On the application of 3d metals for C–H activation toward bioactive compounds: The key step for the synthesis of silver bullets

• Renato L. Carvalho,
• Amanda S. de Miranda,
• Mateus P. Nunes,
• Roberto S. Gomes,
• Guilherme A. M. Jardim and
• Eufrânio N. da Silva Júnior

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1849–1938, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.126

• , antipsychotic (12) [54], anticonvulsant (13) [55], and antiparkinsonian activities (14) [56][57] (Scheme 5A). A few years earlier, Hou and co-workers reported the very first metal-catalyzed C–H hydroaminoalkylation of tertiary amines using norbornene as the coupling partner [41]. For this method, the scandium

Sustainable manganese catalysis for late-stage C–H functionalization of bioactive structural motifs

• Jongwoo Son

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1733–1751, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.122

• constitute an important structural modality in small-molecule drugs, such as levonorgestrel (birth control drug), efavirenz (HIV/AIDS treatment), and erlotinib (anticancer). Although step-economical C–H alkynylations have been investigated with 4d and 5d transition metals, 3d metal-catalyzed late-stage C–H

• -containing peptide 37g. Conclusion Metal-catalyzed late-stage functionalization has shown significant potential in the fields of medicinal chemistry, agrochemistry, and chemical biology. While transition metal catalysis has been a reliable and efficient strategy for late-stage functionalization, it suffers

• several disadvantages, such as the need for additional prefunctionalization and the use of expensive and toxic precious metals. To avoid these issues, 3d-metal-catalyzed C–H functionalization has recently been realized as a sustainable catalytic system and is actively being investigated for various late

A recent overview on the synthesis of 1,4,5-trisubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles

• Pezhman Shiri,
• Ali Mohammad Amani and
• Thomas Mayer-Gall

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1600–1628, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.114

• applications of these five-membered N-heterocycles are the result of both their easy synthetic procedures and ring functionalization [9][31][32]. Typically, 1,2,3-triazole derivatives are prepared via a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction between azides and alkynes [33]. It is worth noting that the metal

• -catalyzed Huisgen cycloaddition reaction could provide disubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles. The selective introduction of substituents to three different positions on the 1,2,3-triazole frame can notably improve the features of the molecule. Therefore, practical and cost-effective strategies for the selective

Copper-mediated oxidative C−H/N−H activations with alkynes by removable hydrazides

• Feng Xiong,
• Bo Li,
• Chenrui Yang,
• Liang Zou,
• Wenbo Ma,
• Linghui Gu,
• Ruhuai Mei and
• Lutz Ackermann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1591–1599, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.113

• -catalyzed C−H activations with the MHP auxiliary [41][42][43][44]. In continuation of studies on sustainable 3d transition metal-catalyzed C−H activation [41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49], we have now discovered a robust copper-promoted oxidative C−H/N−H functionalization with terminal alkynes (Figure 1d

Methodologies for the synthesis of quaternary carbon centers via hydroalkylation of unactivated olefins: twenty years of advances

• Thiago S. Silva and
• Fernando Coelho

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1565–1590, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.112

• C, which undergoes an oxidation process to generate carbocation D. A proton abstraction from D then affords the observed product. Cross-coupling reaction between unactivated olefins and alkyl halides under nickel catalysis The use of alkyl halides in transition-metal-catalyzed cross-couplings to

Free-radical cyclization approach to polyheterocycles containing pyrrole and pyridine rings

• Ivan P. Mosiagin,
• Olesya A. Tomashenko,
• Dar’ya V. Spiridonova,
• Mikhail S. Novikov,
• Sergey P. Tunik and
• Alexander F. Khlebnikov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1490–1498, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.105

• metal-catalyzed arylation [17][18][19]. We have recently successfully applied this approach to synthesize the new luminescent heterocyclic system pyrido[2,1-a]pyrrolo[3,2-c]isoquinoline A [17], which turned out to be useful for bioimaging [13] and as a ligand for the preparation of luminescent metal

