Diazocine-functionalized TATA platforms

• Roland Löw,
• Talina Rusch,
• Fynn Röhricht,
• Olaf Magnussen and
• Rainer Herges

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1485–1490, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.150

• a function of electronic coupling (conjugation) of the azo unit to gold. The para-diazocine-TATA 1 was synthesized in a 5-step synthesis route (Scheme 1). Bromotoluene 3 was synthesized as described [26]. In a Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction acetylene-substituted toluene 5 was prepared from

Selective detection of DABCO using a supramolecular interconversion as fluorescence reporter

• Indrajit Paul,
• Debabrata Samanta,
• Sudhakar Gaikwad and
• Michael Schmittel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1371–1378, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.137

• in Scheme 1. Therefore, ligands 1 and 2 were synthesized by a palladium-catalyzed Sonogashira coupling reaction (Supporting Information File 1). All compounds were fully characterized by 1H NMR, 1H,1H-COSY, UV–vis, ESIMS and elemental analysis (Supporting Information File 1). Subsequently, we

Synthesis of dipolar molecular rotors as linkers for metal-organic frameworks

• Sebastian Hamer,
• Fynn Röhricht,
• Marius Jakoby,
• Ian A. Howard,
• Xianghui Zhang,
• Christian Näther and
• Rainer Herges

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1331–1338, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.132

• procedures 7 is obtained over two mono-iodination steps, we report here the di-iodination in a single step. Subsequently, 7 was reacted in a Sonogashira cross coupling with trimethylsilylacetylene to give 1,4-bis(2-trimethylsilylethynyl)-2,3-difluorobenzene (8). Finally, 8 was converted to the dicarboxylic

• -benzothiadiazole (10) could be obtained in a Sonogashira reaction with trimethylsilylacetylene. Conversion to the dicarboxylic acid 2 was achieved using cesium fluoride under a carbon dioxide atmosphere. Not quite as straightforward was the synthesis of the dicyano derivative 3. While the synthesis of 5,6-dicyano

• Sonogashira reaction [52]. The cross coupling following a Sonogashira protocol was problematic though in our case. Phthalonitrile (1,2-dicyanobenzene) units are known to form phthalocyanines and homologues, especially under harsher reaction conditions, such as the long reaction times and metal catalysis in

Remarkable effect of alkynyl substituents on the fluorescence properties of a BN-phenanthrene

• Alberto Abengózar,
• David Sucunza,
• Patricia García-García and
• Juan J. Vaquero

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1257–1261, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.122

• reactions of 1b, under conditions optimized for a related BN-benzo[c]phenanthrene [30]. Gratifyingly, Suzuki coupling and Buchwald–Hartwig amination yielded the corresponding aryl- and amino-substituted BN-phenanthrenes 1c and 1d in good yields (Scheme 2). Moreover, Sonogashira couplings efficiently proceed

• BN-phenanthrenes 1 and 5 in cyclohexane (≈0.02 mM). Solutions of 1a–f and 5 (from left to right) under UV irradiation. Synthesis of Cl-substituted BN-phenanthrene 1b. Palladium-catalyzed cross-couplings of Cl-substituted BN-phenanthrene 1b. Pd-catalyzed Sonogashira reactions of Cl-substituted BN

Multicomponent reactions (MCRs): a useful access to the synthesis of benzo-fused γ-lactams

• Edorta Martínez de Marigorta,
• Jesús M. de Los Santos,
• Ana M. Ochoa de Retana,
• Javier Vicario and
• Francisco Palacios

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1065–1085, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.104

• derivatives do it through the carbon at 3-position. Although a quaternary stereocentre is created in the process, no attempts to make this synthesis in a stereoselective fashion were reported. A tentative mechanism is proposed, based in a Sonogashira coupling of iodobenzamide 17 and copper acetylide, in a

• comprising three palladium-catalysed reactions: Sonogashira, Heck and Suzuki–Miyaura (Scheme 37) [113][114][115]. In this methodology, N-arylpropiolamides 128 reacted with aryl iodides 129 and aryl- or styrylboronic acids 130 under microwave activation to yield 3-(diarylmethylene)oxindoles 131 or 3-(1,3

