Polarity effects in 4-fluoro- and 4-(trifluoromethyl)prolines

• Vladimir Kubyshkin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1837–1852, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.151

• the conformation adopted by the ring. A C4-endo conformation exhibits two vicinal J couplings with one value being large and one being small, whereas a C4-exo conformation displays two large J couplings [66] (Figure 4). A substituent at the C4-atom creates a certain preference towards one or another

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

• last decade particular attention has been focused on two modern fields, C–H bond activation, and visible-light-induced photocatalysis. Couplings through C–H bond activation involve the use of non-prefunctionalized substrates that are directly converted into more complex molecules, without the need of a

• photoredox catalysis. This interception leads to a new metallic key intermediate 3 by single-electron transfer (SET). The desired coupling product 4 is then obtained after a reductive elimination (Figure 19). Applying such an approach paved the way towards unprecedented couplings benefiting from a SET

• combination of photocatalysis and metal-catalyzed C–H activations upholds the desired couplings under, usually, mild conditions and at room temperature, while utilization of non-prefunctionalized coupling partners reduces the waste formation. Last but not least, the use of visible light, one of the most

Heterogeneous photocatalysis in flow chemical reactors

• Christopher G. Thomson,
• Ai-Lan Lee and
• Filipe Vilela

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1495–1549, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.125

Disposable cartridge concept for the on-demand synthesis of turbo Grignards, Knochel–Hauser amides, and magnesium alkoxides

• Mateo Berton,
• Kevin Sheehan,
• Andrea Adamo and
• D. Tyler McQuade

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1343–1356, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.115

• combined with a solution-phase reagent, including: (1) copper(I) oxide to produce N-heterocyclic carbene–Cu(I) complexes for use as catalysts [13]; (2) proline to perform proline-based catalytic reactions [14]; (3) zinc powder to produce organozinc halides in tandem with Negishi couplings [15]; (4) zinc

Distinctive reactivity of N-benzylidene-[1,1'-biphenyl]-2-amines under photoredox conditions

• Shrikant D. Tambe,
• Kwan Hong Min,
• Naeem Iqbal and
• Eun Jin Cho

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1335–1342, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.114

• brine. The organic layer was dried over anhydrous MgSO4 and concentrated in vacuo. The desired vicinal diamine product was purified by silica-gel column chromatography using hexane/EtOAc as the eluent. Photocatalytic transformations of imines. Substrate scope for the radical cross-couplings. Reaction

Oxime radicals: generation, properties and application in organic synthesis

• Igor B. Krylov,
• Stanislav A. Paveliev,
• Alexander S. Budnikov and
• Alexander O. Terent’ev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1234–1276, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.107

Photocatalysis with organic dyes: facile access to reactive intermediates for synthesis

• Stephanie G. E. Amos,
• Marion Garreau,
• Luca Buzzetti and
• Jerome Waser

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1163–1187, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.103

• , the ability of transition metal complexes to intercept alkyl radicals has been exploited for expanding the possibility of C–C bond formation reactions to cross-couplings. In all of these transformations, the substituents on the alkyl radical determine if it reacts as a nucleophile or an electrophile

• radicals are electrophilic, with the substitution playing an important role [133][134][135]. As they are prone to efficient HAT, C(sp3)–H couplings at remote positions have been intensively studied [128][130][132][136]. Aminyl and aminium radicals display the opposite philicity: aminyls are nucleophilic

A cyclopeptide and three oligomycin-class polyketides produced by an underexplored actinomycete of the genus Pseudosporangium

• Shun Saito,
• Kota Atsumi,
• Tao Zhou,
• Keisuke Fukaya,
• Daisuke Urabe,
• Naoya Oku,
• Md. Rokon Ul Karim,
• Hisayuki Komaki and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1100–1110, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.97

• . Protons H-8 and H-9 showed three-bond couplings (J = 8.2 Hz), while H-9 showed a weak four-bond correlation with H-5 (J = 1.9 Hz). Relatively intense cross peaks from H-5 and H-9 to the deshielded carbon C-7 (δC 152.8) suggested the oxygen functionality at the meta-position to C-5 and C-9. Intense HMBC

