On the mass spectrometric fragmentations of the bacterial sesterterpenes sestermobaraenes A–C

• Anwei Hou and
• Jeroen S. Dickschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2807–2819, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.231

• w1•+ to x1•+ (Scheme 2B). The inductive cleavage with hydride migration leads to y1•+ representing the minor fragment ion at m/z = 122 that may efficiently lose two hydrogens to give the conjugated system in z1•+. Fragmentation mechanisms for sestermobaraene B (2) The position-specific mass shift

• rearrangement to a2•+ and a hydride shift to b2•+ (Scheme 3A). This hydride migration is in reverse order compared to a similar step along the cationic cyclisation cascade during the biosynthesis of 2 (Scheme S1 in Supporting Information File 1). The subsequent inductive ring opening to c2•+ and α-cleavage of

• cleavage of C22, C23, C24, or C25, as observed before for compounds 1 and 2. Especially noteworthy is the cleavage of the methylene carbon C25, which is explainable from 3•+ by a hydrogen rearrangement to a3•+, followed by a hydride shift to b3•+ and an α-fragmentation to c3+ (Scheme 5A). The alternative

Bifurcated synthesis of methylene-lactone- and methylene-lactam-fused spirolactams via electrophilic amide allylation of γ-phenylthio-functionalized γ-lactams

• Tetsuya Sengoku,
• Koki Makino,
• Ayumi Iijima,
• Toshiyasu Inuzuka and
• Hidemi Yoda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2769–2775, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.227

• such as potassium tert-butoxide or sodium hydride resulted in no formation of the desired product 3a because 2a was decomposed under the harsh reaction conditions (Table 1, entries 2 and 3). Thus we opted to employ another substrate 2b bearing a phenylthio group which polarizes the α-C–H bond to lead

• sodium hydride, affording the corresponding adduct in 50% and 81% yields, respectively (Table 1, entries 6 and 7). Surprisingly, the desired allylation underwent even in the absence of palladium catalyst, probably due to high nucleophilicity of the deprotonated intermediate, to give 3b in 87% yield

• (Table 1, entry 8). Optimization studies were conducted by screening solvents, reagent amount, and reaction temperature, showing that 3b was produced in the highest yield of 97% when the reaction was carried out with 2.5 equivalents of sodium hydride in THF at −10 °C (Table 1, entries 9–13) [22]. With

Selective recognition of ATP by multivalent nano-assemblies of bisimidazolium amphiphiles through “turn-on” fluorescence response

• Rakesh Biswas,
• Surya Ghosh,
• Shubhra Kanti Bhaumik and
• Supratim Banerjee

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2728–2738, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.223

• the nucleotides, 1-pyrenecarboxaldehyde, sodium borohydride, sodium hydride, phosphorus tribromide and 1-bromobutane, 1-bromodecane, 1-bromododecane and 1-bromotetradecane were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. Imidazole, dibromomethane and tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane were purchased from TCI chemicals

Activation of pentafluoropropane isomers at a nanoscopic aluminum chlorofluoride: hydrodefluorination versus dehydrofluorination

• Maëva-Charlotte Kervarec,
• Thomas Braun,
• Mike Ahrens and
• Erhard Kemnitz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2623–2635, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.213

• bond activation at the primary carbon–fluorine bond in 10a, generating FSiEt3, the corresponding carbenium-like species, and a surface-bound hydride. At this stage, either the hydrodefluorination product 13 can be generated, or dehydrofluorination occurs to furnish the olefin 1 and H2, both in the

• presence of silane. Additionally, 1 can further react with any silylium ion species at the surface of ACF, resulting in a C–F bond cleavage at the CF3 group, yielding once again a surface hydride and the corresponding carbenium ion. Subsequently, the allylic hydrodefluorination product 2 is formed. Allylic

Access to highly substituted oxazoles by the reaction of α-azidochalcone with potassium thiocyanate

• Mysore Bhyrappa Harisha,
• Pandi Dhanalakshmi,
• Rajendran Suresh,
• Raju Ranjith Kumar and
• Shanmugam Muthusubramanian

