Synthesis of alpha-tetrasubstituted triazoles by copper-catalyzed silyl deprotection/azide cycloaddition

• Zachary L. Palchak,
• Paula T. Nguyen and
• Catharine H. Larsen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1425–1433, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.154

• ; copper catalysis; multicomponent reactions; tetrasubstituted carbon; triazole; Introduction 1,2,3-Triazoles demonstrate wide spread application in biological systems and drug development [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloadditions (CuAAC) regioselectively

• second portion of the sequence in Scheme 1: a tandem deprotection–cycloaddition of tetrasubstituted TIPS-protected propargylamines 4 that would allow them to react in situ with various azides 5 to give hindered triazoles 6. As a copper(I) catalyst is required for azide–alkyne cycloaddition, the

• -deprotection with azide–alkyne cycloaddition, producing hindered triazoles in 6 hours. This tandem reaction was optimal with a copper(II) triflate and sodium ascorbate (NaAsc) as a mild reductant. The outcome that copper(II) triflate provides the highest yields for the one-pot deprotection/click reaction was

Selected synthetic strategies to cyclophanes

• Sambasivarao Kotha,
• Mukesh E. Shirbhate and
• Gopalkrushna T. Waghule

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1274–1331, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.142

• (Scheme 51). [3 + 2] Cycloaddition (1,3-dipolar cycloaddition/click reaction): In 2010, Raghunathan and co-workers [185] have synthesized a C2-symmetric triazolophane by a copper(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition, involving a click reaction. The dipropargyl fluorenyl derivative 299 was prepared from

• ] have reported the synthesis of a glycotriazolophane 309 (carbohydrate–triazole–cyclophane hybrid) from a sugar amino acid via a copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition sequence. An aminosugar acid was identified as a useful building block to generate cyclophanes. Thus, the treatment of 304 with

Synthesis of novel N-cyclopentenyl-lactams using the Aubé reaction

• Madhuri V. Shinde,
• Rohini S. Ople,
• Ekta Sangtani,
• Rajesh Gonnade and
• D. Srinivasa Reddy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1060–1067, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.119

• Carell et al. in 2007 [40]. The work of Aubé on AAC (azide–alkyne cycloaddition) chemistry also gives a good indication that equilibrating allylic azide stereoisomers can selectively participate in reactions [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45]. In 2000, Aubé et al. proposed a mechanism for the

Quarternization of 3-azido-1-propyne oligomers obtained by copper(I)-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition polymerization

• Shun Nakano,
• Akihito Hashidzume and
• Takahiro Sato

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1037–1042, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.116

• . Keywords: 3-azido-1-propyne oligomer; CuAAC polymerization; hydrodynamic radius; methyl iodide; pulse-field-gradient spin-echo NMR; quarternization; Introduction The copper(I)-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) efficiently yields 1,4-disubstituted-1,2,3-triazole from rather stable azides and

• Shun Nakano Akihito Hashidzume Takahiro Sato Department of Macromolecular Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan 10.3762/bjoc.11.116 Abstract 3-Azido-1-propyne oligomer (oligoAP) samples, prepared by copper(I)-catalyzed azide

• –alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) polymerization, were quarternized quantitatively with methyl iodide in sulfolane at 60 °C to obtain soluble oligomers. The conformation of the quarternized oligoAP in dilute DMSO-d6 solution was examined by pulse-field-gradient spin-echo NMR based on the touched bead model

Orthogonal dual-modification of proteins for the engineering of multivalent protein scaffolds

• Michaela Mühlberg,
• Michael G. Hoesl,
• Christian Kuehne,
• Jens Dernedde,
• Nediljko Budisa and
• Christian P. R. Hackenberger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 784–791, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.88

• combines residue-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids with chemical oxidative aldehyde formation at the N-terminus of a protein. Our approach relies on the selective introduction of two different functional moieties in a protein by mutually orthogonal copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition

• engineer multivalent glycoprotein conjugates, we have used the incorporation of non-canonical amino acids (NCAA) [13] by supplementation based incorporation (SPI) [14][15][16][17] in auxotroph expression systems followed by the chemoselective Cu-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) to attach

Multivalent polyglycerol supported imidazolidin-4-one organocatalysts for enantioselective Friedel–Crafts alkylations

• Tommaso Pecchioli,
• Manoj Kumar Muthyala,
• Rainer Haag and
• Mathias Christmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 730–738, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.83

• according to well-established protocols [65]. Consequently, we adopted the Sharpless–Fokin modification for the Huisgen azide–alkyne cycloaddition [66] to achieve the final immobilization of the modified imidazolidin-4-one onto the hyperbranched polymer and on the G1 dendron [65]. The progress of the

