Three-component reactions of conjugated dienes, CH acids and formaldehyde under diffusion mixing conditions

• Dmitry E. Shybanov,
• Maxim E. Kukushkin,
• Eugene V. Babaev,
• Nikolai V. Zyk and
• Elena K. Beloglazkina

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 262–269, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.18

• generate crotonic condensation adducts of active methylene compounds and formaldehyde at room temperature in the absence of strong acids and bases. The formed adducts were highly reactive intermediates capable of reacting with dienes in a three-component reaction, leading to the formation of Diels–Alder

• adducts of formaldehyde condensation are formed under milder conditions and are highly reactive, which is important for further synthetic transformations. However, due to the high carbonyl reactivity of formaldehyde, its interaction with active methylene compounds is often complicated by polycondensation

• , resulting in an inseparable mixture of compounds 16a and 16b in a ratio of 87:13 and a total yield of 28%. Conclusion This work demonstrates that the technique of diffusion mixing with a volatile reagent can be successfully used to generate croton condensation adducts of active methylene compounds with

Non-noble metal-catalyzed cross-dehydrogenation coupling (CDC) involving ether α-C(sp³)–H to construct C–C bonds

• Hui Yu and
• Feng Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1259–1288, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.94

• ][48][49][50]: 1) CuII → CuI → CuII; 2) CuI → CuIII → CuI; 3) CuII → CuIII → CuI → CuII. In 2006, Li et al. demonstrated that the CDC reaction of the C(sp3)–H bond of malonate diesters or other active methylene compounds with the C(sp3)–H bond adjacent to the oxygen atom of cyclic and open-chain

• important gap. Research progress of coupling reactions and active compounds containing α-C(sp3)-functionalized ethers. Transition-metal-catalyzed CDC pathways. CDC of active methylene compounds in the α-C(sp3) position of ethers. InCl3/Cu(OTf)2/NHPI co-catalyzed CDC reaction. CDC of cyclic benzyl ethers

Selective construction of dispiro[indoline-3,2'-quinoline-3',3''-indoline] and dispiro[indoline-3,2'-pyrrole-3',3''-indoline] via three-component reaction

• Ziying Xiao,
• Fengshun Xu,
• Jing Sun and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1234–1242, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.91

• nucleophiles, especially active methylene compounds, have attracted much attentions [36][37][38][39][40][41]. This kind of Michael adduct has more than one reactive site and could proceed domino reactions with various electrophiles [42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49]. In this respect, several elegant domino or

Nucleophile-induced ring contraction in pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzothiazines: access to pyrrolo[2,1-b][1,3]benzothiazoles

• Ekaterina A. Lystsova,
• Maksim V. Dmitriev,
• Andrey N. Maslivets and
• Ekaterina E. Khramtsova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 646–657, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.46

• cycloadditions of N-alkylbenzothiazolium salts (Scheme 1, entry 6) [17][18][19][20][21][22], MCRs of 2-methylbenzothiazole, acetylenedicarboxylates and active methylene compounds (Scheme 1, entry 7) [23][24][25], MCRs of (1,3-benzothiazol-2-yl)acetonitrile, aldehydes and acylcyanides (Scheme 1, enry 8) [3][26

1,2-Naphthoquinone-4-sulfonic acid salts in organic synthesis

• Ruan Carlos B. Ribeiro,
• Patricia G. Ferreira,
• Amanda de A. Borges,
• Luana da S. M. Forezi,
• Fernando de Carvalho da Silva and
• Vitor F. Ferreira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 53–69, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.5

• methylene acid compounds [109]. These authors developed two methods (A and B) to prepare 2-hydroxynaphthoquinomethanes 62 with diverse structures by condensation of 18 with active methylene compounds (Scheme 18). Method A involves the reaction promoted by sodium hydroxide in an ethanol/water mixture at 40

Development of N-F fluorinating agents and their fluorinations: Historical perspective

• Teruo Umemoto,
• Yuhao Yang and
• Gerald B. Hammond

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1752–1813, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.123

• reagents, a match process which minimizes side reactions. Thus, these N-fluoropyridinium salts made possible the fluorination of a diversity of nucleophilic organic compounds with different reactivities ranging across aromatics, carbanions (Grignard reagents, enolate anions), active methylene compounds

• the fluorination of reactive carbanions and easily oxidizable sulfides, whereas the most powerful 18-2h was suitable for less-reactive substrates such as olefins, aromatics, and neutral active methylene compounds. N-Fluoro-6-(trifluoromethyl)pyridinium-2-sulfonate (18-2f’) was prepared later [77]. As

