An amphiphilic pseudo[1]catenane: neutral guest-induced clouding point change

• Tomoki Ogoshi,
• Tomohiro Akutsu and
• Tada-aki Yamagishi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1937–1943, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.167

• /hydrophilic ratio in a molecule largely affects its assembled properties in aqueous media. In this study, we synthesized a new bicyclic compound which could dynamically change its hydrophobic/hydrophilic ratio by chemical stimulus. The bicyclic compound consisted of amphiphilic pillar[5]arene and hydrophobic

• alkyl chain rings, and formed a self-inclusion structure in aqueous media, which was assigned as a pseudo[1]catenane structure. The hydrophobic chain ring was hidden inside the pillar[5]arene cavity in the pseudo[1]catenane structure, thus the bicyclic compound was soluble in water at 20 °C with a

• aggregation of the hydrophobic alkyl chain rings, which induced insolubilization of the bicyclic compound in aqueous media at 20 °C and a decrease in its clouding point. Keywords: amphiphilic molecules; host–guest complexes; lower critical solution temperature; pillar[n]arenes; pseudo[1]catenane

Synthesis of new tricyclic 5,6-dihydro-4H-benzo[b][1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-d][1,4]diazepine derivatives by [3⁺ + 2]-cycloaddition/rearrangement reactions

• Lin-bo Luan,
• Zi-jie Song,
• Zhi-ming Li and
• Quan-rui Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1826–1833, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.155

• , we wish to describe the synthesis of unprecedented tricyclic heterocycles, i.e., 5,6-dihydro-4H-benzo[b][1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-d][1,4]diazepinium salts 10 and the related neutral free base derivatives 13 via the cationic [3+ + 2]-cycloaddition/rearrangement reactions using the bicyclic 4-acetoxy-4-azo

Synthesis of spirocyclic scaffolds using hypervalent iodine reagents

• Fateh V. Singh,
• Priyanka B. Kole,
• Saeesh R. Mangaonkar and
• Samata E. Shetgaonkar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1778–1805, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.152

• of DMAP base. The spirocyclization reactions were performed in MeOH for 2 h at 0 °C and spirocyclic products 56 were isolated in good yields (Scheme 18). Additionally, fused bicyclic compounds 57 were also observed in few reactions in traces. The structure of the spiro β-lactam was confirmed by

Glycosylation reactions mediated by hypervalent iodine: application to the synthesis of nucleosides and carbohydrates

• Yuichi Yoshimura,
• Hideaki Wakamatsu,
• Yoshihiro Natori,
• Yukako Saito and
• Noriaki Minakawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1595–1618, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.137

• -thiosugar derivatives. We thus developed the first synthetic route accessing the 4-thiosugar derivative by way of bicyclic intermediate 8 from diacetoneglucose (5). Construction of the bicyclic ring of 8 was achieved by consecutive inter-/intramolecular SN2 reactions of the dimesylate derivative 7 obtained

Two new 2-alkylquinolones, inhibitory to the fish skin ulcer pathogen Tenacibaculum maritimum, produced by a rhizobacterium of the genus Burkholderia sp.

• Dandan Li,
• Naoya Oku,
• Atsumi Hasada,
• Masafumi Shimizu and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1446–1451, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.122

• correspond to two rings, which constitutes a fused bicyclic structure as suggested by the number of available aromatic carbons (eleven). A 4-quinolone substructure was indicated by a peak-splitting at the 340–320 nm region in the UV spectrum (328 and 322 nm) [13]. Indeed, 1H NMR resonances at the down field

Recent applications of chiral calixarenes in asymmetric catalysis

• Mustafa Durmaz,
• Erkan Halay and
• Selahattin Bozkurt

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1389–1412, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.117

• coligand, their uranyl-(salen) derivatives 106a,b have been employed as models of the oxo-Mn(V)–(salen) oxidant species. The reactions were highly efficient in terms of productivity (up to 96% yield) and enantioselectivity (up to 93% ee) when rigid bicyclic alkenes such as 1,2-dihydronaphthalene and

