Recent progress in the racemic and enantioselective synthesis of monofluoroalkene-based dipeptide isosteres

• Myriam Drouin and
• Jean-François Paquin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2637–2658, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.262

• Selectfluor gave the corresponding (Z)-monofluoroalkenes 64 in good yields (Table 2). The reported results showed that the methodology was suitable to replace an amide bond and could be used in late-stage fluorination to access monofluoroalkene-based dipeptide isosteres. Xaa-ψ[CF=CH]-Xaa The preparation of

Homologated amino acids with three vicinal fluorines positioned along the backbone: development of a stereoselective synthesis

• Raju Cheerlavancha,
• Ahmed Ahmed,
• Yun Cheuk Leung,
• Aggie Lawer,
• Qing-Quan Liu,
• Marina Cagnes,
• Hee-Chan Jang,
• Xiang-Guo Hu and
• Luke Hunter

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2316–2325, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.228

• ), followed immediately by a fluorination reaction. However, this did not yield any of the desired vicinal difluorinated material. It is possible that alternative electrophilic fluorinating reagents such as Selectfluor [28] could give different results, but this was not investigated in this work. In a final

• . Accordingly, two piperidinedione substrates (21a and 21b) were prepared [32][33], containing a Boc or a benzyl protecting group, respectively (Scheme 2). Substrate 21a was first treated with Selectfluor in acetonitrile according to a mild protocol developed by Smith and co-workers for the α-fluorination of

One-pot multistep mechanochemical synthesis of fluorinated pyrazolones

• Joseph L. Howard,
• William Nicholson,
• Yerbol Sagatov and
• Duncan L. Browne

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1950–1956, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.189

• methyl substituted difluoropyrazolone 12 in modest yield. Finally, an α-substituted β-ketoester was successfully converted to the pyrazolone before monofluorination using one equivalent of Selectfluor to prepare pyrazolone 13, also in moderate yield. In general the optimised approach seems to apply to a

• physical form in the one-pot two-step mechanochemical procedure. Optimised conditions for the one-pot synthesis. Substrate scope of the one-pot, 2 step mechanochemical synthesis (isolated yields). a1 equiv Selectfluor used. Optimisation of pyrazolone formation. Optimisation of pyrazolone fluorination

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

• selectfluor [101][102]. They could control the selectivity of the reaction through LAG using ACN (≈10% v/v of total materials) to get predominantly mono-fluorinated product over difluorinated derivatives (Scheme 27). Contrastingly, addition of 1.0 equiv of Na2CO3 led to switching of the selectivity

Transition-metal-catalyzed synthesis of phenols and aryl thiols

• Yajun Liu,
• Shasha Liu and
• Yan Xiao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 589–611, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.58

• ]. Rao and co-workers found that both biaryl ketone and aryl alkyl ketones could be regioselectively hydroxylated in satisfying yields. The reaction proceeded in TFA/TFAA in the presence of Pd(OAc)2 as catalyst and several type of oxidants including selectfluor, PhI(OAc)2 and K2S2O8, respectively (Scheme

C–H bond halogenation catalyzed or mediated by copper: an overview

• Wenyan Hao and
• Yunyun Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2132–2144, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.230

• a catalytic system consisting of (BPMED)CuI (copper(I) bisimine complex), N-hydroxyphthalimide (NHPI), KB(C6F5)4 and KI. The protocol allowed the selective fluorination of various substrates, including cycloalkanes and benzylic compounds using commercially available Selectfluor as fluorine source

Reaction of allene esters with Selectfluor/TMSX (X = I, Br, Cl) and Selectfluor/NH₄SCN: Competing oxidative/electrophilic dihalogenation and nucleophilic/conjugate addition

• A. Srinivas Reddy and
• Kenneth K. Laali

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1641–1648, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.180

• ionic liquids [BMIM][NTf2] and [BMIM][PF6] as solvent, in the presence and absence of Selectfluor. Comparative product analysis studies demonstrate that the ability of Selectflour to promote oxidative/electrophilic dihalogenation/dithiocyanation with TMSX/NH4SCN (as observed previously for 1-arylallenes

