Synthesis of organic liquid crystals containing selectively fluorinated cyclopropanes

• Zeguo Fang,
• Nawaf Al-Maharik,
• Peer Kirsch,
• Matthias Bremer,
• Alexandra M. Z. Slawin and
• David O’Hagan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 674–680, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.65

• . The synthesis of trifluorocyclopropane 9 is shown in Scheme 2. Compound 9 was prepared through bromofluorination of 12, followed by base-induced HBr elimination [15], and then difluorocarbene addition to generate 9. The starting olefin 12 was exposed to an excess of N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) and HF·Py

Synthesis and characterization of bis(4-amino-2-bromo-6-methoxy)azobenzene derivatives

• David Martínez-López,
• Amirhossein Babalhavaeji,
• Diego Sampedro and
• G. Andrew Woolley

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 3000–3008, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.296

• -morpholinophenyl)diazene (4): (E)-1,2-Bis(2-methoxy-4-morpholinophenyl)diazene (9, 30 mg, 0.07 mmol) was dissolved in DCM. To this solution, palladium acetate (1.6 mg, 0.007 mmol) was added, and the resulting mixture was stirred for 15 minutes. Then, N-bromosuccinimide (28.6 mg, 0.16 mmol) was added to the

• was stirred for 15 minutes. Then, N-bromosuccinimide (22 mg, 0.1 mmol) was added to the reaction. The reaction mixture was stirred for additional 30 minutes until completion. The solvent was evaporated under reduced pressure and the resulting oil was purified by column chromatography using hexane

Construction of trisubstituted chromone skeletons carrying electron-withdrawing groups via PhIO-mediated dehydrogenation and its application to the synthesis of frutinone A

• Qiao Li,
• Chen Zhuang,
• Donghua Wang,
• Wei Zhang,
• Rongxuan Jia,
• Fengxia Sun,
• Yilin Zhang and
• Yunfei Du

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2958–2965, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.291

• also be realized by DDQ-mediated dehydrogenation of chromanones under heating in dioxane (Scheme 1b) [3][59][60]. In 2005, Yang and co-workers reported that chromones could be formed by microwave irradiation of the corresponding chromanone reactants and N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) in the presence of a

An improved, scalable synthesis of Notum inhibitor LP-922056 using 1-chloro-1,2-benziodoxol-3-one as a superior electrophilic chlorinating agent

• Nicky J. Willis,
• Elliott D. Bayle,
• George Papageorgiou,
• David Steadman,
• Benjamin N. Atkinson,
• William Mahy and
• Paul V. Fish

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2790–2797, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.271

• functionalised for the introduction of the C7-cyclopropyl group, the C6-chlorine atom and elaboration of the thioacetic acid moiety at C4. Electrophilic bromination at C7 with N-bromosuccinimide gave 5 as the major regioisomer reproducibly on 100 mmol scale in modest yield (41–48%). This proved to be the least

• . Yields are the ranges obtained from repeated reactions. DMF, N,N-dimethylformamide; NBS, N-bromosuccinimide; THF, tetrahydrofuran. Chlorination of 6 with N-chlorosuccinimide (NCS). Reagents and conditions: (a) NCS (1.2 equiv), AcOH, 55 °C, 7 h, 15–32%. Improved synthesis of 5. Reagents and conditions: (a

Mono- and bithiophene-substituted diarylethene photoswitches with emissive open or closed forms

• A. Lennart Schleper,
• Mariano L. Bossi,
• Vladimir N. Belov and
• Stefan W. Hell

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2344–2354, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.227

• esters 9 and 12 (bpy – 4,4’-di-tert-butyl-2,2’-dipyridine; COD – cycloocta-1,5-diene; NBS – N-bromosuccinimide, DCM – dichloromethane). Photoswitchable diarylethenes AsTh1, SyTh1, AsTh2, SyTh2, AsOTh1, SyOTh1, AsOTh2, and SyOTh2 synthesized via a Suzuki–Miyaura coupling. Conditions: 60 °C, argon

