Synthesis of substituted 8H-benzo[h]pyrano[2,3-f]quinazolin-8-ones via photochemical 6π-electrocyclization of pyrimidines containing an allomaltol fragment

• Constantine V. Milyutin,
• Andrey N. Komogortsev,
• Boris V. Lichitsky,
• Mikhail E. Minyaev and
• Valeriya G. Melekhina

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 778–788, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.58

• of the process, as well as basic reagents and solvents to identify the optimal conditions and the best results are summarized in Table 1. At first, based on literature data we carried out the reaction in NMP at 100 °C for 16 h in the presence of N-methylmorpholine. In this case the target pyrimidine

• guanidine C. Finally, the intramolecular cyclization of the guanidine moiety and the carbonyl group leads to the target pyrimidine 9. After the general synthetic method for pyrimidines containing the allomaltol fragment had been established, the photochemical behavior of the obtained compounds 9 was

• of triclinic (P1̄ and monoclinic (P21/c) crystal systems (see Supporting Information File 1 for details); the structure of one modification is shown in Figure 2. Thus, the first obtained compound is the expected polycycle 12a, while the second one is product 11a formed as a result of 6π

Sulfate radical anion-induced benzylic oxidation of N-(arylsulfonyl)benzylamines to N-arylsulfonylimines

• Joydev K. Laha,
• Pankaj Gupta and
• Amitava Hazra

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 771–777, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.57

• reactions, and C–H functionalizations ([3] and references therein), leading to the synthesis of diverse nitrogen heterocycles of pharmaceutical relevance [4]. The traditional synthetic method for the preparation of N-arylsulfonylimines, similar to the preparation of N-arylimines, is based on the

• abstraction (HAT) followed by single electron transfer (SET) enabled by the sulfate radical anion (SO4·−). Results and Discussion Initially, we investigated the reaction of N-benzenesulfonyl(benzyl)amine (1a) as a model substrate with K2S2O8 in MeCN at 80 °C for 12 h, conditions that were used earlier in our

• , entry 5). Lowering the temperature to 60 °C had a deleterious effect (Table 1, entry 6). Likewise, reducing the stoichiometry of pyridine to 1 equiv proved detrimental (Table 1, entry 7). Replacing pyridine with other organic and inorganic bases such as Et3N, DBU, DABCO or K2CO3 also gave product 2a

Bromination of endo-7-norbornene derivatives revisited: failure of a computational NMR method in elucidating the configuration of an organic structure

• Demet Demirci Gültekin,
• Arif Daştan,
• Yavuz Taşkesenligil,
• Cavit Kazaz,
• Yunus Zorlu and
• Metin Balci

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 764–770, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.56

• in terms of neighboring group participation by the bromine atom in the methano bridge (8→9). Thus, backside attack of the bromine atom on C7 in 8 at C2 of the three-membered bromonium ion can lead to the four-membered bromonium ion 9. Attack of bromide ion at C-3 of 9 furnishes the cis-addition

• show any tendency to undergo a skeletal rearrangement, in fact with 75% it is the major product at 77 °C [4]. It is somewhat astonishing that the authors have overlooked this fact. Based on the detailed NMR arguments and experiments we presented above, supported by a sound mechanistic pathway we

Honeycomb reactor: a promising device for streamlining aerobic oxidation under continuous-flow conditions

• Masahiro Hosoya,
• Yusuke Saito and
• Yousuke Horiuchi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 752–763, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.55

• air was switched to an O2 balloon to increase the partial pressure of O2 (Table 2, entry 1 vs 2 and 3 vs 4). At room temperature, the reaction rate did not increase although the partial pressure of O2 increased approximately five times with this change. In contrast, at 60 °C, the reaction rate

• the solubility of O2, is not the rate-determining step. Therefore, the reaction rates under open air and O2 balloon did not differ. On the other hand, increasing the temperature decreased the solubility of O2, which converted the catalytic cycle A to the rate-determining step at 60 °C. When the

