Synthesis of pyrrolo[1,2-a]quinolines by formal 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions of quinolinium salts

• Anthony Choi,
• Rebecca M. Morley and
• Iain Coldham

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1480–1484, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.149

• explore the diversity of products that could be obtained from these adducts, we carried out a reduction of the alkene in compounds 9 and 10 by using hydrogen and palladium on charcoal (Scheme 4). This provides the tetrahydroquinoline adducts 11 and 12. Additionally, and in contrast, oxidation of the

Anomeric sugar boronic acid analogues as potential agents for boron neutron capture therapy

• Daniela Imperio,
• Erika Del Grosso,
• Silvia Fallarini,
• Grazia Lombardi and
• Luigi Panza

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1355–1359, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.135

• yield. Again, the final product proved to be unstable towards elimination giving rise slowly to the corresponding alkene 8a [18]. In fact, when compound 8 was kept in water or methanol solution at room temperature, the formation of 8a was observed in about 20% within a few hours. Moreover, the same

• elimination occurs even when 8 was stored at −20 °C. To avoid β-elimination we planned the synthesis of a new final sugar devoid of the hydroxy group at position 3. Therefore, we selected the alkene 9 as substrate for the hydroboration reaction (Scheme 2). The hydroboration reaction of the known compound 9

Steroid diversification by multicomponent reactions

• Leslie Reguera,
• Cecilia I. Attorresi,
• Javier A. Ramírez and
• Daniel G. Rivera

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1236–1256, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.121

• steroid biological functions. Such oxygenated and alkene groups represent the entrance door for subsequent synthetic modifications, including the incorporation of MCR reactive functionalities. In the last two decades, MCRs have emerged as effective tools for the rapid derivatization of steroidal skeletons

Switchable selectivity in Pd-catalyzed [3 + 2] annulations of γ-oxy-2-cycloalkenones with 3-oxoglutarates: C–C/C–C vs C–C/O–C bond formation

• Yang Liu,
• Julie Oble and
• Giovanni Poli

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1107–1115, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.107

• transient η2-alkene complex A (steps a and b). Deprotonation of the pro-nucleophile 1a by the counter-anion of the η3-allyl-Pd complex exchanges the benzoate for the enolate anion (step c) [50], and following C–C bond formation from the resulting anion-scrambled complex C leads to the Pd(0) complex D (step

Multicomponent reactions (MCRs): a useful access to the synthesis of benzo-fused γ-lactams

• Edorta Martínez de Marigorta,
• Jesús M. de Los Santos,
• Ana M. Ochoa de Retana,
• Javier Vicario and
• Francisco Palacios

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1065–1085, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.104

• similar way to that described in Scheme 3. In this case, the coupled alkyne moiety is again activated by Cu(I) and then base-promoted cyclization occurs. A new copper complex formation with the alkene analogue to 13 (see Scheme 3) facilitates the aromatic nucleophilic substitution by indole or pyrrole

• , including a thiophene derivative. With the aid of several dedicated experiments, the researchers proposed a mechanism initiated by the formation of an arylsulfonyl radical 72, which then would add to the alkene moiety in 67 to produce a radical intermediate 73 (Scheme 22). The photocatalyst-assisted

• well and even a N-heteroaryl analogue of 124 was obtained, although the yield was moderate (42%). The formation of compound 124 may be explained by a radical process, starting with the addition of arylsulfonyl radical 72, formed from 69 and aryldiazonium cation 68, onto the alkene moiety of

A chemically contiguous hapten approach for a heroin–fentanyl vaccine

• Yoshihiro Natori,
• Candy S. Hwang,
• Lucy Lin,
• Lauren C. Smith,
• Bin Zhou and
• Kim D. Janda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1020–1031, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.100

• intermediate 5 in good yield (92%, Scheme 2). With intermediate 5 in hand, further elaboration was necessary to obtain the aldehyde required for the proposed reductive amination to access HF-1. Intermediate 5 was acylated with pentenoyl chloride to give alkene 6, which was then oxidatively cleaved using

• corresponding alkene resulted in a mixture of products. We opted to try the synthesis of HF-2 by 1,4-addition, rather than reductive amination. Thus, intermediate 5 was acylated with acryloyl chloride to give the α,β-unsaturated intermediate 10 (Scheme 1). Condensation with a tert-butyl-protected glycine

• obtain an aldehyde that could then be used in a reductive amination. Beginning with the commercially available 4-(4-bromophenyl)butanoic acid, an alkene was installed with a Suzuki reaction, which in turn underwent ozonolysis to give 21, shown in Scheme 4. In parallel, a commercially available piperidine

Catalytic asymmetric oxo-Diels–Alder reactions with chiral atropisomeric biphenyl diols

