An alternative C–P cross-coupling route for the synthesis of novel V-shaped aryldiphosphonic acids

• Stephen J. I. Shearan,
• Enrico Andreoli and
• Marco Taddei

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1518–1523, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.160

• explains the high phosphite-to-bromine ratio, which in our case is higher than all the other routes, since the phosphite itself acts as the solvent as well as being a reactant. If this ratio was lower, there would be a considerable drop in the reaction rate towards the end and would likely lead to

Mechanochemical synthesis of unsymmetrical salens for the preparation of Co–salen complexes and their evaluation as catalysts for the synthesis of α-aryloxy alcohols via asymmetric phenolic kinetic resolution of terminal epoxides

• Shengli Zuo,
• Shuxiang Zheng,
• Jianjun Liu and
• Ang Zuo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1416–1423, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.147

• due to the strong electron-withdrawing effect of bromine, enhancing the electrophilic property of bromo-substituted salicylaldehyde. Because of the poor solubility in the eluent, the yield of dichloro-containing 1c (88%) was lower than 1a after isolating by column chromatography. This was also found

Scope of tetrazolo[1,5-a]quinoxalines in CuAAC reactions for the synthesis of triazoloquinoxalines, imidazoloquinoxalines, and rhenium complexes thereof

• Laura Holzhauer,
• Chloé Liagre,
• Olaf Fuhr,
• Nicole Jung and
• Stefan Bräse

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1088–1099, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.111

• obtained products. Single crystals for complexes 27a–d were obtained via slow evaporation of a solution in either methylene chloride, ethyl acetate, or deuterated chloroform under ambient conditions. The rhenium atom is coordinated to three carbonyl groups, the bromine atom and two nitrogens of the 1,2,3

• crystal structure confirmed that rhenium is coordinated to three carbonyl groups, the bromine atom and two nitrogens of the 1,2,3-triazoloquinoxaline ligand. However, in this case, instead of coordination via the quinoxaline nitrogen and the 2-nitrogen of the triazole ring, the complex is formed via

• and one bromine atom (see Scheme 8). UV–vis absorption spectra of all obtained rhenium complexes (Figure 1) and those of the free ligands (Figure S4, Supporting Information File 1) were measured in acetonitrile. The molar extinction coefficients ε of the complexes were calculated from the obtained

Thiophene/selenophene-based S-shaped double helicenes: regioselective synthesis and structures

• Mengjie Wang,
• Lanping Dang,
• Wan Xu,
• Zhiying Ma,
• Liuliu Shao,
• Guangxia Wang,
• Chunli Li and
• Hua Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 809–817, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.81

• )2-bb-DSS), from which the TMS group could easily be removed by trifluoroacetic acid and replaced by bromine [27]. Another isomer of DSS, diseleno[3,2-b:2′,3′-d]selenophene (tt-DSS) has been successively synthesized from selenophene [28][29]. Among the limited fused aromatic compounds containing

Synthesis of odorants in flow and their applications in perfumery

• Merlin Kleoff,
• Paul Kiler and
• Philipp Heretsch

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 754–768, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.76

• achieved within milliseconds initializing bromine–lithium exchange of bromochloromethane to generate (chloromethyl)lithium. This carbenoid species readily reacts with terpenyl pinacol boronates 17, resulting in the formation of intermediate 18, which undergoes 1,2-anionotropic rearrangement to the

Mechanochemical halogenation of unsymmetrically substituted azobenzenes

• Dajana Barišić,
• Mario Pajić,
• Ivan Halasz,
• Darko Babić and
• Manda Ćurić

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 680–687, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.69

• four mechanistic pathways could be involved in this reaction [51]. Three of them involve oxidative addition followed by reductive elimination. Neutral NBS or the hydrogen bond complex NBS∙∙∙TsOH are bromine donors in two of them, while protonated NBS is engaged in the third. The fourth mechanism

• proceeds by electrophilic cleavage with neutral NBS or the hydrogen bond complex NBS∙∙∙TsOH as a bromine source. Here we present the mechanochemical selective halogenation of unsymmetrically substituted azobenzenes by NXS (X = Cl, Br, or I). The liquid-assisted grinding of para-halogenated derivatives of

Menadione: a platform and a target to valuable compounds synthesis

• Acácio S. de Souza,
• Ruan Carlos B. Ribeiro,
• Dora C. S. Costa,
• Fernanda P. Pauli,
• David R. Pinho,
• Matheus G. de Moraes,
• Fernando de C. da Silva,
• Luana da S. M. Forezi and
• Vitor F. Ferreira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 381–419, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.43

• menadione (10), as was demonstrated by Minisci and co-workers [66]. In this work, the oxidation of 17 with 60% aqueous hydrogen peroxide, using bromine and sulfuric acid as catalysts, provided menadione in 90% yield (Table 2, entry 1) [66]. According to the proposed mechanism, the first step involves the