Suzuki–Miyaura cross coupling is not an informative reaction to demonstrate the performance of new solvents

• James Sherwood

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1001–1005, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.89

• objective of this work was to reveal if there is a relationship between the productivity of Suzuki–Miyaura cross couplings and the properties of the solvent, and whether this could be used to justify solvent selection. The choice of solvent is one variable that dictates reaction rate, selectivity

• applicable) of Suzuki–Miyaura cross couplings [8]. Despite this, the reaction is generally tolerant of a wide range of solvents (often an ether or amide solvent is used, and water is a common co-solvent). This calls into question the benefits of using Suzuki–Miyaura cross coupling as a test of new solvents

• enough to definitively establish a measurement of solvent performance in Suzuki–Miyaura cross couplings, a short optimisation study was conducted to improve the conversion to 4-phenylacetophenone in 2-MeTHF (originally 16%). Reducing the water content to an 18:1 v/v ratio and increasing the excess of

Accelerating fragment-based library generation by coupling high-performance photoreactors with benchtop analysis

• Quentin Lefebvre,
• Christophe Salomé and
• Thomas C. Fessard

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 982–988, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.87

• findings on C–N cross-coupling conditions. In these works, nickel-photoredox-catalyzed cross-couplings were the most successful with success rates up to 50% [10]. This was an improvement from non-photocatalyzed conditions, where success rates of 11–33% were observed for palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling

• electrochemically-mediated nickel-catalyzed cross-couplings. Electron-deficient aniline products are less prone to oxidative decomposition. BCP-amines were viable coupling partners but gave the corresponding products 1a–e in poor purities. Simple azetidines partook the reaction to give 2a–c while azaspiro[3,3

Pd-catalyzed asymmetric Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reactions for the synthesis of chiral biaryl compounds with a large steric substituent at the 2-position

• Yongsu Li,
• Bendu Pan,
• Xuefeng He,
• Wang Xia,
• Yaqi Zhang,
• Hao Liang,
• Chitreddy V. Subba Reddy,
• Rihui Cao and
• Liqin Qiu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 966–973, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.85

• Abstract Pd-catalyzed asymmetric Suzuki–Miyaura couplings of 3-methyl-2-bromophenylamides, 3-methyl-2-bromo-1-nitrobenzene and 1-naphthaleneboronic acids have been successfully developed and the corresponding axially chiral biaryl compounds were obtained in very high yields (up to 99%) with good

• bromobenzene substrates and the Pd···O interaction between carbonyl and palladium seem essential to achieve high enantioselectivity. Keywords: asymmetric catalysis; biaryls; monophosphine ligand; palladium catalyst; Suzuki–Miyaura couplings; Introduction Axially chiral molecules have received much attention

• efficient synthesis of this scaffold [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22], like Hiyama [23][24], Negishi [25][26] or Suzuki–Miyaura couplings [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36]. In these synthetic strategies, the reaction system of palladium with chiral phosphine ligands was

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

• ], with FeCl3 being particularly notable for its versatility, ease of use, and low price [5]. Nevertheless, the synthetic utility of oxidative couplings is often limited by several factors [6]. Consequently, incomplete ring fusion and various side reactions, e.g., chlorination [7], or unexpected

• rearrangements, are frequently observed [8]. The use of oxidative couplings is further limited for the synthesis of strained [9][10], electron-deficient, or sterically congested aromatics [11][12][13][14]. Some of these limitations can be overcome by using prefunctionalized precursors [11], as exemplified by

• reductive Ullmann-type chemistry [15], catalytic direct arylations [11][14][16][17], photoinduced cyclodehydrochlorinations [18][19], or nucleophilic oxidative couplings [20], which may offer milder reaction conditions and superior regioselectivities, at the expense of atom and step economy [21]. The latter