[3 + 2]-Cycloaddition reaction of sydnones with alkynes

• Veronika Hladíková,
• Jiří Váňa and
• Jiří Hanusek

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1317–1348, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.113

• bicyclic intermediate via a concerted [3 + 2]-cycloaddition followed by its very fast decomposition (extrusion of CO2) via a retro-Diels–Alder [4 + 2]-cycloaddition. The almost spontaneous extrusion of CO2 is caused by an energetically favorable aromatization occurring in this step leading to the formation

• (80 °C) caused a decrease in the total yield by approximately 50%, with slightly increased selectivity (from 4.96 to 6.56). Lowering of the yield with increasing pressure confirms the reversibility of the first step (see Scheme 5) because of retardation of CO2 cleavage from the bicyclic intermediate

• . Such reversibility was also suggested by Harrity et al. [92] on the basis of quantum calculations. While the formation of the bicyclic intermediate was calculated to be only slightly exergonic (−3.3 kcal·mol−1) the overall reaction is highly exothermic (−108.2 kcal·mol−1). These results show that minor

Synthesis of pyrazolopyrimidinones using a “one-pot” approach under microwave irradiation

• Mark Kelada,
• John M. D. Walsh,
• Robert W. Devine,
• Patrick McArdle and
• John C. Stephens

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1222–1228, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.104

• . Herein, we report such a strategy for the simple synthesis of functionalized pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidinones that employs a one-pot microwave-assisted approach. Findings A number of synthetic approaches have been developed for the synthesis of privileged nitrogen-fused bicyclic systems such as the pyrazolo

• the development of novel biologically active compounds based on the pyrazolopyrimidinone scaffold, we sought to develop a simple one-pot synthesis of the nitrogen-fused bicyclic system. In order to establish reaction conditions for this one-pot synthesis, we began by seeking general reaction

One hundred years of benzotropone chemistry

• Arif Dastan,
• Haydar Kilic and
• Nurullah Saracoglu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1120–1180, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.98

• .Et2O in MeOH gave the expected dithioketal 154, whereas the reaction of tropone under similar conditions presented complications from rapid [1][7] sigmatropic shifts of unhindered alkylthio groups to give bicyclic 1,7-disubstituted cycloheptatrienes like 156 (Scheme 27). Leitich’s group reported the

• underwent di-π-methane photo-rearrangement to 210–212 exclusively (Scheme 35). Moreover, Dastan’s group prepared bicyclic endoperoxide 213 in 74% yield from 2,3-benzotropone (12) via tetraphenylporphyrine (TPP)-sensitized photo-oxygenation (Scheme 35) [149]. 3.2.4. Miscellaneous transformations: Machiguchi

• -benzotropone (12) was also performed (Scheme 36). This condensation followed by incipient oxidation gave the quinone 223 (15%), the bridged bicyclic product 224 (7%), and 225 (28%) [152]. 4. Chemistry of 3,4-benzotropone (13) 4.1. Generation, characterization, and reaction 3,4-Benzotropone (13) is of

Preparation, structure, and reactivity of bicyclic benziodazole: a new hypervalent iodine heterocycle

• Akira Yoshimura,
• Michael T. Shea,
• Cody L. Makitalo,
• Melissa E. Jarvi,
• Gregory T. Rohde,
• Akio Saito,
• Mekhman S. Yusubov and
• Viktor V. Zhdankin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1016–1020, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.87

• , Duluth, MN 55811, USA, Division of Applied Chemistry, Institute of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 2-24-16 Naka-cho, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan 10.3762/bjoc.14.87 Abstract A new bicyclic organohypervalent iodine heterocycle derivative of benziodazole was prepared by

• preparation of several bicyclic benziodoxoles 3 starting from 2-iodoisophthalic acid (2, Scheme 1b). These bicyclic benziodoxoles 3 can be used as efficient coupling reagents for the direct condensation reaction between carboxylic acids and alcohols or amines to provide esters, macrocyclic lactones, or amides

