(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

• 105. Prior to Rigotti and Bach, a select few 1,4-BCHs had been synthesised by Qin and co-workers [41] and Blanchard [56]. Alternatively, Hartwig and co-workers developed a C–H borylation reaction to access bridgehead-borylated 1,4-BCHs from monosubstituted BCHs [57]. The synthesis of polysubstituted

• could also be oxidised to acid 112, from which redox active ester 118 could be accessed. An alternative approach to 2-oxa-1,4-BCHs involves the C–H-borylation of monosubstituted 2-oxa-BCHs developed by Hartwig and co-workers (Scheme 12C) [57]. Functional groups including halides (in 120b), alcohols (in

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

• concomitant formation of radical 69. Finally, aromatization of 69 via SET to NHPI ester 3, generates pyridinium 73 as a byproduct, while propagating the radical chain reaction. Aggarwal and co-workers discovered the photoinduced decarboxylative borylation of NHPI esters mediated by bis(catecholato)diboron

• isonicotinate tert-butyl ester) in C(sp2)-borylation methods under photochemical and thermal conditions, respectively [65][66]. The activation of NHPI esters through EDA complex formation is also possible by employing a catalytic donor species, which enables a range of redox neutral transformations. In 2019

• ), alkynylation [88] (Scheme 24C) and C(sp3)–C(sp3) cross-coupling [89] (Scheme 24D). Finally, similar chemistry has been extended to the decarboxylative borylation of RAEs under Ni [90] and Cu [91] catalysis (Scheme 24E). Importantly, the Wang group has independently studied the decarboxylative Negishi coupling

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

Application of N-heterocyclic carbene–Cu(I) complexes as catalysts in organic synthesis: a review

• Nosheen Beig,
• Varsha Goyal and
• Raj K. Bansal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1408–1442, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.102

• transformations of sterically congested substrates, including those carrying a quaternary center not only proceeded efficiently but also were more selective. The NHCs with larger aryl units deliver higher selectivity ((Z/E: >98:2). Cazin and co-workers [83] instead used [IMes–CuCl] as catalyst for the borylation

• of internal alkynes with bis(pinacolato)diboron to obtain vinylboranes. The reaction could be performed in air. Tsuji and co-workers [84] prepared 2-boryl-substituted 1,3-butadienes, which are otherwise difficult to synthesize, through NHC–CuCl-catalyzed borylation of α-alkoxyallenes with B2(pin)2

• loading. Substrates with electron-withdrawing groups are tolerated, whereas strong electron-releasing groups decrease the reactivity. Steric hindrance also plays a crucial role, with ortho-substitution resulting in reduced catalytic activity. Mankad and co-worker [89] developed dehydrogenative borylation

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

• driving force (evolution of CO2). Triethylphosphite P(OEt)3 and bis(pinacolato)diboron B2pin2 were successfully applied as trapping reagents for redox-neutral photo-Arbuzov and borylation reactions with good to excellent yields (Figure 11D). Additionally, the authors were able to perform the net-reductive

• to 4-DPAIPN, both electron-poor and electron-rich aryl chlorides with reduction potentials up to Epred = −2.94 V vs SCE were readily reduced by *3CzEPAIPN•−. The authors demonstrated an impressive scope of borylation reactions with B2pin2 as well as other boronate esters (17h) and several examples of

• pathways are incredibly important for the development of new radical ion catalysts with improved photon economies and novel applications. Lee, Cho, You, and co-workers recently disclosed a fully elucidated mechanism of the reductive borylation of aryl halides using three newly developed photocatalysts

Pyridine C(sp²)–H bond functionalization under transition-metal and rare earth metal catalysis

• Haritha Sindhe,
• Malladi Mounika Reddy,
• Karthikeyan Rajkumar,
• Akshay Kamble,
• Amardeep Singh,
• Anand Kumar and
• Satyasheel Sharma

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 820–863, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.62

• , diversely functionalized pyridines have been synthesized via C–H activation under transition-metal and rare earth metal catalysis, including C–H alkylation, alkenylation, arylation, heteroarylation, borylation, etc. Recently, metal-free approaches have also been developed for the C–H functionalization of N

Enolates ambushed – asymmetric tandem conjugate addition and subsequent enolate trapping with conventional and less traditional electrophiles

• Péter Kisszékelyi and
• Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 593–634, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.44

• activated alkenes has matured into a well-developed strategy (Scheme 35). Despite its ability to build complex structures, the conjugate borylation with subsequent enolate trapping has rarely been applied in the last decade. These few examples are mostly limited to aldol reactions. In 2009, Shibasaki and co

