CF₃SO₂X (X = Na, Cl) as reagents for trifluoromethylation, trifluoromethylsulfenyl-, -sulfinyl- and -sulfonylation and chlorination. Part 2: Use of CF₃SO₂Cl

• Hélène Chachignon,
• Hélène Guyon and
• Dominique Cahard

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2800–2818, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.273

• -sulfonyl amides failed to react. Interestingly, Zhang and co-workers demonstrated that this reaction could be performed as well using bismuth oxybromide (BiOBr) nanosheets instead of a ruthenium complex as the photocatalyst (Scheme 5) [12]. The reaction unfortunately suffered from the same limitations

CF₃SO₂X (X = Na, Cl) as reagents for trifluoromethylation, trifluoromethylsulfenyl-, -sulfinyl- and -sulfonylation. Part 1: Use of CF₃SO₂Na

• Hélène Guyon,
• Hélène Chachignon and
• Dominique Cahard

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2764–2799, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.272

• tert-butyl hydroperoxide and a catalytic amount of Cu(II), but with 10 mol % of tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA). Organic solvents were replaced by pure water and the aqueous medium can be recycled up to five times. The substrate scope was large when tertiary amides were used. A secondary arylamide

• -aminoquinolines selectively at position 5 by using CF3SO2Na, CuBr2 in a catalytic amount and azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) as an oxidant (Scheme 44) [67]. This process had a broad tolerance toward a wide range of functional groups. Aliphatic amides, aromatic amides and carboxamides with heterocyclic substituents

• authors studied the effect of structural variations in the substrate (R1 = aryl, heteroaryl, alkyl; R2 = H, 6-OMe, 2-Me). Aniline amides gave no conversion nor did quinoline having an ester group at the 8 position instead of the 8-amino group. The chitosan-based copper catalyst was efficiently reused in

Reagent-controlled regiodivergent intermolecular cyclization of 2-aminobenzothiazoles with β-ketoesters and β-ketoamides

• Irwan Iskandar Roslan,
• Kian-Hong Ng,
• Gaik-Khuan Chuah and
• Stephan Jaenicke

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2739–2750, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.270

• and amides have been developed, controlled by the reagents employed. With the Brønsted base KOt-Bu and CBrCl3 as radical initiator, benzo[d]imidazo[2,1-b]thiazoles are synthesized via attack at the α-carbon and keto carbon of the β-ketoester moiety. In contrast, switching to the Lewis acid catalyst

• the benzo[d]imidazo[2,1-b]thiazole derivatives via coupling of 2-aminobenzothiazole with the brominated β-ketoesters and amides. Over the past decade, there has been a lot of interest in KOt-Bu-mediated synthesis, especially after Itami’s group showed that KOt-Bu provides a metal-free approach to the

Vinylphosphonium and 2-aminovinylphosphonium salts – preparation and applications in organic synthesis

• Anna Kuźnik,
• Roman Mazurkiewicz and
• Beata Fryczkowska

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2710–2738, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.269

• nitrogen nucleophiles. The expected resonance-stabilized phosphorus ylides 70 and 71 were synthesized in yields of 92–95% (Scheme 46) [28]. Between 2007 and 2013 Anary-Abbasinejad et al. reported applications in similar syntheses of semicarbazones 72 [64] or aromatic amides 73 [24] as the NH-acids and of 3

• aryliminophosphoranes. Synthesis of resonance-stabilized phosphorus ylides via the reaction of dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates with triphenylphosphine and 2,3-indoledione or 4-thiazolidine-2-thione derivatives. Synthesis of resonance-stabilized ylides derived from semicarbazones, aromatic amides, and 3

Consecutive hydrazino-Ugi-azide reactions: synthesis of acylhydrazines bearing 1,5-disubstituted tetrazoles

• Angélica de Fátima S. Barreto,
• Veronica Alves dos Santos and
• Carlos Kleber Z. Andrade

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2596–2602, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.256

• groups into more complex molecules. In this respect, Dömling et al. have recently described the synthesis of α-hydrazino amides using N-hydroxyimides as the acid component in Ugi reactions [28]. As part of our continuing efforts in using consecutive multicomponent reactions to obtain novel molecules in a

Synthesis of 1,3-cis-disubstituted sterically encumbered imidazolidinone organocatalysts

• Jan Wallbaum and
• Daniel B. Werz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2577–2583, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.254

• starting from easily accessible substrates. Different natural and unnatural amino acid methyl amides were cyclized with aromatic carbaldehydes to yield two diastereomeric MacMillan-type catalysts. Special emphasis was put on bulky residues such as mesityl and pyrene moieties. Keywords: imidazolidinone

