5-Aminopyrazole as precursor in design and synthesis of fused pyrazoloazines

• Ranjana Aggarwal and
• Suresh Kumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 203–242, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.15

• . The reaction of 5-amino-4-cyanopyrazole (208) and formamide was carried out by Todorovic et al. [136] under microwave irradiation at 200 °C to give 4-aminopyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine (223) which on iodination with N-iodosuccinimide followed by N1-alkylation (Mitsunobu or substitution) provided

Aminosugar-based immunomodulator lipid A: synthetic approaches

• Alla Zamyatina

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 25–53, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.3

Ring-size-selective construction of fluorine-containing carbocycles via intramolecular iodoarylation of 1,1-difluoro-1-alkenes

• Takeshi Fujita,
• Ryo Kinoshita,
• Tsuyoshi Takanohashi,
• Naoto Suzuki and
• Junji Ichikawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2682–2689, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.266

• -difluoroallyl)biphenyl (1a) as a model substrate. To generate a highly reactive, cationic iodine species, several iodine sources were used with acid or metal activators (Table 1, entries 1–3). Upon treatment with N-iodosuccinimide (NIS) and trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate (TMSOTf) in a 1:1 mixed

• dichloromethane (1.5 mL) solution of N-iodosuccinimide (NIS, 27 mg, 0.12 mmol) was added trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate (22 μL, 0.12 mmol) at 0 °C. After stirring at the same temperature for 10 min, a dichloromethane (1.0 mL) solution of 2-(3,3-difluoroallyl)biphenyl (5a, 23 mg, 0.10 mmol) was added to

Preactivation-based chemoselective glycosylations: A powerful strategy for oligosaccharide assembly

• Weizhun Yang,
• Bo Yang,
• Sherif Ramadan and
• Xuefei Huang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2094–2114, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.207

• /AgOTf [18], N-iodosuccinimide (NIS)/TMSOTf [18], dimethyl(methylthio)sulfonium triflate (DMTST) [18], 1-(benzenesulfinyl)piperidine (BSP)/Tf2O [18][19][49], S-(4-methoxyphenyl)benzene-thiosulfinate (MBPT)/Tf2O [50], Ph2SO/Tf2O [36][51], O,O-dimethylthiophosphonosulfenyl bromide (DMTPSB)/AgOTf [52], and

Intramolecular glycosylation

• Xiao G. Jia and
• Alexei V. Demchenko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2028–2048, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.201

• glycosylated. In all other approaches, the acceptor is linked away from the hydroxy group that is to be glycosylated. The tethering site at the glycosyl donor can be either the neighboring C-2 position or a remote position. Barresi and Hindsgaul employed the activation of the thioethyl leaving group with N

• -iodosuccinimide, which resulted in excellent stereoselectivity for the synthesis of challenging β-mannoside [45][83]. Overall, this is a two-step process: first, formation of the intermolecular ketal between the donor and acceptor counterpart, and then glycosylation directly on the ketal oxygen of the glycosyl

1,3-Dibromo-5,5-dimethylhydantoin as promoter for glycosylations using thioglycosides

• Fei-Fei Xu,
• Claney L. Pereira and
• Peter H. Seeberger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1994–1998, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.195

• building block 8 followed by UV-cleavage, disaccharide 16 was obtained in 63% isolated yield. Moreover, DBDMH performs as well as N-iodosuccinimide (NIS) in activating phenyl selenoglycoside 17 in the presence of water to furnish hemiacetal 18 en route to glycosyl imidate 19 (Scheme 2). Conclusion The

High-speed vibration-milling-promoted synthesis of symmetrical frameworks containing two or three pyrrole units

• Marco Leonardi,
• Mercedes Villacampa and
• J. Carlos Menéndez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1957–1962, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.190

