Indium-mediated allylation in carbohydrate synthesis: A short and efficient approach towards higher 2-acetamido-2-deoxy sugars

• Christopher Albler,
• Ralph Hollaus,
• Hanspeter Kählig and
• Walther Schmid

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2230–2234, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.231

• . Deacetylation in a methanolic HCl solution proved to be most efficient and the subsequent ozonolysis generated sugar azides 6a–c (Scheme 2). It turned out to be essential to perform the acidic acetate cleavage of compounds 5a–c under strictly dry conditions, since even small amounts of water promoted an

Organophosphorus chemistry

• Paul R. Hanson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2087–2088, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.217

• phosphanylidenecarbenes and phosphoryl azides, and bisphosphonate ethers as promising inhibitors of geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase (GGDPS). The articles and reviews capture the emerging potential of organophosphorus compounds and exciting opportunities in the field, and hopefully, will inspire and motivate

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

• unprotected azidosugars were obtained by straightforward deprotection of the corresponding acetyl-protected azides [38]. The trivalent glycoclusters decorated with D-galactose, 1, D-glucose, 13, and L-fucose, 14, epitopes were thus obtained directly in 53%, 50%, and 44% yields, respectively, after reversed

• 34% yield. A second [3 + 2] cycloaddition with a different glycoside, such as D-glycopyranosyl azide 8, under the same conditions, provided for example the mixed Gal2-Glc triazine cluster 17 (Scheme 2). The efficient conjugation of unprotected glycosyl azides to trithiotriazine 2 thus provides

Triazol-substituted titanocenes by strain-driven 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions

• Andreas Gansäuer,
• Andreas Okkel,
• Lukas Schwach,
• Laura Wagner,
• Anja Selig and
• Aram Prokop

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1630–1637, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.169

• active complexes allows the identification of structural features essential for biological activity. Keywords: azides; click-chemistry; cycloadditions; cytotoxicity; titanocenes; Introduction Group 4 metallocenes and derivatives of Cp2TiCl2, in particular, continue to be in the focus of contemporary

• A–D shown in Figure 2 were used as amino-substituted azides. They are readily obtained from the corresponding diazides through a Staudinger reaction (see Supporting Information File 1 for details) [45][46]. As for the carboxylates the different tether lengths and substitution patterns of the arene

• allow to study the effect of substitution on the activity of the complexes. The ether tether in B serves as a model for PEG. The titanocene carboxylates 1–3 were transformed into the corresponding acid chlorides and then reacted with amino azides A–D in the presence of NaH without purification of the

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

• steps, the oligomeric backbone was formed on the solid support. In the next step, the sugar ligands were introduced to the oligomeric backbone via CuAAC. To this end, two sugar azides (2-azidoethyl galactoside and 2-azidoethyl mannoside) were previously synthesized following literature protocols [26]. 8

Microwave-assisted Cu(I)-catalyzed, three-component synthesis of 2-(4-((1-phenyl-1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)methoxy)phenyl)-1H-benzo[d]imidazoles

• Yogesh Kumar,
• Vijay Bahadur,
• Anil K. Singh,
• Virinder S. Parmar,
• Erik V. Van der Eycken and
• Brajendra K. Singh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1413–1420, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.145

• protocol and the results are summarized in Table 2. Different azides 1a–j with electron-donating groups (Table 2, entries 2–8, 12–17, 20–23), electron-withdrawing groups (Table 2, entries 9, 10, 18 and 19), two different 4-(prop-2-yn-1-yloxy)benzaldehydes 2a,b, and two different 1,2-diaminobenzenes 3a,b

An economical and safe procedure to synthesize 2-hydroxy-4-pentynoic acid: A precursor towards ‘clickable’ biodegradable polylactide

• Quanxuan Zhang,
• Hong Ren and
• Gregory L. Baker

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1365–1371, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.139

• onto polymers from a single monomer via convenient ‘click’ chemistry with organic azides. The incorporation of various pendant functional groups could effectively tailor the physicochemical properties of polylactide. The reported synthesis of 1 started from propargyl bromide and ethyl glyoxylate

• groups onto polymers via convenient ‘click’ reaction with organic azido molecules without PLA backbone degradation [17]. ‘Click’ chemistry [20], which is copper(I)-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azides and alkynes, has been developed and utilized in recent years as a powerful synthetic strategy

• family of water-soluble and temperature responsive biodegradable PLA material with tunable lower critical solution temperature (LCST) in a range from 25 to 65 °C was obtained after ‘click’ grafting with a mixture of alkyl and PEG azides. Starting from the same precursor 1 [18], Yu and coworkers have

Stereoselective synthesis of carbocyclic analogues of the nucleoside Q precursor (PreQ₀)

• Sabin Llona-Minguez and
• Simon P. Mackay

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1333–1338, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.135

