Fluorine-containing substituents: metabolism of the α,α-difluoroethyl thioether motif

• Andrea Rodil,
• Alexandra M. Z. Slawin,
• Nawaf Al-Maharik,
• Ren Tomita and
• David O’Hagan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1441–1447, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.144

• -difluoroethyl thioether motif to explore further its potential as a substituent for bioactives discovery chemistry. Incubation of two aryl–SCF2CH3 ethers with the model yeast organism Cunninghamella elegans, indicates that the sulfur of the thioether is rapidly converted to the corresponding sulfoxide, and then

• literature [3], substituents which are typically introduced to stop metabolism of aryl rings [4]. Other fluorinated motifs are gaining in importance too, such as aryl–OCF3 and aryl–SCF3 ethers, although these substituents can significantly raise lipophilicity (log P) [5][6]. There are relatively few

• hydrolytic lability of the analogous oxygen ethers. By way of example α,α-difluoroethyl ether 14 [18] was incubated with cultures of C. elegans under the standardised conditions, as illustrated in Scheme 4. 19F NMR of the extract indicated a trace of residual starting material with one major metabolite which

Anomeric sugar boronic acid analogues as potential agents for boron neutron capture therapy

• Daniela Imperio,
• Erika Del Grosso,
• Silvia Fallarini,
• Grazia Lombardi and
• Luigi Panza

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1355–1359, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.135

• anomeric boron analogue. Different conditions and reagents were tested for the hydroboration of the enol ethers 5 and 6 (including the use of catecholborane or dibromoborane at low temperature), but complex mixtures containing elimination byproducts were obtained in any condition. We were able to obtain

Host–guest interactions between p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene and p-sulfonatothiacalix[4]arene and group IA, IIA and f-block metal cations: a DFT/SMD study

• Valya K. Nikolova,
• Cristina V. Kirkova,
• Silvia E. Angelova and
• Todor M. Dudev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1321–1330, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.131

• the well-studied cyclodextrins and crown ethers. Calixarenes are products of phenol–aldehyde condensation, as the aromatic components may derived from phenol, resorcinol, or pyrogallol; the aldehyde most often used for phenol is simple formaldehyde (methanal, HCHO), while larger aldehydes (e.g

Self-assembly behaviors of perylene- and naphthalene-crown macrocycle conjugates in aqueous medium

• Xin Shen,
• Bo Li,
• Tiezheng Pan,
• Jianfeng Wu,
• Yangxin Wang,
• Jie Shang,
• Yan Ge,
• Lin Jin and
• Zhenhui Qi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1203–1209, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.117

• Materials & Engineering (IBME), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710072, P. R. China 10.3762/bjoc.15.117 Abstract The synthesis of conjugates of perylene diimide (PDI) and naphthalene diimide (NDI) modified with two benzo-21-crown-7 ethers (B21C7) are herein described. Their self

• macrocyclic hosts, crown ethers, have been widely used as building blocks for supramolecular assemblies in the past two decades [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53], mainly in the fabrication of crown ether-based threaded or interlocked assemblies in organic solvents [54

• water-soluble crown macrocycle 3 was synthesized according to reported protocols, by using potassium cations as template [86][87]. The primary amine group in 3 offers diverse reaction pathways to design crown ethers appended LMW gelators, dendrimers and polymers [88][89][90][91][92]. In order to

Synthesis of aryl cyclopropyl sulfides through copper-promoted S-cyclopropylation of thiophenols using cyclopropylboronic acid

• Emeline Benoit,
• Ahmed Fnaiche and
• Alexandre Gagnon

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1162–1171, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.113

• copper(II) triflate and Hünig's base, rearranges to give the corresponding 2-(arylthio)-3-alkyl-1,3-butadiene 10 [12]. Reacting methyl 2-phenylthiocyclopropyl ketone 11 with silyl enol ethers 12 in the presence of dimethylaluminium chloride leads to the functionalized cyclopentanes 13 via a highly