• bispyrrole systems is summarized in Scheme 2. Treatment of aromatic ketones 4 with N-iodosuccinimide (NIS) in the presence of toluenesulfonic acid under high-speed vibration milling for 1 h afforded α-iodoketones 6, which were not isolated. The suitable β-dicarbonyl compound 2 and α,ω-diamine 3 plus a

Mechanochemical synthesis of small organic molecules

• Tapas Kumar Achar,
• Anima Bose and
• Prasenjit Mal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1907–1931, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.186

• -promoted three-component Hantzsch pyrrole synthesis under ball-milling conditions [121]. A ketone in presence of N-iodosuccinimide (NIS) and p-toluenesulfonic acid led to α-iodoketone in 1 h. Subsequent addition of the primary amine, β-dicarbonyl compound, 5 mol % CAN and 1 equiv silver nitrate led to the

The chemistry and biology of mycolactones

• Matthias Gehringer and
• Karl-Heinz Altmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1596–1660, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.159

Total synthesis of elansolids B1 and B2

• Liang-Liang Wang and
• Andreas Kirschning

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1280–1287, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.124

• , 22.8, 21.6, 21.2, 21.1; HRMS (ESI) m/z: [M + Na]+ calculated for C34H40O6Na, 567.2723; found, 567.2728. Synthesis of vinyl iodide 17 To a stirred solution of compound of 16 (88 mg, 0.162 mmol, 1.0 equiv) in acetone (4 mL) was added AgNO3 (8.3 mg, 0.05 mmol, 0.3 equiv) and N-iodosuccinimide (40.0 mg

Strategies toward protecting group-free glycosylation through selective activation of the anomeric center

• A. Michael Downey and
• Michal Hocek

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1239–1279, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.123

• glycosides: A potentially attractive strategy for a 1,2-cis glycosylation has been described by Baker and colleagues [56] and employs the use of a deprotected thiol glycoside in the presence of a large excess of Lewis acid (TMSOTf) and N-iodosuccinimide (NIS). Although the stereoselectivity of the reaction

Synthesis of tetrasubstituted pyrazoles containing pyridinyl substituents

• Josef Jansa,
• Ramona Schmidt,
• Ashenafi Damtew Mamuye,
• Laura Castoldi,
• Alexander Roller,
• Vittorio Pace and
• Wolfgang Holzer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 895–902, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.90

• out to be superior to the reaction of compounds 2 with N-iodosuccinimide. Species 3a–d served as educts for the investigations concerning further functionalization at pyrazole C-4. Carboxylation of 4-iodopyrazoles 3a–d The lithium–iodine exchange proceeded quickly and quantitatively in case of 3,5-di

New approaches to organocatalysis based on C–H and C–X bonding for electrophilic substrate activation

• Pavel Nagorny and
• Zhankui Sun

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2834–2848, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.283

• , these compounds could serve as effective halogen bond donors. In 2014, Takemoto and co-workers reported that electrophilic N-iodinated compounds could induce a semipinacol rearrangement (Scheme 22) [93]. Thus, the benzyl bromide moiety of substrates was activated upon treatment with N-iodosuccinimide

Symmetry-based approach to oligostilbenoids: Rapid entry to viniferifuran, shoreaphenol, malibatol A, and diptoindonesin G

• Youngeun Jung,
• Dileep Kumar Singh and
• Ikyon Kim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2689–2693, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.266

• -dimethoxybenzaldehyde, and 3,5-dimethoxybenzyl alcohol under the influence of either I2/silver trifluoroacetate or N-iodosuccinimide afforded 1 [32][33][34], 2 [35], and 7 [36][37], respectively (Scheme 2). The hydroxy group of 7 was protected as an acetate, providing 3 in 96% yield. Sonogashira coupling of the

High performance p-type molecular electron donors for OPV applications via alkylthiophene catenation chromophore extension

• Paul B. Geraghty,
• Calvin Lee,
• Jegadesan Subbiah,
• Wallace W. H. Wong,
• James L. Banal,
• Mohammed A. Jameel,
• Trevor A. Smith and
• David J. Jones