Synthesis of 1-indolyl-3,5,8-substituted γ-carbolines: one-pot solvent-free protocol and biological evaluation

• Premansh Dudhe,
• Mena Asha Krishnan,
• Kratika Yadav,
• Diptendu Roy,
• Krishnan Venkatasubbaiah,
• Biswarup Pathak and
• Venkatesh Chelvam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1453–1463, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.101

• extreme thermal conditions with the use of corrosive reagents. Much later, Larock and co-workers developed a Pd/Cu-catalyzed imino-annulation of internal alkynes [15], which paved the way for transition-metal-catalyzed cyclizations as easy access to these scaffolds. Notably, the gold-catalyzed tandem

• , alkyl N-arylideneglycinates have attracted much attention in recent years. For instance, the metal-catalyzed asymmetric [3 + 2] cycloaddition of ethyl N-benzylideneglycinates with electron-deficient alkenes has been reported to yield substituted pyrrolidines [30]. Recently, we reported the synthesis of

Manganese/bipyridine-catalyzed non-directed C(sp³)–H bromination using NBS and TMSN₃

• Kumar Sneh,
• Takeru Torigoe and
• Yoichiro Kuninobu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 885–890, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.74

• ][19][20]. There are several types of transition-metal-catalyzed C(sp3)−H halogenation reactions reported in the literature (Scheme 1b–d). Transition-metal-catalyzed 1,5-hydrogen atom transfer (1,5-HAT) is effective for promoting regioselective C(sp3)−H halogenation reactions (Scheme 1b) [21][22][23

Synthesis of N-perfluoroalkyl-3,4-disubstituted pyrroles by rhodium-catalyzed transannulation of N-fluoroalkyl-1,2,3-triazoles with terminal alkynes

• Olga Bakhanovich,
• Viktor Khutorianskyi,
• Vladimir Motornov and
• Petr Beier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 504–510, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.44

• , conveniently prepared by [3 + 2] cycloadditions of terminal alkynes with sulfonyl azides, have been used as the precursors to N-sulfonylindoles by transition-metal-catalyzed transannulation reactions. In the presence of Rh(II) or Ni(0) catalysts the triazole ring-opening takes place and intermediate highly

Deoxygenative C2-heteroarylation of quinoline N-oxides: facile access to α-triazolylquinolines

• Geetanjali S. Sontakke,
• Rahul K. Shukla and
• Chandra M. R. Volla

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 485–493, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.42

• -aminoquinoline motif are shown in Figure 1 [46][47]. As a result, a variety of transition metal-catalyzed C2-selective aminations of azine N-oxides were explored extensively [28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. Additionally, various transition metal-free C2-aminations of these scaffolds were also investigated [35][36

Synthetic strategies of phosphonodepsipeptides

• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 461–484, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.41

• -hydroxyalkylphosphonate motif in good yields (Scheme 40) [62]. The transition metal-catalyzed carbene insertion of 1-diazoalkylphononates and N-protected amino acids is an efficient and convenient method for the synthesis of phosphonodepsipeptides with C-1-hydroxyalkylphosphonic acids because the required 1

1,2,3-Triazoles as leaving groups: S_NAr reactions of 2,6-bistriazolylpurines with O- and C-nucleophiles

• Dace Cīrule,
• Irina Novosjolova,
• Ērika Bizdēna and
• Māris Turks

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 410–419, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.37

• -nucleophiles [12][13][14] and in metal catalyzed reactions of halopurine derivatives [15][16][17][18][19][20]. Modifications of purines with O-nucleophiles are based on SNAr reactions between 6-halopurine derivatives and alcohols [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] in the presence of a base. Alcohols are used in

• is introduced at the C6 position of the purine ring using SNAr reactions (Ia→II, Scheme 1). If purine contains identical leaving groups at C2 and C6 positions the reactivity order in its SNAr reactions is C6 > C2 [71][72]. Also transition metal catalyzed reactions can be used for C6 functionalization