• by treating menadione (10) with molecular bromine in the presence of sodium acetate and acetic acid in 76% yield. With brominated compound 82 at hands, the authors obtained four menadione derivatives 83a–d functionalized with organochalcogenic moieties after treatment of compound 82 with the

Ready access to 7,8-dihydroindolo[2,3-d][1]benzazepine-6(5H)-one scaffold and analogues via early-stage Fischer ring-closure reaction

• Irina Kuznetcova,
• Felix Bacher,
• Daniel Vegh,
• Hsiang-Yu Chuang and
• Vladimir B. Arion

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 143–151, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.15

• the nitro group but also to cyclization and the reductive elimination of bromine to afford 3a. The synthesis of 3b could be realized in 58% yield by using iron powder under acidic conditions. Reaction of methyl 5-(2-nitrophenyl)-4-oxopentanoate [44] and 1-benzyl-1-phenylhydrazine [36] hydrochloride in

DABCO-promoted photocatalytic C–H functionalization of aldehydes

• Bruno Maia da Silva Santos,
• Mariana dos Santos Dupim,
• Cauê Paula de Souza,
• Thiago Messias Cardozo and
• Fernanda Gadini Finelli

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2959–2967, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.205

• ). Surprisingly, decent amounts of product were observed when the reaction was performed without the use of DABCO (Table 1, entry 9). This result indicates an alternative mechanism can be possible for aryl ketone formation when there are no bicyclic amines in the reaction media. Recent works indicate a bromine

• addition experiment with methyl acrylate (Supporting Information File 1, Table S5), along with the strong dependence of aryl bromide electronics on the yield indicate the protagonism of the nickel-aryl bromide system. We hypothesized a HAT step by the bromine radical, generated by nickel complex photolysis

• , in a similar fashion of previous reports [31][32]. However, addition of bromide from external sources led to diminished yields (Supporting Information File 1, Table S6). Also, DFT calculations demonstrated that a HAT reaction between bromine radical and isovaleraldehyde is a barrierless reaction

A two-phase bromination process using tetraalkylammonium hydroxide for the practical synthesis of α-bromolactones from lactones

• Yuki Yamamoto,
• Akihiro Tabuchi,
• Kazumi Hosono,
• Takanori Ochi,
• Kento Yamazaki,
• Shintaro Kodama,
• Akihiro Nomoto and
• Akiya Ogawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2906–2914, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.198

• , and bromolactones are important synthetic intermediates for selectively, effectively, and practically introducing lactone units into organic molecules [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. Among brominated lactones, the α-bromolactone, in which the bromine atom is located at

• reaction with bromine (Scheme 1a) [37][38]. While the industrial demand for α-bromolactones has grown in recent years, the above-mentioned laboratory-level synthetic methods are not suitable for scale-up because LDA, TMSCl, and enol silyl ethers are sensitive to moisture and air, as well as being expensive

Synthetic strategies toward 1,3-oxathiolane nucleoside analogues

• Umesh P. Aher,
• Dhananjai Srivastava,
• Girij P. Singh and
• Jayashree B. S

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2680–2715, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.182

Synthesis and investigation on optical and electrochemical properties of 2,4-diaryl-9-chloro-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroacridines

• Najeh Tka,
• Mohamed Adnene Hadj Ayed,
• Mourad Ben Braiek,
• Mahjoub Jabli and
• Peter Langer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2450–2461, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.162

• -5,6,7,8-tetrahydroacridine (4a) (Table 1, entries 1–6). Towards a better understanding of the regioselectivity of the coupling, we carried out a series of experiments with decreased amounts of phenylboronic acid. In all cases, the cross-coupling took place at both bromine atoms of 4a and we could never

Enantioselective PCCP Brønsted acid-catalyzed aminalization of aldehydes

• Martin Kamlar,
• Robert Reiberger,
• Martin Nigríni,
• Ivana Císařová and
• Jan Veselý

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2433–2440, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.160

• crystallization from ethyl acetate. This was demonstrated for products 3a and 3f, that were obtained in enantiomeric purities of 93% and 97% ee, respectively (Scheme 1). Next, we turned our attention to the substitution of anthranilamide (Scheme 2). First, the effect of bromine as a slightly electron-withdrawing

• substituent on the aromatic ring was investigated. The position of bromine on the aromatic ring had a dramatic effect on the enantiomeric purity of the formed products 3k–n. When a bromine substituent is introduced in the “3” position of anthranilamide, the enantiomeric enrichment of aminal 3k reached only 30