• both alcohols showed a diastereomeric purity of >99% by 1H NMR. Mitsunobu reaction on the secondary alcohols using DEAD or DIAD did not provide the desired azides [42][43] nor did a one-pot Appel reaction/nucleophilic substitution/Staudinger reaction protocol involving a double inversion of

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

• -dideoxysugars and azides with various substituent groups (R2) were screened and the summarized results are shown in Table 3. Overall, the yields obtained were from good to excellent while preserving the anomeric selectivity and regioselectivity. In general, the analogous reaction of a set of azides with

• conjugations to microwave irradiation. All the reactions were completed in considerably shorter reaction times of less than 30 min for the Huisgen cycloaddition of alkenes and azides catalyzed by copper sulfate and sodium ascorbate, affording the corresponding products in good to excellent yields in each case

• has been established that the construction of well-defined multivalent, anomerically pure 3-amino-2,3-dideoxyneoglycoconjugate architectures was successfully achieved by using cycloaddition reactions of alkynes and azides. It is expected that this strategy will find extensive applications in

Synthesis, characterization and DNA interaction studies of new triptycene derivatives

• Sourav Chakraborty,
• Snehasish Mondal,
• Rina Kumari,
• Sourav Bhowmick,
• Prolay Das and
• Neeladri Das

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1290–1298, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.130

• , polymers, supramolecules and other smart materials [2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. In order to explore more applications of triptycenes, there is a need to design newer derivatives of triptycene having specific functional groups. It is well established that aromatic azides are an important class of compounds having

• various interesting applications in organic chemistry [9][10][11] as well as material science [12][13][14][15] and drug discovery [16][17][18]. Organic azides in general are popular in recent times because of their use as synthons in Cu(I)-catalyzed “click chemistry” [19]. It is also well known that

• : 3.58 × 104 M−1 cm−1). The absorption spectra of 3 and 4 have a broad shoulder at around 300 nm, and this is due to n–π* transitions in the azides. Triptycene based tricarboxylic acids 5 and 6 exhibited two broad absorption bands centered at 280 nm (ε: 1.94 × 104 M−1 cm−1 for 5 and 3.06 × 104 M−1 cm−1

Synthesis of chiral N-phosphoryl aziridines through enantioselective aziridination of alkenes with phosphoryl azide via Co(II)-based metalloradical catalysis

• Jingran Tao,
• Li-Mei Jin and
• X. Peter Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1282–1289, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.129

• chiral catalysts, such as Mn, Fe, Cu, Rh, Ru and Co complexes, have been demonstrated as effective catalysts in asymmetric olefin aziridination with various nitrene sources, including the widely used iminoiodanes and their in situ variants, chloramine-T, bromamine-T, tosyloxycarbamates and organic azides

• [9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Among them, the organic azides have recently emerged as attractive alternative nitrene sources for metal-catalyzed aziridination because of many advantages such as ease of preparation, structural diversity, and N2 gas as the only byproduct [13][14][15]. While sulfonyl and

• aryl azides have been effectively employed for metal-catalyzed asymmetric aziridination [16][17][18][19], the catalytic system based on other types of azides, such as phosphoryl azides, remains underdeveloped. Phosphoryl azides, a family of common organic azides that can be directly synthesized from

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

• alcohols with various sulfonyl azides is found to undergo a concomitant intramolecular nucleophile attack to generate 1,2-dihydro-2-iminoquinolines after aromatization (via elimination of acetyl and hydroxy groups) and tautomerization. The reaction produces 4-substituted and 3,4-unsubstituted title

• 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

• herein report a synthesis of 1,2-dihydro-2-iminoquinolines (tauromerized form of 2-sulfonylaminoquinolines) from 1-(o-acetamidophenyl)propargyl alcohols via copper-catalyzed ketenimine formation with various sulfonyl azides. 2-Aminoquinolines and their derivatives have been found to be important

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

• ) satisfactory aqueous solubility and independent binding capacity of the cavities. Keywords: calculations; conformations; cyclodextrin; dimer; inclusion; PM3; Staudinger ligation; Introduction The Staudinger reaction [1] is a classical method for the preparation of amines from phosphines and azides [2][3

• preference for the self-inclusion configurations. The method can be clearly utilized for dimer formation using other cyclodextrin azides, provided that there is a long enough spacer connecting the azido group with the CD macrocycle. 1H NMR chemical shift change (Δδ) of CD cavity Η3 signal of compounds

Isocyanide-based multicomponent reactions towards cyclic constrained peptidomimetics

• Gijs Koopmanschap,
• Eelco Ruijter and
• Romano V.A. Orru

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 544–598, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.50

• subsequent transformations [19][22][26]. Examples of IMCR orthogonal species or functionalities are alkenes, alkynes and azides which may give the cyclic analogues via subsequent ring closing metathesis (RCM) or 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions. In contrast, protected functional groups first require a deprotection

