Mn-mediated sequential three-component domino Knoevenagel/cyclization/Michael addition/oxidative cyclization reaction towards annulated imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines

• Olga A. Storozhenko,
• Alexey A. Festa,
• Delphine R. Bella Ndoutoume,
• Alexander V. Aksenov,
• Alexey V. Varlamov and
• Leonid G. Voskressensky

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 3078–3087, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.287

• , complicated by the need of an oxidant to fulfil the final aromatization. Following our interest in domino [42][43] and MCR chemistry [44][45] and taking an advantage of 2-iminochromene reactivity, herein we report a sequential three-component domino reaction of salicylaldehydes 2 and N-(cyanomethyl)pyridinium

• product 4. It is worth noting, that the conversion of 3 to 4 is a constant side reaction, occurring even at rt and complicating the process. Since the air oxygen was not enough to deliver the needed cyclization, we started to look for an appropriate oxidant. The addition of 1.1 equiv diacetoxyiodobenzene

• (PIDA) as an external oxidant on the second step and changing the solvent to trifluoroethanol allowed the isolation of the desired product 5a with 25% yield after 2 h reflux (Table 1, entry 2), while leaving the reaction at rt for 7 days gave the compound 5a with 30% yield (Table 1, entry 3). Further

Organometallic vs organic photoredox catalysts for photocuring reactions in the visible region

• Aude-Héloise Bonardi,
• Frédéric Dumur,
• Guillaume Noirbent,
• Jacques Lalevée and
• Didier Gigmes

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 3025–3046, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.282

• . That's why the excited photoredox catalyst is at the same time a stronger oxidant and a stronger reductant than its ground state. Therefore, the PC can react more easily with an oxidant or a reductant (see in Figure 1) [16]. By addition of another reduction or oxidation agent, the catalytic cycle can be

Synthesis of indole–cycloalkyl[b]pyridine hybrids via a four-component six-step tandem process

• Muthumani Muthu,
• Rakkappan Vishnu Priya,
• Abdulrahman I. Almansour,
• Raju Suresh Kumar and
• Raju Ranjith Kumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2907–2915, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.269

• cyclization with the carbonyl to give 11, which subsequently undergoes dehydration to yield the cyclododeca[b]pyridine-3-carbonitrile 12. The intermediate 12 upon oxidative aromatization by molecular oxygen as the sole oxidant yields the indole–cyclododeca[b]pyridine-3-carbonitrile 7f. This four-component

Molecular iodine-catalyzed one-pot multicomponent synthesis of 5-amino-4-(arylselanyl)-1H-pyrazoles

• Camila S. Pires,
• Daniela H. de Oliveira,
• Maria R. B. Pontel,
• Jean C. Kazmierczak,
• Roberta Cargnelutti,
• Diego Alves,
• Raquel G. Jacob and
• Ricardo F. Schumacher

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2789–2798, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.256

• hydroperoxide in dichloromethane at room temperature for 2 h, the respective diazo aromatic compound 6 could be obtained in 50% yield (Scheme 5). As can be seen, the reaction proceeded smoothly allowing formation of the new N=N bond without cleavage of the C–Se bond under the oxidant media and the presence of

DABCO- and DBU-promoted one-pot reaction of N-sulfonyl ketimines with Morita–Baylis–Hillman carbonates: a sequential approach to (2-hydroxyaryl)nicotinate derivatives

• Soumitra Guin,
• Raman Gupta,
• Debashis Majee and
• Sampak Samanta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2771–2778, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.254

• DABCO, followed by aromatization using DBU as a base in an open-flask has been developed. This smart oxidant metal-free C–C/C–N bond forming process leads to an array of functionalized nicotinates/nicotinonitriles possessing an interesting phenolic moiety at C6 position in good to high yields. Moreover

Transition metal-free oxidative and deoxygenative C–H/C–Li cross-couplings of 2H-imidazole 1-oxides with carboranyl lithium as an efficient synthetic approach to azaheterocyclic carboranes

• Lidia A. Smyshliaeva,
• Mikhail V. Varaksin,
• Pavel A. Slepukhin,
• Oleg N. Chupakhin and
• Valery N. Charushin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2618–2626, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.240

