Palladium-catalyzed regioselective C1-selective nitration of carbazoles

• Vikash Kumar,
• Jyothis Dharaniyedath,
• Aiswarya T P,
• Sk Ariyan,
• Chitrothu Venkatesh and
• Parthasarathy Gandeepan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 2479–2488, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.190

• Vikash Kumar Jyothis Dharaniyedath Aiswarya T P Sk Ariyan Chitrothu Venkatesh Parthasarathy Gandeepan Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Yerpedu- Venkatagiri Road, Yerpedu Post, Tirupati District, Andhra Pradesh 517619, India 10.3762/bjoc.21.190 Abstract Carbazoles

• challenging due to the inherently higher reactivity at the C3/C6 positions. In this study, we report a palladium-catalyzed, directing group-assisted, regioselective C1–H nitration of carbazoles. The protocol features a removable directing group and is amenable to gram-scale synthesis. This strategy provides a

• valuable platform for the selective functionalization of carbazoles, offering potential applications in optoelectronics, functional organic materials, and related areas while contributing to the advancement of C–H activation methodologies. Keywords: C–H activation; carbazole; catalysis; nitration

Pathway economy in cyclization of 1,n-enynes

• Hezhen Han,
• Wenjie Mao,
• Bin Lin,
• Maosheng Cheng,
• Lu Yang and
• Yongxiang Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 2260–2282, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.173

• ). Collectively, these findings demonstrate that the choice of transition metal catalyst critically governs the regioselectivity of 1,2-alkyl migration processes, thereby providing a strategic approach for the efficient synthesis of structurally diverse polysubstituted carbazoles. In 2015, Menon et al. developed

C2 to C6 biobased carbonyl platforms for fine chemistry

• Jingjing Jiang,
• Muhammad Noman Haider Tariq,
• Florence Popowycz,
• Yanlong Gu and
• Yves Queneau

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 2103–2172, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.165

• ) system can be recycled without significant loss of activity (Scheme 5) [33]. α-Bromoacetaldehyde derivatives (Scheme 6, structures a–d) and 2-phenylindoles were used to synthesize benzo[a]carbazoles. The reaction reported by the Gu research group was speeded up by bismuth trichloride (BiCl3). The Friedel

Discovery of cytotoxic indolo[1,2-c]quinazoline derivatives through scaffold-based design

• Daniil V. Khabarov,
• Valeria A. Litvinova,
• Lyubov G. Dezhenkova,
• Dmitry N. Kaluzhny,
• Alexander S. Tikhomirov and
• Andrey E. Shchekotikhin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 2062–2071, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.161

• [5,6,1-jk]carbazoles possessed exceptionally high in vitro and in vivo antitumor potencies though topoisomerase II inhibition (Figure 1, bottom) [20]. Taken together, an emerging evidence points to the remarkable pharmacological versatility of indolo[1,2-c]quinazoline derivatives, highlighting the need

Convenient alternative synthesis of the Malassezia-derived virulence factor malassezione and related compounds

• Karu Ramesh and
• Stephen L. Bearne

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 1730–1736, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.135

• neurological disorders [7] and possibly other non-skin diseases [5]. These fungi, especially M. furfur, convert tryptophan into various alkaloid indoles such as malassezione (1), malassezin (2), which cyclizes to indolo[3,2-b]carbazole (3), other related indolo[3,2-b]carbazoles (4–7), pityriarubins (8–10), and

Recent advances in the electrochemical synthesis of organophosphorus compounds

• Babak Kaboudin,
• Milad Behroozi,
• Sepideh Sadighi and
• Fatemeh Asgharzadeh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 770–797, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.61

• ] reported a novel method for the N–P bond formation of carbazoles with diphenylphosphine using an electrochemical process. The main advantage of this method is its high selectivity, as only a 1:1 ratio of the starting materials was required for the reaction. The reaction was carried out in an undivided cell

• (Scheme 21). In another attempt, Liu et al. [66] also reported the electrochemical phosphorylation of carbazoles and indoles in the presence of 1,3-dimethylimidazolium iodide (DMMI) as a mediator in the oxidation–reduction process. The reaction proceeded in an undivided cell using cesium carbonate as a

Synthesis, characterization, and photophysical properties of novel 9‑phenyl-9-phosphafluorene oxide derivatives

