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Chemoenzymatic synthesis of macrocyclic peptides and polyketides via thioesterase-catalyzed macrocyclization

  • Senze Qiao,
  • Zhongyu Cheng and
  • Fuzhuo Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 721–733, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.66

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  • hydroxylation and epoxidation using three P450s (TylI, JuvD and MycCI) involved in the biosynthesis of several different macrolides, eight additional macrolides were achieved from 50, including juvenimicin B1, M-4365 G2, and juvenimicin A3. In the light of this approach, the following bioactive assay
  • explored as prospective payloads for antibody-drug conjugation [81][82]. Numerous synthetic approaches have been devised to deliver the cryptophytes skeleton, indicating that the most challenging steps are the regio- and stereospecific macrocyclization and epoxidation [83]. To address these problems, in
  • epoxidation with enzymatic macrocyclization in 2020 as shown in Scheme 8 [85]. According to their previous report [86], the production of fragments 61 was initiated by Evans’ asymmetric aldol and alcohol protection to generate 57. Six-step route transformations, including cross metathesis, afforded aldehyde
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Published 04 Apr 2024

Production of non-natural 5-methylorsellinate-derived meroterpenoids in Aspergillus oryzae

  • Jia Tang,
  • Yixiang Zhang and
  • Yudai Matsuda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 638–644, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.56

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  • -dependent monooxygenase InsA4. In this engineered pathway, FncE first synthesizes 5-MOA, which then undergoes farnesylation by FncB, methyl ester formation by InsA1, and epoxidation of the terminal olefin in the farnesyl moiety by InsA4 (Figure 2A). Thus, we heterologously expressed the genes encoding these
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Published 20 Mar 2024

Recent developments in the engineered biosynthesis of fungal meroterpenoids

  • Zhiyang Quan and
  • Takayoshi Awakawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 578–588, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.50

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  • , FMO EsdpE, which epoxidizes the C-14, C-15 double bond of 13, was employed to produce 19, and the CYC EsdpB cyclizes in a chair–chair–chair conformation to form the 6-6-6 ring structure of 20 [18][19]. This difference in the epoxidation position represents a new point of biosynthetic diversity that
  • hydroxy group terminates the cyclization [20][21]. In ascofuranone biosynthesis, compound 21 is initially hydroxylated at C-8, and then the hydroxylated product is cyclized via epoxidation by AscI to form the tetrahydrofuran ring of 23. The biosynthetic pathways of 22 and 23 were elucidated through
  • molecular species withdraws a hydrogen atom, and the generated radical induces various reactions such as hydroxylation, unsaturation, epoxidation, halogenation, endoperoxidation, and C–C bond reconstruction, leading to the formation of diverse chemical structures [22][26][27][28][29][30][31]. Structure
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Pseudallenes A and B, new sulfur-containing ovalicin sesquiterpenoid derivatives with antimicrobial activity from the deep-sea cold seep sediment-derived fungus Pseudallescheria boydii CS-793

  • Zhen Ying,
  • Xiao-Ming Li,
  • Sui-Qun Yang,
  • Hong-Lei Li,
  • Xin Li,
  • Bin-Gui Wang and
  • Ling-Hong Meng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 470–478, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.42

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  • II, which could be transferred to III by cyclization and epoxidation. Oxidation and methylation of intermediate III would produce IV. Compounds 1–4 could be obtained by nucleophilic attack at C-8 with the hydroxy or thiol group from IV via intermediate V, followed by oxidation and cyclization
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Synthesis of ether lipids: natural compounds and analogues

  • Marco Antônio G. B. Gomes,
  • Alicia Bauduin,
  • Chloé Le Roux,
  • Romain Fouinneteau,
  • Wilfried Berthe,
  • Mathieu Berchel,
  • Hélène Couthon and
  • Paul-Alain Jaffrès

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1299–1369, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.96