• Chi-Tung Yeung,
• Wesley Ting Kwok Chan,
• Wai-Sum Lo,
• Ga-Lai Law and
• Wing-Tak Wong

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 955–962, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.92

• alkene); it is called a hetero-Diels–Alder (HDA) reaction when one or more heteroatoms (most often oxygen or nitrogen) are present among the reactants, such as the use of carbonyl compounds or imines as dienophiles [1][2][3][4][5]. An asymmetric HDA reaction is capable of introducing up to four

An efficient synthesis of the guaiane sesquiterpene (−)-isoguaiene by domino metathesis

• Yuzhou Wang,
• Ahmed F. Darweesh,
• Patrick Zimdars and
• Peter Metz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 858–862, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.83

• ylide 21 [8] followed by alkyne generation [23] with butyllithium in a one-pot process, trienyne 3 was obtained as a 1.6:1 mixture of E and Z olefin isomers. Due to the presence of the isopropyl group at the disubstituted alkene [24] of 3, 30 mol % of the second generation Grubbs catalyst 22 were

Design and synthesis of multivalent α-1,2-trimannose-linked bioerodible microparticles for applications in immune response studies of Leishmania major infection

• Chelsea L. Rintelmann,
• Tara Grinnage-Pulley,
• Kathleen Ross,
• Daniel E. K. Kabotso,
• Angela Toepp,
• Anne Cowell,
• Christine Petersen,
• Balaji Narasimhan and
• Nicola Pohl

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 623–632, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.58

• trichloroacetimidate mannosyl donors 3 and 4 [47][50] and the use of a fluorous tag containing an amino alcohol spacer rather than an alkene that would require late-stage modifications. The aminopentanol spacer 6 used at the reducing end to conjugate to the dendrimer was first protected with fluorous CbzF-NHS 5 to

• used alkene fluorous tag [11][52][53]. The CbzF tag was also removed during global deprotection to readily provide an amine handle for conjugation to the dendrimeric core, avoiding further synthetic manipulations. Synthesis of glycodendrimer Attachment of the 5(6)-TAMRA fluorophore to the dendrimeric

Dirhodium(II)-catalyzed [3 + 2] cycloaddition of N-arylaminocyclopropane with alkyne derivatives

• Wentong Liu,
• Yi Kuang,
• Zhifan Wang,
• Jin Zhu and
• Yuanhua Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 542–550, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.48

• generated distonic radical cation can be further trapped by an alkene, alkyne, or triplet oxygen to initiate radical cyclization (Scheme 1) [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Thus, as key synthons, this class of molecules may play an important role in organic synthesis during construction of a series of

• cycloaddition chemistry based on compound 1. Zheng et al. [7] first reported on the [3 + 2] cycloaddition reaction of 1 with an alkene or alkyne mediated by visible light by the aid of the photocatalyst [Ru(bpz)3](PF6)2. Our group reported the metal catalyst itself, particularly the dinuclear rhodium complex

• (Rh2(II,II)), that efficiently catalyzes the ring opening of 1 to achieve cycloaddition with alkene substrates under an argon atmosphere [18]. During the reaction, no metal valence changes were observed. We proposed that Rh2(II,II) may coordinate with the nitrogen in 1 to decrease the bond dissociation

Aqueous olefin metathesis: recent developments and applications

• Valerio Sabatino and
• Thomas R. Ward

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 445–468, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.39

• combinatorial library [88]. The work carried out by Davis and co-workers led to the metabolic incorporation of unnatural amino acids (uAAs) bearing a terminal alkene as CM substrates for protein modification [89]. The authors investigated the possibility to incorporate methionine (Met) analogues in a Met

• interesting applications in plant biology. Olefin metathesis is also used to cross-link peptide fragments. This technology is known as peptide stapling [92]. Blackwell et al. engineered the first stapled peptide in 1998 by introducing two non-natural amino acids bearing a terminal alkene in a peptide sequence

Tandem copper and photoredox catalysis in photocatalytic alkene difunctionalization reactions

• Nicholas L. Reed,
• Madeline I. Herman,
• Vladimir P. Miltchev and
• Tehshik P. Yoon

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 351–356, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.30

• Nicholas L. Reed Madeline I. Herman Vladimir P. Miltchev Tehshik P. Yoon Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States 10.3762/bjoc.15.30 Abstract Oxidative alkene difunctionalization reactions are important in synthetic

• organic chemistry because they can install polar functional groups onto simple non-polar alkene moieties. Many of the most common methods for these reactions rely upon the reactivity of pre-oxidized electrophilic heteroatom donors that can often be unstable, explosive, or difficult to handle. Herein, we

• describe a method for alkene oxyamination and diamination that utilizes simple carbamate and urea groups as nucleophilic heteroatom donors. This method uses a tandem copper–photoredox catalyst system that is operationally convenient. The identity of the terminal oxidant is critical in these studies. Ag(I

