Synthesis of alpha-tetrasubstituted triazoles by copper-catalyzed silyl deprotection/azide cycloaddition

• Zachary L. Palchak,
• Paula T. Nguyen and
• Catharine H. Larsen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1425–1433, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.154

• ), [27] and this motif is also critical to the activity of drugs like ketamine and phencyclidine (1-(1-phenylcyclohexyl)piperidine, PCP) [28]. Tetrasubstituted carbons bearing amines can provide much higher levels of activity than the corresponding trisubstituted center. For example, fentanyl is an

Synthesis and evaluation of the biostability and cell compatibility of novel conjugates of nucleobase, peptidic epitope, and saccharide

• Dan Yuan,
• Xuewen Du,
• Junfeng Shi,
• Ning Zhou,
• Abdulgader Ahmed Baoum,
• Khalid Omar Al Footy,
• Khadija Omar Badahdah and
• Bing Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1352–1359, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.145

• ]. The conjugates NAS were produced by a combination of SPPS and liquid phase synthesis. Scheme 2 shows a representative synthesis route of a NAS conjugate (1). We loaded the first amino acid, Fmoc-Val-OH, on 2-chlorotrityl chloride resin, then removed the Fmoc group with 20% piperidine in

• solid-phase peptide synthesis and liquid-phase synthesis). i) Fmoc-Val-OH, DIPEA; ii) 20% piperidine; iii) Fmoc-Pro-OH, HBTU, DIPEA; iv) Fmoc-Thr(t-Bu)-OH, HBTU, DIPEA; v) thymine-1-acetic acid, HBTU, DIPEA; vi) TFE/DCM 2:8; vii) D-glucosamine hydrochloride, HBTU, DIPEA; viii) TFA/H2O 95:5

Reactions of nitroxides 15. Cinnamates bearing a nitroxyl moiety synthesized using a Mizoroki–Heck cross-coupling reaction

• Jerzy Zakrzewski and
• Bogumiła Huras

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1155–1162, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.130

• , 109 [53][54]. The signals at m/z 124, and 109 are abundant. The signal at m/z 154 was assigned to the structure, resulting from elimination of a XOH from the position 4 and 3 of the piperidine ring. The subsequent loss of a NO group (M = 30) and a CH3 group (M = 15), respectively, generates ions at m

An intramolecular C–N cross-coupling of β-enaminones: a simple and efficient way to precursors of some alkaloids of Galipea officinalis

• Hana Doušová,
• Radim Horák,
• Zdeňka Růžičková and
• Petr Šimůnek

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 884–892, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.99

• . Conditions: (a) piperidine, PhCOOH, toluene, reflux 4 h; (b) NaBH4, MeOH/MeCN, rt, 3.5 h; (c) KOH, H2O, reflux, 8 h; (d) H2SO4, H2O, reflux, 20 h; (e) MeOH, SOCl2, reflux, 4 h; (f) Meldum’s acid, HCOOH, Et3N, 100 °C, 4 h. The synthesis of the starting β-enaminones. Conditions: (a) H2SO4, 65 °C, 46 h; (b) 1

Thiazole formation through a modified Gewald reaction

• Carl J. Mallia,
• Lukas Englert,
• Gary C. Walter and
• Ian R. Baxendale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 875–883, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.98

• , but generated complicated product mixtures allowing only a moderate isolated yield of 33% for the TMG and negligible recovery for the DBU (Table 1, entries 7 and 8). Interestingly, the use of piperidine led to no conversion under these reaction conditions (Table 1, entry 9), we believe this is due to

Self-assembly of heteroleptic dinuclear metallosupramolecular kites from multivalent ligands via social self-sorting

• Christian Benkhäuser and
• Arne Lützen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 693–700, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.79

• -bottomed flask was charged with 5-ethynyl-2,2’-bipyridine (11, 109 mg, 0.6 mmol, 2 equiv), 1,3-diiodobenzene (100 mg, 0.3 mmol), [Pd(PPh3)2Cl2] (5.32 mg, 2.5 mol %), and copper(I) iodide (1.44 mg, 2.5 mol %) and flushed with argon. Dry THF (15 mL) and dry piperidine (5 mL) were added and the resulting