• -workers explored the copper-catalyzed asymmetric conjugate borylation of β-substituted cyclic enones using chiral bisphosphine ligand L21 [77]. Other than the oxidation and hydrolysis of the produced enantiomerically enriched tertiary boronates, in one example, they have demonstrated the utilization of

• the enolate intermediate in a cascade sequence, including borylation, aldol reaction, and finally oxidation (Scheme 36). The product 146 containing three consecutive stereocenters was obtained in a dr of 6.5 to 1 and with good yield and enantioselectivity. Lam and co-workers described a highly

Combretastatins D series and analogues: from isolation, synthetic challenges and biological activities

• Jorge de Lima Neto and
• Paulo Henrique Menezes

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 399–427, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.31

• (91) was prepared from the borylation reaction of 4-bromobenzaldehyde (52, Scheme 18) [50]. The coupling reaction [23][24][25] between 14 and 91 gave the corresponding diaryl ether 16 in 68% yield. Subsequent transesterification reaction [51] using dibutyltin oxide and allylic alcohol led to the

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

• experimentally determined free energy barrier of 28 kcal mol−1 for the second transborylation reaction (Scheme 3b) [60]. The seminal work from Fontaine reported that [1-(N-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyl)-2-BH2-C6H4]2 catalysed the C–H borylation of heterocycles with HBpin [61], the first example of a catalytic

• ‒H borylation, with an initial B‒Y/B‒H transborylation activating the precatalyst [62][63][64][65]. Zhang showed that benzoic acid decomposed HBpin to BH3 in situ to catalyse the C2‒H borylation of indoles (Scheme 4b) [66][67]. Gellrich reported the bis(pentafluorophenyl)borane-catalysed dimerisation

• borylation of thiols with HBpin (Scheme 17) [79]. Through computational analysis, a mechanism was proposed whereby the ambiphilic amine-borane 73 underwent concerted addition to the thiol 74 S–H bond, to give a zwitterion 75. After loss of H2, a neutral thioborane 76 was generated, which underwent B‒S/B‒H

Dissecting Mechanochemistry III

• Lars Borchardt and
• José G. Hernández

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1454–1456, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.150

• halides as substrates in multiple reactions. For instance, within this Thematic Issue, the synthetic relevance of aryl halides was evidenced during the development of a protocol for the solid-state palladium-catalyzed borylation reported by Kubota, Ito, and co-workers (Scheme 2) [6]. Moreover, Štrbac and

• . Mechanochemical palladium-catalyzed borylation protocol of aryl halides. 1,2-Debromination of polycyclic imides, followed by in situ trapping of the dienophile by several dienes. Synthesis of g-h-PCN from sodium phosphide and trichloroheptazine mediated by mechanochemistry. Mechanochemical intra- and

Palladium-catalyzed solid-state borylation of aryl halides using mechanochemistry

• Koji Kubota,
• Emiru Baba,
• Tamae Seo,
• Tatsuo Ishiyama and
• Hajime Ito

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 855–862, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.86

• mill; borylation; cross-coupling; mechanochemistry; solid-state reaction; Introduction Arylboronic acid and its derivatives are indispensable reagents in modern synthetic chemistry because they have been frequently used for the preparation of many bioactive molecules, natural products, and functional

• organic materials, typically through Suzuki–Miyaura coupling [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. The palladium-catalyzed boryl substitution of aryl halides with boron reagents, termed Miyaura–Ishiyama borylation, is an efficient method for synthesizing arylboronates with high functional group compatibility [8][9][10

• ][11][12][13][14]. To date, many palladium-based catalytic systems in solution for the borylation of aryl halides have been reported [8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. However, these solution-based reactions usually require long reaction times and significant amounts of dry and degassed organic solvents

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

• the borylation reaction (see above). Photochromism of naphthylnorbornadiene 6b The photoisomerization reaction of substrate 5b was monitored by absorption spectroscopy (Figure 1) and by 1H NMR-spectroscopic analysis (see Supporting Information File 1, Figure S51). In MeCN solution, norbornadiene 5b

Unexpected chiral vicinal tetrasubstituted diamines via borylcopper-mediated homocoupling of isatin imines

• Marco Manenti,
• Leonardo Lo Presti,
• Giorgio Molteni and
• Alessandra Silvani

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 303–308, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.34