DNA display of glycoconjugates to emulate oligomeric interactions of glycans

• Alexandre Novoa and
• Nicolas Winssinger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 707–719, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.81

• 12) had marginal impact on the binding suggesting a saturation of binding site occupancy. For the structure with 6 units of maltose on each arm, a KD of 1 μM was measured which is 700-fold more potent (40-fold per sugar) than monovalent maltose. The advent of the copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne

Design, synthesis and photochemical properties of the first examples of iminosugar clusters based on fluorescent cores

• Mathieu L. Lepage,
• Antoine Mirloup,
• Manon Ripoll,
• Fabien Stauffert,
• Anne Bodlenner,
• Raymond Ziessel and
• Philippe Compain

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 659–667, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.74

• molecular probes and synthesized by way of Cu(I)-catalysed azide–alkyne cycloadditions are fluorescent analogues of potent pharmacological chaperones/correctors recently reported in the field of Gaucher disease and cystic fibrosis, two rare genetic diseases caused by protein misfolding. Keywords: BODIPY

• interest of the pyrene scaffold lies in its rigidity, a property that may favourably impact inhibitory multivalent effects [9][11][16][19]. A convergent approach comprising the attachment of azide-armed iminosugars 4 [11][12] on polyalkyne “clickable” scaffolds 5 and 6 via Cu(I)-catalyzed azide–alkyne

• -methylumbelliferone or other coumarine derivatives has thus to be taken into account during the quantitative analyses of dedicated biological processes. Conclusion We have reported the preparation of multivalent iminosugar clusters based on two fluorescent cores by way of Cu(I)-catalysed azide–alkyne cycloadditions

Synthesis and surface grafting of a β-cyclodextrin dimer facilitating cooperative inclusion of 2,6-ANS

• Lars W. Städe,
• Thorbjørn T. Nielsen,
• Laurent Duroux,
• Reinhard Wimmer,
• Kyoko Shimizu and
• Kim L. Larsen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 514–523, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.58

• to parent β-CD) for the inclusion of lipophilic molecules [5][9]. The extensive research on the topic has generated a vast number of different β-CD-dimer constructs and methods for the synthesis thereof. Of these methods, synthesis by click chemistry (and specifically the copper(I)-catalyzed azide

• −alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC)) is very attractive [10][11]. CuAAC is known to be selective, proceed fast and produce a high yield under mild conditions. Further, the formed triazole is stable against oxidation, reduction and hydrolysis [10]. Concerning the design of β-CD dimers, it was recently

C-5’-Triazolyl-2’-oxa-3’-aza-4’a-carbanucleosides: Synthesis and biological evaluation

• Roberto Romeo,
• Caterina Carnovale,
• Salvatore V. Giofrè,
• Maria A. Chiacchio,
• Adriana Garozzo,
• Emanuele Amata,
• Giovanni Romeo and
• Ugo Chiacchio

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 328–334, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.38

• Sharpless [46] (Scheme 1 and Table 1). The click chemistry process, carried out with equimolar amounts of the respective dipolarophiles, afforded in all the cases the corresponding C-5’-triazolyl-2’-oxa-3’-aza-4’a-carbanucleosides 13 and 14 in good yields (79–89%). According to other copper-catalyzed azide

• –alkyne cycloadditions, no traces of 1,5-regioisomers were observed [47][48]. The structure of the obtained compounds was assessed according to 1H NMR, 13C NMR and MS data. In particular, the 1H NMR spectra of 5-methyl-1-[(3RS,5SR)-2-methyl-3-(1H-1,2,3-triazol-1-ylmethyl)isoxazolidin-5-yl]pyrimidine-2,4

Sequential decarboxylative azide–alkyne cycloaddition and dehydrogenative coupling reactions: one-pot synthesis of polycyclic fused triazoles

• Kuppusamy Bharathimohan,
• Thanasekaran Ponpandian,
• A. Jafar Ahamed and
• Nattamai Bhuvanesh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 3031–3037, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.321

• methodology is more convenient to produce the complex polycyclic molecules in a simple way. Keywords: copper(II) acetate; decarboxylative CuAAC; dehydrogenative coupling; fused triazoles; one-pot synthesis; Introduction The copper-catalyzed Huisgen [3 + 2] cycloaddition (or copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne

Organic chemistry on surfaces: Direct cyclopropanation by dihalocarbene addition to vinyl terminated self-assembled monolayers (SAMs)

• Malgorzata Adamkiewicz,
• David O’Hagan and
• Georg Hähner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2897–2902, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.307

