Oxetanes: formation, reactivity and total syntheses of natural products

• Peter Gabko,
• Martin Kalník and
• Maroš Bella

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 1324–1373, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.101

Recent advances in synthetic approaches for bioactive cinnamic acid derivatives

• Betty A. Kustiana,
• Galuh Widiyarti and
• Teni Ernawati

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 1031–1086, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.85

Synthesis of the 1,5-disubstituted tetrazole-methanesulfonylindole hybrid system via high-order multicomponent reaction

• Cesia M. Aguilar-Morales,
• América A. Frías-López,
• Nadia V. Emilio-Velázquez,
• Alejandro Islas-Jácome,
• Angelica Judith Granados-López,
• Jorge Gustavo Araujo-Huitrado,
• Yamilé López-Hernández,
• Hiram Hernández-López,
• Luis Chacón-García,
• Jesús Adrián López and
• Carlos J. Cortés-García

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3077–3084, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.256

• ]. Therefore, the key component for this reaction was methanesulfonyl 2-iodoaniline 17, as it has been reported that the use of 2-iodoaniline results in the formation of only the Sonogashira coupling product [29][30]. Moreover, as shown in Scheme 2, this high-order multicomponent protocol yielded fourteen 1,5

• to obtain the 1,5-disubstituted tetrazole-alkyne 19 is well-documented and hence, it is not herein described in detail [1][26][31]. Thus, based on Pal and co-workers’ proposal [32][33], the second process involves two catalytic cycles: 1) a Sonogashira coupling, and 2) a 5-endo-dig cyclization. The

Cyclodextrin-based rotaxanes for polymer materials: challenge on simultaneous realization of inexpensive production and defined structures

• Yosuke Akae

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3026–3049, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.252

• into the polymer system, further modification and structural analyses were performed [48][74]. The axle end was easily modified by bromination of the benzene ring and successive transition metal–catalyzed cross-coupling reaction, such as Suzuki or Sonogashira coupling (Figure 10A). Furthermore, the

Synthesis of fluoroalkenes and fluoroenynes via cross-coupling reactions using novel multihalogenated vinyl ethers

• Yukiko Karuo,
• Keita Hirata,
• Atsushi Tarui,
• Kazuyuki Sato,
• Kentaro Kawai and
• Masaaki Omote

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2691–2703, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.226

• low yields of 3a (Table 2, entries 2 and 3). In the case of palladium(II), which produced good yields of the Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling products, only a small amount of 3a was obtained (Table 2, entries 4–8). In particular, when the allylpalladium dichloride dimer was used, Sonogashira coupling

Metal-free double azide addition to strained alkynes of an octadehydrodibenzo[12]annulene derivative with electron-withdrawing substituents

• Naoki Takeda,
• Shuichi Akasaka,
• Susumu Kawauchi and
• Tsuyoshi Michinobu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2234–2241, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.191

• 5 was prepared from phthalimide (1, Scheme 1). Iodination followed by hydrolysis afforded 4,5-diiodophthalic acid (2) in 46.7% yield. Esterification with 1-hexanol yielded compound 3 in 56.8% yield and the subsequent Sonogashira coupling with trimethylsilylacetylene provided compound 4 in 80.0

Multicomponent syntheses of pyrazoles via (3 + 2)-cyclocondensation and (3 + 2)-cycloaddition key steps

• Ignaz Betcke,
• Alissa C. Götzinger,
• Maryna M. Kornet and
• Thomas J. J. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2024–2077, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.178

• and high optical refraction. Functionalized alkynes can alternatively be prepared in situ by a Kumada coupling [133] of aryl iodides and ethynylmagnesium bromide [134]. The Pd catalyst is reused in the subsequent Sonogashira coupling for the synthesis of alkynones in the sense of sequential catalysis

• to 97%. The Sonogashira coupling can also be effectively integrated with the CuAAC (copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition) reaction, offering a powerful tool for synthesizing diverse molecular architectures. In a consecutive multicomponent reaction, pyrazoles were first presented in a

• (122) with oxalyl chloride (123) and a subsequent decarbonylating Sonogashira coupling of glyoxylchloride 125, were transformed in the same reaction vessel with methylhydrazine afforded pyrazoles 124 in moderate yields (Scheme 44) [146]. Analogous to Bishop's observations [73], a single regioisomer was

Perspectives on push–pull chromophores derived from click-type [2 + 2] cycloaddition–retroelectrocyclization reactions of electron-rich alkynes and electron-deficient alkenes

• Michio Yamada

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 125–154, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.13

