Encaging palladium(0) in layered double hydroxide: A sustainable catalyst for solvent-free and ligand-free Heck reaction in a ball mill

• Wei Shi,
• Jingbo Yu,
• Zhijiang Jiang,
• Qiaoling Shao and
• Weike Su

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1661–1668, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.160

• such as Heck, Suzuki, Sonogashira and Glaser reactions are still unusual methods for the formation of C–C bonds [1][2][3][4][5][6][7], but the method arouse considerable attention because of an environmentally benign and solvent-free synthesis approach as well as high efficiency and good atom economy

• –C cross coupling [13][14][15][16] reactions but also in mechanically activated Heck [4][17][18][19][20][21][22], Suzuki [23][24][25][26], and Sonogashira [5][27][28] coupling reactions. The limitations of which are obviously unstable ligands and expensive Pd catalysts. Furthermore, the contamination

• -assisted method to prepare Pd catalysts immobilized on modified chitosan (Scheme 1). Although these catalysts were found to be effective in the Suzuki reaction after three cycles, the modification conditions of chitosan were rigorous. As catalyst-supported material, layered double hydroxides (LDHs) have

The chemistry and biology of mycolactones

• Matthias Gehringer and
• Karl-Heinz Altmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1596–1660, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.159

A novel approach to oxoisoaporphine alkaloids via regioselective metalation of alkoxy isoquinolines

• Benedikt C. Melzer and
• Franz Bracher

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1564–1571, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.156

• -substituted isoquinolines at C-1, followed by reaction with iodine. Subsequent Suzuki cross-coupling of the resulting 1-iodoisoquinolines to methyl 2-(isoquinolin-1-yl)benzoates and intramolecular acylation of the corresponding carboxylic acids with Eaton’s reagent afforded five alkaloids of the

• cytotoxicity against the HL-60 tumor cell line. Keywords: directed ortho/remote metalation; Eaton’s reagent; isoquinolines; Suzuki cross-coupling; Introduction Benzylisoquinoline alkaloids represent a very large group of plant secondary metabolites, which includes about 2,500 known structures. Besides simple

• , which were expected to be versatile substrates for Suzuki cross-coupling reactions with appropriate phenylboronic acids to gain methyl 2-(isoquinolin-1-yl)benzoates as the central intermediates (Scheme 1). Results and Discussion As we reported previously, metalation of 6,7-dimethoxyisoquinoline (7a) and

Direct catalytic arylation of heteroarenes with meso-bromophenyl-substituted porphyrins

• Alexei N. Kiselev,
• Olga K. Grigorova,
• Alexei D. Averin,
• Sergei A. Syrbu,
• Oskar I. Koifman and
• Irina P. Beletskaya

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1524–1532, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.152

• ][11], Suzuki–Miyaura [12][13][14][15] and Stille couplings [16][17][18][19][20][21][22] were successfully applied for this purpose. Direct arylation and alkenylation are modern approaches for the formation of C–C bonds, and the application of these methodologies to porphyrins was widely studied by

Development of a method for the synthesis of 2,4,5-trisubstituted oxazoles composed of carboxylic acid, amino acid, and boronic acid

• Kohei Yamada,
• Naoto Kamimura and
• Munetaka Kunishima

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1478–1485, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.146

• one-pot oxazole synthesis/Suzuki–Miyaura coupling sequence has been developed. One-pot formation of 5-(triazinyloxy)oxazoles using carboxylic acids, amino acids and a dehydrative condensing reagent, DMT-MM, followed by Ni-catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura coupling with boronic acids provided the corresponding

• 2,4,5-trisubstituted oxazoles in good yields. Keywords: one-pot oxazole synthesis; Suzuki–Miyaura coupling; triazine; 5-(triazinyloxy)oxazole; trisubstituted oxazole; Introduction Oxazoles are found in numerous natural products and are used as a broad range of artificial compounds [1][2]. In

• , Jin and co-workers reported that Ni-catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura coupling between triazinyloxybenzene and arylboronic acids affords the corresponding biaryl compounds [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. In this context, we envisioned application of this Suzuki–Miyaura coupling to a 5-(triazinyloxy

