Regioselective cobalt(II)-catalyzed [2 + 3] cycloaddition reaction of fluoroalkylated alkynes with 2-formylphenylboronic acids: easy access to 2-fluoroalkylated indenols

• Tatsuya Kumon,
• Miroku Shimada,
• Jianyan Wu,
• Shigeyuki Yamada and
• Tsutomu Konno

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2193–2200, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.184

• -fluoroalkylated indenols, together with a very small amount of 3-fluoroalkylated indanones as side products. Keywords: [2 + 3] cycloaddition; cobalt catalyst; fluorine-containing; indenols; regioselective; Introduction 2,3-Disubstituted indenol derivatives are important compounds possessing high potential due

Photosensitized direct C–H fluorination and trifluoromethylation in organic synthesis

• Shahboz Yakubov and
• Joshua P. Barham

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2151–2192, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.183

• chemoselectivity. Overall, chemo- and regioselective C(sp3)–H fluorinations continue to challenge chemists. Most direct C(sp3)–H fluorinations are reported to proceed under radical pathways involving hydrogen atom transfer (HAT), although proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) has also been reported [44][49][50

• : Very recently, Lectka, Dudding and co-workers reported the regioselective C(sp3)–H fluorination of acetonide ketals (Scheme 26A) [205]. C(sp3)–H bonds α to ketal oxygen atoms were fluorinated with surprisingly high selectivity to afford the products 60–63 in moderate to excellent yield (41–91%, Scheme

Synthesis of monophosphorylated lipid A precursors using 2-naphthylmethyl ether as a protecting group

• Jundi Xue,
• Ziyi Han,
• Gen Li,
• Khalisha A. Emmanuel,
• Cynthia L. McManus,
• Qiang Sui,
• Dongmian Ge,
• Qi Gao and
• Li Cai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1955–1962, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.162

• ) group under basic conditions followed by peracetylation afforded compound 10 on a ≈150 g scale. The regioselective anomeric deacetylation with hydrazine and reprotection of the anomeric hydroxy group as tert-butyldimethylsilyl ether (TBS) led to compound 12. Compound 12 was then treated with sodium

• FmocCl in the presence of diisopropylethylamine (DIPEA) to give the fully protected compound 17. The regioselective opening of the arylidene acetal at O6 with Et3SiH and PhBCl2 in the presence of molecular sieves at −78 °C [22] gave compound 18 in good yield (80%) having a free C-6 hydroxy group

Stereoselective Biginelli-like reaction catalyzed by a chiral phosphoric acid bearing two hydroxy groups

• Xiaoyun Hu,
• Jianxin Guo,
• Cui Wang,
• Rui Zhang and
• Victor Borovkov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1875–1880, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.155

• To develop new efficient stereoselective catalysts for Biginelli-like reactions, a chiral phosphoric acid bearing two hydroxy groups derived from ʟ-tartaric acid was successfully synthesized via highly regioselective transformations of enantiopure 1,1,4,4-tetraphenylbutanetetraol. The obtained

• followed by further modifications involving highly regioselective 1,4-cycloetherization [19], 2,3-spiroboration [20], 2,3-sulfitation [21], and 2,3-methylation [22] of 1. Therefore, the strategy for the catalyst’s preparation was based on the established regioselective 2,3-sulfitation reaction of 1 and

• hydroxy groups in 3 for this reaction, the methylated derivative 7 was synthesized (Scheme 2). As shown in Scheme 2, first (2R,3R)-1 was subjected to highly regioselective 2,3-dimethylation [23] with NaH/MeI to give product (2R,3R)-6. Then the corresponding dimethylated chiral phosphoric acid 7 was

One-pot synthesis of oxazolidinones and five-membered cyclic carbonates from epoxides and chlorosulfonyl isocyanate: theoretical evidence for an asynchronous concerted pathway

