Effect of uridine protecting groups on the diastereoselectivity of uridine-derived aldehyde 5’-alkynylation

• Raja Ben Othman,
• Mickaël J. Fer,
• Laurent Le Corre,
• Sandrine Calvet-Vitale and
• Christine Gravier-Pelletier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1533–1541, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.153

• modest diastereoselectivities (65:35) in favor of the 5’R-isomer, whereas O-silyl groups promoted higher diastereoselectivities (up to 99:1) in favor of the 5’S-isomer. A study related to this protecting group effect on the diastereoselectivity is reported. Keywords: diastereoselective alkynylation

• ][17][35][42][43][44][45][46][47]. Aside from the use of chiral ligands promoting an excellent facial discrimination of the aldehyde [34], the addition of Grignard reagents usually proceed with moderate diastereoselectivity and yield (Table 1) [12][35][43][44][45][46][48]. In the course of our program

• 5a [51], R1 = TIPS). Some compounds were also N3-allylated (1b, 4b and 5b) to evaluate the possible influence of R2 on the diastereoselectivity of the nucleophilic addition (Scheme 1). Primary alcohols 1–5 were submitted to an oxidation/Grignard addition sequence leading to the corresponding

A new member of the fusaricidin family – structure elucidation and synthesis of fusaricidin E

• Marcel Reimann,
• Louis P. Sandjo,
• Luis Antelo,
• Eckhard Thines,
• Isabella Siepe and
• Till Opatz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1430–1438, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.140

• natural fusaricidin by the Jolliffe group employed a ring closure via a lactonization in solution and subsequent attachment of the side chain to the cyclized depsipeptide [10]. Since the macrolactonization approach suffered from diastereoselectivity issues and low yield, it was decided to perform an on

A speedy route to sterically encumbered, benzene-fused derivatives of privileged, naturally occurring hexahydropyrrolo[1,2-b]isoquinoline

• Olga Bakulina,
• Alexander Ivanov,
• Vitalii Suslonov,
• Dmitry Dar’in and
• Mikhail Krasavin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1413–1424, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.138

• HPA and an imine component which has been postulated but never obtained in similar reactions. Keywords: Castagnoli–Cushman reaction; diastereoselectivity; homophthalic anhydride; indolenines; lactam synthesis; multicomponent reactions; Introduction The reaction of imines (prepared in a separate step

• -diastereoselectivity of the CCR is well documented in the literature [33] and is, therefore, unsurprising. However, the stereocontrol achieved in this reaction over 3 stereocenters present in 10l (obtained in 81% yield as a single diastereomer) is certainly quite noteworthy and was confirmed by X-ray analysis (Figure

Construction of highly enantioenriched spirocyclopentaneoxindoles containing four consecutive stereocenters via thiourea-catalyzed asymmetric Michael–Henry cascade reactions

• Yonglei Du,
• Jian Li,
• Kerong Chen,
• Chenglin Wu,
• Yu Zhou and
• Hong Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1342–1349, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.131

• asymmetric catalytic synthesis of saturated spirocyclopentaneoxindoles containing four consecutive stereocenters with 3-substituted oxindoles and nitrovinylacetamide using a bifunctional thiourea catalyst in good yields (up to 95%) with excellent diastereoselectivity (up to 3:97) and enantioselectivity (up

• , respectively (Table 1, entries 1 and 2). Further experiments showed that a bifunctional thiourea catalyst d was the most efficient for the synthesis of spirocyclic oxindole derivatives in good yields (80%) with excellent diastereoselectivity (8:92 dr), and moderate enantioselectivity (83% ee, Table 1, entries

• oxindoles in this transformation with nitroolefins (Scheme 2). In general, the diverse 3-substituted oxindoles 1a–j with electron-donating, electron-withdrawing, or halide groups could undergo a smooth reaction with nitrovinylacetamide (2a) in moderate yields, good diastereoselectivity, and general

Strategies toward protecting group-free glycosylation through selective activation of the anomeric center

• A. Michael Downey and
• Michal Hocek

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1239–1279, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.123