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  • tosylation of the primary alcohol produced 4.8. The epoxidation of 4.8 occurred by reaction with t-BuOK in THF, thus producing 4.9 as a chiral electrophile. The regioselective opening of the epoxide is achieved by adding the octadecanol sodium salt. The intermediate was debenzylated by catalytic
  • from allyl alcohol (Figure 7) [82]. The Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation of allyl alcohol followed by tosylation produced glycidyl tosylate 7.1a (Figure 7). The reaction of palmityl alcohol (C16H33-OH) in the presence of a catalytic amount of BF3 open regio- and stereoselectively the epoxide to produce
  • either sn-1 and sn-2 positions or sn-2 and sn-3 positions [97]. The incorporation of one methylene unit is shown in Figure 13 as an illustration of all these possibilities. But-3-en-1-ol (13.1) was alkylated with bromohexadecane to produce the ether 13.2. The epoxidation of the carbon–carbon double bond
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Asymmetric synthesis of a stereopentade fragment toward latrunculins

  • Benjamin Joyeux,
  • Antoine Gamet,
  • Nicolas Casaretto and
  • Bastien Nay

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 428–433, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.32

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  • , in view of its coupling to 8. We first relied the chemoselective epoxidation of the homoallylic alcohol, done in presence of VO(OiPr)3 (20 mol %) and t-BuOOH to afford epoxide 13, in 86% yield and a dr of 75:25 (measured by NMR, presumably resulting from the major diastereoisomer of 13; minor isomers
  • were not identified), when the reaction was performed at room temperature during 6 hours. This vanadium catalyst superseded VO(acac)2 in terms of yields [26][27]. Additional epoxidation attempts allowed to improve the dr to 82:18 (82% yield) when the reaction was left at −30 °C for 6 days
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Published 03 Apr 2023

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

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  • acetic anhydride followed by epoxidation using m-CPBA gave protected epoxide 50. Subsequent removal of the acetate group using ammonia led to racemic compound 1 (Scheme 8). Rychnovsky and Hwang succeeded in the total syntheses of combretastatin D-2 (2) in a 36% overall yield after 13 steps and
  • combretastatin D-1 (1) in 23% overall yield after 16 steps. Later, the same authors performed the enantioselective synthesis of 1 in an attempt to review its absolute configuration [41]. Thus, acetylation of compound 2 followed by the use of Jacobsen’s catalyst [42] to perform the epoxidation of the double bond
  • group followed by protection of the obtained alcohol with benzyl bromide provided compound 55, which was subjected to an epoxidation using m-CPBA followed by ring opening using DIBAL [46]. The obtained alcohol was then protected with TBSCl to give fragment 57 (Scheme 10). Using similar conditions to
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Published 29 Mar 2023

Strategies to access the [5-8] bicyclic core encountered in the sesquiterpene, diterpene and sesterterpene series

  • Cécile Alleman,
  • Charlène Gadais,
  • Laurent Legentil and
  • François-Hugues Porée

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 245–281, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.23

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Germacrene B – a central intermediate in sesquiterpene biosynthesis

  • Houchao Xu and
  • Jeroen S. Dickschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 186–203, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.18

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  • Sharpless epoxidation of its derivative 15-hydroxygermacrene (17) showed that this material was racemic, indicating a rapid interconversion between the enantiomers of 17. Consequently, also the enantiomers of 1 may undergo a fast interconversion [52]. The 1H and 13C NMR data of 1 have been reported [26
  • synthesis from β-eudesmol (30) through epoxidation to 31, dehydration to 32 and epoxide opening with LiAlH4 yielded (−)-11 (Scheme 9C) [77], contradicting this assignment. Notably, Šorm and co-workers noticed that 11 was racemic, because neither 11 nor any of its degradation products showed optical activity
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Published 20 Feb 2023

Total synthesis of grayanane natural products

  • Nicolas Fay,
  • Rémi Blieck,
  • Cyrille Kouklovsky and
  • Aurélien de la Torre

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1707–1719, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.181

