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

• reaction conditions. The authors performed the optimization study using 5-HMF (23), 2-aminothiazole (24) and tert-butyl isocyanide (5, Scheme 10). Inspired by a procedure reported by Demjén et al. [37], they found the best conditions using EtOH as a green solvent, trifluoroacetic acid (TFA, 20 mol %) or Yb

Generation of multimillion chemical space based on the parallel Groebke–Blackburn–Bienaymé reaction

• Evgen V. Govor,
• Vasyl Naumchyk,
• Ihor Nestorak,
• Dmytro S. Radchenko,
• Dmytro Dudenko,
• Yurii S. Moroz,
• Olexiy D. Kachkovsky and
• Oleksandr O. Grygorenko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1604–1613, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.143

• ., 3-aminopyrazole (1{1}), 3-aminoisoxazole (1{2}), 2-aminothiazole (1{3}), 2-amino-1,3,4-thiadiazole (1{4}), or 2-aminotetrazole (1{5}) demonstrated poor conversion to the target products; 2-aminopyrimidines either gave isomeric mixtures (e.g., parent compound 1{6}, alkyl-substituted derivatives 1{7

HPW-Catalyzed environmentally benign approach to imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines

• Luan A. Martinho and
• Carlos Kleber Z. Andrade

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 628–637, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.55

• formation, essential for the GBB-3CR mechanism. Moderate yields were obtained with the use of 2-aminothiazole derivatives (4yy–aaa). These lower yields did not change using MeOH as a solvent or increasing the amount of HPW used. The use of aliphatic aldehydes in the GBB multicomponent reaction for the

• (a). Substrate scope of the HPW-catalyzed GBB reactions using a range of aromatic/heteroaromatic aldehydes. Reaction conditions: 2-aminopyridine/2-aminothiazole (0.50 mmol), aromatic/heteroaromatic aldehyde (0.50 mmol), isocyanide (0.50 mmol), and HPW (0.01 mmol, 2 mol %) in EtOH (0.5 mL), under μw

On drug discovery against infectious diseases and academic medicinal chemistry contributions

• Yves L. Janin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1355–1378, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.141

• the noviose moiety of novobiocin (62) and a heterocyclic component mimicking the one found in their structures. For instance, could it be possible to integrate the aminothiazole component of AZD5099 (63) [316], the aminothiadiazole component

A one-pot electrochemical synthesis of 2-aminothiazoles from active methylene ketones and thioureas mediated by NH₄I

• Shang-Feng Yang,
• Pei Li,
• Zi-Lin Fang,
• Sen Liang,
• Hong-Yu Tian,
• Bao-Guo Sun,
• Kun Xu and
• Cheng-Chu Zeng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1249–1255, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.130

• with thioureas [42]. However, the reported method only tolerates aromatic and aliphatic ketones; the active methylene ketones were not suitable. Given that amino acids have been reported to work as green organocatalysts for the synthesis of 2-aminothiazole heterocycles [43][44]. We herein report a ᴅʟ

β-Lactamase inhibition profile of new amidine-substituted diazabicyclooctanes

• Zafar Iqbal,
• Lijuan Zhai,
• Yuanyu Gao,
• Dong Tang,
• Xueqin Ma,
• Jinbo Ji,
• Jian Sun,
• Jingwen Ji,
• Yuanbai Liu,
• Rui Jiang,
• Yangxiu Mu,
• Lili He,
• Haikang Yang and
• Zhixiang Yang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 711–718, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.60

• derivative B22 which was treated with tetrabutylammonium fluoride (TBAF) in THF to obtain the hydroxy derivative C22. Compound C22 was converted to the sodium salt of A22 by using the procedure described for derivative A1. Analogously, compound A23 was prepared starting from 4-aminothiazole-2-carboxylic acid

Regioselective synthesis of heterocyclic N-sulfonyl amidines from heteroaromatic thioamides and sulfonyl azides

• Vladimir Ilkin,
• Vera Berseneva,
• Tetyana Beryozkina,
• Tatiana Glukhareva,
• Lidia Dianova,
• Wim Dehaen,
• Eugenia Seliverstova and
• Vasiliy Bakulev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2937–2947, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.243

• -Aminothiazole-4-N-sulfonyl amidines In spite of the presence of a nucleophilic amino group capable to react with sulfonyl azide to form an azide group, the reaction of azides 2 occurred selectively to the thioamide group of compound 1m. Thus, similar to the reaction of 5-arylamino-1,2,3-triazole-4

• -carbothioamides 1i–l, the reaction of the primary thioamide of 2-aminothiazole-4-carboxyamide (1m) with sulfonyl azides 2a,c is succesful in n-propanol at reflux temperature, to afford N-sulfonyl amidines 3ab and 3ac bearing a 2-aminothiazole ring in very good yields (Scheme 4). 3-Methyl-5-phenyl-isoxazole-4-N