• reaction of 2,2-dimethyl-4-phenyl-2H-imidazole 1-oxide (1a) with carboranyllithium 2. The experiments performed have shown effects of the used oxidants, temperature regime, and exposure time after addition of an oxidant into the reaction mixture. As a result, the optimal conditions have been found to

• involve the use of DDQ as oxidant and refluxing of the reaction mixture in argon atmosphere for 1 h (Table 2, entry 12). It has also been observed that further increase in the exposure time does not improve yields (39–52%) of the target carboranyl-substituted imidazole 1-oxides 5a–d (Scheme 1). Besides

Synthesis of aryl sulfides via radical–radical cross coupling of electron-rich arenes using visible light photoredox catalysis

• Amrita Das,
• Mitasree Maity,
• Simon Malcherek,
• Burkhard König and
• Julia Rehbein

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2520–2528, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.228

• , electron poor arenes are required. In this article, we report the development of a mild and efficient oxidative photocatalytic method of thiolation of electron-rich di- and trimethoxybenzene arenes with aryl disulfides and (NH4)2S2O8 as terminal oxidant (Scheme 2). Results and Discussion 1,2,4

• very slow when air was used as an oxidant, also it led to various oxidation products of the sulfur and the degradation of the photocatalyst was observed upon irradiation. Therefore, (NH4)2S2O8 was used as terminal oxidant. The addition of tert-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) as an oxidant led to degradation

• of the reaction mixture, also when nitrobenzene (PhNO2) was used as oxidant, trace amounts of product were observed along with the formation of aniline, likely arising from the regeneration of the catalyst. Control experiments confirmed that light and photocatalyst were essential for the arylation

The mechanochemical synthesis of quinazolin-4(3H)-ones by controlling the reactivity of IBX

• Md Toufique Alam,
• Saikat Maiti and
• Prasenjit Mal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2396–2403, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.216

• ]. During the reaction with the stronger oxidant PIDA, the basicity of the amine was regulated using an externally added acid salt, NaHSO4 (Figure 2a). In Figure 2b, a comparison in the reactivities of arylamines in the presence of non-iodine-based oxidant oxone [32] and IBX (iodine-based oxidant) is shown

• with IBX. c) Treatment of 2-aminobenzamide with IBX did not lead to any explosion. d) Reaction of 2-aminobenzamide and aldehydes in the presence of IBX as oxidant afforded quinazolin-4(3H)-ones at maximum interaction of the reactants, i.e., under ball-milling conditions. Comparison of the current work

A challenging redox neutral Cp*Co(III)-catalysed alkylation of acetanilides with 3-buten-2-one: synthesis and key insights into the mechanism through DFT calculations

• Andrew Kenny,
• Alba Pisarello,
• Arron Bird,
• Paula G. Chirila,
• Alex Hamilton and
• Christopher J. Whiteoak

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2366–2374, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.212

• functionalisation approach in 43% yield from the Cp*Rh(III)-catalysed coupling of allylic alcohols with acetanilide through a redox-active mechanism (Scheme 1b) [21], thus requiring stoichiometric oxidant (Cu(OAc)2), whereas the new protocol described in this report is intended to provide a more attractive redox

• -neutral alternative, obviating the requirement for addition of terminal oxidant (Scheme 1c). Herein, our results from this study will be reported and the difficulties of this translation will be explained through a DFT study of the mechanism, which will also be directly compared with the use of benzamides

A novel and practical asymmetric synthesis of eptazocine hydrobromide

• Ruipeng Li,
• Zhenren Liu,
• Liang Chen,
• Jing Pan,
• Kuaile Lin and
• Weicheng Zhou

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2340–2347, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.209

• , entry 3). When other oxidants, such as selenium oxide and manganese dioxide, were used, even at reflux temperature, no reaction took place (Table 2, entries 4 and 5). Owing to the concern of heavy metal pollution from the metal oxidant, organic oxidants were tested. Fortunately, DDQ in dioxane could

Hydroarylations by cobalt-catalyzed C–H activation

• Rajagopal Santhoshkumar and
• Chien-Hong Cheng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2266–2288, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.202

• alkenes, which required a stoichiometric amount of oxidant. Herein, we wish to review the cobalt-catalyzed hydroarylation of alkynes, alkenes, allenes, enynes, imines, and isocyanates. These reactions usually proceed via either an oxidative addition of Ar–H to a low-valent cobalt to form A1 intermediate

