Regioselective quinazoline C2 modifications through the azide–tetrazole tautomeric equilibrium

• Dāgs Dāvis Līpiņš,
• Andris Jeminejs,
• Una Ušacka,
• Anatoly Mishnev,
• Māris Turks and
• Irina Novosjolova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 675–683, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.61

• explanation for the present tetrazole form in the solutions. Surprisingly, FTIR and X-ray analyses of 12a in the solid state indicated the existence of 12a in the azide form. In subsequent experiments it was discovered that for less nucleophilic N-nucleophiles (piperidine, morpholine, N-methylpiperazine) C2

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

• reactive under the photocatalytic conditions, providing the corresponding 1,2-adducts 6a, 6b, and 6c smoothly in 73%, 93% and 34% yields, respectively. Commercially available amines with a broad range of heterocyclic rings (e.g., morpholine, piperazine, pyrrolidine, homopiperazine) also readily

Morpholine-mediated defluorinative cycloaddition of gem-difluoroalkenes and organic azides

• Tzu-Yu Huang,
• Mario Djugovski,
• Sweta Adhikari,
• Destinee L. Manning and
• Sudeshna Roy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1545–1554, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.111

• gem-difluoroalkenes with organic azides in morpholine as a solvent to construct fully decorated morpholine-substituted 1,2,3-triazoles. Mechanistic studies revealed the formation of an addition–elimination intermediate of morpholine and gem-difluoroalkenes prior to the triazolization reaction via two

• reactions with azoles and amines (Figure 1B) are also well-precedented [10]. Herein, we address a critical gap in the literature and report the discovery of a cycloaddition of gem-difluoroalkenes and organic azides mediated by a base and with morpholine as a solvent. The cycloaddition adducts, 1,4,5

• -trisubstituted-1,2,3-triazoles, with a pendant morpholine at the C-4 position are formed with complete regiocontrol via β-fluoride elimination in an SNV-like transformation (Figure 1C). 1,2,3-Triazoles are a privileged scaffold in medicinal chemistry with a myriad of pharmacological activities against cancer [11

Complexes of resorcin[4]arene with secondary amines: synthesis, solvent influence on “in-out” structure, and theoretical calculations of non-covalent interactions

• Waldemar Iwanek

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1525–1536, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.109

• -polar solvents. When using N,N-dimethylamine, N,N-diethylamine, pyrrolidine, piperidine, morpholine and N-methylpiperazine as sec-amine component, the 1H NMR spectra reveal the formation of complexes with a 1:1 stoichiometry. However, for aliphatic amines with longer hydrocarbon chains, like

• transferred from the hydroxy group of R[4]A to the amine molecule, forming a hydrogen bond between the proton of the positively charged amino group and the oxygen anion in the R[4]A molecule (ArO−···H+NHR2). For sec-amine molecules such as morpholine and N-methylpiperazine, an “out” complex is formed by

• substituents with R[4]A in ethanol were synthesized. The composition of the complexes was determined based on the integration of amine proton signals in the 1H NMR spectra. For small molecule sec-amines such as N,N-dimethylamine, N,N-diethylamine, and cyclic amines (pyrrolidine, piperidine, morpholine, N

N-Sulfenylsuccinimide/phthalimide: an alternative sulfenylating reagent in organic transformations

• Fatemeh Doraghi,
• Seyedeh Pegah Aledavoud,
• Mehdi Ghanbarlou,
• Bagher Larijani and
• Mohammad Mahdavi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1471–1502, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.106

• -thiophthalimides led to sulfenamides promoted by 2-ethoxyethanol under microwave irradiation [100]. Alkylamines, such as morpholine, cyclohexylamine, pyrrolidine, and tert-butylamine were participated in this coupling process. All reactions occurred in a shorter time with higher chemical yields compared to the

Metal catalyst-free N-allylation/alkylation of imidazole and benzimidazole with Morita–Baylis–Hillman (MBH) alcohols and acetates

• Olfa Mhasni,
• Jalloul Bouajila and
• Farhat Rezgui

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1251–1258, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.93

• , such alcohols were in situ converted into the corresponding O-allyl carbamates as leaving groups, followed by their reaction with imidazoles, affording the SN2’ products 3 (Scheme 1, reaction 1, iii). Correlatively, we have previously reported a direct amination of cyclic MBH alcohols 4 with morpholine

• in the presence of imidazole (2a), as a powerful nucleophilic additive, affording, via competitive allylic nucleophilic substitution in toluene at reflux, a mixture of the corresponding N-substituted morpholine and N-substituted imidazole derivatives 6 [23]. In addition, a literature survey showed

Photoredox catalysis harvesting multiple photon or electrochemical energies

• Mattia Lepori,
• Simon Schmid and
• Joshua P. Barham

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1055–1145, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.81