Sigmatropic rearrangements of cyclopropenylcarbinol derivatives. Access to diversely substituted alkylidenecyclopropanes

• Guillaume Ernouf,
• Jean-Louis Brayer,
• Christophe Meyer and
• Janine Cossy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 333–350, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.29

• tetrasubstituted alkene 11c was obtained as a 67:33 mixture of geometric isomers (Scheme 9) [33][34]. The rearrangement of secondary cyclopropenylcarbinyl acetates 10d–g could be achieved in the presence of Amberlyst® 15 and led exclusively to the (E)-alkylidene(acetoxycyclopropanes) 11d–g (E/Z > 99:1) in good

• (55/55’ = 92:8) because of the preferential addition of hydrogen on the less hindered face of the trisubstituted alkene opposite to the trifluoroacetamide moiety. A reversal of face selectivity can be observed by performing a directed iridium(I)-catalyzed hydrogenation in the presence of Crabtree’s

• by Rh/C occurred on the less hindered face of the alkene and gave rise to cyclopropyl α-alkoxy ester 72 as a single detectable diastereomer. When Pd/C was used as the catalyst, cleavage of the PMB group took place concomitantly and the α-hydroxy ester 73 arising from addition of hydrogen on the less

Synthesis of 1,2-divinylcyclopropanes by metal-catalyzed cyclopropanation of 1,3-dienes with cyclopropenes as vinyl carbene precursors

• Jesús González,
• Alba de la Fuente,
• María J. González,
• Laura Díez de Tejada,
• Luis A. López and
• Rubén Vicente

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 285–290, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.25

• substituted alkene, allowing the synthesis of 1,2-divinylcyclopropane 3k within the typical range of yields and cis/trans selectivities. Finally, 1,2,3-trisubstituted divinylcyclopropane 3l was prepared in 50% (cis/trans = 2.5:1) from cyclopropene 1a and (1E,3E)-1,4-diphenylbuta-1,3-diene through a

Synthesis of nonracemic hydroxyglutamic acids

• Dorota G. Piotrowska,
• Iwona E. Głowacka,
• Andrzej E. Wróblewski and
• Liwia Lubowiecka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 236–255, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.22

• aldehyde (S)-18 prepared from O-benzyl-L-serine in three standard steps [53] was elongated by a two-carbon fragment employing a Wittig reaction to give Z-alkene 19. To introduce the next center of chirality of the required configuration a iodocyclocarbamation reaction was applied to give trans-oxazolidin-2

Catalysis of linear alkene metathesis by Grubbs-type ruthenium alkylidene complexes containing hemilabile α,α-diphenyl-(monosubstituted-pyridin-2-yl)methanolato ligands

• Tegene T. Tole,
• Johan H. L. Jordaan and
• Hermanus C. M. Vosloo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 194–209, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.19

• precatalysts can be attributed to electronic and steric effects associated with the adjacent bulky phenyl groups. Keywords: Grubbs-type precatalyst; hemilabile; 1-octene metathesis; pyridinyl-alcoholato ligand; Introduction The alkene metathesis reaction is now well established as a powerful synthetic tool

• (Figure 1). Of course, the role of the so-called Schrock metal carbenes based on tungsten and molybdenum should not be ignored in the success story of the alkene metathesis reaction but it is not the focus of this article. The large number of ruthenium alkylidene precatalysts that has been developed is

• alkene metathesis catalysed by ruthenium alkylidene precatalysts. The 3-OMe-substituted precatalyst 9 showed a negligible activity for the metathesis of 1-octene at 60 °C (Figure 8), similar to the 3-Me-substituted precatalyst 6. The overall activity of the precatalyst, however, showed a significant

Gold-catalyzed ethylene cyclopropanation

• Silvia G. Rull,
• Andrea Olmos and
• Pedro J. Pérez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 67–71, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.7

• diazo reagent must be added in one portion before pressurizing the system. This fact constitutes the main drawback when working with this alkene, and a highly chemoselective catalyst toward cyclopropanation over carbene dimerization is needed to enhance the former transformation. In a first array of

Ruthenium-based olefin metathesis catalysts with monodentate unsymmetrical NHC ligands

• Veronica Paradiso,
• Chiara Costabile and
• Fabia Grisi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 3122–3149, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.292

• substituent (Figure 15) at the nitrogen atoms were investigated by Copéret and Thieuleux et al. in the tandem ring-opening–ring-closing alkene metathesis (RO–RCM) of cis-cyclooctene (47) and their performance were compared to those of the classical GII-SIMes and GII-IMes [29]. The dissymmetry of the NHC

• cyclization, although the catalytic activity of the homologous series 98–100 was found to be strongly dependent on the tether length between the alkene group and the metal center. This effect is likely related to their different ability in forming the corresponding chelate complexes in situ (Figure 19