• Esra Demir,
• Ozlem Sari,
• Yasin Çetinkaya,
• Ufuk Atmaca,
• Safiye Sağ Erdem and
• Murat Çelik

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1805–1819, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.148

• ), respectively (Table 2). These results show that the relative configuration is preserved. 4-Phenyl-1,3-dioxolan-2-one (8f) and 4-phenyloxazolidin-2-one (9f) were obtained from the reaction of CSI with styrene oxide (7f) showing the regioselective nature of the reaction. In addition, we report the synthesis of

• main reason for the predominant formation of intermediate 10 which results in the regioselective formation of oxazolidinone 9f Optimized geometries for reactant complex RC1 (7f+CSI), transition state TS1 and 10 for the selected path are depicted in Figure 4. This step is common for all paths studied

When metal-catalyzed C–H functionalization meets visible-light photocatalysis

• Lucas Guillemard and
• Joanna Wencel-Delord

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1754–1804, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.147

• activation of one substrate, and a two-electron activation by a transition-metal catalyst of the other. The main advantage of such a system is to promote highly regioselective reactions. Indeed, while radical transformations generally suffer from selectivity issues, interception of radicals by metal

• N-heterocyclic compounds such as phenanthridine, carbazole, and dibenzo[b,d]azepine. Simultaneously, Guo’s group published the arylation of nucleosides bearing a purine moiety. The transformation was regioselective and tolerated various substituents at the N9 position of the purine, including sugar

• ) catalyst, followed by SET oxidation to provide an Ar–Au(III) intermediate (Figure 43). This Lewis-acidic Au species promotes the regioselective C–H auration of the electron-rich substrate, delivering a cationic intermediate that under deprotonation and subsequent reductive elimination furnishes the

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

• between an alkyne, an olefin and carbon monoxide, resulting in the regioselective formation of a cyclopentenone derivative (Scheme 1) [18][19][20][21][22]. This cobalt-mediated reaction was initially discovered by Pauson and Khand in the early 70s [23][24][25] and has since become a powerful

• , for alkynes 58b,c the opposite regiochemistry was found. Finally, the use of alkyne 58d with two electron-withdrawing groups resulted in the regioselective formation of product 59d in excellent yield, indicating an inherent trend of the fluoroalkyl group to occupy the α-position regardless of the

Synthesis of new dihydroberberine and tetrahydroberberine analogues and evaluation of their antiproliferative activity on NCI-H1975 cells

• Giacomo Mari,
• Lucia De Crescentini,
• Serena Benedetti,
• Francesco Palma,
• Stefania Santeusanio and
• Fabio Mantellini

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1606–1616, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.133

• , makes this procedure advantageous from both the environmental and the economic point of view. Also, the regioselective reduction of the iminium moiety that leaves unchanged the hydrazono function requires a simple treatment of the hydrazone dihydroberberines with sodium borohydride producing a new class

Photocatalyzed syntheses of phenanthrenes and their aza-analogues. A review

• Alessandra Del Tito,
• Havall Othman Abdulla,
• Davide Ravelli,
• Stefano Protti and
• Maurizio Fagnoni

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1476–1488, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.123

• highly regioselective strategy for the synthesis of a library of polyheteroaromatic compounds under photocatalytic conditions was reported (Scheme 13). The process made use of fac-Ir(ppy)3 (0.3 mol %) as the photoredox catalyst and occurred at room temperature under extremely mild conditions. The

An overview on disulfide-catalyzed and -cocatalyzed photoreactions

• Yeersen Patehebieke

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1418–1435, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.118

• [3 + 2] methylenecyclopentane annulations of olefins with methylenecyclopropanes. This regioselective, mild, and protecting group-free annulation requires only an equimolar amount of the reacting alkene and does not require an excess of the reacting alkene, unlike other methods [9]. Furthermore, the

Recent synthesis of thietanes

• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1357–1410, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.116