• amounts of catalysts were decreased to 0.02 equiv (Table 2, entry 5), the reaction completion took 60 min. When the reaction solution was heated to 80 °C, the reaction was completed within 20 min with 0.02 equiv of Fe(NO3)3/TEMPO (Table 2, entry 6). When the amounts of catalysts were decreased to 0.01

Construction of hexabenzocoronene-based chiral nanographenes

• Ranran Li,
• Di Wang,
• Shengtao Li and
• Peng An

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 736–751, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.54

• precursors. Review seco-HBC-based chiral NGs In the HBC synthesis, a small fraction of a partially cyclodehydrogenated intermediate was indeed isolated during the conversion of hexaphenylbenzene to HBC [32]. Conceptually, the partially ring-closed intermediate by cutting one C–C bond of HBC can be treated as

• compound at 200 °C for 5 h, which gives a lower limit to the barrier of racemization of ΔG > 38.3 kcal mol−1 at 473 K. The circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) of these structures were also evaluated with the luminescence dissymmetry factors (glum) values of 4 × 10−4 for compound 11 and 7 × 10−4 for

• at 90 °C) [36]. It is now well-documented that the incorporation of heteroatoms into the graphene materials or NG molecules can effectively tune their electronic and optical properties. Examples in Scheme 3 show the nitrogen-doped, seco-HBC-based chiral NGs. By introducing a pyrrole ring, Jux and co

Synthesis of imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine-containing peptidomimetics by tandem of Groebke–Blackburn–Bienaymé and Ugi reactions

• Oleksandr V. Kolomiiets,
• Alexander V. Tsygankov,
• Maryna N. Kornet,
• Aleksander A. Brazhko,
• Vladimir I. Musatov and
• Valentyn A. Chebanov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 727–735, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.53

• temperature and the reaction time. After a series of experiments, it was found that stirring the isocyanides 3a–d, heterocyclic acids 4a–c, aldehydes 5a–e, and primary amines 6a–d at 50 °C in methanol for 24–48 hours (depending on the nature of the starting materials) allowed obtaining the Ugi target products

• , chloroform and some other typical solvents). Therefore, it was not surprising to us that the usual stirring of the starting materials in methanol at 50 °C was not successful for this multicomponent reaction. Increasing the temperature to 75 °C also did not give any positive results. Therefore, we tried to

Palladium-catalyzed enantioselective three-component synthesis of α-arylglycine derivatives from glyoxylic acid, sulfonamides and aryltrifluoroborates

• Bastian Jakob,
• Nico Schneider,
• Luca Gengenbach and
• Georg Manolikakes

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 719–726, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.52

• phenyltrifluoroborate with 2,2,4,6,7-pentamethyl-2,3-dihydrobenzofuran-5-sulfonylamide and glyoxylic acid in nitromethane at 40 °C in the presence and absence of our previously established Pd(TFA)2-S,S-iPrBox catalyst system (Scheme 3). To our delight, the palladium-catalyzed transformation afforded the desired α

• . Increasing the reaction temperature to 60 °C and 80 °C furnished the desired product in increased yields of 54 and 55%, respectively, together with a slight erosion of enantioselectivity (Table 1, entries 7 and 8). Prolonging the reaction time to 64 h increased the yield to 45% without affecting the

Strategies in the synthesis of dibenzo[b,f]heteropines

• David I. H. Maier,
• Barend C. B. Bezuidenhoudt and
• Charlene Marais

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 700–718, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.51

• David I. H. Maier Barend C. B. Bezuidenhoudt Charlene Marais Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, PO Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa 10.3762/bjoc.19.51 Abstract The dibenzo[b,f]azepine skeleton is important in the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of existing