Sequence-specific RNA cleavage by PNA conjugates of the metal-free artificial ribonuclease tris(2-aminobenzimidazole)

• Friederike Danneberg,
• Alice Ghidini,
• Plamena Dogandzhiyski,
• Elisabeth Kalden,
• Roger Strömberg and
• Michael W. Göbel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 493–498, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.55

• : 45 bar H2, Pd/C (10%), MeOH sat. with NH3, 60 °C, 5 h, rt, overnight, 37%; f: Mukaiyama’s reagent, NEt3, DMF, 22 h, rt, 56%. Boc-ON: 2-(tert-butoxycarbonyloxyimino)-2-phenylacetonitrile. Synthesis of PNA conjugates. Conditions: a: 1) 9, HOBt, DIC, DMF, rt, 24 h; 2) piperidine, DMF, rt, 30 min; b: 1

Articulated rods – a novel class of molecular rods based on oligospiroketals (OSK)

• Pablo Wessig,
• Roswitha Merkel and
• Peter Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 74–84, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.11

• terminal or lateral positions of the rods. Building blocks with lateral SEGs are called sleeves. In Figure 1 a typical sleeve D (cyan) as well as other typical building blocks of OSK rods are depicted, such as pentaerythritol C (red), cyclohexane-1,4-dione E (green), and piperidine-4-ones B (blue). An OSK

• defined a 1,2,3-triazole containing linkage between two piperidine rings as the flexible joint F, which should be easily accessible by copper-catalyzed cycloaddition between an azide G and a terminal alkyne H (CuAAC, “Click” reaction) [16]. Primary alcohols I serve as “protected” azides accessible by

• modified Appel reaction [17]. The alkynes H can be protected by silylation (J) because only primary alkynes react in the CuAAC (Figure 3). The synthesis commences with 4-hydroxypiperidine (1), which was converted to piperidine-4-one 3 bearing a protected alkyne moiety as well as to piperidin-4-one 5 with a

Enantioselective synthesis of polyhydroxyindolizidinone and quinolizidinone derivatives from a common precursor

• Nemai Saha and
• Shital K. Chattopadhyay

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 3104–3110, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.327

• -piperidine derivative 7 (Scheme 1) in very good yield. The 4-OH group in compound 7 was then protected as its TBDMS ether (8) wherein the use of TBS triflate was essential as the more conventional TBSCl was found to be ineffective. Treatment of the free amino group in 8 with neat acrylic acid provided the

The Shono-type electroorganic oxidation of unfunctionalised amides. Carbon–carbon bond formation via electrogenerated N-acyliminium ions

• Alan M. Jones and
• Craig E. Banks

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 3056–3072, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.323

• functionalise a pyrrolidine or piperidine carbamate [86][87]. A lithium perchlorate–nitromethane system was used to prepare electrochemically azanucleoside derivatives [88]. Unactivated prolinol derivatives underwent anodic oxidation to generate N-acyliminium ions that were intercepted by nucleophilic bases

Formal total syntheses of classic natural product target molecules via palladium-catalyzed enantioselective alkylation

• Yiyang Liu,
• Marc Liniger,
• Ryan M. McFadden,
• Jenny L. Roizen,
• Jacquie Malette,
• Corey M. Reeves,
• Douglas C. Behenna,
• Masaki Seto,
• Jimin Kim,
• Justin T. Mohr,
• Scott C. Virgil and
• Brian M. Stoltz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2501–2512, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.261

• enantioselective total synthesis of quebrachamine (Scheme 12) [92]. In their planning, disconnection at the macrocycle led to amide 52, which was prepared from 3,3-disubstituted piperidine 53. The all-carbon quaternary stereocenter in 53 was installed by double alkylation of lactam 55, using an auxiliary to

