A versatile way for the synthesis of monomethylamines by reduction of N-substituted carbonylimidazoles with the NaBH₄/I₂ system

• Lin Chen,
• Xuan Zhou,
• Zhiyong Chen,
• Changxu Wang,
• Shunjie Wang and
• Hanbing Teng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1032–1039, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.104

• reactions occurred. Although the N-methylamine could be prepared from carboxylic acid or amine by our method, the methyl source was remarkably different (Scheme S1, Supporting Information File 1). For amines, the carbon source of the methyl group is from the carbonyl group of the carbonyldiimidazole; while

New azodyrecins identified by a genome mining-directed reactivity-based screening

• Atina Rizkiya Choirunnisa,
• Kuga Arima,
• Yo Abe,
• Noritaka Kagaya,
• Kei Kudo,
• Hikaru Suenaga,
• Junko Hashimoto,
• Manabu Fujie,
• Noriyuki Satoh,
• Kazuo Shin-ya,
• Kenichi Matsuda and
• Toshiyuki Wakimoto

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1017–1025, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.102

• the biosynthesis of the methyl ester, which is unique to azodyrecins. To this end, we characterized the putative SAM-dependent methyltransferase Ady1 in vitro to assess its activity against the carboxylic acid 11, which was prepared by the hydrolysis of compound 8 under basic conditions. When acid 11

Automated grindstone chemistry: a simple and facile way for PEG-assisted stoichiometry-controlled halogenation of phenols and anilines using N-halosuccinimides

• Dharmendra Das,
• Akhil A. Bhosle,
• Amrita Chatterjee and
• Mainak Banerjee

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 999–1008, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.100

• desulfonation) was observed for phenols and anilines with carboxylic acid (-CO2H) or sulfonic acid (-SO3H) groups both at o- or p-positions leading to the formation of 2,4,6-trihalo phenols and anilines in excellent yields within just 10 min (Table 2) [58]. Thus simple control of the stoichiometry of NXS could

Synthesis of bis-spirocyclic derivatives of 3-azabicyclo[3.1.0]hexane via cyclopropene cycloadditions to the stable azomethine ylide derived from Ruhemann's purple

• Alexander S. Filatov,
• Olesya V. Khoroshilova,
• Anna G. Larina,
• Vitali M. Boitsov and
• Alexander V. Stepakov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 769–780, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.77

• -2-ene-1-carboxylic acid 2f–i. The amide 2f and nitrile 2g [34] were found to be less active dipolarophiles towards the azomethine ylide 1 than hydrocarbons 2a–e. As a result, the corresponding cycloadducts 3f and 3g were obtained in moderate yields (58% and 55%, respectively) as single diastereomers

• azomethine ylide 1. For example, the reactions of 2,3-diphenylcyclopropene-1-carboxylic acid derivatives 2f–i with PRP (1) either bring about the formation of the corresponding cycloadducts 3 in poor yields or result in the formation of complex mixtures. Thus, having carried out an analysis of global

An isoxazole strategy for the synthesis of 4-oxo-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylates

• Timur O. Zanakhov,
• Ekaterina E. Galenko,
• Mikhail S. Novikov and
• Alexander F. Khlebnikov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 738–745, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.74

• represented among drugs [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Some of bioactive compounds, such as ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, delafloxacin, and elvitegravir, contain the fragment of 4-oxo-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylic acid [6][8] and some others, ivacaftor, dolutegravir, bictegravir, aspernigrin B, and 4PYR

• , contain the fragment of 4-oxo-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxamide [5][6][7]. Finding new synthetic methods for the preparation of derivatives of 4-oxo-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylic acid are therefore relevant. Some alkyl 6-aryl-2-methyl-4-oxo-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylates were prepared by refluxing

• -diaryl- and 2,5,6-triaryl-substituted derivatives of 4-oxo-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylic acid, to the best of our knowledge, have not been published to date. We would like to present here a method for the preparation of 2-alkyl-6-aryl-, 2-aryl-6-aryl/hetaryl and 2,6-diaryl-5-aryl-substituted

Identification of the new prenyltransferase Ubi-297 from marine bacteria and elucidation of its substrate specificity

• Jamshid Amiri Moghaddam,
• Huijuan Guo,
• Karsten Willing,
• Thomas Wichard and
• Christine Beemelmanns