• -cyclopropylating benzyl mercaptan, an alkylthiol, failed to deliver the desired product. Engle and McAlpine recently reported a very efficient, simple and general protocol for the O-cyclopropylation of phenols using potassium cyclopropyl trifluoroborate (29) that leads to the corresponding aryl cyclopropyl ethers

Electrophilic oligodeoxynucleotide synthesis using dM-Dmoc for amino protection

• Shahien Shahsavari,
• Dhananjani N. A. M. Eriyagama,
• Bhaskar Halami,
• Vagarshak Begoyan,
• Marina Tanasova,
• Jinsen Chen and
• Shiyue Fang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1116–1128, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.108

• protected with the 2-cyanoethyl group. These protecting groups and the linker have to be cleaved under strongly basic and nucleophilic conditions. As a result, many sensitive groups including acetal, hemiacetal, vinyl ethers, enol ethers, aldehydes, esters, activated esters, thioesters, aziridines, epoxides

Precious metal-free molecular machines for solar thermal energy storage

• Meglena I. Kandinska,
• Snejana M. Kitova,
• Vladimira S. Videva,
• Stanimir S. Stoyanov,
• Stanislava B. Yordanova,
• Stanislav B. Baluschev,
• Silvia E. Angelova and
• Aleksey A. Vasilev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1096–1106, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.106

• , their structures predispose to an easy functionalization and low cost synthesis. Another advantage of these dyes is the very low molar absorptivity [16][17] of the higher energy cis isomer, which is a prerequisite for its photostability. The cis isomers of styryl dyes linked to crown ethers have been

• . This finding is a resemblance to the results from reference [24] where the 5-methoxy-substituted benzothiazole styryl-crown ethers demonstrated higher quantum yields of trans-to-cis photoisomerization. Insight from electronic structure calculations To rationalize the experimental findings, we performed

Multicomponent reactions (MCRs): a useful access to the synthesis of benzo-fused γ-lactams

• Edorta Martínez de Marigorta,
• Jesús M. de Los Santos,
• Ana M. Ochoa de Retana,
• Javier Vicario and
• Francisco Palacios

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1065–1085, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.104

• procedure has been described by Singh and co-workers [85], who used formylbenzoate 29 and preformed enol ethers instead of ketones in a Mukaiyama–Mannich lactamization reaction catalysed by zinc or copper under mild conditions. A large amount of diverse isoindolinones 32 (thirty-four examples) can be built

• in this manner, although, once again, ortho-substituted anilines 2 did not render the cyclic product, as the final lactamization step is probably impeded by sterical reasons. On the other hand, silyl enol ethers of acetone, acetophenone, methyl acetate, 2-hydroxyfuran and cyclohexanone worked well

• , providing isoindolinone 32 with yields ranging from 64 to 85%. A variation of the above approach that makes use of fluorinated silyl ethers 39, has been applied to the synthesis of analogous fluorinated isoindolinones 40 (Scheme 11) [86]. In this case, formylbenzoic acid 33, a variety of aromatic, aliphatic

Stereo- and regioselective hydroboration of 1-exo-methylene pyranoses: discovery of aryltriazolylmethyl C-galactopyranosides as selective galectin-1 inhibitors

• Alexander Dahlqvist,
• Axel Furevi,
• Niklas Warlin,
• Hakon Leffler and
• Ulf J. Nilsson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1046–1060, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.102

• -terminal CRD), -7, -8C, -8N, -9C, and -9N. Results and Discussion Chemistry The synthesis starts from the known enol ethers 2, 4, and 6 prepared using published methods [25][26]. Hydroborations of enol ethers have been known to give good to excellent regio- and stereoselectivity and are thus a possible

• route to 2-deoxyhepuloses 3, 5 and 7 [27][28][29][30]. The hydroboration of enol ethers 2, 4, and 6 with borane dimethyl sulfide in THF, followed by oxidation using hydrogen peroxide and sodium hydroxide gave 2-deoxygalactoheptulose 3 and 2-deoxymannoheptulose 5 in good yields (89% and 78%) and with

