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Visible-light-promoted radical cyclisation of unactivated alkenes in benzimidazoles: synthesis of difluoromethyl- and aryldifluoromethyl-substituted polycyclic imidazoles
- Yujun Pang,
- Jinglan Yan,
- Nawaf Al-Maharik,
- Qian Zhang,
- Zeguo Fang and
- Dong Li
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 234–241, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.15
- CF2HCO2H or PhCF2COOH, along with benzimidazoles bearing unactivated alkenes and PhI(OAc)2 as substrates, and proceeded without the need of any base, metal catalyst, photocatalyst or additive. In total, 24 examples were examined, and all of them successfully underwent cyclization reaction to produce the
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Figure 1: Selected examples containing tricyclic imidazole, CF2H or PhCF2 group.
Scheme 1: Strategies for the synthesis of difluoromethylated and difluoroarylmethylated tricyclic imidazoles.
Scheme 2: Substrate scope of the protocol. Reaction conditions: 1 (0.2 mmol), 2 (1.4 mmol), and PIDA (0.8 mmo...
Scheme 3: Control experiments and plausible mechanism.
Advances in the use of metal-free tetrapyrrolic macrocycles as catalysts
- Mandeep K. Chahal
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3085–3112, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.257
- with porphyrins, the direct linkage between their pyrrole units leads to a more contracted cavity compared to that of porphyrins. Similar to calix[4]pyrroles, synthetic metallo- and free-base (metal-free) porphyrins find various applications in the fields of medicine, energy, catalysis, molecular
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Figure 1: Chemical structures of the main tetrapyrrolic macrocycles studied in this review for their role as ...
Figure 2: Calix[4]pyrroles 3 and 4 and an their acyclic analogue 5 used for the transformation of Danishefsky...
Figure 3: Calixpyrrole-based organocatalysts 11 and 12 for the diastereoselective addition reaction of TMSOF ...
Figure 4: (a) Chemical structures of macrocyclic organocatalysts used for the synthesis of cyclic carbonates ...
Figure 5: Cuprous chloride-catalyzed aziridination of styrene (22) by chloramine-T (23) providing 1-tosyl-2-p...
Figure 6: Chemical structures of the various porphyrin macrocycles (18, 25–41) screened as potential catalyst...
Figure 7: Organocatalytic activity of distorted porphyrins explored by Senge and co-workers. Planar macrocycl...
Figure 8: Chemical structures of H2EtxTPP (x = 0, 2, 4, 6, 8) compounds with incrementally increasing nonplan...
Figure 9: Chemical structures of OxP macrocycles tested as potential organocatalysts for the conjugate additi...
Figure 10: a) Fundamental structure of the J-aggregates of diprotonated TPPS3 53 and b) its use as a catalyst ...
Figure 11: Chemical structures of amphiphilic porphyrin macrocycles used as pH-switchable catalysts based on i...
Figure 12: a) Chemical structures of porphyrin macrocycles for the cycloaddition of CO2 to N-alkyl/arylaziridi...
Figure 13: Electron and energy-transfer processes typical for excited porphyrin molecules (Por = porphyrin mac...
Figure 14: Proposed mechanism for the light-induced α-alkylation of aldehydes with EDA in the presence of H2TP...
Figure 15: a) Chemical structures of porphyrins screened as photoredox catalysts, b) model reaction of furan (...
Figure 16: Porphyrin macrocycles H2TPP (18) and PPIX 78 as photoreductants for the red light-induced C–H aryla...
Figure 17: Porphyrin macrocycles H2TPP (18) and PPIX 78 as photoredox catalyst for (a) α-alkylation of an alde...
Figure 18: Corrole macrocycles 98–100 as photoredox catalysts for C–H arylation and borylation reactions. Adap...
Figure 19: Proposed catalytic cycle of electrocatalytic generation of H2 evolution using tetrapyrrolic macrocy...
Figure 20: a) Chemical structures of tetrapyrrolic macrocycles 109, 73, and 110 used for oxygen reductions in ...
Figure 21: a) Absorption spectra (left) of the air-saturated DCE solutions containing: 5 × 10−5 M H2TPP (black...
Figure 22: Chemical structures of N,N’-dimethylated saddle-distorted porphyrin isomers, syn-Me2P 111 and anti-...
