Evaluation of the enantioselectivity of new chiral ligands based on imidazolidin-4-one derivatives

• Jan Bartáček,
• Karel Chlumský,
• Jan Mrkvička,
• Lucie Paloušová,
• Miloš Sedlák and
• Pavel Drabina

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 684–691, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.62

• the C=O bond. In this manner, the asymmetric induction results in the restricted addition of nitromethane influenced by imidazolidin-4-one moieties. The higher enantioselectivity of complexes of the ligands with cis-cis configuration could be explained by the fact that the larger (RL) alkyl group is

Green and sustainable approaches for the Friedel–Crafts reaction between aldehydes and indoles

• Periklis X. Kolagkis,
• Eirini M. Galathri and
• Christoforos G. Kokotos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 379–426, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.36

• the C=O bond. Thus, an innovative approach on nanocatalysis was introduced, incorporating solid grinding in catalyst-free conditions with the challenge of a high catalyst loading and lack of aliphatic aldehydes or ketones being utilized as substrates for the formation of their respective BIMs [118

Nucleophilic functionalization of thianthrenium salts under basic conditions

• Xinting Fan,
• Duo Zhang,
• Xiangchuan Xiu,
• Bin Xu,
• Yu Yuan,
• Feng Chen and
• Pan Gao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 257–263, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.26

• accessible and have significant importance in the pharmaceutical industry, positioning them as appealing candidates for C(sp3) coupling due to their availability as a common chemical feedstock. However, due to the high bond dissociation energy of the C–O bond and the poor leaving ability of the hydroxy group

One-pot nucleophilic substitution–double click reactions of biazides leading to functionalized bis(1,2,3-triazole) derivatives

• Hans-Ulrich Reissig and
• Fei Yu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1399–1407, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.101

• possible, that the N-benzyl group attached to the 1,2,3-triazole moiety is partially removed under these conditions and/or that even the C–O bond connecting the 1,2,3-triazole part with the aminopyran part is reductively cleaved since this bond also has benzylic character. In earlier investigations with

Non-noble metal-catalyzed cross-dehydrogenation coupling (CDC) involving ether α-C(sp³)–H to construct C–C bonds

• Hui Yu and
• Feng Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1259–1288, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.94

• of ethers to obtain symmetric and asymmetric 1,1-bis-indolylmethane derivatives (Scheme 23) [84]. The reaction proceeds through the tandem oxidative coupling of the C–O bond and cleavage of the C–H bond. Fe plays a dual role in catalysing the C–C bond coupling and C–O bond cleavage as Lewis acid

Photoredox catalysis harvesting multiple photon or electrochemical energies

• Mattia Lepori,
• Simon Schmid and
• Joshua P. Barham

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1055–1145, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.81

CO₂ complexation with cyclodextrins

• Cecilie Høgfeldt Jessen,
• Jesper Bendix,
• Theis Brock Nannestad,
• Heloisa Bordallo,
• Martin Jæger Pedersen,
• Christian Marcus Pedersen and
• Mikael Bols

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1021–1027, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.78

• split over two positions yielding in total 5.75 mol of water per CO2. The hydration is similar to that of native α-CD [13] and that of the krypton inclusion complex which has 5.28 water/Kr [14]. The CO2 molecule refines with an optimal occupancy of 0.84 and linear geometry (178.2(6)o) with C–O bond

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

• and NaCl. Only one example was reported for this class of the synthesis via C–C bond formation (Scheme 10) [30]. 1.2 Synthesis via C–O bond formation Halocyclization has been widely applied in the syntheses of phostone and phostine derivatives via C–O bond formation [13][17]. Both bromo and iodo

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

• the 3d5/2 orbital was 280.94 eV, which corresponds to Ru(0). Double bonds π C=C were also detected in the sample at 285.49 eV, reflecting the presence of the PPh3 groups, but no C=O double bonds could be observed (while the presence of a C=O bond was clearly observed on the XPS spectrum of comp4 (see

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

• 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

• (Scheme 19) [62]. Similar reactivity trends were observed in both accounts. Mechanistically, the transformation was proposed to begin with the coordination of Cp*RuI to the exo face of the bicyclic alkene. Oxidative addition into the C–O bond, which is proposed to be the enantiodetermining transition