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2108–2118, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.178

• in 3d proceeded smoothly with acetyl chloride in the presence of sodium hydride to afford 5 in good yield. The structure of the product and the site of acetylation was confirmed by X-ray crystallography of a single crystal of 5 [71] (Figure 3). The methylated and benzylated derivatives 6 and 7 were

Syntheses of spliceostatins and thailanstatins: a review

• William A. Donaldson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1991–2006, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.166

• -tert-butylsilylene protecting group and the selective arylsulfonylation of the primary alcohol was effected with the bulky 2,4,6-triisopropylsulfonyl chloride, which upon reduction with aluminum hydride, followed by the oxidation of the remaining alcohol group gave the dihydropyran-3-one 65. In a

Regiodivergent synthesis of functionalized pyrimidines and imidazoles through phenacyl azides in deep eutectic solvents

• Paola Vitale,
• Luciana Cicco,
• Ilaria Cellamare,
• Filippo M. Perna,
• Antonio Salomone and
• Vito Capriati

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1915–1923, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.158

• reactions of α-azido ketones with tributyltin hydride [31], or (e) by a modified Radziszewski’s synthesis when using phenylglyoxals, benzaldeydes, and ammonium acetate as ammonia source in acetic acid or methylene chloride or N,N-dimethylformamide as the solvent [32], there are no adequate studies covering

Stereoselective Biginelli-like reaction catalyzed by a chiral phosphoric acid bearing two hydroxy groups

• Xiaoyun Hu,
• Jianxin Guo,
• Cui Wang,
• Rui Zhang and
• Victor Borovkov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1875–1880, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.155

• ), sodium hydride (0.105 g, 4.2 mmol), and dried THF (16 mL). The mixture was stirred at rt for 2 h, and then methyl iodide (0.61 g, 4.3 mmol) was added and the mixture stirred at rt for 6 h. Then, distilled water (12 mL) and diethyl ether (15 mL) were added, the organic phase was separated, dried, and

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

• metal catalyst X2M into an aromatic C–H bond of a substrate (generally facilitated by the presence of a directing group (DG)), delivers a metal–aryl complex. Coordination and subsequent insertion of an alkene into the M–aryl bond then provides the desired coupling product after β-hydride elimination

• , together with a metal hydride or a low-valent metal complex. Hence, in order to reoxidize the metal catalyst, excess of an external oxidant, such as Cu(II) or Ag(I) salts, was frequently used. On the other hand, photoredox catalysis has been mainly employed for electron-transfer reactions and, remarkably

• towards various functional groups such as aldehydes, ketones, and esters. Of note is that in some cases, partial hydrogenation of the double bond was observed, resulting probably from the generation of a ruthenium–hydride complex. However, this consecutive reactivity and the ratio between the olefin and

Facile synthesis of 7-alkyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1,8-naphthyridines as arginine mimetics using a Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons-based approach

• Rhys A. Lippa,
• John A. Murphy and
• Tim N. Barrett

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1617–1626, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.134

• (1.5–2.4 equiv) and proceeded in <1 h. Sodium hydride was investigated as a heterogeneous alternative to potassium tert-butoxide, although a lower isolated yield of the final amine was obtained. All amines were formed in high NMR and LC–MS purity without the need for purification by column

Synthesis of new dihydroberberine and tetrahydroberberine analogues and evaluation of their antiproliferative activity on NCI-H1975 cells

• Giacomo Mari,
• Lucia De Crescentini,
• Serena Benedetti,
• Francesco Palma,
• Stefania Santeusanio and
• Fabio Mantellini

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1606–1616, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.133

• interest, the hydrazono-DHBERs 2a–n were further treated with 2.0 equivalents of sodium boron hydride at room temperature in methanol. The reaction furnishes the corresponding hydrazono-THBERs 3a–n in good yields (77–96%, Scheme 3). It is noteworthy that in these conditions, only the iminium moiety is

Photoredox-catalyzed silyldifluoromethylation of silyl enol ethers

• Vyacheslav I. Supranovich,
• Vitalij V. Levin and
• Alexander D. Dilman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1550–1553, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.126