• transition metal (Ni, Fe, V) porphyrin catalysts and oxygen. Catalytic reduction (H2, Pd/C) affords 2,2'-diaminobibenzyl (20) in the subsequent step [28]. 1.2 Ring-closing via amine condensation The initial synthesis of 10,11-dihydro-5H-dibenzo[b,f]azepine (2a) was reported in 1899 by Thiele and Holzinger

• 1a in poor yield (20–50%) [39]. The starting material 2a was distilled through a heated (≈150 °C) column packed with Pd/C and glass wool. Crude 1a was collected as a solid and purified. Further research has been conducted on the effect of catalyst choice and composition for large scale synthesis

Synthesis of medium and large phostams, phostones, and phostines

• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 687–699, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.50

• phostams, phostones, and phostines are summarized. They include cyclizations and annulations. Cyclizations achieve ring construction through the formations of C–C, C–O, P–C, and P–O bonds in the rings, while annulations build the rings via [5 + 2], [6 + 1], and [7 + 1] fashions with the stepwise formation

• of C–C, C–O, P–C, and P–O bonds in the rings, while annulations are composed of [5 + 2], [6 + 1], and [7 + 1] fashions for the formation of the rings (Figure 2). This review includes the synthesis of seven to fourteen-membered phostam, phostone, and phostine derivatives. Aboundant methods have been

• developed for the synthesis of seven-membered phostone and phostine derivatives. Review 1 Synthesis via cyclizations Cyclizations are major strategies for the construction of medium and large phostams, phostones, and phostines via C–C, C–O, P–C, and P–O bond formations, respectively. These strategies can be

Synthesis, structure, and properties of switchable cross-conjugated 1,4-diaryl-1,3-butadiynes based on 1,8-bis(dimethylamino)naphthalene

• Semyon V. Tsybulin,
• Ekaterina A. Filatova,
• Alexander F. Pozharskii,
• Valery A. Ozeryanskii and
• Anna V. Gulevskaya

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 674–686, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.49

• -conjugation of 1,8-bis(dimethylamino)naphthalene (DMAN) fragments through a butadiyne linker and a donor–acceptor aryl–C≡C–DMAN conjugation path. The conjugation path can be “switched” simply by protonation of DMAN fragments. X-ray diffraction, UV–vis spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry are applied to analyze

• -conjugated backbone and side-chain substituents [1][2][3][4][5]. π-Conjugated oligomers consisting of alternating C≡C bonds and aromatic nuclei, commonly, have a rigid, rod-like structure and exhibit high charge carriers’ mobility [6]. 1,4-Diaryl-1,3-butadiynes is a particular class of such compounds. Both

• averaged planes of the naphthalene rings, ∠Cx‒Cy–Cz is the bond angle of the carbon–carbon bonds in the butadiyne linker, Θ is the C2(2′)–C3(3′)–C6(6′)–C7(7′) torsion, N···N is the internitrogen distance in the DMAN fragments, Σ∠N is the sum of the C–N–C angles of the NMe2 groups, and φ is the N1(1′)–C1(1

Photocatalytic sequential C–H functionalization expediting acetoxymalonylation of imidazo heterocycles

• Deepak Singh,
• Shyamal Pramanik and
• Soumitra Maity

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 666–673, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.48

• from academia and industry. Herein, we report a direct C-3 acetoxymalonylation of imidazo heterocycles using relay C–H functionalization enabled by organophotocatalysis starring zinc acetate in the triple role of an activator, ion scavenger as well as an acetylating reagent. The mechanistic

• investigation revealed a sequential sp2 and sp3 C–H activation, followed by functionalization driven by zinc acetate coupled with the photocatalyst PTH. A variety of imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines and related heterocycles were explored as substrates along with several active methylene reagents, all generating the

• products with excellent yields and regioselectivity, thus confirming excellent functional group tolerability. Keywords: C–H functionalization; imidazo heterocycles; photoredox; regioselective; relay catalysis; Introduction Among all N-fused heterocycles, imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines (IPs) are the prevalent

Cassane diterpenoids with α-glucosidase inhibitory activity from the fruits of Pterolobium macropterum

