Recent advances in organocatalytic atroposelective reactions

• Henrich Szabados and
• Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 55–121, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.6

Efficient synthesis of fluorinated triphenylenes with enhanced arene–perfluoroarene interactions in columnar mesophases

• Yang Chen,
• Jiao He,
• Hang Lin,
• Hai-Feng Wang,
• Ping Hu,
• Bi-Qin Wang,
• Ke-Qing Zhao and
• Bertrand Donnio

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3263–3273, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.270

• analysis (Figures S1–S32, Supporting Information File 1), and all the results agree with the proposed molecular structures. Single-crystal structure of F Suitable single crystals of compound F for X-ray analysis were obtained by slow evaporation of an ethyl acetate/ethanol solution (Figure 2, and

Synthesis of 2H-azirine-2,2-dicarboxylic acids and their derivatives

• Anastasiya V. Agafonova,
• Mikhail S. Novikov and
• Alexander F. Khlebnikov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3191–3197, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.264

• single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The reaction of azetidine with diacyl chloride 2a gave a complex mixture of products, and O-methyl hydroxylamine did not react. Diacyl chloride 2a reacts with methanol and ethanol to give diesters 11a,b (Scheme 5). An experiment with isoxazole 1a and methanol on

• -2,2-dicarboxamides were prepared using primary and secondary amines in 53–84% yield, and the reaction is scalable. Methyl and ethyl esters of 3-phenyl-2H-azirine-2,2-dicarboxylic acid were prepared in 76–99% yield from 3-phenyl-2H-azirine-2,2-dicarbonyl dichloride and methanol or ethanol, but the

Extension of the π-system of monoaryl-substituted norbornadienes with acetylene bridges: influence on the photochemical conversion and storage of light energy

• Robin Schulte,
• Dustin Schade,
• Thomas Paululat,
• Till J. B. Zähringer,
• Christoph Kerzig and
• Heiko Ihmels

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3061–3068, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.254

• acetylenes at ca. 85 ppm and 95 ppm were observed. The norbornadienes 1h–l,n exhibit very good solubility in organic solvents, like ethyl acetate, chloroform, or benzene, whereas they have poor solubility in cyclohexane, acetonitrile, or ethanol. In polar protic solvents, like methanol or water, they are

Recent advances in transition-metal-free arylation reactions involving hypervalent iodine salts

• Ritu Mamgain,
• Kokila Sakthivel and
• Fateh V. Singh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2891–2920, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.243

• easily recycled just by washing it with ethanol, retaining its catalytic activity for arylation up to three cycles without any compromise. Thus, this procedure could be considered economic as well as environment-friendly. In 2019, Kalek and co-workers reported the regioselective C–H arylation of 2

Synthesis of pyrrole-fused dibenzoxazepine/dibenzothiazepine/triazolobenzodiazepine derivatives via isocyanide-based multicomponent reactions

• Marzieh Norouzi,
• Mohammad Taghi Nazeri,
• Ahmad Shaabani and
• Behrouz Notash

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2870–2882, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.241

• , and DMF at different temperatures (Table 1, entries 3–9). The result obtained from the study of solvents showed that pyrrole-fused dibenzoxazepine 4a was obtained with a yield of 56% in ethanol as solvent at a temperature of 78 °C (Table 1, entry 4). To achieve a higher yield of product 4a, the

• their suitable fluorophores [49][50][51]. The UV–vis absorption and emission spectra of products 4 and 6 were studied in ethanol at 298 K. The absorption range (λabs) was 400–225 nm, and the emission range (λem) was 560–400 nm. These findings are shown in Figure S3 in Supporting Information File 1. An

• QS (quinine sulfate) (a); emission for 4a, 6c and QS (b); c = 75 ppm in ethanol and T = 298 K. Methods for the construction of pyrrole-fused heterocycles through I-MCR reactions. The model reaction of dibenzoxazepine, gem-diactivated olefin (2-benzylidenemalononitrile), and cyclohexyl isocyanide

Synthesis and antimycotic activity of new derivatives of imidazo[1,2-a]pyrimidines

• Dmitriy Yu. Vandyshev,
• Daria A. Mangusheva,
• Khidmet S. Shikhaliev,
• Kirill A. Scherbakov,
• Oleg N. Burov,
• Alexander D. Zagrebaev,
• Tatiana N. Khmelevskaya,
• Alexey S. Trenin and
• Fedor I. Zubkov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2806–2817, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.236

• intramolecular cyclization were observed (Table 1, entries 3 and 4). The best results were obtained when isopropyl alcohol was used, which furnished yields of the final product 4а up to 89% within 1 h (entry 9 in Table 1). In the case of methanol and ethanol, the maximum conversion was also observed during the

Interaction of a pyrene derivative with cationic [60]fullerene in phospholipid membranes and its effects on photodynamic actions