• , active methylene compounds, and a conjugated enol acetate of a steroid were all fluorinated in moderate to high yields. The fluorination of anisole required high temperature and neat conditions suggesting that the fluorination power of 20-2 is not so high. 1-21. Perfluoro[N-fluoro-N-(4-pyridyl)acetamide

Methodologies for the synthesis of quaternary carbon centers via hydroalkylation of unactivated olefins: twenty years of advances

• Thiago S. Silva and
• Fernando Coelho

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1565–1590, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.112

• reported the use of active methylene compounds as suitable nucleophiles in intramolecular hydroalkylation reactions (Scheme 2) [25]. In the presence of PdCl2(CH3CN)2, the hydroalkylation of β-diketones 1 gave only 6-endo-trig cyclization products 2 in moderate to good yields (Scheme 2). The methodology

• Li [38], who used a catalytic system of AuCl3/AgOTf to promote the addition of active methylene compounds like acetylcyclopentanone 8 to more reactive alkenes, such as styrenes 9. Two examples were reported by the authors for the synthesis of quaternary carbon centers without the necessity of

Annulation of a 1,3-dithiole ring to a sterically hindered o-quinone core. Novel ditopic redox-active ligands

• Sergey V. Norkov,
• Anton V. Cherkasov,
• Andrey S. Shavyrin,
• Maxim V. Arsenyev,
• Viacheslav A. Kuropatov and
• Vladimir K. Cherkasov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 273–282, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.26

• situ from the corresponding active methylene compounds (Figure 1) [25]. In our syntheses we also used gem-dithiolates immediately, without isolation, except for the case when sodium trithiocarbonate (5a) was used. The reaction of 4 with 5a proceeds in DMF solution to give the corresponding 1,3-dithiole

• -methide moiety, compound 6c should exhibit a more complicated redox behavior compared to parent o-quinone. Despite 1,3-diketones presumably exist as enol tautomers [30], they are also often used as active methylene compounds. The introduction of a 1,3-diketone fragment at the backbone of the o-quinone

• from o-quinones 3, and 7–10 were generated directly before recording of EPR spectra according to the procedure described previously [56][57]. Active methylene compounds used for the preparation of gem-dithiolates. Fragment of coordination polymer chain of adduct 8 in the crystal phase. Hydrogen atoms

1,5-Phosphonium betaines from N-triflylpropiolamides, triphenylphosphane, and active methylene compounds

• Vito A. Fiore,
• Chiara Freisler and
• Gerhard Maas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2603–2611, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.253

• ]. We report now on three-component reactions of alkynes 1 with triphenylphosphane and active methylene compounds, leading to phosphonium betaines which are structurally different from those shown in Scheme 1. Results and Discussion Synthesis of betaines 3 The combination of equimolar amounts of

• -indanedione (2c), malononitrile (2e), 4-cyanomethyl-2,3,5,6-tetrafluorobenzonitrile (2f) were successfully applied as active methylene compounds; all of them have pKa values between 4.70 (2b, in dioxane/H2O 3:1 [20]) and ≈15.80, reported for 2-(pentafluorophenyl)acetonitrile in DMSO [21], the value for 2f

• ]. Conclusion We have observed that the reaction of N-triflyl-N-phenylpropiolamides with triphenylphosphane results in undefined polymerization and formation of N-phenyltriflamide. In the presence of several active methylene compounds, however, a clean three-component reaction leads to a novel type of

Recent advances in transition-metal-catalyzed incorporation of fluorine-containing groups

• Xiaowei Li,
• Xiaolin Shi,
• Xiangqian Li and
• Dayong Shi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2213–2270, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.218

• co-workers [71] described the one-pot asymmetric gem-chlorofluorination of active methylene compounds by using a copper(II) complex with a chiral spiro 2-pyridyl monooxazoline ligand (SPYMOX). The corresponding α-chloro-α-fluoro-β-keto esters were isolated with up to 92% ee (Scheme 29a). This

5-Aminopyrazole as precursor in design and synthesis of fused pyrazoloazines

• Ranjana Aggarwal and
• Suresh Kumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 203–242, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.15

• chloride (SOCl2) which underwent intramolecular Friedel–Crafts reaction in presence of Lewis acid to give 3-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-indeno[2,1-e]pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyrazin-5-one (233). Compound 233 was used to synthesize several other indenopyrazolopyrazinone derivatives by reaction with active methylene compounds

Mechanochemical synthesis of small organic molecules

• Tapas Kumar Achar,
• Anima Bose and
• Prasenjit Mal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1907–1931, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.186

• desired product at 25 Hz within 30 min (Scheme 13) [69]. The oxidant DDQ was added in portions at 7 min intervals to get better yields. Different active methylene compounds like diethylmalonate, dibenzylmalonate, malonitrile, and unsymmetrical 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds were explored for the CDC reaction