• Sarot Cheenpracha,
• Ratchanaporn Chokchaisiri,
• Lucksagoon Ganranoo,
• Sareeya Bureekaew,
• Thunwadee Limtharakul and
• Surat Laphookhieo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 658–665, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.47

• enzyme responsible for the hydrolysis of carbohydrates in the body, is widely used for the management of type 2 diabetes. The agents, such as acarbose, miglitol, and voglibose, can retard the digestion and absorption of dietary carbohydrates [3][4]. Some cassane-type diterpenoids such as pulcherrimin C

• revealed the presence of hydroxy (3429 cm−1) and carbonyl (1733 cm−1) groups. The UV absorption band maximum at λmax 283 nm and five downfield-shifted carbon signals at δC 169.8 (C-16), 163.8 (C-13), 149.3 (C-12), 111.6 (C-11), and 109.6 (C-15) in the 13C NMR data suggested the presence of the α,β

• -unsaturated γ-lactone ring. The HMBC cross-peaks (Figure 2) from H-11 (δH 5.86) to C-10, C-12, and C-13, and from H-15 (δH 6.03) to C-12, C-13 and C-14 allowed the location of an extended conjugated π-system at C-11 and C-12. Moreover, the downfield shift of C-14 (δC 72.2) and the HMBC correlation between H3

Nucleophile-induced ring contraction in pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzothiazines: access to pyrrolo[2,1-b][1,3]benzothiazoles

• Ekaterina A. Lystsova,
• Maksim V. Dmitriev,
• Andrey N. Maslivets and
• Ekaterina E. Khramtsova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 646–657, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.46

• -containing heterocycles intensively studied in medicinal chemistry and pharmacology. In the present paper, a new synthetic approach to pyrrolobenzothiazoles is developed based on 1,4-thiazine ring contraction in 3-aroylpyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzothiazine-1,2,4-triones under the action of nucleophiles. The

• » conditions (Scheme 4, entry 15) [10][11]. This work reports a new approach to PBTA derivatives via nucleophile-induced ring contraction in pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzothiazines 1 (Scheme 5, entry 16), which can generally be attributed as a new entry to the fourth group of approaches to the PBTA scaffold (Scheme

• APBTT 1a with methanol (2a) were optimized. The best yield of PBTA 3aa was observed when methanol was used both as a solvent and a reagent and heated at 65 °C for 1 h (entry 7, Table 1). It is useful to note that, under these conditions, an increase in the heating time (up to 6 h) did not affect the

pH-Responsive fluorescent supramolecular nanoparticles based on tetraphenylethylene-labelled chitosan and a six-fold carboxylated tribenzotriquinacene

• Nan Yang,
• Yi-Yan Zhu,
• Wei-Xiu Lin,
• Yi-Long Lu and
• Wen-Rong Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 635–645, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.45

• to observe the morphology of CS-TPE aggregates. At pH 5.3, CS-TPE with Rf = 2, 10 and 20 mol % assembled into homogeneous spherical nanoparticles with average diameters of 131 nm, 166 nm and 236 nm, respectively (Figure 3a–c). This assembly behavior is supposed to be caused by the amphiphilic nature

• the mixture was heated at 70 °C with stirring for 6–10 h. The resulting mixture was then allowed to stand overnight, and the solvent was removed under reduced pressure to obtain the crude Schiff base as a pale-yellow solid. Without further purification, the Schiff base was dispersed in methanol (60 mL

• in the range of 200 to 800 nm at 25 °C. Fluorescence spectroscopy. The solid-state fluorescence intensities of three CS-TPE bioconjugates and their fluorescence intensities at different pH values, as well as those of the three TBTQ-C6/CS-TPE supramolecular vesicles at different pH values were

Enolates ambushed – asymmetric tandem conjugate addition and subsequent enolate trapping with conventional and less traditional electrophiles