• silane is very sensitive to Lewis bases and accordingly it was used as a precursor of difluorocarbene, which can react with enol ethers [19][20] (Scheme 1). We showed that this silane could be involved in the radical chain hydrofluoroalkylation of electron-deficient alkenes, using a boron hydride as a

Recent synthesis of thietanes

• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1357–1410, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.116

• [22] (Scheme 93). The reaction mechanism was proposed as following. The treatment of trimethyloxosulfonium iodide (424) with sodium hydride generated dimethyloxosulfonium methylide (426) as the one carbon-containing nucleophile with DMSO (379) as a good leaving group. The nucleophilic attack of 426 on

Synthesis of 3-substituted isoxazolidin-4-ols using hydroboration–oxidation reactions of 4,5-unsubstituted 2,3-dihydroisoxazoles

• Lívia Dikošová,
• Júlia Laceková,
• Ondrej Záborský and
• Róbert Fischer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1313–1319, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.112

• readily obtained through the reductive cleavage of benzoylated isoxazolidines, employing the Lewis acid-catalyzed SN reaction with triethylsilane as the hydride source (Scheme 1). For this reason, the benzoates 6a and 6b were readily prepared from the corresponding 2,3-dihydroisoxazoles 5a and 5b

Synthesis of pyrrolidinedione-fused hexahydropyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinolines via three-component [3 + 2] cycloaddition followed by one-pot N-allylation and intramolecular Heck reactions

• Xiaoming Ma,
• Suzhi Meng,
• Xiaofeng Zhang,
• Qiang Zhang,
• Shenghu Yan,
• Yue Zhang and
• Wei Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1225–1233, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.106

• oxidative addition of the Pd(0) species to alkene intermediate 8a leads to Pd-complex I. Intramolecular coordination of Pd-complex I with the C–C double bond forms complex II which is followed by the syn insertion of alkene to give complex III [50][51]. Subsequent β-hydride elimination of III gives complex

Synthesis and properties of quinazoline-based versatile exciplex-forming compounds

• Rasa Keruckiene,
• Simona Vekteryte,
• Ervinas Urbonas,
• Matas Guzauskas,
• Eigirdas Skuodis,
• Dmytro Volyniuk and
• Juozas V. Grazulevicius

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1142–1153, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.101

• procedure reported in literature [27]. OLED fabrication and characterization was carried out according to the procedure reported earlier [28]. Materials 2-Aminobenzophenone, 3,5-difluorobenzaldehyde, ammonium acetate, phenothiazine, sodium hydride, sodium sulfate, tert-butyl chloride, zinc chloride

• compounds 1–3 were synthesized through nucleophilic substitution reactions between quinazoline derivative Q1 and the respective donor compound in the presence of sodium hydride in dry dimethylformamide (DMF). The reaction mixtures were refluxed for 24 h. After completion of the reactions, the reaction

• ): Quinazoline derivative (Q1, 0.25 g, 0.79 mmol), 3,6-di-tert-butylcarbazole (0.48 g, 1.7 mmol) and sodium hydride (0.50 g, 1.6 mmol) in dry dimethylformamide (DMF) were used for the nucleophilic substitution reaction. The title compound was obtained as yellowish crystals in a yield of 0.25 g, 37%; Tm = 181 °C

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

• to nickel(0) is believed to occur by β-hydride elimination on a sacrificial amount of amine [10]. The strained character of azaspiro[3,3]heptane might prevent this event. On the other hand, pyramidalization at nitrogen is much more important in azetidines [16][17][18]. This might lower the oxidation

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

• affording a protected tetracyclic kempane derivative. The latter was further converted into (+)-kempene-2 (14a) in 91% yield by deprotection and acetylation (Scheme 17). A reduction of the intermediate ketone with lithium aluminum hydride followed by an acetylation finally led to (+)-kempene-1 (14b) and

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

• arylborylation of α-alkylstyrenes 387 has been investigated, delivering 1,1-adducts 389, 390 in the presence of palladacycle PCy3Pd G3, while 1,2-adducts 391–393 result using APhosPd G3. The former reaction proceeds through a second-stage β-hydride elimination/re-insertion pathway, although for the latter set of

