Methodology for awakening the potential secondary metabolic capacity in actinomycetes

• Shun Saito and
• Midori A. Arai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 753–766, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.69

• carbonate and terminal olefin functionalities [50]. Thus, artificial methods of genetic engineering and chemistry also play an important role in the identification of novel secondary metabolites. Culture conditions Medium composition, pH, oxygen supply, light Simply modifying the culture conditions is an

Palladium-catalyzed three-component radical-polar crossover carboamination of 1,3-dienes or allenes with diazo esters and amines

• Geng-Xin Liu,
• Xiao-Ting Jie,
• Ge-Jun Niu,
• Li-Sheng Yang,
• Xing-Lin Li,
• Jian Luo and
• Wen-Hao Hu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 661–671, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.59

• (Table 1, entry 7), whereas only low yields of 4a were observed with Pd(0) catalysts Pd(PPh3)4 and Pd2(dba)3 (Table 1, entries 8 and 9). Moreover, adding potassium carbonate as additive failed to furnish 4a, demonstrating that the trace amount of acid from the Pd(II) catalyst may facilitate the formation

Synthesis of 2,2-difluoro-1,3-diketone and 2,2-difluoro-1,3-ketoester derivatives using fluorine gas

• Alexander S. Hampton,
• David R. W. Hodgson,
• Graham McDougald,
• Linhua Wang and
• Graham Sandford

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 460–469, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.41

• , but the second fluorination step occurs only after reaction for several days. In the solid phase, mechanical milling of the diketone substrate with solid Selectfluor in the presence of sodium carbonate [13][14], and reaction of ketones with a strong base and an N–F reagent give rise to the

• ) gave only relatively low conversions to 2a and 3a. Other organic nitrogen bases were tested, and we found that quinuclidine (entries 8 and 9, Table 1) gave high conversion to difluorinated product 3a, with very little monofluorinated product 2a being observed. Suspensions of caesium carbonate or sodium

• effective base to facilitate the formation of 1a-enolate from 1a-enol and thus facilitate the initial monofluorination step by either fluorine or N-fluoroammonium ion 6. Carbonate ions are also expected to be highly basic in MeCN, however, their limited solubility is likely to inhibit their ability to act

Mechanisms for radical reactions initiating from N-hydroxyphthalimide esters

• Carlos R. Azpilcueta-Nicolas and
• Jean-Philip Lumb

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 346–378, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.35

• co-workers reported that the combination of NHPI esters and cesium carbonate (Cs2CO3) gave rise to a new absorption band in the visible region, suggesting the formation of a photoactive charge-transfer complex [70]. This activation mode was initially employed in a decarboxylative coupling reaction

• (Scheme 30B). Then, cesium carbonate deprotonates the enol OH in 145, to provide the enolate form of Breslow’s intermediate 146, which is a suitable reducing agent to trigger the fragmentation of NHPI ester 58 (E°ox = −0.97 V vs SCE in MeCN). Hence, it is proposed that enolate 146 induces the single

Synthesis of N-acyl carbazoles, phenoxazines and acridines from cyclic diaryliodonium salts

• Nils Clamor,
• Mattis Damrath,
• Thomas J. Kuczmera,
• Daniel Duvinage and
• Boris J. Nachtsheim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 12–16, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.2

• mol % raised yields to synthetically useful 74% (Table 1, entry 7). The excess amount of 1a was still necessary as a significant amount of iodobiphenyl is formed under the reaction conditions as a result of an undesired heterolytic iodine–carbon bond cleavage. Other carbonate bases and changing the Cu

Aldiminium and 1,2,3-triazolium dithiocarboxylate zwitterions derived from cyclic (alkyl)(amino) and mesoionic carbenes

• Nedra Touj,
• François Mazars,
• Guillermo Zaragoza and
• Lionel Delaude

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1947–1956, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.145

• . Yet, we did not try to purify them any further. Before closing this section, it should be stressed that we were not able to isolate any dithiocarboxylate betaines when aldiminium salt 3b or triazolium salt 5a were treated with cesium carbonate and carbon disulfide in acetonitrile in the presence of

Construction of diazepine-containing spiroindolines via annulation reaction of α-halogenated N-acylhydrazones and isatin-derived MBH carbonates

• Xing Liu,
• Wenjing Shi,
• Jing Sun and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1923–1932, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.143