• reactions of olefins with thioenones took place on the thiocarbonyl group to give stereospecific and regioselective thietane derivatives. The same group further studied the photo [2 + 2] cycloadditions of thiocoumarin (286) and alkenes 187, 215a,f, and 271, producing the corresponding spirothietane

• tetrahydrotrimethyldithioxo and [3-oxo-1-thioxo or 1-oxo-3-thioxo]isoquinolines 306 and 307 with olefins 215a,b, and 186c or indene (198), the regioselective [2 + 2] cycloaddition occurred to give oxo- or thiooxospiro[isoquinoline-1,2'(or 3,2')-thietane] derivatives 208–310. In some cases, the products were accompanied with

Highly selective Diels–Alder and Heck arylation reactions in a divergent synthesis of isoindolo- and pyrrolo-fused polycyclic indoles from 2-formylpyrrole

• Carlos H. Escalante,
• Eder I. Martínez-Mora,
• Carlos Espinoza-Hicks,
• Alejandro A. Camacho-Dávila,
• Fernando R. Ramos-Morales,
• Francisco Delgado and
• Joaquín Tamariz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1320–1334, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.113

• [3,4-e]indoles, which served as precursors in the regioselective synthesis of aza-polycyclic skeletons via an intramolecular Heck arylation reaction. Through the latter reaction, the 3-(N-benzyl-2-pyrrolyl)acrylates give rise to 3-(pyrrolo[2,1-a]isoindol-3-yl)acrylates. A further oxidative

• the solvent at 100 °C afforded pyrrolo[2,1-a]isoindoles 18a–c in good yields. This annulation process was regioselective, showing a preference of the cross-coupling reaction with the C-5 pyrrolic position and not with the vinyl moiety, which would give the dihydropyrrolo[1,2-b]isoquinoline 19. A

• pyrrolizine-containing polycycles, including isoindolo[2,1-a]indole-based tetrahydro and fully aromatic pentacycles. These findings reveal the synthetic value of 2-formylpyrrole (13a) for the diastereo- and regioselective construction of isoindolo- and pyrrolo-fused polycyclic indoles. Theoretical

Synthesis of 3-substituted isoxazolidin-4-ols using hydroboration–oxidation reactions of 4,5-unsubstituted 2,3-dihydroisoxazoles

• Lívia Dikošová,
• Júlia Laceková,
• Ondrej Záborský and
• Róbert Fischer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1313–1319, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.112

• hydroborations were highly regioselective, leading only to the formation of isoxazolidines with the hydroxy group in the C-4 position. From a stereochemical point of view, the additions took place with an excellent trans selectivity with respect to the substituent at C-3. A sequential oxidation/reduction route

• NOE enhancements observed in the isoxazolidin-4-ol trans-8a. The arrows show the NOESY correlations. Selected NOE enhancements observed in the isoxazolidin-4-ol cis-10a. The arrows show the NOESY correlations. Synthetic approach towards isoxazolidin-4-ols via the regioselective reductive cleavage of

Synthesis of esters of diaminotruxillic bis-amino acids by Pd-mediated photocycloaddition of analogs of the Kaede protein chromophore

• Esteban P. Urriolabeitia,
• Pablo Sánchez,
• Alexandra Pop,
• Cristian Silvestru,
• Eduardo Laga,
• Ana I. Jiménez and
• Carlos Cativiela

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1111–1123, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.98

• exocyclic C=C bonds of the oxazolone, which is optimal for their [2 + 2] photocycloaddition. Accordingly, irradiation of 3 with blue light (465 nm) results in the regioselective formation of the corresponding dinuclear ortho-metallated cyclobutane complexes 4, which contain the skeleton of the 1,3

Palladium-catalyzed regio- and stereoselective synthesis of aryl and 3-indolyl-substituted 4-methylene-3,4-dihydroisoquinolin-1(2H)-ones

• Valeria Nori,
• Antonio Arcadi,
• Armando Carlone,
• Fabio Marinelli and
• Marco Chiarini

