Carbonylative synthesis and functionalization of indoles

• Alex De Salvo,
• Raffaella Mancuso and
• Xiao-Feng Wu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 973–1000, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.87

• ., in two different periods, reported two paradigmatic examples for indole syntheses. In 2010, they developed the synthesis of 1-(alkoxyarylmethyl)indole-3-carboxylic esters from 2-alkynylaniline imines by using PdI2/KI as catalyst system and oxygen as oxidant [15]. In particular, the reaction was

• carried out using 2 mol % of PdI2, 20 mol % of KI and 40 bar of a 4:1 mixture of CO–air, in methanol or ethanol in the presence of an ortho-ester (1:3 mixture) as solvent to prevent hydrolysis of the substrate. After 15 hours at 80 °C the indoles derivatives were isolated in good yields (Scheme 4). Two

• the formation of N-substituted indole derivatives from N-substituted anilines. The direct PdI2/KI oxidative carbonylation of 2-alkynylanilines does not lead to the formation of indole-3-carboxylic esters but to the formation of acyclic carbamates. For this reason, they performed the reaction in the

Chemical and biosynthetic potential of Penicillium shentong XL-F41

• Ran Zou,
• Xin Li,
• Xiaochen Chen,
• Yue-Wei Guo and
• Baofu Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 597–606, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.52

• ; FeSO4 1 µM; KI 2 g/L, KCl 2 g/L, KBr 2 g/L, NaNO2 2 g/L; H2O2 20 µM; (methyl jasmonate) MeJA 10 µM). XISR III medium (yeast extract 4 g/L; soy flour 10 g/L; glucose 30 g/L; MgCl2 1 µM; FeSO4 1 µM; KI 2 g/L, KCl 2 g/L, KBr 2 g/L, NaNO2 2 g/L; H2O2 20 µM; MeJA 10 µM; 5-azacytidine 6 µM; suberoylanilide

Switchable molecular tweezers: design and applications

• Pablo Msellem,
• Maksym Dekthiarenko,
• Nihal Hadj Seyd and
• Guillaume Vives

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 504–539, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.45

• efficient quenching using KI instead of NaI to the better size affinity of the podand with potassium. Even though this system seemed promising, podand-based molecular tweezers have not attracted much interest for switchable molecular tweezers design until the work of Fan and co-workers in 2014 [67]. They

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

• benzothiazole, in which benzothiazole compounds have higher reactivity and regioselectivity than thiazole. In 2014, Lei et al. successfully realized the copper-catalyzed oxidative alkenylation of simple ethers to construct allyl ethers in the presence of di-tert-butyl peroxide and KI (Scheme 10) [60]. The

Synthesis, α-mannosidase inhibition studies and molecular modeling of 1,4-imino-ᴅ-lyxitols and their C-5-altered N-arylalkyl derivatives

• Martin Kalník,
• Sergej Šesták,
• Juraj Kóňa,
• Maroš Bella and
• Monika Poláková

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 282–293, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.24

• : LManII from Drosophila melanogaster and JBMan from Canavalia ensiformis) were investigated. 6-Deoxy-DIM was found to be the most potent inhibitor of AMAN-2 (Ki = 0.19 μM), whose amino acid sequence and 3D structure of the active site are almost identical to the human α-mannosidase II (GMII). Although 6

• inhibition constants (Ki) up to 4 µM and selectivity indices (SI) up to 350. However, these enhancements were found to be significant only for those N-substituted analogs that bore N-alkyl chains without an additional aryl moiety [30][31][32] (Figure 1). Next, we turned our attention to modifications of 1,4

• than analogues 17–19 toward the GH38 enzymes tested. Thus, it appears that N-substitution of the free iminosugar 20 considerably reduces the inhibitory activity. Among imino-ᴅ-lyxitols 26–29, 6-deoxy-DIM 29 was found to be the most potent derivative (Ki = 0.065 μM and 0.19 μM for GMIIb and AMAN-2

NaI/PPh₃-catalyzed visible-light-mediated decarboxylative radical cascade cyclization of N-arylacrylamides for the efficient synthesis of quaternary oxindoles