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 722–731, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.72

• farnesylation of quinoline derivatives, such as 8-hydroxyquinoline-2-carboxylic acid (8-HQA) and quinaldic acid. The results of this study provide new insights into the abundance and diversity of Ptases in marine Flavobacteria and beyond. Keywords: Flavobacteria; prenylation; Saccharomonospora; UbiA-like

• conversion of 8-hydroxyquinoline and 1,3-dihydroxynaphthalene were observed. Xanthurenic acid and 4-methylumbelliferone were only farnesylated in negligible amounts, and no product formation was observed for phenols or catechols (Figure 5). Overall, 8-hydroxyquinoline-2-carboxylic acid (8-HQA) appeared to be

Inductive heating and flow chemistry – a perfect synergy of emerging enabling technologies

• Conrad Kuhwald,
• Sibel Türkhan and
• Andreas Kirschning

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 688–706, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.70

• in the fixed-bed material that interact with the oscillating electromagnetic field. Recently, Rebrov and co-workers disclosed the direct amide formation of a carboxylic acid and anilline using high energy ball milling to prepare the sulfated TiO2 (50 wt %)/NiFe2O4 (50 wt %) catalyst that serves as

Synthesis of a new water-soluble hexacarboxylated tribenzotriquinacene derivative and its competitive host–guest interaction for drug delivery

• Man-Ping Li,
• Nan Yang and
• Wen-Rong Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 539–548, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.56

• acidification with hydrochloric acid gave the precursor hexakis(carboxylic acid) compound 3 in 85% yield in two steps. Finally, the desired hexacarboxylated TBTQ derivative TBTQ-CB6 was successfully obtained by reaction with ammonium hydroxide in 97% yield and found to have good water solubility. All

Sesquiterpenes from the soil-derived fungus Trichoderma citrinoviride PSU-SPSF346

• Wiriya Yaosanit,
• Vatcharin Rukachaisirikul,
• Souwalak Phongpaichit,
• Sita Preedanon and
• Jariya Sakayaroj

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 479–485, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.50

• the trisubstituted α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid. In addition, a trans relationship between H-6 and H-11 was established according to signal enhancement of H-12 (δH 1.71), H3-13, and H3-14 after irradiation of H-6. The absolute configuration at C-6 was assigned as R based on the experimental ECD

• intensities of Hb-3, H-5, and Hab-15, indicating that the carboxyl moiety was α-orientated. Biosynthetically, compound 2 might be derived from compound 4 or compound 5 by oxa-Michael reaction of 7-OH to the α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid moiety to form a tetrahydrofuran unit followed by ring opening of the

• lactone moiety and demethylation, respectively (Figure 4). Subsequent dehydration would afford compound 2 with an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid moiety. Alternatively, the ring opening of compound 4 and demethylation of compound 5 would occur prior to the oxa-Michael reaction. Accordingly, the absolute

Menadione: a platform and a target to valuable compounds synthesis

• Acácio S. de Souza,
• Ruan Carlos B. Ribeiro,
• Dora C. S. Costa,
• Fernanda P. Pauli,
• David R. Pinho,
• Matheus G. de Moraes,
• Fernando de C. da Silva,
• Luana da S. M. Forezi and
• Vitor F. Ferreira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 381–419, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.43

• useful alkylation approach is the Kochi–Anderson method [76] (or also known as Jacobsen–Torssell method [77][78]), via oxidative decarboxylation, where the quinone reacts with a carboxylic acid in the presence of silver(I) nitrate and ammonium or potassium peroxydisulfate. Nucleophilic free radicals are

• generated from the carboxylic acid through decarboxylation mediated by [Ag+]-peroxydisulfate, followed by their coupling with the quinone, providing the respective alkylated product. One of the first practical applications of this methodology to produce menadione (10) was described by Ashnagar and co

• method [77]) where 10 reacts with a carboxylic acid in the presence of silver(I) nitrate and ammonium or potassium peroxydisulfate (Scheme 29). In the past twenty years, several menadione alkylation studies have been carried out based on the Kochi–Anderson method [131][132][133][134][135][136][137][138

Amamistatins isolated from Nocardia altamirensis

• Till Steinmetz,
• Wolf Hiller and
• Markus Nett

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 360–367, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.40