• furnished N-boc piperidine-alcohol (+)-53 [84], thus intercepting an intermediate in Amat’s synthesis of quebrachamine. G) Vincadifformine Vincadifformine (59) was isolated in both enantioenriched and racemic forms from the leaves and roots of Rhazya stricta in 1963 [93]. Not only is it a representative

Synthesis of aromatic glycoconjugates. Building blocks for the construction of combinatorial glycopeptide libraries

• Markus Nörrlinger and
• Thomas Ziegler

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2453–2460, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.256

• % piperidine in DMF at room temperature for 3.5 h gave crude aminomethyl compounds 16 and 19 which were used for the next step without further purification. Final coupling of 15 with 16 and 18 with 19 using HBTU, 1-hydroxybenzotriazole (HOBt) and diisopropylethylamine (DIPEA) in DMF as the condenation agent

• gave non-glycosylated fully protected dipeptides 17 and 20 in 73% and 88% yield, respectively (Scheme 2). Likewise, the Fmoc protecting groups in glucosylated building blocks 13a and 14a were first removed with piperidine in DMF to give crude aminomethyl derivates 21 and 23. Next, the latter were

Synthesis of novel conjugates of a saccharide, amino acids, nucleobase and the evaluation of their cell compatibility

• Dan Yuan,
• Xuewen Du,
• Junfeng Shi,
• Ning Zhou,
• Abdulgader Ahmed Baoum and
• Bing Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2406–2413, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.250

• -Asp (20). After loading the first amino acid (Fmoc-Asp(Ot-Bu)-OH) on the 2-chlorotrityl chloride resin, we blocked the resin by dichloromethane (DCM)/methanol (MeOH)/N,N-diisopropylethylamine (DIEA) (8:1.5:0.5), next removed the Fmoc protecting group by 20% piperidine in N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF

Chiral phosphines in nucleophilic organocatalysis

• Yumei Xiao,
• Zhanhu Sun,
• Hongchao Guo and
• Ohyun Kwon

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2089–2121, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.218

• chiral cyclic phosphine B1 (Scheme 43) [84]. In the presence of 5 mol % of B1, asymmetric [4 + 2] annulations of allenoates with a broad range of aromatic N-tosylimines worked efficiently in dichloromethane at room temperature to give an array of chiral piperidine derivatives in good to excellent

• stereoselectivities (up to 99% ee, up to 99:1 dr) and moderate to excellent yields (42–99%). The piperidine products could be transformed conveniently into biologically important heterocyclic compounds. For example, with this asymmetric [4 + 2] annulation as the key step, using indole-2-carboxaldehyde as the starting

• , both aryl and alkyl. The addition of a Brønsted acid to the reaction system slightly improved the yields and diastereocontrol. In addition, the resulting tetrahydropyridines could be transformed to more complex dihydroxylated piperidine derivatives. At almost the same time, an intramolecular variant of

Multicomponent reactions in nucleoside chemistry

• Mariola Koszytkowska-Stawińska and
• Włodzimierz Buchowicz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1706–1732, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.179

• a secondary amine (i.e., dimethylamine [49][50], diethylamine [51][52], N-methylbenzylamine [49], pyrrolidine [53][54], or piperidine [55][56]) at temperatures ranging from 60 °C to 100 °C afforded the corresponding 5-(alkylaminomethyl)pyrimidine nucleosides 2 (Scheme 2). Compounds 2 served as

Photoswitchable precision glycooligomers and their lectin binding

• Daniela Ponader,
• Sinaida Igde,
• Marko Wehle,
• Katharina Märker,
• Mark Santer,
• David Bléger and
• Laura Hartmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1603–1612, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.166

• Fmoc protecting group was cleaved by treatment with 25% piperidine in DMF three times for 5, 10 and 15 minutes. After complete removal of the Fmoc protecting group, the second building block (AZO or EDS) was coupled following the same reaction conditions. After repetition of the coupling/deprotection

