One-pot Ugi-azide and Heck reactions for the synthesis of heterocyclic systems containing tetrazole and 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline

• Jiawei Niu,
• Yuhui Wang,
• Shenghu Yan,
• Yue Zhang,
• Xiaoming Ma,
• Qiang Zhang and
• Wei Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 912–920, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.81

• at 40 °C for 24 h in a sealed vial. Upon completion of the reaction, the reaction mixture was filtered and evaporated under vacuum to give crude products 5a. Further purification was conducted by flash chromatography with 1:6 petroleum ether/EtOAc to afford 5a in 92% yields. The adduct was confirmed

• was purified by flash chromatography with 1:4 ethyl acetate/petroleum ether to afford product 6a. General procedure for the one-pot synthesis of tetrazole-containing 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinolines 6 A mixture of 2-bromobenzaldehyde 1 (1 mmol), allylamine hydrochloride (2, 1 mmol), trimethylsilyl

• (3 mL) was added 10 mol % of Pd(OAc)2, 20 mol % of PPh3, 2 equiv of K2CO3 and the mixture stirred for 3 h at 105 °C under N2 atmosphere. After aqueous work-up, the crude product was purified by flash chromatography with 1:3 ethyl acetate/petroleum ether to afford products 6. General procedure for the

Skeletal rearrangement of 6,8-dioxabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-4-ols promoted by thionyl chloride or Appel conditions

• Martyn Jevric,
• Julian Klepp,
• Johannes Puschnig,
• Oscar Lamb,
• Christopher J. Sumby and
• Ben W. Greatrex

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 823–829, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.74

• chiral auxiliary 10a, and following a survey of conditions and isolation protocols, a 90% yield was obtained when 10a was heated in the presence of 2 equivalents of SOCl2 and 5 equivalents of pyridine in DCE. Flash chromatography of the chloroalkyl ether 11a resulted in significant loss due to hydrolysis

Isolation and structure determination of a new analog of polycavernosides from marine Okeania sp. cyanobacterium

• Kairi Umeda,
• Naoaki Kurisawa,
• Ghulam Jeelani,
• Tomoyoshi Nozaki,
• Kiyotake Suenaga and
• Arihiro Iwasaki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 645–652, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.57

• hexane. The aqueous MeOH portion was purified by reversed-phase column chromatography (ODS silica gel, MeOH/H2O), automated flash chromatography (hexane/EtOAc), and repeated reversed-phase HPLC to give polycavernoside E (1, 0.5 mg as a colorless oil). The isolation of compound 1 was directed by its

Entry to new spiroheterocycles via tandem Rh(II)-catalyzed O–H insertion/base-promoted cyclization involving diazoarylidene succinimides

• Alexander Yanovich,
• Anastasia Vepreva,
• Ksenia Malkova,
• Grigory Kantin and
• Dmitry Dar’in

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 561–569, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.48

• previously tested using 3-bromopropanol. When the reaction was carried out in a one-pot format, with the replacement of DCM by acetone, the desired product 5a could only be isolated in moderate yield (52%). In the case of preliminary isolation of the OH-insertion product 16a (flash chromatography), the

Metal-catalyzed coupling/carbonylative cyclizations for accessing dibenzodiazepinones: an expedient route to clozapine and other drugs

• Amina Moutayakine and
• Anthony J. Burke

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 193–204, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.19

• filtered through a celite pad to remove the residual catalyst and base. The solvent was then evaportated under reduced pressure and the crude was purified by flash chromatography (hexane/AcOEt 9:1), to yield o-(2-bromophenyl)aminoaniline (3) compound as a purple oil (0.057 g, 47% yield). Via Chan–Lam

• then evaporated under reduced pressure and the crude was purified by flash chromatography (hexane/AcOEt 9:1), to yield o-(2-bromophenyl)aminoaniline (3a) as a purple oil (0.07 g, 59% yield).1H NMR (CDCl3, 400 MHz) δ 4.00 (s, NH2, 2H), 5.76 (s, NH, 1H), 6.59–6.61 (d, J = 8 Hz, Ar, 1H), 6.65–6.69 (t, J

• celite and washed with DCM, then, the solvent was evaporated under reduced pressure to give a crude mixture. Further purification by flash chromatography (hexane/AcOEt 1:1), gave the desired compound 5,10-dihydro-11H-dibenzo[b,e][1,4]diazepin-11-one (4a) as a yellow solid yield (0.032 g, 80%). Mp 249–251

Synthesis of the 3’-O-sulfated TF antigen with a TEG-N₃ linker for glycodendrimersomes preparation to study lectin binding

• Mark Reihill,
• Hanyue Ma,
• Dennis Bengtsson and
• Stefan Oscarson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 173–180, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.17