• oxindole-based α-aminoboronates. The asymmetric synthesis of diverse α-aminoboronic acids by diastereoselective Cu(I)-catalyzed borylation of N-tert-butanesulfinyl aldimines was described by Ellman and co-workers for the first time in 2008 [15] and next further developed with a more stable Cu(II) catalyst

Catalyzed and uncatalyzed procedures for the syntheses of isomeric covalent multi-indolyl hetero non-metallides: an account

• Ranadeep Talukdar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2102–2122, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.137

• ]. The reason behind the C-2 attachment of the boron atom rather than at the C-3 position of the indole ring was explained by McGough et al. [37]. They performed a base-free catalytic I2-assisted indole C–H functionalization (electrophilic borylation) using the N-protected indole 1 and NHC·borane 4a that

• excess of the indole reactant. It is seen that in the presence of a base the C-2 deprotonation becomes very fast in 9 (for regaining aromaticity) so the boron at the initial C-3-borylated intermediate 8 (formed via SEAr) cannot migrate fast enough, leading to a C-3 borylation product 10a (unlike Pd) [38

• ][39][40]. Here the absence of the base resulted in a slow or no C-2 deprotonation of 9, which in turn forces the boron to migrate to C-2 from C-3 (8, Scheme 2b) to result in the C-2 borylation (10b). Amines Bis(indolyl)amines have recently become important as organic electroluminescent materials [41

On the application of 3d metals for C–H activation toward bioactive compounds: The key step for the synthesis of silver bullets

• Renato L. Carvalho,
• Amanda S. de Miranda,
• Mateus P. Nunes,
• Roberto S. Gomes,
• Guilherme A. M. Jardim and
• Eufrânio N. da Silva Júnior

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1849–1938, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.126

Total synthesis of decarboxyaltenusin

• Lucas Warmuth,
• Aaron Weiß,
• Marco Reinhardt,
• Anna Meschkov,
• Ute Schepers and
• Joachim Podlech

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 224–228, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.22

• protection to the bis(benzyl ether) 5b using standard conditions (Scheme 2) [27]. The preparation of boronate 6b applying the conditions used for the silylated substrate 6a (vide supra) led to a mediocre 44% yield, but the utilization of a palladium-catalyzed borylation with bis(pinacolato)diboron afforded

Synthetic approaches to bowl-shaped π-conjugated sumanene and its congeners

• Shakeel Alvi and
• Rashid Ali

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2212–2259, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.186

• in the presence of hydrogen gas in toluene at room temperature, confirmed by mass spectral data as well as NMR spectroscopy (Scheme 20) [14]. As can be inspected from Scheme 21, the dimer 90 of sumanene (2) was obtained by two different routes, first by employing a one-pot borylation as well as a

• corresponding DA adducts 102a–d in moderate yields as shown in Table 1 [58]. o-Bromohydroxysumanene 72 was converted to o-hydroxysumanenyl borate 100 by means of a Pd-catalyzed Miyaura-borylation reaction. Compound 100 was then subjected to triflation and subsequent treatment with CsF afforded sumanyne which on

When metal-catalyzed C–H functionalization meets visible-light photocatalysis

• Lucas Guillemard and
• Joanna Wencel-Delord

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1754–1804, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.147

• merging C–H activation and photocatalysis while using a single metal catalyst. In this case, an original Rh–NHC complex was used for the ortho-directed C–H borylation of phenylpyridine substrates (Figure 40) [102]. As previously, the irradiation with visible light allowed performing this challenging

• borylation under mild reaction conditions, thus delivering, after oxidation of the crude reaction mixture with Oxone, a large panel of the corresponding hydroxylated pyridine products. From the mechanistic point of view, this reaction is expected to differ from the previously described Ru-catalyzed meta

• an oxidative ortho-C–H addition step via a metal-to-ligand charge transfer process, delivering the Rh(III) hydride species. Following borylation of the Rh(III) intermediate and subsequent reductive elimination liberate the expected coupling product with concomitant regeneration of the catalytically

Photocatalysis with organic dyes: facile access to reactive intermediates for synthesis

• Stephanie G. E. Amos,
• Marion Garreau,
• Luca Buzzetti and
• Jerome Waser

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1163–1187, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.103

• SET approach, where the first reduction of dicyanoanthracene (OD5) is achieved electrochemically, was recently disclosed by Lambert and Lin. In this report, the photoexcited radical anion of the dye was exploited for accessing aryl radicals as intermediates of a reductive borylation of aryl halides

Copper-based fluorinated reagents for the synthesis of CF₂R-containing molecules (R ≠ F)

