yields. Keywords: alkenylation; copper; C(sp2)–O bond formation; hypervalent iodine; phosphonates; Introduction Organophosphorus compounds represent an important class of products with a wide range of applications in biology, agriculture and synthetic organic

• (alkenyl)iodonium salts, which are air- and moisture-stable, nontoxic and easy to prepare compounds, have become efficient reagents for mild and selective arylation and alkenylation reactions in organic synthesis [16][17][18]. In particular, the use of these hypervalent iodine reagents in copper catalysis

Recent advances in photocatalyzed reactions using well-defined copper(I) complexes

• Mingbing Zhong,
• Xavier Pannecoucke,
• Philippe Jubault and
• Thomas Poisson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 451–481, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.42

• of the ligand iodide for DAP (path III). Another possibility was the trapping of the radical with the iodine ligand of the [Cu(II)] catalyst (path IV). In 2019, Reiser’s group described a chlorosulfonylation reaction of alkenes and alkynes with [Cu(I)(dap)2]Cl or [Cu(II)(dap)2]Cl2 under visible light

• 2012, Collins and co-workers described a copper-catalyzed photocyclization to synthesize [5]helicene (Scheme 29) [43]. Using the in situ-formed [Cu(I)(dmp)(xantphos)]BF4 (25 mol %) in the presence of iodine and propylene oxide as the oxidant system under visible light irradiation, [5]helicene was

• oxidative quenching. First, the excited [Cu(I)]* species was oxidized in the presence of iodine, furnishing a [Cu(II)] complex. Then, an oxidation of the diarylamine occurred, generating the N-centered radical cation, which undergoes an intramolecular cyclization. A final oxidation of the aryl radical

Room-temperature Pd/Ag direct arylation enabled by a radical pathway

• Amy L. Mayhugh and
• Christine K. Luscombe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 384–390, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.36

• Scheme 1. The region from 4–4.5 ppm indicates the interior indole repeat units compared with the terminal indole units. MALDI–TOF MS of PIn, indicating octylindole repeat units with three different types of end groups. These include 2-nitrophenyl, iodine, and hydrogen. A high yielding, highly selective

Architecture and synthesis of P,N-heterocyclic phosphine ligands

• Wisdom A. Munzeiwa,
• Bernard Omondi and
• Vincent O. Nyamori

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 362–383, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.35

• deprotection then furnished 83b in reasonable yields between 68 and 87%. Bis(diphenylphosphine)-substituted imidazoles were also synthesized by Karthik et al. [87] starting from the diiodoimidazole derivative 84. The lithium chloride mediated magnesium/iodine exchange reaction of 84 followed by the addition of

Copper-promoted/copper-catalyzed trifluoromethylselenolation reactions

• Clément Ghiazza and
• Anis Tlili

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 305–316, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.30

• . Mechanistically, the authors proposed that an electron transfer took place between the copper(I) complex and ICF2CO2Et, forming, after iodine transfer, a new carbon-centered radical and a copper(II) complex. The center of the radical then shifted to the terminal carbon atom of the unsaturated compound. The latter

Synthesis of 4-(2-fluorophenyl)-7-methoxycoumarin: experimental and computational evidence for intramolecular and intermolecular C–F···H–C bonds

• Vuyisa Mzozoyana,
• Fanie R. van Heerden and
• Craig Grimmer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 190–199, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.22

• . Qualitative thin-layer chromatography (TLC, silica gel 60254, aluminum backed) was used to monitor the reactions. Visualization of the TLC plates was achieved using an iodine tank and/or fluorescence on exposure to short wavelength ultraviolet light (254 nm). For purification, column chromatography (silica

Halogen-bonding-induced diverse aggregation of 4,5-diiodo-1,2,3-triazolium salts with different anions

• Xingyu Xu,
• Shiqing Huang,
• Zengyu Zhang,
• Lei Cao and
• Xiaoyu Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 78–87, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.10

• evaporation of dichloromethane solution. The treatment of 2-I with 2 equivalents iodine or 4 equivalents iodine afforded triazolium polyiodide 2-I.1.5I2 and 2-I.3.5I2, respectively. The single crystals were obtained by slow diffusion of ether into a dichloromethane solution. The crystal X-ray analyses of 2-I

• and 2.68(1) Å. The C–I···O angles are 175.7(3)°, 172.7(3)°, 176.7(3)° and 176.1(3)°. The RXB values are 0.77, 0.74 and 0.75 (Table 1). Triazolium polyiodide 2-I·1.5I2 was made by 2-I with iodine and crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P21/c. The crystal package diagram displays that a bent

