Benzylic C(sp³)–H fluorination

• Alexander P. Atkins,
• Alice C. Dean and
• Alastair J. J. Lennox

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1527–1547, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.137

• with nucleophilic fluoride sources too (Figure 30) [77]. This process involved an initial quinoline-directed C–H activation by Pd(II), followed by oxidation to generate a Pd(IV)–fluoride complex capable of C–F reductive elimination to generate the primary benzyl fluoride. Under this protocol, eleven 8

Synthesis and optical properties of bis- and tris-alkynyl-2-trifluoromethylquinolines

• Stefan Jopp,
• Franziska Spruner von Mertz,
• Peter Ehlers,
• Alexander Villinger and
• Peter Langer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1246–1255, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.107

• steady state absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy which give insights of the influence of the substitution pattern and of the type of substituents on the optical properties. Keywords: alkynes; catalysis; fluorescence; heterocycles; palladium; Introduction Quinoline is a well-known core structure

• which can be found in several natural and synthetic products and many of them show interesting pharmacological properties [1][2][3]. Quinine, for example, is a widely known natural product which was first isolated from the cinchona tree besides many other quinoline-containing cinchona alkaloids [4]. It

• is applied as antimalarial agent and furthermore as a bitter flavour component. Mefloquin [5] and ciprofloxacin [6], on the other hand, are synthetic compounds containing a fluorinated quinoline and quinolone core structure and are used as antimalarial and antibacterial agents, respectively (Figure 1

Manganese-catalyzed C–C and C–N bond formation with alcohols via borrowing hydrogen or hydrogen auto-transfer

• Mohd Farhan Ansari,
• Atul Kumar Maurya,
• Abhishek Kumar and
• Saravanakumar Elangovan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1111–1166, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.98

• conditions were followed for the methylation of several ketones with methanol, which gave yields of up to 99% (Scheme 40). Very recently, a quinoline-based manganese catalyst was studied by Chakraborty and co-workers for the alkylation of methyl aryl ketones with alcohols (Scheme 41) [70]. Several methyl

• in methanol at 110 °C for 24 h under a N2 atmosphere, giving the desired products with 60 to 99% yields (Scheme 64). In 2023, Elias et al. reported that an air-stable, phosphine-free manganese complex generated from 8-quinoline could α-alkylate 2-oxindole with primary and secondary alcohols [92

• that the metal–ligand cooperation plays a crucial role in the acceptorless dehydrogenation of ethylene glycol to glycolaldehyde and the HA process. In 2018, Maji’s group reported the Friedländer quinoline synthesis using a phosphine-free manganese catalyst generated in situ from Mn(CO)5Br and L3 [58

Carbonylative synthesis and functionalization of indoles

• Alex De Salvo,
• Raffaella Mancuso and
• Xiao-Feng Wu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 973–1000, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.87

• substrate. In the second case the reaction was catalyzed under the same conditions except for changing the solvent to iPrOH and the catalyst to [Pd(tfa)2L] (Scheme 5). Furthermore, Gabriele and co-workers developed the oxidative carbonylation of 1-(2-aminoaryl)-2-yn-1-ols to quinoline-3-carboxylic esters

(Bio)isosteres of ortho- and meta-substituted benzenes

• H. Erik Diepers and
• Johannes C. L. Walker

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 859–890, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.78

• microsomes (CLint) improved significantly. The increase in solubility is particularly marked at low pH. A related observation was made by Poole and co-workers for quinoline-substituted 1,2,3-BCPs, where larger increases in the lipophilicity of the bioisosteric compound were also found at low pH [68]. One

HPW-Catalyzed environmentally benign approach to imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines

• Luan A. Martinho and
• Carlos Kleber Z. Andrade

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 628–637, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.55

• ], pyrazolo-fused benzophenazines [45], 4,5-dioxopyrrolidines [46], 1,2-dihydropyridine (1,2-DHPs) [47], pyrimido[4,5-b]quinoline-tetraones [48], tetrahydrobenzo[b]pyrans and indazolo[2,1-b]phthalazinetriones [49]. Herein, we report the synthesis of imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines via the GBB-3CR using HPW as

Chemical and biosynthetic potential of Penicillium shentong XL-F41

• Ran Zou,
• Xin Li,
• Xiaochen Chen,
• Yue-Wei Guo and
• Baofu Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 597–606, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.52

• reports on the biosynthetic pathways from tryptophan to quinoline rings. Through our analysis, we discovered that tryptophan in the primary metabolic pathway is primarily catalyzed by indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase and tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO and TDO), as well as canine urinary tryptophan 3

• -monooxygenase, to form quinoline rings [26]. Quinine is frequently cited as one of the primary forms of quinoline rings in secondary metabolic pathways. Francesco Trenti et al. [27] studied some of the biosynthesis processes of quinine, in which enzymes involved are much more complex than primary metabolism