• Péter Kisszékelyi and
• Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 593–634, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.44

• . These transformations combine several reactions into a sequence that uses functionalities generated in previous steps without isolating intermediates [1]. Stabilized carbon-based nucleophiles, or in other words, conjugate bases of weak C–H acids, are termed enolates, and they participate in a large

• . Entrapping of the Zn enolate directly with acetyl chloride was found inefficient and led to a mixture of C-, O-, and diacylated products as described by Murphy and co-workers [37]. Encouraged by the work of Noyori on the activation of Li enolates using Me2Zn [38], they have tried to facilitate the enolate

• , which is otherwise not easy to introduce into the C-2 position of carbonyl compounds. Finally, the benzodithiolyl group can be reduced into a methyl group (Scheme 29). Conjugate additions with trialkylaluminum reagents Conjugate additions of trialkylaluminum reagents are somewhat less populated as a

C3-Alkylation of furfural derivatives by continuous flow homogeneous catalysis

• Grédy Kiala Kinkutu,
• Catherine Louis,
• Myriam Roy,
• Juliette Blanchard and
• Julie Oble

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 582–592, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.43

• formation of the imine directing group and the C3-functionalization with some vinylsilanes and norbonene. Keywords: biomass; C–H activation; flow; furfural; homogeneous catalysis; Introduction The conversion of biomass derivatives into value-added products is one of the key branches of green chemistry and

• furfural derivatives have been developed. In particular, their direct functionalization by transition-metal-catalyzed C–H activation processes [16][17][18] has become a major area of interest where only a few methods have been reported so far. Most examples concern functionalization at C5, which is the

• synthesis has increased dramatically and has rapidly become a routine tool for classical synthesis [26][27][28][29]. In particular, many efforts have been devoted to the development of flow alternatives for transition-metal-catalyzed cross-couplings [30] and for some C–H functionalizations [31

Direct C2–H alkylation of indoles driven by the photochemical activity of halogen-bonded complexes

• Martina Mamone,
• Giuseppe Gentile,
• Jacopo Dosso,
• Maurizio Prato and
• Giacomo Filippini

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 575–581, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.42

• ). Mechanistic investigations are reported. These studies provide convincing evidences for the photochemical formation of reactive open-shell species. Keywords: alkylation; EDA complex; halogens; indoles; photochemistry; Findings Direct replacement of carbon–hydrogen (C–H) bonds with new carbon–carbon (C–C

• ) and carbon–heteroatom (C–X) bonds has been and still is a central topic in organic synthesis [1][2]. Historically, organic chemists have extensively relied on the use of noble-metal-based catalysts (e.g., Pd, Rh, Ir, among others) to achieve such type of functionalization [3][4][5]. However, reliance

• tool to guide the development of greener and more convenient synthetic protocols [7][8][9][10][11][12]. In this context, photochemical approaches based on electron donor–acceptor (EDA) complexes have been successfully exploited to drive the direct C–H functionalization of a large number of organic

A new oxidatively stable ligand for the chiral functionalization of amino acids in Ni(II)–Schiff base complexes

• Alena V. Dmitrieva,
• Oleg A. Levitskiy,
• Yuri K. Grishin and
• Tatiana V. Magdesieva

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 566–574, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.41

• )) and includes a chiral auxiliary, an amino acid, and a bifunctional linker capable to arrange the components in the Schiff base complex. Such templates provide a significant C–H acidity at the α-amino acid carbon and a possibility for recycling of the chiral auxiliaries (for reviews see [5][14][15][16

• -substituted o-aminobenzophenone, the synthetic procedure reported in [40] was applied. For acylation of the tert-butylacetanilide, PhCCl3 in the presence of AlCl3 was used. In the reported [40] reaction conditions, a complicated mixture of products was obtained. Lowering the temperature to −15 °C (in contrast

