(Bio)isosteres of ortho- and meta-substituted benzenes

• H. Erik Diepers and
• Johannes C. L. Walker

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 859–890, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.78

• rearrangement, amine (±)-27 was then accessible in one additional step. Formation of redox active ester (±)-28 from acid (±)-26 allowed photochemical Minisci reaction to 1,2-BCH (±)-29 and borylation to boronic ester (±)-30. Synthesis of phenol isostere (±)-31 was possible through oxidation of boronic ester

• synthesis of some 1,5-BCHeps, including 134b, was also possible on mmol scale. Through derivatization of iodine-substituted 1,5-BCHeps 134f and 134g, an even larger number of 1,5-BCHeps were accessed (Scheme 14B) [27][47]. For example, lithium–halogen exchange was used to prepare acids 135f–g and boronic

• ester 136g. The latter could then be oxidised to the corresponding alcohols 137f–g. The bridgehead iodine substituent could also be harnessed in iron-catalysed Kumada coupling reactions to furnish a larger number of arene-substituted 1,5-BCHeps 138. Anderson and co-workers also reported access to

Mechanisms for radical reactions initiating from N-hydroxyphthalimide esters

• Carlos R. Azpilcueta-Nicolas and
• Jean-Philip Lumb

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 346–378, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.35

• dimerization of radical 76. Reaction between radical 9 and species 78 affords boronic ester 79 while returning boryl radical 76. Finally, chain propagation takes place via reaction of 76 with another equivalent of the NHPI ester 3. The Baran lab has recently published a complementary electrochemical method

A deep-red fluorophore based on naphthothiadiazole as emitter with hybridized local and charge transfer and ambipolar transporting properties for electroluminescent devices

• Suangsiri Arunlimsawat,
• Patteera Funchien,
• Pongsakorn Chasing,
• Atthapon Saenubol,
• Taweesak Sudyoadsuk and
• Vinich Promarak

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1664–1676, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.122

• -N-carbazole 2 in good yield (87%). Compound 2 was then converted to the boronic ester intermediate 3 in 41% yield over two steps: monobromination at the carbazole unit of 2 with NBS/THF at low temperature giving the unisolated mixed brominated product followed by borylation with bis(pinacolato

Photoredox catalysis harvesting multiple photon or electrochemical energies

• Mattia Lepori,
• Simon Schmid and
• Joshua P. Barham

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1055–1145, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.81

Group 13 exchange and transborylation in catalysis

• Dominic R. Willcox and
• Stephen P. Thomas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 325–348, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.28

• in catalysis beyond their typical use as Lewis acids [46]. This strategy has allowed the synthesis of bench-stable boronic ester products, rather than sensitive alkylboranes, and enabled the use of substoichiometric amounts of enantioenriched boron reagents, which can be challenging to prepare. This

• [58]. The alkyne 1 and dialkylborane reacted to give an alkenylborane 2. Transborylation with HBpin gave the alkenyl boronic ester 3 and regenerated the catalyst, HBR2. Isotopic labelling (H10Bpin) confirmed B–C(sp2)/B–H transborylation proceeded by σ-bond metathesis, and not ligand exchange. Using

• allene 14, giving a boryl diene 16. A Cope rearrangement of the boryl diene 16 followed by transborylation gave the dienyl boronic ester 18 and regenerated the catalyst (Scheme 5). Chang reported the alkoxide-promoted hydroboration of N-heteroarenes with HBpin, the first explicit example of a B‒N/B‒H

Introducing a new 7-ring fused diindenone-dithieno[3,2-b:2',3'-d]thiophene unit as a promising component for organic semiconductor materials

• Valentin H. K. Fell,
• Joseph Cameron,
• Alexander L. Kanibolotsky,
• Eman J. Hussien and
• Peter J. Skabara

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 944–955, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.94

• derivative of 31 could be isolated; it hydrolysed on the column back to the starting material. Thus, after reacting 31 with n-butyllithium and trimethyl borate, the obtained species was reacted in situ with pinacol to generate the corresponding boronic ester 32, which could be isolated by column

Borylated norbornadiene derivatives: Synthesis and application in Pd-catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reactions

• Robin Schulte and
• Heiko Ihmels

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 368–373, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.41

• catalyst and additive. The 1H NMR-spectroscopic analysis of the reaction showed that in both attempts no reaction occurred. It may be concluded that the nucleophilicity of the boronic ester is not sufficient, however, under the employed conditions, it can be hydrolyzed to the more reactive boronic acid

Synthesis of 4-substituted azopyridine-functionalized Ni(II)-porphyrins as molecular spin switches