• -disubstituted derivatives we concentrated our efforts on the isolation of these isomers. Methyl amides 9 were produced from the corresponding methyl or ethyl esters via reaction with ethanolic methyl amide solution [26]. Solid methyl amides were further recrystallized to achieve a higher purity. Protected

• methyl amides 9a and 9c were synthesized in five or three literature-known steps from commercially available substrates, respectively [27][28][29]. The different methyl amides were subjected to the reaction with 1-naphthyl carbaldehyde employing 4 Å molecular sieves as dehydrating agent and 10 mol % Yb

Rh(II)-mediated domino [4 + 1]-annulation of α-cyanothioacetamides using diazoesters: A new entry for the synthesis of multisubstituted thiophenes

• Jury J. Medvedev,
• Ilya V. Efimov,
• Yuri M. Shafran,
• Vitaliy V. Suslonov,
• Vasiliy A. Bakulev and
• Valerij A. Nikolaev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2569–2576, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.253

• articles on the transformations of 2-chlorothioacet-amides [64][65] and reactions of oxathioles [66] or 5-methylthiophenes [67] with amines. Bearing a potential practical application of these compounds in mind, it is worthy to note that the structures comprising a 2,4-(diamino)thiophene fragment possess

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

• acid function of amino acids can be easily converted into amides or esters (Figure 1), propargylamines have been converted into acids, alcohols [12] or olefins in order to obtain natural products like angustureine and cuspareine [13]. Intramolecular Pauson–Khand reaction [14], Diels–Alder reaction [15

Regiodivergent condensation of 5-alkoxycarbonyl-1H-pyrrol-2,3-diones with cyclic ketazinones en route to spirocyclic scaffolds

• Alexey Yu. Dubovtsev,
• Maksim V. Dmitriev,
• Аndrey N. Maslivets and
• Michael Rubin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2179–2185, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.218

• . Indeed, these highly electrophilic cyclic vinylogous amides are known to undergo facile nucleophilic additions [21][22][23][24][25], sometimes accompanied with subsequent pericyclic rearrangements [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. Not surprisingly, these versatile synthons have been successfully employed

• cyclocondensation of six-membered cyclic enamines 1 (vinylogous secondary amides) with 5-methoxycarbonyl-1H-pyrrolediones 2 [39][40][41]. This transformation involved the Michael addition of an enamine to the α,β-unsaturated carbonyl fragment of a pyrroledione and subsequent 5-exo-trig intramolecular nucleophilic

• attack of the amine moiety on the ester substituent (Scheme 1). Interestingly, it seems that the substitution at the nitrogen atom in structure 1 is very crucial in governing the desired reactivity. Indeed, our previous attempts to expand the substrate scope to include “vinylogous primary amides” 1a

Synthesis of 2-aminosuberic acid derivatives as components of some histone deacetylase inhibiting cyclic tetrapeptides

• Shital Kumar Chattopadhyay,
• Suman Sil and
• Jyoti Prasad Mukherjee

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2153–2156, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.214

• the cross-metathesis reaction with α,ß-unsaturated esters and ketones have been extensively studied, the corresponding reactions with amides and anilides are less documented [28]. An elegant solution to one of this problems is the use of acryloyl chloride as CM partner followed by functionalization of

Main group mechanochemistry

• Agota A. Gečiauskaitė and
• Felipe García

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2068–2077, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.204

• amides. These compounds – promising candidates for fuel-cell technologies based on chemically stored hydrogen – highlight the potential of such syntheses in the development of clean energy solutions [79][80]. Within the area of molecular synthesis, the handful of reported examples fall into two general

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

• amines were safely controlled at maximum contacts (solvent-free) by the acid salt NaHSO4. Using 2.0 equiv of both NaHSO4 and PIDA, 72–92% of amides were isolated within 2 h (Scheme 17) [81]. Amino acids are one of the important biomolecules for example as building block of peptides and proteins [75][82

• nearly 90% yields for α-amino esters in 90–120 min (Scheme 18). The Ritter reaction is another significant carbon–nitrogen (C–N) bond forming reaction in the synthesis of amides [86]. Generally, a nitrile and a tertiary alcohol in presence of a strong acid react to create amides. Major drawbacks

• associated with this method are the requirement of stoichiometric amounts of strong acid, higher temperature, narrower substrate scope, etc. In 2015, Gredičak and co-workers developed a milder version of the Ritter reaction under mechanomilling conditions. Using 0.5 equivalents of H2SO4, amides were isolated

Enzymatic synthesis of glycosides: from natural O- and N-glycosides to rare C- and S-glycosides

• Jihen Ati,
• Pierre Lafite and
• Richard Daniellou

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1857–1865, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.180

