Strategies for the synthesis of brevipolides

• Yudhi D. Kurniawan and
• A'liyatur Rosyidah

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2399–2416, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.157

• -promoted double bond migration. The cyclopropyl functionality in 46 can be assembled from the reaction of sulfur ylide and the α,β-unsaturated ketone 47, which in turn can be realized from the cross metathesis between commercially available ethyl vinyl ketone (48) and the C2-symmetrical diene-diol 49. The

• synthesis commenced with the monoprotection of the known diene-diol ent-49 as TBS ether affording compound 50 in 76% yield, which served as an excellent strategy to direct the later cross metathesis reaction to one site of the olefin over another (Scheme 5). Thus, the desired α,β-unsaturated ester 51 was

• route, the alcohol product 75 was isolated in 81% yield (dr 85:15). Esterification of this molecule with acryloyl chloride (76) went smoothly providing the diene 77 (85%), which, after the sequential ring-closing metathesis with Grubbs I catalyst and TBS removal, gave the 5,6-dihydro-α-pyrone 78 in 71

Nomimicins B–D, new tetronate-class polyketides from a marine-derived actinomycete of the genus Actinomadura

• Zhiwei Zhang,
• Tao Zhou,
• Taehui Yang,
• Keisuke Fukaya,
• Enjuro Harunari,
• Shun Saito,
• Katsuhisa Yamada,
• Chiaki Imada,
• Daisuke Urabe and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2194–2202, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.141

• -cis configuration of the diene moiety was indicated by a NOESY correlation between H21 and H27. The absolute configuration of the dehydrodecalin moiety of 3 was tentatively assigned to be identical with 4 because 3 was considered as a biosynthetic precursor of 4 [20]. Compounds 1‒3 showed

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

• ligands but also to the diene R5 and R6 substituents. With this innovative method in hands, the authors explored the synthetic applicability in the preparation of a core unit from lasalocid A (124), a known antibiotic drug [194] that, along with its four analogues 120–123 (Scheme 37A), were extracted from

Development of N-F fluorinating agents and their fluorinations: Historical perspective

• Teruo Umemoto,
• Yuhao Yang and
• Gerald B. Hammond

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1752–1813, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.123

A comprehensive review of flow chemistry techniques tailored to the flavours and fragrances industries

• Guido Gambacorta,
• James S. Sharley and
• Ian R. Baxendale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1181–1312, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.90

• quenched aldol outlet stream was directed into a cooled receiver vessel, to which trifluoroacetic anhydride (TFAA) was simultaneously added, creating a net semi-continuous process. Subsequent ammonia-mediated cyclisation of the resultant diene followed by alkylation with the chlorotriazolinone 48 yielded

Prins cyclization-mediated stereoselective synthesis of tetrahydropyrans and dihydropyrans: an inspection of twenty years

• Asha Budakoti,
• Pradip Kumar Mondal,
• Prachi Verma and
• Jagadish Khamrai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 932–963, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.77

• was thermodynamically favored in the presence of a phenyl group (Scheme 65). Matsumoto and co-workers reported a Lewis acid-mediated Prins cyclization between an alcohol 278 bearing a nonconjugated diene moiety and an aldehyde 277 with alkyl or aryl substituent in presence of BF3·Et2O and TMSCl at −40

Synthetic reactions driven by electron-donor–acceptor (EDA) complexes

• Zhonglie Yang,
• Yutong Liu,
• Kun Cao,
• Xiaobin Zhang,
• Hezhong Jiang and
• Jiahong Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 771–799, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.67

• hydrogen atoms from thiophenol to produce the final product 47 (Scheme 17). In 2020, Alemán and colleagues [53] proposed an approach in which ketene 48 and diene 49 condense with the help of diamine 51 to afford cyclobutane product 50 (Scheme 18). The reaction could be catalyzed by a simple diamine due to

