Non-noble metal-catalyzed cross-dehydrogenation coupling (CDC) involving ether α-C(sp³)–H to construct C–C bonds

• Hui Yu and
• Feng Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1259–1288, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.94

• coupling process. Initially, ether 64 interacts with tert-butoxyl radicals via hydrogen atom transfer reaction to generate radical A with release of tert-butyl alcohol. Subsequently, the radical A adds to the C=C bond of α-oxo ketene dithioacetal 107 to form radical B, which further reacts with Fe(III) to

A review of the total syntheses of triptolide

• Xiang Zhang,
• Zaozao Xiao and
• Hongtao Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1984–1995, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.194

• new methodologies of butenolide formation. The first butenolide formation started with the reaction of ketone 68 with carbon disulfide (CS2) and iodomethane (MeI) to give the ketene dithioacetal intermediate 69, which was subjected to a Corey–Chaykovsky epoxidation, followed by acid hydrolysis to give

Molecular iodine-catalyzed one-pot multicomponent synthesis of 5-amino-4-(arylselanyl)-1H-pyrazoles

• Camila S. Pires,
• Daniela H. de Oliveira,
• Maria R. B. Pontel,
• Jean C. Kazmierczak,
• Roberta Cargnelutti,
• Diego Alves,
• Raquel G. Jacob and
• Ricardo F. Schumacher

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2789–2798, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.256

• ) [8]. Attanasi and co-workers described the synthesis of 4-(phenylseleno)pyrazol-3-ones through α-(phenylseleno)hydrazone reagents under basic conditions [9]. In 2015, Yu and co-workers described one example for the condensation reaction of α-oxo ketene dithioacetal with hydrazine hydrate to produce

Addition of dithi(ol)anylium tetrafluoroborates to α,β-unsaturated ketones

• Yu-Chieh Huang,
• An Nguyen,
• Simone Gräßle,
• Sylvia Vanderheiden,
• Nicole Jung and
• Stefan Bräse

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 515–522, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.37

• corresponding alcohol in very good yields for two examples (16a = 94%; 16b = 99%, Scheme 5), demonstrating the possible reductive transformation of the ketone in the presence of the ketene dithioacetal function. While our initial procedure did not include investigations towards a stereoselective addition of the

Anodic coupling of carboxylic acids to electron-rich double bonds: A surprising non-Kolbe pathway to lactones

• Robert J. Perkins,
• Hai-Chao Xu,
• John M. Campbell and
• Kevin D. Moeller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1630–1636, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.186

• afforded the five-membered ring product using either lithium methoxide or 2,6-lutidine as a base. Clearly, decarboxylation of the carboxylate anion was not a problem. In fact, cyclic voltammetry data suggest that the reaction originated from an oxidation of the ketene dithioacetal. The oxidation potential

• dithioacetal (ca. +1.06 V versus Ag/AgCl) [21]. Hence, the oxidation potential measured for 14a is most consistent with a fast cyclization originating from oxidation of the olefin. Fast cyclization reactions are known to significantly lower the oxidation potential of a ketene dithioacetal. For example, the

• trapping of a ketene dithioacetal derived radical cation by an amine was shown to lower the oxidation potential measured for the ketene dithioacetal by 460 mV [21], a value consistent with the potential measured here for 14a. The oxidation of 14b to afford the six-membered ring product also proceeded well

Direct alkenylation of indolin-2-ones by 6-aryl-4-methylthio-2H-pyran-2-one-3-carbonitriles: a novel approach

• Sandeep Kumar,
• Ramendra Pratap,
• Abhinav Kumar,
• Brijesh Kumar,
• Vishnu K. Tandon and
• Vishnu Ji Ram

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 809–817, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.92

• of the weak noncovalent interactions operating in the supramolecular architectures of alkenylated indoline-2-ones and to explain the relative stability of one of the tautomers with respect to the others. Keywords: alkenylation; dibenzo[d,f][1,3]diazepin-6(7H)-one; indolin-2-one; ketene dithioacetal

Synthesis, solid-state fluorescence properties, and computational analysis of novel 2-aminobenzo[4,5]thieno[3,2-d]pyrimidine 5,5-dioxides

• Kenichirou Yokota,
• Masayori Hagimori,
• Naoko Mizuyama,
• Yasuhisa Nishimura,
• Hiroshi Fujito,
• Yasuhiro Shigemitsu and
• Yoshinori Tominaga

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 266–274, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.28

• derivative 2,4-diaminoindeno[1,2-d]pyrimidin-5-one; this pyrimidine derivative, which was synthesized by heating a ketene dithioacetal, 2-[bis(methylsulfanyl)methylidene]indan-1,3-dione, under reflux with amine and amidine derivatives in pyridine solution, showed blue-green fluorescence in the solid state [6

• derivative 3g was obtained from 1a with (S)-methylisothiourea sulfate (2b) in 87% yield (Scheme 2). Fused pyrimidine derivatives 6 and 7 containing the electron-rich heterocycles benzothiophene or benzofuran were prepared by the reaction of ketene dithioacetal 1b or 1c with guanidine carbonate (2a) in 74