• additions in halofunctionalization with TMSX/Selectfluor and thiocyanation reactions with NH4SCN/Selectfluor. These competing pathways are influenced by the nature of the anion, allene structure, and the choice of solvent. Keywords: allene esters; oxidative electrophilic dihalogenation/conjugate addition

• ; Selectfluor; TMSX and NH4SCN; Introduction Whereas the synthetic potential of SelectfluorTM (F-TEDA-BF4) as an efficient, mild, and selective reagent for fluoro-functionalization of organic compounds is widely recognized and exploited [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10], its ability to act as mediator or

Silver and gold-catalyzed multicomponent reactions

• Giorgio Abbiati and
• Elisabetta Rossi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 481–513, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.46

Aminofluorination of 2-alkynylanilines: a Au-catalyzed entry to fluorinated indoles

• Antonio Arcadi,
• Emanuela Pietropaolo,
• Antonello Alvino and
• Véronique Michelet

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 449–458, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.42

• bioactive natural products [6][7][8][9][10][11]. The synthesis of 3-substiuted 3-fluorooxindoles has been described in the presence of Selectfluor as a commercial source of F+, starting from 3-substituted indoles, in acetonitrile/water. These derivatives have been used as key adducts for the indole

• to C-3 fluorinated indole derivatives was less investigated. Fluorination of trialkylstannylindole derivatives with cesium fluoroxysulfate or Selectfluor was investigated for the synthesis of the corresponding 3-fluoroindoles [17]. A borane–tetrahydrofuran complex has been used to study the reduction

• was difluorinated highly regioselectively at the C-3 carbon site with Selectfluor [20]. The C-3 monofluorinated indole derivatives were supposed to serve as intermediates in the transformation and can be isolated under suitable reaction conditions [21]. We envisaged that the aminofluorination of the

New developments in gold-catalyzed manipulation of inactivated alkenes

• Michel Chiarucci and
• Marco Bandini

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2586–2614, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.294

• ) redox couples could be accessed using external stoichiometric oxidants (i.e. Selectfluor or hypervalent iodine compounds) [73]. As schematically shown in Figure 1 this approach allows a double functionalization of simple alkenes with subsequent formation of new C–X and C–C bonds in a single catalytic

• first example of C–H functionalization by alkylgold intermediates. The optimized conditions required the use of the electrophilic complex [(p-CF3Ph)3PAuNTf2] and 30 equivalents of water, in order to increase the solubility of Selectfluor in THF. Heteroarylation of alkenes with arylboronic acids under

• the assistance of redox gold catalysis was also elegantly investigated by Toste’s group. In particular, aminoarylation of terminal olefins was documented in the presence of catalytic amounts of [dppm(AuBr)2] (3 mol %) and Selectfluor as the stoichiometric oxidant [78]. Despite the undoubted synthetic

Recent advances in transition metal-catalyzed Csp²-monofluoro-, difluoro-, perfluoromethylation and trifluoromethylthiolation

• Grégory Landelle,
• Armen Panossian,
• Sergiy Pazenok,
• Jean-Pierre Vors and
• Frédéric R. Leroux

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2476–2536, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.287

• trifluoromethyl arenes without the use of trifluoromethylating reagents rely on an aryl CF2–F bond disconnection. A clever example of this strategy has been described by V. Gouverneur et al. starting from aryl difluoroacetic acids [117]. The latters can react with Selectfluor® and a catalytic amount of silver

Recyclable fluorous cinchona alkaloid ester as a chiral promoter for asymmetric fluorination of β-ketoesters

• Wen-Bin Yi,
• Xin Huang,
• Zijuan Zhang,
• Dian-Rong Zhu,
• Chun Cai and
• Wei Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1233–1240, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.138