Synthesis of the heterocyclic core of the D-series GE2270

• Christophe Berini,
• Thibaut Martin,
• Pierrik Lassalas,
• Francis Marsais,
• Christine Baudequin and
• Christophe Hoarau

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1407–1412, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.137

• by using two developed innovative cross-coupling reactions, the palladium-catalyzed direct C–H (hetero)arylation of thiazole-4-carboxylate [21] and a palladium-catalyzed borylation-Suzuki coupling (BSC) 2-ketothiazole unit at 4-position as alternative to thiazolyltin intermediate [22]. Herein, an

• heterocyclic core of the D-series thiopeptide antibiotic GE2270 was prepared. The synthetic strategy that combines direct C–H arylation, Borylation Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling (BSC) and Hantzsch thiazole synthesis methods proved to be highly effective regarding the fair 22% yield over 7 synthetic steps from

Nitration of 5,11-dihydroindolo[3,2-b]carbazoles and synthetic applications of their nitro-substituted derivatives

• Roman A. Irgashev,
• Nikita A. Kazin,
• Gennady L. Rusinov and
• Valery N. Charushin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1396–1406, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.136

• performed by using the Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reaction with phenylboronic acid under Pd catalysis (Scheme 5). The location of the formyl group and bromine atoms in ICZ derivatives 12 and 13 has been established by X-ray crystallography analysis, performed for single crystals of 12b and 13b (Figure 5

BODIPY-based fluorescent liposomes with sesquiterpene lactone trilobolide

• Ludmila Škorpilová,
• Silvie Rimpelová,
• Michal Jurášek,
• Miloš Buděšínský,
• Jana Lokajová,
• Roman Effenberg,
• Petr Slepička,
• Tomáš Ruml,
• Eva Kmoníčková,
• Pavel B. Drašar and
• Zdeněk Wimmer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1316–1324, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.128

• hydrolysis of methyl ester 1 with aqueous LiOH in THF and subsequent Suzuki cross-coupling with BODIPY-BA [34] catalyzed by Pd(PPh3)4 and K2CO3 in a mixture of toluene/MeOH/water provided the fluorescent building block 3 in 88% yield. Sequential connection of other functional components of the target

Total synthesis of elansolids B1 and B2

• Liang-Liang Wang and
• Andreas Kirschning

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1280–1287, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.124

• an optimized C–C cross-coupling sequence with a Suzuki cross-coupling reaction as key step. Keywords: antibiotics; polyenes; polyketides; Stille reaction; Suzuki reaction; total synthesis; Introduction The elansolids are metabolites from the gliding bacterium Chitinophaga sancti (formerly

• first synthesis of elansolid B2 (3). The key for improvement was to abandon the two Sonogashira reactions along with the syn-reductions of the two alkynes. Instead, we planned to utilize the Suzuki–Miyaura and the Stille reactions and two Z-configured vinyl iodides to assemble the (Z,E,Z)-triene unit

• . Results and Discussion The improved synthesis utilizes the Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reaction to merge the western fragment derived from ketone 9 with the newly designed eastern building block 13. This fragment was obtained in very good yield from vinyl iodide 12 [9] by a Stille protocol using doubly

Automating multistep flow synthesis: approach and challenges in integrating chemistry, machines and logic

• Chinmay A. Shukla and
• Amol A. Kulkarni

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 960–987, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.97

• kinetics parameters of a series-parallel substitution reaction [38]. Reizman et al. have studied Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling optimization using a DoE-based algorithm and feedback system [45]. The authors studied both continuous and discrete variables for optimization. Recently Fitzpatrick and Ley have

Transition-metal-free one-pot synthesis of alkynyl selenides from terminal alkynes under aerobic and sustainable conditions

• Adrián A. Heredia and
• Alicia B. Peñéñory

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 910–918, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.92

• applications of alkynyl selenides are electrophilic addition reactions, many of them modulated by transition-metal catalysts [11]. Some examples are: hydroboration which results in a vinylborane selenide used in Pd-catalyzed Suzuki cross-coupling reactions [12], the addition to tributyltin hydride in the