• removed from the reaction mixture in vacuo. Sulfation was then performed through addition of SO3·NMe3 to the DMF solution. Consumption of 1 was observed by TLC after 72 hours and stirring with Dowex® 50WX4 (Na+ form) resin resulted in formation of target 2. Purification by flash chromatography, however

• , led to isolation of a mixture of 2 and a tin-related impurity (n-butyl chain evident by NMR). Acetylation of this material followed by flash chromatography proved ineffective in removing the unwanted entity. To overcome this problem, flash chromatography was performed before stirring with the ion

• solution: 25 g ammonium molybdate tetrahydrate, 0.5 g Ce(SO4)2, 50 mL H2SO4, 450 mL EtOH). Chromatography Silica gel flash chromatography was carried out using Davisil® LC60A (40–63 μm) silica gel or with automated flash chromatography systems, Buchi Reveleris® X2 (UV 200–500 nm and ELSD detection

1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate as suitable solvent for BF₃: the case of alkyne hydration. Chemistry vs electrochemistry

• Marta David,
• Elisa Galli,
• Richard C. D. Brown,
• Marta Feroci,
• Fabrizio Vetica and
• Martina Bortolami

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1966–1981, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.147

• Spinsolve 60 spectrometer operating at 62.5 MHz (1H NMR), 15.7 MHz (13C{1H} NMR) and 58.8 MHz (19F NMR) using the solvent as internal standard. All the NMR spectra of neat IL were performed on Spinsolve 60 spectrometer. The chemical shifts (δ) are given in ppm relative to TMS. Flash chromatography was

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

• for 1 h. After cooling, the reaction was quenched by the addition of ice and the precipitate was filtered off. The crude product was purified by flash chromatography on silica gel using chloroform as eluent yielding compound 3 (1.0 g, 78%) as white powder. Mp > 200 °C; 1H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) 7.91

• dried over Na2SO4. After the solvent was removed, the crude yellow product was carefully washed twice with acetonitrile to remove the starting materials. Further purification was achieved using flash chromatography on silica gel (eluent: dichloromethane/petroleum ether 1:2). Compound 4 (0.86 g, 61%) was

• dried over Na2SO4. After evaporation of the solvent, the crude residue was purified by flash chromatography on silica gel using a mixture of chloroform/petroleum ether/acetone 9:12:0.4 as eluent. 2,6-Bis(3,6-di-tert-butyl-9H-carbazol-9-yl)-4-(4-(trimethylsilylethynyl)phenyl)pyridine-3,5-dicarbonitrile

Secondary metabolites of Diaporthe cameroonensis, isolated from the Cameroonian medicinal plant Trema guineensis

• Bel Youssouf G. Mountessou,
• Élodie Gisèle M. Anoumedem,
• Blondelle M. Kemkuignou,
• Yasmina Marin-Felix,
• Frank Surup,
• Marc Stadler and
• Simeon F. Kouam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1555–1561, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.112

• with CH2Cl2/MeOH 97.5:2.5 (v/v) was subjected to a flash chromatography system (PLC 2020, Gilson) equipped with a VP Nucleodur C18 HTec column (10 µm, 250 × 40 mm). The chromatographic separation was performed by using a constant flow rate of 10 mL/min with the mobile phases made with solvent A

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

Acetaldehyde in the Enders triple cascade reaction via acetaldehyde dimethyl acetal

• Alessandro Brusa,
• Debora Iapadre,
• Maria Edith Casacchia,
• Alessio Carioscia,
• Giuliana Giorgianni,
• Giandomenico Magagnano,
• Fabio Pesciaioli and
• Armando Carlone

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1243–1250, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.92

• simple flash chromatography. Conclusion An unprecedented methodology for the synthesis of 4,6-disubstituted 5-nitrocyclohexene carbaldehydes with three contiguous stereogenic centers using acetaldehyde as one of the reaction components of an Enders cascade reaction has been developed. The masked form of

Asymmetric tandem conjugate addition and reaction with carbocations on acylimidazole Michael acceptors

• Brigita Mudráková,
• Renata Marcia de Figueiredo,
• Jean-Marc Campagne and
• Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 881–888, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.65

• quenched by the addition of 1 M HCl (6 mL) and EtOAc (6 mL). Then, the organic phase was washed with a sat. aq. solution of NaHCO3 (6 mL), brine (6 mL), dried over MgSO4, and concentrated under vacuum. The residue was purified by flash chromatography on SiO2 (hexane/EtOAc 15:1). Comparison of DFT

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

• . Elemental analyses were performed on a Flash 2000 Organic Elemental Analyser (Thermofisher). For samples containing chlorine, mercurimetric titration was used. IR spectra were recorded on a Nicolet iS50 equipped with an ATR diamond crystal (neat solid samples). Flash chromatography was performed using a