• azides (Scheme 25) [85]. Advantages of this reaction are the kinetic stability of both functional groups under a range of different conditions. Also, the triazole products can be formed in both organic and aqueous solvents and by using the Cu(I)-catalyst which induces regioselective formation of the 1,4

Efficient carbon-Ferrier rearrangement on glycals mediated by ceric ammonium nitrate: Application to the synthesis of 2-deoxy-2-amino-C-glycoside

• Alafia A. Ansari,
• Y. Suman Reddy and
• Yashwant D. Vankar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 300–306, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.27

• emerged as a popular method. In particular, C-allyl glycosides, glycosyl cyanides, and glycosyl azides have received considerable attention, as the allyl, cyanide and azide moieties can be readily converted into a variety of other functional groups [6][28][29][30]. Furthermore, the resulting C

• with Me3SiCN afforded a 5:1 and 4:1 mixture of glycosyl cyanides 3 and 4 in 77% and 62% yields, respectively (Table 3). The reaction of glycals 1a and 1b with Me3SiN3 furnished a mixture of C-1 and C-3 substituted glycosyl azides (5/5' and 6/6'). This observation is in conformity with the report of

Diversity-oriented synthesis of dihydrobenzoxazepinones by coupling the Ugi multicomponent reaction with a Mitsunobu cyclization

• Lisa Moni,
• Luca Banfi,
• Andrea Basso,
• Alice Brambilla and
• Renata Riva

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 209–212, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.16

• reaction of an ortho-(benzyloxy)benzylamine, glycolic acid, an isocyanide and an aldehyde, followed by an intramolecular Mitsunobu substitution was developed. The required ortho-(benzyloxy)benzylamines have been in situ generated from the corresponding azides, in turn prepared in high yields from salicylic

• benzyl azides by nucleophilic substitution, followed by azide reduction. This strategy required in any case protection of the phenol moiety. As a matter of fact, in preliminary attempts, we found out that Ugi reactions employing free para-hydroxybenzylamines proceed in very poor yields (<25%), probably

• because of interference of the phenol moiety, which can act as internal nucleophile. For these reasons we decided to use the O-benzylated benzylamines as starting materials for the U-4CR, postponing the hydrogenolytic removal of the protecting group after the condensation. Four different benzyl azides 2a

Less reactive dipoles of diazodicarbonyl compounds in reaction with cycloaliphatic thioketones – First evidence for the 1,3-oxathiole–thiocarbonyl ylide interconversion

• Valerij A. Nikolaev,
• Alexey V. Ivanov,
• Ludmila L. Rodina and
• Grzegorz Mlostoń

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2751–2761, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.309

• prepared from the corresponding 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds and arenesulfonyl azides by diazo-transfer reactions [18]. Thioketones 1a,b were prepared from the corresponding ketones by known procedures [15][16]. General procedure for the reaction of diazodicarbonyl compounds with thioketone 1a: A mixture of

Advancements in the mechanistic understanding of the copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition

• Regina Berg and
• Bernd F. Straub

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2715–2750, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.308

• . It is supposed that bromide ions can bind strongly to copper(I) centres in organic media, but due to a tight layer of solvent molecules they cannot do so in aqueous solution. Thus, the CuAAC reaction with in situ generated azides could only be carried out in water as reaction medium. {The detrimental

• this byproduct can be prevented by using copper(I) bromide instead of the iodide salt. This reactivity of 1-haloalkynes is in accordance with the observation that 5-iodo-1,2,3-triazoles are formed as byproducts, when CuI is used as catalyst in CuAAC reactions of azides and terminal alkynes as has been

• , exchange of the halide group when 1-bromoalkynes are reacted with azides in the presence of copper(I) iodide [155] as observed by Rutjes et al. cannot be explained by this pathway. In 2006, the group of Nolan presented the synthesis of 1,4,5-trisubstituted-1,2,3-triazoles by cycloaddition reactions between

Stereodivergent synthesis of jaspine B and its isomers using a carbohydrate-derived alkoxyallene as C₃-building block

• Volker M. Schmiedel,
• Stefano Stefani and
• Hans-Ulrich Reissig

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2564–2569, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.291

• pleased to discover that the oxidative azidation [36] allowed a direct access to the corresponding α-azidofuranones in one step. The two diastereomers of the azides were obtained in a 60:40 ratio. The subsequent reduction of the carbonyl group with L-selectride in THF furnished the α

One-pot sequential synthesis of isocyanates and urea derivatives via a microwave-assisted Staudinger–aza-Wittig reaction

• Diego Carnaroglio,
• Katia Martina,
• Giovanni Palmisano,
• Andrea Penoni,
• Claudia Domini and
• Giancarlo Cravotto

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2378–2386, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.274

