Mechanistic studies of an L-proline-catalyzed pyridazine formation involving a Diels–Alder reaction with inverse electron demand

• Anne Schnell,
• J. Alexander Willms,
• S. Nozinovic and
• Marianne Engeser

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 30–43, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.3

• shield. Then potassium carbonate (412 mg, 3.31 mmol, 2 equiv) was added and the mixture was refluxed for another 24 h. Hydrazine (587 µL, 9.93 mmol, 6 equiv) was added again and the mixture was refluxed for 1 h. When the mixture had cooled to room temperature 10 mL of dichloromethane were added. The

• . The mixture was stirred for another 3 h, after the solution of sodium nitrite had been added. 55 mL dichloromethane were added and the organic layer was washed twice with saturated sodium hydrogen carbonate solution and dried over magnesium sulfate. The solvents were evaporated and 340 mg of a pink

• , ingredients see below) in 186 mL deionized water was added dropwise to a 0 °C cold stirred solution of cyanuric acid (2.00 g, 15.50 mmol, 1 equiv), sodium hydroxide (1.86 g, 46.49 mmol, 3 equiv), sodium carbonate (2.46 g, 23.24 mmol, 1.5 equiv) and potassium bromide (5.53 g, 46.49 mmol, 3 equiv) in 223 mL

A simple and effective preparation of quercetin pentamethyl ether from quercetin

• Jin Tatsuzaki,
• Tomohiko Ohwada,
• Yuko Otani,
• Reiko Inagi and
• Tsutomu Ishikawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 3112–3121, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.291

• potassium carbonate (K2CO3) are generally selected as the solvent and base, acetone can be replaced with dimethylformamide (DMF) if the starting phenol is poorly soluble in acetone. To our knowledge four reactions [37][38][39][40] were found in the literature as successful per-O-methylations of quercetin (2

Stereodivergent approach in the protected glycal synthesis of L-vancosamine, L-saccharosamine, L-daunosamine and L-ristosamine involving a ring-closing metathesis step

• Pierre-Antoine Nocquet,
• Aurélie Macé,
• Frédéric Legros,
• Jacques Lebreton,
• Gilles Dujardin,
• Sylvain Collet,
• Arnaud Martel,
• Bertrand Carboni and
• François Carreaux

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2949–2955, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.274

• configuration of the stereogenic center bearing the hydroxy group (Scheme 5). With this in mind, the secondary alcohol 23 was engaged in a Mitsunobu reaction using p-nitrobenzoic acid as nucleophile to afford the expected compound 25. Hydrolysis of the ester was achieved using potassium carbonate in methanol to

Green synthesis of new chiral 1-(arylamino)imidazo[2,1-a]isoindole-2,5-diones from the corresponding α-amino acid arylhydrazides in aqueous medium

• Nadia Bouzayani,
• Jamil Kraїem,
• Sylvain Marque,
• Yakdhane Kacem,
• Abel Carlin-Sinclair,
• Jérôme Marrot and
• Béchir Ben Hassine

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2923–2930, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.271

• conditions, we investigated the reaction in nontoxic solvents such as water and dimethyl carbonate (DMC). Indeed, DMC is well-known as safe reagent and solvent that has been used for many green applications [31][32][33]. On the other hand, water is a simply and environmentally benign solvent and interest has

Unnatural α-amino ethyl esters from diethyl malonate or ethyl β-bromo-α-hydroxyiminocarboxylate

• Eloi P. Coutant,
• Vincent Hervin,
• Glwadys Gagnot,
• Candice Ford,
• Racha Baatallah and
• Yves L. Janin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2853–2860, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.264

• -hydroxyimino esters [23][24][25][26] and then extensively used to prepare a wide range of amino acids [3][27]. This proceeds via a [2 + 4] cycloaddition between ethyl nitrosoacrylate, generated in situ from the reaction of sodium carbonate and furan 48, to give the cycloadduct 49. Then, upon heating, a

• ) as a model substrate. It turned out that this [2 + 4] cycloaddition can proceed under a wide range of conditions. The original conditions stirring compound 47, an excess of 2-methylfuran (48af) and solid sodium carbonate in dichloromethane for 24 hours gave the expected cycloadduct 49af but we found