• hours. After that, the resin was washed with a 23 mM solution of sodium diethyl dithiocarbamate in DMF, water, DMF and DCM. Fmoc cleavage: The Fmoc protecting group was cleaved by the addition of a solution of 25% piperidine in DMF three times for 5, 10 and 15 minutes, respectively. This was followed by

C–H-Functionalization logic guides the synthesis of a carbacyclopamine analog

• Sebastian Rabe,
• Johann Moschner,
• Marina Bantzi,
• Philipp Heretsch and
• Athanassios Giannis

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1564–1569, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.161

• application in the rational design of new hedgehog inhibitors based on lead structure 2. Future work will focus on the synthesis of carbacyclopamine analogs with a piperidine F-ring and their biological investigation. Structures of cyclopamine (1) and carbacyclopamine analog 2. Retrosynthetic analysis of

Orthogonal dual thiol–chloroacetyl and thiol–ene couplings for the sequential one-pot assembly of heteroglycoclusters

• Michele Fiore,
• Gour Chand Daskhan,
• Baptiste Thomas and
• Olivier Renaudet

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1557–1563, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.160

• resin loading, 3 equiv of Fmoc-protected amino acid activated in situ with 3 equiv of PyBOP and 6 equiv of DIPEA in DMF (10 mL/g resin) for 30 min. Fmoc protecting groups were removed by treatment with a piperidine/DMF solution 1:4 (10 mL/g resin) for 10 min. Synthetic linear peptides were recovered

Efficient routes toward the synthesis of the D-rhamno-trisaccharide related to the A-band polysaccharide of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

• Aritra Chaudhury,
• Sajal K. Maity and
• Rina Ghosh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1488–1494, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.153

• would have similar reactivity towards glycosylative activation. Hence, a preactivation-based glycosylation protocol was devised for the first step leading to the disaccharide 11 using 1-benzenesulfinyl piperidine–triflic anhydride (BSP–Tf2O) [46]. The subsequent step was carried out using NIS–TMSOTf to

Design, automated synthesis and immunological evaluation of NOD2-ligand–antigen conjugates

• Marian M. J. H. P. Willems,
• Gijs G. Zom,
• Nico Meeuwenoord,
• Ferry A. Ossendorp,
• Herman S. Overkleeft,
• Gijsbert A. van der Marel,
• Jeroen D. C. Codée and
• Dmitri V. Filippov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1445–1453, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.148

• the antigenic peptide was protected with the methyl trityl (Mtt) protective group, allowing the modification of both the N- or C-terminal end at the final stage of the synthesis. In a standard elongation cycle using HCTU as a coupling reagent, acetic anhydride as capping reagent and piperidine to

• , 80%; 2) Fmoc-Glu-(OH)-OAllyl, HATU, DIPEA, DMF, 57%; i) Pd(PPh3)4, Bu3SnH, AcOH, DMF, 72%; j) 60% AcOH, H2O, neopentylglycol, 88%; k) Ac2O, pyridine; l) 20% TFA, DCM, 82% (2 steps); m) NH4OH, MeOH, 87%. a) 20% piperidine, NMP; b) Fmoc SPPS DEVA5K; c) Fmoc-D-isoGln-OH, HCTU, DIPEA, NMP; d) Fmoc-L-Ala

Streptopyridines, volatile pyridine alkaloids produced by Streptomyces sp. FORM5

• Ulrike Groenhagen,
• Michael Maczka,
• Jeroen S. Dickschat and
• Stefan Schulz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1421–1432, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.146

• . FORM5 are structurally related to known secondary metabolites by Streptomyces. The piperidine derivatives 2-((1E,3E)-1,3-pentadienyl)piperidine (20) and 2-((1E,3E)-1,3-pentadienyl)piperidin-4-ol (SS20846A, 21, Figure 5) have been reported from other streptomycetes [8][22][23]. They constitute

• ). Although the compounds were not isolated, the mass spectral data and the previous reports of this class of compounds from Streptomyces led us to conclude that these compounds are indeed streptazolin (5, molecular mass 207) and 2-(penta-1,3-dien-1-yl)piperidine (20, molecular mass 151, mass spectra and high

