C–H Trifluoromethylthiolation of aldehyde hydrazones

• Victor Levet,
• Balu Ramesh,
• Congyang Wang and
• Tatiana Besset

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2883–2890, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.242

• of 5-thioxo-1,2,4-triazolium inner salts by the nucleophilic thiocyanation of N,N-dialkylhydrazonoyl bromides, in situ generated from aldehyde-derived hydrazones in the presence of an oxidant (NBS, (NH4)2S2O8), Scheme 1). In 2024, the synthesis of 2‑imino-1,3,4-thiadiazoles was achieved by

• cyclization of aryl hydrazones with aryl isothiocyanates promoted by elemental sulfur [70]. In the course of their studies for the thiocyanation of ketene dithioacetals, Yang, Wang and co-workers developed an electrochemical oxidization-based synthetic strategy to circumvent the need for external oxidants. In

• this context, a unique example of the thiocyanation of a hydrazone was depicted [71]. A key feature of the approach is to circumvent the need for external oxidants. In the same vein, the group of Hajra [72] and Yang [73], independently, investigated the electrochemical C–H sulfonylation of a library of

Harnessing the versatility of hydrazones through electrosynthetic oxidative transformations

• Aurélie Claraz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1988–2004, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.175

• direct C(sp2)–H functionalization of aldehyde-derived N,N-dialkylhydrazones has been also explored for constructing various azacycles. In 2021, the group of Ruan and Feng studied the electrochemical C(sp2)–H thiocyanation of aldehyde-derived N,N-dialkylhydrazones 95 with sodium thiocyanate (96) to

• thiocyanation of ketene dithioacetals, Wang and Yang et al. mentioned one example of thiocyanation of benzaldehyde-derived hydrazone 120 using potassium thiocyanate as a source of thiocyanate radical. The electrolysis was conducted in the presence of two equivalents of water in acetonitrile with lithium

• aldehyde-derived hydrazones [70]. Azolation of aldehyde-derived hydrazones [72]. Thiocyanation of benzaldehyde-derived hydrazone 122 [73]. Sulfonylation of aromatic aldehyde-derived hydrazones [74]. Trifluoromethylation of aromatic aldehyde-derived hydrazones [76]. Electrooxidation of benzophenone

Synthesis of 4-functionalized pyrazoles via oxidative thio- or selenocyanation mediated by PhICl₂ and NH₄SCN/KSeCN

• Jialiang Wu,
• Haofeng Shi,
• Xuemin Li,
• Jiaxin He,
• Chen Zhang,
• Fengxia Sun and
• Yunfei Du

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1453–1461, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.128

• ; thiocyanation; thiocyanogen chloride; Introduction Pyrazoles and their derivatives are an important class of five-membered heterocyclic compounds [1][2][3][4][5] that have drawn increasing attention from organic chemists, due to their potential biological and pharmaceutical properties including anti

• of efforts to developing efficient thio/selenocyanation approaches [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41]. Specifically, a plethora of synthetic strategies have been reported for the thiocyanation of heteroaromatic compounds including arenes, indoles, carbazoles, pyrroles, and imidazopyridines [42][43

• ][44][45]. However, the electrophilic thiocyanation of biologically important pyrazoles has been less explored [46][47][48]. Among them, the majority of the reported methods proceed through a radical pathway, with the SCN radical generated by the reaction of the thiocyanate source with a corresponding

Copper-based fluorinated reagents for the synthesis of CF₂R-containing molecules (R ≠ F)

• Louise Ruyet and
• Tatiana Besset

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1051–1065, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.92

• on a Sandmeyer thiocyanation reaction followed by a Langlois-type nucleophilic substitution of the cyano group by the CF2PO(OEt)2 residue [55]. Several (diethylphosphono)difluoromethylthiolated products were obtained and this report further showcased the potential of using a copper-based reagent for

Applications of organocatalysed visible-light photoredox reactions for medicinal chemistry

• Michael K. Bogdos,
• Emmanuel Pinard and
• John A. Murphy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2035–2064, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.179

• compatibility. Hajra et al. have reported the direct C–H thiocyanation of substituted imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines, using ammonium thiocyanate, in combination with Eosin Y under irradiation by blue LEDs (Scheme 9) [52]. This is another photoredox example of C–S bond formation, in this case to a highly versatile

Photocatalytic formation of carbon–sulfur bonds

• Alexander Wimmer and
• Burkhard König

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 54–83, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.4

• thiocyanates The first photoredox-catalyzed thiocyanation reaction using ammonium thiocyanate as starting material was published in 2014 by Li and co-workers (Scheme 25) [60]. They envisioned that photooxidation of ammonium thiocyanate would lead to a reactive thiocyanate radical. Subsequent radical addition

• to heteroaromatic substrates like indoles would produce valuable synthetic intermediates. By applying Rose Bengal as organic photocatalyst and aerobic oxygen as terminal oxidant, they were able to functionalize a series of indole derivatives and also could show the applicability of the thiocyanation

• the indole, to the respective cation. Deprotonation yields the desired thiocyanated indole derivative. One year later, the group of Hajra reported a similar approach for the thiocyanation of imidazoheterocycles, applying Eosin Y as photoredox catalyst under aerobic conditions (Scheme 26) [61]. The

Reaction of allene esters with Selectfluor/TMSX (X = I, Br, Cl) and Selectfluor/NH₄SCN: Competing oxidative/electrophilic dihalogenation and nucleophilic/conjugate addition

• A. Srinivas Reddy and
• Kenneth K. Laali

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1641–1648, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.180

• additions in halofunctionalization with TMSX/Selectfluor and thiocyanation reactions with NH4SCN/Selectfluor. These competing pathways are influenced by the nature of the anion, allene structure, and the choice of solvent. Keywords: allene esters; oxidative electrophilic dihalogenation/conjugate addition

• Selectfluor/KBr [13], and the thiocyanation of representative heteroarenes and ketones with NH4SCN [14][15]. Oxidative transformations such as amide to imide mediated by Selectfluor in combination with CuBr have also been shown [16][17]. In an earlier study, we reported on the potential of Selectfluor to act

• ] as the solvent (Scheme 3) resulted in the formation of the dichloroalkenoate 1k as a major component, along with isomeric 1j and 1i (1k and 1j were inseparable by chromatography and were isolated together). Focusing on thiocyanation, the reaction of benzyl allenoate (1) was studied with NH4SCN