• Jannis Ludwig,
• Tobias Moje,
• Fynn Röhricht and
• Rainer Herges

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2589–2597, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.210

• molecules 1f–j (Figure 1) were synthesized by a modular approach described by Heitmann et al. [15]. The boronic ester 22 was prepared according to a mixed aldehyde procedure [16][17] and the substituted azopyridines 14, 18, 20, and 21 were attached using Suzuki conditions. Synthesis of azopyridines 10–12

The B & B approach: Ball-milling conjugation of dextran with phenylboronic acid (PBA)-functionalized BODIPY

• Patrizia Andreozzi,
• Lorenza Tamberi,
• Elisamaria Tasca,
• Gina Elena Giacomazzo,
• Marta Martinez,
• Mirko Severi,
• Marco Marradi,
• Stefano Cicchi,
• Sergio Moya,
• Giacomo Biagiotti and
• Barbara Richichi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2272–2281, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.188

• biocompatibility while remaining fluorescent. Keywords: ball milling; boronic ester; dextran; bodipy; nanoparticles; Introduction In the last few decades, mechanochemistry has gathered a great deal of attention and a lot of efforts have been focused on its use in organic synthesis, catalysis, biotransformation

• properties of BODIPY and the biocompatibility of dextran. The BODIPY dextran nanoparticles were characterized regarding their size, morphology, polarity, and toxicity in vitro. We demonstrate the feasibility of mechanochemistry for boronic ester formation [23] to a glycan polymer as a route of conjugation

Synthesis of 3-substituted isoxazolidin-4-ols using hydroboration–oxidation reactions of 4,5-unsubstituted 2,3-dihydroisoxazoles

• Lívia Dikošová,
• Júlia Laceková,
• Ondrej Záborský and
• Róbert Fischer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1313–1319, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.112

• -hydroxyisoxazolidines by the treatment of boronic ester-substituted isoxazolidines with basic hydrogen peroxide has previously been described [30][31]. To start with, the phenyl-substituted 2,3-dihydroisoxazole 5a was chosen as the starting substrate. After optimizing Kang's reaction conditions in terms of the borane

Synthesis of novel multifunctional carbazole-based molecules and their thermal, electrochemical and optical properties

• Nuray Altinolcek,
• Ahmet Battal,
• Mustafa Tavasli,
• William J. Peveler,
• Holly A. Yu and
• Peter J. Skabara

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1066–1074, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.93

• % aqueous NaOH in the presence of tetrabutylammonium iodide (TBAI) [33][34][35]. Upon chromatography 3-bromo-9-hexylcarbazole (4) was obtained as a liquid in good yield. 3-Bromo-9-hexylcarbazole (4) was then converted into the pinacol boronic ester by treating with bis(pinacolato)diboron in the presence of

Aldehydes as powerful initiators for photochemical transformations

• Maria A. Theodoropoulou,
• Nikolaos F. Nikitas and
• Christoforos G. Kokotos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 833–857, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.76

• 96 h. The aryl (i.e., 133), ether (i.e., 140a), ester (i.e., 140b), tert-butyldimethylsilyloxy (i.e., 140c), boronic ester (i.e., 140d), acetal (i.e., 140e), and indol products (i.e., 140h) of various bromo-substituted starting materials were successfully obtained. For 1-bromo-3-chloropropane, the

Mono- and bithiophene-substituted diarylethene photoswitches with emissive open or closed forms

• A. Lennart Schleper,
• Mariano L. Bossi,
• Vladimir N. Belov and
• Stefan W. Hell

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2344–2354, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.227

• regioisomeric bromides were also formed, but they were separated by column chromatography on the next step. Bithiophene 11 was prepared in 74% yield by using a Suzuki–Miyaura coupling (catalyzed by PEPPSI-IPr) between boronic ester 9 and bromide 10 [13][14]. Boronation of bithiophene 11 was achieved under

An overview of the cycloaddition chemistry of fulvenes and emerging applications

• Ellen Swan,
• Kirsten Platts and
• Anton Blencowe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2113–2132, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.209

• irreversible precipitation of a product, and an inevitable shift in dynamic equilibrium. Several types of reversible reactions have been successfully employed in the formation of DCL, including transesterification, peptide bond exchange, disulphide exchange, olefin metathesis and boronic ester formation [189

Norbornadiene-functionalized triazatriangulenium and trioxatriangulenium platforms

• Roland Löw,
• Talina Rusch,
• Tobias Moje,
• Fynn Röhricht,
• Olaf M. Magnussen and
• Rainer Herges

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1815–1821, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.175