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2298–2314, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.223

• products significantly reduced the yield. For the quater- and quinquethiophenes N-iodosuccinimide (NIS) was used to give a clean product. Ideally, the synthesis could be further simplified by direct palladium-catalyzed CH-activation, arylation of 2 followed by reaction with the commercially available 5

Synthesis and characterization of fluorinated azadipyrromethene complexes as acceptors for organic photovoltaics

• Forrest S. Etheridge,
• Roshan J. Fernando,
• Sandra Pejić,
• Matthias Zeller and
• Geneviève Sauvé

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1925–1938, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.182

• (Aldrich), 4-ethynyl-α,α,α-trifluorotoluene (Aldrich), n-butyllithium solution (Aldrich), tributyltin chloride (Fisher), tributyl(phenylethynyl)tin (Aldrich), tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0) (Aldrich), n-iodosuccinimide (abbreviated NIS, Aldrich) were used as received. All other reagents and

Practical synthetic strategies towards lipophilic 6-iodotetrahydroquinolines and -dihydroquinolines

• David R. Chisholm,
• Garr-Layy Zhou,
• Ehmke Pohl,
• Roy Valentine and
• Andrew Whiting

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1851–1862, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.174

• , presumably due to steric hindrance. Cyclisation of 4 to the THQ 3 was realised by heating a PPA mixture of 4 to 120 °C. Iodination of 3 using a variety of reagents including I2/HgO [19], ICl/AcOH, N-iodosuccinimide/TFA [20], KI/KIO3/AcOH [21], and N-chlorosuccinimide/NaI/AcOH [22], all gave poor yields (0–30

Synthesis of 2-oxindoles via 'transition-metal-free' intramolecular dehydrogenative coupling (IDC) of sp² C–H and sp³ C–H bonds

• Nivesh Kumar,
• Santanu Ghosh,
• Subhajit Bhunia and
• Alakesh Bisai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1153–1169, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.111

• -arylamido esters with alkyl halides followed by a dehydrogenative coupling. Experimental evidences indicated toward a radical-mediated path for this reaction. Keywords: C−H functionalization; intramolecular dehydrogenative coupling (IDC); iodine; N-iodosuccinimide; oxidants; 2-oxindoles; Introduction The

• article, we disclose the scope and limitations of 'transition-metal-free' IDC of Csp2-H and Csp3-H using iodine and N-iodosuccinimide (NIS) as oxidants. In addition, we have also demonstrated the synthetic utility of oxidative coupling products in the syntheses of 3-substituted-2-oxindoles, via a

• -5,5-dimethylhydantoin), and ICl afforded 2-oxindole 4a in 82%, 16%, and 69%, respectively (Table 1, entries 17–19). Later, we turned our attention to N-halo succinimides as potential oxidants in our methodology [53]. Interestingly, N-iodosuccinimide (NIS), N-bromosuccinimide (NBS), and N

Synthesis of D-fructose-derived spirocyclic 2-substituted-2-oxazoline ribosides

• Madhuri Vangala and
• Ganesh P. Shinde

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2289–2296, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.249

• glycosyl azides via intramolecular condensation with a vicinal ester group in the presence of triphenylphosphine [27] or from the reaction of D-glucals with N-iodosuccinimide and amides [28][29]. Alternatively, 5 can be derived by a Ritter-like [30][31] transformation, involving trapping of the

Electrochemical selenium- and iodonium-initiated cyclisation of hydroxy-functionalised 1,4-dienes

• Philipp Röse,
• Steffen Emge,
• Jun-ichi Yoshida and
• Gerhard Hilt

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 174–183, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.18

• organic trihalide salts [30], N-bromosuccinimide or N-iodosuccinimide and its derivatives [31][32][33][34][35][36], or more specialised reagents such as bis(pyridinium)iodonium(I) tetrafluoroborate [37][38][39]. Next to those, the in situ oxidation of halogenide ions with strong oxidants such as oxone, Pb