• Shuxian Qiu,
• Duan Dong,
• Jiahui Li,
• Huiting Wen,
• Jinpeng Li,
• Yu Yang,
• Shengxian Zhai and
• Xingyuan Gao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3299–3305, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.274

• hand, we turned our attention to the synthesis of PhFlOP-based compounds through a Cs2CO3-facilitated nucleophilic substitution with substituted carbazoles as the nucleophiles (Scheme 2). For example, tert-butyl, bromo, carbazolyl, or phenyl substituents were introduced into the carbazoles. To our

• delight, by treatment of 5 with substituted carbazoles 6 in the presence of Cs2CO3 (5.0 equiv) in DMF at 100 °C, seven 2,8-bis(9H-carbazol-9-yl)-5-phenylbenzo[b]phosphindole 5-oxide derivatives 7 were furnished in good to excellent yields (77–91%). The structural characterization of the obtained molecules

Reactivity of hypervalent iodine(III) reagents bearing a benzylamine with sulfenate salts

• Beatriz Dedeiras,
• Catarina S. Caldeira,
• José C. Cunha,
• Clara S. B. Gomes and
• M. Manuel B. Marques

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3281–3289, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.272

• have been reported [12]. These reagents have proven effective in delivering azides (I) [13], amides (II) [14], aliphatic cyclic amines (III) [15], phthalimidates (IV) [16], imines (V) [17], sulfoximides (VI) [18], carbazoles (VII) [19], secondary (VIII) [4] and primary (IX) [20] amines (Figure 1). The

• benziodoxol(on)es can be found in the literature, including reagents featuring cyclic aliphatic amine moieties (III) [15], phthalimidates (IV) [16], and carbazoles (VII) [19]. Minakata and co-workers proposed an innovative approach for transferring imine groups using iodane-containing (diarylmethylene)amino

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

• 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

Diameter-selective extraction of single-walled carbon nanotubes by interlocking with Cu-tethered square nanobrackets

• Guoqing Cheng and
• Naoki Komatsu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1298–1307, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.113

• nitrogen atoms of carbazoles are simplified as methyl groups. As shown in Figure 2a and 2b, while both of them have rectangular structures, the shape of 1b is almost square. As shown in Figure 2b, the distances between the two nitrogen atoms at carbazoles in 1b are 18.35 and 18.07 Å along the pyrene and Cu

• -dipyrrins, respectively. The corresponding distances in 1a are 14.13 and 18.07 Å along the anthracene and Cu-dipyrrins, respectively, as shown in Figure 2a. Meanwhile, the dihedral angles between pyrene and carbazoles in 1b are 34.2°, which is much smaller than those of anthracene (89.7°), due to less

• ], which is consistent with the above calculation result. In the optimized structures of 1a@(9,4)-SWNT and 1b@(12,2)-SWNT complexes (Figure 6b and 6c, respectively), while CH–π interactions of the four carbazoles with the SWNT surface stabilize the former complex, the carbazoles facing to the SWNT surface

Perspectives on push–pull chromophores derived from click-type [2 + 2] cycloaddition–retroelectrocyclization reactions of electron-rich alkynes and electron-deficient alkenes

• Michio Yamada

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 125–154, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.13

• ]. In addition to anilino groups, a myriad of donor entities, including urea-substituted phenyl groups [18][19], carbazoles [20], phenothiazines [21][22], thiophenes [23][24][25][26], tetrathiafulvalenes (TTFs) [27], extended TTFs [28], ferrocenes [27][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41

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

• Bremen, Germany 10.3762/bjoc.20.2 Abstract N-Acyl carbazoles can be efficiently produced through a single-step process using amides and cyclic diaryliodonium triflates. This convenient reaction is facilitated by copper iodide in p-xylene, using the commonly found activating ligand diglyme. We have

• tested this method with a wide range of amides and iodonium triflates, proving its versatility with numerous substrates. Beyond carbazoles, we also produced a variety of other N-heterocycles, such as acridines, phenoxazines, or phenazines, showcasing the robustness of our technique. In a broader sense

• , this new method creates two C–N bonds simultaneously based on a mono-halogenated starting material, thus allowing heterocycle formation with diminished halogen waste. Keywords: carbazoles; heteroaromatics; iodanes; metal-catalyzed; one-pot reaction; Introduction N-Acyl carbazoles are effective