• synthesis of seleno-functionalized heterocycles [20][21]. Recently, the use of alkynyl selenides as substrates for Pd-catalyzed Suzuki, Negishi, Kumada and Sonogashira cross-coupling reactions has been reported with good yields [22]. Due to the synthetic relevance of alkynyl selenides several methodologies

Synthesis of tetrasubstituted pyrazoles containing pyridinyl substituents

• Josef Jansa,
• Ramona Schmidt,
• Ashenafi Damtew Mamuye,
• Laura Castoldi,
• Alexander Roller,
• Vittorio Pace and
• Wolfgang Holzer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 895–902, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.90

• -pyridineboronic acid, respectively) in the course of a Suzuki cross-coupling procedure [27][28] under different reaction conditions (for instance Cs2CO3/DMF; Na2CO3/DMF; Cs2CO3/dioxane–H2O; Na2CO3/dioxane–H2O; Pd(PPh3)4) always led to dehalogenation and thus to the isolation of 2a as the main reaction product

• been also observed in the course of related Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions, such as, for instance, in Suzuki–Miyaura reactions [38]. In contrast, the corresponding 2-pyridinyl or 2-thienyl organozinc congeners gave much better results with nearly no homocoupling side reactions and only few

Molecular-level architectural design using benzothiadiazole-based polymers for photovoltaic applications

• Vinila N. Viswanathan,
• Arun D. Rao,
• Upendra K. Pandey,
• Arul Varman Kesavan and
• Praveen C. Ramamurthy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 863–873, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.87

• -propanediol)ester under Suzuki coupling reaction conditions in the presence of sodium bicarbonate solution with tris(dibenzylideneacetone)dipalladium(0) and tri-o-tolylphosphine as the catalyst (Scheme 2). For experimental details, see Supporting Information File 1. The crude polymers were precipitated with

Transition-metal-catalyzed synthesis of phenols and aryl thiols

• Yajun Liu,
• Shasha Liu and
• Yan Xiao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 589–611, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.58

• /PANI catalyzed a Suzuki coupling reaction and hydroxylation of aryl halides [25]. The hydroxylation of aryl halides occurred at 100 °C in aqueous 1,4-dioxane in the presence of 1 mol % of Pd/PANI and 4 equiv of KOH (Scheme 5). Aryl bromide and iodides were converted to the corresponding phenols in good

Contribution of microreactor technology and flow chemistry to the development of green and sustainable synthesis

• Flavio Fanelli,
• Giovanna Parisi,
• Leonardo Degennaro and
• Renzo Luisi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 520–542, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.51

• polyfunctionalized biaryls, using a flow microreactor, has been recently reported by Yoshida [54]. Using the integrated microflow system reported in Scheme 8, arylboronic esters were prepared by a lithiation/borylation sequence, and used in a Suzuki–Miyaura coupling in a monolithic reactor. A remarkable aspect of

• the process was the use of an integrated supported monolithic Pd(0) catalyst that allowed to perform cross-coupling reactions in continuous flow mode (Scheme 8). This integrated microflow system allow to handle the borylation of aryl halides (Ar1X), and the subsequent Suzuki–Miyaura coupling using

• different aryl halide (Ar2X). Without requiring the protection of sensitive functionalities, running the flow system using a residence time (tR) of about 4.7 min at a temperature above 100 °C, high yields of coupling products were obtained. Noteworthy, the Suzuki–Miyaura coupling did not require the use of

Brønsted acid-mediated cyclization–dehydrosulfonylation/reduction sequences: An easy access to pyrazinoisoquinolines and pyridopyrazines

• Ramana Sreenivasa Rao and
• Chinnasamy Ramaraj Ramanathan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 428–440, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.46

• phenyl group was proposed to introduce at the 3-position in substituted pyrazinone via regioselective bromination followed by Suzuki coupling with phenylboronic acid. Accordingly, the bromination of 10a was successfully carried out to furnish regioisomers 12a and 12b in 82% yield upon treatment with

• bromodimethylsulfonium bromide (BDMS) [38] in dichloromethane at 0 °C to room temperature. The conventional Suzuki coupling of the regioisomers 12a and 12b with phenylboronic acid furnished the corresponding arylated products 13a and 13b in excellent yield (Scheme 5). To our dismay, the imide 7h did not participate in