• 1 and those previously reported. This suggests that the formation of the quinoline ring in compound 1 may represent a new and unreported biosynthetic pathway. Moreover, to address the low yields that hindered the determination of absolute stereochemistry, we attempted to boost the production of

Mechanisms for radical reactions initiating from N-hydroxyphthalimide esters

• Carlos R. Azpilcueta-Nicolas and
• Jean-Philip Lumb

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 346–378, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.35

• ). Additionally, Minisci-type additions were carried out in the presence of protonated quinoline radical acceptor 83, affording product 84 (Scheme 16A). Mechanistically, this activation mode involves an intra-complex SET that forms the Ph3P–NaI radical cation species 85 and the corresponding radical anion 86

• ] (Scheme 33A). The mechanism of this redox neutral reaction involves reductive fragmentation of the radical precursor 3 mediated by the cathode under constant-current electrolysis (Scheme 33B). The resulting alkyl radical 9 attacks the protonated quinoline 168, forming radical cation intermediate 169

Synthesis of π-conjugated polycyclic compounds by late-stage extrusion of chalcogen fragments

• Aissam Okba,
• Pablo Simón Marqués,
• Kyohei Matsuo,
• Naoki Aratani,
• Hiroko Yamada,
• Gwénaël Rapenne and
• Claire Kammerer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 287–305, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.30

• bronze in refluxing quinoline, thus triggering a S-extrusion along with a decarboxylation reaction (Scheme 3) [56]. From a retrosynthetic point of view, this example nicely illustrates the fact that polyannelated thiepines, and more generally S-, Se- and Te-based heteropines, are straightforward

Substitution reactions in the acenaphthene analog of quino[7,8-h]quinoline and an unusual synthesis of the corresponding acenaphthylenes by tele-elimination

• Ekaterina V. Kolupaeva,
• Narek A. Dzhangiryan,
• Alexander F. Pozharskii,
• Oleg P. Demidov and
• Valery A. Ozeryanskii

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 243–253, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.24

• , Pushkin str. 1a, 355017 Stavropol, Russian Federation 10.3762/bjoc.20.24 Abstract The possibility of functionalization of dipyrido[3,2-e:2′,3′-h]acenaphthene containing a quino[7,8-h]quinoline fragment and being a highly basic diazine analog of 1,8-bis(dimethylamino)naphthalene (“proton sponge”) has been

• reaction with neutral or anionic bases. Keywords: dipyrido[3,2-e:2′,3′-h]acenaphthene (acenaphthylene); hydrogen bonding; π-stacking; substitution reactions; tele-elimination; Introduction Quinoline derivatives, classical nitrogen-containing heterocycles, are widely distributed in nature in various forms

• and used in medicine, food industry, catalysts, dyes, functional materials, oil refining, and electronics [1][2]. Quinoline and its derivatives have antibiotic, antimalarial, antitumor, anti-inflammatory, antihypertensive, and antiretroviral properties [3][4]. Therefore, at present, there is a need

Copper-promoted C5-selective bromination of 8-aminoquinoline amides with alkyl bromides

• Changdong Shao,
• Chen Ma,
• Li Li,
• Jingyi Liu,
• Yanan Shen,
• Chen Chen,
• Qionglin Yang,
• Tianyi Xu,
• Zhengsong Hu,
• Yuhe Kan and
• Tingting Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 155–161, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.14

• important auxiliary group for the proximal C–H activation with the efforts of Daugulis [5] and others [6]. Results from medical research indicated that the introduction of halogen atoms into quinoline motifs has positive effects on their bioactivities, such as antimalarial, antitumor, and so on [7

• ]. Therefore, it is of great importance to develop syntheses for 8-aminoquinoline derivatives with diverse substituent groups, especially those leading to halogenated derivatives. Recent years have witnessed much progress in halogenation reactions of the quinoline ring in the C2–C7 positions [8][9]. Among them

• , the synthesis of important C5-halogenated products gained particular attention since Stahl et al. reported the first chlorination example using LiCl as the halogen source [10]. Following this pioneering work, elegant strategies for the C5–H bromination of the quinoline ring employing simple inorganic

Synthetic approach to 2-alkyl-4-quinolones and 2-alkyl-4-quinolone-3-carboxamides based on common β-keto amide precursors

• Yordanka Mollova-Sapundzhieva,
• Plamen Angelov,
• Danail Georgiev and
• Pavel Yanev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1804–1810, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.132

• sensing; Introduction Among the vast number of biologically active quinoline derivatives [1][2], the subclass of 4-quinolones (also referred to as 4-oxo-1,4-dihydroquinolines, quinolin-4(1H)-ones, or 4-hydroxyquinolines) is of great importance with its rich variety of bioactive compounds. Perhaps the