Synthesis, enantioseparation and photophysical properties of planar-chiral pillar[5]arene derivatives bearing fluorophore fragments

• Guojuan Li,
• Chunying Fan,
• Guo Cheng,
• Wanhua Wu and
• Cheng Yang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1601–1611, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.164

• %; ii) N-bromosuccinimide, chloroform, 60 °C, yield: 87%; iii) (4-hydroxyphenyl)boronic acid, Pd(PPh3)4, K2CO3, CsF, toluene/THF/H2O, reflux, 8 h, yield: 70%; iv) K2CO3, 1,5-dibromopentane, acetone, 80 °C, yield: 67%; v) NaN3, DMF, yield: 84%; vi) paraformaldehyde, BF3·OEt2, 1,2-dichloroethane, yield

Oxidative radical ring-opening/cyclization of cyclopropane derivatives

• Yu Liu,
• Qiao-Lin Wang,
• Zan Chen,
• Cong-Shan Zhou,
• Bi-Quan Xiong,
• Pan-Liang Zhang,
• Chang-An Yang and
• Quan Zhou

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 256–278, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.23

• different amount of NBS (N-bromosuccinimide). The corresponding CF3-substituted naphthalene 32 could be obtained in 69% yield when the product 31a was oxidized by 3 equiv of NBS (Scheme 9, reaction a). When the amount of NBS was increased to 6 equiv under identical conditions, the CF3-substituted

Enhanced single-isomer separation and pseudoenantiomer resolution of new primary rim heterobifunctionalized α-cyclodextrin derivatives

• Iveta Tichá,
• Gábor Benkovics,
• Milo Malanga and
• Jindřich Jindřich

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2829–2837, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.261

• ). On one hand, a direct bromination of α-CD was performed under Vilsmeier/Haack conditions (reaction 3, Scheme 2) with N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) and Ph3P in N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF). Previous studies have shown that this reaction is highly regioselective for the primary rim of CD [28]. After a fast

A pyridinium/anilinium [2]catenane that operates as an acid–base driven optical switch

• Sarah J. Vella and
• Stephen J. Loeb

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1908–1916, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.165

• molecular switching previously observed for analogous [2]rotaxanes. Experimental General comments 4-Bromobenzyl bromide, 4-bromoaniline, 4-pyridylboronic acid, 1,3-dichlorobenzene, p-tolylmagnesium bromide, n-butyllithium and N-bromosuccinimide were purchased from Aldrich and used as received. Benzoyl

β-Hydroxy sulfides and their syntheses

• Mokgethwa B. Marakalala,
• Edwin M. Mmutlane and
• Henok H. Kinfe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1668–1692, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.143

• . In addition to its environmental benignity and ease of handling, the ionic liquid was reported to be reusable without any loss of activity after five runs. Another efficient catalyst for the synthesis of β-hydroxy sulfides is N-bromosuccinimide (NBS), as reported by Rostami and Jafari [28]. Various

• conditions. N-Bromosuccinimide-catalyzed ring opening of epoxides. LiNTf2-mediated epoxide opening by thiophenol. Asymmetric ring-opening of cyclohexene oxide with various thiols catalyzed by zinc L-tartrate. Catalytic asymmetric ring opening of symmetrical epoxides with t-BuSH catalyzed by (R)-GaLB (43

One hundred years of benzotropone chemistry

• Arif Dastan,
• Haydar Kilic and
• Nurullah Saracoglu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1120–1180, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.98

• dehydrogenation using N-bromosuccinimide, and its properties were compared with those of benzotropolone 241A (Scheme 50) [178]. The benzotropolone 174 could also be prepared from diester 301 in a similar way (Scheme 50) [179]. The simultaneous hydrolysis and decarboxylation of benzotropolone-diester 304 to 174

Latest development in the synthesis of ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA): a critical review

• Fabio Tonin and
• Isabel W. C. E. Arends

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 470–483, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.33

• of the 7-OH group. Chemically, the 7α-OH group of CDCA, obtained by dehydroxylation of CA (see above “C12 dehydroxylation”), is selectively oxidized in the presence of sodium bromate [59] (yield 88%), N-bromosuccinimide [13][15] (ungiven yield) or 1-hydroxy-1,2-benziodoxol-3(1H)-one 1-oxide [60