The preparation and properties of 1,1-difluorocyclopropane derivatives

• Kymbat S. Adekenova,
• Peter B. Wyatt and
• Sergazy M. Adekenov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 245–272, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.25

• would facilitate the substitution of both fluorine atoms by methoxy groups prior to the ring opening, with the +M effect of the two MeO groups facilitating heterolysis of the proximal C–C bond. Transition metal-catalyzed ring-opening reactions: Recently, the possibilities of using gem

Novel library synthesis of 3,4-disubstituted pyridin-2(1H)-ones via cleavage of pyridine-2-oxy-7-azabenzotriazole ethers under ionic hydrogenation conditions at room temperature

• Romain Pierre,
• Anne Brethon,
• Sylvain A. Jacques,
• Aurélie Blond,
• Sandrine Chambon,
• Sandrine Talano,
• Catherine Raffin,
• Branislav Musicki,
• Claire Bouix-Peter,
• Loic Tomas,
• Gilles Ouvry,
• Rémy Morgentin,
• Laurent F. Hennequin and
• Craig S. Harris

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 156–165, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.16

• . Finally, we turned out attention to transition metal-catalyzed formation of phenols from aryl halides [5]. After another round of screening, we successfully applied palladium-catalyzed conditions discovered by the Buchwald group [6], using KOH as the nucleophile and X-Phos as the ligand, to afford 7 in 83

Synthesis, crystal structures and properties of carbazole-based [6]helicenes fused with an azine ring

• Daria I. Tonkoglazova,
• Anna V. Gulevskaya,
• Konstantin A. Chistyakov and
• Olga I. Askalepova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 11–21, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.2

• starting materials, rather expensive catalysts, harsh reaction conditions or low product yields. Transition-metal-catalyzed, electrophile-induced and oxidative radical cyclizations of ortho-alkynylated biaryls are widely used for the synthesis of polynuclear aromatics [57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65

Silver-catalyzed synthesis of β-fluorovinylphosphonates by phosphonofluorination of aromatic alkynes

• Yajing Zhang,
• Qingshan Tian,
• Guozhu Zhang and
• Dayong Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 3086–3092, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.258

• introduction of two strong electron-withdrawing groups into double bonds has not yet been reported. With our continuous interest in, and inspiration from the well-established transition metal-catalyzed radical difunctionalization of unsaturated carbon–carbon bonds, specifically the work of Li’s group and

• substrate scope and excellent functional group tolerance, this simple protocol may represent a general, one-step approach for the preparation of β-fluorophosphonate frameworks for the use in medicinal chemistry. Metal-catalyzed difunctionalization of unsaturated carbon–carbon bonds. Substrate scope for the

Metal-free synthesis of biarenes via photoextrusion in di(tri)aryl phosphates

• Hisham Qrareya,
• Lorenzo Meazza,
• Stefano Protti and
• Maurizio Fagnoni

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 3008–3014, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.250

• challenge [11][12][13]. Common methods, such as the Ullmann and Gomberg synthesis [14][15][16] have been nowadays supplanted by the much more versatile metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions [17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. This excellent approach still encounters some limitation in the scope and in the

Three-component reactions of aromatic amines, 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds, and α-bromoacetaldehyde acetal to access N-(hetero)aryl-4,5-unsubstituted pyrroles

• Wenbo Huang,
• Kaimei Wang,
• Ping Liu,
• Minghao Li,
• Shaoyong Ke and
• Yanlong Gu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2920–2928, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.241

• pyrrole syntheses [9][10][11], which have been developed to harvest the pyrrole frameworks. In the past few years, the interest in developing new methods to synthesize this heterocyclic motif has rapidly grown; transition metal-catalyzed cyclization [12][13][14] and multicomponent reactions [15][16][17

Regioselective cobalt(II)-catalyzed [2 + 3] cycloaddition reaction of fluoroalkylated alkynes with 2-formylphenylboronic acids: easy access to 2-fluoroalkylated indenols

• Tatsuya Kumon,
• Miroku Shimada,
• Jianyan Wu,
• Shigeyuki Yamada and
• Tsutomu Konno