• phase transfer catalyst. For instance, (note b in Table 2), stirring a 1:1.1 proportion of compounds 47 and 48af, sodium carbonate, and 0.01 equiv tetrabutylammonium bromide in toluene for 1.5 hours led to a 42% yield of the α-hydroxyimino ester 2af. On the other hand, such catalysis was not required

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

• useful synthons [72][73] in the presence of open atmosphere (Scheme 1b). Results and Discussion We have commenced the model reaction between cyclic N-sulfonyl imine 1a as interesting C,N-binucleophiles [74] and MBH carbonate of acrylate 2a using 20 mol % of DABCO in toluene at room temperature for 14 h

An overview on recent advances in the synthesis of sulfonated organic materials, sulfonated silica materials, and sulfonated carbon materials and their catalytic applications in chemical processes

• Hashem Sharghi,
• Pezhman Shiri and
• Mahdi Aberi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2745–2770, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.253

• vacuum. The resulting brown solid material was named as graphene oxide (GO, 142). In continuation, a solution of 5% sodium carbonate was added to the sonicated GO (142) in deionized water so that the pH was increased up to 9–10. 64% hydrazine hydrate was added as well. Then, the reaction mixture was

Synthesis of a tyrosinase inhibitor by consecutive ethenolysis and cross-metathesis of crude cashew nutshell liquid

• Jacqueline Pollini,
• Valentina Bragoni and
• Lukas J. Gooßen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2737–2744, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.252

• including sustainable solvents like dimethyl carbonate and p-cymene. Unfortunately, this led to a decreased conversion and just 44–47% yield of the desired product. The use of the halogenated solvent dichloromethane was still most efficient. Comparative tests with varying amounts of 1-hexene revealed that

Assembly of fully substituted triazolochromenes via a novel multicomponent reaction or mechanochemical synthesis

• Robby Vroemans,
• Yenthel Verhaegen,
• My Tran Thi Dieu and
• Wim Dehaen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2689–2697, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.246

• furnished both regioisomers in poor yields since the chromanones 7 and 8 are known to be unstable under the triazolization conditions [36]. Hence, no further attempts were made to improve these yields. Additionally, NH-triazole 9 could be alkylated using benzyl bromide and potassium carbonate in acetone

Quinolines from the cyclocondensation of isatoic anhydride with ethyl acetoacetate: preparation of ethyl 4-hydroxy-2-methylquinoline-3-carboxylate and derivatives

• Nicholas G. Jentsch,
• Jared D. Hume,
• Emily B. Crull,
• Samer M. Beauti,
• Amy H. Pham,
• Julie A. Pigza,
• Jacques J. Kessl and
• Matthew G. Donahue

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2529–2536, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.229

• ]. Isatoic anhydrides 9 are readily prepared from inexpensive, commercially available 2-aminobenzoic acid derivatives (anthranilic acids) with a variety of carbonyl transfer reagents such as phosgene, triphosgene, carbonyldiimidazole, or diethyl carbonate. We therefore employed a modified Coppola quinoline

Selective formation of a zwitterion adduct and bicarbonate salt in the efficient CO₂ fixation by N-benzyl cyclic guanidine under dry and wet conditions

• Yoshiaki Yoshida,
• Naoto Aoyagi and
• Takeshi Endo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2204–2211, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.194

• fixation of CO2 such as cycloaddition of CO2 to various epoxides and synthesis of carbonate derivatives from CO2 and alcohols [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. However, these kinds of catalysts often need high temperatures and pressure to completely achieve the CO2 fixation [6]. On the other hand, amidine and

Studies towards the synthesis of hyperireflexolide A

• G. Hari Mangeswara Rao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2106–2111, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.185

• 13C NMR spectra were recorded at 100 MHz (125 MHz) on a JEOL spectrometer. Samples for NMR were made in CDCl3. Tetramethylsilane was used as the internal standard. Commercial grade solvents were distilled before use. Ethyl acetate was distilled over anhydrous sodium carbonate. Dichloromethane and

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

• ) using atmospheric oxygen as the stoichiometric oxidant, TBA-Eosin Y photocatalysis and carbonate as the base at room temperature (Scheme 23) [68]. The group also reported that this transformation is possible using sunlight as the source of photons, with a yield comparable to that obtained when blue LEDs