SO₂F₂-mediated transformation of 2'-hydroxyacetophenones to benzo-oxetes

• Revathi Lekkala,
• Ravindar Lekkala,
• Balakrishna Moku,
• K. P. Rakesh and
• Hua-Li Qin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 976–980, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.95

• natural products and biological active molecules [3]. The synthesis and chemistry of oxetanes have been reviewed [1][2][4][5]. In medicinal chemistry, oxetanes have remained neglected units for many years since the first parent structure has been reported by Reboul in 1878 [6]. As strained cyclic ethers

• desirable. However, the intrinsic ring strain in oxetanes makes cyclization a basic challenge, moreover, the kinetics of cyclization to make four-membered ring ethers are considerably slower than those of six, five, and three-membered ring compounds [16]. Therefore, the formation of oxetanes with

Easy, efficient and versatile one-pot synthesis of Janus-type-substituted fullerenols

• Marius Kunkel and
• Sebastian Polarz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 901–905, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.87

• the characterization of Janus-type fullerenol amphiphiles more than one method is needed to perfectly identify the compounds. Polyhydroxylation reaction of the fullerene can lead to a mixture of several oxygen moieties like hydroxy groups, diols, ketones, hemiketals, epoxides and ethers. The general

• structure motive besides hydroxy groups are ethers. This may result from the reaction conditions since it was already shown that the reaction conditions influence the obtained oxygen moieties. The signal at 163 ppm can be assigned to carbon atoms 5 and 6 of the substituent. Carbon atom 2 of the substituent

Diastereo- and enantioselective preparation of cyclopropanol derivatives

• Marwan Simaan and
• Ilan Marek

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 752–760, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.71

• . Prerequisite for a regio- and diastereoselective carbometalation. Various strategies leading to the formation of cyclopropanols. General approach to the preparation of cyclopropanol and cyclopropylamine derivatives. Preparation of cyclopropenyl methyl ethers 3a–d. Regio- and diastereoselective carbocupration

• of cyclopropenyl methyl ethers 3a,c. Diastereoselective formation of cyclopropanols. Diastereoselective carbometalation/oxidation of nonfunctionalized cyclopropenes 6. Preparation of diastereoisomerically pure and enantioenriched cyclopropanols and cyclopropylamines. Supporting Information

Synthesis of functionalized diazocines for application as building blocks in photo- and mechanoresponsive materials

• Widukind Moormann,
• Daniel Langbehn and
• Rainer Herges

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 727–732, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.68

• step the hydroxy groups in 8a and 8b were protected as tert-butyl ethers (Scheme 2) to prevent oxidation in the following oxidative C–C coupling [31]. The tert-butyl ether was chosen as the protecting group because it is stable towards the oxidizing conditions of the C–C coupling reactions and the

Efficient synthesis of 4-substituted-ortho-phthalaldehyde analogues: toward the emergence of new building blocks

• Clémence Moitessier,
• Ahmad Rifai,
• Pierre-Edouard Danjou,
• Isabelle Mallard and
• Francine Cazier-Dennin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 721–726, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.67

• chloride/N,N-dimethylformamide in the presence of a catalytic amount of p-toluenesulfonic acid ended up with only the formation of OPA. Regeneration of phenols from methyl ethers have also been tested by Boovanahalli et al. [26] by using an ionic liquid such as 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide ([Bmim]Br

Synthesis of 2H-furo[2,3-c]pyrazole ring systems through silver(I) ion-mediated ring-closure reaction

• Vaida Milišiūnaitė,
• Rūta Paulavičiūtė,
• Eglė Arbačiauskienė,
• Vytas Martynaitis,
• Wolfgang Holzer and
• Algirdas Šačkus

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 679–684, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.62

• synthetic methods has been developed for the construction of carbon–heteroatom bonds using these types of catalysts. For example, the gold(I) catalyst [(Ph3PAu)3O]BF4 was applied in the regioselective intramolecular cyclization of alkynols to construct bicyclic ethers [37], while the silver(I) catalyst