• Dan Liu,
• Yue Zhao and
• Frederic W. Patureau

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 57–65, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.5

• derivative 3aa with 72% isolated yield (Table 1, entry 1). Other iodide sources, such as LiI, KI, RbI, CsI, CaI2, and a quaternary ammonium iodide, while also effective, provided slightly lower yields (Table 1, entries 2–7). It should be noted that all tested iodide sources were found soluble under those

Computational model predicts protein binding sites of a luminescent ligand equipped with guanidiniocarbonyl-pyrrole groups

• Neda Rafieiolhosseini,
• Matthias Killa,
• Thorben Neumann,
• Niklas Tötsch,
• Jean-Noël Grad,
• Alexander Höing,
• Thies Dirksmeyer,
• Jochen Niemeyer,
• Christian Ottmann,
• Shirley K. Knauer,
• Michael Giese,
• Jens Voskuhl and
• Daniel Hoffmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1322–1331, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.137

• the total energy. where ki is the spring constant, li is the distance between bonded beads i and i+1, and lieq is the corresponding distance at equilibrium, Eg represents the affinity of protein toward GCP or lysine at a specific grid point. In this study, l1 and l4, i.e. the equilibrium lengths for

Derivatives of benzo-1,4-thiazine-3-carboxylic acid and the corresponding amino acid conjugates

• Péter Kisszékelyi,
• Tibor Peňaška,
• Klára Stankovianska,
• Mária Mečiarová and
• Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1195–1202, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.124

• a reversible acidochromic behavior [30]. Zhao et al. demonstrated a three-component transition-metal-free aerobic method using a KI/DMSO/O2 system for the facile generation of iminobenzo-1,4-thiazines in moderate to good yield [31]. 3,4-Dihydro-2H-benzo-1,4-thiazine derivatives 6 were also

Shift of the reaction equilibrium at high pressure in the continuous synthesis of neuraminic acid

• Jannis A. Reich,
• Miriam Aßmann,
• Kristin Hölting,
• Paul Bubenheim,
• Jürgen Kuballa and
• Andreas Liese

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 567–579, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.59

• particular, the circular reactor showed great potential to study reactions at high pressure while allowing for easy sampling. Additionally, an increase in affinity of pyruvate towards both tested enzymes was observed when high pressure was applied, as evidenced by a decrease of KI for the epimerase and KM

• pressure on the inhibition by pyruvate was measured and is shown in Figure 9. The value for the inhibition constant is in the same order of magnitude as results of other groups, measured at ambient pressure (0.146 ± 0.019 mol/L [5]). Since the KI value changes with pressure (Table 4), the concentrations

Anomeric 1,2,3-triazole-linked sialic acid derivatives show selective inhibition towards a bacterial neuraminidase over a trypanosome trans-sialidase

• Peterson de Andrade,
• Sanaz Ahmadipour and
• Robert A. Field

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 208–216, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.24

• 3a–h were tested at 1.0 mM in the presence of the donor substrate MUNANA (0.1 mM) along with pyridoxal phosphate (PLP, Ki = 7.3 mM) [35] and 2,3-dehydro-2-deoxy-N-acetylneuraminic acid (DANA) [36] as positive controls for TcTS and neuraminidase, respectively. Surprisingly, the results showed

Chemoselective N-acylation of indoles using thioesters as acyl source

• Tianri Du,
• Xiangmu Wei,
• Honghong Xu,
• Xin Zhang,
• Ruiru Fang,
• Zheng Yuan,
• Zhi Liang and
• Yahui Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 89–94, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.9

• structural, chemical, and biological properties [1]. For example, indomethacin is a nonselective inhibitor of COX1 and COX2, which is used for treating fever, pain and swelling [2]. Indole analog L-768242 exhibits nanomolar potencies (Ki) with superior selectivity for the hCB2 receptor over the human central

Catalyzed and uncatalyzed procedures for the syntheses of isomeric covalent multi-indolyl hetero non-metallides: an account

• Ranadeep Talukdar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2102–2122, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.137

