Efficient synthesis of β’-amino-α,β-unsaturated ketones

• Isabelle Abrunhosa-Thomas,
• Aurélie Plas,
• Nishanth Kandepedu,
• Pierre Chalard and
• Yves Troin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 486–495, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.52

• –Emmons reaction as a key step for generating the β'-amino-α,β-enones, permits access to a range of substrates under mild conditions and in moderate to high yield. Keywords: β’-amino-α,β-unsaturated ketones; Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction; stereoselective synthesis; Introduction Compounds

• did not allow the use of a wide range of functional groups and sometimes gave bad overall yields, we devised a general and simple method to easily access a variety of β’-amino-α,β-unsaturated ketones by a more convenient route using the Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction [19][20] as the key step, as

• , R2CO2Cl, CH2Cl2/H2O; (d) BuLi, (EtO)2P(O)Me, THF, −78 °C. Optimization of conditions for the Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction. Formation of the ketophosphonates 13. Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons optimal conditions for 15a. Formation of the β’-amino-α,β-unsaturated ketones 15 under Ba(OH)2 conditions

A new synthetic protocol for coumarin amino acid

• Xinyi Xu,
• Xiaosong Hu and
• Jiangyun Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 254–259, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.30

• used directly in the next step without purification. Compound 4 was first treated with sodium hydride or other bases and then reacted with formaldehyde to form terminal alkene 5 through a Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction [12] (two-step overall yields are 27%, 53% and 55% for 3a to 5a, 3b to 5b and 3c

• will further improve the fluorescent property of the coumarin amino acids, or add new chemical handles to the coumarin ring for some specific investigations. The Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction was applied to install the terminal alkene at the 4-position. Compared with the Wittig reaction, the Horner

• –Wadsworth–Emmons reaction has a significant advantage: The resulting phosphate byproduct can be readily separated, whereas the byproduct triphenylphosphine oxide generated in the Wittig reaction is difficult to remove [17]. The effect of the base used in the Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction on the reaction

Highly selective synthesis of (E)-alkenyl-(pentafluorosulfanyl)benzenes through Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction

• George Iakobson and
• Petr Beier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1185–1190, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.131

• substitution reaction of meta- and para-nitro-(pentafluorosulfanyl)benzenes and diethyl chloromethylphosphonate, undergo Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction with aldehydes in the presence of potassium hydroxide in acetonitrile at ambient temperature to give (E)-2-nitro-1-alkenyl-(pentafluorosulfanyl)benzenes in

• good yields and high stereoselectivities. Follow-up transformations of the primary products provided (E)-1-alkenyl-(pentafluorosulfanyl)benzenes and 2-(2-arylethyl)-(pentafluorosulfanyl)anilines. Keywords: Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction; pentafluorosulfanyl group; phosphonates; sulfurpentafluoride

Novel fatty acid methyl esters from the actinomycete Micromonospora aurantiaca

• Jeroen S. Dickschat,
• Hilke Bruns and
• Ramona Riclea

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1697–1712, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.200

• , accounting for a γ-cleavage in unbranched FAMEs, suggested the presence of a methyl group in a γ-position, which leads to a γ-fragmentation with m/z = 115. A synthesis of methyl 4-methyldodecanoate (90) was performed starting from 10 (Scheme 3). Reduction to the aldehyde 123d and subsequent Horner–Wadsworth

• –Emmons reaction gave the α,β-unsaturated ester 124d, which upon catalytic hydrogenation yielded 90. The synthetic compound was identical to the natural FAME as judged by mass spectrum and retention index (I = 1572). The retention index of this reference compound was used for to determine that Meγ = 51

Efficient syntheses of 25,26-dihydrodictyostatin and 25,26-dihydro-6-epi-dictyostatin, two potent new microtubule-stabilizing agents

• María Jiménez,
• Wei Zhu,
• Andreas Vogt,
• Billy W. Day and
• Dennis P. Curran

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1372–1378, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.161

• –Wadsworth–Emmons reaction sequence and an esterification. A late stage Nozaki–Hiyama–Kishi reaction was then used to form the 22-membered macrolide. The stereoselectivity of this reaction depended on the configurations of the nearby stereocenter at C6. Keywords: anticancer agents; dictyostatin

• human cancer cell lines. Two highly active analogs of dictyostatin, 25,26-dihydrodictyostatin and 25,26-dihydro-6-epi-dictyostatin, were prepared by a new streamlined total synthesis route. Three complete carbon fragments were prepared to achieve maximum convergency. These were coupled by a Horner

Convenient methods for preparing π-conjugated linkers as building blocks for modular chemistry

• Jiří Kulhánek,
• Filip Bureš and
• Miroslav Ludwig

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 11, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.11

• easily accessible as a pure (E)-product from the pinacol ester of 4-formylphenylboronic acid and diethyl benzylphosphonate through the Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction in 76% yield [36], methoxy and N,N-dimethylamino substituted (E)-4-bromostilbenes were synthesized from the corresponding benzaldehydes

• and 4-bromobenzyl(triphenyl)phosphonium bromide [37] by the Wittig reaction [37][38] in 37 and 54% yields, respectively. In contrast to the Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction, this procedure afforded both (E)- and (Z)-stilbenes that were isomerized by heating with traces of iodine in toluene to afford

• the Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction described above. These substituted 4-bromostilbenes could be most effectively converted to target pinacol esters 5a–c via borylation (Scheme 1, Method C) utilizing bis(pinacolato)diboron (pin2B2) [39] in a mixed solvent system DMSO/dioxane ensuring good solubility

Combining two-directional synthesis and tandem reactions, part 11: second generation syntheses of (±)-hippodamine and (±)-epi-hippodamine

• Annabella F. Newton,
• Martin Rejzek,
• Marie-Lyne Alcaraz and
• Robert A. Stockman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 4, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-4-4

• sensitive dialdehyde 5 . Whilst we were able to purify compound 5, this resulted in a significant loss of material through degradation of the dialdehyde on the purification media, be it silica gel or neutral alumina. Thus, we found that use of the crude dialdehyde in the subsequent Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons

• reaction was preferable, and gave a good 75% yield of the doubly homologated compound 6 after purification by column chromatography. Whilst this process did allow us to produce multigram quantities of 6, this sequence of reactions had the drawbacks that the olefination reaction needed to be carried out