Figure 23: Reaction mechanisms for the two-electron reduction of O2 by a) syn-Me2Iph 113 and b) anti-Me2Iph 114...
Figure 24: O2/H2O2 interconversion using methylated saddle-distorted porphyrin and isophlorin (reduced porphyr...
Figure 25: Chemical structures of distorted dodecaphenylporphyrin macrocycle 117 and its diprotonated form 118...
Recent advances in Cu-catalyzed C(sp3)–Si and C(sp3)–B bond formation
- Balaram S. Takale,
- Ruchita R. Thakore,
- Elham Etemadi-Davan and
- Bruce H. Lipshutz
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 691–737, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.67
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Scheme 1: Pharmaceuticals possessing a silicon or boron atom.
Scheme 2: The first Cu-catalyzed C(sp3)–Si bond formation.
Scheme 3: Conversion of benzylic phosphate 6 to the corresponding silane.
Scheme 4: Conversion of alkyl triflates to alkylsilanes.
Scheme 5: Conversion of secondary alkyl triflates to alkylsilanes.
Scheme 6: Conversion of alkyl iodides to alkylsilanes.
Scheme 7: Trapping of intermediate radical through cascade reaction.
Scheme 8: Radical pathway for conversion of alkyl iodides to alkylsilanes.
Scheme 9: Conversion of alkyl ester of N-hydroxyphthalimide to alkylsilanes.
Scheme 10: Conversion of gem-dibromides to bis-silylalkanes.
Scheme 11: Conversion of imines to α-silylated amines (A) and the reaction pathway (B).
Scheme 12: Conversion of N-tosylimines to α-silylated amines.
Scheme 13: Screening of diamine ligands.
Scheme 14: Conversion of N-tert-butylsulfonylimines to α-silylated amines.
Scheme 15: Conversion of aldimines to nonracemic α-silylated amines.
Scheme 16: Conversion of N-tosylimines to α-silylated amines.
Scheme 17: Reaction pathway [A] and conversion of aldehydes to α-silylated alcohols [B].
Scheme 18: Conversion of aldehydes to benzhydryl silyl ethers.
Scheme 19: Conversion of ketones to 1,2-diols (A) and conversion of imines to 1,2-amino alcohols (B).
Scheme 20: Ligand screening (A) and conversion of aldehydes to α-silylated alcohols (B).
Scheme 21: Conversion of aldehydes to α-silylated alcohols.
Scheme 22: 1,4-Additions to α,β-unsaturated ketones.
Scheme 23: 1,4-Additions to unsaturated ketones to give β-silylated derivatives.
Scheme 24: Additions onto α,β-unsaturated lactones to give β-silylated lactones.
Scheme 25: Conversion of α,β-unsaturated to β-silylated lactams.
Scheme 26: Conversion of N-arylacrylamides to silylated oxindoles.
Scheme 27: Conversion of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds to silylated tert-butylperoxides.
Scheme 28: Catalytic cycle for Cu(I) catalyzed α,β-unsaturated compounds.
Scheme 29: Conversion of p-quinone methides to benzylic silanes.
Scheme 30: Conversion of α,β-unsaturated ketimines to regio- and stereocontrolled allylic silanes.
Scheme 31: Conversion of α,β-unsaturated ketimines to enantioenriched allylic silanes.
Scheme 32: Regioselective conversion of dienedioates to allylic silanes.
Scheme 33: Conversion of alkenyl-substituted azaarenes to β-silylated adducts.
Scheme 34: Conversion of conjugated benzoxazoles to enantioenriched β-silylated adducts.
Scheme 35: Conversion of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl indoles to α-silylated N-alkylated indoles.
Scheme 36: Conversion of β-amidoacrylates to α-aminosilanes.
Scheme 37: Conversion of α,β-unsaturated ketones to enantioenriched β-silylated ketones, nitriles, and nitro d...
Scheme 38: Regio-divergent silacarboxylation of allenes.
Scheme 39: Silylation of diazocarbonyl compounds, (A) asymmetric and (B) racemic.
Scheme 40: Enantioselective hydrosilylation of alkenes.
Scheme 41: Conversion of 3-acylindoles to indolino-silanes.
Scheme 42: Proposed mechanism for the silylation of 3-acylindoles.
Scheme 43: Silyation of N-chlorosulfonamides.