• palladium-catalysed reactions (Scheme 38). The first one is a Sonogashira coupling reaction between the terminal alkyne of propiolamide 128 and aryl iodide 129, which is preferred to the Suzuki–Miyaura reaction between aryl iodide 129 and boronic acid 130 present in the reaction mixture. Then, an internal

Easy, efficient and versatile one-pot synthesis of Janus-type-substituted fullerenols

• Marius Kunkel and
• Sebastian Polarz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 901–905, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.87

• other compounds in further reactions, e.g., click reactions or Sonogashira coupling. Systems for such reactions are tested with compounds 5 and 6. These compounds react in high yields up to 90%. The additional functional groups, which must of course be not base-labile survive the reaction conditions

Synthesis of 2H-furo[2,3-c]pyrazole ring systems through silver(I) ion-mediated ring-closure reaction

• Vaida Milišiūnaitė,
• Rūta Paulavičiūtė,
• Eglė Arbačiauskienė,
• Vytas Martynaitis,
• Wolfgang Holzer and
• Algirdas Šačkus

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 679–684, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.62

• cyclization of readily available 4-alkynyl-3-hydroxy-1H-pyrazoles can be used as an efficient method to access many novel 2,5-disubstituted 2H-furo[2,3-c]pyrazoles. Keywords: 5-endo-dig cyclization; 2H-furo[2,3-c]pyrazole; pyrazole; silver(I) catalyst; Sonogashira coupling; Introduction Heterocyclic ring

• construction of the 2H-furo[2,3-c]pyrazole ring system by a Sonogashira-type alkynylation of 4-iodopyrazol-3-ol and subsequent intramolecular 5-endo-dig cyclization of the obtained hydroxyalkynyl substrate mediated by a Ag(I) catalyst. Results and Discussion The synthetic strategy designed to construct the 2H

• fluorescent organic nanoparticles [31][32][33][34]. The iodination of 1 with iodine in the presence of KOH in DMF afforded 4-iodo-1H-pyrazol-3-ol 2 [26]. We have previously shown that the Sonogashira-type coupling of the aforementioned iodinated compound with phenylacetylene under standard reaction conditions

The LANCA three-component reaction to highly substituted β-ketoenamides – versatile intermediates for the synthesis of functionalized pyridine, pyrimidine, oxazole and quinoxaline derivatives

• Tilman Lechel,
• Roopender Kumar,
• Mrinal K. Bera,
• Reinhold Zimmer and
• Hans-Ulrich Reissig

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 655–678, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.61

• the examples shown in Scheme 14 [33]. Nonaflate PM54 underwent a Suzuki–Miyaura reaction to PM55 or a Sonogashira coupling to PM56 under standard conditions. The ethynyl-substituted pyrimidine derivative PM12 could also be employed in C–C coupling reactions as shown by its connection to pyridyl

• approach to complex heterocycles. The aldehyde PM69 was further converted into the terminal alkyne PM73 by employing the Bestmann–Ohira protocol (Scheme 21). After its Sonogashira reaction with iodobenzene to the intermediate disubstituted alkyne PM74 this compound was converted into furopyrimidine

• reagent. First, the corresponding nonaflate is generated from OX7 that immediately underwent elimination to the alkyne. Ethynyl-substituted oxazole OX23 was isolated in excellent yield and subsequently employed in Sonogashira couplings. Iodobenzene afforded compound OX24 in high yield and (β-ketoenamide

Ring-closing-metathesis-based synthesis of annellated coumarins from 8-allylcoumarins

• Christiane Schultze and
• Bernd Schmidt

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2991–2998, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.278

• yields (Table 2). Furanocoumarins 3a (angelicin or isopsoralen, Table 2, entry 1) [11][12] and 3c (sphondin, Table 2, entry 3) [59][60] are natural products. They have previously been synthesized from 7-hydroxy-8-iodocoumarins through Sonogashira coupling and cyclization [61] or via Dötz benzannellation

Pd-Catalyzed microwave-assisted synthesis of phosphonated 13α-estrones as potential OATP2B1, 17β-HSD1 and/or STS inhibitors