• obtained in a convergent synthesis (Scheme 2). Boronic ester 9 was synthesized as described in the literature [15]. In a Suzuki cross-coupling reaction norbornadiene 4 was coupled with 9 to the extended norbornadiene 10 (38%), which was attached to the TATA platform 6 to yield the extended norbornadiene

Borylation and rearrangement of alkynyloxiranes: a stereospecific route to substituted α-enynes

• Ruben Pomar Fuentespina,
• José Angel Garcia de la Cruz,
• Gabriel Durin,
• Victor Mamane,
• Jean-Marc Weibel and
• Patrick Pale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1416–1424, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.141

• the oxiranyllithium species upon the addition of the boronic ester. Unfortunately, all attempts to detect or isolate such ate complexes or related oxiranylboronic esters failed so far [38]. The oxiranylborate complex B then undergoes an intramolecular SN2-like process (Matteson-type rearrangement) [14

Anomeric sugar boronic acid analogues as potential agents for boron neutron capture therapy

• Daniela Imperio,
• Erika Del Grosso,
• Silvia Fallarini,
• Grazia Lombardi and
• Luigi Panza

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1355–1359, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.135

• about the solution behavior of these compounds we performed MS analysis. The mass spectrum of compound 8 in aqueous solution showed the presence of the cyclic boronic ester both in the positive ionization mode, as adduct at m/z 180 ([M + NH4]+) and m/z 185 ([M + Na]+), and in the negative ionization

• suitable for future biological tests. Conclusion In conclusion, we have reported the synthesis, stability evaluation, and preliminary biological testing of two sugar analogues bearing a boron atom at the anomeric position. Compound 8 showed a tendency towards elimination reaction, probably through boronic

• ester ring opening, while compound 11 demonstrated to be stable. The two compounds showed no toxicity on human primary fibroblasts. Further studies will be conducted to determine the cellular uptake of compounds 8 and 11. Structure of boronic acid analogues (for clarity, sugar numbering has been

Mechanochemistry of supramolecules

• Anima Bose and
• Prasenjit Mal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 881–900, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.86

• -workers (Figure 10). Under ball-milling conditions (20 Hz), the condensation of 4-formylphenylboronic acid, pentaerythritol and 1,3,5-tri(aminomethyl)-2,4,6-triethylbenzene afforded 94% of sphere-like compound 21 in 1 h [63]. In 2018, Wang and co-workers also demonstrated the synthesis of boronic ester

• -containing [2]rotaxanes [61]. Mechanochemical liquid-assisted one-pot two-step synthesis of [2]rotaxanes under high-speed vibration milling (HSVM) conditions [62]. Mechanochemical (ball-milling) synthesis of molecular sphere-like nanostructures [63]. High-speed vibration milling (HSVM) synthesis of boronic

• ester cages of type 22 [64]. Mechanochemical synthesis of borasiloxane-based macrocycles. Mechanochemical synthesis of 2-dimensional aromatic polyamides. Nitschke’s tetrahedral Fe(II) cage 25. Mechanochemical one-pot synthesis of the 22-component [Fe4(AD2)6]4− 26, 11-component [Fe2(BD2)3]2− 27 and 5

Solid-phase synthesis of biaryl bicyclic peptides containing a 3-aryltyrosine or a 4-arylphenylalanine moiety

• Iteng Ng-Choi,
• Àngel Oliveras,
• Lidia Feliu and
• Marta Planas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 761–768, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.72

• peptidyl resin 4 bearing a 4-iodo- and a 4-boronophenylalanine residue. The latter would be incorporated at the N-terminus of the peptide sequence which would avoid the decomposition of the boronic ester during the coupling steps [26]. The intramolecular Suzuki–Miyaura cross coupling of 4 followed by

• )/H2O (95:2.5:2.5) for 2 h affording the linear boronopeptide H-Phe(4-B(OH)2)-Ala-Gln-Leu-Gln-Phe(4-I)-βAla-Gln-OpNB in >99% purity, which was characterized by mass spectrometry. The boronic acid function resulted from hydrolysis of the boronic ester during HPLC analysis as shown by mass spectrometry

Synergistic approach to polycycles through Suzuki–Miyaura cross coupling and metathesis as key steps

• Sambasivarao Kotha,
• Milind Meshram and
• Chandravathi Chakkapalli

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2468–2481, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.223

• useful protocol to build indene derivatives by employing SM coupling and RCM in sequence. To this end, the SM coupling of triflate 7 was accomplished by using pinacol boronic ester 8 in the presence of a palladium catalyst to give the cross-coupling product 9 (75%). Later on, exposure of the diolefinic