• features a broad substrate scope, simple reaction conditions, and high molecular convergence. Keywords: acylhydrazone; annulation; azepine; MBH carbonate; spirooxindole; Introduction Among the various N-containing heterocyclic compounds, 1,2-diazepine represents one of the important privileged structural

Aromatic systems with two and three pyridine-2,6-dicarbazolyl-3,5-dicarbonitrile fragments as electron-transporting organic semiconductors exhibiting long-lived emissions

• Karolis Leitonas,
• Brigita Vigante,
• Dmytro Volyniuk,
• Audrius Bucinskas,
• Pavels Dimitrijevs,
• Sindija Lapcinska,
• Pavel Arsenyan and
• Juozas Vidas Grazulevicius

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1867–1880, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.139

• copper(I) iodide in DMF/DIPEA solution at 55 °C with subsequent desilylation with potassium carbonate. Finally, butadiyne 6 was prepared by a homocoupling reaction of 5 with 80% yield. Derivatives containing two dicyanopyridyl moieties, 7 and 8, were prepared starting with a Sonogashira coupling of

• , 129.64, 127.20, 125.71, 124.18, 116.57, 114.00, 112.34, 103.64, 99.21, 98.30, 34.90, 31.81; MS–ESI+ (m/z): 856 ([M + H]+, 100). Next, potassium carbonate (69 mg, 0.5 mmol, 1 equiv) was added to a solution of 2,6-bis-(3,6-di-tert-butyl-9H-carbazol-9-yl)-4-(4-(trimethylsilylethynyl)phenyl)pyridine-3,5

Thienothiophene-based organic light-emitting diode: synthesis, photophysical properties and application

• Recep Isci and
• Turan Ozturk

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1849–1857, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.137

• sieves (4 Å). Dichloromethane (Aldrich), methanol (Merck), and sodium carbonate (Merck) were used as received. Compounds 2–6 were synthesized following our previous reports [20][21][22][23][44][45][46][47]. The characterization data of 7 and 8 are compatible with the published data in ref. [23

• reaction flask sealed and the mixture stirred at 75 °C for 48 h. Afterwards, the reaction mixture was filtered through celite eluting with CH2Cl2, extracted with CH2Cl2/water, and the organic phase was washed with sodium carbonate solution (10%) and water, dried over sodium sulfate, filtered, and the

A novel recyclable organocatalyst for the gram-scale enantioselective synthesis of (S)-baclofen

• Gyula Dargó,
• Dóra Erdélyi,
• Balázs Molnár,
• Péter Kisszékelyi,
• Zsófia Garádi and
• József Kupai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1811–1824, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.133

• 6 (732 mg, 1.19 mmol) was dissolved in DMF (15 mL), and caesium carbonate (1.75 g, 5.37 mmol, 4.5 equiv) was added to the solution at 0 °C. The reaction mixture was stirred for 20 min at this temperature. Then, the DMF (10 mL) solution of tosylated N-Boc-protected ethanolamine (955 mg, 3.03 mmol

• -tris(octadecyloxy)benzoate (9) Methyl gallate (8, 15 g, 0.082 mol) was dissolved in DMF (150 mL), and 1-bromooctadecane (87.3 g, 0.262 mol) and potassium carbonate (67.5 g, 0.489 mol) were added. To the resulting reaction mixture, further DMF (150 mL) was added. After stirring for 16 hours at 80 °C

One-pot nucleophilic substitution–double click reactions of biazides leading to functionalized bis(1,2,3-triazole) derivatives

• Hans-Ulrich Reissig and
• Fei Yu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1399–1407, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.101

• presence of sodium ascorbate as reducing agent and sodium carbonate as base as well as ʟ-proline as ligand in a DMF/water mixture at 60 °C provided this promising result. These conditions applied are similar to those described by Fokin et al. [24], which had also been employed by other groups [37][38]. The

Consecutive four-component synthesis of trisubstituted 3-iodoindoles by an alkynylation–cyclization–iodination–alkylation sequence

• Nadia Ledermann,
• Alae-Eddine Moubsit and
• Thomas J. J. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1379–1385, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.99

• alkynyl-substituted 3-iodoindole 6 as product in 42% isolated yield in the sense of a pseudo-five-component reaction (Scheme 3). Finally, the 3-iodoindole 5a and arylboronic acids 7 were employed in a standard Suzuki protocol with cesium carbonate as a base to give rise to the formation of 1,2,3