• Rebeka Jójárt,
• Szabolcs Pécsy,
• György Keglevich,
• Mihály Szécsi,
• Réka Rigó,
• Csilla Özvegy-Laczka,
• Gábor Kecskeméti and
• Erzsébet Mernyák

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2838–2845, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.262

• ). The steric hindrance resulting from the presence of ring B near C-4 might be the main cause for the harsher reaction conditions. This is in agreement with our recently published Sonogashira coupling procedure, which required higher temperatures starting from 4-regioisomers in comparison with those

Synthesis and biological evaluation of 1,2-disubstituted 4-quinolone analogues of Pseudonocardia sp. natural products

• Stephen M. Geddis,
• Teodora Coroama,
• Suzanne Forrest,
• James T. Hodgkinson,
• Martin Welch and
• David R. Spring

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2680–2688, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.245

• natural products. The chemistry developed towards the allylic alcohols 5 and 6, outlined in Scheme 1, seemed ideal to this end. A range of alkynes 10 could undergo Sonogashira coupling with the commercially available acid chloride 9. The resultant ynones 11 could then undergo conjugate addition with

• shown to be unsuccessful in infecting the lungs of mice [18]. Being able to prevent the production of pyocyanin could therefore be of great therapeutic benefit. Results and Discussion In the implementation of the strategy outlined in Scheme 1, alkynes 10a and 10b were first subjected to Sonogashira

• -quinolone Pseudonocardia sp. natural products, which encompassed variation of both the side chain and N-substituent. This represented an extension of the chemistry which we employed towards the natural products, utilising sequential Sonogashira coupling, high-yielding conjugate addition, and metal-catalysed

Synthesis of eunicellane-type bicycles embedding a 1,3-cyclohexadiene moiety

• Alex Frichert,
• Peter G. Jones and
• Thomas Lindel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2461–2467, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.222

• motif were prone to aromatization and had to be protected from contact with air and higher temperatures. Removal of solvents was performed below 21 °C and all compounds were stored under argon at −18 °C. Sonogashira coupling (PdCl2(PPh3)2) of dienol triflate 11 with alkyne 12 [11] provided C20 ester 13

• place. Thus, we reduced the ester function of dienol triflate 11 to the alcohol (DIBAL-H, DCM, −78 °C), followed by oxidation to aldehyde 15 (IBX, Scheme 2). Fortunately, the cyclohexadiene moiety survived the oxidation conditions, which was not the case when using PCC or MnO2. Subsequent Sonogashira

• )-isomer of 24, compound 31, via Sonogashira coupling with the (E)-isomer [11] of 12. Chlorinated allene 32 was formed from 31 as the only product on treatment with SOCl2/pyridine, presumably after chlorosulfonation, followed by chlorine transfer and loss of SO2 (Scheme 5). There is precedence that

Nucleoside macrocycles formed by intramolecular click reaction: efficient cyclization of pyrimidine nucleosides decorated with 5'-azido residues and 5-octadiynyl side chains

• Jiang Liu,
• Peter Leonard,
• Sebastian L. Müller,
• Constantin Daniliuc and
• Frank Seela

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2404–2410, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.217

• %) together with the dimeric side product 3 (4.5%, Scheme 1) [37]. The moderate yield of the 5’azido-dC derivative results from incomplete conversion. Possibly, traces of copper used for the Sonogashira cross coupling and high substrate concentration were initiating dimerization of azide 2. Nevertheless, an

Practical tetrafluoroethylene fragment installation through a coupling reaction of (1,1,2,2-tetrafluorobut-3-en-1-yl)zinc bromide with various electrophiles

• Ken Tamamoto,
• Shigeyuki Yamada and
• Tsutomu Konno

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2375–2383, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.213

• % isolated yield. Then, 4t underwent Pd(0)-catalyzed Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction with phenylacetylene, producing the corresponding tolane derivative 4u with a CF2CF2 fragment in good yield (30% overall yield from 2-Zn). Consequently, 2-Zn is found to be a powerful tetrafluoroethylenating agent for

Coordination-driven self-assembly of discrete Ru₆–Pt₆ prismatic cages

• Aderonke Ajibola Adeyemo and
• Partha Sarathi Mukherjee

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2242–2249, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.199