• ; moreover, 53 and 54 can be mutually transformed. Excited state 53 reacts with diene 49, forming a double radical intermediate 55 that subsequently evolves to cyclobutyliminium ion 56, and then product 50 is provided after hydrolysis, along with the release of diamine 51. In 2020, Zhang and colleagues [25

Synthesis of dibenzosuberenone-based novel polycyclic π-conjugated dihydropyridazines, pyridazines and pyrroles

• Ramazan Koçak and
• Arif Daştan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 719–729, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.61

• the tetrazine ring is an electron-poor diene, the dibenzosuberenone (1) dienophile is not electron-rich enough. Therefore, for such cycloaddition reactions, the tetrazine must be substituted by EWGs to decrease the electron density of the diene. Consequently, our results confirm that EDGs and EWGs

• –Alder reactions, depending on the structure of the diene and the reaction conditions [64]. A proposed reaction mechanism for the formation of the dibenzosuberenone derivatives 3 and 4 is illustrated in Scheme 3. Although 3k was isolated, 3l could not be detected in the reaction mixture due to its

A new and efficient methodology for olefin epoxidation catalyzed by supported cobalt nanoparticles

• Lucía Rossi-Fernández,
• Viviana Dorn and
• Gabriel Radivoy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 519–526, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.46

• the diene (±)-limonene (1k, Table 2, entry 11) took place mainly on the endocyclic C=C double bond with good selectivity, although with a relatively modest conversion. On the contrary, for cyclohexene (1l, Table 2, entry 12) the main oxidation product was found to be the corresponding allylic ketone

Diels–Alder reaction of β-fluoro-β-nitrostyrenes with cyclic dienes

• Savva A. Ponomarev,
• Roman V. Larkovich,
• Alexander S. Aldoshin,
• Andrey A. Tabolin,
• Sema L. Ioffe,
• Jonathan Groß,
• Till Opatz and
• Valentine G. Nenajdenko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 283–292, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.27

• powerful tool for assembling a variety of fluorinated carbo- and heterocycles using either the diene [24][25][26][27][28][29][30] or the dienophile component [31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] as fluorine-containing building blocks. The application of [4 + 2] cycloadditions for the preparation of

• conducted in screw-top vials in o-xylene at 110 °C using a fivefold excess of the diene (Scheme 1). The reaction proceeded smoothly under these conditions to give the target cycloadducts 2 as a mixture of exo and endo-isomers in high isolated yield (up to 97%). It should be noted that in the present work we

• dispersion effects are not included, whereas M062X includes nonlocal effects of electronic dispersion [70][75]. We also demonstrate the preparation of norbornene structures substituted at the methylene bridge. The reaction of model nitrostyrene 1h with spiro[2.4]hepta-4,6-diene was carried out (Scheme 2). As

The preparation and properties of 1,1-difluorocyclopropane derivatives

• Kymbat S. Adekenova,
• Peter B. Wyatt and
• Sergazy M. Adekenov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 245–272, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.25

• isomerization [36]. Several nitrogen nucleophiles have been evaluated as catalysts to promote the difluorocarbene formation from TFDA in order to bring about the cyclopropanation of a 2-siloxybuta-1,3-diene derivative; 1,8-bis(dimethylamino)naphthalene (proton sponge) was found to be particularly effective [37

Progress in the total synthesis of inthomycins

• Bidyut Kumar Senapati

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 58–82, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.7

• . J. K. Taylor and co-workers reported the first total synthesis of inthomycin B ((+)-2) using a Stille coupling of a stannyl-diene with an oxazole vinyl iodide unit followed by a Kiyooka ketene acetal/amino acid-derived oxazaborolidinone procedure as its cornerstones (Scheme 4) [43]. In the beginning

• by oxidation of the resulting alcohol using the Ley-Griffith TPAP procedure [47][48]. Treatment of aldehyde 57 with the Ando phenoxy phosphonate 58a [49] gave the desired (Z,Z)-diene 59 as the major product (59/60 = 87:13). DIBAL-H reduction of 59 allowed the isolation of (Z,Z)-isomeric alcohol