• , 63.81; H, 3.74; N, 2.96. Synthesis of 1,2,3-trisubstituted indole 8b (typical procedure) 3-Iodoindole 5a (167 mg, 0.50 mmol), (p-tolyl)boronic acid (7b, 204 mg, 1.50 mmol), Pd(PPh3)4 (28.9 mg, 25.0 μmol), and cesium carbonate (652 mg, 2.00 mmol) were placed in an oven-dried Schlenk tube with magnetic

Synthesis of ether lipids: natural compounds and analogues

• Marco Antônio G. B. Gomes,
• Alicia Bauduin,
• Chloé Le Roux,
• Romain Fouinneteau,
• Wilfried Berthe,
• Mathieu Berchel,
• Hélène Couthon and
• Paul-Alain Jaffrès

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1299–1369, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.96

• derivative 2.6. The treatment of 2.6 with trimethylamine produced an ammonium salt. A treatment with silver carbonate was applied to remove any traces of bromide salts. Then, the secondary alcohol was deprotected by hydrogenolysis to produce 2.7 (lyso-PAF). Finally, the acetylation of the secondary alcohol

• was converted to the epoxide 7.5 by cyclisation in the presence of potassium carbonate in methanol, thus producing the interesting building block 7.5. A second option, optimized to avoid the formation of epoxide, used a hindered base and the reactive benzyltriflate as electrophile to achieve under

Radical ligand transfer: a general strategy for radical functionalization

• David T. Nemoto Jr,
• Kang-Jie Bian,
• Shih-Chieh Kao and
• Julian G. West

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1225–1233, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.90

• beautiful decarboxylative azidation examples, combining iron-mediated photodecarboxylation via LMCT and azide RLT (Scheme 5) [11]. Irradiating a substoichiometric amount of iron(III) nitrate hydrate III in the presence of carboxylic acid, TMS azide, and sodium carbonate allows for direct synthesis of alkyl

Enabling artificial photosynthesis systems with molecular recycling: A review of photo- and electrochemical methods for regenerating organic sacrificial electron donors

• Grace A. Lowe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1198–1215, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.88

Pyridine C(sp²)–H bond functionalization under transition-metal and rare earth metal catalysis

• Haritha Sindhe,
• Malladi Mounika Reddy,
• Karthikeyan Rajkumar,
• Akshay Kamble,
• Amardeep Singh,
• Anand Kumar and
• Satyasheel Sharma

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 820–863, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.62

• and 163 through a two-fold C–H activation under palladium catalysis. Silver carbonate and 2,6-lutidine were found to be an effective base and ligand, respectively, for providing the desired products 164 and 165 in good yields (Scheme 31). In 2015, an economic route for copper-catalyzed biaryl coupling

Eschenmoser coupling reactions starting from primary thioamides. When do they work and when not?

• Lukáš Marek,
• Jiří Váňa,
• Jan Svoboda and
• Jiří Hanusek

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 808–819, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.61

• 5.44 in MeOH) [22] the formation of thiazole/thiazol-4-one (XI/XIII) is clearly preferred, whereas reactions in common chlorinated solvents (CH2Cl2, CHCl3) containing either an equivalent of strong base (methoxide) or excess of medium base in heterogeneous system (e.g., carbonate with pKa = 9.93 in

Combretastatins D series and analogues: from isolation, synthetic challenges and biological activities

• Jorge de Lima Neto and
• Paulo Henrique Menezes

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 399–427, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.31

• potassium carbonate or methylcopper in pyridine led to compound 116 in only 10% yield. The cleavage of the benzyl ether proved to be complicated, as TFA also opened the lactone at the ester group (Scheme 24) [55]. In an attempt to circumvent these problems, the authors chose to use isovanillin (80) as

Strategies to access the [5-8] bicyclic core encountered in the sesquiterpene, diterpene and sesterterpene series

• Cécile Alleman,
• Charlène Gadais,
• Laurent Legentil and
• François-Hugues Porée

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 245–281, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.23

Synthetic study toward tridachiapyrone B

• Morgan Cormier,
• Florian Hernvann and
• Michaël De Paolis

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1741–1748, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.183

• allyltitanocene reagents to carbonyl compounds was described by Sato which were prepared from the corresponding allyl carbonates exposed to the combination of [Cp2TiCl2]/n-BuLi [40]. Pleasingly, conducting the coupling of carbonate 20 to 5 in conditions inspired from Carreira’s study (Scheme 7b) led to the