Palladium-catalyzed ortho-halogenations of acetanilides with N-halosuccinimides via direct sp² C–H bond activation in ball mills

• Zi Liu,
• Hui Xu and
• Guan-Wu Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 430–435, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.31

• (OTs)2 in the presence of TsOH. It was intriguing to find that N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) and N-chlorosuccinimide (NCS) could also be used as reaction partners to react with the representative acetanilide 1a under identical ball-milling conditions. The corresponding ortho-brominated and ortho-chlorinated

• ][24][25][26][27][28]. A few mechanochemical ortho-C–H bond activation reactions under the catalysis of rhodium and palladium salts have been reported [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]. Hernández and Bolm reported the rhodium-catalyzed bromination and iodination of 2-phenylpyridine using N

• -bromosuccinimide (NBS) and N-iodosuccinimide (NIS), respectively, as the halogen source [30]. However, the mechanochemical ortho-halogenation using the cheaper palladium catalysts has not been reported yet. In continuing our interest in mechanochemistry [21][22][39][40][41] and C–H activation reactions [42][43][44

One-pot preparation of 4-aryl-3-bromocoumarins from 4-aryl-2-propynoic acids with diaryliodonium salts, TBAB, and Na₂S₂O₈

• Teppei Sasaki,
• Katsuhiko Moriyama and
• Hideo Togo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 345–353, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.22

• -alkynoates with N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) at rt [34], where those reactions proceed via radical spiro-cyclization and then radical 1,2-carboxyl group migration, were reported. On the other hand, diaryliodonium salts are very useful for the C-arylation of active CH groups, the O-arylation of OH groups, and the

• 3Aa or 3Aa’, the halocyclization of 2Aa with N-bromosuccinimide (NBS, 2.0 equiv)/BF3·Et2O (1.1 equiv), with 1,3-diiodo-5,5-dimethylhydantoin (DIH, 2.0 equiv)/BF3·Et2O (1.1 equiv), and with 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dimethylhydantoin (DBH, 2.0 equiv)/BF3·Et2O (1.1 equiv) was carried out to form 3-bromo-4

Aminosugar-based immunomodulator lipid A: synthetic approaches

• Alla Zamyatina

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 25–53, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.3

Reactivity of bromoselenophenes in palladium-catalyzed direct arylations

• Aymen Skhiri,
• Ridha Ben Salem,
• Jean-François Soulé and
• Henri Doucet

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2862–2868, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.278

• allowed the coupling of several heteroaromatics such as thiazole, pyrrole, furan or imidazole derivatives with aryl bromides [36]. 2-Bromoselenophene, which was easily prepared by reaction of selenophene with N-bromosuccinimide [37], and 2-ethyl-4-methylthiazole were employed as model substrates for our

• compounds 10–13. EtOAc/pentane 5:95 for compounds 8, 9 and 14. General procedure for the synthesis of 5-bromo-2-arylselenophenes 15–17 To a mixture of the 2-arylselenophene [2] (2 mmol) in DMF (5 mL) at 0 °C, N-bromosuccinimide (0.392 g, 2.2 mmol) was slowly added. Then, the mixture was allowed to increase

Structure–property relationships and third-order nonlinearities in diketopyrrolopyrrole based D–π–A–π–D molecules

• Jan Podlesný,
• Lenka Dokládalová,
• Oldřich Pytela,
• Adam Urbanec,
• Milan Klikar,
• Numan Almonasy,
• Tomáš Mikysek,
• Jaroslav Jedryka,
• Iwan V. Kityk and
• Filip Bureš

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2374–2384, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.235

• significantly increased solubility [32]. It should be noted that other alkylating reagents, bases, and solvents provided the desired products with much lower yield and purity. Subsequent treatment of 7 with N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) smoothly afforded dibromo derivative 8 with a high yield of 93%. Bromination of

Mechanochemical synthesis of small organic molecules

• Tapas Kumar Achar,
• Anima Bose and
• Prasenjit Mal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1907–1931, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.186