Et₃B-mediated and palladium-catalyzed direct allylation of β-dicarbonyl compounds with Morita–Baylis–Hillman alcohols

• Ahlem Abidi,
• Yosra Oueslati and
• Farhat Rezgui

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2402–2409, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.234

• allylation of a variety of active methylene compounds [29], aldehydes [30], ketones [31], and imines [32] with only common allylic alcohols. As part of an ongoing program studying the behavior of MBH derivatives [33] towards β-dicarbonyl compounds, our research group [34][35][36][37] has reported an

Highly selective palladium–benzothiazole carbene-catalyzed allylation of active methylene compounds under neutral conditions

• Antonio Monopoli,
• Pietro Cotugno,
• Carlo G. Zambonin,
• Francesco Ciminale and
• Angelo Nacci

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 994–999, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.111

• -2-ylidene complex I was found to be a chemoselective catalyst for the Tsuji–Trost allylation of active methylene compounds carried out under neutral conditions and using carbonates as allylating agents. The proposed protocol consists in a simplified procedure adopting an in situ prepared catalyst

• from Pd2dba3 and 3-methylbenzothiazolium salt V as precursors. A comparison of the performance of benzothiazole carbene with phosphanes and an analogous imidazolium carbene ligand is also proposed. Keywords: active methylene compounds; allylic carbonates; Pd–benzothiazol-2-ylidene complex; Tsuji–Trost

• , as a precatalyst in the Tsuji–Trost allylation of active methylene compounds using carbonates as allylating agents (Scheme 1). Results and Discussion Allylic carbonates are suitable reagents for the Tsuji–Trost allylation as they enable to work under neutral conditions. The base required for

A simple copper-catalyzed two-step one-pot synthesis of indolo[1,2-a]quinazoline

• Chunpu Li,
• Lei Zhang,
• Shuangjie Shu and
• Hong Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2441–2447, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.254

• aryl halides with active methylene compounds such as ethyl acetoacetate, malononitrile, cyanoacetate and their equivalents [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Copper-catalyzed domino reactions have also been used in the synthesis of nitrogen-containing compounds [16][17][18][19][20]. Ma et al reported a

• -iodophenyl)acetamides with malononitriles and substituted o-iodobenzaldehydes was investigated. As summarized in Table 2, the desired products 4a–4q were obtained in moderate to good yields (34–72%) by treatment of various substituted N-(2-iodophenyl)acetamides 1a–1k with active methylene compounds 2a–2c and

Efficient synthesis of dihydropyrimidinones via a three-component Biginelli-type reaction of urea, alkylaldehyde and arylaldehyde

• Haijun Qu,
• Xuejian Li,
• Fan Mo and
• Xufeng Lin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2846–2851, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.320

• chemistry [5][6][7][8]. Recently, many one-pot variants of Biginelli-type reactions for the preparation of novel DHPMs using various active methylene compounds [9][10][11][12][13][14][15], such as enaminone, cyclic β-diketones, acetophenone, benzocyclic ketones and β-oxodithioesters etc., have also been

New developments in gold-catalyzed manipulation of inactivated alkenes

• Michel Chiarucci and
• Marco Bandini

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2586–2614, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.294

• and high enantioselectivity (Table 2). 4 Formation of C–C bonds Besides heteroatoms, the electrophilic activation of alkenes by gold catalysts can be exploited also to form new C–C bonds. Early achievements relied on the use of active methylene compounds or electron rich arenes as carbon nucleophiles

• . 4.1 Alkylation of active methylene compounds Hydroalkylation of styrenes, indene and norbornene with 1,3-diketones was firstly reported in 2004 by using AuCl3 and AgOTf in 1:3 ratio as the catalyst (Scheme 15) [51]. The addition took place with Markovnikov selectivity in good yields, however optimal

Features of the behavior of 4-amino-5-carboxamido-1,2,3-triazole in multicomponent heterocyclizations with carbonyl compounds

• Eugene S. Gladkov,
• Katerina A. Gura,
• Svetlana M. Sirko,
• Sergey M. Desenko,
• Ulrich Groth and
• Valentin A. Chebanov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 2100–2105, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.236

• involving aminazoles, carbonyls and active methylene compounds can be effectively controlled by variation of such reaction parameters as temperature, solvent type, catalytic system, method of activation, etc. [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. Changing these parameters gives us the opportunity to

• , carbonyls and active methylene compounds. In the present article we disclose our recent results of a study of such MCRs and analyze the influence of some of the reaction parameters on their development and outcome. Results and Discussion It was found that reaction between one equivalent of aminotriazole 1

Branching out at C-2 of septanosides. Synthesis of 2-deoxy-2-C-alkyl/aryl septanosides from a bromo-oxepine