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1084–1091, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.95

• palladium-catalyzed regioselective cascade cyclization of propargylamides/coupling with ArB(OH)2 in dioxane/water, to give trisubstituted arylidene-isoquinolinones [44] was published. However, the Ugi four-component reaction used to construct the starting building blocks was limited to the preparation of

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

• highly regioselective photoinduced hydro-defluorination of perfluoroarenes with RhIII(TSPP) [38]. The oxidative addition of the perfluoroarene to the metal complex furnished the active rhodium aryl complex intermediate, which led to the product after visible light irradiation. The hydro-defluorination

• ion, then giving an imine after deprotonation (Scheme 50). Adopting this strategy, Che and co-workers obtained several imines in 90–99% yield from secondary amines [102] (Scheme 51). The authors observed that the oxidation is regioselective, occurring at the less substituted position of nonsymmetric

• RhIII(TSPP) under visible light irradiation. Regioselective photocatalytic hydro-defluorination of perfluoroarenes by RhIII(TSPP). Formation of 2-methyl-2,3-dihydrobenzofuran by intramolecular hydro-functionalization of allylphenol using RhIIITMPP under visible light irradiation. Photocatalytic

Efficient synthesis of dipeptide analogues of α-fluorinated β-aminophosphonates

• Marcin Kaźmierczak and
• Henryk Koroniak

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 756–762, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.69

• Pudovik reaction, but also improved its yield drastically (Table 1). The implementation of this allowed us to obtain the anti-isomer (1R,2S) in very good yields. There are not many literature examples of the regioselective fluorination of amino alcohols using by PyFluor (1) or PBSF (2). In general, the

Combining enyne metathesis with long-established organic transformations: a powerful strategy for the sustainable synthesis of bioactive molecules

• Valerian Dragutan,
• Ileana Dragutan,
• Albert Demonceau and
• Lionel Delaude

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 738–755, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.68

• the second-generation Hoveyda–Grubbs catalyst (5 mol %, 83% yield), under an ethylene atmosphere. The subsequent regioselective NaIO4-mediated oxidative cleavage of the pendant double bond, followed by the installation of the unsaturated N-butenyl group, oxidation, and deprotection provided the final

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

• to optically active secondary alcohols (e.g., 342, Scheme 54) [97]. 2.2 Regioselective borylation of alkynes, alkenes, and allenes Cu-catalyzed borylation of C–C multiple bonds involves the formation of nucleophilic Cu–B species that coordinate with a π-system to initially transfer the boryl group

Regioselectively α- and β-alkynylated BODIPY dyes via gold(I)-catalyzed direct C–H functionalization and their photophysical properties

• Takahide Shimada,
• Shigeki Mori,
• Masatoshi Ishida and
• Hiroyuki Furuta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 587–595, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.53

• , Japan 10.3762/bjoc.16.53 Abstract A series of α- and β-ethynyl-substituted BODIPY derivatives (3a, 4a, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b) were synthesized by gold(I)-catalyzed direct C–H alkynylation reactions of dipyrromethane and BODIPY, respectively, with ethynylbenziodoxolone (EBX) in a regioselective manner

• Glaser-coupling reactions [37]. Conventionally, an alkynylation of the BODIPY core has been achieved by palladium-catalyzed Sonogashira cross-coupling with halogenated BODIPYs (Figure 1b) [35][37]. However, due to the coexistence of multiple C–H bonds, a regioselective direct C–H alkynylation of the

• BODIPY plane for both derivatives, indicating the rigid interlocked structures of 3a and 6b by the bulky o-methyl groups. In particular, the β-methyl substituents of 6b are sterically hindered by the neighbouring meso-aryl ring. The regioselective 2,6-diethynylation of 6a through the above alkynylation

A systematic review on silica-, carbon-, and magnetic materials-supported copper species as efficient heterogeneous nanocatalysts in “click” reactions