• final product, and previously reported Rh-catalyzed ARO reactions, the authors hypothesized the reaction begins with the oxidative addition of the Rh(I) catalyst into the bridgehead C–O bond of the oxabenzonorbornadiene producing 148 which is considered the enantiodetermining step. The isocyanate anion

Discrimination of β-cyclodextrin/hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.) oil/flavonoid glycoside and flavonolignan ternary complexes by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy coupled with principal component analysis

• Nicoleta G. Hădărugă,
• Gabriela Popescu,
• Dina Gligor (Pane),
• Cristina L. Mitroi,
• Sorin M. Stanciu and
• Daniel Ioan Hădărugă

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 380–398, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.30

• OH groups from water molecules), CH bonds (especially from the CH2 and CH3 groups), bands corresponding to the aromatic CC bonds, and the carbonyl C=O bond. The most relevant FTIR band for these compounds is the asymmetric stretching vibration of the C=O bonds, νasC=O, which appears around 1633–1651

An efficient metal-free and catalyst-free C–S/C–O bond-formation strategy: synthesis of pyrazole-conjugated thioamides and amides

• Shubham Sharma,
• Dharmender Singh,
• Sunit Kumar,
• Vaishali,
• Rahul Jamra,
• Naveen Banyal,
• Deepika,
• Chandi C. Malakar and
• Virender Singh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 231–244, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.22

Combining the best of both worlds: radical-based divergent total synthesis

• Kyriaki Gennaiou,
• Antonios Kelesidis,
• Maria Kourgiantaki and
• Alexandros L. Zografos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1–26, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.1

• a semipinacol rearrangement leading to 95, followed by subsequent cyclization to natural products guignardone A (96) and C (97). This process involved 1,2-allyl migration and C–O bond formation through a semipinacol rearrangement and a cyclodehydration cascade reaction (Scheme 8). Following the same

Synthesis of (−)-halichonic acid and (−)-halichonic acid B

• Keith P. Reber and
• Emma L. Niner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1629–1635, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.174

• , respectively. At this stage, we started to investigate alternative methods to cleave the amide via reduction. Achieving selective C–N-bond cleavage of amides under reductive conditions is still a largely unsolved problem since a C–O-bond cleavage is typically the preferred mode of reactivity, especially when

A new route for the synthesis of 1-deazaguanine and 1-deazahypoxanthine

• Raphael Bereiter,
• Marco Oberlechner and
• Ronald Micura

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1617–1624, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.172

• reports found in the literature suffer from the requirement of hazardous intermediates and harsh reaction conditions. Here, we report a new six-step synthesis for c1G base, starting from 6-iodo-1-deazapurine. The key transformations are copper catalyzed C–O-bond formation followed by site-specific

• 3,4-dihydropyran in dimethylformamide to obtain the corresponding tetrahydropyranyl-protected amine 17. Subsequently, a copper-catalyzed C–O bond formation at C6 using benzyl alcohol in the presence of caesium carbonate, copper(I) iodide, and 1,10-phenanthroline furnished benzyl ether 18 in excellent

• ) starts from the tetrahydropyranyl-protected 6-iodo-1-deazapurine 17 which was converted into the O6-benzyl derivative 31 using the copper-catalyzed C–O-bond formation as described above (Scheme 6). Without purification the crude product was treated with hydrochloric acid in methanol to remove the

A Streptomyces P450 enzyme dimerizes isoflavones from plants

• Run-Zhou Liu,
• Shanchong Chen and
• Lihan Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1107–1115, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.113

• ’’-coupled dimer (Table S5, Supporting Information File 1). For the dimer 3, three hydroxy and fifteen sp2 protons indicated a C–O bond linkage. An analysis of 1H,1H-COSY and HMBC spectra suggested it to be a 3’–O–7’’-coupled dimer (Table S6, Supporting Information File 1). The absolute configuration of 1

On Reuben G. Jones synthesis of 2-hydroxypyrazines

• Pierre Legrand and
• Yves L. Janin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 935–943, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.93

• isomer 4{1,2} made it impossible to obtain a complete 13C NMR spectrum. On the other hand, following a sample recrystallization from acetic acid, an X-ray derived structure was obtained as seen with the ORTEP depiction in Figure 1. In this structure, the C–O bond length of 1.2425 Å is typical of a double

Synthesis of bis-spirocyclic derivatives of 3-azabicyclo[3.1.0]hexane via cyclopropene cycloadditions to the stable azomethine ylide derived from Ruhemann's purple