• . The 1-alkyltriazole thioamides are the most active in the solvent-free method due to their low melting points and good solubility in alkyl- and arylsulfonyl azides. Conversely, thioamides containing 5-arylamino-1,2,3-triazole and 2-aminothiazole rings are not soluble in sulfonyl azides and could be

Access to highly substituted oxazoles by the reaction of α-azidochalcone with potassium thiocyanate

• Mysore Bhyrappa Harisha,
• Pandi Dhanalakshmi,
• Rajendran Suresh,
• Raju Ranjith Kumar and
• Shanmugam Muthusubramanian

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2108–2118, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.178

• azidochalcones, when treated with potassium thiocyanate in the presence of potassium persulfate, lead to 2,4,5-trisubstituted oxazoles in good yields. Incidentally, 2-aminothiazoles are the products when ferric nitrate is employed instead of persulfate in the above reaction. Keywords: aminothiazole; oxazole

• existing alkaloids and a number of pharmaceutically active compounds [51][52][53]. 2-Aminothiazole has a thiourea-like character with a tendency to modulate promiscuously multiple biological targets. Thiazole derivatives also exhibit a broad spectrum of biological activities including antiviral, antiprion

• give the intermediate A which undergoes homolytic cleavage yielding B. Subsequent cyclisation results in the oxazole ring. During these optimization trials, it was interesting to note the formation of 2-aminothiazole, when ferric chloride was employed along with thiocyanate (Table 1, entry 3). There is

Automating multistep flow synthesis: approach and challenges in integrating chemistry, machines and logic

• Chinmay A. Shukla and
• Amol A. Kulkarni

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 960–987, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.97

• treatment of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia [10]. The process involves four reaction steps, one inline extraction, and a filtration step. The reaction is shown in Scheme 1. Initially, a Buchwald–Hartwig reaction is carried out between aryl iodide and aminothiazole. Pd2dba3 was used as a catalyst and

• increase beyond a certain set-point over the subsequent reaction steps. The aminothiazole flow rate needs to be controlled using a ratio controller to maintain the molar ratio between aryl iodide and aminothiazole. Both of these streams can be preheated using a heat exchanger with a feedback controller

N-Propargylamines: versatile building blocks in the construction of thiazole cores

• S. Arshadi,
• E. Vessally,
• L. Edjlali,
• R. Hosseinzadeh-Khanmiri and
• E. Ghorbani-Kalhor

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 625–638, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.61

• to diethyl 3-aminoprop-1-ynylphosphonate salts 18 leading to 5-diethyl methylphosphonate-substituted 2-aminothiazoles 19 in good yields (Scheme 4b) [86]. An interesting approach towards the synthesis of 2-aminothiazole derivatives by treatment of N-propargylamines with isothiocyanates in the presence

The synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) using continuous flow chemistry

• Marcus Baumann and
• Ian R. Baxendale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1194–1219, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.134

• the 2-aminothiazole core of fanetizole (87). Due to preceding studies on the use of ammonia gas in this tube-in-tube system including in-line titrations only a minimal excess of gas (1.06 equivalents) was necessary to obtain complete conversion in the initial reaction subsequently allowing safe scale

Isocyanide-based multicomponent reactions towards cyclic constrained peptidomimetics

• Gijs Koopmanschap,
• Eelco Ruijter and
• Romano V.A. Orru

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 544–598, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.50

• -aminothiazole peptidomimetics 127 in sufficient overall yields (5–13%). In a variation, the authors designed an ammonia-based Ugi reaction that avoids the use of protected amines (Scheme 38) [107]. It was shown that this protecting-group-free protocol tolerates a great variety of different isocyanides and also

Synthesis and enzymatic evaluation of 2- and 4-aminothiazole- based inhibitors of neuronal nitric oxide synthase

• Graham R. Lawton,
• Haitao Ji,
• Pavel Martásek,
• Linda J. Roman and
• Richard B. Silverman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 28, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.28

• a 2-aminopyridine group were recently designed and synthesized in our laboratory and were shown to have significant in vivo efficacy. In this work, analogs of our lead compound possessing 2- and 4-aminothiazole rings in place of the aminopyridine were synthesized. The less basic aminothiazole rings

• will be less protonated at physiological pH than the aminopyridine ring, and so the molecule will carry a lower net charge. This could lead to an increased ability to cross the blood-brain barrier thereby increasing the in vivo potency of these compounds. The 2-aminothiazole-based compound was less

• potent than the 2-aminopyridine-based analogue. 4-Aminothiazoles were unstable in water, undergoing tautomerization and hydrolysis to give inactive thiazolones. Keywords: 2-aminothiazole; 4-aminothiazole; nitric oxide synthase inhibitor; nNOS; Introduction Neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) is the