• arrangement of XB donors are around the central iodine atom of the I3− anion (Figure 6). 2-I·3.5I2 crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P21/c (Figure 7). There are two I3− and one I2 molecule in 2-I·1.5I2, while two I5− and three I2 molucules can be found in 2-I·3.5I2. The XB interaction with neural

Construction of trisubstituted chromone skeletons carrying electron-withdrawing groups via PhIO-mediated dehydrogenation and its application to the synthesis of frutinone A

• Qiao Li,
• Chen Zhuang,
• Donghua Wang,
• Wei Zhang,
• Rongxuan Jia,
• Fengxia Sun,
• Yilin Zhang and
• Yunfei Du

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2958–2965, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.291

• high reaction temperature, extended reaction time, involvement of transition metal catalysts, and low yield. In these regards, the development of alternative approaches that can realize an efficient synthesis of chromones under mild conditions is desirable. In recent decades, hypervalent iodine

• likely that the enolization is a necessary process for the reaction to occur, as compound 2z could not undergo the transformation under the standard conditions. Then, nucleophilic attack on the iodine center of PhIO [87] by the enol moiety of intermediate A affords the O–I enol form C (via intermediate B

• ), which is subsequently converted to I–C intermediate D via radical migration [88]. The homogeneous cleavage of the C–I bond in D leads to the stable carbon radical E and an iodine radical. Finally, the reaction between E and the iodine radical produces product 2a, with the concomitant release of water

An improved, scalable synthesis of Notum inhibitor LP-922056 using 1-chloro-1,2-benziodoxol-3-one as a superior electrophilic chlorinating agent

• Nicky J. Willis,
• Elliott D. Bayle,
• George Papageorgiou,
• David Steadman,
• Benjamin N. Atkinson,
• William Mahy and
• Paul V. Fish

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2790–2797, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.271

• et al. described the electrophilic chlorination of arenes and heterocycles by 1-chloro-1,2-benziodoxol-3-one (12) [18][19]. The hypervalent iodine(III) reagent 12 is reported to be a mild and effective reagent for the chlorination of nitrogen containing heterocycles which is easy to prepare and is

Iodine-mediated hydration of alkynes on keto-functionalized scaffolds: mechanistic insight and the regiospecific hydration of internal alkynes

• Zachary Lee,
• Brandon R. Jones,
• Nyochembeng Nkengbeza,
• Michael Phillips,
• Kayla Valentine,
• Alexis Stewart,
• Brandon Sellers,
• Nicholas Shuber and
• Karelle S. Aiken

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2747–2752, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.265

• Zachary Lee Brandon R. Jones Nyochembeng Nkengbeza Michael Phillips Kayla Valentine Alexis Stewart Brandon Sellers Nicholas Shuber Karelle S. Aiken Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Southern University, PO Box 8064, Statesboro, GA 30460, USA 10.3762/bjoc.15.265 Abstract An iodine-mediated

• of the α-iodo intermediate, and methodology studies demonstrate that alkyl-capped, asymmetric, internal alkynes undergo a regiospecific hydration, also via the 5-exo-dig NGP pathway. Keywords: α-iodo intermediate; internal alkyne; iodine-mediated hydration; neighboring group participation

• (II) [7], silver(I) [8], and gold(I)/(III) [9][10][11][12]. While less toxic than mercury, such catalysts are still environmental hazards and tend to be costlier [13][14]. The iodine-mediated hydration described herein is a viable solution to these issues [15][16]. This metal-free method produces

A review of asymmetric synthetic organic electrochemistry and electrocatalysis: concepts, applications, recent developments and future directions

• Munmun Ghosh,
• Valmik S. Shinde and
• Magnus Rueping

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2710–2746, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.264

• investigated the asymmetric electrodihydroxylation of olefins 69 in an undivided cell under constant current using potassium osmate as a catalyst in presence of Sharpless ligand and using iodine as the oxidizing mediator (Scheme 27). Two sets of conditions were developed, and they differ in the inorganic bases

A toolbox of molecular photoswitches to modulate the CXCR3 chemokine receptor with light

• Xavier Gómez-Santacana,
• Sabrina M. de Munnik,
• Tamara A. M. Mocking,
• Niels J. Hauwert,
• Shanliang Sun,
• Prashanna Vijayachandran,
• Iwan J. P. de Esch,
• Henry F. Vischer,
• Maikel Wijtmans and
• Rob Leurs

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2509–2523, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.244

