The asymmetric Henry reaction as synthetic tool for the preparation of the drugs linezolid and rivaroxaban

• Martin Vrbický,
• Karel Macek,
• Jaroslav Pochobradský,
• Jan Svoboda,
• Miloš Sedlák and
• Pavel Drabina

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 438–445, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.46

• de were observed and the presence of the major S-enantiomer in the products 1 and 2 was confirmed by chiral HPLC analysis. Moreover, an enhancement of the abundance of the major epimer in the nitroaldols 22, 24, and 26 as well as the amides 27 and 28 was examined. Generally, epimers represent pairs

Organocatalytic asymmetric nitroso aldol reaction of α-substituted malonamates

• Ekta Gupta,
• Narendra Kumar Vaishanv,
• Sandeep Kumar,
• Raja Krishnan Purshottam,
• Ruchir Kant and
• Kishor Mohanan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 217–224, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.25

• silica gel column chromatography. Enantioselectivities were determined by chiral HPLC analysis. Variation of ester moiety of malonamates and nitrosoarenes. General conditions: 1 (0.20 mmol), 2a (0.24 mmol), 3a (0.04 mmol), toluene (3.0 mL). Yields refer to isolated yields after silica gel column

• chromatography. Enantioselectivities were determined by chiral HPLC analysis. aReaction run for 6 h. Synthetic transformation. Optimization of the reaction conditions.a Supporting Information Supporting Information File 202: Detailed experimental procedures, complete characterization data for all compounds

Asymmetric organocatalytic Michael addition of cyclopentane-1,2-dione to alkylidene oxindole

• Estelle Silm,
• Ivar Järving and
• Tõnis Kanger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 167–173, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.18

• -protecting groups. Reaction conditions: 0.2 M solution of 1 (1 equiv), 2 (1 equiv), of catalyst D (0.1 equiv), chloroform, at room temperature; isolated yields after column chromatography; ee determined by chiral HPLC. Scope of the reaction (the relative configuration of the major diastereoisomer is depicted

• ). Reaction conditions: 0.2 M solution of 1 equiv of 1, 2 equiv of 2, 0.1 equiv of catalyst D, chloroform, at room temperature; isolated yields after column chromatography; ee determined by chiral HPLC. Comparison reactions of E- and Z-isomers (the relative configurations of the major diastereoisomers are

• depicted). Reaction conditions: 0.2 M solution of 1 equiv of 1, 2 equiv of 2, 0.1 equiv of catalyst D, chloroform, at room temperature; isolated yields after column chromatography; ee determined by chiral HPLC. Screening conditions for the reactiona. Epimerisation of 3a. Supporting Information Supporting

Regioselective synthesis of methyl 5-(N-Boc-cycloaminyl)-1,2-oxazole-4-carboxylates as new amino acid-like building blocks

• Jolita Bruzgulienė,
• Greta Račkauskienė,
• Aurimas Bieliauskas,
• Vaida Milišiūnaitė,
• Miglė Dagilienė,
• Gita Matulevičiūtė,
• Vytas Martynaitis,
• Sonata Krikštolaitytė,
• Frank A. Sløk and
• Algirdas Šačkus

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 102–109, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.11

• blocks was developed. Regioisomeric methyl 5-(N-Boc-cycloaminyl)-1,2-oxazole-4-carboxylates were prepared by the reaction of β-enamino ketoesters (including azetidine, pyrrolidine or piperidine enamines) with hydroxylamine hydrochloride. Unambiguous structural assignments were based on chiral HPLC

• hydroxylamine hydrochloride in methanol (Scheme 1). Synthesized compounds 4b–g exhibited optical activity, and the corresponding (R)- or (S)-enantiomers rotated the plane of plane-polarized light in opposite directions. The enantiomeric purity of chiral compounds 4b–g was assessed via chiral HPLC analysis of

Bifunctional thiourea-catalyzed asymmetric [3 + 2] annulation reactions of 2-isothiocyanato-1-indanones with barbiturate-based olefins