• under the assumption of a shared biosynthetic origin. Compound 6 shows an optical rotation of = −10.6, which is consistent with the published value of pseudomonin A ( = −9.5) [12]. This natural product is structurally closely related to 6, featuring a terminal amide instead of a carboxylic acid

Synthesis of 5-unsubstituted dihydropyrimidinone-4-carboxylates from deep eutectic mixtures

• Sangram Gore,
• Sundarababu Baskaran and
• Burkhard König

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 331–336, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.37

• . Here, we report the facile and economic access to 5-unsubstituted DHPMs using a melt procedure avoiding organic solvents. The method is based on our previous reports of synthesis of organic molecules in the melt [27]. Results and Discussion Since 5-unsubstituted DHPMs bearing the carboxylic acid moiety

Site-selective reactions mediated by molecular containers

• Rui Wang and
• Yang Yu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 309–324, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.35

• ones. Substitution In 2008, the Rebek group reported a very intriguing site-selective ring-opening reaction of epoxides mediated by cavitand host I, which possessed an inwardly directed carboxylic acid module (Figure 11) [72]. The ring-opening of substituted epoxides results in regioisomeric products

• guest molecule with an inwardly directed carboxylic acid group. The hydrogen bonds provided by a cyclic array of secondary amides around the rim stabilized the vase-like conformation of the complex (Figure 11b). Adding the epoxyalcohol 39 to the solution of I formed 5-membered ring product 40

• ester group in turn to the aqueous solution. Addition of base would result in the hydrolysis of one ester group to the corresponding carboxylic acid. Product distributions indicated a two- to four-fold relative decrease in the hydrolysis rate constant of the second ester caused by the confined space in

Unexpected chiral vicinal tetrasubstituted diamines via borylcopper-mediated homocoupling of isatin imines

• Marco Manenti,
• Leonardo Lo Presti,
• Giorgio Molteni and
• Alessandra Silvani

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 303–308, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.34

• -butanesulfinyl ketimine; homocoupling; Introduction As bioisosteres of carboxylic acid derivatives, boronic acids have recently emerged as a novel chemotype in drug design, with a number of boron-containing compounds recently being approved by the FDA [1][2][3][4]. In particular, α- and β-aminoboronic acids are

New efficient synthesis of polysubstituted 3,4-dihydroquinazolines and 4H-3,1-benzothiazines through a Passerini/Staudinger/aza-Wittig/addition/nucleophilic substitution sequence

• Long Zhao,
• Mao-Lin Yang,
• Min Liu and
• Ming-Wu Ding

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 286–292, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.32

• from aldehydes, a carboxylic acid, and a isonitrile as the three components [23]. The sequences of Passerini reactions, followed by post-condensation reactions, constitute useful synthetic methods in the preparation of structurally diverse heterocyclic compounds [24][25][26][27][28][29]. The aza-Wittig

Synthesis and late stage modifications of Cyl derivatives

• Phil Servatius and
• Uli Kazmaier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 174–181, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.19

• suitable protected linear precursor A (Scheme 2, PG: protecting group), the resulting carboxylic acid obtained can directly be activated and subjected to cyclization. If the glycine allyl ester is incorporated as the last building block into the C-terminus of the peptide, this concept should provide a high

Ready access to 7,8-dihydroindolo[2,3-d][1]benzazepine-6(5H)-one scaffold and analogues via early-stage Fischer ring-closure reaction

• Irina Kuznetcova,
• Felix Bacher,
• Daniel Vegh,
• Hsiang-Yu Chuang and
• Vladimir B. Arion

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 143–151, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.15

• indole-2-carboxylic acid 20 (Scheme 4) [32]. While the acid chloride of unsubstituted indole-2-carboxylic acid was reported to be highly unstable [33], we did not experience that issue with the benzyl-protected compound. Quantitative acid chloride formation using oxalyl chloride in dry dichloromethane

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

• -4-carboxylic acid residue was identified directly from the 12.6-million-member DNA-encoded small molecule library using yoctoReactor technology [26]. We have developed efficient protocols that provide easy access to highly functional heterocyclic compounds as novel amino acid-like building blocks by

Efficient and regioselective synthesis of dihydroxy-substituted 2-aminocyclooctane-1-carboxylic acid and its bicyclic derivatives

