The Groebke–Blackburn–Bienaymé reaction in its maturity: innovation and improvements since its 21st birthday (2019–2023)

• Cristina Martini,
• Muhammad Idham Darussalam Mardjan and
• Andrea Basso

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1839–1879, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.162

• significantly more active than 9, owing to higher rigidity and the correct position of the ortho H atoms in close proximity to the σ-holes on the I atom. The authors demonstrated that hydrogen bonding between H in ortho position of 8 and both O atom of aldehyde and N atom of imine significantly increased the

Exploring the role of halogen bonding in iodonium ylides: insights into unexpected reactivity and reaction control

• Carlee A. Montgomery and
• Graham K. Murphy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1171–1190, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.86

• -holes. Halogen bonding and σ-holes have been encountered in numerous monovalent and hypervalent iodine-containing compounds, and in 2022 σ-holes were computationally confirmed and quantified in the iodonium ylide subset of hypervalent iodine compounds. In light of this new discovery, this article

• include nucleophile σ-hole selectivity, and how ylide structural modifications and intramolecular halogen bonding (e.g., the ortho-effect) can improve ylide stability or solubility, and alter reaction outcomes. Keywords: electron donor–acceptor complex; halogen bonding; σ-holes; iodonium ylides; ortho

• reactions in processes that are typically metal-mediated, as well as the reactions observed between iodonium ylide-Lewis base pairs, including single electron transfers and proton transfers. As iodonium ylides exhibit two σ-holes, they offer two potential sites for halogen bonding to occur, potentially

Synthesis and reactivity of azole-based iodazinium salts

• Thomas J. Kuczmera,
• Annalena Dietz,
• Andreas Boelke and
• Boris J. Nachtsheim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 317–324, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.27

• aryl donors [11][12][13][14][15][16]. Their cyclic derivatives have a proven utility as precursors for the synthesis of hetero- and carbocycles [17][18][19][20][21], and their pronounced σ-holes [22] render them efficient halogen-bond donors (XB donors in XB catalysis) [23]. Despite their great

• observed a coordination of the triflates along the C–I axis with distances of 2.705 Å (I1–O1) and 2.898 Å (I1–O5). For the ortho-methyl-substituted analogue 5ax, no halogen bonding to the triflates was observed, indicating an effective steric protection of the σ-holes [36]. Instead, there were only two

• result obtained when using the stabilized salt 12 (Scheme 2b) [44]. Here, no counter-ion exchange to chloride was observed. The favored counter ion is determined by the pKa value of the corresponding acids but not by halogen bonding due to the steric hindrance at the iodines’ σ-holes. The reaction of

Halogen-bonding-induced diverse aggregation of 4,5-diiodo-1,2,3-triazolium salts with different anions

• Xingyu Xu,
• Shiqing Huang,
• Zengyu Zhang,
• Lei Cao and
• Xiaoyu Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 78–87, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.10

• understand the 1,2,3-triazole based XB donors, model 1,2,3-triazole A, 1,2,3-triazolium B, 1,2,3-triazolylidene complex C-CuI and diiodotriazolium D were calculated by DFT calculations (Figure 9). The calculation results show that σ holes in diiodotriazolium D are mainly located in the elongation of two C–I

• the former shows a boat conformation and the latter forms a rectangle conformation. Triazolium salts form a linear polymer with polyiodide. 2-BF4 forms co-crystals with 4,4'-bipyridine via halogen bonding. DFT calculation results show that the σ holes of 4,5-diiodo-1,2,3-triazolium is similar to the σ