Nucleophile-induced ring contraction in pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzothiazines: access to pyrrolo[2,1-b][1,3]benzothiazoles

• Ekaterina A. Lystsova,
• Maksim V. Dmitriev,
• Andrey N. Maslivets and
• Ekaterina E. Khramtsova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 646–657, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.46

•  13). However, when conducting the reaction in a ratio of 1:10 at room temperature during 24 h, we observed the formation of N1,N2-dibenzyloxalamide (9) as a major product (NMR yield of about 90%) (Scheme 14). Our attempts to employ other alkylamines (diethylamine, morpholine, and cyclohexylamine) to

• room temperature for 24 h), a mixture of unidentified substances was formed. Interestingly, in the reaction of APBTT 1a with morpholine, we succeeded to isolate the product 10a (Scheme 15) [56]. Product 10a was formed in a result of a nucleophilic attack of morpholine on the C1 position of APBTT 1a

• closed microreaction V-vial. Reaction of APBTT 1a with an excess of benzylamine. Reaction of APBTT 1a with morpholine. Reaction of APBTT 1a with aniline (11a). Derivatization of PBTA 12aa. Reaction of APBTTs 1a–h and arylamines 11a–d. Isolated yields are given; reaction scale: a mixture of 1 (0.45 mmol

Enolates ambushed – asymmetric tandem conjugate addition and subsequent enolate trapping with conventional and less traditional electrophiles

• Péter Kisszékelyi and
• Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 593–634, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.44

• affect the diastereomeric ratio, resulting in even opposite selectivity. Roush and co-workers have presented a simple stereoselective reductive aldol procedure for the synthesis of tetrasubstituted enolates 210 from substituted morpholine acrylamides 209 (Scheme 54) [99]. Subsequent trapping of the boron

An efficient metal-free and catalyst-free C–S/C–O bond-formation strategy: synthesis of pyrazole-conjugated thioamides and amides

• Shubham Sharma,
• Dharmender Singh,
• Sunit Kumar,
• Vaishali,
• Rahul Jamra,
• Naveen Banyal,
• Deepika,
• Chandi C. Malakar and
• Virender Singh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 231–244, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.22

• procedures [77][78][79][80]. Thereafter, the pyrazole-3-carbaldehyde 1, morpholine (C) and elemental sulfur were selected as the model substrates towards the preparation of pyrazole-linked thioamide derivatives. To begin with, an experiment was executed with model reactants in the presence of catalytic

• 5D in low yield (34%). During the preparation of pyrazole C-4-conjugated thioamides 5A–E and 6–8C, it was also noticed that when the reaction was exercised with morpholine (C), the reaction was accomplished in lesser time (36 min to 1 h) as compared to other secondary amines. To further validate the

• -carbaldehyde 1, morpholine (C) and elemental sulfur under the standard reaction conditions as depicted in Scheme 5. It was noticed that this one-pot operation was completed within 2.5 hours and smoothly furnished the desired product, (5-(4-fluorophenyl)-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-3-yl)(morpholino)methanethione (1C

1,4-Dithianes: attractive C2-building blocks for the synthesis of complex molecular architectures

• Bram Ryckaert,
• Ellen Demeyere,
• Frederick Degroote,
• Hilde Janssens and
• Johan M. Winne

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 115–132, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.12

• (results not shown in scheme). Conversely, in reactions with electron-rich olefins, better yields are observed for the inverse electron demand Diels–Alder reaction (Scheme 9c). For example, the enamine 46, derived from cyclohexanone and morpholine, was readily annulated by 45 to afford the decalin ring

A facile approach to spiro[dihydrofuran-2,3'-oxindoles] via formal [4 + 1] annulation reaction of fused 1H-pyrrole-2,3-diones with diazooxindoles

• Pavel A. Topanov,
• Anna A. Maslivets,
• Maksim V. Dmitriev,
• Irina V. Mashevskaya,
• Yurii V. Shklyaev and
• Andrey N. Maslivets

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1532–1538, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.162

• inducing the reaction. Under the same conditions, FPD 1k containing a morpholine fragment (Scheme 4) was involved in the reaction with 2a which gave the expected product 3ka in a fairly good yield of 56% and dr 99:1. The characteristic signals in the NMR spectra of the products 3aa and 3ka appeared to be

• . Benzoxazine, quinoxaline, and morpholine FPDs were successfully involved into the reaction, with the modification of diazo compounds decreasing the reaction yield. The reaction time of the cycloaddition was found to be independent on substituents in the aroyl moiety of FPDs 1. The described reaction is the

Inductive heating and flow chemistry – a perfect synergy of emerging enabling technologies

• Conrad Kuhwald,
• Sibel Türkhan and
• Andreas Kirschning

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 688–706, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.70