• Jiang-Song Zhai and
• Da-Ming Du

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 25–36, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.3

• an Agilent 6520 Accurate-Mass Q-TOF MS system equipped with an electrospray ionization (ESI) source. Optical rotations were measured with a Krüss P8000 polarimeter at the indicated concentration with the units of g/100 mL. Enantiomeric excesses were determined by chiral HPLC analysis using an Agilent

Unsaturated fatty acids and a prenylated tryptophan derivative from a rare actinomycete of the genus Couchioplanes

• Shun Saito,
• Kanji Indo,
• Naoya Oku,
• Hisayuki Komaki,
• Masashi Kawasaki and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2939–2949, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.203

• -octadienoic acid (5), and one prenylated tryptophan derivative, 6-(3,3-dimethylallyl)-N-acetyl-ʟ-tryptophan (6). The enantiomer ratio of 4 was determined to be approximately S/R = 56:44 by a recursive application of Trost’s chiral anisotropy analysis and chiral HPLC analysis of its methyl ester. Compounds 1–5

• . (S)-MPA ester of 7R enantiomer 4'd: 1H NMR data was identical to those of 4'a. Chiral HPLC analysis A 0.2 μL-portion of 4', dissolved in iPrOH, was injected into a cellulose tribenzoate-coated silica gel column (CHIRALCEL OB-H, 4.6 mm × 250 mm, Daicel Co.) eluted with n-hexane/iPrOH (4:1) at 0.5 mL

• recorded on a Bruker micrOTOF spectrometer. Silica gel 60 (spherical) (Kanto Chemical Co., Inc.) was used for silica gel column chromatography. Cosmosil 75C18-PREP (Nacalai Tesque, Inc.) was used for ODS column chromatography. Routine HPLC separations were performed on an Agilent HP1200 system, and chiral

Synthetic strategies toward 1,3-oxathiolane nucleoside analogues

• Umesh P. Aher,
• Dhananjai Srivastava,
• Girij P. Singh and
• Jayashree B. S

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2680–2715, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.182

• THF and phosphate-buffered saline (PBS). The reaction used 64 and 3q as starting materials and was stereocontrolled efficiently, providing an enantiomeric excess of about >99%. The subsequent N-glycosylation further provided enantiopure lamivudine (1). Hu et al. [60] explained that chiral HPLC and

• a cis/trans ratio of 1.3:1 for the nucleoside intermediate 79a. Further, the nucleoside intermediate 79a was deprotected using a type of basic resin. This gave the cis-diastereomer 3TC (1), which was purified by chiral HPLC, resulting in an ee value of 70% (Scheme 28). Further developments in the

Organocatalytic asymmetric Michael/acyl transfer reaction between α-nitroketones and 4-arylidenepyrrolidine-2,3-diones

• Chandrakanta Parida and
• Subhas Chandra Pan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1447–1452, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.100

• 2 (0.1 mmol), 10 mol % VII in 0.6 mL 1,2-dichloroethane were reacted at 25 °C for 12 hours. Yields correspond to isolated yields after silica gel column chromatography and ees were determined by chiral HPLC. Catalyst screening and optimization of the reaction conditions. Scope of α-nitroketones 2 in

N-tert-Butanesulfinyl imines in the asymmetric synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocycles

• Joseane A. Mendes,
• Paulo R. R. Costa,
• Miguel Yus,
• Francisco Foubelo and
• Camilla D. Buarque

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1096–1140, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.86

Menthyl esterification allows chiral resolution for the synthesis of artificial glutamate analogs

• Kenji Morokuma,
• Shuntaro Tsukamoto,
• Kyosuke Mori,
• Kei Miyako,
• Ryuichi Sakai,
• Raku Irie and
• Masato Oikawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 540–550, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.48