Towards the total synthesis of chondrochloren A: synthesis of the (Z)-enamide fragment

• Jan Geldsetzer and
• Markus Kalesse

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 670–673, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.64

• double bonds into the corresponding (Z)-monohalogenated derivatives using palladium(II) acetate, triphenylphosphine and tributyltin hydride. Following this procedure, we were able to obtain (Z)-bromide 4 in four steps and an overall yield of 39% [21][22][23][24]. Cross coupling of fragments 3 and 4 The

Rhodium-catalyzed reductive carbonylation of aryl iodides to arylaldehydes with syngas

• Zhenghui Liu,
• Peng Wang,
• Zhenzhong Yan,
• Suqing Chen,
• Dongkun Yu,
• Xinhui Zhao and
• Tiancheng Mu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 645–656, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.61

• environmentally friendly than other frequently used hydrogen sources like hydrosilanes [17], tributyltin hydride (Bu3SnH) (often used in natural product syntheses) [18][19][20] and hydroboranes [21][22][23], since the only byproduct is water. The production, storage and use of H2 received much attention and

Synthesis of disparlure and monachalure enantiomers from 2,3-butanediacetals

• Adam Drop,
• Hubert Wojtasek and
• Bożena Frąckowiak-Wojtasek

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 616–620, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.57

• 19 instead. This compound was obtained from both aldehyde 15 and its precursor ethyl thioester methyl ester 14, respectively (Scheme 3). Both substrates 14 and 15 were reduced to the corresponding diol 17 with lithium aluminum hydride with 73% or 83% yield, respectively. Next, the selective

Copper-catalyzed enantioselective conjugate reduction of α,β-unsaturated esters with chiral phenol–carbene ligands

• Shohei Mimura,
• Sho Mizushima,
• Yohei Shimizu and
• Masaya Sawamura

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 537–543, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.50

• work of Stryker and co-workers on triphenylphosphine-stabilized copper hydride complexes [1][2], copper hydrides have been widely used for conjugate reductions of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds [3]. Especially a chiral copper catalyst combined with a stoichiometric amount of a silane reagent, which

• generated copper hydride in situ, has successfully been utilized for enantioselective reactions with β,β-disubstituted α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. The pioneering work of Buchwald and co-workers on the enantioselective conjugate reduction of α,β-unsaturated esters using a

• plays crucial roles in both the catalytic activity and stereoselectivity [19][20][21]. Notably, these catalyst systems were also applicable for three-component coupling reactions using hydrosilanes as hydride reagents [17]. Based on this knowledge, we decided to investigate the effects of the phenol–NHC

Recent advances in photocatalyzed reactions using well-defined copper(I) complexes

• Mingbing Zhong,
• Xavier Pannecoucke,
• Philippe Jubault and
• Thomas Poisson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 451–481, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.42

• oxidized copper complex oxidized the glycine ester, regenerating the catalyst, furnishing the N-centered radical cation. Then, the latter underwent a 1,2-hydride shift in the presence of the base (or the phthalimide anion) to form the α-amino radical that recombined with the alkyl radical formed in the

Architecture and synthesis of P,N-heterocyclic phosphine ligands

• Wisdom A. Munzeiwa,
• Bernard Omondi and
• Vincent O. Nyamori

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 362–383, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.35

• ] were the phosphine boranes were prepared by reacting phosphines with sodium borohydride. Alternatively, the reduction of phosphine oxide byproducts with lithium tetrahydridoaluminate, calcium aluminum hydride, and hydrosilanes can also be used to regenerate the phosphine ligands. Hydrosilane reagents

• -(diphenylphosphine)ethyl)-4,5-diazafluorene ligand 47 which includes a cyclopropylated intermediate (45, Scheme 8). The ligand was prepared by an initial cyclopropanation of diazafluorene 44. For this, 44 was treated with a dibromomethane solution in THF in the presence of sodium hydride under reflux for four hours