Biphenylene-containing polycyclic conjugated compounds

• Cagatay Dengiz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1895–1911, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.141

• 83 was achieved through a Co-mediated alkyne trimerization process. Finally, the synthesis of the targeted boron-doped extended POA 84 was carried out with a yield of 61%, following a series of reactions including cyclocondensation with BBr3 and mesitylation. Since the "v" and "z"-shaped POAs could

Aromatic systems with two and three pyridine-2,6-dicarbazolyl-3,5-dicarbonitrile fragments as electron-transporting organic semiconductors exhibiting long-lived emissions

• Karolis Leitonas,
• Brigita Vigante,
• Dmytro Volyniuk,
• Audrius Bucinskas,
• Pavels Dimitrijevs,
• Sindija Lapcinska,
• Pavel Arsenyan and
• Juozas Vidas Grazulevicius

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1867–1880, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.139

• pyridine-3,5-carbonitriles 6–9 were synthesized starting with 4-bromobenzaldehyde (1) (Scheme 1 and Scheme 2). Thus, piperidinium 3,5-dicyano-6-hydroxy-4-(4-bromophenyl)pyridin-2-olate (2) was prepared by cyclocondensation of 1 with cyanoacetamide in methanol in the presence of piperidine. The conversion

Synthetic approach to 2-alkyl-4-quinolones and 2-alkyl-4-quinolone-3-carboxamides based on common β-keto amide precursors

• Yordanka Mollova-Sapundzhieva,
• Plamen Angelov,
• Danail Georgiev and
• Pavel Yanev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1804–1810, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.132

• , 2 h, rt. Alternative manipulations of intermediates 3, leading to either 2-alkyl-4-quinolones 8 (via enaminoketones 6) or 2-alkyl-4-quinolone-3-carboxamides 5 (by direct reduction/cyclocondensation). Reagents and conditions: iii) H3PO4, 60 °C, 90 min; iv) Zn/AcOH/CH2Cl2, rt, overnight; v) HCOONH4

Cyanothioacetamides as a synthetic platform for the synthesis of aminopyrazole derivatives

• Valeriy O. Filimonov,
• Alexandra I. Topchiy,
• Vladimir G. Ilkin,
• Tetyana V. Beryozkina and
• Vasiliy A. Bakulev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1191–1197, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.87

• potential of such compounds. The most common method for obtaining 3,5-disubstituted pyrazoles is the cyclocondensation of 1,3-bielectrophilic reagents with hydrazine, which acts as a 1,2-dinucleophile [15][16]. It is worthy to note that a small number of methods for the synthesis of 3,5-diaminopyrazoles are

Synthesis of tetrahydrofuro[3,2-c]pyridines via Pictet–Spengler reaction

• Elena Y. Mendogralo and
• Maxim G. Uchuskin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 991–997, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.74

• construction of tetrahydrofuro[3,2-c]pyridines is based on a Bischler–Napieralski cyclocondensation followed by the C=N bond reduction (Scheme 1d) [36][37][38][39]. Despite the simplicity of the latter approach and availability of 2-(furan-2-yl)ethanamine, the instability of intermediate dihydrofuro[3,2-c

Facile access to 3-sulfonylquinolines via Knoevenagel condensation/aza-Wittig reaction cascade involving ortho-azidobenzaldehydes and β-ketosulfonamides and sulfones

• Ksenia Malkova,
• Andrey Bubyrev,
• Stanislav Kalinin and
• Dmitry Dar’in

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 800–807, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.60

• protocol is appropriate for both ketosulfonyl reagents and α-sulfonyl-substituted alkyl acetates providing the target quinoline derivatives in good to excellent yields. Keywords: aza-Wittig reaction; azides; cyclocondensation; quinolones; sulfonamides; Introduction The quinoline scaffold has a wide

• through a range of synthetic methodologies suggested recently. Cyclization strategies [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45] as well as cycloaddition/cyclocondensation techniques [46][47][48][49][50][51] represent those with hetero-ring construction. Alternative approaches rely on a peripheral

Derivatives of benzo-1,4-thiazine-3-carboxylic acid and the corresponding amino acid conjugates

• Péter Kisszékelyi,
• Tibor Peňaška,
• Klára Stankovianska,
• Mária Mečiarová and
• Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1195–1202, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.124

• formed in situ from the corresponding aminothiols [9][10][11][12][13]. Green chemistry methods for benzo-1,4-thiazine synthesis have also been described in the literature. 2,3-Disubstituted-1,4-benzothiazines were prepared in high yield (83–96%) by oxidative cyclocondensation of 2-aminobenzenethiols and

• significantly accelerated by ultrasonic irradiation [16]. Cyclocondensation of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds with substituted diaryl disulfides in water in the presence of β-cyclodextrin gave 2,3-disubstituted benzo-1,4-thiazines in 70–91% yield in 50 min [17]. A highly efficient visible-light-mediated one-pot