Scheme 44: Conversion of acyl silanes to α-silyl alcohols.
Scheme 45: Conversion of N-tosylaziridines to β-silylated N-tosylamines.
Scheme 46: Conversion of N-tosylaziridines to silylated N-tosylamines.
Scheme 47: Conversion of 3,3-disubstituted cyclopropenes to silylated cyclopropanes.
Scheme 48: Conversion of conjugated enynes to 1,3-bis(silyl)propenes.
Scheme 49: Proposed sequence for the Cu-catalyzed borylation of substituted alkenes.
Scheme 50: Cu-catalyzed synthesis of nonracemic allylic boronates.
Scheme 51: Cu–NHC catalyzed synthesis of α-substituted allylboronates.
Scheme 52: Synthesis of α-chiral (γ-alkoxyallyl)boronates.
Scheme 53: Cu-mediated formation of nonracemic cis- or trans- 2-substituted cyclopropylboronates.
Scheme 54: Cu-catalyzed synthesis of γ,γ-gem-difluoroallylboronates.
Scheme 55: Cu-catalyzed hydrofunctionalization of internal alkenes and vinylarenes.
Scheme 56: Cu-catalyzed Markovnikov and anti-Markovnikov borylation of alkenes.
Scheme 57: Cu-catalyzed borylation/ortho-cyanation/Cope rearrangement.
Scheme 58: Borylfluoromethylation of alkenes.
Scheme 59: Cu-catalyzed synthesis of tertiary nonracemic alcohols.
Scheme 60: Synthesis of densely functionalized and synthetically versatile 1,2- or 4,3-borocyanated 1,3-butadi...
Scheme 61: Cu-catalyzed trifunctionalization of allenes.
Scheme 62: Cu-catalyzed selective arylborylation of arenes.
Scheme 63: Asymmetric borylative coupling between styrenes and imines.
Scheme 64: Regio-divergent aminoboration of unactivated terminal alkenes.
Scheme 65: Cu-catalyzed 1,4-borylation of α,β-unsaturated ketones.
Scheme 66: Cu-catalyzed protodeboronation of α,β-unsaturated ketones.
Scheme 67: Cu-catalyzed β-borylation of α,β-unsaturated imines.
Scheme 68: Cu-catalyzed synthesis of β-trifluoroborato carbonyl compounds.
Scheme 69: Asymmetric 1,4-borylation of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds.
Scheme 70: Cu-catalyzed ACB and ACA reactions of α,β-unsaturated 2-acyl-N-methylimidazoles.
Scheme 71: Cu-catalyzed diborylation of aldehydes.
Scheme 72: Umpolung pathway for chiral, nonracemic tertiary alcohol synthesis (top) and proposed mechanism for...
Scheme 73: Cu-catalyzed synthesis of α-hydroxyboronates.
Scheme 74: Cu-catalyzed borylation of ketones.
Scheme 75: Cu-catalyzed borylation of unactivated alkyl halides.
Scheme 76: Cu-catalyzed borylation of allylic difluorides.
Scheme 77: Cu-catalyzed borylation of cyclic and acyclic alkyl halides.
Scheme 78: Cu-catalyzed borylation of unactivated alkyl chlorides and bromides.
Scheme 79: Cu-catalyzed decarboxylative borylation of carboxylic acids.
Scheme 80: Cu-catalyzed borylation of benzylic, allylic, and propargylic alcohols.
Copper-mediated arylation with arylboronic acids: Facile and modular synthesis of triarylmethanes
- H. Surya Prakash Rao and
- A. Veera Bhadra Rao
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 496–504, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.49
- report a copper(II) triflate-catalyzed modular synthesis of triarylmethanes by employing diarylmethanols 9 and arylboronic acids 10. It is advantageous to employ a base metal catalyst such as copper(II) triflate instead of palladium [55][56] or nickel (Ni) [57] catalysts and to avoid the use of phosphine
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Figure 1: Representative examples of triarylmethanes.
Scheme 1: General methods and proposed method for the synthesis of triarylmethanes.
Scheme 2: Role of solvent and reaction conditions in the Cu(OTf)2-mediated coupling of diphenylmethanol (9a) ...
Scheme 3: A plausible mechanism for the formation of triarylmethanes 11.