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  • the PMB protecting group, Dess–Martin oxidation, and SmI2-induced cyclization. This last step was highly selective, giving solely the intermediate 17. The synthesis was then pursued by the hydroboration–oxidation of the monosubstituted alkene, followed by stereoselective epoxidation of the 1,1
  • group on C6 was introduced after cyclopropane ring-opening, ketone protection, epoxidation and reductive ring-opening of the resulting epoxide. A one-pot β-keto phosphonate formation/Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction with formaldehyde afforded 38, a precursor for the key oxidative dearomatization-induced
  • reagent and DMDO could induce an epoxidation on the strained olefin. From intermediate 40, the key reductive epoxide opening/Dowd–Beckwith rearrangement cascade could be performed in the presence of an in situ-generated Ti(III) catalyst. The main side-product of this reaction was due to a simple reductive
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Published 12 Dec 2022

Redox-active molecules as organocatalysts for selective oxidative transformations – an unperceived organocatalysis field

  • Elena R. Lopat’eva,
  • Igor B. Krylov,
  • Dmitry A. Lapshin and
  • Alexander O. Terent’ev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1672–1695, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.179

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  • addition to the electron-rich C=C bond [58] or proton loss followed by β-functionalization [59][60][61]. The iminium cation catalysis is used in the activation of electrophilic properties of enones for the nucleophilic epoxidation by hydroperoxides (Scheme 2B). N-Heterocyclic carbene (NHC) organocatalysis
  • active oxidative agent. Asymmetric quaternary ammonium phase-transfer catalysts proved to be effective in the asymmetric nucleophilic epoxidation of electron-poor alkenes by hydroperoxides [70] and the asymmetric hydroxylation of enolizable carbonyl compounds employing O2 or H2O2 as terminal oxidants [71
  • –H2O2 system the adducts of H2O2 and ketones (perhydrates) can also be active oxidative species [51]. Dioxiranes formed from ketones and hydroperoxides are electrophilic oxygen transferring agents used in epoxidation (including asymmetric variants) [131][132], CH-hydroxylation, and other oxidation
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Cytochrome P450 monooxygenase-mediated tailoring of triterpenoids and steroids in plants

  • Karan Malhotra and
  • Jakob Franke

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1289–1310, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.135

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  • that performs hydroxylation and epoxidation reactions of the β-amyrin (6) scaffold to produce 12,13β-epoxy-16β-hydroxy-β-amyrin [1][99]. Thus, CYP51H10 is an example of a neofunctionalised CYP recruited from primary sterol metabolism. Two members of the CYP87D subfamily decorate the tetracyclic
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Published 21 Sep 2022

Anti-inflammatory aromadendrane- and cadinane-type sesquiterpenoids from the South China Sea sponge Acanthella cavernosa

  • Shou-Mao Shen,
  • Qing Yang,
  • Yi Zang,
  • Jia Li,
  • Xueting Liu and
  • Yue-Wei Guo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 916–925, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.91

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  • α-corocalene (O) [35]. An epoxidation at C-4/C-5 of O resulted in the formation of α-corocalene epoxide (P) [35], which was further hydrolyzed to generate the final product 7 [36]. In the anti-inflammatory assay, the transcriptional expression level of the representative inflammatory genes such as
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The stereochemical course of 2-methylisoborneol biosynthesis

  • Binbin Gu,
  • Anwei Hou and
  • Jeroen S. Dickschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 818–824, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.82

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  • Sharpless epoxidation as a key step and purification of enantiomerically enriched intermediates through HPLC separation on a chiral stationary phase. Their enzymatic conversion with 2-methylisoborneol synthase (2MIBS) demonstrates that (R)-2-Me-LPP is the on-pathway intermediate, while a minor formation of
  • comparison in these analyses. Conclusion Both enantiomers of 2-Me-LPP can be selectively prepared using a Sharpless epoxidation strategy in high enantiomeric purity of >75% ee. HPLC purification of the synthetic precursor 2-methyllinalool using a chiral stationary phase can make the pure enantiomers
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Published 08 Jul 2022

Rapid gas–liquid reaction in flow. Continuous synthesis and production of cyclohexene oxide

  • Kyoko Mandai,
  • Tetsuya Yamamoto,
  • Hiroki Mandai and
  • Aiichiro Nagaki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 660–668, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.67