• )-diene 66 (E/Z = 19:1, separable) using the standard (E)-selective Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons (HWE) reaction. DIBAL-H reduction of ester 66 followed by MnO2 oxidation produced aldehyde (E,E)-67 stereoselectively. Unfortunately, attempted enantioselective aldol reactions of (E,E)-67 with silylketene acetal

Pentannulation of N-heterocycles by a tandem gold-catalyzed [3,3]-rearrangement/Nazarov reaction of propargyl ester derivatives: a computational study on the crucial role of the nitrogen atom

• Giovanna Zanella,
• Martina Petrović,
• Dina Scarpi,
• Ernesto G. Occhiato and
• Enrique Gómez-Bengoa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 3059–3068, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.255

• being higher in energy than TS6. As mentioned before, after the slow cyclization step in TS3, we focused our analysis on the transformation of the bicyclic intermediate IV to the final diene product. Basically, the final steps have to include a deprotonation, protodeauration, and in some cases acetate

• believe that the higher thermodynamic stability of XV (4.4 kcal⋅mol−1 lower than for XII), which is due to the conjugation of the nitrogen atom and the diene system, accounts for the preferential formation and the consequent formation of 15. It cannot be overlooked that the formation of the intermediates

All-carbon [3 + 2] cycloaddition in natural product synthesis

• Zhuo Wang and
• Junyang Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 3015–3031, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.251

• 60% yield (74% yield, brsm). A two-step synthesis from 127 produced diene 128, which was subjected to ring-closing metathesis and subsequent Dess–Martin oxidation to give 129 in 63% yield over two steps. Tetracycle 130, which was prepared from 129 in one step, was converted to lycojaponicumin C (18

• of aldehyde 163 and isoprene (164) with Ni(acac)2 and diethylzinc [78] and then Dess–Martin oxidation gave a diene (not shown, 94% yield over two steps), which was subjected to ring-closing metathesis to give enone 165 in 85% yield. Isomerization of the freshly prepared 165 to more stable α,β

Ring-closing metathesis of prochiral oxaenediynes to racemic 4-alkenyl-2-alkynyl-3,6-dihydro-2H-pyrans

• Viola Kolaříková,
• Markéta Rybáčková,
• Martin Svoboda and
• Jaroslav Kvíčala

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2757–2768, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.226

• (Scheme 2). This effect was explained to be caused not by an improved activation of the ruthenium precatalyst, but either by the participation in the second metathesis cycle releasing the diene product and returning methyleneruthenium complex to the catalytic cycle [22], or by preventing the catalytic

• alkenyl dialkynylphosphinates (Scheme 4) [31]. Thus, the possibility to perform a desymmetrizing RCEYM of oxaenediynes, which should lead to chiral compounds bearing both alkyne and conjugated diene systems, seemed highly appealing to us. Before addressing the enantioselective RCEYM, we report in this

• dihydropyrans 12 obtained by the RCEYM of oxaenediynes 2 contain both a triple bond and a conjugated diene system. We were interested in the possible orthogonal transformation of the products and hence carried out the Diels–Alder reaction of the dihydropyran 12b with N-phenylmaleimide (13) as described in [41

Synthesis of novel fluorinated building blocks via halofluorination and related reactions

• Attila Márió Remete,
• Tamás T. Novák,
• Melinda Nonn,
• Matti Haukka,
• Ferenc Fülöp and
• Loránd Kiss

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2562–2575, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.208

• uncovered, too. The oxidation of (rac)-31 under basic conditions delivered the conjugated diene (rac)-34, possibly through a deselenation/E1cB elimination sequence similar to the one shown in Scheme 22. Conclusion In conclusion, novel fluorine-containing, functionalized small-molecular scaffolds have been

Recent developments in enantioselective photocatalysis

• Callum Prentice,
• James Morrisson,
• Andrew D. Smith and
• Eli Zysman-Colman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2363–2441, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.197