Scheme 4: Copper-catalyzed C–C bond formation synthesis of triarylmethane 10l.
Scheme 5: Synthesis of anti-breast-cancer agent intermediate 22.
Base metal-catalyzed benzylic oxidation of (aryl)(heteroaryl)methanes with molecular oxygen
- Hans Sterckx,
- Johan De Houwer,
- Carl Mensch,
- Wouter Herrebout,
- Kourosch Abbaspour Tehrani and
- Bert U. W. Maes
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 144–153, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.16
- drug Mefloquine. The oxidation method can also be used to prepare metabolites of APIs which is illustrated for the natural product papaverine. ICP–MS analysis of the purified reaction products revealed that the base metal impurity was well below the regulatory limit. Keywords: base metal; benzylic
- occurred and (6-methylpyridin-2-yl)(p-tolyl)methanone (19b) was isolated in 64% yield as the sole product. These results demonstrate that the oxidation power of the catalytic system can be tuned by careful selection of the solvent as well as the base metal. Conclusion This work shows that the oxidation
- -benzylpyridines (1).a Iron and copper-catalyzed aerobic oxidation of pyridine-substituted 2-benzylpyridines (3).a The influence of the purification method on the amount of Fe impurities in papaveraldine (15) after oxidation. An extended solvent screening for the base metal-catalyzed aerobic oxidation reaction.a
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Figure 1: Hydrogen–deuterium exchange through acid-catalyzed imine–enamine tautomerization of 3h (0.5 M) and ...
Scheme 1: Benzylic oxygenation of benzoannulated azines and diazines (5).
Scheme 2: Classical (top) and new formal (bottom) synthesis of Mefloquine.
Scheme 3: Iron-catalyzed aerobic oxidation of papaverine (15).
Self-assembly of heteroleptic dinuclear metallosupramolecular kites from multivalent ligands via social self-sorting
- Christian Benkhäuser and
- Arne Lützen
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 693–700, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.79
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Scheme 1: Schematic representation of self-sorting effects in metallosupramolecular self-assembly processes.
Scheme 2: Schematic representation of our approach to discrete heteroleptic oligonuclear metallosupramolecula...
Figure 1: Tröger’s base-derived bis(phenanthroline) ligand (rac)-1 and bis(bipyridine) ligand 2.
Scheme 3: Synthesis of chiral bis(phenanthroline) ligand (rac)-1 from 3.
Scheme 4: Synthesis of bis(bipyridine) ligand 2 from 2-aminopyridine (4).
Figure 2: NMR spectra (500.1 MHz in DMSO-d6 at 295 K) of free ligands b) (rac)-1 and c) 2; 1:1 mixtures of li...
Figure 3: ESI mass spectrum (positive ion mode) of a 1:1:2 mixture of (rac)-1, 2, and CuBF4 sprayed from a 10...
Scheme 5: Summary of the coordination behavior of the two ligands 1 and 2 and their equimolar mixture towards...
Preparation of phosphines through C–P bond formation
- Iris Wauters,
- Wouter Debrouwer and
- Christian V. Stevens
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1064–1096, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.106
- or alkenes bearing no hydrogen on the double bond. Additionally, due to the absence of small rings containing a triple bond, no cyclic alkenylphosphines are accessible. Until now, the protocols lack sufficient control over selectivity and mostly give mixtures. Most addition products (radical, base
- , metal) are anti-Markovnikov 127, only a few palladium catalyzed reactions give the Markovnikov products 126. Several reviews on hydrophosphination of alkynes have been published [90][91][237]. Some recent developments will be discussed. In recent years research has mainly focused on metal-catalyzed
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Scheme 1: Synthesis of P-stereogenic phosphines 5 using menthylphosphinite borane diastereomers 2.
Scheme 2: Enantioselective synthesis of chiral phosphines 10 with ephedrine as a chiral auxiliary.
Scheme 3: Chlorophosphine boranes 11a as P-chirogenic electrophilic building blocks.
Scheme 4: Monoalkylation of phenylphosphine borane 15 with methyl iodide in the presence of Cinchona alkaloid...
Scheme 5: Preparation of tetraphosphine borane 19.
Scheme 6: Using chiral chlorophosphine-boranes 11b as phosphide borane 20 precursors.
Scheme 7: Nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling (dppe = 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane).