• THF hence forming an oxocarbenium ion. The latter is subsequent attacked by the nucleophilic alcohol to provide the 1,2-trans glycoside with good diastereoselectivity and moderate yield. This methodology holds tremendous potential if the alcohol acceptor is a saccharide moiety as the

• diastereoselectivity of the reaction is good, the mechanism unique, and the synthesis of the donor is reasonably easy and inexpensive. However, to date no follow-up study has been published. 3.3 Lewis acid-mediated activation Lewis acid-mediated methods for anomeric activation of protected donors in glycosylation are

Total syntheses of the archazolids: an emerging class of novel anticancer drugs

• Stephan Scheeff and
• Dirk Menche

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1085–1098, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.108

• borohydride delivered the desired alcohol in a 10:1 diastereoselectivity. The alcohol was methylated by a protocol involving methyl iodide and LiHMDS, that had been previously used by the group [45]. The stannane was finally converted to the iodide 55 by iododestannylation [95] to complete the fragment

Synthesis of new pyrrolidine-based organocatalysts and study of their use in the asymmetric Michael addition of aldehydes to nitroolefins

• Alejandro Castán,
• Ramón Badorrey,
• José A. Gálvez and
• María D. Díaz-de-Villegas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 612–619, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.59

• as solvent. Under these conditions the yield of the Michael adducts was 95–99% within 7 hours. The diastereoselectivity was moderate (dr = 70:30–78:22) in favour of the syn-diastereoisomer and enantioselectivites were ee ≈ 68% for the syn-adducts and ee = 44–63% for the anti-adducts. The

• studied using OC4 as the organocatalyst (Table 2). The best results were obtained with methylcyclohexane as the solvent at 0 °C reaction temperature. Under these conditions after 24 h the reaction yield was high (87%), the observed diastereoselectivity was 92:8 in favour of the syn-adduct and the

• is worth mentioning that on reducing the catalyst loading to 5 mol % the reactivity remained good and the diastereoselectivity and enantioselectivity were only slightly affected. It has been reported that additives present in the reaction medium can lead to improved results without changing other

Synthesis of 1-indanones with a broad range of biological activity

• Marika Turek,
• Dorota Szczęsna,
• Marek Koprowski and
• Piotr Bałczewski

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 451–494, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.48

• quaternary center with high diastereoselectivity as a consequence of the Stetter–Aldol–Aldol (SAA) reaction sequence. The Stetter–Aldol–Aldol conversion of the phthaldialdehyde derivatives 75 and o-formyl substituted chalcones 76 using the thiazole based carbene 78 as a precatalyst allowed to obtain spiro

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

• approaching an sp2-hybridized C1 in the TS [41]. Effect of silyl protective groups on the selectivity The bulkiness of TBS groups in donors such as 20 can have a significant influence on the diastereoselectivity. Thus glycosylations with 20 (Table 1) gave exclusively the β-glucoside presumably due to steric

Diastereoselective anodic hetero- and homo-coupling of menthol-, 8-methylmenthol- and 8-phenylmenthol-2-alkylmalonates

• Matthias C. Letzel,
• Hans J. Schäfer and
• Roland Fröhlich

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 33–42, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.5

• diastereoselectivity ranging from 5 to 65% de. Electrolyses without a coacid led to diastereomeric homo-coupling products in 21–50% yield with ratios of diastereomers being 1.17:2.00:0.81 to 7.03:2.00. The stereochemistry of the new stereogenic centers was confirmed by X-ray structure analysis and 13C NMR data

• . Keywords: anodic decarboxylation; diastereoselectivity; Kolbe electrolysis; radical hetero-coupling; radical homo-coupling; Introduction Intermolecular radical additions with high diastereoselectivity have been described for a number of cases [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. There are much fewer reports on

• intermolecular diastereoselective radical coupling reactions [10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. There are some examples of high diastereoselectivity in the coupling of radicals generated from azo compounds [10][11], in intramolecular coupling of radicals, that are obtained by photochemical activation [12][13][14

First DMAP-mediated direct conversion of Morita–Baylis–Hillman alcohols into γ-ketoallylphosphonates: Synthesis of γ-aminoallylphosphonates