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

• ) of 47.7 cd A−1, 42.8 lm W−1, and 21.2%, respectively (Figure 1). Since then, this moiety has been modified by many scientific groups to improve its electroactive properties. Various pyridine-3,5-dicarbonitriles bearing substituted carbazoles were synthesized using different donating and accepting

A deep-red fluorophore based on naphthothiadiazole as emitter with hybridized local and charge transfer and ambipolar transporting properties for electroluminescent devices

• Suangsiri Arunlimsawat,
• Patteera Funchien,
• Pongsakorn Chasing,
• Atthapon Saenubol,
• Taweesak Sudyoadsuk and
• Vinich Promarak

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1664–1676, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.122

• of the Nz moiety originating from its localized distribution of electrons and the high electronegativities of the N and S atoms, whereas its high HOMO level is attributed to the electron-donating property of the attached carbazoles and the π-conjugation of the carbazole–Nz–carbazole fragment. Such

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

1,2-Naphthoquinone-4-sulfonic acid salts in organic synthesis

• Ruan Carlos B. Ribeiro,
• Patricia G. Ferreira,
• Amanda de A. Borges,
• Luana da S. M. Forezi,
• Fernando de Carvalho da Silva and
• Vitor F. Ferreira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 53–69, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.5

• naphtho[1,2-d]oxazoles from β-NQS. A) Arylation and vinylation of β-NQS catalyzed by Ni(II) salts. B) Transformation of the 1,2-dicarbonyl group in the fused imidazo[4,5-a] heterocycle. Benzo[a]carbazole and benzo[c]carbazoles fused with 1,2-naphthoquinone. Synthesis of 1,2-naphthoquinones having a C=C

Recent advances in the asymmetric phosphoric acid-catalyzed synthesis of axially chiral compounds

• Alemayehu Gashaw Woldegiorgis and
• Xufeng Lin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2729–2764, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.185

• rearomatization-enabled central to axial chirality transfer pathway [73]. Citing the crucial role of di-carbazole-substituted arenes in OLED materials [74], Tan and co-workers have recently developed structural motifs with two chiral N-aryl axes from 2,6-diazonaphthalene 61 and carbazoles 62. For this reaction, a

Visible-light-mediated copper photocatalysis for organic syntheses

• Yajing Zhang,
• Qian Wang,
• Zongsheng Yan,
• Donglai Ma and
• Yuguang Zheng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2520–2542, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.169

• transferred electrons to organic halides, thereby achieving the cross-coupling. The detailed mechanistic studies are shown in section 3.2. In 2013, Fu and co-workers [81] reported the photoinduced copper-catalyzed alkylation of carbazoles 41 with alkyl halides 42 and completed the corresponding mechanistic

• ] discovered the asymmetric cross-coupling of racemic tertiary alkyl halides 43 with carbazoles or indoles 44 in the CuI/chiral phosphine system. Under irradiation conditions, excitation of the copper–nucleophile complex A results in the excited state species B that engages in the electron transfer with the

• alkyl halide to generate a copperII–nucleophile complex C and an alkyl radical. The formation of the R–Nu bond might occur through an in-cage pathway involving complex C (Scheme 20). In addition to carbazoles, the authors further described the C–N coupling of organic halides 45 with amides [83] and

Efficient synthesis of polyfunctionalized carbazoles and pyrrolo[3,4-c]carbazoles via domino Diels–Alder reaction

• Ren-Jie Fang,
• Chen Yan,
• Jing Sun,
• Ying Han and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2425–2432, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.159

• diastereoisomers of tetrahydropyrrolo[3,4-c]carbazoles, which can be dehydrogenated by DDQ oxidation in acetonitrile at room temperature to give the aromatized pyrrolo[3,4-c]carbazoles in high yields. On the other hand, the one-pot reaction of 3-(indol-3-yl)-1,3-diphenylpropan-1-ones with chalcones or

• benzylideneacetone in acetonitrile in the presence of p-TsOH and DDQ resulted in polyfunctionalized carbazoles in satisfactory yields. The reaction mechanism included the DDQ oxidative dehydrogenation of 3-(indol-3-yl)-1,3-diphenylpropan-1-ones to the corresponding 3-vinylindoles, their acid-catalyzed Diels–Alder