• to allenes 80 to give complex bicyclic products 81 in moderate yields and good enantioselectivities (20 examples, up to 92:8 er) (Scheme 9b) [47]. The Bach group recently developed an enantioselective synthesis of cyclobutane 82 from enal 83 and diene 84 (Scheme 11a) [48]. Most of the examples

• . With an electron-rich alkene, the reaction is proposed to proceed via a reductive quenching cycle to generate chiral ion pair 262•+ and TP•. Subsequent enantioselective cycloaddition with a diene results in ion pair 266•+, which is then reduced by TP• to complete the catalytic cycle and affords the

Hierarchically assembled helicates as reaction platform – from stoichiometric Diels–Alder reactions to enamine catalysis

• David Van Craen,
• Jenny Begall,
• Johannes Großkurth,
• Leonard Himmel,
• Oliver Linnenberg,
• Elisabeth Isaak and
• Markus Albrecht

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2338–2345, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.195

• ][17][18][19][20]. Enantioselectivities up to 25% ee at elevated temperature (32% ee at 0 °C) depending on the substrate were achieved in a Diels–Alder reaction by introducing two different substituted catechol ester ligands during the complex formation: (1) A diene-substituted ligand 1-H2 for the

• auxiliary, Lewis acid or catalyst. In the previously reported system two different induction pathways were conceivable: (1) A chiral ligand is located close to the diene and controls the stereochemistry of the cycloaddition. (2) The chiral ligand controls the helicity of the helicate (ΔΔ or ΛΛ) and the

• helix induces the stereoselectivity of the Diels–Alder reaction. To find out which of the induction pathways takes over the control of the Diels–Alder reaction in the periphery of the helicates, a specific helicity was induced at an achiral diene bearing helicate. It has been described before that an

Reactions of 3-aryl-1-(trifluoromethyl)prop-2-yn-1-iminium salts with 1,3-dienes and styrenes

• Thomas Schneider,
• Michael Keim,
• Bianca Seitz and
• Gerhard Maas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2064–2072, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.173

• reacts with cyclopentadiene in two different ways: concerted [4 + 2] cycloaddition and a stepwise [2 + 2] cycloaddition via an allenyl-cyclopentenyl cation (which could be trapped with OH−) [54][55]. Styrene structural moieties are also present in (E,E)-1,4-diphenylbuta-1,3-diene. Therefore, it was of

• interest to know whether it would react with propyn-1-iminium salts 1 as a styrene or a 1,3-diene. With 3-(4-bromophenyl)propyn-1-iminium salt 1c in acetonitrile, no reaction was observed at 20 °C, but within two hours at 45 °C, an unclean reaction took place, which became evident by a multitude of 19F NMR

• + 2] cycloaddition of 1c and the diene component, which is probably a two-step process as shown in Scheme 5. Cyclobutene 20 is prone to a thermally induced conrotatory electrocyclic ring-opening, which yields iminium-substituted triene 21. In a similar reaction, an α-phenyliminium salt structurally

Syntheses of spliceostatins and thailanstatins: a review

• William A. Donaldson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1991–2006, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.166

• -methyl-3-buten-1-yl tosylate in the presence of Grubbs’ 2nd generation catalyst yielded 59, which, upon elimination with potassium tert-butoxide led to the diene 50. The reductive amination of 50 afforded an inseparable mixture of the C-14 amines (6:1 ratio). However, the amidation of this mixture with

• ] was followed by a 3-O-vinylation. A thermal 3,3-sigmatropic Claisen rearrangement of 62 gave the cis-2,6-disubstituted dihydropyran 63, which upon sequential Wittig olefination with 2-(triphenylphosporanylidene)propanal and then methylenetriphenylphosphorane yielded the diene 64. The removal of the di

• exocyclic epoxide prior to the formation of the C-6–C-9 conjugated diene was necessary in order to avoid the unwanted epoxidation of the C-6–C-7 olefin. Koide employed a unique strategy in which the exocyclic epoxide was generated as the initial stereocenter (Scheme 15) [12][13]. The Sharpless asymmetric