Copper catalysis with redox-active ligands

• Agnideep Das,
• Yufeng Ren,
• Cheriehan Hessin and
• Marine Desage-El Murr

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 858–870, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.77

• ], and perform C–H functionalization through aerobic dearomatization of phenols [35]. These broad synthetic outcomes further led to a unified approach for the preparation of 1,2-oxy-aminoarenes by phenol–amine couplings (Scheme 10) [36]. We reported the formation of a C–N bond through copper-catalyzed

Photocatalytic deaminative benzylation and alkylation of tetrahydroisoquinolines with N-alkylpyrydinium salts

• David Schönbauer,
• Carlo Sambiagio,
• Timothy Noël and
• Michael Schnürch

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 809–817, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.74

• , electrophilic alkyl radicals were used in several transformations, such as electrophilic cross couplings under nickel catalysis, either with boronic acids [35] or different (aryl)halides [36][37][38]. Furthermore, visible light-promoted uncatalyzed electron transfer via the formation of electron donor–acceptor

Efficient synthesis of dipeptide analogues of α-fluorinated β-aminophosphonates

• Marcin Kaźmierczak and
• Henryk Koroniak

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 756–762, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.69

• , as well as J-couplings) a relative configuration of N,N-dibenzyl-protected α-fluoro-β-aminophosphonates 11 was established as (1R,2S), but we failed to crystallize these compounds [31]. That is why the removal of the benzyl protecting group from fluorides 11 and the transfer of the free amines 13

Combining enyne metathesis with long-established organic transformations: a powerful strategy for the sustainable synthesis of bioactive molecules

• Valerian Dragutan,
• Ileana Dragutan,
• Albert Demonceau and
• Lionel Delaude

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 738–755, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.68

• efficiently produce key 1,3-dienic frameworks, further subjected to sequential functionalization. The main focus was placed on strategies combining enyne metathesis with traditional chemical transformations such as Diels–Alder cycloaddition, Suzuki–Miyaura or Heck cross-couplings, aromatization, epoxidation

Recent advances in Cu-catalyzed C(sp³)–Si and C(sp³)–B bond formation

• Balaram S. Takale,
• Ruchita R. Thakore,
• Elham Etemadi-Davan and
• Bruce H. Lipshutz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 691–737, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.67

• , Ohmiya and co-workers envisioned inverting the polarity of an aldehyde 81 via conversion into the corresponding α-alkoxyalkyl Cu(I) anion 78. Utilizing 78, which undergoes transmetallation to an initially formed Pd(II) intermediate (from oxidative addition) led to cross couplings affording benzhydryl

• silyl ethers 89–92 (Scheme 18), thus showcasing the synergistic relationship between Pd and Cu catalysis [43]. Driven by the success of earlier results, the authors utilized 78 for reductive couplings between ketones 93 and imines 97 as electrophiles to form unsymmetrical 1,2-diols 94–96 and 1,2-amino

Copper-catalyzed remote C–H arylation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)

• Anping Luo,
• Min Zhang,
• Zhangyi Fu,
• Jingbo Lan,
• Di Wu and
• Jingsong You

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 530–536, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.49

• molecules, thus having drawn much attention. Transition metal-catalyzed C–X/C–M cross-coupling reactions such as Suzuki and Stille couplings are the main approaches to achieve the arylation of PAHs [7][8][9][10][11]. However, the selective arylation of the C7-position of 1-naphthoic acid derivatives remains

Synthesis of triphenylene-fused phosphole oxides via C–H functionalizations

• Md. Shafiqur Rahman and
• Naohiko Yoshikai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 524–529, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.48

• via 1,4-cobalt migration. The resulting 7-hydroxybenzo[b]phosphole derivative was used for further π-extension through Suzuki–Miyaura couplings and a Scholl reaction, the latter closing the triphenylene ring. The absorption and emission spectra of the thus-synthesized compounds illustrated their