A new route for the synthesis of 1-deazaguanine and 1-deazahypoxanthine

• Raphael Bereiter,
• Marco Oberlechner and
• Ronald Micura

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1617–1624, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.172

• 3,4-dihydropyran in dimethylformamide to obtain the corresponding tetrahydropyranyl-protected amine 17. Subsequently, a copper-catalyzed C–O bond formation at C6 using benzyl alcohol in the presence of caesium carbonate, copper(I) iodide, and 1,10-phenanthroline furnished benzyl ether 18 in excellent

• -(tetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-yl)-1-deazapurine (18) Compound 17 (1.72 g, 5.23 mmol), copper(I) iodide (CuI, 99.52 mg, 0.52 mmol), 1,10-phenanthroline (188.35 mg, 1.05 mmol), caesium carbonate (Cs2CO3, 2.38 g, 7.32 mmol) and benzyl alcohol (BnOH, 1.13 g, 1.07 mL, 10.45 mmol) were suspended in 2.62 mL toluene (0.5 mL

• )), 154.08 (H-C(2)), 162.52 (H-C(6)); ESIMS (m/z): [M + H]+ calcd for 151.06; found, 151.06. O6-Benzyl-1-deazahypoxanthine (31) Compound 17 (500 mg, 1.52 mmol), copper(I) iodide (CuI, 28.93 mg, 152 µmol), 1,10-phenanthroline (54.75 mg, 304 µmol), caesium carbonate (Cs2CO3, 692.93 mg, 2.13 mmol) and benzyl

Formal total synthesis of macarpine via a Au(I)-catalyzed 6-endo-dig cycloisomerization strategy

• Jiayue Fu,
• Bingbing Li,
• Zefang Zhou,
• Maosheng Cheng,
• Lu Yang and
• Yongxiang Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1589–1595, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.169

• deprotection of the silyl group was accomplished in the presence of potassium carbonate (K2CO3) and methanol to provide the terminal alkyne 5 in 96% yield in two steps. The iodoarene 8 [12][16] was facilely synthesized from sesamol (6) via methylation and iodination in an overall yield of 67%. With the

Preparation of an advanced intermediate for the synthesis of leustroducsins and phoslactomycins by heterocycloaddition

• Anaïs Rousseau,
• Guillaume Vincent and
• Cyrille Kouklovsky

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1385–1395, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.143

• the reaction medium, it was found necessary to add a small amount of calcium carbonate. Optically active cycloadduct 10b was obtained in 73% yield and 86% ee after nitrogen protection as its Boc-carbamate. Ketone 11b was obtained by Red-Al reduction in identical yield to the racemic equivalent. We

• (981 mg, 2.06 mmol, 2 equiv), calcium carbonate (206 mg, 2.06 mmol, 2 equiv) and water (40 µL, 2.06 mmol, 2 equiv) in isopropanol (1.8 mL). The mixture was stirred at rt for 30 h. Water (0.75 mL) was added and the solution stirred for additional 1 h. The pH was adjusted to 8 by addition of saturated

• mmol, 0.25 equiv) was added. The reaction mixture was stirred at rt for 24 h then neutralized by addition of a few drops of a saturated sodium hydrogen carbonate solution. The solvents were removed under reduced pressure and the residue partioned between ethyl acetate (5 mL) and water (2.5 mL). The

Lewis acid-catalyzed Pudovik reaction–phospha-Brook rearrangement sequence to access phosphoric esters

• Jin Yang,
• Dang-Wei Qian and
• Shang-Dong Yang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1188–1194, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.123

• catalyst through a similar transformation under solvent-free conditions [44]. Recently, Zhang’s group disclosed a cesium carbonate-catalyzed Pudovik reaction–phospha-Brook rearrangement sequence and extended the phosphorus source from phosphate to phosphonate [45]. Despite of these important advancements

A versatile way for the synthesis of monomethylamines by reduction of N-substituted carbonylimidazoles with the NaBH₄/I₂ system

• Lin Chen,
• Xuan Zhou,
• Zhiyong Chen,
• Changxu Wang,
• Shunjie Wang and
• Hanbing Teng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1032–1039, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.104

• chemicals, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and dyes [1][2][3][4]. Traditional methods for the preparation of N-methylamines involve the direct methylation of amines by using methyl halides [5][6][7], dimethyl sulfate [8], diazomethane [9], methyl triflate [10][11] or dimethyl carbonate [12][13][14][15] as