• Supriya Dey and
• Narayanaswamy Jayaraman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 522–527, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.59

• been explored in many instances, for example, (i) hemiacetal or acetal formation from a linear precursor containing aldehyde and an appropriately positioned hydroxyl group [4][5][6][7][8]; (ii) Knoevenagel-type condensation of sugar aldehyde with active methylene compounds [9][10]; (iii) ring-closing

Synthesis, solid-state fluorescence properties, and computational analysis of novel 2-aminobenzo[4,5]thieno[3,2-d]pyrimidine 5,5-dioxides

• Kenichirou Yokota,
• Masayori Hagimori,
• Naoko Mizuyama,
• Yasuhisa Nishimura,
• Hiroshi Fujito,
• Yasuhiro Shigemitsu and
• Yoshinori Tominaga

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 266–274, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.28

• . Results and Discussion Synthesis Heterocyclic ketene dithioacetals (1a–c) were easily prepared by the condensation of the corresponding heterocyclic active methylene compounds with carbon disulfide in sodium hydroxide solution as a base, followed by methylation with dimethyl sulfate [8][9][10]. The

A concise synthesis of 3-(1-alkenyl)isoindolin-1-ones and 5-(1-alkenyl)pyrrol-2-ones by the intermolecular coupling reactions of N-acyliminium ions with unactivated olefins

• Nianhong Lu,
• Lihong Wang,
• Zhanshan Li and
• Wei Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 192–200, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.21

• , aromatics and active methylene compounds has attracted great attention in recent years as an effective and environmentally benign strategy for the construction of carbon–carbon bonds with the concomitant loss of water. For example, the metal-catalyzed coupling of allyl, benzyl, and propargyl alcohols with

Fluorescent hexaaryl- and hexa-heteroaryl[3]radialenes: Synthesis, structures, and properties

• Antonio Avellaneda,
• Courtney A. Hollis,
• Xin He and
• Christopher J. Sumby

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 71–80, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.7

• greater steric bulk and do not form carbanions with the requisite stability, respectively. In this regard, precursor active methylene compounds with functional groups that are able to coordinate transition metals in the 3-position and a nitro group para to the methylene are under investigation in our

Approaches towards the synthesis of 5-aminopyrazoles

• Ranjana Aggarwal,
• Vinod Kumar,
• Rajiv Kumar and
• Shiv P. Singh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 179–197, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.25

• in the presence of base to yield the desired compounds 162 (Scheme 46). Abdelhamid et al. [89][90] have reported the synthesis of substituted 5-aminopyrazoles 164 by the treatment of active methylene compounds such as malononitrile, ethyl cyanoacetate etc. with hydrazonoyl halides 163 in ethanolic

A new and facile synthetic approach to substituted 2-thioxoquinazolin-4-ones by the annulation of a pyrimidine derivative

• Nimalini D. Moirangthem and
• Warjeet S. Laitonjam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, 1056–1060, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.120

• derivatives of 1,3-diarylthiobarbituric acids (DTBA) with active methylene compounds, such as malononitrile and ethyl cyanoacetate, in presence of ZnCl2 has been developed. Keywords: benzenoid; ethylcyanoacetate; malononitrile; pyrimidine; 2-thioxoquinazolin-4-ones; Introduction Quinazolines and derivatives

• active methylene compounds, such as, malononitrile and ethylcyanoacetate. Results and Discussion DTBA are among the simplest synthetic intermediates and can be easily prepared in a one-pot reaction by treating 1,3-diaryl thioureas with malonic acid in the presence of acetyl chloride. DTBA undergoes

• catalyst afforded 7-hydroxy-2,3-dihydro-2-thioxo-1,3-diarylquinazolin-4(1H)-ones 3 in 76–87% overall yields (Scheme 3) [32][33] and these results are listed in Table 4. Conclusion The cyclocondensation of ethoxymethylene thiobarbituric acids with active methylene compounds under the above noted catalytic

C-Arylation reactions catalyzed by CuO-nanoparticles under ligand free conditions

• Mazaahir Kidwai,
• Saurav Bhardwaj and
• Roona Poddar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 35, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.35

• Mazaahir Kidwai Saurav Bhardwaj Roona Poddar Green Research Laboratory, Department ofChemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi, India 110007 10.3762/bjoc.6.35 Abstract CuO-nanoparticles were found to be an excellent heterogeneous catalyst for C-arylation of active methylene compounds using various

• aryl halides. The products were obtained in good to excellent yield. The catalyst can be recovered and reused for four cycles with almost no loss in activity. Keywords: active methylene compounds; C-arylation; heterogeneous catalyst; recyclability; Introduction Carbon-carbon (C–C) bond formation is