• including azide–alkyne cycloadditions [9][10], Diels–Alder reactions [11][12], maleimide–thiol reactions [13], thiol–ene additions [14], and imine/oxime conjugations [15]. In this article we demonstrate that dihalocarbenes can be used to generate dihalocyclopropanes on olefin terminated SAMs. We recently

A small azide-modified thiazole-based reporter molecule for fluorescence and mass spectrometric detection

• Stefanie Wolfram,
• Hendryk Würfel,
• Stefanie H. Habenicht,
• Christine Lembke,
• Phillipp Richter,
• Eckhard Birckner,
• Rainer Beckert and
• Georg Pohnert

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2470–2479, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.258

• )-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) is often considered as the prototypical transformation [7][8][9]. Due to the mild conditions and the use of aqueous solvents it is an efficient tool for bioorthogonal chemistry even inside of living systems [10]. One application of this concept for functional

Expanding the scope of cyclopropene reporters for the detection of metabolically engineered glycoproteins by Diels–Alder reactions

• Anne-Katrin Späte,
• Verena F. Schart,
• Julia Häfner,
• Andrea Niederwieser,
• Thomas U. Mayer and
• Valentin Wittmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2235–2242, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.232

• bioorthogonal labeling reactions that allow visualization [5][6]. Whereas in the first report on glycan labeling by this approach the ketone–hydrazide ligation was employed [7], later investigations mainly relied on the Staudinger ligation [8] and azide–alkyne [3 + 2] cycloaddition (copper-catalyzed [9][10] or

• fact that it can be orthogonal to the azide–alkyne cycloaddition [22][26][27] which allows dual labeling of two different sugars within one experiment [19][21][23][24]. Among the dienophiles mentioned above, strained cyclopropenes have the highest reaction rates for DAinv reactions with tetrazines and

• by simultaneous DAinv reaction and strain-promoted azide–alkyne cycloaddition in a single step [24]. The potential of Ac4ManNCyoc (3) for labeling of sialoglycoconjugates was also recognized by others [30]. Sialic acids are prominently positioned at the outer end of membrane glycoproteins which makes

Expeditive synthesis of trithiotriazine-cored glycoclusters and inhibition of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation

• Meriem Smadhi,
• Sophie de Bentzmann,
• Anne Imberty,
• Marc Gingras,
• Raoudha Abderrahim and
• Peter G. Goekjian

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1981–1990, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.206

• -triazine (2) as a key precursor [37]. The glycosyl units were incorporated via Cu(I)-catalyzed Huisgen cycloaddition with protected or unprotected glycosyl azides. We first investigated the Cu-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) of acetyl protected β-D-galactopyranosyl azide 3 [38], to tris

Clicked and long spaced galactosyl- and lactosylcalix[4]arenes: new multivalent galectin-3 ligands

• Silvia Bernardi,
• Paola Fezzardi,
• Gabriele Rispoli,
• Stefania E. Sestito,
• Francesco Peri,
• Francesco Sansone and
• Alessandro Casnati

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1672–1680, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.175

• have been widely studied in their scope and limitations [10][31]. In particular, the Huisgen cycloaddition reaction was first applied to a calixarene in 2000 by Santoyo-González [32]. Later on, Marra et al. [33] demonstrated that the copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) [34][35] at room

Photoswitchable precision glycooligomers and their lectin binding

• Daniela Ponader,
• Sinaida Igde,
• Marko Wehle,
• Katharina Märker,
• Mark Santer,
• David Bléger and
• Laura Hartmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1603–1612, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.166

• block AZO. TDS allows for the conjugation of sugar azide ligands via the copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC). The synthesis and coupling on solid support of TDS and EDS has been previously described [7][10]. AZO was synthesized via Mills coupling adapting literature protocols [20][21][22

The search for new amphiphiles: synthesis of a modular, high-throughput library

• George C. Feast,
• Thomas Lepitre,
• Xavier Mulet,
• Charlotte E. Conn,
• Oliver E. Hutt,
• G. Paul Savage and
• Calum J. Drummond

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1578–1588, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.163

• organic amphiphilic compounds was synthesised consisting of glucose, galactose, lactose, xylose and mannose head groups and double and triple-chain hydrophobic tails. A modular, high-throughput approach was developed, whereby head and tail components were conjugated using the copper-catalysed azide–alkyne

• delivery. Many other fields have utilised the copper-catalysed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) ‘click’ reaction [16][17] to generate libraries of compounds, including enzyme inhibitors [18][19][20], catalysis ligands [21][22][23] and metal frameworks [24][25]. We have recently demonstrated that a

Synthesis and solvodynamic diameter measurements of closely related mannodendrimers for the study of multivalent carbohydrate–protein interactions