• [24] and cannot be formed in piperidine 20 because of the adjacent double bond. The 3-pentenyl side chain is also supported by a small ion series at m/z 94 and 108 and present in streptopyridine E (8) and streptenols A (28) and B, biosynthetic precursors of this compound family (see below). Another

Automated solid-phase peptide synthesis to obtain therapeutic peptides

• Veronika Mäde,
• Sylvia Els-Heindl and
• Annette G. Beck-Sickinger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1197–1212, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.118

• for tumor therapy as well. Here, ortho-carbaboranyl propionic acid (Cpa) (Figure 5) was coupled to lysine side chains on a resin-bound peptide in a manual step. An alternative Fmoc-cleavage procedure for the following coupling steps assured the stability of the piperidine-labile carbaborane moiety

• , Aa: amino acid. Fmoc/t-Bu (A) and Boc/Bn (B) protecting-group strategies applied in SPPS. (A) The Fmoc-group is removed by β-elimation through piperidine and t-Bu is released by acidolysis with TFA. (B) Cleavage of protecting groups with TFA and HF occurs by acidolysis. Removal reactions of the

The influence of intraannular templates on the liquid crystallinity of shape-persistent macrocycles

• Joscha Vollmeyer,
• Ute Baumeister and
• Sigurd Höger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 910–920, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.89

• catalysts and 1,4-benzoquinone as oxidant, the precursor is finally intramolecular cyclized in THF/piperidine under high-dilution conditions by slowly adding (48 hours) a solution of the tetraacetylene to the reaction media. Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) analysis of the crude product indicates that

• can be omitted. For this purpose, we performed the cyclization towards macrocycle 1c not under pseudo high-dilution conditions but by stirring a solution of the complete starting material of 1c at once in THF, piperidine, Pd(PPh3)Cl2 and CuI as catalysts and 1,4-benzoquinone as oxidant for 3 h at 60

• omitted for clarity); (c) visualization of the intraannular alkyl chain packing within the columns. Synthesis of macrocycle 1a with an intraannular undecanedioxy bridge. a: Pd(PPh3)2Cl2, PPh3, CuI, piperidine, 84%; b: TBAF, THF, 94%; c: Pd(PPh3)2Cl2, CuI, 1,4-benzoquinone, piperidine, THF, 49%. Synthesis

Addition of H-phosphonates to quinine-derived carbonyl compounds. An unexpected C9 phosphonate–phosphate rearrangement and tandem intramolecular piperidine elimination

• Łukasz Górecki,
• Artur Mucha and
• Paweł Kafarski

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 883–889, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.85

• skeleton and a phosphorus atom. For the C9 ketones a phosphonate–phosphate rearrangement, associated with a tandem elimination of the piperidine fragment, was evidenced. Keywords: carbonyl derivatives; dialkyl phosphite addition; organophosporus; phosphonate–phosphate rearrangement; quinine oxidation

• were not visible (Scheme 5), what demonstrated a degradation of the bicyclic fragment of quinuclidine to a piperidine skeleton. In addition, the characteristic signal of the H11 proton was absent and the H12 resonance was shifted to the lower field (5.43 ppm), between the H20 and H21 vinyl protons. The

• novel contribution to the reactivity of quinine although similar eliminations of piperidine in Cinchona alkaloids have been reported in the literature. Accordingly, heating of quinine or derivatives in acids provided either quino-/cinchotoxine ketones or their tautomeric enol esters, depending on the

Integration of enabling methods for the automated flow preparation of piperazine-2-carboxamide

• Richard J. Ingham,
• Claudio Battilocchio,
• Joel M. Hawkins and
• Steven V. Ley

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 641–652, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.56

• (shown highlighted with a box) and report its height from the bottom of the image. Flow set up for the automated machine assisted synthesis of (R,S)-piperidine-2-carboxamide. Control sequence for the two-step process. Chart of monitored parameters over a 15 hour reaction. The output from the hydrolysis