• electrophilic reaction with Selectfluor (F-TEDA-BF4, 1-chloromethyl-4-fluoro-1,4-diazoniabicyclo[2.2.2]octane bis(tetrafluoroborate)), as developed by Bank [7][8][9]. The Cahard [10][11][12] and Shibata [13][14] groups combined cinchona alkaloids and Selectfluor for asymmetric fluorination of substrates such as

• imido-protected phenylglycines (up to 94% ee), indanones and tetralones (up to 91% ee), ethyl α-cyanotolyl acetates (up to 87% ee), and cyclic β-ketoesters (up to 80% ee) [15]. A catalytic approach for the cinchona alkaloids and Selectfluor combinations has also been developed [16]. The Togni group

• employed chiral titanium Lewis acid TiCl2(TADDOLate) for the asymmetric fluorination of β-ketoesters (up to 96% ee) [17][18][19][20]. Most Selectfluor-promoted asymmetric fluorinations require a stoichiometric amount of chiral promoters to suppress the competitively direct achiral fluorination. Different

Synthesis of fluorinated maltose derivatives for monitoring protein interaction by ¹⁹F NMR

• Michaela Braitsch,
• Hanspeter Kählig,
• Georg Kontaxis,
• Michael Fischer,
• Toshinari Kawada,
• Robert Konrat and
• Walther Schmid

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 448–455, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.51

• glacial acetic acid (Scheme 1) [25]. Treatment of bromide 3 with Zn and N-methylimidazole [26] afforded the protected maltal derivative 4, which was transformed to the target compounds by utilizing Selectfluor® as a fluorinating agent [23][27][28] in a nitromethane solution. The mixture of anomeric 2

• relaxation filter. Syntheses of maltose derivatives; reagents and conditions: (a) Ac2O, Pyr, 97%; (b) HBr, AcOH, 99%; (c) Zn, N-methylimidazole, ethyl acetate, 74%; (d) Selectfluor®, CH3NO2, 40%; (e) NaOMe, MeOH, 99%; (f) NH2NH2·HOAc, DMF, 94%; (g) DAST, CH2Cl2, 89%; (h) NaOMe, MeOH, 99%; (i) α,α

Combination of gold catalysis and Selectfluor for the synthesis of fluorinated nitrogen heterocycles

• Antoine Simonneau,
• Pierre Garcia,
• Jean-Philippe Goddard,
• Virginie Mouriès-Mansuy,
• Max Malacria and
• Louis Fensterbank

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1379–1386, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.162

• the synthesis of 3-fluoro-2-methylene-pyrrolidine (3a) and -piperidine (3b) from 1,5- and 1,6-aminoalkynes, respectively, using a combination of a gold-catalyzed hydroamination reaction followed by electrophilic trapping of an intermediate cyclic enamine by Selectfluor. Careful attention was paid to

• the elucidation of the mechanism and Selectfluor was suggested to play the double role of promoting the oxidation of gold(I) to a gold(III) active species and also the electrophilic fluorination of the enamine intermediates. Keywords: cycloisomerization reactions; fluorinated pyrrolidines; gold

• catalysis; Selectfluor; Introduction The useful properties of fluorinated compounds in medicinal chemistry have motivated an intense effort towards the synthesis of new molecules bearing fluorine substituents [1][2]. Therefore, the development of a rapid access to C–F bonds is of great importance. Quite

Recent advances in the gold-catalyzed additions to C–C multiple bonds

• He Huang,
• Yu Zhou and
• Hong Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 897–936, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.103

• (Scheme 53). The latter is the first example of a gold-catalyzed intramolecular C–C cross-coupling reaction involving aryl C–H functionalization with Selectfluor® as the oxidant. 2,4-Dien-6-ynecarboxylic acids 316 undergo gold-catalyzed tandem 1,6-cyclization/decarboxylation to afford 2,3-disubstituted

Au(I)/Au(III)-catalyzed Sonogashira-type reactions of functionalized terminal alkynes with arylboronic acids under mild conditions

• Deyun Qian and
• Junliang Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 808–812, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.92