Selectivity control towards CO versus H₂ for photo-driven CO₂ reduction with a novel Co(II) catalyst

• Lisa-Lou Gracia,
• Philip Henkel,
• Olaf Fuhr and
• Claudia Bizzarri

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1766–1775, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.129

• coordinating nitrogen of the 1,2,3-triazole units. The nitrogen atoms of the two quinoline moieties are therefore trans to each other. This conformation might be induced by the cobalt precursor Co(NCS)2(py)4, which has already the NCS monodentate ligands cis to each other, as it was not the case for other Co

Application of N-heterocyclic carbene–Cu(I) complexes as catalysts in organic synthesis: a review

• Nosheen Beig,
• Varsha Goyal and
• Raj K. Bansal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1408–1442, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.102

• amidating reagent leading to the isolation of copper–arylcarbamato species and the desired product. The developed amidation protocol works highly efficiently and selectively over a broad range of substrates including polyfluorobenzenes, azoles, and quinoline N-oxides (Scheme 74). 2.10 C(sp2)–H thiolation

Non-noble metal-catalyzed cross-dehydrogenation coupling (CDC) involving ether α-C(sp³)–H to construct C–C bonds

• Hui Yu and
• Feng Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1259–1288, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.94

• , and TBHP acting as both an oxidant and a radical initiator. In 2015, Wang et al. reported the synthesis of quinoline lactones by the double oxidative dehydrogenation (DOD) reaction between glycine derivatives and tetrahydrofuran using the FeCl2/HCl/TBHP system (Scheme 19) [80]. This practical coupling

• . In recent years, a Ag-catalyzed cross-dehydrogenative coupling of aromatic C(sp2)–H bonds with ethers has also been developed. In 2018, Wang et al. reported that the AgNO3-promoted CDC of quinaldine (183) with ethers afforded alkylated quinoline derivatives in the presence of selectfluor as a mild

• -dicarbonyl compounds. Rare earth-metal-catalyzed CDC reaction. Visible-light-driven CDC of cycloalkanes with benzazoles. Photoinduced alkylation of quinoline with cyclic ethers. Photocatalyzed CDC reactions between α-C(sp3)–H bonds of ethers and C(sp2)–H bonds of aromatics.

Selective construction of dispiro[indoline-3,2'-quinoline-3',3''-indoline] and dispiro[indoline-3,2'-pyrrole-3',3''-indoline] via three-component reaction

• Ziying Xiao,
• Fengshun Xu,
• Jing Sun and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1234–1242, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.91

• dispiro[indoline-3,2'-quinoline-3',3''-indoline] derivatives in good yields and with high diastereoselectivity. On the other hand, a similar reaction of the dimedone adducts of 3-phenacylideneoxindoles afforded unique dispiro[indoline-3,2'-pyrrole-3',3''-indoline] derivatives with a cyclohexanedione

• ][59][60][61][62], we investigated the base-promoted annulation reaction of dimedone adducts of 3-methyleneoxindoles, with isatin and ammonium acetate. It was unexpectedly found that novel dispiro[indoline-3,2'-quinoline-3',3''-indoline] and dispiro[indoline-3,2'-pyrrole-3',3''-indoline] were

• the three-component reaction. To our surprise, instead of the above mentioned dispiro[indoline-3,2'-quinoline-3',3''-indolines] 3a–m, the novel dispiro[indoline-3,2'-pyrrole-3',3''-indoline] derivatives 4a–i were obtained in high yields. The results are summarized in Table 3. The structural analysis

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

The unique reactivity of 5,6-unsubstituted 1,4-dihydropyridine in the Huisgen 1,4-diploar cycloaddition and formal [2 + 2] cycloaddition

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

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 982–990, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.73

• ]. The well-known Huisgen 1,4-dipoles have a special kind of zwitterionic intermediates and are usually prepared by a nucleophilic addition of pyridine, quinoline, isoquinoline and other aza-arenes to electron-deficient alkynes [4][5][6][7][8]. The reactive Huisgen 1,4-dipoles have been widely employed

Pyridine C(sp²)–H bond functionalization under transition-metal and rare earth metal catalysis

• Haritha Sindhe,
• Malladi Mounika Reddy,
• Karthikeyan Rajkumar,
• Akshay Kamble,
• Amardeep Singh,
• Anand Kumar and
• Satyasheel Sharma

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 820–863, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.62

• of azine(pyridine)-N-oxides 9 with oxazoles 166 was reported by Miura and group [102]. Although their work majorly covered quinoline N-oxide substrates, they also investigated three pyridine substrates in the reaction leading to the corresponding products in moderate yields (Scheme 32). The N-oxide

• results in the five-membered rhodacycle 184 which is followed by a second regioselective insertion of alkyne 179 into the Rh–C bond of 184 providing the seven-membered cyclic intermediate 185. Further reductive elimination furnishes the quinoline product 180 and a Rh(I) species, with the latter being