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  • Medical Science, Nijigaoka, Kani-city, Gifu Prefecture, 509-0293, Japan 10.3762/bjoc.18.67 Abstract The enhanced reaction rate in the epoxidation of cyclohexene with air as an oxidant was discovered without any added catalyst utilizing a continuous flow reactor constructed with readily available
  • with good operational stability, evaluated by a constant high yield of cyclohexene oxide, to obtain the desired product with high productivity. Keywords: air; continuous flow; cyclohexene oxide; flow epoxidation; rapid gas–liquid reaction; Introduction From the past to the present, organic synthesis
  • method for the production of cyclohexene oxide is highly desired to be developed, taking sustainability for the environment and our society into consideration. The general synthetic procedure for cyclohexene oxide is the epoxidation of cyclohexene [7][8]. Among various oxidizing agents used in the
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Published 13 Jun 2022

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

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  • nucleus, due to its greater reactivity when compared to the adjacent aromatic ring, which depends on previous modifications in the menadione intermediates [95]. Epoxidation reactions The use of menadione in the preparation of epoxides is widely reported in the scientific literature. In nature, menadione
  • ]. The authors studied a broad range of quinone derivatives among which compound 39 was obtained through reaction of menadione (10) and hydroperoxide 38 in 71% yield and 45% ee (Scheme 11A). Analogously, Kosnik and co-workers described a similar epoxidation methodology using a series of pyranose-derived
  • anomeric hydroperoxides (HPO) to obtain epoxides 40 with moderate ees (Scheme 11B) [100][101]. Bunge and co-workers used the enantiomerically pure dihydroperoxide 41 in the DBU-mediated epoxidation of menadione (10) for the enantioselective synthesis of epoxide 42 (92% yield and 45–66% ee) (Scheme 11C
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Efficient and regioselective synthesis of dihydroxy-substituted 2-aminocyclooctane-1-carboxylic acid and its bicyclic derivatives

  • İlknur Polat,
  • Selçuk Eşsiz,
  • Uğur Bozkaya and
  • Emine Salamci

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 77–85, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.7

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  • . Synthesis of cyclic β-amino acid 6. Epoxidation of Boc-protected amino ester 4 and hydrolysis of epoxide 7 with HCl(g)–MeOH. Reaction of epoxide 7 with NaHSO4 in methylene chloride/MeOH. Synthesis of cyclic β-amino acid derivative 8. Suggested mechanism for the reaction of epoxide 7 with NaHSO4. Supporting
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Highly stereocontrolled total synthesis of racemic codonopsinol B through isoxazolidine-4,5-diol vinylation

  • Lukáš Ďurina,
  • Anna Ďurinová,
  • František Trejtnar,
  • Ľuboš Janotka,
  • Lucia Messingerová,
  • Jana Doháňošová,
  • Ján Moncol and
  • Róbert Fischer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2781–2786, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.188

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  • -stereoselective epoxidation of 2,3-dihydroisoxazole with in situ-generated DMDO, the syn-selective α-chelation-controlled addition of vinyl-MgBr/CeCl3 to the isoxazolidine-4,5-diol intermediate, and the substrate-directed epoxidation of the terminal double bond of the corresponding γ-amino-α,β-diol with aqueous
  • methodology based on the trans-stereoselective epoxidation reaction of 2,3-dihydroisoxazoles followed by the regioselective hydrolysis of the corresponding isoxazolidinyl epoxide [15][16]. Very recently, we have reported the synthesis of γ-(hydroxyamino)-α,β-diols by the addition of Grignard reagents to
  • be prepared by substrate-directed epoxidation. A subsequent SN2 intramolecular epoxide ring-opening cyclization could provide an N-Cbz-protected pyrrolidine derivative with a hydroxymethyl group at C-5 and with trans configuration relative to the hydroxy group at C-4. Finally, (±)-codonopsinol B (1
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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