• Marwa Ayadi,
• Haitham Elleuch,
• Emmanuel Vrancken and
• Farhat Rezgui

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2906–2915, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.290

• were obtained in high Z-diastereoselectivities (de = 74–88%), whereas the phosphonate 4f was provided with an excellent Z-diastereoselectivity (de = 100%) when R1 = Ph. In this work, the observed high Z-diastereoselectities are in good agreement with a previous report by Basavaiah and co-workers on the

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

• alcohol derivative 27 in 51% yield as 96:4 mixture of two diastereomers (Scheme 9). Subsequent ring closure of γ-amino alcohol 27 by treatment with mesyl chloride in the presence of triethylamine [53] furnished the N-mesylated pyrrolidine derivative 28 in 65% yield with excellent diastereoselectivity (dr

cis-Diastereoselective synthesis of chroman-fused tetralins as B-ring-modified analogues of brazilin

• Dimpee Gogoi,
• Runjun Devi,
• Pallab Pahari,
• Bipul Sarma and
• Sajal Kumar Das

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2816–2822, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.280

• diastereoselectivity (Scheme 2, upper panel). Thus, we were concerned about the possibility of getting a mixture of 5 and 9 under the planned IFCEA cyclization of 6. However, a literature survey indicated that cis-diastereoselective synthesis of related tetracyclic molecules via intramolecular Friedel–Crafts

• from commercially available 1-tetralone (8) in six steps (Scheme S1, Supporting Information File 1). Substrate (±)-6a bearing a pendant 4-methoxyphenoxy group with a moderately electron-rich reacting site was expected to undergo IFCEA cyclization in high regio- and diastereoselectivity to give the

• products were clean (Supporting Information File 1) and the cis-stereochemistry at the ring junction of the remaining products were tentatively confirmed by comparing their 1H and 13C NMR spectra with that of (±)-5k. The obsereved cis-diastereoselectivity in this work is consistent with the reported

Towards the development of continuous, organocatalytic, and stereoselective reactions in deep eutectic solvents

• Davide Brenna,
• Elisabetta Massolo,
• Alessandra Puglisi,
• Sergio Rossi,
• Giuseppe Celentano,
• Maurizio Benaglia and
• Vito Capriati

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2620–2626, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.258

• diastereoselectivity of the process could be tuned, thereby leading to the formation, under different experimental conditions, to both the syn- and the anti-isomer with very high enantioselectivity. The excess of cyclohexanone was recovered and reused, and the reaction could be run and the product isolated without the

• hours and with high conversion (≥95%) in all tested DESs (A–E, Table 2, entries 1–5). While low diastereoselectivity was observed in DES A (Table 2, entry 1), anti-stereoselectivity (up to 85:15) and high enantiomeric excess in favour of the anti isomer (up to 92% ee) were instead detected running the

• completely in only 15 h, and afforded a clean product (aldol 1, Scheme 2) that was easily isolated by evaporation of excess cyclohexanone, with high anti-diastereoselectivity (up to 90:10), and enantioselectivity (up to 92%) for the major anti isomer. By performing the reaction with 4-chlorobenzaldehyde in

Synthesis of polyhydroxylated decalins via two consecutive one-pot reactions: 1,4-addition/aldol reaction followed by RCM/syn-dihydroxylation

• Michał Malik and
• Sławomir Jarosz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2602–2608, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.255

• ]. Although this approach is challenging in terms of diastereoselectivity (up to eight possible diastereoisomers), it enables a rapid increase of molecular complexity. The major diastereoisomer of 11 can be then subjected to the assisted tandem catalytic sequence: RCM reaction, followed by the reuse of the

• relation to the neighbouring benzoyl group). Compounds 27 and 29 were subjected to Evans–Saksena reduction with NaBH(OAc)3 in MeCN/THF in the presence of AcOH (Scheme 8). Under these conditions, derivative 30 was obtained from 27 in good yield (67%) and with high diastereoselectivity (dr = 10:1

Biomimetic synthesis and HPLC–ECD analysis of the isomers of dracocephins A and B

