Shelf-stable electrophilic trifluoromethylating reagents: A brief historical perspective

• Norio Shibata,
• Andrej Matsnev and
• Dominique Cahard

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 65, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.65

• ). Interestingly, the method was developed for the synthesis of heteroaromatic diarylsulfonium salts. Thus, p-nitrophenyl trifluoromethyl sulfide was reacted first with xenon difluoride in the absence of solvent and then with boron trifluoride. The addition of an electron-rich heterocycle gave products 28 and 29

Chemical synthesis using enzymatically generated building units for construction of the human milk pentasaccharides sialyllacto-N-tetraose and sialyllacto-N-neotetraose epimer

• Dirk Schmidt and
• Joachim Thiem

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 18, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.18

• p-nitrophenyl β-galactopyranoside and β-galactosidase (Bovin testes). The subsequent transsialylation was carried out with p-nitrophenyl sialoside (pNp-αNeu5Ac) and either sialidase from Salmonella typhimurium or from Newcastle disease virus [7]. Recently, a more effective higher yielding transfer

• a down field shifted doublet for H-4′ at δ 5.37 (J3′4′ = 2.9 Hz). A similar approach was employed for the synthesis of the protected epimer of sialyllacto-N-neotetraose 14. β-Galactosylation of 2-azidothioglucoside with p-nitrophenyl β-galactopyranoside and β-galactosidase (Bacillus circulans) gave

Synthesis of indolo[3,2-b]carbazole-based new colorimetric receptor for anions: A unique color change for fluoride ions

• Ajit Kumar Mahapatra,
• Giridhari Hazra and
• Prithidipa Sahoo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 12, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.12

• ][24][25][26][27][28], there is a paucity of reports on selective naked-eye chemosensors for fluoride [29][30][31]. Nitrophenyl, nitronaphthalene urea [32][33][34], naphthalene triphenyl-phosphonium [35], benzimidazolyl pyridine [36][37] and oxidized bis(indolyl)methane [38] as signal units for

Synthesis of rigidified flavin–guanidinium ion conjugates and investigation of their photocatalytic properties

• Harald Schmaderer,
• Mouchumi Bhuyan and
• Burkhard König

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 26, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.26

• the presence of sacrificial electron donor substrates, such as aliphatic amines, flavins can photoreduce nitro arenes to anilines under blue light irradiation (Scheme 4). 4-Nitrophenyl phosphate was used as a substrate for photoreduction in water and in acetonitrile. The results summarized in Table 2

• )2, mono-Boc guanidine, CH2Cl2, rt, 20 h, 58–82%, (iii) HCl/Et2O, CH2Cl2/CHCl3, rt, 24 h, 83–90%. Oxidative photocleavage of dibenzyl phosphate. Photoreduction of 4-nitrophenyl phosphate. Photo Diels–Alder-reaction of anthracene with N-methyl-maleinimide. Oxidative photocleavage of dibenzyl phosphate

New diarylmethanofullerene derivatives and their properties for organic thin- film solar cells

• Daisuke Sukeguchi,
• Surya Prakash Singh,
• Mamidi Ramesh Reddy,
• Hideyuki Yoshiyama,
• Rakesh A. Afre,
• Yasuhiko Hayashi,
• Hiroki Inukai,
• Tetsuo Soga,
• Shuichi Nakamura,
• Norio Shibata and
• Takeshi Toru

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 7, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.7

• the electron-withdrawing nature of the (methoxycarbonyl)phenyl, cyanophenyl, nitrophenyl, (methylsulfonyl)phenyl, and (trifluoromethylsulfonyl)phenyl groups attached to the cyclopropane ring, enough to compensate the opposite effect of the electron-donating mono-, bis-, or tris(octyloxy)phenyl group

• -nitrophenyl, (methylsulfonyl)phenyl, and (trifluoromethylsulfonyl)phenyl groups, taking a P3HT:PCBM-blended cell as a reference, were examined. Table 2 shows the current density–voltage (J–V) characteristic parameters of the devices structured from P3HT:diarylmethanofullerene derivatives 1a–1k, 2 and