• oxidative conditions, catalyzed by CuTC to give the desired product 101 (Scheme 15a). On the other hand, Yang synthesized bis(indol-3-yl)sulfides 105 through the reaction of indole with elemental sulfur, catalyzed by iron(II) sulfate in the presence of stoichiometric amounts of KI in air [83]. The I− from

• KI formed ferrous iodide, which reacts with indole to form the iron bis-indolide 107, followed by reaction with N,N-dimethylmethanethioamide to get the S atom inserted (108). A reductive elimination then generated the bis(indol-3-yl)sulfides 105 along with Fe0, which was re-oxidized by aerial oxygen

• presence of stoichiometric KI and catalytic amounts of FeII for the synthesis of similar bis(indol-3-yl)selanes (Scheme 18c) [83]. In 2018 Thurow reported a method using stoichiometric SeO2 along with sub-stoichiometric PhSSPh (138) to obtain a mixture of the desired diindol-3-ylselane (137a) along with

Chemical approaches to discover the full potential of peptide nucleic acids in biomedical applications

• Nikita Brodyagin,
• Martins Katkevics,
• Venubabu Kotikam,
• Christopher A. Ryan and
• Eriks Rozners

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1641–1688, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.116

Chemical synthesis of C6-tetrazole ᴅ-mannose building blocks and access to a bioisostere of mannuronic acid 1-phosphate

• Eleni Dimitriou and
• Gavin J. Miller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1527–1532, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.110

• nitrogen protection (Scheme 3). A first attempt here involved the reaction of 5 with PMBCl in DMF, using K2CO3 alongside KI. Two separable regioisomers 11 and 12 were isolated in an acceptable 53% overall yield and in a ratio of N1-PMB/N2-PMB = 1.1:1 (Scheme 3). HMBC NMR of 11 and 12 clarified the position

• , DMAP, DMF, rt, 24 h, 87%; h) TMSN3, Bu2SnO, toluene, 120 °C, 51%. a) PMBCl, KI, K2CO3, DMF, rt, 53% for 11 and 12; b) BnBr, DMF, Et3N, DCM, rt, 31% for 13 and 14. a) DMSO, SO3·pyridine, Et3N, rt, 1 h, 96%; b) H2NOH·HCl, THF, H2O, Na2CO3, 89%; c) POCl3, MeCN, 65 °C, 59%; d) TMSN3, Bu2SnO, toluene, 120

• °C, 55%; e) PMBCl, KI, K2CO3, DMF, 76% for 18 and 19; f) 3-(benzyloxycarbonylamino)-propan-1-ol, NIS, AgOTf, CH2Cl2, −40 to −10 °C, 3 h, 34%; g) H2(g), Pd/C, Pd(OH)2/C, HCl, EtOH, THF, rt, 56 h, 96%; h) dibenzyl phosphate, NIS, AgOTf, CH2Cl2, −30 to 0 °C, 3.5 h, 72%; i) H2(g), Pd/C, Pd(OH)2/C, 5

Iodine-catalyzed electrophilic substitution of indoles: Synthesis of (un)symmetrical diindolylmethanes with a quaternary carbon center

• Thanigaimalai Pillaiyar,
• Masoud Sedaghati,
• Andhika B. Mahardhika,
• Lukas L. Wendt and
• Christa E. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1464–1475, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.102

• previously reported to bind to the cannabinoid receptors, CB1 (Ki 4.3 µM) and CB2 (Ki 1.1 µM) [41]. Both receptors are considered important therapeutic targets, e.g. for neurodegenerative and inflammatory diseases. Selected final products (3a, 3b, 3e, 3g, 3h, 3n, 3ad) were tested for their binding affinities

• bearing 5-OMe,6'-F (3e), 5-OMe,7'-Br (3g), and 5-OMe,5',6'-diF substitution (3h) exhibited similar binding affinities to lead compound I. 5,6-DiF-DIM derivative 3n (CB1: Ki 2.04 µM) showed a slightly improved binding affinity compared to lead compound I. These results suggest that compounds with small