• significant in organic synthesis because aryl halides are important synthons for the synthesis of many natural and non-natural products [93][94]. In 2005, Rahman and co-workers reported a pioneering solid state benzylic bromination of diquinoline derivatives via N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) [95]. In 2012, Wang

Chiral phase-transfer catalysis in the asymmetric α-heterofunctionalization of prochiral nucleophiles

• Johannes Schörgenhumer,
• Maximilian Tiffner and
• Mario Waser

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1753–1769, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.170

• success in terms of enantioselectivity as under no conditions any asymmetric induction could be observed and the same was the case when we tested the use of N-bromosuccinimide under PTC conditions with a variety of different chiral catalysts, thus illustrating rather well some of the major present

Oxidative dehydrogenation of C–C and C–N bonds: A convenient approach to access diverse (dihydro)heteroaromatic compounds

• Santanu Hati,
• Ulrike Holzgrabe and
• Subhabrata Sen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1670–1692, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.162

• heterocycles which were then further treated with NaOCl (≈3.0 equiv) in the same pot at room temperature to afford the desired products which were then purified by column chromatography (Scheme 10). Recently, a facile N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) induced oxidative dehydrogenation of diversely substituted

Synthesis of oligonucleotides on a soluble support

• Harri Lönnberg

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1368–1387, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.134

• N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) as an activator. The coupling efficiency was high (98%) on using 2.5 equiv of the H-phosphonate synthon and 5 equiv of the activator. After each coupling step, the support was precipitated from Et2O and recrystallized from MeCN/Et2O. The unreacted hydroxy groups were capped

Synthesis of tetrasubstituted pyrazoles containing pyridinyl substituents

• Josef Jansa,
• Ramona Schmidt,
• Ashenafi Damtew Mamuye,
• Laura Castoldi,
• Alexander Roller,
• Vittorio Pace and
• Wolfgang Holzer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 895–902, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.90

• 2a,b, 3a,b and 4a,b) strongly hints to the involvement of the former into an intramolecular hydrogen bond as indicated in Scheme 3. Cross-coupling reactions Initial attempts to react 4-bromopyrazole 5 – obtained from reaction of 2a with N-bromosuccinimide – with phenylboronic acid (or 3

Molecular-level architectural design using benzothiadiazole-based polymers for photovoltaic applications

• Vinila N. Viswanathan,
• Arun D. Rao,
• Upendra K. Pandey,
• Arul Varman Kesavan and
• Praveen C. Ramamurthy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 863–873, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.87

• impurities and subsequently brominated using N-bromosuccinimide to produce the desired monomer M1. The synthesis of fluorinated monomer M2 started from 1,2-difluorobenzene. However, the direct bromination of this compound in the 1,4-position is hindered due to the electronegative fluorine substituents. Hence

Nucleophilic and electrophilic cyclization of N-alkyne-substituted pyrrole derivatives: Synthesis of pyrrolopyrazinone, pyrrolotriazinone, and pyrrolooxazinone moieties

• Işıl Yenice,
• Sinan Basceken and
• Metin Balci

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 825–834, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.83

• -nitrobenzene with trimethylsilylacetylene under the Sonogashira coupling conditions followed by hydrolysis of the trimethylsilyl groups with K2CO3 resulted in the formation of 10a and 10b [26][27][28]. Fortunately, terminal alkynes can be easily converted into bromoalkynes with N-bromosuccinimide in the

Novel β-cyclodextrin–eosin conjugates

• Gábor Benkovics,
• Damien Afonso,
• András Darcsi,
• Szabolcs Béni,
• Sabrina Conoci,
• Éva Fenyvesi,
• Lajos Szente,
• Milo Malanga and
• Salvatore Sortino

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 543–551, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.52

• dyes were freshly synthesized starting from fluorescein (Flu, 1). Although the described synthetic procedures for the preparation of eosin dyes commonly use Br2, herein the less hazardous N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) was used as the source of bromine. Thus, eosin Y (2) was prepared in a single step from 1