Sydnone C-4 heteroarylation with an indolizine ring via Chichibabin indolizine synthesis

• Florin Albota,
• Mino R. Caira,
• Constantin Draghici,
• Florea Dumitrascu and
• Denisa E. Dumitrescu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2503–2510, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.245

• formation of single bonds between two aromatic or heteroaromatic rings involves palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions and cyclization of functional groups attached to an aromatic and heteroaromatic ring. Thus, arylation and heteroarylation at the C-4 position of sydnones has been performed by

Facile synthesis of indolo[3,2-a]carbazoles via Pd-catalyzed twofold oxidative cyclization

• Chao Yang,
• Kai Lin,
• Lan Huang,
• Wei-dong Pan and
• Sheng Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2490–2494, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.243

• : cyclization; indolo[3,2-a]carbazole; N-arylation; oxidative biaryl coupling; palladium catalysis; Introduction Many biologically active carbazole derivatives are of interest as drug-like templates. The indolo[3,2-a]carbazole skeleton, one of the isomeric indolocarbazoles, was firstly identified from nature

High performance p-type molecular electron donors for OPV applications via alkylthiophene catenation chromophore extension

• Paul B. Geraghty,
• Calvin Lee,
• Jegadesan Subbiah,
• Wallace W. H. Wong,
• James L. Banal,
• Mohammed A. Jameel,
• Trevor A. Smith and
• David J. Jones

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2298–2314, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.223

• products significantly reduced the yield. For the quater- and quinquethiophenes N-iodosuccinimide (NIS) was used to give a clean product. Ideally, the synthesis could be further simplified by direct palladium-catalyzed CH-activation, arylation of 2 followed by reaction with the commercially available 5

• , K3PO4 (2 M), 80 °C, 16 h, ii) ICl, DCM, 0 °C or NIS, 50:50 CHCl3/CH3CO2H, rt, 2 h. Synthesis of the bithiophene through palladium catalyzed direct arylation, a) i) Pd(OAc)2, PCy3, PivOH, K2CO3, toluene 100 °C, 4 h, 1%, ii) Pd(OAc)2, PPh3, K2CO3, DMF 120 °C, 6 h, 10%, iii) Pd(OAc)2, dppp, KOAc, DMAc 120

Regiocontroled Pd-catalysed C5-arylation of 3-substituted thiophene derivatives using a bromo-substituent as blocking group

• Mariem Brahim,
• Hamed Ben Ammar,
• Jean-François Soulé and
• Henri Doucet

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2197–2203, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.210

• introduction of aryl substituents at C5-position via Pd-catalysed direct arylation. With 1 mol % of a phosphine-free Pd catalyst, KOAc as the base and DMA as the solvent and various electron-deficient aryl bromides as aryl sources, C5-(hetero)arylated thiophenes were synthesized in moderate to high yields

• , without cleavage of the thienyl C–Br bond. Moreover, sequential direct thienyl C5-arylation followed by Pd-catalysed direct arylation or Suzuki coupling at the C2-position allows to prepare 2,5-di(hetero)arylated thiophenes bearing two different (hetero)aryl units in only two steps. This method provides a

• “green” access to arylated thiophene derivatives as it reduces the number of steps to prepare these compounds and also the formation of wastes. Keywords: aryl bromides; C–H bond activation; catalysis; direct arylation; palladium; thiophenes; Introduction Thiophene derivatives bearing aryl substituents

Rapid regio- and multi-coupling reactivity of 2,3-dibromobenzofurans with atom-economic triarylbismuths under palladium catalysis

• Maddali L. N. Rao,
• Jalindar B. Talode and
• Venneti N. Murty

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2065–2076, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.195

• 2-Br position of 2,3-dibromobenzofuran (1.1) [29]. This reaction delivered 2-aryl-3-bromobenzofuran 2.1 in 46% yield (Table 1, entry 1) and the corresponding bis-arylation product involoving both 2- and 3-Br positions was not formed. Under similar conditions but with Cs2CO3 (4 equiv) as base, the

• us to investigate further arylation studies with triarylbismuth reagents. It is to note that, under these mono-arylation coupling conditions comprising an 1:3 stoichiometric ratio of BiAr3:dibromide combination we have not obtained the formation of any bis-arylated product. Hence, it was of interest