• Hayato Takagi,
• Çetin Çelik,
• Ryosuke Fukuda,
• Qi Guo,
• Tomohiro Higashino,
• Hiroshi Imahori,
• Yoko Yamakoshi and
• Tatsuya Murakami

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2732–2738, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.231

• Plains, NY, USA) was solubilized in ethanol (FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Corporation, Osaka, Japan), and catC60, which was synthesized according to a previous report [20], or C60 (NOF AMERICA Corporation, White Plains, NY, USA) was solubilized in a 1:4 (vol:vol) mixture of DMSO (Nacalai Tesque Inc

• ., Kyoto, Japan) and toluene (FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Corporation, Osaka, Japan). DMPC in ethanol and catC60 or C60 in DMSO/toluene were mixed in molar ratios of 1:0, 1:0.1, 1:1, or 1:10, and the solvent was removed using a rotary evaporator (Rotavapor R-300, BÜCHI Labortechnik AG, Switzerland) at 40

Transition-metal-free decarbonylation–oxidation of 3-arylbenzofuran-2(3H)-ones: access to 2-hydroxybenzophenones

• Bhaskar B. Dhotare,
• Seema V. Kanojia,
• Chahna K. Sakhiya,
• Amey Wadawale and
• Dibakar Goswami

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2655–2667, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.223

• -absorption studies UV–vis absorbance spectra of the 5-substituted-2-hydroxybenzophenones 4aa–ka were recorded in triplicates at room temperature (298 K) in ethanol at a concentration of 40 µM, in the range of 225–500 nm at 1 nm intervals [11]. The obtained data were corrected using calibration methods with

• ethanol as a blank. The critical wavelength (λc) and UVA/UVB ratio were calculated using Equation 1 and Equation 2, respectively, as shown below. Determination of SPF (sun protection factor) An ethanolic solution of the compounds 4aa–ka was prepared at a concentration of 200 μg/mL. The UV–vis absorption

• spectra of samples were measured in the range of 290 to 450 nm, every 5 nm, using ethanol as a blank [11]. The absorption data were obtained in three replicates at each point, and the SPF value was calculated using Equation 3. Where, CF (correction factor) = 10; EE(λ) is the erythemal effect spectrum; I(λ

Efficient modification of peroxydisulfate oxidation reactions of nitrogen-containing heterocycles 6-methyluracil and pyridine

• Alfiya R. Gimadieva,
• Yuliya Z. Khazimullina,
• Aigiza A. Gilimkhanova and
• Akhat G. Mustafin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2599–2607, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.219

• H2SO4 was added and the reaction mixture was stirred at the same temperature for 1 h and cooled. The precipitated crystals were filtered off, washed with cold distilled water to pH 6–7 (2 × 5 mL), and recrystallized from ethanol. 5-Hydroxy-6-methyluracil (3). Yield 98%. The spectral characteristics are

• at 45 °C for 10 h, cooled to room temperature, evaporated at reduced pressure to 1/3 volume, extracted with ethyl acetate (2 × 20 mL) to remove unreacted pyridine, followd by butanol (3 × 50 mL). The butanol fractions were combined and evaporated to dryness. The residue was washed with hot ethanol

• with ethyl acetate (2 × 20 mL) to remove unreacted pyridine, followed by butanol (3 × 50 mL). The butanol fractions were combined and evaporated to dryness. The residue was washed with hot ethanol, kept for 12 h at 0 °C, the precipitate was decanted, and the filtrate was evaporated to give 9.78 g (85

Synthesis, electrochemical properties, and antioxidant activity of sterically hindered catechols with 1,3,4-oxadiazole, 1,2,4-triazole, thiazole or pyridine fragments

• Daria A. Burmistrova,
• Andrey Galustyan,
• Nadezhda P. Pomortseva,
• Kristina D. Pashaeva,
• Maxim V. Arsenyev,
• Oleg P. Demidov,
• Mikhail A. Kiskin,
• Andrey I. Poddel’sky,
• Nadezhda T. Berberova and
• Ivan V. Smolyaninov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2378–2391, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.202

• /prooxidant, and antiradical activity was carried out for the catechols synthesized in this work. Results and Discussion Synthesis The interaction of 3,5-di-tert-butyl-o-benzoquinone with the corresponding thiols in ethanol at room temperature under argon leads to the formation of catechol thioethers 1–3 (69

Improved deconvolution of natural products’ protein targets using diagnostic ions from chemical proteomics linkers

• Andreas Wiest and
• Pavel Kielkowski

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2323–2341, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.199

• tag in cell lysate, the proteins are loaded onto the carboxylate magnetic beads and aggregated with the beads by addition of an organic solvent, for example ethanol or acetonitrile. The subsequent washes of the carboxylate magnetic beads with proteins by an organic solvent–water mixture or organic