• knowledge, all known benziodazoles have a mono-heterocyclic structure, and bi-heterocyclic benziodazole derivatives similar to the bicyclic benziodoxole 3 have never been reported. In this paper, we report the synthesis, structural characterization, and reactivity of a novel bicyclic benziodazole derivative

An efficient and facile access to highly functionalized pyrrole derivatives

• Meng Gao,
• Wenting Zhao,
• Hongyi Zhao,
• Ziyun Lin,
• Dongfeng Zhang and
• Haihong Huang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 884–890, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.75

• decomposition pathways, we increased the amount of 9a up to 1.5 equivalents, which delivered the bicyclic pyrrolidine 11a in excellent yield (82%, Table 2, entry 5). Prolonging the reaction time from 3 h to 6 h had no influence on the yield (Table 2, entry 6), which demonstrated that appropriate increase on the

Diastereoselective auxiliary- and catalyst-controlled intramolecular aza-Michael reaction for the elaboration of enantioenriched 3-substituted isoindolinones. Application to the synthesis of a new pazinaclone analogue

• Romain Sallio,
• Stéphane Lebrun,
• Frédéric Capet,
• Francine Agbossou-Niedercorn,
• Christophe Michon and
• Eric Deniau

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 593–602, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.46

• -transfer catalyst; 3-substituted isoindolinones; Introduction Isoindolinones I (Figure 1), e.g., 2,3-dihydro-1H-isoindol-1-ones, also called phthalimidines are bicyclic lactams whose molecular structure is the basis of a wide range of alkaloids and biologically active compounds [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9

• -substituted isoindolinones 1 and 2 could be obtained in high enantioselectivities from the intermediates (2R,3S)-3–5 after removal of the chiral auxiliary (Scheme 1). (2R,3S)-bicyclic lactams 3–5 could be prepared by the asymmetric intramolecular organo-catalyzed aza-Michael reaction of (R)-benzamides 6–8

Synthesis and biological evaluation of RGD and isoDGR peptidomimetic-α-amanitin conjugates for tumor-targeting

• Lizeth Bodero,
• Paula López Rivas,
• Barbara Korsak,
• Torsten Hechler,
• Andreas Pahl,
• Christoph Müller,
• Daniela Arosio,
• Luca Pignataro,
• Cesare Gennari and
• Umberto Piarulli

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 407–415, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.29

• bicyclic octapeptide toxin belonging to the amatoxin family, found in Amanita Phalloides (death cap mushroom), see Figure 1 [1]. Its mechanism of action consists in the inhibition of cellular transcription by an effective blocking of RNA polymerase II, which is present in the nuclei of eukaryotic cells and

Novel amide-functionalized chloramphenicol base bifunctional organocatalysts for enantioselective alcoholysis of meso-cyclic anhydrides

• Lingjun Xu,
• Shuwen Han,
• Linjie Yan,
• Haifeng Wang,
• Haihui Peng and
• Fener Chen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 309–317, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.19

• conveniently converted into the corresponding monoester products in high yields and enantioselectivities. Notably, bicyclic anhydrides (Table 2, entries 1 and 2) and tricyclic anhydrides (Table 2, entries 3 and 4) were more reactive than mono-cyclic anhydrides (Table 2, entries 5–12). In the case of mono

Fluorogenic PNA probes

• Tirayut Vilaivan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 253–281, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.17

• applications, it means that tC–PNA alone is not useful as a fluorogenic probe. The related tri- or bicyclic thymine analogues tT and bT (without the additional aromatic ring) pair specifically with dA when incorporated into aegPNA, but their fluorescence properties have not been reported [184]. PNA carrying

5-Aminopyrazole as precursor in design and synthesis of fused pyrazoloazines

• Ranjana Aggarwal and
• Suresh Kumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 203–242, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.15

Transition-metal-free [3 + 3] annulation of indol-2-ylmethyl carbanions to nitroarenes. A novel synthesis of indolo[3,2-b]quinolines (quindolines)

• Michał Nowacki and
• Krzysztof Wojciechowski

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 194–202, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.14