• urea derivatives. A small set of five different primary and secondary alkyl and benzyl azides were synthesized. Besides the azido derivatives synthesized from 17–19, the two volatile azides synthesized from 20 and 21 (n-butyl and allyl azide, respectively) were obtained under N2 pressure. After

The chemistry of amine radical cations produced by visible light photoredox catalysis

• Jie Hu,
• Jiang Wang,
• Theresa H. Nguyen and
• Nan Zheng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1977–2001, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.234

• light-mediated reductions such as reductive dehalogenation [47][48][49][50][51], reductive radical cyclization [52][53][54], reduction of activated ketones [49], and reduction of aromatic azides [55]. The third mode involves deprotonation of amine radical cation 2 to form α-amino radical 3, which is

Synthesis of mucin-type O-glycan probes as aminopropyl glycosides

• David Benito-Alifonso,
• Rachel A. Jones,
• Anh-Tuan Tran,
• Hannah Woodward,
• Nichola Smith and
• M. Carmen Galan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1867–1872, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.218

• susceptible to reduction, such as azides. After aqueous workup, the crude materials were subjected to removal of the acetyl groups using sodium hydroxide in methanol (pH = 11) followed by concomitant acetal hydrolysis and azide reduction using hydrogen and palladium on charcoal (Pd/C) in methanolic HCl (5

[3 + 2]-Cycloadditions of nitrile ylides after photoactivation of vinyl azides under flow conditions

• Stephan Cludius-Brandt,
• Lukas Kupracz and
• Andreas Kirschning

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1745–1750, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.201

• Stephan Cludius-Brandt Lukas Kupracz Andreas Kirschning Institute of Organic Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Schneiderberg 1b, 30167 Hannover, Germany 10.3762/bjoc.9.201 Abstract The photodenitrogenation of vinyl azides to 2H-azirines by using a photoflow reactor is reported and compared

• from the corresponding vinyl azide. Keywords: azirines; cycloaddition; flow chemistry; flow reactors; inductive heating; nitrile ylides; photochemistry; vinyl azides; Introduction Recently, photochemistry has seen a renaissance despite the fact that under batch conditions specialized reaction vessels

• photoinduced activation of vinyl azides 1, which gives rise to 2H-azirines 2 via vinyl nitrenes after the loss of molecular nitrogen and subsequent ring-opening under photochemical conditions to provide the nitrile ylides 3 (Scheme 1). For recent examples for the use of azirines in organic syntheses please

Efficient continuous-flow synthesis of novel 1,2,3-triazole-substituted β-aminocyclohexanecarboxylic acid derivatives with gram-scale production

• Sándor B. Ötvös,
• Ádám Georgiádes,
• István M. Mándity,
• Lóránd Kiss and
• Ferenc Fülöp

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1508–1516, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.172

• , the reaction temperature was lowered to room temperature by the joint use of both basic and acidic additives to improve the safety of the synthesis, as azides were to be handled as unstable reactants. Scale-up experiments were also performed, which led to the achievement of gram-scale production in a

• applications in numerous other areas of modern chemical sciences, such as bioconjugation [13], supramolecular chemistry, [14] and polymer sciences [15]. Probably the most useful and powerful procedure for the synthesis of 1,2,3-triazoles is the Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of organic azides with

• bioactive agents with anticancer, antibacterial, antiviral or analgesic effects (Figure 2) [25][26]. The alicyclic β-amino acids are key intermediates for the synthesis of a series of pharmaceutically relevant products [27], such as amino esters, amino alcohols, azides and heterocycles. Moreover, they are

A construction of 4,4-spirocyclic γ-lactams by tandem radical cyclization with carbon monoxide

• Mitsuhiro Ueda,
• Yoshitaka Uenoyama,
• Nozomi Terasoma,
• Shoko Doi,
• Shoji Kobayashi,
• Ilhyong Ryu and
• John A. Murphy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1340–1345, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.151

• azides with CO was achieved. The reaction of iodoaryl allyl azides, TTMSS and AIBN under CO pressure (80 atm) in THF at 80 °C gave the desired 4,4-spirocyclic indoline, benzofuran, and oxindole γ-lactams in moderate to good yields. Keywords: 4,4-spirocyclic indol γ-lactams; carbon monoxide; free radical

• ; iodoaryl allyl azides; tandem radical cyclization; Introduction 4,4-Spirocyclic oxindole γ-lactams containing a quaternary carbon center are key structures for the synthesis of biologically active natural products and the related analogues [1][2][3][4]. Therefore, the development of an efficient synthesis

• tandem reaction of iodoaryl alkenyl azides under radical conditions (Scheme 1) [13][14]. Curran et al. reported the synthesis of spirocyclic pyrrolidinyl dihydroquinolinones by tandem radical cyclization [15][16]. In this study we report a radical cyclization/annulation approach to 4.4-spirocyclic γ