A general and atom-efficient continuous-flow approach to prepare amines, amides and imines via reactive N-chloramines

• Katherine E. Jolley,
• Michael R. Chapman and
• A. John Blacker

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2220–2228, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.196

• generates and immediately reacts N-chloramines directly, avoiding purification and isolation steps. 2-Chloramines were produced from the reaction of styrenes with N-alkyl-N-sulfonyl-N-chloramines, whilst N-alkyl or N,N’-dialkyl-N-chloramines reacted with anisaldehyde in the presence of t-BuO2H oxidant to

• 76 and 77% observed, respectively. Reaction of N-chloramine with aldehyde Reaction of N-chloramines with aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes to form amides has been reported by Porcheddu [34]. Under these literature conditions, FeCl3 catalyst (0.15 mol %), t-BuO2H oxidant (3.6 equiv) and excess aldehyde

• . Unexpectedly, a control reaction omitting the FeCl3 catalyst resulted in 90% conversion following a two-hour reaction time (Table 3, entry 4). Removing the t-BuO2H oxidant reduced the reaction rate significantly, leading to 10% conversion under otherwise identical conditions (Table 3, entry 5), whilst fewer

Hypervalent iodine compounds for anti-Markovnikov-type iodo-oxyimidation of vinylarenes

• Igor B. Krylov,
• Stanislav A. Paveliev,
• Mikhail A. Syroeshkin,
• Alexander A. Korlyukov,
• Pavel V. Dorovatovskii,
• Yan V. Zubavichus,
• Gennady I. Nikishin and
• Alexander O. Terent’ev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2146–2155, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.188

• , Ostrovitianov str., 1, 117997 Moscow, Russian Federation National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Akademika Kurchatova pl., 1, 123182 Moscow, Russian Federation 10.3762/bjoc.14.188 Abstract The iodo-oxyimidation of styrenes with the N-hydroxyimide/I2/hypervalent iodine oxidant system was proposed. Among

• formation of C–I and C–O bonds, which implies the radical pathway of the reaction. The iodo-oxyimidation of styrenes was studied in the model reaction of styrene (1a) with N-hydroxyphthalimide (2a). During the optimization, the oxidant and the iodine source, as well as the nature of the solvent and the

• reaction time were varied (Table 1). In general, the iodo-oxyimidation reaction is characterized by the following: The product 3aa is formed regardless what kind of hypervalent iodine compound is used (Table 1, entries 1-14) and Oxone (Table 1, entries 15 and 16) as the oxidant. The best yield of 3aa (90

Cobalt-catalyzed peri-selective alkoxylation of 1-naphthylamine derivatives

• Jiao-Na Han,
• Cong Du,
• Xinju Zhu,
• Zheng-Long Wang,
• Yue Zhu,
• Zhao-Yang Chu,
• Jun-Long Niu and
• Mao-Ping Song

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2090–2097, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.183

• substrates to optimize the alkoxylation reaction (Table 1, see more in Tables S1–S5 in Supporting Information File 1). To our delight, the desired product 3aa was obtained in 66% yield when using Co(OAc)2·4H2O as catalyst and Ag2CO3 as oxidant (Table 1, entry 1). Other cobalt salts such as CoF3 and CoF2 were

Applications of organocatalysed visible-light photoredox reactions for medicinal chemistry

• Michael K. Bogdos,
• Emmanuel Pinard and
• John A. Murphy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2035–2064, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.179

• classed as a reductive quenching cycle (Figure 4). In a reductive quenching catalytic cycle, a species must act as an oxidant to return the photocatalyst to its native oxidation state. If ET occurs such that the catalyst is oxidised, the cycle is classed as an oxidative quenching cycle (Figure 5). In an

• coupling of aromatic aldehydes and a wide range of secondary amines, using mesitylacridinium salts as the photocatalysts (Scheme 1) [38]. The main advantage is the use of air as the oxidant, which converts the formed α-hydroxy amine into the desired amide. This makes for a much more atom economical and