• ]. Chiral HPLC profiles for the separation of menthyl ester diastereomers 20* and 20. Conditions: 4.6 × 250 mm CHIRALPAK IC column, EtOH/hexane 1:19, 1 mL/min, 40 °C, 254 nm, tR 9.6, 11.8 min. Superimposed structures of the top 5 stable conformers (89.9% total population) generated by CONFLEX (MMFF94S) for

The synthesis of chiral β-naphthyl-β-sulfanyl ketones via enantioselective sulfa-Michael reaction in the presence of a bifunctional cinchona/sulfonamide organocatalyst

• Deniz Tözendemir and
• Cihangir Tanyeli

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 494–503, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.43

• by chiral HPLC chromatography using Agilent instrument. All new products were further analyzed by LC/MS–HRMS–TOF or MALDI–ESI–TOFMS. Synthesis of organocatalyst 5 A solution of quinineamine 2 (226.40 mg, 0.70 mmol) and triethylamine (107 μL, 0.77 mmol) in CH2Cl2 was added to a screw-capped reaction

Synthesis of legonmycins A and B, C(7a)-hydroxylated bacterial pyrrolizidines

• Wilfred J. M. Lewis,
• David M. Shaw and
• Jeremy Robertson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 334–342, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.31

• configurationally unstable in aqueous solution. Chiral HPLC analysis of samples of pyrrolizixenamide A isolated from culture clearly indicated racemic specimens but also revealed the presence of the two C(7a)-hydroxylated derivatives whose presence in the mixture became enriched during purification. Taken together

Vicinal difluorination as a C=C surrogate: an analog of piperine with enhanced solubility, photostability, and acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activity

• Yuvixza Lizarme-Salas,
• Alexandra Daryl Ariawan,
• Ranjala Ratnayake,
• Hendrik Luesch,
• Angela Finch and
• Luke Hunter

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2663–2670, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.216

• difluorinated acid 20. Finally, coupling of the acid 20 with piperidine afforded the target compound 2 in moderate yield (Scheme 3). The enantiopurity of 2 was investigated using chiral HPLC. From a spectroscopically pure sample of 2, two HPLC peaks were observed, with an integral ratio of 99:1. It is assumed

Synthesis of monophosphorylated lipid A precursors using 2-naphthylmethyl ether as a protecting group

• Jundi Xue,
• Ziyi Han,
• Gen Li,
• Khalisha A. Emmanuel,
• Cynthia L. McManus,
• Qiang Sui,
• Dongmian Ge,
• Qi Gao and
• Li Cai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1955–1962, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.162

• )-3-hydroxytetradecanoate (5) in 98% yield. The same hydrogenation reaction was carried out using the (S)-Ru(OAc)2(BINAP) catalyst. Then both the R and S products were compared using chiral HPLC to confirm the absolute configuration and enantiomeric purity (Figure S1, Supporting Information File 1

Bipyrrole boomerangs via Pd-mediated tandem cyclization–oxygenation. Controlling reaction selectivity and electronic properties

• Liliia Moshniaha,
• Marika Żyła-Karwowska,
• Joanna Cybińska,
• Piotr J. Chmielewski,
• Ludovic Favereau and
• Marcin Stępień

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 895–903, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.81

• by means of chiral HPLC with CD detection, leading to enantioenriched samples of some boomerangs. The enantiomers of cR2O were found to racemize very fast, thus it was not possible to separate them. The cR3X systems, which contain a 7-membered ring, showed a remarkably diverse behavior. Enantiomers

Asymmetric synthesis of CF₂-functionalized aziridines by combined strong Brønsted acid catalysis

• Xing-Fa Tan,
• Fa-Guang Zhang and
• Jun-An Ma

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 638–644, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.60

• dichloromethane/petroleum ether) to give CF2-substituted aziridine 4. The enantiomeric excess was determined by chiral HPLC analysis. See Supporting Information File 1 for the dissolution–filtration procedure for each compound. Preparation of chiral aziridines from fluorinated diazo reagents. Substrate scope of