• mass spectrometry, and UV–vis analysis. Further structural insights were revealed by computational studies. Results and Discussion The triplatinum metalloligand 2 was synthesized through a four-step reaction involving a Sonogashira coupling (Scheme 2) and the crude product was purified by column

Applications of organocatalysed visible-light photoredox reactions for medicinal chemistry

• Michael K. Bogdos,
• Emmanuel Pinard and
• John A. Murphy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2035–2064, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.179

• the 1,6-enynes from the corresponding 2-halogenated phenols, benzenethiols or anilines, via a simple substitution–elimination–Sonogashira synthetic sequence. In addition, the group has synthesised trifluoromethylated modified versions of certain drugs (Figure 13). Variations on the classical

Synthesis of 9-arylalkynyl- and 9-aryl-substituted benzo[b]quinolizinium derivatives by Palladium-mediated cross-coupling reactions

• Siva Sankar Murthy Bandaru,
• Darinka Dzubiel,
• Heiko Ihmels,
• Mohebodin Karbasiyoun,
• Mohamed M. A. Mahmoud and
• Carola Schulzke

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1871–1884, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.161

• -Arylbenzo[b]quinolizinium derivatives were prepared with base-free Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reactions between benzo[b]quinolizinium-9-trifluoroborate and selected benzenediazonium salts. In addition, the Sonogashira coupling reaction between 9-iodobenzo[b]quinolizinium and the arylalkyne derivatives yielded

• ]quinolizinium derivatives with a large extension of the π-system, which should provide promising properties as G4-DNA ligands, we also focused our attention on the Sonogashira reaction as synthetic route to arylalkynyl-substituted derivatives. In this case, we aimed at donor-substituted derivatives such as 2b–d

• since they were proposed to have ideal photophysical and DNA-binding properties. Herein, we present the successful Suzuki–Miyaura and Sonogashira coupling reactions of benzo[b]quinolizinium substrates. In addition, the absorption and emission properties of the novel arylalkynylbenzo[b]quinolizinium

Hypervalent organoiodine compounds: from reagents to valuable building blocks in synthesis

• Gwendal Grelier,
• Benjamin Darses and
• Philippe Dauban

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1508–1528, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.128

• catalyzed cascade reaction to afford alkylidenefluorenes 49 (Scheme 17) [57]. In terms of mechanism, a Pd(0)/Cu(I)-catalyzed Sonogashira coupling reaction from the iodonium salt 48 delivers a 2-alkynyl-2’-iodoarene 50 that, then, cyclizes to 51 via insertion of the Pd(0) species into the iodoarene moiety

• –I motif (Scheme 22) [62]. Hence aryl- and alkyl-substituted terminal alkynes can be coupled via a Sonogashira reaction when PPh3 is used as ligand, while the use of diphenylphosphinoferrocenyl ligand (dppf) allows the Heck-type coupling of acrylates, vinyl ketones and electron-poor styrene

• -λ3-iodanes (Scheme 23) [63]. The first step relies on the copper-catalyzed coupling between an anthranilic acid derivative and the biphenyl moiety. The resulting iodoarene product is then submitted to a Sonogashira coupling reaction, allowing the one-pot preparation of a library of biphenyl products

Atom-economical group-transfer reactions with hypervalent iodine compounds

• Andreas Boelke,
• Peter Finkbeiner and
• Boris J. Nachtsheim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1263–1280, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.108

• incorporated into the final product, the calculated AE (46% for R1 = R2 = H, R3 = Ar = Ph) is close to the procedures of Panda and Xie due to lower PIDA loadings. A metal-catalysed procedure for the atom-economical utilization of (dicarboxyiodo)benzenes 20 in a tandem C(sp3)–H amination/sila-Sonogashira

• iodoarenes 32. These species smoothly underwent subsequent Suzuki–Miyaura, Sonogashira and Mirozoki–Heck couplings. The respective arylated, alkynylated and alkenylated products 33a–d were obtained in high yields with excellent stereoselectivity. Due to the intramolecular pathway of the first step, high AE

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

• benzotropylium ion 45. Secondly, 11 is obtained in 18% yield after benzylic bromination of 42 with NBS, followed by in situ elimination reaction of the labile bromide 43 mediated by t-BuOK (Scheme 9). Palladium-catalyzed C–C bond-formation reactions such as Heck and Sonogashira couplings are employed in a wide