Intramolecular glycosylation

• Xiao G. Jia and
• Alexei V. Demchenko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2028–2048, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.201

• ]. Arylboronic esters have recently been probed by Toshima and co-workers as a successful linkage for the IAD method [109]. The arylboronic sugar derivatives, such as 79, can be easily obtained from the corresponding 4,6-diol 78 and a arylboronic acid in toluene at reflux (Scheme 19). Boronic ester 79 was then

• . Conversely, the galacto-configured boronic ester acceptor 82 was used, the α-(1→6)-linked product 83 was formed in 70% yield. Again, the regioselectivity of glycosylation is driven by the less-hindered boron–oxygen bond, which is from C-6 face in the case of galactose (intermediate B, Scheme 19). In the case

• al. explored the use of ortho-dihydroxyboryl-substituted benzyl thioglycosides as a delivery method for the leaving group-based intramolecular glycosylation [129]. They hypothesized that if boronic acid-derived donor 100 is activated in the presence of glycosyl acceptor 101, the boronic ester 102

Practical synthetic strategies towards lipophilic 6-iodotetrahydroquinolines and -dihydroquinolines

• David R. Chisholm,
• Garr-Layy Zhou,
• Ehmke Pohl,
• Roy Valentine and
• Andrew Whiting

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1851–1862, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.174

• and 6-bromo-THQ 26 (synthesised using the optimised conditions for 21) were reacted under typical Suzuki conditions with boronic ester 27. Analysis of the crude 1H NMR spectra for the reactions indicated full conversion of the 6-iodo-THQ 21, but moderate conversion (56%) in the case of the 6-bromo-THQ

• addition of DIBAL to 20a.a DIBAL reductions of quinolin-2-ones 23a–e using the optimised method to synthesise 22.a Comparing the reactivity of 6-iodo-THQ 21 and 6-bromo-THQ 26 in a typical Suzuki reaction with boronic ester 27 to give biaryl 28. Supporting Information Supporting information features full

Scope and limitations of the dual-gold-catalysed hydrophenoxylation of alkynes

• Adrián Gómez-Suárez,
• Yoshihiro Oonishi,
• Anthony R. Martin and
• Steven P. Nolan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 172–178, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.19

• (3ad), acetals (3ae) and naphthyls (3af) were well tolerated and the corresponding vinyl ethers were obtained in moderate to high yields (50–98%). On the contrary, the use of azide (3ag) or boronic ester (3ah) functionalities did not afford the desired products [29]. The latter case can be explained

• due to formation of the corresponding gem-diaurated aryl species, by reaction of catalyst [{Au(IPr)}2(µ-OH)][BF4] with the boronic ester [30], thus inhibiting the catalytic activity. The electronic properties of the phenol were also examined. If the electron density on the phenol is decreased, its

• phenylacetylene [30]. As in the case of the formation of a gem-diaurated species when boronic ester 3h was used, it appears that in situ formation of highly stable diaurated species, inhibits catalytic activity. These results suggest that while both electron-rich/poor alkynes are tolerated by our methodology, the

Assembly of synthetic Aβ miniamyloids on polyol templates

• Sebastian Nils Fischer and
• Armin Geyer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2646–2653, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.284

• template 16 to obtain threefold boronic ester 17. The miniamyloid 17 assembles from seven components by imine and boronic ester bonds between the peptides and the template. The relative orientation and spacing of the peptides mimic the assembly of peptides in Alzheimer β-amyloids. Keywords: Alzheimer

• -terminal boronic acid 2. Peptide boronic acids of type 1 were synthesized on polymer-bound diethanolamine (PS-DEAM resin), according to the protocol in Supporting Information File 1, Figure S1 [21]. The electron-poor boronic acid 2, which was expected to be more reactive in boronic ester formation, was

• only low tendencies of boronic ester formation [23]. Therefore, we turned to cis-dihydroxylated 5, which exhibited a unique reactivity towards boronic acids because it forms two anellated cis-fused rings. 5 shows 86% esterification after drying in a 1:1 mixture with the arylboronic acid 6, a single

Clean and fast cross-coupling of aryl halides in one-pot

• Valerica Pandarus,
• Geneviève Gingras,
• François Béland,
• Rosaria Ciriminna and
• Mario Pagliaro

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 897–901, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.87

• 3 h. Table 1, entry 3 shows that 3-bromopyridine is entirely converted in the boronic acid pinacol ester in 3 h over 2 mol % SiliaCat DPP-Pd. The resulting boronic ester is then smoothly coupled with 4-bromotoluene in 83% in 3 h, or with 2-bromotoluene in 82% in 3 h (Table 1, entry 4), over the same