Arylisoquinoline-derived organoboron dyes with a triaryl skeleton show dual fluorescence

• Vânia F. Pais,
• Tristan Neumann,
• Ignacio Vayá,
• M. Consuelo Jiménez,
• Abel Ros and
• Uwe Pischel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2612–2622, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.254

• undertaken at 80 °C in C6D6 using a screw-cap NMR tube. Although significant changes were registered, a complete coalescence of the signals was not observed. The chiral HPLC analysis (see HPLC traces in Supporting Information File 1) demonstrated the high purity of compounds 16–19. The sharp peaks and

Synthesis, enantioseparation and photophysical properties of planar-chiral pillar[5]arene derivatives bearing fluorophore fragments

• Guojuan Li,
• Chunying Fan,
• Guo Cheng,
• Wanhua Wu and
• Cheng Yang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1601–1611, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.164

• derivatives. The racemic mixtures of P5A-DPA and P5A-Py were respectively separated by chiral high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). As shown in Figure 3a, injection of a P5A-DPA solution onto a DAICEL CHIRALPAK IA chiral HPLC column afforded two well-separated peaks of almost equal areas at 8.8 min

• absorption at 385–460 nm and a quantum yield of 46.4%. The rotation of phenolic units was inhibited by introducing two bulky fluorophores in one of the phenolic units of pillar[5]arene, and the enantiomers were isolated by chiral HPLC. The absolute configurations of each fraction were determined by circular

• curves of DPA-6 and P5A-DPA at 420 nm, excited at 390 nm nanosecond LED, c = 1.0 × 10−5 M in CHCl3, 25 °C. (a) Chiral HPLC traces of P5A-DPA, (b), (c) the first and second fractions of P5A-DPA, detected by UV at 295 nm. Conditions: column, DAICEL CHIRALPAK IA; mobile phase: hexane/dichloromethane 35:65

Fluorine-containing substituents: metabolism of the α,α-difluoroethyl thioether motif

• Andrea Rodil,
• Alexandra M. Z. Slawin,
• Nawaf Al-Maharik,
• Ren Tomita and
• David O’Hagan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1441–1447, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.144

• . Sulfone 8 was a relatively minor metabolite, at only 10% of sulfoxide 6. A chiral HPLC (IC column, solvent: 5% isopropanol in hexane; 1 mL/min) enantiomeric assay was conducted for sulfoxide 6 and the outcome compared with a racemic sample of 6, prepared by chemical oxidation of thioether 4 [22]. Although

• with very similar outcomes. In order to explore the stereoselectivity of this sulfoxidation, sulfoxide 11 isolated from the C. elegans incubation was analysed by chiral HPLC (IC column, solvent: 5% isopropanol in hexane; 1 mL/min). This was compared to a racemic reference sample of 11 prepared by

Ugi reaction-derived prolyl peptide catalysts grafted on the renewable polymer polyfurfuryl alcohol for applications in heterogeneous enamine catalysis

• Alexander F. de la Torre,
• Gabriel S. Scatena,
• Oscar Valdés,
• Daniel G. Rivera and
• Márcio W. Paixão

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1210–1216, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.118

• chromatography on silica gel using n-hexane/EtOAc as eluent. Enantiomeric excess (ee) was determined by chiral HPLC analysis through comparison with the authentic racemic material. Assignment of the stereoisomers was performed by comparison with literature data. Synthesis and characterization Prolyl pseudo

Alkylation of lithiated dimethyl tartrate acetonide with unactivated alkyl halides and application to an asymmetric synthesis of the 2,8-dioxabicyclo[3.2.1]octane core of squalestatins/zaragozic acids

• Herman O. Sintim,
• Hamad H. Al Mamari,
• Hasanain A. A. Almohseni,
• Younes Fegheh-Hassanpour and
• David M. Hodgson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1194–1202, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.116