• Pezhman Shiri and
• Jasem Aboonajmi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 551–586, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.52

• magnetic nanoparticles CuFe2O4@starch (131). The catalytic activity of 131 was studied in the synthesis of 1,2,3-triazoles substituted at the 1- and 4-position by regioselective “click“ reactions of benzyl/alkyl bromides or arylboronic acids, sodium azide, and aromatic/alkyl alkynes in the presence of low

Efficient synthesis of 3,6,13,16-tetrasubstituted-tetrabenzo[a,d,j,m]coronenes by selective C–H/C–O arylations of anthraquinone derivatives

• Seiya Terai,
• Yuki Sato,
• Takuya Kochi and
• Fumitoshi Kakiuchi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 544–550, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.51

• ]. Anthraquinone was chosen as a convenient template for the PAH syntheses, because various anthraquinone derivatives possessing zero to four oxygen substituents at the ortho-positions are readily available and the regioselective arylation at the positions of either C–H or C–O bonds provided a variety of

Copper-catalyzed remote C–H arylation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)

• Anping Luo,
• Min Zhang,
• Zhangyi Fu,
• Jingbo Lan,
• Di Wu and
• Jingsong You

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 530–536, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.49

• Anping Luo Min Zhang Zhangyi Fu Jingbo Lan Di Wu Jingsong You Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Technology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, 29 Wangjiang Road, Chengdu 610064, P.R. China 10.3762/bjoc.16.49 Abstract The regioselective C–H arylation of

• and 4i). Notably, 1-naphthamides with alkenyl (1l) and alkynyl (1m) groups were also suitable substrates for this direct C7−H arylation, affording 4k and 4l in good yields (Scheme 3, 4k and 4l). Furthermore, this Cu-catalyzed direct C−H arylation could tolerate other PAH substrates. The regioselective

Synthesis of triphenylene-fused phosphole oxides via C–H functionalizations

• Md. Shafiqur Rahman and
• Naohiko Yoshikai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 524–529, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.48

• through two distinct C–H functionalization reactions as key steps. The phosphole ring was constructed by a three-component coupling of 3-(methoxymethoxy)phenylzinc chloride, an alkyne, and dichlorophenylphosphine, involving the regioselective C–H activation of the C2 position of the arylzinc intermediate

• and the carbohelicene moieties (Scheme 1) [16]. The approach focused on the regioselective one-pot synthesis of a 7-hydroxybenzo[b]phosphole derivative from an 3-alkoxyphenylzinc reagent, an alkyne, and dichlorophenylphosphine [17]. The hydroxy group of this key intermediate served as a handle for the

Regio- and stereoselective synthesis of new ensembles of diversely functionalized 1,3-thiaselenol-2-ylmethyl selenides by a double rearrangement reaction

• Svetlana V. Amosova,
• Andrey A. Filippov,
• Nataliya A. Makhaeva,
• Alexander I. Albanov and
• Vladimir A. Potapov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 515–523, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.47

• rearrangements occurred by a nucleophilic attack of the selenocyanate anion at two different carbon atoms of the seleniranium intermediate. The efficient regioselective synthesis of alkyl, allyl, 2-propynyl, benzyl, 4-fluorobenzyl, and 2-pyridinylmethyl 1,3-thiaselenol-2-ylmethyl selenides was developed based on

• was developed during the last ten years based on new directions for nucleophilic substitution reactions proceeding via intermediate seleniranium cations 2 generated from thiaselenole 1. We have carried out new regioselective reactions of thiaselenole 1 with dithiocarbamates [31], ketones [37], thiols

• (Scheme 3). Cascade regio- and stereoselective reactions of thiaselenole 1 with water and ethylene glycol resulted in the formation of the first representatives of the new family of polyfunctional 2,3-dihydro-1,4-thiaselenines [41]. The regioselective nucleophilic substitution reactions in thiaselenole 1