NMR reaction monitoring in flow synthesis

• M. Victoria Gomez and
• Antonio de la Hoz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 285–300, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.31

• ] studied the pros and cons of a benchtop NMR instrument at 45 MHz (Pico Spin-45). For this purpose, they studied reactions like the Fisher esterification, Suzuki reactions, and oxime formation and they analyzed the samples by simple injection of aliquots in the inlet port through an HPLC filter using non

Highly bulky and stable geometry-constrained iminopyridines: Synthesis, structure and application in Pd-catalyzed Suzuki coupling of aryl chlorides

• Yi Lai,
• Zhijian Zong,
• Yujie Tang,
• Weimin Mo,
• Nan Sun,
• Baoxiang Hu,
• Zhenlu Shen,
• Liqun Jin,
• Wen-hua Sun and
• Xinquan Hu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 213–221, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.24

• activities in the coupling reaction of aryl chlorides. Keywords: aryl chloride; geometry-constrained; iminopyridyl; palladium; Suzuki; Introduction Palladium-promoted C–C coupling reactions are recognized as one of the most powerful tools in organic syntheses, pharmaceutical processes and biological

• showed a good catalytic efficiency for both Suzuki and Heck cross-coupling reactions. The favorable effect originated from the ring-fused framework being able to establish a strained environment for better stability. Efficient couplings were achieved with aryl bromides or iodides as substrates, however

• up to 325 °C. With these sterically hindered iminopyridine–palladium complexes Pd1 to Pd5 in hand, we firstly investigated their catalytic activity directly in Suzuki cross-coupling reactions with chlorobenzene as the electrophile. The reactions were performed under the previously reported conditions

Silyl-protective groups influencing the reactivity and selectivity in glycosylations

• Mikael Bols and
• Christian Marcus Pedersen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 93–105, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.12

• , the ability of the bulky silyl groups to alter the conformation of the glycosyl-donor ring can be used to control the selectivity. Suzuki and collaborators showed that the C-arylation reactions with the 3,4-O-di(tert-butyldiphenylsilyl)-protected acetate 56 led to the α-glycoside 58 with high

Iodination of carbohydrate-derived 1,2-oxazines to enantiopure 5-iodo-3,6-dihydro-2H-1,2-oxazines and subsequent palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions

• Michal Medvecký,
• Igor Linder,
• Luise Schefzig,
• Hans-Ulrich Reissig and
• Reinhold Zimmer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2898–2905, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.289

• -forming reactions such as Sonogashira, Heck, or Suzuki coupling reactions as well as a cyanation reaction. These cross-coupling reactions led to a series of 5-alkynyl-, 5-alkenyl-, 5-aryl- and 5-cyano-substituted 1,2-oxazine derivatives being of considerable interest for further synthetic elaborations

• investigated the synthesis of 4-halogen- and 4,5-bis(halogen)-substituted 6H-1,2-oxazines by halogenation of 6H-1,2-oxazines and subsequent palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions such as Sonogashira or Suzuki–Miyaura reactions [24] leading to aryl- and alkynyl-functionalized products. The synthetic potential

• , since it is well documented that in related cross-coupling reactions of 16 exclusively the Z-isomers are formed [40]. The 5-iodo-1,2-oxazines syn-4a,b reacted smoothly under standard conditions of Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reactions [45] with vinylboronic acid 18 and 3-methoxyphenylboronic acid 20 to

Symmetry-based approach to oligostilbenoids: Rapid entry to viniferifuran, shoreaphenol, malibatol A, and diptoindonesin G

• Youngeun Jung,
• Dileep Kumar Singh and
• Ikyon Kim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2689–2693, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.266

• natural oligostilbenoids guided us to design a modular synthetic approach to these molecules by utilizing a three-step sequence consisting of Sonogashira coupling, iodocyclization, and Suzuki coupling. During our synthesis, the relative reactivities of ester, aldehyde, and alkoxy groups on the same aryl

• element [19] of the target molecules. We expected that the key intermediate (inset box of Scheme 1) could be constructed from the monoiodo compounds 1, 2, or 3 through a sequence involving Sonogashira coupling, iodocyclization [20][21][22][23][24][25][26], and Suzuki coupling. As the starting materials (1