• Petasis boron-Mannich (PBM) reaction of glyoxalic acid (30a) or salicylic aldehyde (30b), with morpholine (29) and p-methoxyphenylboronic acid (31) furnished α-aminocarboxylic acid 32a and phenol 32b in excellent yield (98% and 93%), again much higher than the yields found for the batch protocol (77% and

Synthesis of novel [1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-b][1,2,4,5]tetrazines and investigation of their fungistatic activity

• Anna V. Korotina,
• Svetlana G. Tolshchina,
• Rashida I. Ishmetova,
• Natalya P. Evstigneeva,
• Natalya A. Gerasimova,
• Natalya V. Zilberberg,
• Nikolay V. Kungurov,
• Gennady L. Rusinov,
• Oleg N. Chupakhin and
• Valery N. Charushin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 243–250, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.29

• analysis of antifungal activity, the previously described [37] 3-methyl- and 3-phenyltriazolo[4,3-b][1,2,4,5]tetrazines 10a,b were used as structural analogues of compounds 3a,b. Furthermore, in the reactions of compound 10a with methanol, heptylamine and morpholine, new derivatives 11a–c have been

Peptide stapling by late-stage Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling

• Hendrik Gruß,
• Rebecca C. Feiner,
• Ridhiwan Mseya,
• David C. Schröder,
• Michał Jewgiński,
• Kristian M. Müller,
• Rafał Latajka,
• Antoine Marion and
• Norbert Sewald

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1–12, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.1

• only generated with 7-aryl-Trp staple. C) On-resin modification of amines (n = 1: Dab, n = 2: Orn, n = 3: Lys) in i + 4 position to obtain organoboron side chains with increased linker flexibility. Reaction conditions: (a) Pd(PPh3)4, morpholine in DCM, 2 × 20 min; (b) carboxylic acid, HATU, DIEA in DMF

Copper-catalyzed monoselective C–H amination of ferrocenes with alkylamines

• Zhen-Sheng Jia,
• Qiang Yue,
• Ya Li,
• Xue-Tao Xu,
• Kun Zhang and
• Bing-Feng Shi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2488–2495, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.165

• ferrocene carboxylic amide 1a with morpholine (2a) using 8-amonoquinoline as directing group [51][52][53][54][55][56]. The ortho-aminated ferrocenylamide 3a was isolated in 11% yield in the presence of CuI, N-methylmorpholine N-oxide (NMO) and K2CO3 in DMF (Table 1, entry 1). When the reaction was conducted

• ][58]. We then explored the scope of multifarious amines. As displayed in Scheme 3, a range of cyclic amines, such as morpholine 4a,b, piperazine 4c, piperidine 4d–j and thiomorpholine 4l,m, reacted smoothly to give the amination products in 23% to 85% yields. A variety of synthetically useful

• preparation of ferrocene–drug conjugates effectively. Mechanistic studies indicated that the C–H activation step was the rate-determining step. 3d-Transition-metal-catalyzed C–H functionalization to access functionalized ferrocenes. Scope of ferrocenes with morpholine. Scope of various amines with 1a

Advances in mercury(II)-salt-mediated cyclization reactions of unsaturated bonds

• Sumana Mandal,
• Raju D. Chaudhari and
• Goutam Biswas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2348–2376, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.153

• ) [101]. Later it was shown that alkynyl diol 150 when treated with 20 mol % Hg(OTf)2 followed by Et3SiH afforded bispyranoyl ketone 151, but when Hg(OTf)2 was increased (1 equiv) then fused pyran-oxocane derivative 152 was isolated [102]. Six-membered morpholine derivatives were also synthesized by

• catalytic Hg(II)-salt-induced cyclization. Yamamoto and co-workers published the intermolecular cyclization of alkynyl-carboxylic acid 153 to produce 6-membered morpholine type ring compound 154 and compound 155 [103]. The stereochemistry of the chiral amino acid was not conserved in the cyclized product

• acids and alcohol to furan, pyran, and spirocyclic derivatives. Hg(II)-salt-mediated cyclization of 1,4-dihydroxy-5-alkyne derivatives. Six-membered morpholine derivative formation by catalytic Hg(II)-salt-induced cyclization. Hg(OTf)2-catalyzed hydroxylative carbocyclization of 1,6-enyne. a) Hg(OTf)2

Constrained thermoresponsive polymers – new insights into fundamentals and applications

• Patricia Flemming,
• Alexander S. Münch,
• Andreas Fery and
• Petra Uhlmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2123–2163, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.138

Progress and challenges in the synthesis of sequence controlled polysaccharides

• Giulio Fittolani,
• Theodore Tyrikos-Ergas,
• Denisa Vargová,
• Manishkumar A. Chaube and
• Martina Delbianco

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1981–2025, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.129

On the application of 3d metals for C–H activation toward bioactive compounds: The key step for the synthesis of silver bullets