• angle of the biaryl moiety of 1e was speculated to be associated with its agonist activity (vide supra) [24]. The alignment of the cis-isomer of 2a with agonist 1e is very different. The outer aromatic ring of cis-2a goes out of plane and is now occupying the space that is also occupied by the iodine

• comparable to the first series (3b–e) were prepared. Moreover, since the importance of the presence of a halogen in the outer ring was suggested in 2, compounds 3f–h, which include an iodine atom on the ortho, meta and para-positions, respectively, were synthesized. The synthesis of compounds 3a–e was

• overall yields similar to the ones obtained for 2a–e. However, 2-iodonitrosobenzene cannot be accessed through oxidation of the corresponding aniline owing to oxidation sensitivity of the iodine atom. Therefore, an alternative route had to be used to synthesize 3f–h (Scheme 2). The route began with the

Mono- and bithiophene-substituted diarylethene photoswitches with emissive open or closed forms

• A. Lennart Schleper,
• Mariano L. Bossi,
• Vladimir N. Belov and
• Stefan W. Hell

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2344–2354, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.227

• good yields by treatment of 3 with elemental iodine and periodic acid in aqueous acetic acid with addition of sulfuric acid, and by treatment of 6 with elemental iodine and periodic acid in concentrated sulfuric acid, respectively. The conditions for monoiodination of 6 have been published recently [5

• ]. We observed that the reproducible monoiodination of DAE 3 to form compound 4 was possible under similar conditions and in low yield (14%) by using smaller amounts of periodic acid (0.34 equiv) and iodine (0.68 equiv) than the amounts of these reagents used for diiodination (see Experimental for

Thermal stability of N-heterocycle-stabilized iodanes – a systematic investigation

• Andreas Boelke,
• Yulia A. Vlasenko,
• Mekhman S. Yusubov,
• Boris J. Nachtsheim and
• Pavel S. Postnikov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2311–2318, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.223

• stability with reactivity in a model oxygenation. Keywords: differential scanning calorimetry; hypervalent iodine; N-heterocycle; stability; thermogravimetry; Introduction Hypervalent iodine compounds, in particular aryl-λ3-iodanes, have found wide spread applications as oxidants and electrophilic group

• transfer reagents in organic synthesis [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. A 3-center 4-electron bond connects the central iodine atom, providing two electrons, with two carbon- or heteroatom ligands L1 and L2, providing one electron each (Figure 1). These ligands can be arranged along the hypervalent

• iodine atom through an open-chained, a pseudocyclic or a cyclic structure. One of the ligands gets either substituted during an iodane-mediated transformation or is directly transferred in an electrophilic group-transfer reaction onto a nucleophilic substrate. The other ligand stabilizes the

Functionalization of 4-bromobenzo[c][2,7]naphthyridine via regioselective direct ring metalation. A novel approach to analogues of pyridoacridine alkaloids

• Benedikt C. Melzer,
• Alois Plodek and
• Franz Bracher

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2304–2310, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.222

• the iodine quenching product 13), as D2O quenching of metalated arenes obtained with amide bases do not necessarily give complete deuteration. A hydrogen-bonded complex between the metalated species and TMP is postulated to undergo partial H/D exchange reactions with D2O before quenching takes place

• [25]. The reaction of metalated 9d with diverse electrophiles was tested in further studies. Quenching with iodine gave 5-iodo derivative 13 in a good yield of 71%. As the group of Knochel could demonstrate [26] that the closely related substrate 1-chloro-4-iodo-2,7-naphthyridine undergoes consecutive

Recent advances in transition-metal-catalyzed incorporation of fluorine-containing groups

• Xiaowei Li,
• Xiaolin Shi,
• Xiangqian Li and
• Dayong Shi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2213–2270, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.218

• fluoride source and PhI(OPiv)2 as a hypervalent iodine oxidant (Scheme 8). Very recently, they [44] optimized this transformation and achieved the benzylic C–H radiofluorination with no-carrier-added Ag[18F]F. This method was applied to the radiolabeling of diversely substituted 8-methylquinoline

• ] presented the nucleophilic fluorination of diaryliodonium salts with KF through a Cu(I/III) catalytic cycle mechanism. This procedure preferentially fluorinates the smaller aromatic ligand on iodine(III). Also, the addition of Cu(OTf)2 and 18-crown-6 promoted the fluorination effectively. Finally, excellent

Azologization and repurposing of a hetero-stilbene-based kinase inhibitor: towards the design of photoswitchable sirtuin inhibitors

• Christoph W. Grathwol,
• Nathalie Wössner,
• Sören Swyter,
• Adam C. Smith,
• Enrico Tapavicza,
• Robert K. Hofstetter,
• Anja Bodtke,
• Manfred Jung and
• Andreas Link