• work as acceptors, probably because of their low solubility in ODCB. The bis(methoxycarbonyl)phenyl- and cyanophenyl-substituted methanofullerenes 1f and 1g showed good PCE, whereas nitrophenyl-substituted methanofullerenes 1h and 1i did not work as acceptors. (Methoxycarbonyl)phenylmethano-C70

Reduction of arenediazonium salts by tetrakis(dimethylamino)ethylene (TDAE): Efficient formation of products derived from aryl radicals

• Mohan Mahesh,
• John A. Murphy,
• Franck LeStrat and
• Hans Peter Wessel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 1, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.1

• %; (d) N-(2-nitrophenyl)methanesulfonamide (25a), DIAD, PPh3, THF, 0 °C to r.t., 1 h, 98%; (e) TBAF, THF, r.t., 20 min, 90%; (f) NBS, PPh3, CH2Cl2, −25 °C, 20 min, then 37, −25 °C to r.t., 40 min, 96%; (g) PhSH, NaH, THF, 0 °C to r.t., 1 h, then 38, r.t., 12 h, 86%; (h) NaIO4, H2O, MeOH, r.t., 76 h, 73

The role of an aromatic group in remote chiral induction during conjugate addition of α-sulfonylallylic carbanions to ethyl crotonate

• Shlomo Levinger,
• Ranjeet Nair and
• Alfred Hassner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 32, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.32

• cyanoborohydride in an acidic medium. Phenyl-, (4-nitrophenyl)- and (1-naphthyl)ethylamines 6a, c, e are commercial. Interestingly, the 9-anthryl nucleus in both primary amine 6h and its allyl sulfone congener 1h shows a peculiar 1H NMR spectrum: a broad signal representing both protons 1 and 8 in the first

New acylides: synthesis of 3-O-[γ-(4-oxo-2-aryl- thiazolidin- 3-yl)butyryl]erythromycin A derivatives

• Deepa Pandey,
• Wahajul Haq and
• Seturam B. Katti

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 14, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.14

• -aryl-thiazolidin-3-yl)butyryl]-6-O-methylerythromycin A derivatives 4a–f (Method A); R = 4a: phenyl, 4b: 4-chlorophenyl, 4c: 4-fluorophenyl, 4d: 4-methoxyphenyl, 4e: 4-nitrophenyl and 4f: 4-quinolyl. Synthesis of 3-O-[γ-(4-oxo-2-aryl-thiazolidin-3-yl)butyryl]erythromycin A derivatives 4a–f (Method B

Microwave assisted synthesis of triazoloquinazolinones and benzimidazoquinazolinones

• Aboul-Fetouh E. Mourad,
• Ashraf A. Aly,
• Hassan H. Farag and
• Eman A. Beshr

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 11, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-11

• ] Other triazoloquinazolines were obtained from 2'-azidoacetophenone and as well as 2-azidobenzonitrile. [11] Quinazolines were also obtained in moderate yields by an intermolecular reductive N-heterocyclization of 2-nitro-benzaldehydes or 2-nitrophenyl ketones with formamide catalyzed by a combination of

The Elbs and Boyland- Sims peroxydisulfate oxidations

• E. J. Behrman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2006, 2, No. 22, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-2-22

• , although they obtained evidence for a peroxide, isolated only phenol (in substantial yield). Heller and Weiler [18] investigated a more stable analog, namely p-nitrophenyl hydroperoxide formed by ipso displacement of a nitro group from p-dinitrobenzene by the hydrogen peroxide anion.p-Nitrophenyl

Asymmetric aza-Diels- Alder reaction of Danishefsky's diene with imines in a chiral reaction medium

• Bruce Pégot,
• Olivier Nguyen Van Buu,
• Didier Gori and
• Giang Vo-Thanh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2006, 2, No. 18, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-2-18

• was observed in the case of p-nitrophenyl (Table 3, entry 4, R = p-NO2C6H4,). This is due to hydrogen bond formation between the OH group of the chiral ionic liquid and the NO2 function of the substrate. A similar decrease in asymmetric induction was observed by our group in the mechanistically