The LANCA three-component reaction to highly substituted β-ketoenamides – versatile intermediates for the synthesis of functionalized pyridine, pyrimidine, oxazole and quinoxaline derivatives

• Tilman Lechel,
• Roopender Kumar,
• Mrinal K. Bera,
• Reinhold Zimmer and
• Hans-Ulrich Reissig

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 655–678, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.61

• obtained β-ketoenamides are alkenes with a remarkable assembly of functional groups: they are enamides, enol ethers and α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds at the same time. In addition, their methyl ketone subunit is required for some of the subsequent transformations, e.g., the synthesis of pyridin-4-ols

• are not directly accessible [44]. In contrast, products that are formally derived from 3-aryl-substituted alkoxyallenes can smoothly be prepared from the corresponding alkyl propargyl ethers E (Scheme 7). Their deprotonation with n-butyllithium proceeds with a proton shift delivering the intermediate

• enantiopure components. Bis-β-ketoenamides KE44–46 derived from aromatic dicarboxylic acids. Conversion of alkyl propargyl ethers E into aryl-substituted β-ketoenamides KEAr and selected products KE78–80 obtained by this route. Condensation of LANCA-derived β-ketoenamides KE with ammonium salts to give 5

Design and synthesis of multivalent α-1,2-trimannose-linked bioerodible microparticles for applications in immune response studies of Leishmania major infection

• Chelsea L. Rintelmann,
• Tara Grinnage-Pulley,
• Kathleen Ross,
• Daniel E. K. Kabotso,
• Angela Toepp,
• Anne Cowell,
• Christine Petersen,
• Balaji Narasimhan and
• Nicola Pohl

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 623–632, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.58

• , hydrogenolysis of the benzyl ethers under continuous flow (0.3–1 mL/min) and H2 pressure (30–60 bar) using an H-cube apparatus was found to be effective at removing the benzyl ethers, but arduously slow (>48 h) from the limited surface-mediated interactions with the Pd/C cartridge. By comparison, batch

Design, synthesis and spectroscopic properties of crown ether-capped dibenzotetraaza[14]annulenes

• Krzysztof M. Zwoliński and
• Julita Eilmes

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 617–622, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.57

• much better understanding of complex biological systems [1]. Since the serendipitous discovery of crown ethers by Charles Pedersen in 1967 [2], there have been significant advances in the design and synthesis of sophisticated multidentate macrocycles with mixed-donor sites [3] and high selectivity

Selective benzylic C–H monooxygenation mediated by iodine oxides

• Kelsey B. LaMartina,
• Haley K. Kuck,
• Linda S. Oglesbee,
• Asma Al-Odaini and
• Nicholas C. Boaz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 602–609, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.55

• , it shows incompatibility with functional groups such as alkenes, phenols, phenyl ethers, and alcohols, which are readily oxidized. The dibenzylic C–H bonds of fluorene and xanthene were also able to be functionalized. Xanthene (4a) was over-oxidized to the ketone (xanthone, 5a) in 57% yield (Figure 3

Synthesis and selected transformations of 2-unsubstituted 1-(adamantyloxy)imidazole 3-oxides: straightforward access to non-symmetric 1,3-dialkoxyimidazolium salts

• Grzegorz Mlostoń,
• Małgorzata Celeda,
• Katarzyna Urbaniak,
• Marcin Jasiński,
• Vladyslav Bakhonsky,
• Peter R. Schreiner and
• Heinz Heimgartner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 497–505, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.43

• Scheme 1 occur smoothly with formaldimines 3 derived from aliphatic amines, but in the case of primary aromatic amines harsher reaction conditions are required [6]. To date, no synthesis of 1-alkoxyimidazole N-oxides derived from alkoxyamines (‘hydroxyamine ethers’) has been reported. An alternative