• -coupling product (Table 3). Our initial attempt with mono-arylation catalytic conditions but with stoichiometric amount of bismuth reagent afforded 2,3-diarylbenzofuran 3.1 in 54% yield along with mono-arylated 2.3 in 31% yield (Table 3, entry 1). Importantly, this bis-coupling process was expected to go

One-pot synthesis of 4′-alkyl-4-cyanobiaryls on the basis of the terephthalonitrile dianion and neutral aromatic nitrile cross-coupling

• Roman Yu. Peshkov,
• Elena V. Panteleeva,
• Wang Chunyan,
• Evgeny V. Tretyakov and
• Vitalij D. Shteingarts

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1577–1584, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.153

• introduction of an organometallic group is necessary. The last disadvantage is overcome to some extent by the direct C–H arylation protocols [18], but usually they are catalytic and thus the resulting cross-coupling products contain traces of transition metals difficult to remove that limits their use in areas

• such as pharmacy [22]. Because of the above-mentioned shortcomings of cross-coupling methods, we applied the method based on the direct C–H arylation of unactivated monocyanoarene 2 by the terephthalonitrile (12−) dianion [23]. It was shown that the interaction of 12− alkali metal salt with

3,6-Carbazole vs 2,7-carbazole: A comparative study of hole-transporting polymeric materials for inorganic–organic hybrid perovskite solar cells

• Wei Li,
• Munechika Otsuka,
• Takehito Kato,
• Yang Wang,
• Takehiko Mori and
• Tsuyoshi Michinobu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1401–1409, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.134

• -EDOT (Scheme 1). We very recently reported the synthesis of the same polymer structures by the microwave-assisted direct arylation polycondensation, but it should be noted that the soluble 2,7-Cbz-EDOT could not be obtained due to undesired side reactions [37]. In contrast, the conventional Stille

Palladium-catalyzed picolinamide-directed iodination of remote ortho-C−H bonds of arenes: Synthesis of tetrahydroquinolines

• William A. Nack,
• Xinmou Wang,
• Bo Wang,
• Gang He and
• Gong Chen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1243–1249, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.119

• -arylpropylamines bearing strongly electron-donating or withdrawing substituents, complementing our previously reported PA-directed electrophilic aromatic substitution approach to this transformation. As demonstrated herein, a three step sequence of Pd-catalyzed γ-C(sp3)−H arylation, Pd-catalyzed ε-C(sp2)−H

• −H functionalization reactions starting from readily accessible aryl iodide and alkylamine precursors (Scheme 1) [8]. Alkylpicolinamides were first subjected to Pd-catalyzed γ-C(sp3)−H arylation with aryl iodides to form γ-arylpropylpicolinamides [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. These

• examined the substrate scope of this Pd-catalyzed iodination of γ-arylpropylpicolinamides (Table 2). The γ-arylpropylpicolinamides were prepared from the corresponding N-alkylpicolinamides and aryl iodides under our (BnO)2PO2H-promoted Pd-catalyzed γ-C(sp3)−H arylation conditions (see Supporting

Stereoselective synthesis of tricyclic compounds by intramolecular palladium-catalyzed addition of aryl iodides to carbonyl groups

• Jakub Saadi,
• Christoph Bentz,
• Kai Redies,
• Dieter Lentz,
• Reinhold Zimmer and
• Hans-Ulrich Reissig

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1236–1242, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.118

• intramolecular enolate arylation, a reaction that has been discovered by our group some years ago [11][12]. Apparently, under the reaction conditions a ketone enolate of 2 reacts with the iodoarene moiety to form the five-membered ring of 10. The configurational assignments of compounds 7 and 8 are in agreement

• groups [20][21]. Very extensive investigations with a variety of o-haloaniline derivatives as precursors have been reported by the group of Solé, Bonjoch and Fernández [22][23]. They also analyzed this reaction and the competing enolate arylation by computational studies [24][25] (for a review, see [26

• precursor compounds or elimination of water in the products. However, in general none of these byproducts has been isolated. For compound 2 the bulky isopropyl group slows down the addition to the carbonyl group and an enolate arylation was observed instead as major reaction pathway. Although the scope of

Synthesis of 2-oxindoles via 'transition-metal-free' intramolecular dehydrogenative coupling (IDC) of sp² C–H and sp³ C–H bonds

• Nivesh Kumar,
• Santanu Ghosh,
• Subhajit Bhunia and
• Alakesh Bisai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1153–1169, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.111