Facile and diastereoselective arylation of the privileged 1,4-dihydroisoquinolin-3(2H)-one scaffold

• Dmitry Dar’in,
• Grigory Kantin,
• Alexander Bunev and
• Mikhail Krasavin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1070–1078, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.109

• conditions described in the literature [19][20]. It was soon established that room-temperature TfOH-promoted cyclocondensation (method A) [19] and AlCl3-promoted reaction conducted at elevated temperature (method B) can be employed interchangeably, with yields registered for 3(2H)-isoquinolones 11 mostly

Synthetic strategies for the preparation of γ-phostams: 1,2-azaphospholidine 2-oxides and 1,2-azaphospholine 2-oxides

• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 889–915, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.90

• -dihydrobenzo[d][1,2]azaphosphole 2-oxide (62) in 34% yield via transmethylation and intramolecular cyclocondensation (Scheme 9) [29]. In 1983, Collins and co-workers prepared 2-phenyl-1,3-dihydrobenzo[d][1,2]azaphosphole 2-sulfide (59) following the similar procedure. They first oxidized 2-aminobenzyl(phenyl

• % yield via the acid-catalyzed addition to the cyano group and subsequent cyclocondensation, hydrolysis, and tautomerization. Alternatively, the reaction of (E)-2-cyano-N'-((4-oxo-4H-chromen-3-yl)methylene)acetohydrazide (220) and phosphorus tribromide in the presence of triethylamine in dioxane followed

Synthesis of 5-unsubstituted dihydropyrimidinone-4-carboxylates from deep eutectic mixtures

• Sangram Gore,
• Sundarababu Baskaran and
• Burkhard König

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 331–336, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.37

• at the C4 position allow versatile further functionalization and are biologically interesting DHPMs [17][18][19][20][21], we envisioned an environmentally benign cyclocondensation protocol using low melting mixtures as a green reaction medium. We have established low melting mixtures [28][29][30][31

• derivatives in good yields under environmentally benign conditions. Electron-rich as well as electron-deficient, highly functionalized β,γ-unsaturated ketoesters proved to be excellent substrates in this cyclocondensation reaction. The carboxylic ester substitution at C4 position provides the option for

Efficient N-arylation of 4-chloroquinazolines en route to novel 4-anilinoquinazolines as potential anticancer agents

• Rodolfo H. V. Nishimura,
• Thiago dos Santos,
• Valter E. Murie,
• Luciana C. Furtado,
• Leticia V. Costa-Lotufo and
• Giuliano C. Clososki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2968–2975, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.206

• that, the cyclocondensation [29] of the halogenated anthranilamides 6a,b with benzaldehyde followed by dehydrogenation promoted by iodine gave the corresponding quinazolin-4(3H)-ones 7a,b, which we used in the next step without purification. Finally, chlorination [31] of quinazolin-4(3H)-ones 7a,b by

The PIFA-initiated oxidative cyclization of 2-(3-butenyl)quinazolin-4(3H)-ones – an efficient approach to 1-(hydroxymethyl)-2,3-dihydropyrrolo[1,2-a]quinazolin-5(1H)-ones

• Alla I. Vaskevych,
• Nataliia O. Savinchuk,
• Ruslan I. Vaskevych,
• Eduard B. Rusanov,
• Oleksandr O. Grygorenko and
• Mykhailo V. Vovk

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2787–2794, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.189

• on PIFA-initiated oxidative 5-exo-trig cyclization of 2-(3-butenyl)quinazolin-4(3Н)-ones, in turn prepared by thermal cyclocondensation of the corresponding 2-(pent-4-enamido)benzamides. The products obtained have a good natural product likeness (NPL) score and therefore can be useful for the design

• literature to date. One of them is based on the construction of the central pyrimidine ring starting from ortho-disubstituted aromatic compounds 2 bearing a pyrrolidine moiety (see Scheme 1A). Examples include cyclocondensation of (2-pyrrolidin-1-yl)benzaldehyde and aniline occurring in the presence of TsOH

• derivatives with 4-chloroketones or 4-oxocarboxylic acids in ionic liquids [20][21][22][23] or refluxing acetic acid [24][25]. An alternative approach involves cascade cyclization of anthranilamides with 4-chlorobutanoyl chloride [26][27]. Also, reductive cyclocondensation of 2-nitrobenzamides and

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

• the synthesis of a new 2,5-substituted 1,3-oxathiolane intermediate (Scheme 10). The approach involved the cyclocondensation reaction of anhydrous 4-nitrobenzyl glyoxylate with mercaptoacetaldehyde diethyl acetal (3nb) at reflux temperature in toluene solvent. This led to the formation of a 5-ethoxy