Scheme 8: Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction with organophosphorus stannanes 30.
Scheme 9: Copper iodide catalyzed carbon–phosphorus bond formation.
Scheme 10: Thermodynamic kinetic resolution as the origin of enantioselectivity in metal-catalyzed asymmetric ...
Scheme 11: Ru-catalyzed asymmetric phosphination of benzyl and alkyl chlorides 35 with HPPhMe (36a, PHOX = pho...
Scheme 12: Pt-catalyzed asymmetric alkylation of secondary phosphines 36b.
Scheme 13: Different adducts 43 can result from hydrophosphination.
Scheme 14: Pt-catalyzed asymmetric hydrophosphination.
Scheme 15: Intramolecular hydrophosphination of phosphinoalkene 47.
Scheme 16: Organocatalytic asymmetric hydrophosphination of α,β-unsaturated aldehydes 59.
Scheme 17: Preparation of phosphines using zinc organometallics.
Scheme 18: Preparation of alkenylphosphines 71a from alkenylzirconocenes 69 (dtc = N,N-diethyldithiocarbamate,...
Scheme 19: SNAr with P-chiral alkylmethylphosphine boranes 13c.
Scheme 20: Synthesis of QuinoxP 74 (TMEDA = tetramethylethylenediamine).
Scheme 21: Pd-Mediated couplings of a vinyl triflate 76 with diphenylphosphine borane 13e.
Figure 1: Menthone (83) and camphor (84) derived chiral phosphines.
Scheme 22: Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of vinyl tosylates 85 and 87 with diphenylphosphine bor...
Scheme 23: Attempt for the enantioselective palladium-catalyzed C–P cross-coupling reaction between an alkenyl...
Scheme 24: Enol phosphates 88 as vinylic coupling partners in the palladium-catalyzed C–P cross-coupling react...
Scheme 25: Nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling in the presence of zinc (dppe = 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane).
Scheme 26: Copper-catalyzed coupling of secondary phosphines with vinyl halide 94.
Scheme 27: Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of aryl iodides 97 with organoheteroatom stannanes 30.
Scheme 28: Synthesis of optically active phosphine boranes 100 by cross-coupling with a chiral phosphine boran...
Scheme 29: Palladium-catalyzed P–C cross-coupling reactions between primary or secondary phosphines and functi...
Scheme 30: Enantioselective synthesis of a P-chirogenic phosphine 108.
Scheme 31: Enantioselective arylation of silylphosphine 110 ((R,R)-Et-FerroTANE = 1,1'-bis((2R,4R)-2,4-diethyl...
Scheme 32: Nickel-catalyzed arylation of diphenylphosphine 25d.
Scheme 33: Nickel-catalyzed synthesis of (R)-BINAP 116 (dppe = 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane, DABCO = 1,4-d...
Scheme 34: Nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling between aryl bromides 119 and diphenylphosphine (25d) (dppp = 1,3-b...
Scheme 35: Stereocontrolled Pd(0)−Cu(I) cocatalyzed aromatic phosphorylation.
Scheme 36: Preparation of alkenylphosphines by hydrophosphination of alkynes.
Scheme 37: Palladium and nickel-catalyzed addition of P–H to alkynes 125a.
Scheme 38: Palladium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrophosphination of an alkyne 128.
Scheme 39: Ruthenium catalyzed hydrophosphination of propargyl alcohols 132 (cod = 1,5-cyclooctadiene).
Scheme 40: Cobalt-catalyzed hydrophosphination of alkynes 134a (acac = acetylacetone).
Scheme 41: Tandem phosphorus–carbon bond formation–oxyfunctionalization of substituted phenylacetylenes 125c (...
Scheme 42: Organolanthanide-catalyzed intramolecular hydrophosphination/cyclization of phosphinoalkynes 143.
Scheme 43: Hydrophosphination of alkynes 134c catalyzed by ytterbium-imine complexes 145 (hmpa = hexamethylpho...
Scheme 44: Calcium-mediated hydrophosphanylation of alkyne 134d.
Scheme 45: Formation and substitution of bromophosphine borane 151.
Scheme 46: General scheme for a nickel or copper catalyzed cross-coupling reaction.
Scheme 47: Copper-catalyzed synthesis of alkynylphosphines 156.