• -oxindoles while working on asymmetric synthesis of 3,3-disubstituted-2-oxindoles via a Pd-catalyzed (chiral N-heterocyclic carbene as ligands) intramolecular α-arylation of an amide [35][36][37]. For this 'intramolecular dehydrogenative coupling' (IDC) of Csp2-H and Csp3-H they used 2.2 equiv of CuCl2 and 5

Synthesis of β-arylated alkylamides via Pd-catalyzed one-pot installation of a directing group and C(sp³)–H arylation

• Yunyun Liu,
• Yi Zhang,
• Xiaoji Cao and
• Jie-Ping Wan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1122–1126, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.108

• .12.108 Abstract The synthesis of β-arylated alkylamides via alkyl C–H bond arylation has been realized by means of direct one-pot reactions of acyl chlorides, aryl iodides and 8-aminoquinoline. Depending on the structure of the starting materials, both single and double β-arylated alkylamides could be

• accessed. Keywords: alkylamides; C–H arylation; directing group; in situ installation; one-pot; Introduction The elaboration of inert C–H bonds is regarded as the longstanding aim of modern organic synthesis. Upon the extensive efforts during the past decades, the exploration and application of C–H

• known syntheses, a domino process by which the AQ can be linked directly to the raw substrates to enable the subsequent arylation transformation in one pot would be highly favorable for enhancing step economy. Upon this assumption as well as our interest in both domino reactions and C–H

Cationic Pd(II)-catalyzed C–H activation/cross-coupling reactions at room temperature: synthetic and mechanistic studies

• Takashi Nishikata,
• Alexander R. Abela,
• Shenlin Huang and
• Bruce H. Lipshutz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1040–1064, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.99

• intermediate, characterized by X-ray analysis. Roles of various additives in the stepwise process have also been studied. Keywords: arylation; cationic palladium; C–H functionalization; green chemistry; olefination; Introduction Transition metal-catalyzed, direct functionalization of aryl C–H bonds has made

• C–H arylations of arylureas with aryl iodides and arylboronic acids Among the most conceptually attractive approaches to aromatic C–H activation is the efficient synthesis of biaryls through direct arylation reactions. The widespread availability of aryl iodides and arylboronic acids make them

• the gross reaction medium. Especially noteworthy are the numerous examples of aniline derivatives lacking ortho- or meta-substitution, which have previously been shown to be prone to double arylation (Figure 3). Since literature conditions generally employ elevated temperatures, directed C–H

Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of biologically important 3-hydroxyoxindoles: an update

• Bin Yu,
• Hui Xing,
• De-Quan Yu and
• Hong-Min Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1000–1039, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.98

• -catalyzed enantioselective arylation of isatin-derived 3-indolylmethanols with 3-methylindoles, affording the biologically important 3,3’-bis(indolyl)oxindoles in excellent yields (up to 99%) and with good enantioselectivities (up to 91:9 er) [66]. The reactions proceeded smoothly in different solvents (DCM

A convenient route to symmetrically and unsymmetrically substituted 3,5-diaryl-2,4,6-trimethylpyridines via Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reaction

• Dariusz Błachut,
• Joanna Szawkało and
• Zbigniew Czarnocki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 835–845, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.82

• trimethylpyridines 46–66 have been considered (Scheme 2, routes 1, 2, and 3, respectively). In the first one, we considered synthesizing the monoarylated intermediate 42–45 first, which after isolation and analytical characterization, would act as the substrate for the subsequent arylation (Scheme 2, route 1). This

• 46–56. Preparation of unsymmetrical 3,5-diaryl-4-chloro-2,6-dimethylpyridines 68–71. Optimization of the reaction conditions. Results of the preliminary study on the double one-pot arylation of 1 with a mixture of arylboronic acids Ar1B(OH)2 and Ar2B(OH)2 32–41. Supporting Information Supporting

Gold-catalyzed direct alkynylation of tryptophan in peptides using TIPS-EBX

• Gergely L. Tolnai,
• Jonathan P. Brand and
• Jerome Waser

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 745–749, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.74

• . It has been achieved in the past for example by Francis and co-workers and Ball and co-workers using rhodium-catalyzed carbene-insertion reactions [21][22][23] or via direct C–H arylation [24][25][26][27][28][29]. If the installation of alkynes on peptides or proteins is desired, an indirect method