Cross-dehydrogenative coupling for the intermolecular C–O bond formation

• Igor B. Krylov,
• Vera A. Vil’ and
• Alexander O. Terent’ev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 92–146, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.13

• ], Py·HBr3 [136], N-bromosuccinimide/pyridine [137], N-iodosuccinimide/K2CO3 [138], and N,N'-diiodo-N,N'-1,2-ethanediylbis(p-toluenesulfonamide) [139]. The oxidative C–O coupling of benzyl alcohols 135 with alkylarenes 136 took place under the action of the Bu4NI/t-BuOOH system in the presence of NaH2PO4

Synthesis of the pentasaccharide repeating unit of the O-antigen of E. coli O117:K98:H4

• Pintu Kumar Mandal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2724–2728, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.287

• following the reaction pathway depicted in Scheme 2. Glycosylation of 3-azidopropyl 2,3,6-tri-O-benzyl-β-D-galactopyranoside (2) with the thioglycoside donor 3 in the presence of N-iodosuccinimide (NIS) and trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate (TMSOTf) [26][27] gave disaccharide derivative 8 in 72

• . Reagents: (a) N-iodosuccinimide (NIS), TMSOTf, CH2Cl2, MS 4 Å, −30 °C, 1 h, 72%; (b) HClO4/SiO2, CH3CN, rt, 20 min, 85%; (c) benzoyl cyanide, DCM/pyridine, rt, 2 h, 80%; (d) N-iodosuccinimide (NIS), TfOH, CH2Cl2, MS 4 Å, −30 °C, 1 h, then 0 °C, 1 h, 77%; (e) NOBF4, Et2O/CH2Cl2 (3:1), −15 °C, 1 h, 75%; (f

Efficient routes toward the synthesis of the D-rhamno-trisaccharide related to the A-band polysaccharide of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

• Aritra Chaudhury,
• Sajal K. Maity and
• Rina Ghosh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1488–1494, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.153

• subsequently serve as the glycosyl donor in the next step. Accordingly, 5 and 6 were coupled almost quantitatively to give 8. The disaccharide so obtained was then coupled with 7 to give the protected trisaccharide 9 in 90% yield using a N-iodosuccinimide-trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate (NIS-TMSOTf

Columnar/herringbone dual crystal packing of pyrenylsumanene and its photophysical properties

• Binod Babu Shrestha,
• Shuhei Higashibayashi and
• Hidehiro Sakurai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 841–847, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.80

• ) [23] compared to the previously reported system of AuCl3 and N-iodosuccinimide [8], resulting in an 80% yield. Following synthesis of 1, a single crystal was obtained from CH2Cl2/MeOH solution, with the crystal structure shown in Figure 2. The bowl depth of 1 from the centroid of the rim carbons to

Convergent synthesis of a tetrasaccharide repeating unit of the O-specific polysaccharide from the cell wall lipopolysaccharide of Azospirillum brasilense strain Sp7

• Pintu Kumar Mandal,
• Debashis Dhara and
• Anup Kumar Misra

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 293–299, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.26

• combination of N-iodosuccinimide (NIS) and trifluoromethanesulfonic acid (TfOH) [39][40]. The participating 2-O-acetyl group in donor 3 ensured the α-selectivity. By raising the temperature after completion of the coupling, the 3-O-PMB group was removed in the same pot [33] furnishing disaccharide acceptor 8

• % aq AcOH, 80 °C, 1.5 h, 72% overall yield; (d) triethyl orthoacetate, p-TsOH, DMF, 2 h then 80% aq AcOH, room temperature, 1 h, 74%. Reagents: (a) N-iodosuccinimide (NIS), TfOH, CH2Cl2, MS 4 Å, −30 °C, 1 h, then 0 °C, 1 h, 77%; (b) NIS, TfOH, CH2Cl2/Et2O 1:1, MS 4 Å, −25 °C, 30 min, 75%; (c) NIS, TfOH