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2193–2200, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.184

• best of our knowledge, there are no reports on the practical synthesis of disubstituted 2-fluoroalkylated indenols so far. Transition-metal-catalyzed carbocyclization reactions of alkynes with benzene derivatives having a leaving group X (X = Br, I, OTs, B(OH)2) have been widely considered as one of

Efficient [(NHC)Au(NTf₂)]-catalyzed hydrohydrazidation of terminal and internal alkynes

• Maximillian Heidrich and
• Herbert Plenio

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2080–2086, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.175

• addition product were obtained. We recently reported the excellent activity of the very bulky bispentiptycenyl-substituted (NHC)Au complexes in the hydration of terminal and internal alkynes [43] as well as in other transition-metal-catalyzed transformations [44][45]. We were now interested, whether

Metal-free synthesis of phosphinoylchroman-4-ones via a radical phosphinoylation–cyclization cascade mediated by K₂S₂O₈

• Qiang Liu,
• Weibang Lu,
• Guanqun Xie and
• Xiaoxia Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1974–1982, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.164

• appropriate radical precursors through visible-light promoted systems [15][16], transition-metal-catalyzed systems [17][18], or transition-metal-free systems [19][20], have emerged as a powerful strategy for the synthesis of diversely functionalized chroman-4-one derivatives. Organophosphorus compounds are

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

• routes to afford molecular complexity from simple precursors, while concomitantly limiting the number of steps and waste generation. Following this general key objective, the landscape of organic synthesis has been clearly changed by the development of ecofriendly methodologies such as metal-catalyzed C

• –H activations, visible-light-induced photocatalysis, electrosynthesis, enzyme catalysis, and others. Each of these techniques aims at accessing complex molecules while limiting ecological footprint. Over the last decade, the metal-catalyzed C–H activation established itself as one of the most

• rapidly expanding domain of organic synthesis [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. Indeed, this approach tends in rendering the classical metal-catalyzed cross-coupling more environmentally friendly, as simple, non-prefunctionalized substrates could be used in the presence of a metallic

Tuneable access to indole, indolone, and cinnoline derivatives from a common 1,4-diketone Michael acceptor

• Dalel El-Marrouki,
• Sabrina Touchet,
• Abderrahmen Abdelli,
• Hédi M’Rabet,
• Mohamed Lotfi Efrit and
• Philippe C. Gros

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1722–1731, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.144

• ][38][39] or triketones [10][13] and enaminones [40][41][42][43] as starting materials. For the synthesis of cinnoline derivatives, aryldiazenes and aryltriazenes are substrates of choice for transition-metal-catalyzed (Rh, Pd, Cu) cross-coupling reactions, followed by intramolecular cyclizations [44

Photocatalyzed syntheses of phenanthrenes and their aza-analogues. A review

• Alessandra Del Tito,
• Havall Othman Abdulla,
• Davide Ravelli,
• Stefano Protti and
• Maurizio Fagnoni

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1476–1488, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.123

• the design of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) [4]. Typical methods for the construction of a phenanthrene core involve transition-metal-catalyzed cycloisomerizations starting from arynes [5][6], o-alkynyl-biaryls [7][8], or substituted N-tosylhydrazones [9]. However, since the introduction in 1964

• , among the others, the anionic ring-closure of 2-cyanobiaryls by using organometallic reagents [19][20], and an impressive number of transition-metal-catalyzed C(sp2)–C(sp2) cross-coupling processes [21][22][23]. In the last decade, however, photochemical reactions, especially those promoted by a

One-pot synthesis of 1,3,5-triazine-2,4-dithione derivatives via three-component reactions

• Gui-Feng Kang and
• Gang Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1447–1455, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.120

• with the reaction conditions and yielded the corresponding products (6oa–va, 48–92%), allowing for further functionalization through subsequent transition-metal-catalyzed coupling reactions. Intriguingly, it was found that compounds with bicycloaryl and heteroaryl ring systems were also viable