One-pot and metal-free synthesis of 3-arylated-4-nitrophenols via polyfunctionalized cyclohexanones from β-nitrostyrenes

• Haruyasu Asahara,
• Minami Hiraishi and
• Nagatoshi Nishiwaki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1830–1836, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.150

• School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 1-6, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan 10.3762/bjoc.16.150 Abstract β-Nitrostyrenes underwent a Diels–Alder reaction with Danishefsky’s diene to afford cyclohexenes together with the corresponding hydrolyzed products, 3-arylated-5-methoxy-4

• with Danishefsky’s diene could be conducted in one pot to directly afford the corresponding nitrophenols. Moreover, a heteroaryl group, e.g., a thienyl group could be introduced into the nitrophenol framework. Keywords: 3-arylated-4-nitrophenol; Danishefsky’s diene; Diels–Alder reaction; nitroalkene

• reaction, a C2 unit possessing a nitro group and an aryl group at the vicinal position is incorporated into the products. This unique reactivity prompted us to probe the synthesis of the 3-arylated-4-nitrophenols 5 by the Diels–Alder reaction of nitrostyrenes 1 with Danishefsky’s diene (2, the

Pauson–Khand reaction of fluorinated compounds

• Jorge Escorihuela,
• Daniel M. Sedgwick,
• Alberto Llobat,
• Mercedes Medio-Simón,
• Pablo Barrio and
• Santos Fustero

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1662–1682, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.138

• corresponding mesylate 38b proved sufficient for the synthesis of N-tethered substrates 37 (Z = NTs), through simple nucleophilic substitution (via c). It is noteworthy that under standard PK reaction conditions, fluoroenyne 39 evolves to diene 40. The formation of compound 40 is possible by elimination of HF

An overview on disulfide-catalyzed and -cocatalyzed photoreactions

• Yeersen Patehebieke

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1418–1435, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.118

• applications in total synthesis, medium- and large-ring syntheses, and conjugate diene isomerization processes. In 2006, Crimmins successfully used this isomerization method in the syntheses of ophirin B and astrogorgin (Scheme 25) [31]. In the reaction, the intermediate 70 reacts with

Recent synthesis of thietanes

• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1357–1410, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.116

• ] cycloadditions of N-methyldithiosuccinimides 223 and N-methyldithiophthalimide (225) with alkenes 215 and a conjugated diene 226, generating spirothietanes 224, 227–229, 231, 232, and 234. In some cases, the reverse [2 + 2] cycloaddition occurred with the loss of a molecule of thioacetone [70] (Scheme 44). The

Highly selective Diels–Alder and Heck arylation reactions in a divergent synthesis of isoindolo- and pyrrolo-fused polycyclic indoles from 2-formylpyrrole

• Carlos H. Escalante,
• Eder I. Martínez-Mora,
• Carlos Espinoza-Hicks,
• Alejandro A. Camacho-Dávila,
• Fernando R. Ramos-Morales,
• Francisco Delgado and
• Joaquín Tamariz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1320–1334, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.113

• . Accordingly, the R2 substituent in the diene would play an important role in directing the endo/exo orientation of the approach to the maleimide at the transition state (TS). Therefore, the endo diastereoselectivity is apparently not controlled by the presence or the absence of the substituent bonded to the

• nitrogen atom of the heterocycle. Since it is not clear what factors favor this relevant selectivity, the geometry and energy of the TSs were calculated for some of the diene–dienophile pairs depicted in Table 2 (vide infra). Cyclization via an intramolecular Heck arylation reaction Before attempting the

• . Firstly, the geometry and energy of the TSs and the associated minima along the reaction coordinates of the N-substituted diene 8g with maleimide 7c were calculated at the M06-2X/6-31+G(d,p) level of theory [48][49][50][51] on the Gaussian 09 program [52]. For each stationary point of the Diels–Alder