• İlknur Polat,
• Selçuk Eşsiz,
• Uğur Bozkaya and
• Emine Salamci

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 77–85, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.7

• , Hacettepe University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey 10.3762/bjoc.18.7 Abstract The first synthesis of 2-amino-3,4-dihydroxycyclooctane-1-carboxylic acid, methyl 6-hydroxy-9-oxo-8-oxabicyclo[5.2.1]decan-10-yl)carbamate, and 10-amino-6-hydroxy-8-oxabicyclo[5.2.1]decan-9-one starting from cis-9-azabicyclo[6.2.0]dec-6

Efficient synthesis of ethyl 2-(oxazolin-2-yl)alkanoates via ethoxycarbonylketene-induced electrophilic ring expansion of aziridines

• Yelong Lei and
• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 70–76, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.6

• synthesis of oxazoline derivatives [11][12]. They mainly include (1) cyclization of 2-amidoethyl halides or sulfonates, which are prepared from carboxylic acid derivatives and vicinal amino alcohols [8][9][10] (Scheme 1a); (2) direct condensation of carboxylic acid derivatives or nitriles with vicinal amino

Peptide stapling by late-stage Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling

• Hendrik Gruß,
• Rebecca C. Feiner,
• Ridhiwan Mseya,
• David C. Schröder,
• Michał Jewgiński,
• Kristian M. Müller,
• Rafał Latajka,
• Antoine Marion and
• Norbert Sewald

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1–12, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.1

• only generated with 7-aryl-Trp staple. C) On-resin modification of amines (n = 1: Dab, n = 2: Orn, n = 3: Lys) in i + 4 position to obtain organoboron side chains with increased linker flexibility. Reaction conditions: (a) Pd(PPh3)4, morpholine in DCM, 2 × 20 min; (b) carboxylic acid, HATU, DIEA in DMF

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

• H-7 to C-9, H-8 to C-6, and H-10 to C-8, thus completing an alkyl chain part. The remaining atomic composition was CHO2, and despite the lack of evidentiary HMBC correlations, placing a carboxylic acid functionality at the open end (C-2) was reasonable in consideration of the chemical shift of the

• , and two amino protons. The remaining OH group should be a part of a carboxylic acid functionality considering the lack of oxygenated carbons besides carbonyls, and two degrees of unsaturation, not accounted for by double bonds, were consistent with the indole ring. As expected, assembling the above

First total synthesis of hoshinoamide A

• Haipin Zhou,
• Zihan Rui,
• Yiming Yang,
• Shengtao Xu,
• Yutian Shao and
• Long Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2924–2931, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.201

• 0.5% TFA in DCM. The Trt group was removed with aqueous solution of TFA to give 9-mer peptide 10 in good yield. The carboxylic acid of 9-mer peptide 10 was converted to the methyl ester with MeI and K2CO3 in DMF [18], delivering the final natural product hoshinoamide A in 2% yield (10 mg). The

A two-phase bromination process using tetraalkylammonium hydroxide for the practical synthesis of α-bromolactones from lactones

• Yuki Yamamoto,
• Akihiro Tabuchi,
• Kazumi Hosono,
• Takanori Ochi,
• Kento Yamazaki,
• Shintaro Kodama,
• Akihiro Nomoto and
• Akiya Ogawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2906–2914, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.198

• successfully synthesized carboxylic acid 2a from lactone 1a in good yield, we next investigated the ring-closing reaction of 2a. Various acids and bases (PTSA, hydrochloric acid, NaOH, KOH, and NaHCO3) were used to promote the intramolecular cyclization of 2a; however, no reaction was observed using any of

• the synthesis of 2-phenylthio-α-valerolactone (6). Carboxylic acid 2a (2.0 mmol) directly reacted with n-Bu4N+OH− (1.2 equiv) and PhS−Na+ in the two-phase system under the optimized conditions for the synthesis of α-bromolactones, and 6 was successfully obtained in 72% yield (Scheme 6). These results

Iron-catalyzed domino coupling reactions of π-systems

• Austin Pounder and
• William Tam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2848–2893, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.196

• radical. Oxidation of the alkyl radical would form the corresponding carbocation which could be captured by oxygen nucleophiles 67 to afford the carboetherification product. In 2020, Iwasaki and Nishihara investigated the inter-/intramolecular alkylative cyclization of carboxylic acid and alcohol-tethered