• through scanning tunneling microscopy [85]. For TCBDs bearing unsubstituted anilino (p-H2NC6H4–) groups, their conversion into the p-iodophenyl derivatives via the Sandmeyer reaction and subsequent post-functionalization via the Suzuki and Sonogashira coupling reactions are achieved [86]. In the reaction

Multi-redox indenofluorene chromophores incorporating dithiafulvene donor and ene/enediyne acceptor units

• Christina Schøttler,
• Kasper Lund-Rasmussen,
• Line Broløs,
• Philip Vinterberg,
• Ema Bazikova,
• Viktor B. R. Pedersen and
• Mogens Brøndsted Nielsen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 59–73, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.8

• , ethynylbenzene, or 4-ethynylbenzonitrile yielded compounds 19–21, while two-fold Sonogashira coupling with ((2-ethynylphenyl)ethynyl)triisopropylsilane resulted in compound 22. Desilylation of the alkynes of compound 22 with tetrabutylammonium fluoride (TBAF) and subsequent intramolecular Glaser–Hay coupling of

Aromatic systems with two and three pyridine-2,6-dicarbazolyl-3,5-dicarbonitrile fragments as electron-transporting organic semiconductors exhibiting long-lived emissions

• Karolis Leitonas,
• Brigita Vigante,
• Dmytro Volyniuk,
• Audrius Bucinskas,
• Pavels Dimitrijevs,
• Sindija Lapcinska,
• Pavel Arsenyan and
• Juozas Vidas Grazulevicius

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1867–1880, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.139

• -dicarbazolyl-3,5-dicarbonitrile. The compounds are synthesized by Sonogashira coupling reactions and characterized by steady-state and time-resolved luminescence spectroscopy. The compounds show efficient intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) from the donor to the acceptor. The photoluminescence (PL) spectra of

• )-4-(4-bromophenyl)pyridine-3,5-carbonitrile (4) was obtained by the interaction of 3,6-di-tert-butyl-9H-carbazole with compound 3 in THF/DMF solution. The ethynylphenyl-substituted pyridine 5 was synthesized by Sonogashira coupling of 4 with ethynyltrimethylsilane in the presence of PdCl2(PPh3)2 and

• copper(I) iodide in DMF/DIPEA solution at 55 °C with subsequent desilylation with potassium carbonate. Finally, butadiyne 6 was prepared by a homocoupling reaction of 5 with 80% yield. Derivatives containing two dicyanopyridyl moieties, 7 and 8, were prepared starting with a Sonogashira coupling of

Consecutive four-component synthesis of trisubstituted 3-iodoindoles by an alkynylation–cyclization–iodination–alkylation sequence

• Nadia Ledermann,
• Alae-Eddine Moubsit and
• Thomas J. J. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1379–1385, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.99

• synthesis of 1,2,5-trisubstituted 7-azaindoles [34]. Inspired by the coupling–cyclization–alkylation sequence and the stepwise Sonogashira coupling–cyclization–iodination protocol to give valuable 3-iodoindoles by Amjad and Knight [35], we reasoned that the interception by an electrophilic iodination step

Construction of hexabenzocoronene-based chiral nanographenes

• Ranran Li,
• Di Wang,
• Shengtao Li and
• Peng An

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 736–751, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.54

• )benzene through Co-catalyzed cyclotrimerization in a 45% yield. Then monoiodide NG 49 was obtained through oxidative cyclodehydronation in a high yield. From the heptagon-containing NG 49, Sonogashira coupling with p-tert-butylphenylacetylene (50) afforded 51 in a quantitative yield. Subsequent Diels

• -workers synthesized a helical bilayer NG by using helicene in the initial step as the linker to fuse two HBC units [48]. As shown in Scheme 6, starting from the helical alkyne 54, Sonogashira coupling with 4-tert-butyliodobenzene (55) afforded structure 56 in a 77% yield. Subsequent Diels–Alder reaction

• cyclodehydrogenation in the presence of DDQ/TfOH in an 83% yield. Through two-fold Sonogashira coupling reaction with 4-tert-butylphenylacetylene (50), compound 88 was converted to alkyne 89. Then compound 89 was subjected to a double Diels–Alder reaction with cyclopentadienone 2, affording precursor 90 in a 64% yield

Strategies in the synthesis of dibenzo[b,f]heteropines

• David I. H. Maier,
• Barend C. B. Bezuidenhoudt and
• Charlene Marais

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 700–718, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.51

• relies on a double Sonogashira coupling [(i) and (iii)], reduction (iv), and bromination (v), followed by Buchwald–Hartwig amination (viii) (Scheme 14). While interesting, the reaction has limited substrate scope due to the reliance on a late-stage bromination. To achieve the correct ortho-bromo

Synthesis, structure, and properties of switchable cross-conjugated 1,4-diaryl-1,3-butadiynes based on 1,8-bis(dimethylamino)naphthalene