• converted to the triflate, and subjected to Suzuki–Miyaura couplings with 2-bromophenylboronic acid (5a) or 3-bromonaphth-2-ylboronic acid (5b) to afford the phosphole-fused biaryls 6a and 6b, respectively, in decent yields. Subsequent Suzuki–Miyaura couplings of 6a or 6b with 3,4-dialkoxyarylboronic acids

Controlling alkyne reactivity by means of a copper-catalyzed radical reaction system for the synthesis of functionalized quaternary carbons

• Goki Hirata,
• Yu Yamane,
• Naoya Tsubaki,
• Reina Hara and
• Takashi Nishikata

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 502–508, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.45

• alkyl radicals generated from the reaction of a copper catalyst and an α-bromocarbonyl compound can undergo i) Sonogashira type couplings via an alkynyl-Cu intermediate [20], ii) cis-hydro tertiary alkylations via 1-alkenyl-Cu [21], and iii) trans-hydro tertiary alkylations via atom-transfer radical

•  1, entry 4). We will discuss the proposed reaction mechanism later in the text, but the formation of 3a-I via ATRA could be important for the alkynylation reaction. Generally, the Sonogashira coupling requires both a Pd catalyst and a Cu co-catalyst [2][3][4]. However, couplings with terminal

Room-temperature Pd/Ag direct arylation enabled by a radical pathway

• Amy L. Mayhugh and
• Christine K. Luscombe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 384–390, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.36

• ring. Finally, branching is evidenced by the discrepancy in molecular weight as calculated for a linear polymer by 1H NMR compared with that indicated by MALDI–TOF MS (Figure 2). Due to the high regioselectivity in small molecule couplings, defects to this extent were unexpected. MALDI–TOF MS was

Formal preparation of regioregular and alternating thiophene–thiophene copolymers bearing different substituents

• Atsunori Mori,
• Keisuke Fujita,
• Chihiro Kubota,
• Toyoko Suzuki,
• Kentaro Okano,
• Takuya Matsumoto,
• Takashi Nishino and
• Masaki Horie

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 317–324, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.31

• described previously [25]. We chose five chlorobithiophenes as monomer precursors for the alternating copolymers, as summarized in Scheme 3. The cross-couplings, as shown in Scheme 2, proceeded smoothly to afford the bithiophenes 4 in 46–92% yield. The synthesis of the alternating copolymers was carried out

Synthesis and optoelectronic properties of benzoquinone-based donor–acceptor compounds

• Daniel R. Sutherland,
• Nidhi Sharma,
• Georgina M. Rosair,
• Ifor D. W. Samuel,
• Ai-Lan Lee and
• Eli Zysman-Colman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2914–2921, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.285

• temperature, it is also carried out in benign acetone as solvent and does not require any additional oxidant. It circumvents the additional prefunctionalization of the BQ step usually required for Pd cross-couplings [15], while also showing greater functional group tolerance than radical-based methods [16][17

Palladium-catalyzed Sonogashira coupling reactions in γ-valerolactone-based ionic liquids

• László Orha,
• József M. Tukacs,
• László Kollár and
• László T. Mika

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2907–2913, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.284

• air-stable and readily available PdCl2(PPh3)2 was selected as a catalyst precursor to facilitate C–C bond couplings involving various iodoaromatic compounds (1a–l) and phenylacetylene (2a) in [TBP][4EtOV] in the absence of any additional ligands and auxiliary base at 55 °C for 3 h. In general, the

Palladium-catalyzed synthesis and nucleotide pyrophosphatase inhibition of benzo[4,5]furo[3,2-b]indoles

• Hoang Huy Do,
• Saif Ullah,
• Alexander Villinger,
• Joanna Lecka,
• Jean Sévigny,
• Peter Ehlers,
• Jamshed Iqbal and
• Peter Langer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2830–2839, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.276

• diindolofurans by regioselective Suzuki–Miyaura couplings of tetrabromofuran and subsequent cyclization by tetrafold Buchwald–Hartwig reaction [31]. We also studied the synthesis of benzo[4,5]furo[3,2-b]indoles by a similar concept. However, while performing our studies, Truong et al. reported the synthesis of