• % ee. In contrast, substitution with bromine either in position “4” and “5” led to a formation of products 3l and 3m with enantiomeric purities of 70% ee and 80% ee, respectively. Finally, reaction with anthranilamide substituted with bromine in position “6” led to corresponding aminal 3n with an

A novel methodology for the efficient synthesis of 3-monohalooxindoles by acidolysis of 3-phosphate-substituted oxindoles with haloid acids

• Li Liu,
• Yue Li,
• Tiao Huang,
• Dulin Kong and
• Mingshu Wu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2321–2328, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.150

• order to further extend the substrate scope, we tried using hydrobromic acid (40%) as a bromine source in the reaction, and the results are summarized in Scheme 3. Generally, the phosphate substrates 2 substituted with electron-donating substituents were more reactive than those with electron

Halides as versatile anions in asymmetric anion-binding organocatalysis

• Lukas Schifferer,
• Martin Stinglhamer,
• Kirandeep Kaur and
• Olga García Macheño

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2270–2286, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.145

• oxycarbenium ion, which enables high enantioselectivities up to 95% ee and yields up to 91%. Furthermore, an investigation of the involved halide counter-anion revealed that chloride was the most potent one in regards of both yield and enantioinduction. Bromine and iodine on the other hand, afforded the final

Photoredox catalysis in nickel-catalyzed C–H functionalization

• Lusina Mantry,
• Rajaram Maayuri,
• Vikash Kumar and
• Parthasarathy Gandeepan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2209–2259, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.143

• ]. Homolysis of the excited nickel(II) species 7-V results in the formation of a bromine radical, which then readily abstracts the allylic C(sp3)‒H to give the allylic radical species. Thus, the generated allylic radical species rebound to nickel complex and followed by reductive elimination delivers the

• enantioselectivities. A wide range of aryl bromides 3 were tested with alkylbenzenes 25 under ambient reaction conditions and afforded the desired products 26 in moderate yields and good enantioselectivities. Based on their control experiments and mechanistic studies, it was postulated that a bromine radical might be

• ]. Notably, this method proceeds through a unique mechanism (Figure 18) involving five steps: i) anion exchange between the iridium catalyst and nickel catalyst; ii) generation of a bromine radical and nickel(I) species in the photocatalytic cycle; iii) hydrogen atom abstraction events between the bromine

Chemical syntheses and salient features of azulene-containing homo- and copolymers

• Vijayendra S. Shetti

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2164–2185, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.139

• polymerization of azulene (1) by iodine or bromine to obtain polyazulene–iodine/bromine complexes (PAz-I2/PAz-Br2) (Scheme 1). The PAZ-I2 complex was found to be insoluble whereas PAZ-Br2 was sparingly soluble in most of the organic solvents. Although no structure was proposed for these polymer complexes, based

• . The author hopes that this review might stimulate such research efforts in the future. Chemical structure, numbering scheme, and resonance form of azulene. Iminium zwitterionic resonance forms of poly[2(6)-aminoazulene] 31. Synthesis of polyazulene-iodine (PAz-I2) and polyazulene-bromine (PAz-Br2

Recent advances in the syntheses of anthracene derivatives

• Giovanni S. Baviera and
• Paulo M. Donate

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2028–2050, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.131

• products 24. Next, the key step was introducing chlorine, bromine, or iodine substituents by halodesilylation of 24. With the halogenated products 25 in hands, the authors employed DDQ in the oxidation/aromatization step, to obtain the di- and tetrahaloanthracenes 26 in good yields (61–85%) [39]. This

• indenoanthracene derivatives to study their optical, electrochemical, and thermal properties [46]. The authors prepared dialkynyl-substituted indenoanthracenes 61, containing alkyl or bromine substituents, from the corresponding indenoantraquinones 59 in two steps in good to excellent yields (57–92%) (Scheme 13

2,4-Bis(arylethynyl)-9-chloro-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroacridines: synthesis and photophysical properties

• Najeh Tka,
• Mohamed Adnene Hadj Ayed,
• Mourad Ben Braiek,
• Mahjoub Jabli,
• Noureddine Chaaben,
• Kamel Alimi,
• Stefan Jopp and
• Peter Langer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1629–1640, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.115

• anthranilic acid with 2.2 equivalents of bromine in acetic acid as previously reported [64]. Subsequently, the POCl3-mediated cyclodehydration of 1 and cyclohexanone afforded 2 through an adapted reported procedure (Scheme 1) [65]. Tetrahydroacridine 2 represents a novel synthetic building block for Pd

• using 0.6 mol % of tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0) and 1.2 mol % of copper iodide (Scheme 2, Table 1). The reaction proceeded chemoselectively at the two carbon–bromine bonds giving 2,4-bis(phenylethynyl)-9-chloro-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroacridine (4a). This result was not entirely predictable, as the