• existence of Au(I)/Au(III) catalytic cycles [26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. For instance, Zhang and co-workers have developed a gold-catalyzed oxidative cross-coupling reaction of arylboronic acids with propargyl esters [27], and Selectfluor® – a source of electrophilic fluorine – was used to oxidize the

• presence of oxidant (Selectfluor®) and base, and undergo a Au(I)/Au(III)-catalyzed Sonogashira-type cross-coupling reaction (Scheme 1). Results and Discussion We embarked on developing a general protocol for Sonogashira-type cross-coupling by using propargyl tosylamide (1a) and phenylboronic acid as the

• efficiency was quite low (Table 1, entries 4, 5). Without Selectfluor® as additive, the cross-coupling reaction did not occur (Table 1, entry 6), indicating that it was crucial for this transformation via oxidation of gold(I) to the gold(III) species [26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. Reducing the amount of

Efficient 1,4-addition of α-substituted fluoro(phenylsulfonyl)methane derivatives to α,β-unsaturated compounds

• G. K. Surya Prakash,
• Xiaoming Zhao,
• Sujith Chacko,
• Fang Wang,
• Habiba Vaghoo and
• George A. Olah

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 17, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.17

• fluorinating bis(phenylsulfonyl)methane, which is commercially available [11]. Our strategy for the preparation of monofluoro methanes was to use commercially available Selectfluor® [35] as the electrophilic fluorine source. The monofluorination of (nitromethylsulfonyl)benzene with Selectfluor® under the

• improved conditions [36] [treatment of (nitromethylsulfonyl)benzene (6.75 mmol) with NaH (6.75 mmol) in THF (25 mL) followed by Selectfluor® (6.75 mmol) in 15 mL of DMF at 0 °C] gave [fluoro(nitro)methylsulfonyl]benzene 3a in 62% isolated yield (Table 1, entry 1). A doublet was observed at δ −142.16 ppm in

DBFOX- Ph/metal complexes: Evaluation as catalysts for enantioselective fluorination of 3-(2-arylacetyl)-2-thiazolidinones

• Takehisa Ishimaru,
• Norio Shibata,
• Dhande Sudhakar Reddy,
• Takao Horikawa,
• Shuichi Nakamura and
• Takeshi Toru

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 16, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.16

• reactions. Stoichiometric approaches based on cinchona alkaloid/Selectfluor® combinations [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32], chiral ligand/metal-catalyzed [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57] or organocatalytic [58

Themed series in organo- fluorine chemistry

• David O'Hagan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 11, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.11

• enabling elemental fluorine to be used in large scale organo-fluorine production [4]. The introduction in the early 1990's of air stable electrophilic fluorinating reagents such as Selectfluor [5] has been revolutionary and has opened up many new methods for fluorine introduction, and provided the

Single and double stereoselective fluorination of (E)-allylsilanes

• Marcin Sawicki,
• Angela Kwok,
• Matthew Tredwell and
• Véronique Gouverneur

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 34, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-34

• Selectfluor. These reactions proceeded with efficient transfer of chirality from the silylated to the fluorinated stereocentre. Upon double fluorination, an unsymmetrical ethyl syn-2,5-difluoroalk-3-enoic ester was prepared, the silyl group acting as an anti stereodirecting group for the two C-F bond forming

• temperature in CH3CN in the presence of 1.0 eq. of NaHCO3 and 1.5 eq. of Selectfluor [1-chloromethyl-4-fluoro-1,2-diazoniabicyclo[2.2.2]octane bis(tetrafluoroborate)]. The reactivity of the (E)-allylsilanes 1a-d possessing a single stereogenic centre was surveyed in priority to probe how structural variations

• 2e was formed in 95% yield as a diastereomeric mixture of both syn-2e and anti-2e isomers. The high d.r. [19:1] suggested that the transfer of chirality (anti approach of Selectfluor) from the silylated to the fluorinated stereocentre was very efficient. A third allylic fluoride was detected in the