• convenient synthesis of polyfunctionalized carbazole derivatives. Results and Discussion According to our previously established reaction conditions for the preparation of spiro[indoline-3,5'-pyrrolo[3,4-c]carbazoles] [48], an equivalent amount of 3-(indol-3-yl)maleimide with chalcone was stirred in toluene

Exploring the possibility of using fluorine-involved non-conjugated electron-withdrawing groups for thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters by TD-DFT calculation

• Dongyang Chen and
• Eli Zysman-Colman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 210–223, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.21

• results showed that when the carbazoles were both located ortho to the cyano acceptor the molecule (2,6-2CzBN) possessed a highly twisted structure and a corresponding small ΔEST (0.27 eV in toluene). The ΔESTs increased to 0.41 (2,4-2CzBN) and 0.40 eV (3,5-2CzBN) in toluene when at least one of the

• carbazoles was disposed meta or para to the cyano acceptor [19]. OLEDs fabricated using 2,6-2CzBN as the emitter exhibited deep blue emission with λEL = 418 nm and CIE coordinate of (0.15, 0.05); however, due to the low photoluminescence quantum yields (ΦPLs) (28% in 10 wt % DPEPO films) and relatively slow

• located on the central benzene ring and the acceptor group while the HOMOs are mainly localized on the carbazoles, thereby leading to small ΔESTs. The calculated ΔESTs for 2CzSCF3/2CzSF5 are 0.22 eV and 0.07 eV, respectively, which are comparable to the calculated results for 2CzBN (0.18 eV) and 2CzTRZ

Synthesis, crystal structures and properties of carbazole-based [6]helicenes fused with an azine ring

• Daria I. Tonkoglazova,
• Anna V. Gulevskaya,
• Konstantin A. Chistyakov and
• Olga I. Askalepova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 11–21, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.2

• -2-carbazolylpyridine 6 in 74% yield (Scheme 3). Electrophilic cyclizations of 3-alkynyl-2-carbazolylazines 2a,b and 6 into azine-fused carbazoles 7a–c were carried out with ICl in dry acetonitrile at room temperature in the dark (Table 3). In the cases of compounds 2a,b, the reaction was found to be

Synthesis and characterization of S,N-heterotetracenes

• Astrid Vogt,
• Florian Henne,
• Christoph Wetzel,
• Elena Mena-Osteritz and
• Peter Bäuerle

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2636–2644, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.214

• provide carbazoles covering a wide substrate and functional group spectrum [41]. Moreover, penta- and heptafused heteroacenes were prepared by the Cadogan reaction by annulation of nitrophenyl or nitrobenzothienyl precursors [42][43][44][45]. In this respect, we recently reported a Cadogan cyclization of

Recent developments in enantioselective photocatalysis

• Callum Prentice,
• James Morrisson,
• Andrew D. Smith and
• Eli Zysman-Colman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2363–2441, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.197

When metal-catalyzed C–H functionalization meets visible-light photocatalysis

• Lucas Guillemard and
• Joanna Wencel-Delord

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1754–1804, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.147

• . Thus, an efficient method for the synthesis of carbazoles via an intramolecular C–H amination was developed, using N-substituted 2-aminobiaryl derivatives as the substrates (Figure 11) [76]. This procedure was carried out at 80 °C and led to the formation of various interesting coupling products with

• hydrogen, benzyl, or alkyl, resulted in the shut of reactivity and no formation of the corresponding N-substituted carbazoles was observed. Concerning the mechanism, the carbazole-forming reaction also required aerobic conditions in order to reoxidize the Ir-photocatalyst with molecular oxygen (Figure 12

Recent advances in photocatalyzed reactions using well-defined copper(I) complexes

• Mingbing Zhong,
• Xavier Pannecoucke,
• Philippe Jubault and
• Thomas Poisson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 451–481, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.42

• large panel of carbazoles. The selectivity of the reaction using an unsymmetrical triarylamine depended on the electronic density of the aromatic ring, furnishing, in some cases constitutional isomers. Importantly, in the case of heteroaryl-substituted triarylamines, the heterocycle was incorporated in