• for application to LSF. Leonori et al. have demonstrated the coupling of amide derivatives to aromatics using aryloxy amides, under Eosin Y photocatalysis with green LEDs and potassium carbonate (Scheme 30) [74]. The reaction is well suited for LSF, as is demonstrated by the authors in the

Defining the hydrophobic interactions that drive competence stimulating peptide (CSP)-ComD binding in Streptococcus pneumoniae

• Bimal Koirala,
• Robert A. Hillman,
• Erin K. Tiwold,
• Michael A. Bertucci and
• Yftah Tal-Gan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1769–1777, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.151

• -galactopyranoside (ONPG) at a final concentration of 0.4 mg/mL was added, followed by 100 µL of lysate, and the plate was incubated for 3 hours at 37 ºC. The reaction was stopped by adding 50 µL of 1 M sodium carbonate solution, and the OD420nm and OD550nm were measured using a plate reader. The final results were

An amine protecting group deprotectable under nearly neutral oxidative conditions

• Shahien Shahsavari,
• Chase McNamara,
• Mark Sylvester,
• Emily Bromley,
• Savannah Joslin,
• Bao-Yuan Lu and
• Shiyue Fang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1750–1757, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.149

• base potassium carbonate at room temperature. The products were then purified with flash column chromatography. As shown in Table 1, the yields of the deprotection ranged from 48% to 88%. Among them, 3a and 3d, which are aliphatic amines, gave better yields (Table 1, entries 1 and 4). Compounds 3b and

• conditions (Table 1, entry 9). In the β-elimination step, when methanol was used as the solvent as in the general deprotection procedure, no reaction occurred even after stirring overnight. This might be caused by the more favoured deprotonation of the carboxylic acid group by potassium carbonate, which made

• diamine 10 in 75% isolated yield (Scheme 2). The basic conditions involving potassium carbonate used to induce β-elimination of oxidized dM-Dmoc did not cause any loss of Fmoc protection. Conclusion In summary, we have demonstrated that dM-Dmoc could serve as a new protecting group for aliphatic and

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

• mixture of potassium carbonate and potassium bicarbonate in 95:5 water–methanol at 23 °C for 12 h proceeded quantitatively to afford the product leukotriene C-1 (Scheme 42). The epoxide 120 has been the key intermediate in all syntheses of LTC4, -D4, and -E4; upon exposure to the desired amino acid, it

Direct electrochemical generation of organic carbonates by dehydrogenative coupling

• Tile Gieshoff,
• Vinh Trieu,
• Jan Heijl and
• Siegfried R. Waldvogel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1578–1582, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.135

• reactive chemicals. We present the first direct electrochemical generation of mesityl methyl carbonate by C–H activation. Although this reaction pathway is still challenging concerning scope and efficiency, it outlines a new strategy for carbonate generation. Keywords: anode; boron-doped diamond

• carbonates like diphenyl carbonate (DPC) or dimethyl carbonate (DMC) are key intermediates. Processes for the carbonate generation have been investigated since the 1950s [2]. Although the use of these starting materials is straightforward and unobjectionable at first sight, their generation usually requires

• highly reactive chemicals. This comes with disadvantages in high safety requirements for handling these chemicals, such as ethylene oxide and phosgene [3]. Alternative approaches to carbonate generation are oxidative carbonylations or dehydrative condensations based on alcohols as starting materials

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

• metal-free alternative to the previous methods of formation of sulfur heterocycles 70 has been reported by using elemental sulfur in the presence of cesium carbonate (Scheme 32) [72]. The strategy can be extended to the synthesis of the cyclic selenium analogs 71 by utilizing elemental selenium and

• domino process for the introduction of both aromatic rings of diaryl-λ3-iodanes, though a small excess of this reagent is needed to obtain good yields. An initial N-arylation reaction of 3,5-dimethylpyrazole is performed in the presence of potassium carbonate, in xylene at 70 °C, releasing 1 equivalent

Spectroelectrochemical studies on the effect of cations in the alkaline glycerol oxidation reaction over carbon nanotube-supported Pd nanoparticles

• Dennis Hiltrop,
• Steffen Cychy,
• Karina Elumeeva,
• Wolfgang Schuhmann and
• Martin Muhler

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1428–1435, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.120

• varying the potential between 0.77 and 1.17 V vs RHE: at low potentials oxidized C3 species such as mesoxalate and tartronate were formed predominantly, and with increasing potentials C2 and C1 species originating from C–C bond cleavage were identified. The tendency to produce carbonate was found to be