• Louise Ruyet and
• Tatiana Besset

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1051–1065, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.92

•  14, a). One year later, they demonstrated that these copper-based reagents ((Phen)CuCF2RF, RF = F, CF3 and CF2CF3) were efficient in a two-step sequence reaction (borylation/perfluoroalkylation) allowing the functionalization of either sterically hindered arenes or aryl bromides with the CF2CF3 and

One-pot synthesis of dicyclopenta-fused peropyrene via a fourfold alkyne annulation

• Ji Ma,
• Yubin Fu,
• Junzhi Liu and
• Xinliang Feng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 791–797, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.72

• and Discussion The synthesis of compound 1 is depicted in Scheme 2. Firstly, 2,7-bis(Bpin)pyrene (3) was prepared using an iridium-catalyzed borylation of pyrene (67% yield). Then, 2,7-diphenylpyrene (4) was obtained by Suzuki cross-coupling of 3 and bromobenzene in 77% yield. After that, the

Recent advances in Cu-catalyzed C(sp³)–Si and C(sp³)–B bond formation

• Balaram S. Takale,
• Ruchita R. Thakore,
• Elham Etemadi-Davan and
• Bruce H. Lipshutz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 691–737, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.67

• reactions are discussed. Keywords: C–B bonds; copper catalysis; C–Si bonds; enantioselective reactions; sp3 carbon functionalization; Introduction Transition-metal-catalyzed silylation and borylation are useful transformations [1], widely studied because organosilicon [2][3] and organoboron compounds [4

• bond formation Organoboron compounds are widely used in C–C and C–X (X = N, O) bond constructions. Straightforward methods for their synthesis involve the copper-catalyzed addition of organoboron compounds to alkynes, alkenes, and unsaturated carbonyl compounds, as well as the nucleophilic borylation

• have been reported to take place in high yields, along with high diastereo- and enantioselectivities. Applications of optimized ligands, such as (R,R)-QuinoxP* and (R,R)-iPr-DuPhos, for borylation of (E)-allylic phosphates 334 delivers either the trans or cis-configuration of these cyclopropyl moieties

Direct borylation of terrylene and quaterrylene

• Haruka Kano,
• Keiji Uehara,
• Kyohei Matsuo,
• Hironobu Hayashi,
• Hiroko Yamada and
• Naoki Aratani

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 621–627, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.58

• direct borylation of C–H bonds in terrylene in 56% yield. The product is soluble in common organic solvents and could be purified without column chromatography. Single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis revealed that the terrylene core is not disturbed by the substituents and is perfectly flat. The

• photophysical properties of TB4 are also unchanged by the substituents because the carbon atoms at 2,5,10,13-positions have less coefficients on its HOMO and LUMO, estimated by theoretical calculations. Finally, the same borylation reaction was applied for quaterrylene, resulting in the formation of soluble

• tetra-borylated quaterrylene despite a low yield. The post modification of rylenes enables us to prepare their borylated products as versatile units after creating the rylene skeletons. Keywords: borylation; π-conjugation; oligorylene; single crystal X-ray structure; solubility; Introduction Compared

Regioselectively α- and β-alkynylated BODIPY dyes via gold(I)-catalyzed direct C–H functionalization and their photophysical properties

• Takahide Shimada,
• Shigeki Mori,
• Masatoshi Ishida and
• Hiroyuki Furuta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 587–595, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.53

• ], and borylation [32]), has been in great demand recently rather than the conventional multistep synthesis with nucleophilic substitution/cross-coupling via halogenation of BODIPYs [33] or from the activated precursors [34] via unstable pyrrolic intermediates. In particular, halogenation (e.g

Recent advances in photocatalyzed reactions using well-defined copper(I) complexes

• Mingbing Zhong,
• Xavier Pannecoucke,
• Philippe Jubault and
• Thomas Poisson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 451–481, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.42

• initial step. In early 2019, our research group reported the copper-photocatalyzed borylation of organic halides using [Cu(I)(DMEGqu)(DPEPhos)]PF6 as the photocatalyst (Scheme 26) [41]. The photocatalytic Miyaura borylation reaction was carried out using aryl iodides bearing either electron-donating or

• amination of NHP esters. Photocatalytic decarboxylative alkynylation using [Cu(I)(dq)(binap)]BF4. Copper-photocatalyzed alkylation of glycine esters. Copper-photocatalyzed borylation of organic halides. aUnder continuous flow conditions. Copper-photocatalyzed α-functionalization of alcohols with glycine