• heating of its MeOH/HCl solution at 60 °C under conditions similar to the ones previously reported for (RCysNi)L4 [42] (see Supporting Information File 1 for details). The corresponding amino acid was obtained, along with the L7 ligand which was recovered in ca. 70% yield and then reused. DFT study The

Phenanthridine–pyrene conjugates as fluorescent probes for DNA/RNA and an inactive mutant of dipeptidyl peptidase enzyme

• Josipa Matić,
• Tana Tandarić,
• Marijana Radić Stojković,
• Filip Šupljika,
• Zrinka Karačić,
• Ana Tomašić Paić,
• Lucija Horvat,
• Robert Vianello and
• Lidija-Marija Tumir

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 550–565, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.40

• were moderately soluble in DMSO (up to c = 1 × 10−3 mol dm−3) and their stock solutions were stable during a few months. All measurements were recorded in the Na cacodylate buffer (Ic = 0.05 mol dm−3) both at pH 5.0 and pH 7.0 for comparison, since the phenanthridine heterocyclic nitrogen becomes

• protonated in weakly acidic conditions (pH 5) [20][21]. The volume ratio of DMSO was less than 1% in all measurements. The absorbance of aqueous solutions for compounds Phen-Py-1 and Phen-Py-2 was proportional to their concentrations up to c = 1–2 × 10−5 mol dm−3. In contrast to the Lambert–Beer law, a

• decrease of UV–vis spectra upon heating up to 90 °C and a baseline increase indicated intermolecular stacking and aggregation of compounds, which was more pronounced for Phen-Py-2. Spectroscopic characterization data are given in the Table 1 and Supporting Information File 1, Figure S1. A linker between

Access to cyclopropanes with geminal trifluoromethyl and difluoromethylphosphonate groups

• Ita Hajdin,
• Romana Pajkert,
• Mira Keßler,
• Jianlin Han,
• Haibo Mei and
• Gerd-Volker Röschenthaler

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 541–549, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.39

• the case of TS2_1 and TS2_2 to the intermediates Int3_1 and Int3_2. Afterwards, the Cu–C bond is broken, and a Cu–O bond is formed. CuI is transferred to the oxygen atom from the phosphonate group, yielding Int4_1 and Int4_2. In the case of TS2_3 and TS2_4, the addition proceeds smoothly towards

• other three possible reaction pathways, this step was examined by relaxed potential energy scans along the indicated C–C bond (see Supporting Information File 1 for full experimental data). Conclusion In summary, a convenient method for the synthesis of a highly fluorinated diazo reagent, diethyl 2

• cyclopropanation. Reaction conditions: alkene (0.15 mmol), diazo compound 5 (0.1 mmol), CuI (1 mol %), dry toluene, 111 °C, Ar atmosphere. aYields refer to isolated products; bdr ratio determined by 19F NMR spectroscopy. Scope of the cyclopropanation. Reaction conditions: alkene (0.15 mmol), diazo compound 5 (0.1

Transition-metal-catalyzed domino reactions of strained bicyclic alkenes

• Austin Pounder,
• Eric Neufeld,
• Peter Myler and
• William Tam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 487–540, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.38

• rigid bicyclic framework. Secondly, through ring opening of the bicyclic framework; the C–X bond of a heterobicyclic alkene is much weaker than the corresponding C–C bond of a homobicyclic alkene, which allows the C–X bond to be readily cleaved over the course of a reaction. The stereochemically well

• norbornene derivatives 15 using imides 27 and tetraarylborates 28 (Scheme 5) [37]. The method utilizes C–N bond activation to trigger the reaction. The authors demonstrated a broad reaction scope. Electron-deficient amides were shown to perform worse than their electron-rich counterparts with the p

• into the C–O bond of the oxabicyclic alkene 30a to afford the σ-allyl intermediate 38 which can isomerize to the more stable π-allyl intermediate 39. Addition of the α-amino radical to the Ni(II) center generates the Ni(III) complex 41. Reductive elimination, followed by protodemetalation, leads to the