• Viktor Ilkei,
• András Spaits,
• Anita Prechl,
• Áron Szigetvári,
• Zoltán Béni,
• Miklós Dékány,
• Csaba Szántay Jr,
• Judit Müller,
• Árpád Könczöl,
• Ádám Szappanos,
• Attila Mándi,
• Sándor Antus,
• Ana Martins,
• Attila Hunyadi,
• György Tibor Balogh,
• György Kalaus (†),
• Hedvig Bölcskei,
• László Hazai and
• Tibor Kurtán

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2523–2534, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.247

• and B showed good agreement with those of the isolated flavonoid alkaloids [2]. Similarly to the natural route, no diastereoselectivity occurred in this sequence, as proven by the separation of the stereoisomers by chiral HPLC and by the integration or deconvolution of NMR signals of Hy-3 recorded in

Useful access to enantiomerically pure protected inositols from carbohydrates: the aldohexos-5-uloses route

• Felicia D’Andrea,
• Giorgio Catelani,
• Lorenzo Guazzelli and
• Venerando Pistarà

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2343–2350, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.227

• experimental conditions (temperature and alcoholic solvent) a different diastereoselectivity has been reported in the reduction of the same protected inosose [45][48]. This highlights how subtle changes in the inosose structure and/or in the experimental conditions affect the stereo-outcome of the reduction

Enduracididine, a rare amino acid component of peptide antibiotics: Natural products and synthesis

• Darcy J. Atkinson,
• Briar J. Naysmith,
• Daniel P. Furkert and
• Margaret A. Brimble

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2325–2342, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.226

• on the stereoselective formation of aziridine 27. This key reaction proceeded from allylglycine 28 in 28% yield to give a 7:3 mixture in favour of the S,S diastereomer. Attempted optimisation of the yield and diastereoselectivity afforded no improvement. The synthesis continued with aziridine opening

Highly chemo-, enantio-, and diastereoselective [4 + 2] cycloaddition of 5H-thiazol-4-ones with N-itaconimides

• Shuai Qiu,
• Choon-Hong Tan and
• Zhiyong Jiang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2293–2297, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.222

• /bjoc.12.222 Abstract A dipeptide-based urea-amide tertiary amine (DP-UAA) was shown to be an effective Brønsted base catalyst for the first asymmetric annulation reaction between 5H-thiazol-4-ones and N-itaconimides. High levels of enantioselectivity (up to 99% ee) and diastereoselectivity (>19:1 dr

An effective one-pot access to polynuclear dispiroheterocyclic structures comprising pyrrolidinyloxindole and imidazothiazolotriazine moieties via a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition strategy

• Alexei N. Izmest’ev,
• Galina A. Gazieva,
• Natalya V. Sigay,
• Sergei A. Serkov,
• Valentina A. Karnoukhova,
• Vadim V. Kachala,
• Alexander S. Shashkov,
• Igor E. Zanin,
• Angelina N. Kravchenko and
• Nina N. Makhova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2240–2249, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.216

• -triazine moieties has been developed. The method relies on a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azomethine ylides generated in situ from isatin derivatives and sarcosine to 6-benzylideneimidazo[4,5-e]thiazolo[3,2-b]-1,2,4-triazine-2,7-diones. Keywords: azomethine ylides; cycloaddition; diastereoselectivity

• interest to synthesize the other types of spiro compounds such as the 2,3’-spiropyrrolidinyloxindole structure which is isosteric with the 3,3’-spiropyrrolidinyloxindole and to study the diastereoselectivity of its formation. It could be expected that the cycloaddition of more bulky azomethine ylides

• diastereoselectivity of the cycloaddition were elucidated by spectroscopic methods and single crystal X-ray diffraction. The cycloadducts 4a–t were characterized by IR, NMR, and HRMS analytical methods. The IR spectra of compounds 4 showed three intense absorption bands at 1728–1697, 1709–1680 (in some cases instead

The direct oxidative diene cyclization and related reactions in natural product synthesis

• Juliane Adrian,
• Leona J. Gross and
• Christian B. W. Stark

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2104–2123, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.200