• reaction specifically investigated the dimerization of thiols. Some of the experiments carried out by the group were in a flow chemistry set up, exemplifying the scalability of the procedure. In addition, the oxidant that achieves the transformation is molecular oxygen, making this a very sustainable route

Cobalt-catalyzed nucleophilic addition of the allylic C(sp³)–H bond of simple alkenes to ketones

• Tsuyoshi Mita,
• Masashi Uchiyama,
• Kenichi Michigami and
• Yoshihiro Sato

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2012–2017, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.176

• -catalyzed C–C bond formation using a stoichiometric amount of an oxidant [16][17][18][19][20][21][22], the π-allylpalladium intermediate [23][24][25] is an electrophilic species that exclusively reacts with nucleophiles. Therefore, it would be a formidable challenge for the generation of a nucleophilic π

Preparation and X-ray structure of 2-iodoxybenzenesulfonic acid (IBS) – a powerful hypervalent iodine(V) oxidant

• Irina A. Mironova,
• Pavel S. Postnikov,
• Rosa Y. Yusubova,
• Akira Yoshimura,
• Thomas Wirth,
• Viktor V. Zhdankin,
• Victor N. Nemykin and
• Mekhman S. Yusubov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1854–1858, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.159

• interactions. Furthermore, a new method for the preparation of the reduced form of IBS, 2-iodosylbenzenesulfonic acid, by using periodic acid as an oxidant, has been developed. It has been demonstrated that the oxidation of free 2-iodobenzenesulfonic acid under acidic conditions affords an iodine(III

• -iodosylbenzenesulfonic acid (4), with the use of periodic acid as an oxidant. Results and Discussion We have investigated the oxidation of 2-iodobenzenesulfonic acid as sodium salt and as a free acid using Oxone, sodium periodate or periodic acid. The oxidation of sodium 2-iodobenzenesulfonate (5) by Oxone was performed

• (Figure 2) the I–O bonds are much longer (≈2.5–2.6 Å). It is known from the literature that the preparation of iodine(V) species from ArI and an oxidant involves initial formation of ArIO followed by disproportionation to ArI and ArIO2 [23]. Such disproportionation is significantly impeded or even

Synthesis of new tricyclic 5,6-dihydro-4H-benzo[b][1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-d][1,4]diazepine derivatives by [3⁺ + 2]-cycloaddition/rearrangement reactions

• Lin-bo Luan,
• Zi-jie Song,
• Zhi-ming Li and
• Quan-rui Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1826–1833, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.155

• switched to a stronger oxidant, Pb(OAc)4. To our pleasure, hydrazone 11 was successfully oxidized to provide the required azoester 12. However, NMR analysis revealed that compound 12 was impure and contained also some cyclized byproduct [47]. Furthermore, it was discovered that compound 12 was quite

Recent advances in hypervalent iodine(III)-catalyzed functionalization of alkenes

• Xiang Li,
• Pinhong Chen and
• Guosheng Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1813–1825, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.154

• properties of hypervalent iodine(III), a catalytic variant would be feasible (Scheme 1) [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. In the catalytic cycle, hypervalent iodine(III) can be generated by oxidation of iodoarenes in the presence of a suitable external oxidant. In 1994, Fuchigami and Fujita reported the

• ) reagents and mCPBA as a stoichiometric terminal oxidant. The cyclization of various alkenoic acids in the presence of sulfonic acids such as p-toluenesulfonic acid and (+)-10-camphorsulfonic acid afforded the corresponding sulfonyloxylactones 4 in good yields. A control experiment indicated that the same

• was used as a stoichiometric oxidant [45]. In contrast to the intramolecular cyclization, the intermolecular reaction is much more attractive. Li and co-workers reported a syn-diacetoxylation of alkenes, using iodoarenes as catalyst which was oxidized to hypervalent iodine(III) by hydrogen peroxide in

Synthesis of spirocyclic scaffolds using hypervalent iodine reagents

• Fateh V. Singh,
• Priyanka B. Kole,
• Saeesh R. Mangaonkar and
• Samata E. Shetgaonkar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1778–1805, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.152

• spirocyclic products 26 by in situ-generated active hypervalent iodine species. In this report, para-substituted esters 24 were cyclized to corresponding spirolactones 26 using stoichiometric amount of bis(iodoarene) 25 with terminal oxidant mCPBA in the presence of TsOH·H2O in TFE (Scheme 5). In this