• unprotected indoloquinoline 12 and its N-oxide 13 in 26 and 12% yields, respectively (Scheme 4). To extend the scope of the reaction to more active nitroarenes, we used slightly modified reaction conditions using DBU as a base. Earlier we have found that in the reactions of bicyclic nitroarenes this base was

Reagent-controlled regiodivergent intermolecular cyclization of 2-aminobenzothiazoles with β-ketoesters and β-ketoamides

• Irwan Iskandar Roslan,
• Kian-Hong Ng,
• Gaik-Khuan Chuah and
• Stephan Jaenicke

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2739–2750, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.270

• -aminobenzothiazole with acetophenones [55] or aldehydes and nitroalkanes [56]. Because the bicyclic structure of 2-aminobenzothiazole is more stable than aminopyridines and thioureas, the nucleophilicity of the aromatic N atom is reduced. A stronger base, KOt-Bu, is therefore needed for in situ bromination to form

Vinylphosphonium and 2-aminovinylphosphonium salts – preparation and applications in organic synthesis

• Anna Kuźnik,
• Roman Mazurkiewicz and
• Beata Fryczkowska

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2710–2738, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.269

• intramolecular Wittig reaction. The yields of the product ranged between 6 and 95% [13]. 2.2.3. Reactions with nitrogen nucleophiles: The reaction of vinylphosphonium salt with 2-pyrrolocarbaldehyde in the presence of sodium hydride as described by Schweizer et al. provided bicyclic pyrrole derivatives 47 in 25

• –87% yields (Scheme 32) [2][42]. Similarly, Hewson and co-workers synthesized bicyclic 2-pyrrolidinone derivatives 48 from 5-acetyl-2-pyrrolidinone in a yield of 40–68% (Scheme 33) [48]. In 1994 Burley and Hewson reported a reaction of vinylphosphonium salt with nitrogen nucleophiles, obtained by

• synthesis of resonance-stabilized phosphorus ylides 81 (Scheme 51). The obtained ylides underwent further cyclization by the intramolecular acylation of the primary amino group to give the final bicyclic products 82 in 85–90% yields [67]. The synthesis of resonance-stabilized phosphorus ylides via the

A novel synthetic approach to hydroimidazo[1,5-b]pyridazines by the recyclization of itaconimides and HPLC–HRMS monitoring of the reaction pathway

• Dmitry Yu. Vandyshev,
• Khidmet S. Shikhaliev,
• Andrey Yu. Potapov,
• Michael Yu. Krysin,
• Fedor I. Zubkov and
• Lyudmila V. Sapronova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2561–2568, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.252

• -addition by the activated C=C double bond and subsequent intramolecular recyclization of the intermediate with the amino group involved. Keywords: cascade reaction; diaminoimidazoles; HPLC–HRESIMS; imidazo[1,5-b]pyridazines; itaconimides; Introduction Among the numerous bicyclic fused imidazole

¹⁵N-Labelling and structure determination of adamantylated azolo-azines in solution

• Sergey L. Deev,
• Alexander S. Paramonov,
• Tatyana S. Shestakova,
• Igor A. Khalymbadzha,
• Oleg N. Chupakhin,
• Julia O. Subbotina,
• Oleg S. Eltsov,
• Pavel A. Slepukhin,
• Vladimir L. Rusinov,
• Alexander S. Arseniev and
• Zakhar O. Shenkarev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2535–2548, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.250

• between them. The rotation of the N-adamantyl substituents around the N–C1' bond in the bulky bicyclic heterocycles is likely hindered, and the observed conformational heterogeneity corresponds to the different rotameric configurations of the substituent. To test this hypothesis, additional NMR

• JCN) to provide structural information about the N-adamantylation sites in bicyclic heterocycles. The previous studies of azolo[5,1-c][1,2,4]triazin-7-ones, 1,2,4-triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidin-7-ones and tetrazolo-azines revealed that the 13C chemical shifts of the nearest carbon atoms to N-alkyl fragments