Opportunities and challenges for direct C–H functionalization of piperazines

• Zhishi Ye,
• Kristen E. Gettys and
• Mingji Dai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 702–715, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.70

• -throughput and automated workflow platform, they have discovered a photoredox-catalyzed C–H arylation of N-arylamines with 1,4-dicyanobenzene (88) to produce pharmaceutically important benzylic amines. This reaction works well with piperazine substrate 87 to synthesize the α-arylated piperazine 89 in 95

Copper-mediated arylation with arylboronic acids: Facile and modular synthesis of triarylmethanes

• H. Surya Prakash Rao and
• A. Veera Bhadra Rao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 496–504, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.49

• which the final step is the copper(II)-catalyzed arylation of diarylmethanols with arylboronic acids. By using this protocol a variety of symmetrical and unsymmetrical triarylmethanes were synthesized. As an application of the newly developed methodology, we demonstrate a high-yielding synthesis of the

• towards transition metal-catalyzed cross-couplings [43][44][45][46][47][48] or CH arylation followed by an arylative desulfonation [49][50]. The coupling reactions provide an opportunity to install an unactivated aryl group on a carbon bearing two more aryl groups to synthesize the triarylmethane motif

• triphenylmethane (11a). A plausible mechanism for the formation of triarylmethanes 11. Copper-catalyzed C–C bond formation synthesis of triarylmethane 10l. Synthesis of anti-breast-cancer agent intermediate 22. Screening of metal catalysts for the arylation reaction. Scope of the Cu-catalyzed arylation with

N-Methylphthalimide-substituted benzimidazolium salts and PEPPSI Pd–NHC complexes: synthesis, characterization and catalytic activity in carbon–carbon bond-forming reactions

• Senem Akkoç,
• Yetkin Gök,
• İlhan Özer İlhan and
• Veysel Kayser

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 81–88, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.9

• arylation (for 5–8) reactions. As catalysts, they demonstrated a highly efficient route for the formation of asymmetric biaryl compounds even though they were used in very low loading. For example, all compounds displayed good catalytic activity for the C–C bond formation of 4-tert-butylphenylboronic acid

• with 4-chlorotoluene. Keywords: arylation; benzimidazolium salts; catalysis; N-heterocyclic carbene; PEPPSI complex; Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reaction; Introduction The use of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) as ligands was started by Wanzlick [1] and Öfele [2] almost fifty years ago. There have

• complexes have been used in different coupling reactions such as Mizoroki–Heck cross-coupling [22][23], Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling [24][25], Sonogashira [26] and arylation reactions [27]. There are suitable precatalyst scaffolds, which were developed by Nolan [28], Organ [21] and Buchwald [29]. To find

A convergent, umpoled synthesis of 2-(1-amidoalkyl)pyridines

• Tarn C. Johnson and
• Stephen P. Marsden

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1–4, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.1

• substitution of suitably-activated pyridine N-oxides by azlactone nucleophiles, followed by decarboxylative azlactone ring-opening. The synthesis obviates the need for precious metal catalysts to achieve a formal enolate arylation reaction, and constitutes a formally ‘umpoled’ approach to this valuable class

• particular has developed methods for the preparation of α-aryl variants by palladium-catalysed enolate arylation reactions [13][14][15]. More recently, we have sought to develop more sustainable methods for the arylation of amino acid enolate equivalents that avoid the use of precious metal salts and

• arylation/decarboxylative hydrolysis approach to 2-(1-amidoalkyl)pyridines. Substrate scope of the direct amidoalkylation of pyridine N-oxides. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 7: Experimental procedures and full compound characterisation data for products 8a–j. Supporting Information

Pyridylidene ligand facilitates gold-catalyzed oxidative C–H arylation of heterocycles

• Kazuhiro Hata,
• Hideto Ito,
• Yasutomo Segawa and
• Kenichiro Itami

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2737–2746, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.295

• University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan 10.3762/bjoc.11.295 Abstract Triaryl-2-pyridylidene effectively facilitates the gold-catalyzed oxidative C–H arylation of heteroarenes with arylsilanes as a unique electron-donating ligand on gold. The employment of the 2-pyridylidene ligand, which is one of the

• strongest electron-donating N-heterocyclic carbenes, resulted in the rate acceleration of the C–H arylation reaction of heterocycles over conventional ligands such as triphenylphosphine and a classical N-heterocyclic carbene. In situ observation and isolation of the 2-pyridylidene-gold(III) species, as well

