Facile approach to N,O,S-heteropentacycles via condensation of sterically crowded 3H-phenoxazin-3-one with ortho-substituted anilines

• Eugeny Ivakhnenko,
• Vasily Malay,
• Pavel Knyazev,
• Nikita Merezhko,
• Nadezhda Makarova,
• Oleg Demidov,
• Gennady Borodkin,
• Andrey Starikov and
• Vladimir Minkin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 336–345, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.34

• structure, 3H-phenoxazin-3-ones can easily be accessed through oxidative couplings of o-aminophenols [3][4] or N-aryl-o-benzoquinone imines [5][6]. Further, they can serve as efficient precursors of pentacyclic N,O-heterocyclic compounds that possess promising properties for application in fluorescent

• condensation of 3H-phenoxazin-3-one (1) with various o-aminophenols (in refluxing DMF for 8–10 h), upon formation of the corresponding imine intermediate, affords benzo[5,6][1,4]oxazino[2,3-b]phenoxazines derivatives 10a,b (triphenodioxazines). As shown in the present work, this reaction can also be performed

One-pot synthesis of 2-arylated and 2-alkylated benzoxazoles and benzimidazoles based on triphenylbismuth dichloride-promoted desulfurization of thioamides

• Arisu Koyanagi,
• Yuki Murata,
• Shiori Hayakawa,
• Mio Matsumura and
• Shuji Yasuike

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1479–1487, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.155

• benzazole derivatives is of interest as they are biologically active substances. Herein, a simple method for the synthesis of 2-aryl- and 2-alkyl-substituted benzazoles is described. The reaction of 2-aminophenols with thioamides at 60 °C in the presence of triphenylbismuth dichloride in 1,2-dichloroethane

• triphenylbismuth dichloride (Ph3BiCl2) to act efficiently in desulfurization reactions (Scheme 1-I and II). In 2018, we reported the preparation of 2-aminobenzoxazoles by the Ph3BiCl2-mediated cyclodesulfurization of thioureas, which were obtained from 2-aminophenols and isothiocyanates [34]. In 2019, Doris et al

• above-described cyclization, the reaction of various aminophenols 1 (0.5 mmol) and thioamides 2 (1.0 mmol) was investigated in the presence of Ph3BiCl2 6a (1.0 mmol) under the optimized conditions. The results are summarized in Table 2. The reaction of aminophenol (1a) with thioamides 2b–g bearing

Application of the Meerwein reaction of 1,4-benzoquinone to a metal-free synthesis of benzofuropyridine analogues

• Rashmi Singh,
• Tomas Horsten,
• Rashmi Prakash,
• Swapan Dey and
• Wim Dehaen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 977–982, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.79

• unknown compounds 14–16 opens many synthetic possibilities for the preparation of novel fused derivatives of 1-aza-9-oxafluorene. The nitro compounds 14 and 15 were reduced to the corresponding aniline derivatives using hydrogen and Pd/C as a catalyst. The resulting aminophenols 17 and 18 were further

¹⁹F NMR as a tool in chemical biology

• Diana Gimenez,
• Aoife Phelan,
• Cormac D. Murphy and
• Steven L. Cobb

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 293–318, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.28

• . [110] investigated the bacterial degradation of pentafluorosulfanyl (SF5)-substituted aminophenols and via 19F NMR analysis of culture extracts was able to determine the production of new fluorinated metabolites (Figure 16). Subsequent analysis by GC–MS was required to further characterize the products

Synthesis of 1,4-benzothiazinones from acylpyruvic acids or furan-2,3-diones and o-aminothiophenol

• Ekaterina E. Stepanova,
• Maksim V. Dmitriev and
• Andrey N. Maslivets

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2322–2331, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.193

• -diones V, and acetylenedicarboxylates VI with o-aminophenols or o-phenylenediamines (Scheme 3) [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Since the approach to alkoxy-substituted BTAs III (Figure 1, R = OAlk) has already been reported (Scheme 2) [21], we focused our research on aryl/alkyl-substituted BTAs III (Figure 1, R = Ar

Metal-free C–H mercaptalization of benzothiazoles and benzoxazoles using 1,3-propanedithiol as thiol source

• Yan Xiao,
• Bing Jing,
• Xiaoxia Liu,
• Hongyu Xue and
• Yajun Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 279–284, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.24