• substituents like fluoro on only one indole ring are favorable for CB receptor binding. The pentafluoroethylated DIM derivative 3ad was the best CB1 ligand of the present series with a Ki value of 1.82 µM. The binding curves of 3e and 3ad are depicted in Supporting Information File 1, Figure S1. Compound 3e

Total synthesis of decarboxyaltenusin

• Lucas Warmuth,
• Aaron Weiß,
• Marco Reinhardt,
• Anna Meschkov,
• Ute Schepers and
• Joachim Podlech

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 224–228, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.22

• . Biphenyl-derived mycotoxins. Synthesis of arylboronates 6. Conditions: a) TBSCl, DMAP, imidazole, DMF, 50 °C, 4 h (96%); b) NBS, MeCN, rt, 71 h (quant.); c) NBS, MeCN, rt, 72 h (R = TBS, 96%); d) BnBr, KI, K2CO3, DMF/acetone, 70 °C, 29 h, (R = Bn, 86%); e) R = TBS: BuLi, 2-isopropoxy-4,4,5,5-tetramethyl

Three-component reactions of aromatic amines, 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds, and α-bromoacetaldehyde acetal to access N-(hetero)aryl-4,5-unsubstituted pyrroles

• Wenbo Huang,
• Kaimei Wang,
• Ping Liu,
• Minghao Li,
• Shaoyong Ke and
• Yanlong Gu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2920–2928, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.241

• pyrrole-3-carboxamides. In the presence of 1.2 equiv of KI, a polysubstituted pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridine derivative was also successfully synthesized. Keywords: acid catalyst; [1 + 2 + 2] annulation; KI; pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridine; pyrroles; Introduction Among nitrogen-containing heterocycles, pyrroles have

• synthesis, we also observed an unexpected reaction in which the pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridine scaffold was constructed under analogous conditions. As shown in Scheme 6, In the presence of a catalytic amount of AlCl3 and 1.2 equiv of KI, 3-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-5-amine (1b) reacted smoothly with 2a and 3a

• aromatization to produce 5a. KI may play a key role in the last step, and we suspected that it can promote the removal of bromide. Although 5a can theoretically be synthesized through a three-component reaction of 1b, 2a, and an appropriate aldehyde, for example, acetaldehyde [50][51] owing to the insufficient

Optical detection of di- and triphosphate anions with mixed monolayer-protected gold nanoparticles containing zinc(II)–dipicolylamine complexes

• Lena Reinke,
• Julia Bartl,
• Marcus Koch and
• Stefan Kubik

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2687–2700, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.219

• . Conditions: i) potassium phthalimide, DMF, 25 °C, 18 h, 67%; ii) 2,2'-dipicolylamine, K2CO3, KI, acetone, reflux 14 h, 50%; iii) N2H4⋅H2O, ethanol, 25 °C, 16 h, 56%; iv) (R)-lipoic acid, EDC⋅HCl, DMAP, CH2Cl2, 25 °C, 18 h, 52%. Minimum salt concentrations required to precipitate and to subsequently

Synthetic approaches to bowl-shaped π-conjugated sumanene and its congeners

• Shakeel Alvi and
• Rashid Ali

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2212–2259, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.186

• yield. Next, compound 202 was treated with KI/NaNO2 under Sandmeyer reaction conditions to afford the triiodo compound 203 which on subsequent reaction with mCPBA and triflic acid (TfOH) provided the iodine-doped sumanene 204 in 68% yield. Finally, compound 204 was converted to the required

• sumanene building block 204. Furthermore, the precursor 204 was converted to the 1,4,5,8,9,12-hexaiodotriphenylene 208 via ring-opening with KI in the presence of a copper/diamine catalyst (Scheme 50). Gratefully, compound 208 was also used as building block for the construction of heterasumaneness 151

Synthesis, docking study and biological evaluation of ᴅ-fructofuranosyl and ᴅ-tagatofuranosyl sulfones as potential inhibitors of the mycobacterial galactan synthesis targeting the galactofuranosyltransferase GlfT2