• subsequently those of Nagano [27] and of Li [28] for allylations, i.e., stereoretentive (contrasteric) alkylation. As noted above, Seebach recorded 97:3 er (by NMR using a chiral shift reagent) for a benzylated tartrate [18]; in the present case, chiral HPLC comparison of 17 with the corresponding adduct from

• only ≈25% of tartrate 7 in an impure state. In contrast to the unsuccessful propylation with LiHMDS/LiCl mentioned above, following our modified Seebach‘s protocol, propylation could be achieved to give propylated tartrate 33a [12] (Scheme 9), in 66% yield and 97:3 er by chiral HPLC, with the trans

• , propylation of the monopropylated tartrate 33a can be achieved in 34% yield, if the reaction mixture is warmed to −50 °C (Scheme 10). Chiral HPLC comparison of the trans-dipropylated material 34a obtained as the byproduct from the alkylation of tartrate acetonide 7, and from propylation of the monopropylated

New α- and β-cyclodextrin derivatives with cinchona alkaloids used in asymmetric organocatalytic reactions

• Iveta Chena Tichá,
• Simona Hybelbauerová and
• Jindřich Jindřich

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 830–839, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.80

• Information File 288: Experimental procedures, characterization data, copies of NMR spectra and chiral HPLC analysis. Supporting Information File 289: 2D NMR spectra of compounds 4a–d and 5a–d. Supporting Information File 290: 2D NMR spectra of compounds 8a–d, 9a–d and 11. Acknowledgements The work has been

A chemoenzymatic synthesis of ceramide trafficking inhibitor HPA-12

• Seema V. Kanojia,
• Sucheta Chatterjee,
• Subrata Chattopadhyay and
• Dibakar Goswami

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 490–496, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.42

• reused the recovered lipase in ionic liquid at least three times without any significant loss of enzyme activity. The % ee of the (R)-5 and (S)-4 were determined from chiral HPLC analyses (150 mm × 4.6 mm, 5 μm, chiral AD-H column, 5% isopropanol/hexane @ 1.0 mL min−1, UV detection at 254 nm). The

Silanediol versus chlorosilanol: hydrolyses and hydrogen-bonding catalyses with fenchole-based silanes

• Falco Fox,
• Jörg M. Neudörfl and
• Bernd Goldfuss

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 167–186, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.17

• . The enantiomeric excess is determined by chiral HPLC analysis (see Supporting Information File 1). General procedure for addition of silyl ketene acetals 11 to 1-chloroisochroman (18) to product 19: In a heat dried Schlenk tube 1-chloroisochroman (18, 0.15 mmol, 0.3 mL of 0.5 M in toluene) was solved

• NaOMe (0.2 mL, 0.5 M in MeOH), concentrated in vacuo and purified by silica gel flash column chromatography (n-hexane/Et2O 9:1). The enantiomeric excess is determined by chiral HPLC analysis (see Supporting Information File 1). General procedure for addition of silyl ketene acetals 11 to chromone 20 to

• acetate 9:1). The enantiomeric excess is determined by chiral HPLC analysis (see Supporting Information File 1). Hydrogen-bonding silanediols, i.e., di(1-naphthyl)silanediol (1) [39], silanediols 2 [41][42][43], binaphthylsilanediol derivatives 3 [45][46] and 4 [47][48] and novel biphenyl-2,2

Green synthesis of new chiral 1-(arylamino)imidazo[2,1-a]isoindole-2,5-diones from the corresponding α-amino acid arylhydrazides in aqueous medium

• Nadia Bouzayani,
• Jamil Kraїem,
• Sylvain Marque,
• Yakdhane Kacem,
• Abel Carlin-Sinclair,
• Jérôme Marrot and
• Béchir Ben Hassine

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2923–2930, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.271

• –m. Diastereoisomeric (dr) and enantiomeric (er) ratio were determined by chiral HPLC (see Supporting Information File 3). Proposed partial mechanism with a selectivity model. Synthesis of the α-amino acid arylhydrazides 3a–m. Optimization of the reaction conditions for the cyclocondensation of 2