• retaining mechanism). In the case of O-GTs, the nucleophile is an alcohol or a phenol (carbohydrates, serine, threonine, …), whereas in N-GTs, the nature of the nitrogen-containing group is more diverse (amines, amides, guanidine or even indoles) [12]. S- and C-GTs follow a similar mechanism with the

Iodoarene-catalyzed cyclizations of N-propargylamides and β-amidoketones: synthesis of 2-oxazolines

• Somaia Kamouka and
• Wesley J. Moran

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1823–1827, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.177

• cyclization of N-propargylamides and the second involves the cyclization of β-amidoketones. These are proposed to proceed through different mechanisms and have different substrate scopes. Keywords: amides; catalysis; cyclization; hypervalent iodine; isoxazolines; Introduction Hypervalent iodine reagents are

• ][26][27][28][29]. Saito and co-workers have reported the cyclization of propargylamides to form oxazoles rather than oxazolines under stoichiometric and, more recently, catalytic hypervalent iodine conditions [30][31]. Various other methods for the cyclization of unsaturated amides have been reported

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

• . Impressively, however, changing for BINAM-based phosphoric acid amides like compound M they achieved remarkable enantioselectivities for this transformation (Scheme 18). It was also demonstrated that the hereby accessed products 42 can easily be reduced to obtain the corresponding free amines by means of a

Development of a method for the synthesis of 2,4,5-trisubstituted oxazoles composed of carboxylic acid, amino acid, and boronic acid

• Kohei Yamada,
• Naoto Kamimura and
• Munetaka Kunishima

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1478–1485, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.146

• materials, such as α-haloketones and primary amides [8], alkynes and nitriles [9], amines and α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds [10], etc. [11] have been reported. However, these reactions are often conducted under harsh reaction conditions and multistep syntheses of the starting materials are needed. ii

Syntheses of 3,4- and 1,4-dihydroquinazolines from 2-aminobenzylamine

• Jimena E. Díaz,
• Silvia Ranieri,
• Nadia Gruber and
• Liliana R. Orelli

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1470–1477, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.145

• functionalized 2-aminobenzylamines [36][37] such as the cyclization of N-(2-aminobenzyl)amides, which in general requires drastic conditions or long reaction times [17][18][21][22][29][38][39][40]. Miscellaneous methods include the nucleophilic addition of secondary amines to carbodiimides followed by an

• transformations like conversion of amides into nitriles [52][53] or the Beckmann rearrangement [52][54]. They have also been widely employed in heterocyclic synthesis, including microwave-assisted reactions. The recognized wide functional group tolerance, stability and low environmental impact are additional

• amides 4a–c employing a THF solution of borane (yields 82–93%; see Supporting Information File 1 and Scheme 2). The synthesis of N-(2-aminobenzyl)amides 4a–k was achieved by selective N-acylation of 2-ABA or its N-substituted derivatives 3a–c, whose preparation is depicted in Scheme 2. In spite of the

Photocatalyzed synthesis of isochromanones and isobenzofuranones under batch and flow conditions

• Manuel Anselmo,
• Lisa Moni,
• Hossny Ismail,
• Davide Comoretto,
• Renata Riva and
• Andrea Basso

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1456–1462, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.143

• approaches thus arousing our interest [2]. In 2014 König reported a photo-Meerwein reaction between arenediazonium salts and styrenes to afford, upon intervention of the nitrile solvent and water, amides of formula 1 (Scheme 1) [3]. According to the proposed mechanism, the carbocationic intermediate A

• amides. Reaction of o-alkoxycarbonyldiazonium salts with alkenes under Ru-photocatalyzed conditions. Proposed mechanism for the reaction of diazonium salt 2h with methyl methacrylate (3a). Reaction of 2-aminocarbonyldiazonium salt 2i with styrene (3b). Reaction of diazonium salts 11 with styrenes 12. The

1-Imidoalkylphosphonium salts with modulated C_α–P⁺ bond strength: synthesis and application as new active α-imidoalkylating agents

• Jakub Adamek,
• Roman Mazurkiewicz,
• Anna Węgrzyk and
• Karol Erfurt

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1446–1455, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.142

• difficult and elaborate. Most of these, including the most frequently used α-alkoxy derivatives (Z = OR), N-[1-(benzotriazol-1-yl)alkyl]amides (Z = 1-benzotriazolyl) and 1-(N-acylamino)alkyl sulfones (Z = SO2Ar) require activation with Lewis acids, which are expensive (e.g., ZrCl4, VCl3, CeCl3, Bi(OTf)3 or

Regioselective (thio)carbamoylation of 2,7-di-tert-butylpyrene at the 1-position with iso(thio)cyanates

• Anna Wrona-Piotrowicz,
• Marzena Witalewska,
• Janusz Zakrzewski and
• Anna Makal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1032–1038, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.102