• enantioselectivities [60][61]. In the ARCM of 166, differently from the other C1-symmetric catalysts reported by Collins [52][54], enantiomeric excesses were found to increase with the use of the halide additive. Interestingly, a pronounced efficiency towards the ring closing of the hindered alkene 199 was also

Cross metathesis-mediated synthesis of hydroxamic acid derivatives

• Shital Kumar Chattopadhyay,
• Subhankar Ghosh and
• Suman Sil

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 3070–3075, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.285

• ), 29.3 (CH2), 29.1 (CH2), 28.9 (CH2), 25.5 (CH2), 22.5 (CH2), 14.3 (C11); HRMS (TOF MS ES+) m/z: [M + Na]+ calcd for C11H23NNaO2, 224.1626; found, 224.1638. Some bioactive molecules containing hydroxamate functionality. Cross metathesis between a class-I alkene and N-benzyloxyacryl amide. Hydroxamates

Nucleofugal behavior of a β-shielded α-cyanovinyl carbanion

• Rudolf Knorr and
• Barbara Schmidt

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 3018–3024, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.281

• compounds: Generated through desilylation of 24 (Scheme 6) by tetrabutylammonium fluoride (Bu4N+F−; ≤0.05 equiv), the ion pair 25 was trapped by pivalaldehyde (4) with formation of 7 along with a comparable amount of the alkene 1. However, the primary alkoxide product, as formed by 25 and 4, was supposedly

A tutorial review of stereoretentive olefin metathesis based on ruthenium dithiolate catalysts

• Daniel S. Müller,
• Olivier Baslé and
• Marc Mauduit

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2999–3010, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.279

• metathesis the stereochemistry of the starting material is retained throughout the reaction: Z-alkenes starting materials lead to Z-alkene products and E-alkene starting materials lead to E-alkene products [1]. The first ruthenium dithiolate catalysts Ru-1 and Ru-2 were reported by Hoveyda in 2013 [2]. Ru-1

• group showed that Ru dithiolate catalysts are not stereoselective but stereoretentive catalysts [3]. Given the significant difference in geometry of Z- and E-alkenes it is obvious that each type of alkene requires a different catalyst (Figure 1). In both the Z- and E-stereoretentive processes, Ru-3

• to point down thus creating a new Z-alkene with the residing substituent shown in red. It is obvious, that blocking the open space above the β-position of the metallacycle with a very bulky SIPr-NHC ligand (e.g., Ru-4 and Ru-5) has a positive effect on reactions with Z-alkenes. Reactions with E

The activity of indenylidene derivatives in olefin metathesis catalysts

• Maria Voccia,
• Steven P. Nolan,
• Luigi Cavallo and
• Albert Poater

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2956–2963, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.275

• molybdenum systems appear to confer the right environment that allows a productive alkene metathesis [10][11]. Little productive reactivity has been uncovered using other metals [12][13][14]. Apart from the metal, ruthenium-based olefin metathesis has seen several changes during the last decades, modifying

Synthesis of pyrrolidine-based hamamelitannin analogues as quorum sensing inhibitors in Staphylococcus aureus

• Jakob Bouton,
• Kristof Van Hecke,
• Reuven Rasooly and
• Serge Van Calenbergh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2822–2828, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.260

• ’-homoazanucleosides. This possible precursor was synthesized convergently in 12 steps [20]. The pyrrolidine ring was constructed via alkylation of 6 and 7, followed by ring-closing metathesis. Stereoselective dihydroxylation of the resulting alkene then furnished the protected iminosugar 5. However, using

Domino ring-opening–ring-closing enyne metathesis vs enyne metathesis of norbornene derivatives with alkynyl side chains. Construction of condensed polycarbocycles

• Ritabrata Datta and
• Subrata Ghosh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2708–2714, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.248

• metathesis; natural products; polycarbocycles; Introduction The metathesis of norbornene derivatives having an alkene side-chain on the norbornene nucleus with Grubbs’ ruthenium catalysts has been extensively investigated. Generally the reaction proceeds through a domino process involving a ring opening of

• the norbornene nucleus and ring closing with the alkene side chains to produce ring rearrangement products (path 1, Scheme 1) [1][2][3][4]. This protocol has been employed by several groups [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] as well as by our group [23][24][25][26][27

Learning from B₁₂ enzymes: biomimetic and bioinspired catalysts for eco-friendly organic synthesis

• Keishiro Tahara,
• Ling Pan,
• Toshikazu Ono and
• Yoshio Hisaeda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2553–2567, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.232

• electrochemical reduction. In addition, the corrin-ring of the B12 derivatives is tolerant to free radicals, as described above. Thus, alkylated complexes have been used for radical-mediated organic synthesis such as halide coupling, alkene coupling, and addition to double bonds [7][26][27]. In particular, the Co