• Renato L. Carvalho,
• Amanda S. de Miranda,
• Mateus P. Nunes,
• Roberto S. Gomes,
• Guilherme A. M. Jardim and
• Eufrânio N. da Silva Júnior

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1849–1938, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.126

A recent overview on the synthesis of 1,4,5-trisubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles

• Pezhman Shiri,
• Ali Mohammad Amani and
• Thomas Mayer-Gall

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1600–1628, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.114

• . Moreover, TMS-substituted alkyne was suitable for this Huisgen reaction to achieve the desired triazole product. Next, some triazene scaffolds, such as dimethylamino-, pyrrolidine-, piperidine-, morpholine-, and piperazine-derived triazenes were screened. Aryl azides containing Br, I, Me, and MeO as well

Synthetic reactions driven by electron-donor–acceptor (EDA) complexes

• Zhonglie Yang,
• Yutong Liu,
• Kun Cao,
• Xiaobin Zhang,
• Hezhong Jiang and
• Jiahong Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 771–799, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.67

• was related to enhancement of selective absorption, considering the use of a visible-light source. In 2019, Glorius and colleagues [11] proposed a method of employing an EDA complex formed by indole derivative 98 and the Katritzky salt 99 as well as morpholine as organic base to obtain alkylated

• indole derivatives 100 under blue-light irradiation (Scheme 35). Given the UV–vis spectra of the reaction mixture and its components, there was no evidence of the formation of a ternary EDA complex between Katritzky salt 99, 98, and morpholine. Moreover, the TDDFT calculation showed that electron

• 104. Subsequently, alkyl radical 104 is captured by indole 98, giving benzyl radical 105. The alkylated indole derivative 100 and morpholine salts are provided via proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) with EDA complex 102 formed by morpholine and 99 (Scheme 36). As a rare example of EDA

Amino- and polyaminophthalazin-1(2H)-ones: synthesis, coordination properties, and biological activity

• Zbigniew Malinowski,
• Emilia Fornal,
• Agata Sumara,
• Renata Kontek,
• Karol Bukowski,
• Beata Pasternak,
• Dariusz Sroczyński,
• Joachim Kusz,
• Magdalena Małecka and
• Monika Nowak

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 558–568, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.50

• selectively alkylated on the nitrogen atom [30][36]. For our purposes, the simple alkyl halides (MeI, iPrI), and 2-chloro-N,N-dimethylethylamine hydrochloride and 4-(2-chloroethyl)morpholine hydrochloride, were chosen as the alkylating agents. Thus, the desired N-methyl and N-isopropyl lactams 3a,b (3a R1

• Information File 1). In the next step, the bromolactams 3 were subjected to a thermal palladium cross-coupling reaction with various amines and polyamines. To optimize the reaction conditions, we investigated the reaction of 4-bromo-2-methylphthalazin-1(2H)-one (3a) with morpholine as the model substrates

• cross-coupling reaction. To confirm this idea, we carried out an experiment in which to the in situ-generated (BINAP)Pd complex (Pd2(dba)3/rac-BINAP or (R)-BINAP; 15:15 mol %) morpholine was added prior to the addition of lactam 3a. As a result, we obtained the target 4-(morpholin-4-yl) derivative 5a in

Novel library synthesis of 3,4-disubstituted pyridin-2(1H)-ones via cleavage of pyridine-2-oxy-7-azabenzotriazole ethers under ionic hydrogenation conditions at room temperature

• Romain Pierre,
• Anne Brethon,
• Sylvain A. Jacques,
• Aurélie Blond,
• Sandrine Chambon,
• Sandrine Talano,
• Catherine Raffin,
• Branislav Musicki,
• Claire Bouix-Peter,
• Loic Tomas,
• Gilles Ouvry,
• Rémy Morgentin,
• Laurent F. Hennequin and
• Craig S. Harris

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 156–165, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.16

• morpholine amide 7. The synthesis started by selective SNAr reaction with 4 and tert-butyl ((cis)-4-aminocyclohexyl)carbamate affording the intermediate nicotinic acid 5 in 70% yield without the need for chromatography. Subsequent amide coupling using TBTU afforded 2-chloro precursor 6 in excellent yield

A novel and robust heterogeneous Cu catalyst using modified lignosulfonate as support for the synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocycles

• Bingbing Lai,
• Meng Ye,
• Ping Liu,
• Minghao Li,
• Rongxian Bai and
• Yanlong Gu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2888–2902, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.238

• amines such as morpholine (9j) also showed high reactivity in this reaction and 10j was obtained in 81% yield. The substituent effect of 2-(phenylethynyl)acetophenone was studied subsequently, and the results showed that fluoro, chloro, aliphatic chain and cycloolefin-substituted 2-(phenylethynyl