Herpetopanone, a diterpene from Herpetosiphon aurantiacus discovered by isotope labeling

• Xinli Pan,
• Nicole Domin,
• Sebastian Schieferdecker,
• Hirokazu Kage,
• Martin Roth and
• Markus Nett

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2458–2465, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.242

• NMR data for 2 [22] confirmed our assignment of the octahydro-1H-indene skeleton. The biosynthesis of the bicyclic ring system in 2 was previously proposed to occur via an α-cadinol intermediate, which undergoes a ring contraction reaction [19]. The cadinane family of sesquiterpenes, which also

Structure–property relationships and third-order nonlinearities in diketopyrrolopyrrole based D–π–A–π–D molecules

• Jan Podlesný,
• Lenka Dokládalová,
• Oldřich Pytela,
• Adam Urbanec,
• Milan Klikar,
• Numan Almonasy,
• Tomáš Mikysek,
• Jaroslav Jedryka,
• Iwan V. Kityk and
• Filip Bureš

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2374–2384, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.235

• , diketopyrrolopyrroles (DPP) represent an unique class of organic molecules based on central, fused, and conjugated bicyclic lactams of 2,5-dihydropyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole-1,4-dione. After its serendipitous discovery by Farnum et al. in 1974 [1] and subsequent first applications as organic, insoluble, and high-performance

• -photon absorbers (2PA). In this respect, the central DPP bicyclic lactam is often decorated with electron donors such as alkoxy- or dialkylamino groups [11][12], triphenylamine [13][14], heterocyclic carbazole [15], thiophene [16][17], furan [18], and organometallic ferrocene [19]. 2PA-active DPPs were

Structural diversity in the host–guest complexes of the antifolate pemetrexed with native cyclodextrins: gas phase, solution and solid state studies

• Magdalena Ceborska,
• Magdalena Zimnicka,
• Aneta Aniela Kowalska,
• Kajetan Dąbrowa and
• Barbara Repeć

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2252–2263, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.222

• changes of chemical shifts for the guest molecule in regard to FA appear only for three protons (aliphatic FA#H4 protons and phenolic FA#H6 and FA#H7) while changes for PTX appear in the same region but additionally for the belonging to the bicyclic heteroaromatic proton PTX#H4. It means that either this

• obtained results strongly support the assumption that not a whole PTX molecule is encapsulated inside the β-CD cavity, and, instead, the complex is formed through inclusion of a major part of aromatic parts of the molecule (both bicyclic heteroaromatic ring and phenolic ring), whereas aliphatic chain with

• guest compounds with the changes being larger for the PTX molecule. Moreover, a quite substantial change in chemical shift upon complexation is observed for the PTX#H4 proton of the bicyclic part of the PTX molecule (0.09 ppm), whereas for FA the corresponding change of the FA#H3 proton equals only 0.05

Dialkyl dicyanofumarates and dicyanomaleates as versatile building blocks for synthetic organic chemistry and mechanistic studies

• Grzegorz Mlostoń and
• Heinz Heimgartner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2235–2251, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.221

• ) to avoid the formation of complex product mixtures. Based on the 1H NMR analysis, only one product, identical in reactions with E- and with Z-1b, was formed [47]. Also bis(dimethylamino)-substituted 1,3-dienes including bicyclic representatives were used for reactions with E- and Z-1b [48][49

• bicyclic piperazine (quinoxaline) derivative 73 in 61% yield [68] (Scheme 23). The analogous reaction with [(S)-pyrrolidin-2-yl]methylamine ((S)-prolinamine) with E-1a–c occurred smoothly in CH2Cl2 at room temperature yielding optically active (4-oxohexahydropyrrolo[1,2-a]pyrazin-3-ylidene)-2-cyanoacetates

• nucleophiles. The type of the products obtained depended on the reaction conditions. Whereas heating in 1,2-dichloroethane (85 °C) or stirring in DMF at room temperature afforded mixtures of hetero-bicyclic products 82 and 83 in favor of 82, reactions performed in DMF at 100 °C led to 82 as the sole product [6