• variety of areas in organic chemistry [56][57]. Recently, Shaabani’s group synthesized and characterized palladium nanoparticles supported on ethylenediamine-functionalized cellulose (PdNPs@EDACs) as a novel bio-supported catalyst for Heck and Sonogashira couplings in water [58]. Shaabani’s group reported

The first Pd-catalyzed Buchwald–Hartwig aminations at C-2 or C-4 in the estrone series

• Ildikó Bacsa,
• Dávid Szemerédi,
• János Wölfling,
• Gyula Schneider,
• Lilla Fekete and
• Erzsébet Mernyák

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 998–1003, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.85

• (dba)3 as catalysts, X-Phos as a ligand, Cs2CO3 as a base in toluene or DMF solvent under thermal heating or microwave irradiation [18]. We recently described halogenations [19] and Sonogashira couplings on ring A of 13α-estrone and its 3-methyl ether [20]. The 13-epimer of natural estrone is a non

Nanoreactors for green catalysis

• M. Teresa De Martino,
• Loai K. E. A. Abdelmohsen,
• Floris P. J. T. Rutjes and
• Jan C. M. van Hest

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 716–733, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.61

• hydrophobic membrane and as a consequence a higher reaction rate. Dergunov et al. reported on the design of a porous polymeric nanoreactor with a lipid bilayer for coupling reactions [87]. These nanocapsules were loaded with palladium catalysts and successfully used in Suzuki, Sonogashira and Heck cross

5-Aminopyrazole as precursor in design and synthesis of fused pyrazoloazines

• Ranjana Aggarwal and
• Suresh Kumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 203–242, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.15

• ]pyrimidine derivatives 105 which were subsequently used to prepare alkynyl alcohol 111 derivatives of pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines 106 by a Sonogashira coupling in 69–94% yields. Fluorodeoxygention of 106 using deoxofluor afforded fluoropropynyl-substituted pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine 107 with variable

Asymmetric synthesis of propargylamines as amino acid surrogates in peptidomimetics

• Matthias Wünsch,
• David Schröder,
• Tanja Fröhr,
• Lisa Teichmann,
• Sebastian Hedwig,
• Nils Janson,
• Clara Belu,
• Jasmin Simon,
• Shari Heidemeyer,
• Philipp Holtkamp,
• Jens Rudlof,
• Lennard Klemme,
• Alessa Hinzmann,
• Beate Neumann,
• Hans-Georg Stammler and
• Norbert Sewald

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2428–2441, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.240

• cycloaddition, CuAAC and RuAAC), the thiol–yne reaction, Diels–Alder reactions and the Sonogashira cross-coupling. While amino acids with a terminal alkyne in the side chain are well-known, the synthesis of their correlates where the carboxy group is replaced by a terminal alkyne is still tedious. Nevertheless

• in p- or m-position were reacted with propargyl alcohol in a Sonogashira reaction to give the phenylpropargyl alcohols 1a and 1b (Figure 4) [42][43], which were transformed in a Swern oxidation to afford the aldehydes 2a and 2b [44]. Condensation of the aldehydes 2a and 2b with (R)-configured tert

• fluoride leads to deprotonation in the Cα-position of 6i, 6k and 6j, inducing an alkyne rearrangement to form an allene, which rearranges further to provide an α,β-unsaturated imine (Figure 8) [97]. One target application of propargylamines 7 is the Sonogashira cross-coupling with halogenated benzoates

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

• boron derivatives [34][35]. Twofold Sonogashira cross-coupling was utilized towards chromophores 1b–5b. All cross-coupling reactions were carried out in THF with PdCl2(PPh3)2 as palladium precatalyst. The reaction time was approximately 24 hours to achieve sufficient conversion (32–73%). Despite bearing

• in modular way prepared by Suzuki–Miyaura, Migita–Stille, and Sonogashira cross-coupling reactions. The chromophores differ in the π-system extension as well as in the peripheral substitution. The thermal stability of 1–5 is mostly affected by the presence of acetylene linkers, 1,4-phenylene and 2,5