• Yoann M. Chabre,
• Alex Papadopoulos,
• Alexandre A. Arnold and
• René Roy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1524–1535, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.157

• separating the anomeric and the core carbons, were synthesized using azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAc). Compound 23 was prepared by an efficient convergent strategy. The sugar precursors consisted of either a 2-azidoethyl (3) or a prop-2-ynyl α-D-mannopyranoside (7) derivative. The solvodynamic diameters of

• above with 3-azido-1-propanamine to provide 6 in 87% yield. Azide–alkyne cycloaddition of 6 with prop-2-ynyl α-D-mannopyranoside 7 [35] gave 8 (79%) which was de-O-acetylated under Zemplén conditions (NaOMe, MeOH, 95%) to give 9. The syntheses of 9-mers 12, 17 and 21 are illustrated in Schemes 2–5 and

Synthesis of the first examples of iminosugar clusters based on cyclopeptoid cores

• Mathieu L. Lepage,
• Alessandra Meli,
• Anne Bodlenner,
• Céline Tarnus,
• Francesco De Riccardis,
• Irene Izzo and
• Philippe Compain

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1406–1412, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.144

• with different valency and alkyl spacer lengths by means of Cu(I)-catalysed azide–alkyne cycloadditions. Evaluation of these compounds as α-mannosidase inhibitors led to significant multivalent effects and further demonstrated the decisive influence of scaffold rigidity on binding affinity enhancements

• iminosugars 5 onto polyalkyne “clickable” scaffolds 2–4 by Cu(I)-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) reactions [40][41] (Figure 1). N-alkyl derivatives of DNJ were logically chosen as the peripheral ligands because of the therapeutic relevance of these compounds [42]. In addition, most of the

Design and synthesis of multivalent neoglycoconjugates by click conjugations

• Feiqing Ding,
• Li Ji,
• Ronny William,
• Hua Chai and
• Xue-Wei Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1325–1332, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.134

• construction of a 1,4-disubstituted-1,2,3-triazole unit via a copper(I)-catalyzed modern version of the Huisgen-type azide–alkyne cycloaddition [6][7][8][9][10] has been considered to be a powerful ligation method for glycoconjugation [11][12][13][14][15][16]. In addition to the simplicity of this reaction and

Human dendritic cell activation induced by a permannosylated dendron containing an antigenic GM₃-lactone mimetic

• Renato Ribeiro-Viana,
• Elena Bonechi,
• Javier Rojo,
• Clara Ballerini,
• Giuseppina Comito,
• Barbara Richichi and
• Cristina Nativi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1317–1324, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.133

• functionalized with an alkyne group by a Cu(I) azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) reaction. Then, the mimetic 6 with a butyne group at the anomeric position, which is required for the conjugation to the glycodendron 7 (Scheme 1), was also prepared as already reported [33]. The synthesis of the tricyclic spiro

Tandem Cu-catalyzed ketenimine formation and intramolecular nucleophile capture: Synthesis of 1,2-dihydro-2-iminoquinolines from 1-(o-acetamidophenyl)propargyl alcohols

• Gadi Ranjith Kumar,
• Yalla Kiran Kumar,
• Ruchir Kant and
• Maddi Sridhar Reddy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1255–1260, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.125

• compounds in moderate to good yields under mild reaction conditions. Keywords: alkyne; azide; cycloaddition; cyclization; quinoline; Introduction The synthesis of N-sulfonylketenimines via CuAAC (copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition) between terminal alkynes and sulfonyl azides has staged for a

Molecular architecture with carbohydrate functionalized β-peptides adopting 3₁₄-helical conformation

• Nitin J. Pawar,
• Navdeep S. Sidhu,
• George M. Sheldrick,
• Dilip D. Dhavale and
• Ulf Diederichsen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 948–955, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.93

• corresponding lectins. Taillefumier and coworkers link sugar units to β-peptide amino acid side chains by azide–alkyne cycloaddition [20]. Following the concept of highly organized presentation of sugar units on a β-peptide scaffold, we report on simultaneous incorporation of various sugars (glucose, galactose

Staudinger ligation towards cyclodextrin dimers in aqueous/organic media. Synthesis, conformations and guest-encapsulation ability

• Malamatenia D. Manouilidou,
• Yannis G. Lazarou,
• Irene M. Mavridis and
• Konstantina Yannakopoulou

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 774–783, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.73

• . These include the well-known copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cyclization (CuAAC, “click” reaction) between an azido-CD derivative and an alkyne linker [19][22][23][24] [22], or vice versa, the metal catalyzed reactions between propargyl-CDs and aryl dihalides such as the Sonogashira and Glaser–Hay