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

• synthesis; isoquinolin-4-ones; primary thioamides; structure–reactivity relationships; Introduction During several past years, we have developed [1][2] a novel synthetic approach toward (Z)-3-[amino(phenyl/methyl)methylidene]-1,3-dihydro-2H-indol-2-ones and have demonstrated [3][4] its application

• -bromoxindole) have not been used in ECR before, only α-haloketones and α-haloesters. Finally, the use of primary thioamides (R3, R4: H) in ECR was quite unique – there are only two other examples [5][6] described in the literature starting from thioacetamide or 3-phenylpropanethioamide. In existing literature

• sources [7][8][9], primary thioamides were ineffective as reaction components in ECR as they can easily transform into nitriles under the reaction conditions typical for ECR. In fact, there are even three different reaction pathways (Scheme 2) that can compete with the ECR when primary thioamides I react

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

• drugs. The Yadav research group have also published the homocoupling of primary thioamides for the formation of symmetrical 1,2,4-thiadiazoles, using visible light and Eosin Y as the photocatalyst, in air at room temperature (Scheme 19) [64]. The immediately obvious limitation of this reaction is the

Regioselective (thio)carbamoylation of 2,7-di-tert-butylpyrene at the 1-position with iso(thio)cyanates

• Anna Wrona-Piotrowicz,
• Marzena Witalewska,
• Janusz Zakrzewski and
• Anna Makal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1032–1038, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.102

• into 5, but to our knowledge this reaction, which must involve cleavage of the C–N bond, has no precedent in the literature (in contrast to the well-known formation of nitriles from primary thioamides, involving formal elimination of H2S [24]). Encouraged by the above results, we decided to check