Multicomponent syntheses of pyrazoles via (3 + 2)-cyclocondensation and (3 + 2)-cycloaddition key steps

• Ignaz Betcke,
• Alissa C. Götzinger,
• Maryna M. Kornet and
• Thomas J. J. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2024–2077, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.178

Harnessing the versatility of hydrazones through electrosynthetic oxidative transformations

• Aurélie Claraz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1988–2004, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.175

• arylpropynal-derived NH-arylhydrazones 77 and secondary amines 78 in moderate to good yields. Potassium iodide was employed as electrolyte and mediator in ethanol in an undivided cell equipped with a carbon graphite and a platinium cathode. The transformation initiated with the electrochemical generation of

1,2-Difluoroethylene (HFO-1132): synthesis and chemistry

• Liubov V. Sokolenko,
• Taras M. Sokolenko and
• Yurii L. Yagupolskii

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1955–1966, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.171

• and co-workers [93]. Therein, a mixture of products, with diethyl 2-chloro-1,2-difluoroethylphosphonate as main compound, was formed (Scheme 15). This mixture was reacted with absolute ethanol, and the esters formed were separated by distillation and characterized. The authors did not point out which

Regioselective alkylation of a versatile indazole: Electrophile scope and mechanistic insights from density functional theory calculations

• Pengcheng Lu,
• Luis Juarez,
• Paul A. Wiget,
• Weihe Zhang,
• Krishnan Raman and
• Pravin L. Kotian

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1940–1954, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.170

• spectroscopy (see Supporting Information File 1). From the yield of products 8 and 9, we decided to explore new reaction conditions to improve the yields of the N1-substituted indazole analogs. As shown in Scheme 2, compound 12 was prepared by treating ethanol (10) with tosyl chloride (11) in the presence of 4

Negishi-coupling-enabled synthesis of α-heteroaryl-α-amino acid building blocks for DNA-encoded chemical library applications

• Matteo Gasparetto,
• Balázs Fődi and
• Gellért Sipos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1922–1932, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.168

• results, thiazole 2b, benzothiazole 2i and benzimidazole 2t react very well with sodium nitrite in an acidic environment (Scheme 6, red section). Among the various subclasses of compounds, pyrazole 2l exhibited a high reactivity using t-BuONO and EtONa in ethanol (Scheme 6, red section). On the other hand

The Groebke–Blackburn–Bienaymé reaction in its maturity: innovation and improvements since its 21st birthday (2019–2023)

• Cristina Martini,
• Muhammad Idham Darussalam Mardjan and
• Andrea Basso

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1839–1879, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.162

• that time, along with some 30 solvents. The most widely used conditions, however, remained those originally discovered by Groebke, Blackburn and Bienaymé, namely the use of Sc(OTf)3, perchloric acid or p-toluenesulfonic acid as catalysts, and methanol, ethanol or toluene as solvents, or under solvent

• on different substrates, the conditions were similar: 20 mol % of the catalyst, ethanol as solvent at 80 °C in the first case, 30 mol % of catalyst, ethylene glycol at 90 °C in the second case; however, a striking difference appears when the reaction was carried out in the absence of silver catalyst

• . prepared the Brønsted acid ionic liquid 7, based on the 1-(butyl-4-sulfonic)-3-methylimidazolium cation, (Scheme 4) and tested it in the model reaction reported in Scheme 2 (R = t-Bu), obtaining a 71% yield using 20 mol % of catalyst in ethanol as the solvent under reflux conditions. The yield could be

Ugi bisamides based on pyrrolyl-β-chlorovinylaldehyde and their unusual transformations

• Alexander V. Tsygankov,
• Vladyslav O. Vereshchak,
• Tetiana O. Savluk,
• Serhiy M. Desenko,
• Valeriia V. Ananieva,
• Oleksandr V. Buravov,
• Yana I. Sakhno,
• Svitlana V. Shishkina and
• Valentyn A. Chebanov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1773–1784, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.156

• possibilities for subsequent post-transformation reactions. The synthesis of the target Ugi bisamides 5–8 was carried out at room temperature in ethanol with stirring for 24–48 hours (depending on the type of starting material) with a yield of 54–93% (Table 1). It is worth noting that the Ugi-4CR reaction also

• led to the formation of bisamides 5–8 when other solvents were used, e.g., methanol or acetonitrile. However, the yields of the targeted reaction products in methanol were generally lower than in ethanol, while the procedure in acetonitrile was not suitable for all reagents. It is known that the Ugi

• to drive the process towards the desired hydrolysis of the secondary amide group, we performed the post-Ugi transformation under MW activation in ethanol or acetonitrile (Scheme 3, conditions B or C). However, the application of MW irradiation did not change the course of the reaction, and as under

