Oxidative hydrolysis of aliphatic bromoalkenes: scope study and reactivity insights

• Amol P. Jadhav and
• Claude Y. Legault

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1286–1291, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.111

• utilizing a hypervalent iodine-catalyzed oxidative hydrolysis reaction. This catalytic process provides both symmetrical and unsymmetrical dialkyl bromoketones with moderate yields across a broad range of bromoalkene substrates. Our studies also reveal the formation of Ritter-type side products by an

• alternative reaction pathway. Keywords: bromoalkenes; bromoketones; hypervalent iodine; oxidative hydrolysis; Ritter-type; Introduction Organic synthesis heavily relies on oxidative transformations to facilitate chemical reactions. One popular method for achieving these transformations is using redox-active

• catalytic amount of TsOH·H2O (0.2 equiv each), in the presence of m-CPBA (1.2 equiv) proved to be the most superior conditions (59% NMR yield, Table 2, entry 3). To rule out the possibility of direct involvement of m-CPBA in the oxidative hydrolysis reaction, 1a was reacted in the absence of any hypervalent

Synthesis of legonmycins A and B, C(7a)-hydroxylated bacterial pyrrolizidines

• Wilfred J. M. Lewis,
• David M. Shaw and
• Jeremy Robertson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 334–342, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.31

• operations overall from methyl N-Boc-prolinate. The key step proceeds in each case via N,O-diacylation, then selective oxidative hydrolysis of the intermediate bicyclic pyrrole and establishes a precedent for the synthesis of related C(7a)-hydroxylated pyrrolizidines. Keywords: acyloxypyrroles; bacterial

• spectrum) and a shift in the C(7a) resonance. The complication of solvent incorporation was avoided by running both the acylation and oxidative hydrolysis steps in acetonitrile, with water added in the second step. The oxidation step could be carried out either with a stoichiometric amount of I2, or just

• 10 mol % when O2 was bubbled gently through the reaction mixture. Additionally, since both the optimized diacylation and oxidative hydrolysis steps were carried out in acetonitrile, the transformation of the intermediate 17 into legonmycin A was conveniently performed as a one-flask process

Syntheses of spliceostatins and thailanstatins: a review

• William A. Donaldson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1991–2006, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.166

• removal of the dithiane protecting group and the cyclic-ketal formation gave 84. The oxidative hydrolysis of the PMB ether and the reaction with mCPBA afforded the epoxide 85. While relatively short (9 steps), the nonstereoselective formation of 81a/b led to a lower overall yield. Syntheses of the C-1–C-6