• amphidinolide F (24), was accessible in good overall yield and high diastereoselectivity (dr ≈ 95:5) in only four steps (Scheme 7). Oxidative cyclizations in the synthesis of annonaceous acetogenins cis-Solamin A cis-Solamin represents a typical mono-THF acetogenin, originally isolated from the roots of the

• rings were introduced with excellent diastereoselectivity in a single step transformation at the final stages of the total syntheses of rollidecin C (69) and D (70) (Scheme 14). Similar rhenium-mediated type C oxidative cyclizations were also successfully applied in total syntheses of further

• ] provided C2-symmetric diol 72 (R = H) in high selectivity (ee >94%). Subsequent Co(II)-mediated oxidative type B’ cyclization of dienediol 72 (R = H) proceeded in good yield (78%) and with high diastereoselectivity (de 96%) to give C2-symmetric bis-THF product 73 (Scheme 15). The natural product was then

Chiral ammonium betaine-catalyzed asymmetric Mannich-type reaction of oxindoles

• Masahiro Torii,
• Kohsuke Kato,
• Daisuke Uraguchi and
• Takashi Ooi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2099–2103, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.199

• -butylphenyl group, delivered a critical improvement in diastereoselectivity, affording 4aa quantitatively and establishing consecutive quaternary and tertiary stereocenters with almost complete fidelity (Table 1, entry 3). Further examination of the reactions under the influence of 1d, having 3,5-bis

• properties of both oxindoles 2 and N-Boc aldimines 3, but reactivity and diastereoselectivity sometimes fluctuated depending on the structure of these substrates. While significant variation in the imine substituents was feasible, the introduction of electron-withdrawing groups at the meta-position slightly

• reduced diastereoselectivity (Table 2, entries 1–4). Sterically demanding 2-tolualdehyde-derived imine 3f served as a good electrophile and the corresponding Mannich adduct 4af was isolated as virtually a single stereoisomer (Table 2, entry 5). 3-Thiophenyl aldimine 3g was also well tolerated, but a

Diastereoselective synthesis of 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyran-4-carboxamides through an unusual regiospecific quasi-hydrolysis of a cyano group

• Mikhail Yu. Ievlev,
• Oleg V. Ershov,
• Mikhail Yu. Belikov,
• Angelina G. Milovidova,
• Viktor A. Tafeenko and
• Oleg E. Nasakin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2093–2098, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.198

• TCNE and ketones) with aldehydes in an acidic media. An unusual process of quasi hydrolysis of the cyano group was observed in the course of the described regio- and diastereoselective transformation. Keywords: diastereoselectivity; 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyran-4-carboxamide; nitriles; pyran; quasi-hydrolysis

• under subsequent formation of the intermediate 2,7-dioxabicyclo[3.2.1]octane derivative 3. This reaction was separately described by us previously and it is the crucial reason for the diastereoselectivity of the whole transformation [21][22]. Further acid-catalyzed addition of water to the imino group

• exceptional diastereoselectivity based on the reaction of available 4-oxoalkane-1,1,2,2-tetracarbonitriles (adducts of TCNE and ketones) with aldehydes in acidic media. Unusual processes of regiospecific quasi-hydrolysis of a cyano group and abnormal resistance of the imine moiety to be hydrolyzed in aqueous

Stereo- and regioselectivity of the hetero-Diels–Alder reaction of nitroso derivatives with conjugated dienes

• Lucie Brulíková,
• Aidan Harrison,
• Marvin J. Miller and
• Jan Hlaváč

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1949–1980, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.184

Three-component synthesis of highly functionalized aziridines containing a peptide side chain and their one-step transformation into β-functionalized α-ketoamides

• Lena Huck,
• Juan F. González,
• Elena de la Cuesta and
• J. Carlos Menéndez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1772–1777, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.166

• all cases, the reaction proceeded with full diastereoselectivity, affording the product with a cis relationship between the aryl substituent and the peptide side chain as shown by NOE studies, which are summarized in Figure 1 for compound 2f. One example of a reaction leading to an alkyl substituent