Computational studies of Brønsted acid-catalyzed transannular cycloadditions of cycloalkenone hydrazones

• Manuel Pedrón,
• Jana Sendra,
• Irene Ginés,
• Tomás Tejero,
• Jose L. Vicario and
• Pedro Merino

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 477–486, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.37

• catalysis in route to enantiomerically pure bicyclic 1,3-diamines (Scheme 1) [29]. The reaction led to excellent results when decalines and octahydro-1H-indene bicyclic scaffolds were formed (series a and b) but failed in other cases (series c, d, and k). Series e, f, g, h, and i have not been tested

• a negative charge. While both reacting C–N–N systems fulfil the requirements to give a cycloaddition with an alkene; which are (i) electron density default on the carbon atom and (ii) an electron density excess on the nitrogen atom; the overall positive charge of the hydrazone moiety forces a role

• reaction corresponding to series b, leading to a 6-6 system is illustrated in Figure 4. The first event corresponds to lowering the V(C1,N11) electron population with concomitant decreasing of V(C5,C6) corresponding to the C=N and C=C bonds, respectively. At the same time both V(N11) and V(C1,C6) appear

Transition-metal-catalyzed C–H bond activation as a sustainable strategy for the synthesis of fluorinated molecules: an overview

• Louis Monsigny,
• Floriane Doche and
• Tatiana Besset

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 448–473, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.35

• functionalization of C(sp2) and C(sp3) centers with SCF3, SeCF3, or OCH2CF3 groups among others, by C–H bond activation. The scope and limitations of these transformations are discussed in this review. Keywords: C–H bond activation; emergent fluorinated groups; homogeneous catalysis; organofluorine chemistry

• [6][7][8][9][10][11]. Among them [2][5][12][13][14][15][16][17][18], the direct functionalization of a simple C–H bond by transition-metal catalysis [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43] became an important tool offering new

• retrosynthetic disconnections. In this context, a strong interest from the scientific community was shown towards the challenging synthesis of fluorinated molecules by transition-metal-catalyzed C–H bond activation [44][45][46][47][48][49][50], allowing the functionalization of complex molecules and even for

Mechanochemical solid state synthesis of copper(I)/NHC complexes with K₃PO₄

• Ina Remy-Speckmann,
• Birte M. Zimmermann,
• Mahadeb Gorai,
• Martin Lerch and
• Johannes F. Teichert

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 440–447, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.34

• ), 10 mol % 5, 1.1 equiv NaOt-Bu, 1.3 equiv 15-crown-5, 100 bar H2, 1,4-dioxane (3 mL), 70 °C, 24 h. Attempted direct synthesis of bifunctional catalyst 5 from imidazolinium salt 3: liquid and solid state approaches. Synthesis of standard Cu(I)/NHC-complexes using K3PO4 as a weak base (standard

Dipeptide analogues of fluorinated aminophosphonic acid sodium salts as moderate competitive inhibitors of cathepsin C

• Karolina Wątroba,
• Małgorzata Pawełczak and
• Marcin Kaźmierczak

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 434–439, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.33

• first reported example of the application of fluorinated aminophosphonates in cathepsin C inhibition studies. The new molecules show moderate inhibition of the cathepsin C enzyme, which opens the door to consider them as potential therapeutic agents. Overall, our findings provide a new avenue for the

• development of fluorinated aminophosphonate-based inhibitors. Keywords: aminophosphonates; cathepsin C; dipeptide; fluorine; solvolysis; Introduction Cathepsin C, also known as dipeptidyl peptidase I (DPPI) belongs to the family of lysosomal cysteine proteases encompassing 11 human enzymes (cathepsins B, C

• , F, H, K, L, O, S, V, W, and X) [1]. Cathepsin C is considered a good target for designing new anticancer agents with broad substrate specificity [2]. Cathepsin C, which affects the processing of keratin, is of great importance in maintaining the structural organization of the epidermis, primarily