• 45 (Scheme 12). Kraus [51] developed the cyclocondensation of 2-mercaptoacetaldehyde bis(2-methoxyethyl) acetal (3nc) with diethyl 3-phosphonoaldehyde (3i) to provide the novel oxathiolane intermediate 46 (Scheme 13). The reaction was carried out in the presence of p-TSA at reflux temperature in

• , cyclocondensation of 47 with 2-mercaptoacetaldehyde diethyl acetal (3nb) in the presence of p-TSA in benzene solvent afforded 1,3-oxathiolane intermediate (±)-2,2-bis(acetoxymethyl)-5-ethoxy-1,3-thioxalane (48). More recently, an approach developed by Snead et al. [53] at the Medicines for All Institute used lactic

Synthesis of O⁶-alkylated preQ₁ derivatives

• Laurin Flemmich,
• Sarah Moreno and
• Ronald Micura

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2295–2301, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.147

• ]acetamide) by trimethyloxonium tetrafluoroborate in apolar solvents resulted in the recovery of starting material only. Next, we tested a cyclocondensation reaction between 2-chloro-3-cyanopropan-1-al and 2,6-diamino-4-methoxypyrimidine [30], however, target compound 1 (m6preQ0) was obtained in yields of 21

• queuosine (Q), the natural products dapiramicin A and huimycin, as well as intermediates of queuosine biosynthesis (preQ1 and preQ0), and the major synthetic targets of this study, m6preQ0 (1) and m6preQ1 (2) (grey box). Synthesis of compound 1 (m6preQ0) by cyclocondensation using a 4-methoxypyrimidine

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

• synthesize tetrahydrobenzo[a]xanthene-11-ones 184 and diazabenzo[a]anthracene-9,11-dione derivatives 185 in good yields via a multicomponent reaction (Scheme 42) [76]. This methodology was based on the cyclocondensation of aromatic aldehydes 180, β-naphthol (181), and cyclic 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds 182 or

Synthesis of functionalized imidazo[4,5-e]thiazolo[3,2-b]triazines by condensation of imidazo[4,5-e]triazinethiones with DMAD or DEAD and rearrangement to imidazo[4,5-e]thiazolo[2,3-c]triazines

• Alexei N. Izmest’ev,
• Dmitry B. Vinogradov,
• Natalya G. Kolotyrkina,
• Angelina N. Kravchenko and
• Galina A. Gazieva

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1141–1148, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.87

• rearrangement; cyclocondensation; heterocycles; thiazolidine-4-one; 1,2,4-triazine; Introduction The thiazolidin-4-one heterocyclic system is a well-known, accessible and, as a consequence, a widely used pharmacophore in the chemistry of biologically active compounds possessing antimicrobial [1

Synthetic accesses to biguanide compounds

• Oleksandr Grytsai,
• Cyril Ronco and
• Rachid Benhida

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1001–1040, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.82

• in position 2. 2,4-Diaminoquinazolines and 3-guanidinoarylo[e][1,3]diazepine-1,5-dione derivatives are other “biguanide-like” structures obtained respectively from the cyclocondensation of 2-cyanoanilines with cyanoguanidine [34], and by double condensation of biguanides with aryl orthodiesters

• [35] Another example is the cyclocondensation of anthranilic acid with cyanoguanidine which occurs under sulfuric acid conditions via dehydration leading to the corresponding 2-guanidinoquinazolinones (Scheme 13A) [36]. However, performing this reaction in acetonitrile in a closed microwave tube

• cyclocondensation toward the desired benzothiazinone in a 67% yield after 1 h refluxing in water, without requiring acidic activation of the cyanoguanidine (Scheme 13C) [37]. Reaction of amines with substituted cyanoguanidines: In 1946, Curd and Rose reported the first synthesis of biguanides by the reaction of

Microwave-assisted multicomponent reactions in heterocyclic chemistry and mechanistic aspects

• Shivani Gulati,
• Stephy Elza John and
• Nagula Shankaraiah

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 819–865, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.71

• B undergoes cyclocondensation to yield the spiro product 139, whereas for 139a intermediate B falls prey to intramolecular cyclo condensation (Scheme 54). The synthesis of regioselectively functionalized macrocyclane-fused pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridine derivatives 142 was demonstrated by Jiang and co

Synthesis of imidazo[1,5-a]pyridines via cyclocondensation of 2-(aminomethyl)pyridines with electrophilically activated nitroalkanes

• Dmitrii A. Aksenov,
• Nikolai A. Arutiunov,
• Vladimir V. Maliuga,
• Alexander V. Aksenov and
• Michael Rubin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2903–2910, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.239

Synthesis of 1,4-benzothiazinones from acylpyruvic acids or furan-2,3-diones and o-aminothiophenol

• Ekaterina E. Stepanova,
• Maksim V. Dmitriev and
• Andrey N. Maslivets

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2322–2331, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.193