• less pronounced in KOH. The less favored formation of highly oxidized C3 species and of carbonate is deduced to be the origin of the lower current densities in the cyclic voltammograms (CVs) for Pd/NCNT in KOH. The enhanced current densities in NaOH are rationalized by the presence of Na+ ions bound to

• the IR beam on the working electrode surface through a thin electrolyte layer probing vibrations of adsorbed intermediates and products [12]. Highly active catalysts converting glycerol to carbonate consume 20 hydroxide ions per glycerol molecule in the thin electrolyte layer, which leads to a

Novel unit B cryptophycin analogues as payloads for targeted therapy

• Eduard Figueras,
• Adina Borbély,
• Mohamed Ismail,
• Marcel Frese and
• Norbert Sewald

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1281–1286, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.109

• conjugation of the novel cryptophycin analogues across an appropriate linker to an antibody or peptide. Either a virtually uncleavable triazole (introduced by CuAAC) or scissile ester, carbonate, or carbamate moieties were taken into account. The synthesis of the modified unit B (Scheme 1) started with the

One hundred years of benzotropone chemistry

• Arif Dastan,
• Haydar Kilic and
• Nurullah Saracoglu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1120–1180, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.98

Selective carboxylation of reactive benzylic C–H bonds by a hypervalent iodine(III)/inorganic bromide oxidation system

• Toshifumi Dohi,
• Shohei Ueda,
• Kosuke Iwasaki,
• Yusuke Tsunoda,
• Koji Morimoto and
• Yasuyuki Kita

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1087–1094, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.94

• stirred solution of arylalkane 1 (0.50 mmol) and acetic acid (0.57 mL, ca. 10 mmol) in dry dichloromethane (5 mL). Then the mixture was vigorously stirred at 40 °C with or without zinc acetate (92 mg, 0.5 mmol). After checking the reaction completion by TLC, saturated aqueous sodium carbonate was added to

• the mixture and the resulting solution was stirred for an additional 5 min. The organic layer was separated, washed again with saturated aqueous sodium carbonate, then with dilute aqueous sodium thiosulfate, and was dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate. After removal of the solvents, the residue was

• (ca. 2.5 mmol) with freshly-dried molecular sieves 3 Å (ca. 300 mg) in dry dichloromethane (5 mL). Then the mixture was vigorously stirred at 40 °C. After checking the reaction completion by TLC, saturated aqueous sodium carbonate was added to the mixture and the resulting solution was stirred for an

Mechanochemistry of nucleosides, nucleotides and related materials

• Olga Eguaogie,
• Joseph S. Vyle,
• Patrick F. Conlon,
• Manuela A. Gîlea and
• Yipei Liang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 955–970, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.81

• ) and adenosine diphosphate ribose (ADPR) was also described. Subsequently, this methodology was applied to the preparation of a library of six ADPR carbonate derivatives in 23–68% yields (e.g., Scheme 14) and tested as sirtuin inhibitors [54]. The efficiency of phosphate coupling under mechanochemical

On the design principles of peptide–drug conjugates for targeted drug delivery to the malignant tumor site

• Eirinaios I. Vrettos,
• Gábor Mező and
• Andreas G. Tzakos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 930–954, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.80

• unit (EHU; colored in green) and to a tumor-targeting element (i.e. tumor homing peptide; colored in black). The alcohol group at the opposite site can be connected via a carbonate ester/carbamate bond to the cytotoxic agent (colored in blue). The EHU is designed so as to be a substrate for proteases

An uracil-linked hydroxyflavone probe for the recognition of ATP

• Márton Bojtár,
• Péter Zoltán Janzsó-Berend,
• Dávid Mester,
• Dóra Hessz,
• Mihály Kállay,
• Miklós Kubinyi and
• István Bitter

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 747–755, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.63

• mode. Synthetic procedures 1-(2-Hydroxy-4-(prop-2-yn-1-yloxy)phenyl)ethanone (1) [61]: The propargyl compound 1 was synthesized as described with a modified purification method. 1-(2,4-dihydroxyphenyl)ethanone (6.00 g, 39.4 mmol, Sigma) was dissolved in acetone (90 mL). Potassium carbonate (6.54 g