• Marek Baráth,
• Jana Jakubčinová,
• Zuzana Konyariková,
• Stanislav Kozmon,
• Katarína Mikušová and
• Maroš Bella

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1853–1862, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.152

• are listed in Table 1. Firstly, the UDP-Galf native donor substrate was docked into the GlfT2 crystal structure to observe the reference docking score and to predict the Ki value for the native donor substrate. The predicted Ki value of the UDP-Galf is 0.333 µM, however, the experimentally observed Km

• Km or Ki values of the structures similar to the studied compounds were not available and therefore we were not able to create a more precise linear regression model for the binding affinity prediction. For this reason, we could use only a coarse correction for the calculated Ki values and the

• experimental Ki values can be expected in the mM and sub-mM range rather than in the µM and sub-µM range. However, the obtained predicted Ki values were reliable for the comparison of the fructofuranose and tagatofuranose compounds binding affinities with the UDP-Galf binding affinity. Moreover, the Ki values

Et₃N/DMSO-supported one-pot synthesis of highly fluorescent β-carboline-linked benzothiophenones via sulfur insertion and estimation of the photophysical properties

• Dharmender Singh,
• Vipin Kumar and
• Virender Singh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1740–1753, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.146

• activator but encouraging results were not obtained (Table 1, entries 11–15). Similarly, the use of KI as an activator also failed to promote the reaction (Table 1, entry 16) [62]. Eventually, we came to the conclusion that a combination of Et3N and DMSO excellently activated elemental sulfur at 70 °C and

Clickable azide-functionalized bromoarylaldehydes – synthesis and photophysical characterization

• Dominik Göbel,
• Marius Friedrich,
• Enno Lork and
• Boris J. Nachtsheim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1683–1692, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.139

• ) MeOTf, CH2Cl2, 25 °C, 2.5 h; 2) NaBH4, THF/MeOH 4:1 v/v, 0 °C, 2.5 h; 3) oxalic acid, THF/H2O 4:1 v/v, 25 °C, 20 h, 85%. Overall yield from 4-methylbenzaldehyde to 4: 41% (5 steps). Reaction conditions: a) Br2, Fe powder, CHCl3, 0 °C, 4 h, 99%; b) KOH, KI, MeI, DMSO, 25 °C, 18 h, 92%; c) 1) n-BuLi, THF

Palladium-catalyzed regio- and stereoselective synthesis of aryl and 3-indolyl-substituted 4-methylene-3,4-dihydroisoquinolin-1(2H)-ones

• Valeria Nori,
• Antonio Arcadi,
• Armando Carlone,
• Fabio Marinelli and
• Marco Chiarini

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1084–1091, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.95

• ppm) or tetramethylsilane (δ = 0 ppm). Mass spectrometry was performed using a MALDI–TOF spectrometer AB SCIEX TOF/TOF 5800 system using 3-hydroxycoumarin or α-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid as a matrix in combination with KI for the ionization. Unless otherwise stated, all starting materials, catalysts

A systematic review on silica-, carbon-, and magnetic materials-supported copper species as efficient heterogeneous nanocatalysts in “click” reactions

• Pezhman Shiri and
• Jasem Aboonajmi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 551–586, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.52

• . NaN3 and KI were added to the reaction mixture, and this was heated at 60 °C for two days to afford the azido-functionalized GO GO@N3 (82). In the next time, tripropargylamine (83), CuSO4, and sodium ascorbate were added to dispersed 82. The azide/alkyne “click” reaction proceeded well at rt over two

Controlling alkyne reactivity by means of a copper-catalyzed radical reaction system for the synthesis of functionalized quaternary carbons

• Goki Hirata,
• Yu Yamane,
• Naoya Tsubaki,
• Reina Hara and
• Takashi Nishikata

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 502–508, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.45

• conditions. Toluene was very effective in our previous reaction system [17] but was not effective at all in this case (Table 1, entry 2). The reaction without NaI resulted in the formation of 3a-Br in 30% yield, instead of 3a (Table 1, entry 3). If KI was used instead of NaI, the yield of 3a decreased (Table