• Semyon V. Tsybulin,
• Ekaterina A. Filatova,
• Alexander F. Pozharskii,
• Valery A. Ozeryanskii and
• Anna V. Gulevskaya

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 674–686, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.49

• –Stephens reaction, method A) and arylacetylenes (Sonogashira reaction, method B). In all cases, even when using a small excess of 8, in addition to the desired monoalkynyl derivative 7, a double alkynylation product 9 was formed (Table 1). The Sonogashira coupling was somewhat more efficient, yielding

Combretastatins D series and analogues: from isolation, synthetic challenges and biological activities

• Jorge de Lima Neto and
• Paulo Henrique Menezes

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 399–427, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.31

• esterification reactions gave the ester 33 which was submitted to a Sonogashira coupling reaction with propargyl alcohol to give the advanced intermediate 34 [34]. Partial hydrogenation of the triple bond in 34 using Lindlar’s catalyst led to the cis-allylic alcohol 35 and subsequent ester hydrolysis led to the

Formal total synthesis of macarpine via a Au(I)-catalyzed 6-endo-dig cycloisomerization strategy

• Jiayue Fu,
• Bingbing Li,
• Zefang Zhou,
• Maosheng Cheng,
• Lu Yang and
• Yongxiang Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1589–1595, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.169

• . The convergent synthetic strategies feature the utilization of Au(I)-catalyzed cycloisomerizations of a 1,5-enyne and alkynyl ketone substrates, which were prepared by Sonogashira coupling reactions. Keywords: benzo[c]phenanthridine alkaloids; 1,5-enyne; formal total synthesis; gold catalysis

• be synthesized from silyl enol ether compound 10 via the Au(I)-catalyzed cycloisomerization reaction developed by our group [15]. The compound 10 could be constructed by the Sonogashira coupling reaction from readily prepared iodoarene 8 [12][16] and ketone 5, which could be synthesized by using

• cheap 6-bromopiperonal (2) as the starting material. To attempt the proposed synthetic strategy, ketone 5 and iodoarene 8 were prepared by following the synthetic route outlined in Scheme 4. Ketone 5 was prepared in a four-step procedure. Firstly, a Sonogashira coupling between 6-bromopiperonal (2) and

Simple synthesis of multi-halogenated alkenes from 2-bromo-2-chloro-1,1,1-trifluoroethane (halothane)

• Yukiko Karuo,
• Atsushi Tarui,
• Kazuyuki Sato,
• Kentaro Kawai and
• Masaaki Omote

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1567–1574, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.167

• dichloride (4 mol %), copper iodide (4 mol %) and triethylamine (0.75 mmol) in THF (2.5 mL) was added dropwise trimethylsislylacetylene (1.0 mmol) for 1 min at room temperature. The solution was stirred at rt until the Sonogashira coupling reaction was completed. The reaction mixture was filtered and

Recent developments and trends in the iron- and cobalt-catalyzed Sonogashira reactions

• Surendran Amrutha,
• Sankaran Radhika and
• Gopinathan Anilkumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 262–285, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.31

• , Kottayam, Kerala, 686560, India 10.3762/bjoc.18.31 Abstract Iron- and cobalt-catalyzed Sonogashira coupling reactions are becoming central areas of research in organic synthesis. Owing to their significant importance in the formation of carbon–carbon bonds, numerous green and nanoparticle protocols have

• emerged during the past decades. The non-toxic and inexpensive nature of catalysts gained much attention in recent times. In this context, their catalytic nature and activity in Sonogashira coupling reactions were well explored and compared. Most importantly, one of the highlights of this review is the

• emphasis given to green strategies. This is the first review on iron- and cobalt-catalyzed Sonogashira coupling reactions which comprehends literature up to 2020. Keywords: C–C bond formation; cobalt; green reaction; iron; nanoparticles; Sonogashira; Introduction The palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling

Visible-light-mediated copper photocatalysis for organic syntheses

• Yajing Zhang,
• Qian Wang,
• Zongsheng Yan,
• Donglai Ma and
• Yuguang Zheng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2520–2542, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.169

• promising, scalable green process that can be used as an alternative to the conventional Sonogashira cross-coupling reactions. In 2018, Lalic and co-workers [66] extended this approach to alkyl halides and reported the photoinduced copper-catalyzed Sonogashira coupling of alkynes and alkyl iodide 21. The

Recent advances in the tandem annulation of 1,3-enynes to functionalized pyridine and pyrrole derivatives

• Yi Liu,
• Puying Luo,
• Yang Fu,
• Tianxin Hao,
• Xuan Liu,
• Qiuping Ding and
• Yiyuan Peng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2462–2476, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.163