• .13.102 Abstract It has been found that 2,7-di-tert-butylpyrene reacts with aliphatic iso(thio)cyanates in the presence of trifluoromethanesulfonic acid to exclusively afford the corresponding 1-substituted (thio)amides in high yields. For aromatic iso(thio)cyanates the reaction is less regioselective

• photophysical properties [4][10][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20], we thought it would be of interest to study its reactivity in the above reaction (and to extend its scope for isocyanates). An additional reason for such a study was the fact that thioamides (and amides) are versatile starting materials in the

• syntheses of various products (especially heterocycles) [21][22]. Furthermore, aromatic amides undergo a variety of directed C–H bond functionalizations [23]. Herein we report that the reaction of 2 with aliphatic isocyanates and isothiocyanates proceeds regioselectively at the 1-position (Scheme 1

A practical and efficient approach to imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine-fused isoquinolines through the post-GBB transformation strategy

• Taofeng Shao,
• Zhiming Gong,
• Tianyi Su,
• Wei Hao and
• Chao Che

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 817–824, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.82

• ][30]. Although the Ugi-4CR generates linear α-acylamino-amides, a wide range of heterocycles are accessible through the combination with other transformations (post-transformation strategy) [31]. For example, the Ugi/Diels–Alder process leads to the formation of benzofurans and indoles [32] as well as

DMAP-assisted sulfonylation as an efficient step for the methylation of primary amine motifs on solid support

• Johnny N. Naoum,
• Koushik Chandra,
• Dorit Shemesh,
• R. Benny Gerber,
• Chaim Gilon and
• Mattan Hurevich

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 806–816, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.81

• Methylated amines and amides are common motifs found in natural and synthetic compounds, e.g., small molecules, peptides, and oligonucleotides [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. Methylation of amines and amides has found many applications in the fields of pharmacological research, materials science, and in synthetic

• organic chemistry [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. There is a major interest in developing synthetic methods for the preparation of methylated amines and amides [3]. The main challenge in the synthesis of N-methylated amines is to selectively prepare the mono-methylated product and to avoid the formation

• several amine motifs. 4-Dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP) has been reported to assist in the sulfonylation and acylation of weak nucleophiles such as secondary amines, alcohols, amides, and sterically hindered amines when used as catalyst in addition to a base additive [28][29][30][31]. It has been suggested

Fluorinated cyclohexanes: Synthesis of amine building blocks of the all-cis 2,3,5,6-tetrafluorocyclohexylamine motif

• Tetiana Bykova,
• Nawaf Al-Maharik,
• Alexandra M. Z. Slawin and
• David O'Hagan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 728–733, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.72

• compound 15, there are no amides to stabilize such a structure, and the facially polarized cyclohexane rings presumably form the strongest intermolecular interactions in this case (Figure 2). Conclusion In summary we report a method for the preparation of 2,3,5,6-tetrafluorocyclohexane amines 5a, 5b and 5c

Ultrasound-promoted organocatalytic enamine–azide [3 + 2] cycloaddition reactions for the synthesis of ((arylselanyl)phenyl-1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)ketones

• Gabriel P. Costa,
• Natália Seus,
• Juliano A. Roehrs,
• Raquel G. Jacob,
• Ricardo F. Schumacher,
• Thiago Barcellos,
• Rafael Luque and
• Diego Alves

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 694–702, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.68

• short reaction times. In addition, this protocol was extended to β-keto esters, β-keto amides and α-cyano ketones. Selanyltriazoyl carboxylates, carboxamides and carbonitriles were synthesized in high yields at short times of reaction under very mild reaction conditions. Keywords: cycloadditions

• -amides with a range of substituted aryl azides providing and efficient access to new N-aryl-1,2,3-triazoyl carboxamides in good to excellent yields and short reaction times of [75]. However, to the best of our knowledge, the use of sonochemistry to synthesize complex selenium-functionalized 1,2,3

• as a mixture of regioisomers (6:1) (Table 2, entry 10). In addition, the possibility to perform the reaction of 2-azidophenyl phenyl selenide (1a) with β-keto-esters, β-keto-amides and α-cyano-ketones 2f–k was also investigated. The reaction conditions optimized for 1,3-diketone 2a were employed, but

Fluorescent carbon dots from mono- and polysaccharides: synthesis, properties and applications

• Stephen Hill and
• M. Carmen Galan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 675–693, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.67

• carbonyl-containing functional groups such as carboxylic acids and amides, which coated a graphitic-type core. The nanoparticles exhibit excitation-dependent emission and were blue-emissive under UV excitation, but green when excited at 496 nm. Although no NMR characterisation was carried out on the