Facile access to 3-sulfonylquinolines via Knoevenagel condensation/aza-Wittig reaction cascade involving ortho-azidobenzaldehydes and β-ketosulfonamides and sulfones

• Ksenia Malkova,
• Andrey Bubyrev,
• Stanislav Kalinin and
• Dmitry Dar’in

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 800–807, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.60

• Ksenia Malkova Andrey Bubyrev Stanislav Kalinin Dmitry Dar'in Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russian Federation 10.3762/bjoc.19.60 Abstract Quinoline-based sulfonyl derivatives, and especially sulfonamides, are relevant and promising structures for drug design. We

• protocol is appropriate for both ketosulfonyl reagents and α-sulfonyl-substituted alkyl acetates providing the target quinoline derivatives in good to excellent yields. Keywords: aza-Wittig reaction; azides; cyclocondensation; quinolones; sulfonamides; Introduction The quinoline scaffold has a wide

• occurrence among natural products [1] and is a key structural component of several pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, dyestuffs, and materials. Particularly, the well-known antimalarial alkaloid quinine isolated from Cinchona bark comprises a quinoline core (Figure 1a) [2]. Moreover, numerous quinoline

Enolates ambushed – asymmetric tandem conjugate addition and subsequent enolate trapping with conventional and less traditional electrophiles

• Péter Kisszékelyi and
• Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 593–634, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.44

• –Jung vinylsilane reagents 33. Kawamura et al. performed zinc enolate trapping reactions using ligand L10, a chiral quinoline-based N,N,P-ligand (Scheme 8A) [35]. The authors have concluded that the strict control of the amount of organozinc reagent added is essential to avoid side-product formation

Phenanthridine–pyrene conjugates as fluorescent probes for DNA/RNA and an inactive mutant of dipeptidyl peptidase enzyme

• Josipa Matić,
• Tana Tandarić,
• Marijana Radić Stojković,
• Filip Šupljika,
• Zrinka Karačić,
• Ana Tomašić Paić,
• Lucija Horvat,
• Robert Vianello and
• Lidija-Marija Tumir

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 550–565, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.40

• -dependent, and the flexibility of the linker can alter that [13]. Further, pyrene-guanidiniocarbonylpyrrole discriminated DNA and RNA by different spectroscopic (induced circular dichroism signal and fluorescent signal) responses [14]. Also, we recently reported a pyrene–quinoline conjugate molecule that

Transition-metal-catalyzed C–H bond activation as a sustainable strategy for the synthesis of fluorinated molecules: an overview

• Louis Monsigny,
• Floriane Doche and
• Tatiana Besset

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 448–473, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.35

• % yield, 19a, 84% yield), substituted pyrazole derivatives (6 examples, up to 55% yield, 19b, 55% yield), pyrimidine (19c, 31% yield) as well as quinoline and isoquinoline (19d and 19e, 65% and 66% yields, respectively). In addition, the trifluoromethylthiolated benzo[h]quinoline 20f was obtained in good

• bonds did not have a significant impact on the outcome of the reaction. It should be noted that this methodology afforded the products with a high regioselectivity, and no incorporation of the SCF3 moiety on the benzylic or at the C5 position of the quinoline part of the directing group was observed

• [h]quinoline under palladium catalysis in the presence of PhI(OAc)2 as oxidant (Scheme 19) [161]. Since this seminal work and in the course of their investigation towards the development of new methods for the alkoxylation of C(sp2) centers by transition-metal catalysis, few examples of transition

1,4-Dithianes: attractive C2-building blocks for the synthesis of complex molecular architectures

• Bram Ryckaert,
• Ellen Demeyere,
• Frederick Degroote,
• Hilde Janssens and
• Johan M. Winne

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 115–132, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.12

• reactions, as pseudo-heteroarylzinc reagents. Another example developed by Knochel uses the zincated 1,4-dithiin 22 as a nucleophile to add across the N–O bond in anthranil [44], which spontaneously cyclizes to a heterocycle-fused quinoline via a Friedel–Crafts-type pathway onto the released aldehyde moiety

Revisiting the bromination of 3β-hydroxycholest-5-ene with CBr₄/PPh₃ and the subsequent azidolysis of the resulting bromide, disparity in stereochemical behavior

• Christian Schumacher,
• Jas S. Ward,
• Kari Rissanen,
• Carsten Bolm and
• Mohamed Ramadan El Sayed Aly

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 91–99, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.9

• propargylated, coupled with azido quinoline, and then functionalized with glucose as part of random designs to discover new antimicrobial and cytotoxic candidates. From these studies, conjugates I [9] and II [10] were identified to display an excellent preliminary antibacterial impact, and congener III [10