• ]. Then, they also reported another CuH-catalyzed coupling reaction of 1,3-enynes 54 and nitrile to prepare polysubstituted pyrroles 55 (Scheme 21) [66]. The substrates 54 could be easily prepared by Sonogashira coupling of terminal alkynes and vinyl halides. It is worth mentioning that the addition of

2,4-Bis(arylethynyl)-9-chloro-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroacridines: synthesis and photophysical properties

• Najeh Tka,
• Mohamed Adnene Hadj Ayed,
• Mourad Ben Braiek,
• Mahjoub Jabli,
• Noureddine Chaaben,
• Kamel Alimi,
• Stefan Jopp and
• Peter Langer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1629–1640, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.115

• of the temperature. We found that increasing the temperature to 90 or 100 °C did not lead to any improvement (Table 1, entries 6 and 7). The best result for the Sonogashira coupling reaction between intermediate 2 and phenylacetylene (3a) was obtained using 0.6 mol % of Pd(PPh3)4, 1.2 mol % of CuI in

• ), 126.00 (CAr), 127.16 (CAr), 130.78 (CAr), 135.58 (Cl-CAr), 140.36 (CAr), 142.46 (CAr), 161.25 (N =CAr). Experimental procedure for the Sonogashira coupling and spectroscopic data for 2,4-bis(arylethynyl)-9-chloro-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroacridine derivatives 4a–g 2,4-Dibromo-9-chloro-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroacridine

• (c = 1 × 10−5 M). Synthesis of 2,4-dibromo-9-chloro-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroacridine (2). Synthesis of 2,4-bis(arylethynyl)-9-chloro-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroacridines 4a–g. Effects of solvent, base, and temperature on the Sonogashira coupling between 2 and 3a.a Yields of 2,4-bis(arylethynyl)-9-chloro-5,6,7,8

Double-headed nucleosides: Synthesis and applications

• Vineet Verma,
• Jyotirmoy Maity,
• Vipin K. Maikhuri,
• Ritika Sharma,
• Himal K. Ganguly and
• Ashok K. Prasad

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1392–1439, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.98

• ′-deoxypyrrolocytidine (146) which has adenine attached to the 6-position of the pyrrolo-2′-deoxycytidine through a methylene linker. The double-headed nucleoside 146 was synthesized through the Sonogashira coupling reaction between 5′-O-DMTr-5-iodo-2′-deoxyuridine (144) and N9-propargyladenine (45) followed by

Fritsch–Buttenberg–Wiechell rearrangement of magnesium alkylidene carbenoids leading to the formation of alkynes

• Tsutomu Kimura,
• Koto Sekiguchi,
• Akane Ando and
• Aki Imafuji

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1352–1359, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.94

• Sonogashira coupling reaction with organic halides. The dehydrohalogenation of gem-dihaloalkanes, vic-dihaloalkanes, and haloalkenes with strong bases is often used for the synthesis of alkynes [2]. An alternative strategy for the synthesis of alkynes is the conversion of carbonyl compounds through one-carbon

N-tert-Butanesulfinyl imines in the asymmetric synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocycles

• Joseane A. Mendes,
• Paulo R. R. Costa,
• Miguel Yus,
• Francisco Foubelo and
• Camilla D. Buarque

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1096–1140, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.86

Synthesis, crystal structures and properties of carbazole-based [6]helicenes fused with an azine ring

• Daria I. Tonkoglazova,
• Anna V. Gulevskaya,
• Konstantin A. Chistyakov and
• Olga I. Askalepova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 11–21, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.2

• previously unknown heterocyclic systems 1H-carbazolo[3,4-a]phenazine, 7H-quinoxalino[5,6-c]carbazole and 7H-quinolino[8,7-c]carbazole, respectively (SciFinder data). The fourth step of the synthesis of the target helicenes, namely the Sonogashira coupling of iodides 7a and 7c with p-tolylacetylene, was

• % ii) SPINOL-derived phosphoric acid, Amberlite CG50, CH2Cl2, −7 °C, 72 h, 74%; iii) chloranil, diphenyl phosphate, CHCl3, 50 °C, 5 h, 76%. Synthetic strategy for the carbazole-based [6]helicenes fused with an azine ring. Sonogashira coupling of compound 4b with phenylacetylene. i) Pd(PPh3)2Cl2, CuI

• . Sonogashira coupling of compounds 7 with p-tolylacetylene. Acid-induced isomerization of compounds 9 into carbazole-based [6]helicenes 10. Comparison of X-ray data of the carbazole-based [6]helicenes (atomic numbering does not correspond to IUPAC nomenclature). Photophysical properties of carbazole-based [6