• Alexander S. Filatov,
• Olesya V. Khoroshilova,
• Anna G. Larina,
• Vitali M. Boitsov and
• Alexander V. Stepakov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 769–780, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.77

• -protonated 1 and C-protonated 1'' tautomers do not contain an enol functional group. It is therefore likely that the lowest stability of the O-protonated form 1' compared to tautomers 1 and 1'' is due to the favorability of the C=O bond over the C=C bond. Next, using the equations recommended by Parr [47

Unusual highly diastereoselective Rh(II)-catalyzed dimerization of 3-diazo-2-arylidenesuccinimides provides access to a new dibenzazulene scaffold

• Anastasia Vepreva,
• Alexander S. Bunev,
• Andrey Yu. Kudinov,
• Grigory Kantin,
• Mikhail Krasavin and
• Dmitry Dar’in

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 533–538, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.55

• method for the preparation of this class of compounds [2] and showed that DAS can undergo Rh(II)-catalyzed insertion reactions into the heteroatom–H bonds [3]. In 2020, it was shown that under Rh(II) catalysis, DAS can enter insertion reactions into the C–O bond of ethers [4], a rare transformation for

A photochemical C=C cleavage process: toward access to backbone N-formyl peptides

• Haopei Wang and
• Zachary T. Ball

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2932–2938, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.202

• tested alkenyl ether 6 as a model of C–O-bond cleavage. Photoirradiation of the ether 6 similarly provided a mixture of C9-containing products 3, 4, and 5. Under these reaction conditions, the C–X cleavage products (MeOH or 2) were observed, but no formyl products were formed. The C9 byproducts – the

α-Ketol and α-iminol rearrangements in synthetic organic and biosynthetic reactions

• Scott Benz and
• Andrew S. Murkin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2570–2584, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.172

• intermediate 117. C–O bond cleavage produces an α-iminol intermediate 118, which proceeds to rearrange by ring expansion to ultimately yield 119 (Figure 21a). Using the benzoate ester of 118 (R = Ph; X = CH2) as the substrate and N-methylindole as the heteroarene, optimal reaction conditions (95% yield) were

Visible-light-mediated copper photocatalysis for organic syntheses

• Yajing Zhang,
• Qian Wang,
• Zongsheng Yan,
• Donglai Ma and
• Yuguang Zheng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2520–2542, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.169

• copper-catalyzed C–O cross-coupling reaction. Results of mechanistic studies indicated that in this case a CuI–phenoxide complex is a competent intermediate in the photoinduced C–O bond formation. In 2020, Nguyen and co-worker [90] reported copper-catalyzed C–O cross-coupling of glycosyl bromides with

In-depth characterization of self-healing polymers based on π–π interactions

• Josefine Meurer,
• Julian Hniopek,
• Johannes Ahner,
• Michael Schmitt,
• Jürgen Popp,
• Stefan Zechel,
• Kalina Peneva and
• Martin D. Hager

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2496–2504, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.166

• , indicating a strengthening of the carbon-oxygen bond. This is caused by a weakening of inter-perylene C–H–O interactions that also contribute to the stacking behavior [28][29], which in turn increases the electron density in the C=O bond. In addition to these shifts in band positions, all bands show

Recent advances in the tandem annulation of 1,3-enynes to functionalized pyridine and pyrrole derivatives

• Yi Liu,
• Puying Luo,
• Yang Fu,
• Tianxin Hao,
• Xuan Liu,
• Qiuping Ding and
• Yiyuan Peng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2462–2476, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.163

• ) was also tolerated efficiently under the standard conditions to afford the desired product 46k in 64% yield. In addition, tert-butyldimethylsilyl (TBS)-substituted enynyl azide provided the target product 46l in 34% yield. The transformation involves a sequence of C−N/C−O bond formation, and the

A novel methodology for the efficient synthesis of 3-monohalooxindoles by acidolysis of 3-phosphate-substituted oxindoles with haloid acids

• Li Liu,
• Yue Li,
• Tiao Huang,
• Dulin Kong and
• Mingshu Wu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2321–2328, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.150

• , which further implied that the halogenation reaction with haloid acids had occurred. On the basis of this study and the early related reports [30][35], an SN1 mechanism for this transformation is proposed as illustrated in Scheme 5. Initially, the C–O bond of the C-3 position of a diethyl (2-oxoindolin