• subsequent Suzuki cross-coupling of 13 with 3,5-dimethoxyphenylboronic acid under the reaction conditions analogous as described before [26] proceeded well and furnished 14 in 88% yield. This intermediate was used for our previous syntheses of permethylated analogues of viniferifuran, malibatiol A, and

Solvent-free, visible-light photocatalytic alcohol oxidations applying an organic photocatalyst

• Martin Obst and
• Burkhard König

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2358–2363, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.229

• for mechanochemical syntheses include stoichiometric reactions such as the Knoevenagel condensation and the Wittig reaction, but also reactions catalyzed by metal catalysts, like the Sonogashira coupling and the Suzuki coupling [1]. Photocatalysis, as a part of Ostwald’s sub-discipline photochemistry

High performance p-type molecular electron donors for OPV applications via alkylthiophene catenation chromophore extension

• Paul B. Geraghty,
• Calvin Lee,
• Jegadesan Subbiah,
• Wallace W. H. Wong,
• James L. Banal,
• Mohammed A. Jameel,
• Trevor A. Smith and
• David J. Jones

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2298–2314, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.223

• π-bridges by simple Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reactions could be completed. Starting with commercially available 5-bromothiophene-2-carboxaldehyde and then reaction with 3a–c to generate the required bithiophenes, then terthiophenes, while further catenation with 3b resulted in synthesis of the

• analytically pure material isolated by filtration in excellent yields >90%, Scheme 4. This simplified purification is in direct contrast with reported procedures for the bis-iodinated or bis-stannylated analogues [20][21]. A simple Suzuki–Miyaura cross coupling of 5, 7, 9 or 11 with 13 gave the required BXx

Elongated and substituted triazine-based tricarboxylic acid linkers for MOFs

• Arne Klinkebiel,
• Ole Beyer,
• Barbara Malawko and
• Ulrich Lüning

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2267–2273, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.219

• substituted) with two equivalents of an unsubstituted nitrile. Triple Suzuki coupling of the cores 3 with suitable phenyl- and biphenylboronic acid derivatives provided elongated tricarboxylic acid linkers as carboxylic acids 17 and 20 or their esters 16 and 19. Reduction of the nitro group and cleavage of

• the methoxy group gave the respective amino and hydroxy-substituted triazine linkers. Keywords: isoreticular; linker; MOF; Suzuki coupling; triazine; Introduction A typical building block for many metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) [1][2][3][4] carries two functional groups such as carboxylic acids or

• the Suzuki–Miyaura coupling [11]. A retrosynthetic analysis (Figure 3) of extended mono-functionalized triazinetricarboxylic acids 2 calls for tris(4-bromoaryl)-1,3,5-triazines 3 and boronic acids 4 with an additional carboxylic acid functionality. The respective methyl carboxylate of boronic acid 4

Regiocontroled Pd-catalysed C5-arylation of 3-substituted thiophene derivatives using a bromo-substituent as blocking group

• Mariem Brahim,
• Hamed Ben Ammar,
• Jean-François Soulé and
• Henri Doucet

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2197–2203, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.210

• , without cleavage of the thienyl C–Br bond. Moreover, sequential direct thienyl C5-arylation followed by Pd-catalysed direct arylation or Suzuki coupling at the C2-position allows to prepare 2,5-di(hetero)arylated thiophenes bearing two different (hetero)aryl units in only two steps. This method provides a

• -substituted thiophene derivatives is an important topic in sustainable chemistry [4]. Stille or Suzuki palladium-catalysed coupling reactions [5][6][7][8][9][10] are some of the most efficient methods for the preparation of 5-arylated 3-substituted thiophenes [11][12][13][14]. However, before these coupling

• -substituted thiophenes derivatives containing two different aryl groups at C2 and C5 positions via Suzuki coupling in the second step was also attempted (Scheme 8). The reaction of 5 with phenylboronic acid in the presence of only 1 mol % Pd(OAc)2 catalyst and K2CO3 as base gave 3-methyl-5-(4-nitrophenyl)-2