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  • commercially available (E)-p-methoxycinnamic acid (17). The vital intermediate 16 is expected from cyclopropyl epoxy alcohol 18, which in turn can be prepared from allylic alcohol 19 via the Furukawa-modified Simmons–Smith cyclopropanation and VO-mediated epoxidation. Acetylfuran (20) is chosen as the six
  • isolated in 80% yield over two steps. Reduction of the ester provided allylic alcohol 29 (92%) ready for later epoxidation. After considerable optimizations, the authors found that the dropwise addition of TBHP to 29 in refluxing benzene solution containing a catalytic amount of VO(acac)2 afforded the
  • . Eventually, trans-crotonaldehyde (62) is selected as the precursor for this study. The study began with the enantioselective epoxidation of trans-crotonaldehyde (62) under Jørgensen conditions using organocatalyst 63, followed by a two-carbon homologation to obtain α,β-unsaturated epoxy ester 64 in 78% yield
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Asymmetric organocatalyzed synthesis of coumarin derivatives

  • Natália M. Moreira,
  • Lorena S. R. Martelli and
  • Arlene G. Corrêa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1952–1980, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.128

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  • , tolerates electron-donating and -withdrawing groups and maintains its performance in gram scale (Scheme 36). Page et al. developed a total synthesis of the natural product (+)-scuteflorin A (119), being the key step an asymmetric epoxidation of xanthyletin (115) employing biphenylazepinium 120 as PTC
  • together with tetraphenylphosphonium monoperoxysulfate (TPPP) as the stoichiometric oxidant [76]. The authors mentioned that this epoxidation had been previously reported using Jacoben’s (S,S)-(+)-salen-Mn(III) catalyst with 78–83% yield and 95% ee, and via organocatalysis they obtained 98% yield and ≥99
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Double-headed nucleosides: Synthesis and applications

  • Vineet Verma,
  • Jyotirmoy Maity,
  • Vipin K. Maikhuri,
  • Ritika Sharma,
  • Himal K. Ganguly and
  • Ashok K. Prasad

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1392–1439, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.98

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  • . The convergent synthesis of the double-headed nucleosides was achieved from uridine, which was first converted to the 3′,5′-(1,1,3,3-tetraisopropyldisiloxan-1,3-diyl)-protected (TIPDS) ketonucleoside 1 following a standard procedure [40]. The subsequent Corey–Chaykovsky epoxidation [41] of 2
  • following the literature procedure [14][62]. The epoxide 109 so formed was reacted with thymine to afford nucleoside 107, which on pixylation and removal of the tert-butyldimethylsilyl-protecting group in the presence of TBAF give double-headed nucleoside 110 (Scheme 25) [30][31][65]. The epoxidation of the
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Published 08 Jun 2021

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

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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

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  • trimethylsilyl cyanide (TMSCN) in THF at −10 °C. The reaction product 142 was obtained in quantitative yield and good diastereomeric ratio. Further hydrolysis of the cyclic acetal, and subsequent epoxidation of the resulting diol under typical Mitsunobu conditions led to epoxide derivative 143. The piperidine
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Published 12 May 2021

Stereoselective synthesis and transformation of pinane-based 2-amino-1,3-diols

  • Ákos Bajtel,
  • Mounir Raji,
  • Matti Haukka,
  • Ferenc Fülöp and
  • Zsolt Szakonyi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 983–990, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.80

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  • epoxidation of (−)-α-pinene (6), carried out with meta-chloroperoxybenzoic acid (MCPBA), followed by a base-catalyzed allylic rearrangement mediated by aluminium isopropoxide (Al(OiPr)3). The resulting allylic alcohol 7 was reacted with trichloroacetyl isocyanate, followed by alkaline treatment, delivering
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Stereoselective syntheses of 3-aminocyclooctanetriols and halocyclooctanetriols

  • Emine Salamci and
  • Yunus Zozik

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 705–710, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.59

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  • prepared by epoxidation of the cyclooctenediol with m-chloroperbenzoic acid followed by hydrolysis with HBr(g) in methanol. Treatment of bromotriol with NaN3 and the reduction of the azide group yielded the other desired 3-aminocyclooctanetriol. Hydrolysis of the epoxides with HCl(g) in methanol gave
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