• reaction, active hypervalent iodine species was generated in situ by the oxidation of bis(iodoarene) 25 using mCPBA as terminal oxidant. In 2011, Kita and co-workers [72] investigated a more reactive µ-oxo bridged hypervalent iodine(III) reagent used in the spirocyclization of phenolic substrates 27 to

• iodine species or by generation of a similar active catalytic species in situ by the oxidation of iodoarene using a terminal oxidant. More commonly, m-chloroperbenzoic acid (mCPBA) and oxone are used as oxidant to generate the hypervalent iodine species in situ via oxidation of iodoarenes. In 2014, Singh

β-Hydroxy sulfides and their syntheses

• Mokgethwa B. Marakalala,
• Edwin M. Mmutlane and
• Henok H. Kinfe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1668–1692, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.143

• zinc/aluminium chloride. Movassagh et al. reported another simple, general and highly regioselective one pot synthesis of β-hydroxy sulfides in good yields from the reaction of styrenes and disulfides using Zn/AlCl3 as a catalyst in aqueous CH3CN at 80 °C, in the presence of oxygen as oxidant (Scheme

• electron-donating groups. Whilst this method offers a one-pot, transition metal-free and odorless approach to β-hydroxy sulfides utilizing atmospheric oxygen, an environmentally benign and cheap oxidant, its chief drawback is the incompatibility with aliphatic alkenes and dialkyl disulfides to provide the

Anomeric modification of carbohydrates using the Mitsunobu reaction

• Julia Hain,
• Patrick Rollin,
• Werner Klaffke and
• Thisbe K. Lindhorst

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1619–1636, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.138

• ][12]. The standard Mitsunobu reaction involves coupling of an alcohol and a nucleophile in a dehydrative SN2 process activated by a reactive combination of a triaryl- or trialkylphosphine as reducing agent and a dialkyl azodicarboxylate as oxidant. In a redox process, the phosphine species is oxidized

Glycosylation reactions mediated by hypervalent iodine: application to the synthesis of nucleosides and carbohydrates

• Yuichi Yoshimura,
• Hideaki Wakamatsu,
• Yoshihiro Natori,
• Yukako Saito and
• Noriaki Minakawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1595–1618, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.137

•  22. Either (diacetoxyiodo)benzene or (dibenzoyloxyiodo)benzene could serve as an efficient oxidant, and the reactions utilizing them gave the products installing either the acetate or benzoate functionality, respectively, at the C2-position. Both glucal 115 and galactal 167 were amenable to the

Hypervalent organoiodine compounds: from reagents to valuable building blocks in synthesis

• Gwendal Grelier,
• Benjamin Darses and
• Philippe Dauban

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1508–1528, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.128

• using Oxone as a terminal oxidant, thereby allowing for extending the scope of the reaction in terms of iodoarenes. Tandem oxidation–catalytic couplings A large range of oxidation reactions can be performed with [bis(acyloxy)iodo]arenes best represented by the commercially available reagents PhI(OAc)2

• substrates that reduces its scope. With the aim to address these issues, it has been demonstrated that, in addition to its role of oxidant and coupling partner, the λ3-iodane can simultaneously be used as the substrate for the C(sp3)–H amination reaction (Scheme 44) [109]. The catalytic auto-amination, thus

• (trifluoroacetoxy)iodo]arene. Catalytic nitrene additions mediated by [bis(acyloxy)iodo]arenes. Tandem of C(sp3)–H amination/sila-Sonogashira–Hagihara coupling. Tandem reaction using a λ3-iodane as an oxidant, a substrate and a coupling partner. Synthesis of 1,2-diarylated acrylamidines with ArI(OAc)2

Recent applications of chiral calixarenes in asymmetric catalysis

• Mustafa Durmaz,
• Erkan Halay and
• Selahattin Bozkurt

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1389–1412, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.117

• coligand, their uranyl-(salen) derivatives 106a,b have been employed as models of the oxo-Mn(V)–(salen) oxidant species. The reactions were highly efficient in terms of productivity (up to 96% yield) and enantioselectivity (up to 93% ee) when rigid bicyclic alkenes such as 1,2-dihydronaphthalene and