Syntheses and medicinal chemistry of spiro heterocyclic steroids

• Laura L. Romero-Hernández,
• Ana Isabel Ahuja-Casarín,
• Penélope Merino-Montiel,
• Sara Montiel-Smith,
• José Luis Vega-Báez and
• Jesús Sandoval-Ramírez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1713–1745, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.152

• % by condensing unsaturated ketones 84 with aniline under refluxing ethanol. These intermediates were then subjected to a reaction with excess mercaptoacetic acid (also known as thioglycolic acid) in refluxing benzene, resulting in the formation of spiro 1,3-thiazolidin-4-one derivatives with good

• compound underwent further transformation through reaction with p-fluorobenzaldehyde in dry ethanol, yielding the corresponding 4-fluoroarylidene derivative 92 in an overall yield of 27%. The described reaction sequence was successfully replicated using testosterone and progesterone to produce a N-aryl-1,3

• )-spiro[cholest-5-en-3,2’-[1,3,4]-oxadiazoline] (99) through the acylation of semicarbazone 98 using freshly distilled acetic anhydride and pyridine at 80 °C [55]. Semicarbazone 98 was initially obtained via condensation of cholest-5-en-3-one (97) with semicarbazide hydrochloride in a refluxing ethanol

New triazinephosphonate dopants for Nafion proton exchange membranes (PEM)

• Fátima C. Teixeira,
• António P. S. Teixeira and
• C. M. Rangel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1623–1634, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.145

• ]methylphosphonate (10). The following hydrogenolysis under H2/Pd/C conditions in ethanol, afforded the desired diethyl (4-hydroxyphenyl)methylphosphonate (7), in an overall yield of 80%. The synthesis of diethyl [hydroxy(4-hydroxyphenyl)methyl]phosphonate (11) [55] started with the reaction of 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde

Rapid construction of tricyclic tetrahydrocyclopenta[4,5]pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridine via isocyanide-based multicomponent reaction

• Xiu-Yu Chen,
• Ying Han,
• Jing Sun and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1436–1443, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.126

• ), dimethyl but-2-ynedioate (2a) and 5,6-unsubstituted dihydropyridine 3a as standard reaction. The main results are summarized in Table 1. The expected product was not observed when the three-component reaction was carried out in methanol, ethanol or tetrahydrofuran at room temperature (Table 1, entries 1–3

Challenge N- versus O-six-membered annulation: FeCl₃-catalyzed synthesis of heterocyclic N,O-aminals

• Giacomo Mari,
• Lucia De Crescentini,
• Gianfranco Favi,
• Fabio Mantellini,
• Diego Olivieri and
• Stefania Santeusanio

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1412–1420, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.123

• . Based on our previous findings [17][18][19], the initial nucleophilic addition of α-aminoacetals 2a,b as nitrogen source to the activated heterodiene system of 4-methoxycarbonyl-DDs 1a–f in dichloromethane (DCM) or ethanol (EtOH) at room temperature affords N-aminohydrazone derivatives I (Scheme 2

• of 5a decreased, while utilizing ethanol the reaction proceeded slowly and produced a complicated mixture in which both 5a and 6a were not detected (Table 1, entries 6–8). With the optimized conditions in hand (Table 1, entry 5), a selection of N-3-functionalized (thio)hydantoins (4a–r, 1 mmol) were

Generation of alkyl and acyl radicals by visible-light photoredox catalysis: direct activation of C–O bonds in organic transformations

• Mithu Roy,
• Bitan Sardar,
• Itu Mallick and
• Dipankar Srimani

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1348–1375, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.119

• breakdown of ethyl vinyl ether and trapping of ethanol, yielding radical 84. To regenerate the photocatalyst, PhSSPh functioned as an oxidant. After protonation upon the β-elimination step, PhS− contributed a hydrogen atom to both 83 and 84, alongside regeneration of the HAT catalyst. Lastly, the acetal

Synthesis of 1,2,3-triazoles containing an allomaltol moiety from substituted pyrano[2,3-d]isoxazolones via base-promoted Boulton–Katritzky rearrangement

• Constantine V. Milyutin,
• Andrey N. Komogortsev and
• Boris V. Lichitsky

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1334–1340, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.117

• obtained in three steps from allomaltol by a previously described method [27][28] Earlier, we have shown that hydrazone 3a can be synthesized by reaction of compound 1a with phenylhydrazine (5) in ethanol using a catalytic amount of p-TsOH (Scheme 2). Next, we supposed that hydrochlorides of arylhydrazines

• can be used as starting materials in the studied condensation. We tested this hypothesis using the interaction of ketone 1b and phenylhydrazine hydrochloride (2a). It was shown that reflux of the starting compounds in ethanol for 1 h leads to the target hydrazone 3b in 64% yield (Scheme 3). It should