LCST phase behavior of benzo-21-crown-7 with different alkyl chains

• Yan Deng,
• Xing Li,
• Qiao Zhang,
• Zheng Luo,
• Chengyou Han and
• Shengyi Dong

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 437–444, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.38

• .15.38 Abstract The introduction of hydrophobic units into crown ethers can dramatically decrease the critical transition temperature of LCST and realize macroscopic phase separation at low to moderate temperature and concentration. Minor modifications in the chemical structure of crown ethers (benzo-21

• -crown-7, B21C7s) can effectively control the thermo-responsive properties. Keywords: crown ethers; hydrophobic units; lower critical solution temperature; LCST; thermo-responsiveness; supramolecular chemistry; Introduction The introduction of stimuli-responsiveness into artificial materials is vital

• (>50 °C) are necessary to realize LCST phase separation, which significantly restricts an application in functional materials. In order to achieve LCST behavior of crown ethers at moderate concentrations and temperatures, two methods would be applied: combining multiple B21C7 units into a single

Sigmatropic rearrangements of cyclopropenylcarbinol derivatives. Access to diversely substituted alkylidenecyclopropanes

• Guillaume Ernouf,
• Jean-Louis Brayer,
• Christophe Meyer and
• Janine Cossy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 333–350, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.29

• (Scheme 1, reaction 3) [23][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. Thus, methylenecyclopropanes have been prepared by diastereoselective addition of Grignard reagents to cyclopropenylmethyl ethers, possessing a hydroxymethyl directing substituent at C3, in the absence or in the presence of a catalyst (copper or

Oxidative radical ring-opening/cyclization of cyclopropane derivatives

• Yu Liu,
• Qiao-Lin Wang,
• Zan Chen,
• Cong-Shan Zhou,
• Bi-Quan Xiong,
• Pan-Liang Zhang,
• Chang-An Yang and
• Quan Zhou

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 256–278, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.23

• ''-hexamethylphosphorotriamide) as the additive in DMSO. With a similar oxidative radical ring-opening and cyclization strategy, our group developed a novel method for ring-opening and cyclization of MCPs 1 with ethers 40 afforded 2-substituted 3,4-dihydronaphthalenes 41 in moderate to excellent yields (Scheme 11) [68]. This

• of MCPs with AgSCF3. oxidative radical ring-opening and cyclization of MCPs with α-C(sp3)-–H of ethers. Oxidative radical ring-opening and cyclization of MCPs with aldehydes. Cu(I) or Fe(II)-catalyzed oxidative radical trifluoromethylation/ring-opening/cyclization of MCPs derivatives (acrylamide

Synthesis of nonracemic hydroxyglutamic acids

• Dorota G. Piotrowska,
• Iwona E. Głowacka,
• Andrzej E. Wróblewski and
• Liwia Lubowiecka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 236–255, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.22

• separation the hydroxy groups in (2R,3R)-50 were protected as silyl ethers to allow oxidation at C5 to produce pyrrolidine-2-one (4R,5R)-47 (Scheme 12) which was later transformed into (2S,3R)-34 as already shown (Scheme 11) [61]. From L-malic acid (S)-Acetoxypyrrolidin-2,5-dione (51), readily available from

• -hydroxyglutamate [(2S,4R)-81] (Scheme 20) [82]. To synthesize (2S,4S)-81 the inversion of configuration at C4 executed by Mitsunobu reaction preceded oxidation at C5 and the ring opening [82]. O-Benzyl ethers of (2S,4R)-3 and (2S,4S)-3 were prepared by the same methodology [50]. Another approach to the

First synthesis of cryptands with sucrose scaffold

• Patrycja Sokołowska,
• Michał Kowalski and
• Sławomir Jarosz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 210–217, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.20

• two carbon atoms at the C-1’ position as well as at other terminal positions. Thus, all three hydroxy groups were protected as allyl ethers which were subsequently converted into -CH2CH2OH units (Scheme 3). Activation of the free OH groups in 18 as mesylates 19 and subsequent reaction with tripodal