• Büchi Reveleris® X2 flash chromatography system equipped with a UV–vis/ELSD detector and Reveleris Flash pure cartridges (12–40 g, 35–45 μm, 53–80 Å) or puriFlash® Alumine N 32/63 µm cartridges (12 g). The reaction pathways were calculated [41] with the Gaussian 16 rev. C.01 program, using the B3LYP

Nostochopcerol, a new antibacterial monoacylglycerol from the edible cyanobacterium Nostochopsis lobatus

• Naoya Oku,
• Saki Hayashi,
• Yuji Yamaguchi,
• Hiroyuki Takenaka and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 133–138, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.13

• 75C18-PREP (Nacalai Tesque Inc., 75 µm) was used for ODS flash chromatography. NMR spectra were obtained on a Bruker AVANCE II 500 spectrometer using residual solvent peaks at δH/δC 3.30/49.0 ppm in CD3OH and 7.27/77.0 ppm in CDCl3 as chemical shift reference signals. HR-ESITOFMS analysis was conducted

• MeOH to adjust its concentration to 60% (v/v). This was extracted with CH2Cl2 for three times, and the CH2Cl2-soluble layer was partitioned between aqueous 90% MeOH and n-hexane. The most active aqueous MeOH layer (113.3 mg) was subjected to ODS flash chromatography with a stepwise elution by MeCN/50

Practical synthesis of isocoumarins via Rh(III)-catalyzed C–H activation/annulation cascade

• Qian-Ci Gao,
• Yi-Fei Li,
• Jun Xuan and
• Xiao-Qiang Hu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 100–106, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.10

• %), AgSbF6 (6.9 mg, 10 mol %), HOAc (60.0 mg, 1.0 mmol) and DCE (2 mL) under N2 atmosphere. Then, the reaction mixture was stirred at 100 °C for 16 h. The crude product was purified by flash chromatography on silica gel (petroleum ether/ethyl acetate 5:1) directly to give the desired products 3. (Note: a

Revisiting the bromination of 3β-hydroxycholest-5-ene with CBr₄/PPh₃ and the subsequent azidolysis of the resulting bromide, disparity in stereochemical behavior

• Christian Schumacher,
• Jas S. Ward,
• Kari Rissanen,
• Carsten Bolm and
• Mohamed Ramadan El Sayed Aly

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 91–99, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.9

• (80%), and 9 (8%), Scheme 2. Their polarities were so similar that they merged during color development on the hot TLC plate. Compounds 4 and 9 displayed in petroleum ether Rf values of 0.75 and 0.78, respectively. Finally, the two compounds could be separated by flash chromatography on silica gel of

• . Flash chromatography was carried out on silica gel (Baker, 30–60 µm) (Type-I silica gel) and LiChroprep Si 60 (Merck; Ø (15–25 µm) (Type-II silica gel). TLC Monitoring tests were carried out using plastic sheets precoated with silica gel 60 F245 (layer thickness 0.2 mm) purchased from Merck. Spots were

• -5-ene (1, 0.6 g, 1.5 mmol), PPh3 (0.5 g, 1.9 mmol) in DCM (5.0 mL) was stirred at ambient temperature, while CBr4 (0.6 g, 1.8 mmol) was added portionwise and stirring was continued for an hour. The mixture was evaporated in vacuo and the residue was subjected to flash chromatography on Type-I then

A study of the DIBAL-promoted selective debenzylation of α-cyclodextrin protected with two different benzyl groups

• Naser-Abdul Yousefi,
• Morten L. Zimmermann and
• Mikael Bols

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1553–1559, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.165

• shifts (δ) are reported in ppm relative to the residue solvent signals or other solvent present. Flash chromatography was carried out on a Büchi Pure Chromatography Instrument C-805 using silica gel columns. 6A–F-Hexa-O-(2,4-dichlorobenzyl)-2A–F,3A–F-dodeca-O-benzyl-α-cyclodextrin (7): NaH (60

• water (25 mL), dried (Na2SO4), and concentrated to a crude product (35 mg) that according to NMR contained 4% 8, 32% 9, and 64% 10. Flash chromatography in a EtOAc/heptane going from 1:3 to 1:1 gave 10 (8 mg, 3 μmol, 16%). NMR data and assignment see Table 4. HRMS–MALDI+ (m/z): [M + H]+ calcd for

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

• under argon. Acetonitrile, dichloromethane, DMSO, DMF and toluene were distilled over calcium hydride under argon. All other reagents were used as received. Chromatographic purifications refer to flash chromatography on silica gel. 1H NMR spectra were measured at 250, 300, 360 or 400 MHz using CDCl3 as

Synthesis of C6-modified mannose 1-phosphates and evaluation of derived sugar nucleotides against GDP-mannose dehydrogenase