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2170–2183, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.214

• resemble a fixed (Z)-configuration of the stilbene double bond. Therefore, comparison with 2b could provide information concerning differential biological activity of the two photoisomers. By applying Mallory reaction conditions to a solution of 2b in methanol utilizing oxygen and iodine as oxidants we

• from Acros Organics. Thin-layer chromatography (TLC) was executed on silica gel 60 F254 aluminium plates purchased from Merck. Visualization of the compounds was accomplished by UV-light (254 nm and 366 nm) and by staining with iodine, DNPH/H2SO4 (2 g 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine and 5 mL H2SO4 in 50 mL

1,2,3-Triazolium macrocycles in supramolecular chemistry

• Mastaneh Safarnejad Shad,
• Pulikkal Veettil Santhini and
• Wim Dehaen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2142–2155, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.211

• (iodine, bromine) and chalcogens (selenium and tellurium) [18]. While there are several strategies for the synthesis of triazoles, the Cu(II)-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition reaction (CuAAC click reaction) is considered as one of the most efficient, simple and mild approaches towards the preparation

• highly functionalized 1,2,3-triazolium macrocycles under optimized reaction conditions, although cyclizations also have been carried out starting from triazolium building blocks (Figure 2). Using a small variation in the reaction protocols of the click reaction, iodine atoms can be introduced at the 5

1,2,3,4-Tetrahydro-1,4,5,8-tetraazaanthracene revisited: properties and structural evidence of aromaticity loss

• Arnault Heynderickx,
• Sébastien Nénon,
• Olivier Siri,
• Vladimir Lokshin and
• Vladimir Khodorkovsky

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2059–2068, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.203

• : infinite chains of the N–H···N=C shortened distances (N(2)···N(3) distance 3.047 Å, (Figure 11). The iodine anions are not involved in the intermolecular interactions. Conclusion Unlike previously described, 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1,4,5,8-tetraazaanthracene (3) is a thermally stable compound and can be

• benzene ring are given in red. The ORTEP view of 6a. Torsion angles within the benzene ring are given in red. The ORTEP view of 7a (the iodine counter anion has been omitted for clarity). Torsion angles within the benzene ring are given in red. Normalized absorption spectra of 3 in: toluene (black

• : nitrogen, blue; carbon, grey; iodine, violet. Synthesis of THTTA (3). Protonation, alkylation and acylation of 3. Charge transfer and delocalization within 3 and its diprotonated (6a) and monomethylated (7a) derivatives. Experimental and calculated selected bond lengths (Å). Supporting Information

Fluorinated azobenzenes as supramolecular halogen-bonding building blocks

• Esther Nieland,
• Oliver Weingart and
• Bernd M. Schmidt

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2013–2019, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.197

• , Universitätsstraße 1, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany 10.3762/bjoc.15.197 Abstract ortho-Fluoroazobenzenes are a remarkable example of bistable photoswitches, addressable by visible light. Symmetrical, highly fluorinated azobenzenes bearing an iodine substituent in para-position were shown to be suitable supramolecular

• significantly strengthened in solution. However, the bathochromic shift of the π→π* band leads to a partial overlap with the n→π* band, making it slightly more difficult to address. The introduction of iodine substituents is furthermore accompanied with a diminishing thermal half-life. A series of three

• calculated the molecular electrostatic potentials of the halogen bond donors A1–3 to visualize their capabilities to form halogen bonded architectures (Figure 1). Looking at the electrostatic surface potentials of the halogen bond donors, one can see that A3 shows a maximum value on the iodine atom that is

Functional panchromatic BODIPY dyes with near-infrared absorption: design, synthesis, characterization and use in dye-sensitized solar cells

• Quentin Huaulmé,
• Cyril Aumaitre,
• Outi Vilhelmiina Kontkanen,
• David Beljonne,
• Alexandra Sutter,
• Gilles Ulrich,
• Renaud Demadrille and
• Nicolas Leclerc

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1758–1768, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.169

• application in DSSCs, in rather good agreement with the values obtained from DFT calculations. Finally, we report preliminary results employing these molecules as photosensitizers in dye solar cells with iodine-based liquid electrolytes. We show that the limited performances of these new BODIPY derivatives

• 0.15 eV (neglecting entropy changes during the light absorption) is required to efficiently inject photo excited electrons from the LUMO of the dyes in the CB of the oxide [34]. Usually iodine-based liquid electrolytes are comprising additives such as tert-butylpyridine (tBP) which is known to shift