A recent overview on the synthesis of 1,4,5-trisubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles

• Pezhman Shiri,
• Ali Mohammad Amani and
• Thomas Mayer-Gall

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1600–1628, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.114

• irrespective of the nature and position of the substituent [39]. The supposed reaction mechanism for the reaction is shown in Scheme 3. Initially, the presence of bromine as an electron-withdrawing substituent lowers the LUMO energy to facilitate the cycloaddition process of acrolein with organic azide. The

• that the reaction requires a strict control of the temperature in the different steps, while the nature and position of the substituents of the aryl azide do not influence the yield of the reaction. The use of aliphatic alkynes, as well as the replacement of bromine and chlorine with iodine, leads to a

Design, synthesis and photophysical properties of novel star-shaped truxene-based heterocycles utilizing ring-closing metathesis, Clauson–Kaas, Van Leusen and Ullmann-type reactions as key tools

• Shakeel Alvi and
• Rashid Ali

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1374–1384, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.96

• [37]. Bromine (2 mL, 29.2 mmol) was added dropwise to a suspension of truxene 7 (2 g, 5.84 mmol) in CH2Cl2 (15 mL) at rt. The reaction mixture was stirred for 16 h at the same temperature and the excess of bromine was removed by bubbling N2 through the solution. Then the solid was filtered, washed

Fritsch–Buttenberg–Wiechell rearrangement of magnesium alkylidene carbenoids leading to the formation of alkynes

• Tsutomu Kimura,
• Koto Sekiguchi,
• Akane Ando and
• Aki Imafuji

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1352–1359, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.94

• reaction of (1-fluorovinyl)magnesium chloride with isopropylmagnesium chloride competed with the FBW rearrangement to give a mixture of alkyne 4a and alkene 10 in 69% and 13% yield, respectively (Table 1, entry 4, Scheme 4a, and Scheme 2c) [20]. Both the sulfoxide/magnesium exchange reaction and bromine

Icilio Guareschi and his amazing “1897 reaction”

• Gian Cesare Tron,
• Alberto Minassi,
• Giovanni Sorba,
• Mara Fausone and
• Giovanni Appendino

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1335–1351, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.93

• the chemistry of naphthalene. The last one dates from 1887 and deals with the formation of isomers in the electrophilic aromatic substitution of naphthalene with chlorine and bromine [32]. This work was done in collaboration with Pietro Biginelli (1860–1937), the only collaborator of Guareschi who

• bromine in the presence of other halogens [67]. The test is based on the action of sulfitic leucobases of triphenylmethane dyes, such the decolorized fuchsine (Schiff reagent), which develops a deep violet color in the presence of traces of bromine. The reaction is very sensitive and selective for bromine

• chemist Georges Denigès (1859–1951), who, however, published his discovery of the same reaction six months after the disclosure by Guareschi. The ability of the test to distinguish between iodine and bromine is remarkable and difficult to explain in the light of the mechanism by which the Schiff reagent

Structural effects of meso-halogenation on porphyrins

• Keith J. Flanagan,
• Maximilian Paradiz Dominguez,
• Zoi Melissari,
• Hans-Georg Eckhardt,
• René M. Williams,
• Dáire Gibbons,
• Caroline Prior,
• Gemma M. Locke,
• Alina Meindl,
• Aoife A. Ryan and
• Mathias O. Senge

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1149–1170, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.88

• affected by both halogen type and metal insertion. In compound 1 the main motifs seen are the face-to-face stacking at 3.326(4) Å (Figure 2A) and the tilted edge-on interaction (≈64°) (Figure 2B). The other motif seen is the inline interactions where layers of porphyrins are lined up with the bromine atoms

• porphyrin conformation are observed due to the metal center insertion. The first of these is the stacking between the porphyrin rings (at 3.581(3) Å), which now features the bromine atoms pointing in opposite directions with a ruffled conformation of the porphyrin macrocycle (Figure 3A). Moreover, a similar

• motif of bromine atoms pointing towards the phenyl rings is visible in this structure and seems to be a staple of this series (Figure 3B). Secondly, the edge-on interaction in this structure has changed, where the pyrrole moiety is pointing towards the face of the porphyrin macrocycle as seen in Figure

N-tert-Butanesulfinyl imines in the asymmetric synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocycles

• Joseane A. Mendes,
• Paulo R. R. Costa,
• Miguel Yus,
• Francisco Foubelo and
• Camilla D. Buarque

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1096–1140, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.86

• using DMF as solvent. After addition, a subsequent intramolecular cyclization involving the resulting amide and the vicinal carbon with bromine atoms took place. By contrary, when the reaction was carried out in THF, the elimination process was suppressed, leading exclusively to enantiomerically pure α