• Sanaz Ahmadipour,
• Alice J. C. Wahart,
• Jonathan P. Dolan,
• Laura Beswick,
• Chris S. Hawes,
• Robert A. Field and
• Gavin J. Miller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1379–1384, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.142

• n-BuLi at −78 °C. This afforded protected anomeric phosphate 16, confirmed by 1H and 13C NMR data (H1 δH 6.01 ppm, 3JH1–P = 6.7 Hz, 3JH1–H2 = 1.8 Hz; C1 δC 96.1 ppm, 2JC1–P = 5.9 Hz). Following an initial purification of 16 using silica gel flash chromatography, the material was crystallised using a

Enantioselective total synthesis of putative dihydrorosefuran, a monoterpene with an unique 2,5-dihydrofuran structure

• Irene Torres-García,
• Josefa L. López-Martínez,
• Rocío López-Domene,
• Manuel Muñoz-Dorado,
• Ignacio Rodríguez-García and
• Miriam Álvarez-Corral

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1264–1269, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.132

• (2 mL) was dripped and the mixture was stirred for 2.5 hours. The mixture was filtered, diluted with EtOAc, washed with 3% HCl and brine, and dried (anhydrous MgSO4), and the solvent was removed. The residue was purified by flash chromatography (n-hexane/EtOAc 8:2) to afford ethyl 4-hydroxy-5

Automated grindstone chemistry: a simple and facile way for PEG-assisted stoichiometry-controlled halogenation of phenols and anilines using N-halosuccinimides

• Dharmendra Das,
• Akhil A. Bhosle,
• Amrita Chatterjee and
• Mainak Banerjee

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 999–1008, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.100

• Agate mortar–pestle. In each case, once the reaction got over, the crude product was directly slurried by the addition of silica gel (230–400 mesh, approximately 1 g) and purified by flash chromatography eluting with varying proportions of EtOAc/petroleum ether; thus, a typical work-up step was avoided

• conversion was observed, 0.8–1 g of silica gel (230–400 mesh) was added and the slurry was subjected to flash chromatography and eluted with a mixture of EtOAc/petroleum ether to afford the pure monobromo phenol derivative. The side product succinimide was subsequently eluted using MeOH/CHCl3 1:10

A trustworthy mechanochemical route to isocyanides

• Francesco Basoccu,
• Federico Cuccu,
• Federico Casti,
• Rita Mocci,
• Claudia Fattuoni and
• Andrea Porcheddu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 732–737, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.73

• hydrolyse the p-tosyl chloride excess. Our approach for the removal of the unreacted p-tosyl chloride was demonstrated to be the most feasible and eco-friendly compared with the reported techniques, which imply the use of cellulose with a large excess of pyridine [40] and the need for flash chromatography

Identification of the new prenyltransferase Ubi-297 from marine bacteria and elucidation of its substrate specificity

• Jamshid Amiri Moghaddam,
• Huijuan Guo,
• Karsten Willing,
• Thomas Wichard and
• Christine Beemelmanns

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 722–731, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.72

• methanol (1.0 L), dried under vacuum, and the resultant MeOH extract was then extracted with hexane (120 mL) and dried again under vacuum. The hexane extract was purified by flash chromatography (Biotage Isolera Prime) over a silica gel column (eluent: cyclohexane/EtOAc 100:0 to 80:20 to 0:100). The

Unexpected chiral vicinal tetrasubstituted diamines via borylcopper-mediated homocoupling of isatin imines

• Marco Manenti,
• Leonardo Lo Presti,
• Giorgio Molteni and
• Alessandra Silvani

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 303–308, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.34

• optimized conditions (Table 1, entry 12) followed by flash chromatography, the unprecedented bisoxindole 2a was fully characterized by high-resolution mass spectrometry and by one- and two-dimensional NMR analysis. In particular, from HSQC, HMBC and COSY experiments all single frequencies could be safely

Anomeric 1,2,3-triazole-linked sialic acid derivatives show selective inhibition towards a bacterial neuraminidase over a trypanosome trans-sialidase

• Peterson de Andrade,
• Sanaz Ahmadipour and
• Robert A. Field

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 208–216, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.24

• ) and compounds were visualised by UV irradiation (λ = 254 nm) and/or dipping in ethanol/sulfuric acid (95:5 v/v) followed by heating. A Biotage SP4 flash chromatography system was used for purification of the protected sugars with normal phase silica (pre-packed SNAP Ultra cartridges). Deprotected

• ). The organic layer was dried over MgSO4, filtered, concentrated under vacuum and purified by flash chromatography [cartridge: SNAP Ultra 10g; isocratic: 80–80% and 100–100% EtOAc/hexane (v:v); flow: 12 mL/min] to afford 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazole derivatives 2a–h in good yields and purity. After