• reported a new method for the synthesis of 2-mercaptobenzoxazoles and 2-mercaptobenzothiazoles by cyclization of 2-aminothiophenols or 2-aminophenols with tetramethylthiuram disulfide in water [19]. Very recently, the Liu group developed a novel protocol for the synthesis of 2-mercaptobenzothiazoles via a

Cationic cobalt-catalyzed [1,3]-rearrangement of N-alkoxycarbonyloxyanilines

• Itaru Nakamura,
• Mao Owada,
• Takeru Jo and
• Masahiro Terada

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1972–1979, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.172

• , Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578 Japan 10.3762/bjoc.14.172 Abstract A cationic cobalt catalyst efficiently promoted the reaction of N-alkoxycarbonyloxyanilines at 30 °C, affording the corresponding ortho-aminophenols in good to high yields. As reported previously, our mechanistic studies including oxygen-18

• intermediates not only in pharmaceutical chemistry but also in materials science. Thus, it is of great importance to efficiently synthesize functionalized 2-aminophenols under mild reaction conditions in a regioselective manner. Among numerous methods, the [3,3]-rearrangement of O-acyl-N-arylhydroxylamines 1

• driven by cleavage of the N–O bond is an ideal approach to selectively synthesize O-protected 2-aminophenols 2 while maintaining the oxidation state during the transformation (Scheme 2a) [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. However, there is a significant drawback, these [3,3]-rearrangements of carboxylic acyloxy

Metal-free formal synthesis of phenoxazine

• Gabriella Kervefors,
• Antonia Becker,
• Chandan Dey and
• Berit Olofsson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1491–1497, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.126

• [14], and a range of synthetic routes to this target has since been developed [1]. Transition metal-free routes include the synthesis from 2-aminophenols and 3,4-dihaloarenes decorated with electron-withdrawing substituents, which proceed through a Smiles rearrangement (Scheme 1a) [15][16][17]. More

Mannich base-connected syntheses mediated by ortho-quinone methides

• Petra Barta,
• Ferenc Fülöp and
• István Szatmári

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 560–575, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.43

• adducts. Due to the important pharmacological activities of these reactive o-QM intermediates, special attention is paid to the biological activity of these compounds. Keywords: aminophenols; [4 + 2] cycloaddition; dienophile; Mannich reaction; ortho-quinone methide; Review Introduction The Mannich

Fluorescent nucleobase analogues for base–base FRET in nucleic acids: synthesis, photophysics and applications

• Mattias Bood,
• Sangamesh Sarangamath,
• Moa S. Wranne,
• Morten Grøtli and
• L. Marcus Wilhelmsson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 114–129, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.7

• with various substituted 2-aminophenols in the presence of the strong base DBU which resulted in compounds 22a–e. A subsequent protection group removal yielded compounds 23a–e and made the scaffold ready for cyclization. Initially, CsF was used in place of KF, however, the hygroscopic nature of CsF

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

• yield within 30 min at 600 rpm. Differently substituted diamines, 2-aminothiophenol and 2-aminophenols reacted with benzaldehyde or aliphatic aldehyde derivatives to give 79–94% of the desired product (Scheme 35). Major advantage of this method was the regeneration of catalyst by filtration and washing

Laterally substituted symmetric and nonsymmetric salicylideneimine-based bent-core mesogens

• Sonja Findeisen-Tandel,
• Wolfgang Weissflog,
• Ute Baumeister,
• Gerhard Pelzl,
• H. N. Shreenivasa Murthy and
• Channabasaveshwar V. Yelamaggad

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 129–154, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.15

• oxalyl chloride. Following pathway A the condensation of the salicylaldehydes 5a–d with 3-aminophenyl 4-(4-n-dodecyloxy-3-substituted-benzoyloxy)benzoates 6 yielded the final compounds according to [33]. Following pathway B, the salicylidene intermediates 5a–d were reacted with 3-aminophenols to give the

The Elbs and Boyland- Sims peroxydisulfate oxidations

• E. J. Behrman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2006, 2, No. 22, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-2-22

• to the dihydric phenols (or aminophenols). The yields of products are typically low to moderate, but the simplicity of the reactions frequently recommends their use. Reactions are usually carried out by dissolving the phenol or amine in an alkaline aqueous medium, sometimes with the addition of a co