• ; 1,4-benzothiazine; cyclocondensation; diversity-oriented synthesis; furan-2,3-dione; Introduction Enaminones fused to the 1,4-benzoxazine-2-one I or quinoxaline-2(1H)-one II moiety (Figure 1) represent an intensively investigated class of enamines. Undying interest in these compounds is due to the

Chan–Evans–Lam N1-(het)arylation and N1-alkеnylation of 4-fluoroalkylpyrimidin-2(1H)-ones

• Viktor M. Tkachuk,
• Oleh O. Lukianov,
• Mykhailo V. Vovk,
• Isabelle Gillaizeau and
• Volodymyr A. Sukach

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2304–2313, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.191

• cyclocondensation of N-(trifluorochloroethylidene) carbamates IV with β-amino crotonates V led only to 4-trifluoromethylpyrimidin-2(1H)-ones I bearing a 5-alkoxycarbonyl substituent (R3/6 = CO2Alk) due to the strong structural limitations of the nucleophilic enamine component (see Figure 1а, method В) [31]. The

Synthesis of 4-amino-5-fluoropyrimidines and 5-amino-4-fluoropyrazoles from a β-fluoroenolate salt

• Tobias Lucas,
• Jule-Philipp Dietz and
• Till Opatz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 445–450, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.41

• arginine, where the desired pyrimidine 10q was also only observed in trace amounts while the majority of the starting material remained unchanged. Synthesis of fluorinated aminopyrazoles As in the cyclocondensation with amidines, the reaction of 8 with other bifunctional nucleophiles could also result in

• hydrazine on the more reactive carbon atom of the fluoroenolate in a Michael-type addition. The cyclization did not require a deprotonation of the RNH moiety. Conclusion In summary, a synthesis of fluorinated pyrimidines under mild conditions using fluoroenolate 8 and amidines in a cyclocondensation was

Facile regiodivergent synthesis of spiro pyrrole-substituted pseudothiohydantoins and thiohydantoins via reaction of [e]-fused 1H-pyrrole-2,3-diones with thiourea

• Aleksandr I. Kobelev,
• Nikita A. Tretyakov,
• Ekaterina E. Stepanova,
• Maksim V. Dmitriev,
• Michael Rubin and
• Andrey N. Maslivets

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2864–2871, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.280

• facile preparation of libraries of heterocyclic molecules with an emphasis on skeletal diversity from a single set of reagents [25][26][27]. One of the most intriguing chemical properties of FPDs 1 is their ability to undergo a cyclocondensation with 1,3-binucleophilic reagents to form spiro[4.4

• centers of FPDs 1, starting materials of this study. Pseudothiohydantoin–thiohydantoin rearrangement. Syntheses of regioisomeric 5-spiro-substituted thiohydantoins and pseudothiohydantoins: previous [10] and this work. Cyclocondensation of FPDs 1 with 1,3-binucleophilic reagents, resulting in pyrrole-2

Emission solvatochromic, solid-state and aggregation-induced emissive α-pyrones and emission-tuneable 1H-pyridines by Michael addition–cyclocondensation sequences

• Natascha Breuer,
• Irina Gruber,
• Christoph Janiak and
• Thomas J. J. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2684–2703, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.262

• Strukturchemie, Universitätsstraße 1, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany 10.3762/bjoc.15.262 Abstract Starting from substituted alkynones, α-pyrones and/or 1H-pyridines were generated in a Michael addition–cyclocondensation with ethyl cyanoacetate. The peculiar product formation depends on the reaction conditions as

• emission solvatochromism. Also a donor-substituted α-pyrone shows pronounced aggregation-induced emission enhancement. Keywords: cyclocondensation; DFT calculations; fluorescence; heterocycles; 1H-pyridines; α-pyrones; Introduction A high sensitivity and precise tuneability of fluorescence colors are

• alkynylation–Michael addition–cyclocondensation (AMAC) multicomponent syntheses of α-pyrones [23]. While most α-pyrones neither fluoresce in solution nor in the solid state specific substitution patterns have been identified for fluorophore design for this heterocyclic family. Tominaga and co-workers

In water multicomponent synthesis of low-molecular-mass 4,7-dihydrotetrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines

• Irina G. Tkachenko,
• Sergey A. Komykhov,
• Vladimir I. Musatov,
• Svitlana V. Shishkina,
• Viktoriya V. Dyakonenko,
• Vladimir N. Shvets,
• Mikhail V. Diachkov,
• Valentyn A. Chebanov and
• Sergey M. Desenko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2390–2397, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.231

• starting material and subsequent dihydropyrimidine ring formation. The first approach [6][7] represents a two-component cyclocondensation of 5-aminotetrazole (1) as binucleophilic component and bielectrophilic α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds 2 (Scheme 1, reaction 1). The second method [8][9][10][11][12