• arylation; gold catalysis; Introduction Over the past decade, gold salts and complexes have emerged as unique catalysts for the transformation of alkynes, alkenes and allenes [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. In most of the gold

Recent advances in copper-catalyzed asymmetric coupling reactions

• Fengtao Zhou and
• Qian Cai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2600–2615, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.280

• synthesis of chiral biphenyl diphosphine ligands by means of an intramolecular Ullmann coupling with the introduction of chiral bridged ethers. Catalytic asymmetric C–C coupling In 1929, Hurtley reported the first example of a C-arylation reaction of malonic esters with 2-bromobenzoic acid using a catalytic

• coupling reactions has not attracted the attention from the organic chemistry community. This may have been due to the fact that these reactions do not allow for the direct creation of new stereochemical centers. Only a few examples were reported for asymmetric N-arylation reactions using a Pd catalytic

• system through an “indirect” way, either by asymmetric desymmetrization or kinetic resolution [40][41][42][43][44]. In most cases, the enantioselectivities were not satisfactory. Recently, a copper catalytic system became another option toward asymmetric N-arylation reactions in term of improving

Bifunctional phase-transfer catalysis in the asymmetric synthesis of biologically active isoindolinones

• Antonia Di Mola,
• Maximilian Tiffner,
• Francesco Scorzelli,
• Laura Palombi,
• Rosanna Filosa,
• Paolo De Caprariis,
• Mario Waser and
• Antonio Massa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2591–2599, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.279

• efficiently obtained by condensation of the chiral acid (S)-9 with the commercially available piperazine 16. Since most of the bioactive isoindolinones have a heteroaromatic group on the lactam, we focused on the CuI arylation of amides developed by Buchwald [40], previously applied by us to racemic

• isoindolinones 9 via retro-Michael process. Asymmetric synthesis of (S)-PD172938. Coupling of chiral acid 9 with p-tolylpiperazine and CuI arylation of chiral isoindolinones. Catalyst screening in asymmetric cascade reactions of 2-cyanobenzaldehyde. Optimization of the asymmetric cascade reaction. Optimization

Rhodium, iridium and nickel complexes with a 1,3,5-triphenylbenzene tris-MIC ligand. Study of the electronic properties and catalytic activities

• Carmen Mejuto,
• Beatriz Royo,
• Gregorio Guisado-Barrios and
• Eduardo Peris

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2584–2590, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.278

• addition reaction of arylboronic acids to α,β-unsaturated ketones. Keywords: arylation of unsaturated ketones; mesoionic carbenes; nickel; iridium; rhodium; Introduction Highly symmetrical poly-NHCs are a very interesting type of ligands, because they allow the preparation of a variety of supramolecular

• ][64]. For the catalytic experiments, the arylation of 2-cyclohexen-1-one with several arylboronic acids was studied. The results obtained with 0.066 mol % catalyst 2 were compared with those previously obtained with catalyst 6. As can be seen from the data collected in Table 1, the activity of complex

Copper-catalyzed arylation of alkyl halides with arylaluminum reagents

• Bijay Shrestha and
• Ramesh Giri

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2400–2407, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.261

A concise and efficient synthesis of benzimidazo[1,2-c]quinazolines through CuI-catalyzed intramolecular N-arylations

• Xinlong Pang,
• Chao Chen,
• Ming Li and
• Chanjuan Xi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2365–2369, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.258

• Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266042, China 10.3762/bjoc.11.258 Abstract A series of functionalized benzimidazo[1,2-c]quinazoline derivatives was obtained in excellent yields under mild conditions through a CuI-catalyzed Ullmann N-arylation starting from easily available starting materials. Keywords

• : benzimidazo[1,2-c]quinazoline; (bromophenyl)iodonium salt; copper catalyst; o-cyanoaniline; quinazolin-4(3H)-imine; Ullmann N-arylation; Introduction Nitrogen-containing heterocycles are ubiquitous backbones in natural products, medicine and organic materials. In addition, they are also important ligands for

• are not readily available and need harsh conditions. Herein we report a CuI-catalyzed concise and efficient method for the synthesis of benzimidazo[1,2-c]quinazoline derivatives through the intramolecular N-arylation reaction of bromo-substituted quinazolin-4(3H)-imines that are easily prepared from o