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

Regioselective cobalt(II)-catalyzed [2 + 3] cycloaddition reaction of fluoroalkylated alkynes with 2-formylphenylboronic acids: easy access to 2-fluoroalkylated indenols

• Tatsuya Kumon,
• Miroku Shimada,
• Jianyan Wu,
• Shigeyuki Yamada and
• Tsutomu Konno

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2193–2200, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.184

• ][32]. Therefore, we also accomplished the synthesis of 2-fluoroalkylated indenone and indanone by simple reactions (Scheme 3). An allylic oxidation was carried out with 10 equiv of manganese dioxide in dichloromethane as the solvent at 0 °C for 30 minutes, leading to the corresponding 2

When metal-catalyzed C–H functionalization meets visible-light photocatalysis

• Lucas Guillemard and
• Joanna Wencel-Delord

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1754–1804, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.147

• ]. Targeting more sustainable protocols, a manganese catalyst was selected to trigger the coupling between an aryldiazonium salt and simple (hetero)aryls. A unique reactivity was obtained under irradiation with blue LEDs and a continuous-flow process allowed achieving higher reactivity. Under the optimized

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

• ]indole-1,3-diones 9 were submitted to aromatization to generate the corresponding tetrahydropyrrolo[3,4-e]indole-1,3-diones 21 (Table 4). When 9e was treated with manganese oxide [32] at 25 or 100 °C for 24 h, no reaction occurred and the starting material was recovered (Table 4, entries 1 and 2

• ). Derivative 21c was also prepared by the oxidation of 9h with manganese oxide at higher temperature, but the yield was lower (Table 4, entry 5). As part of our interest in further functionalizing octahydropyrrolo[3,4-e]indole-1,3-diones 9, formylation was herein investigated under usual Vilsmeier–Haack

• using manganese oxide or DDQ as the oxidizing reagents, or even including Pd/C at high temperatures (250 °C) [45], failed to obtain the series of indoles 23. It is likely that the electron withdrawing effect of the formyl group at the C-7 position counterbalance the delocalization direction of the

Oxime radicals: generation, properties and application in organic synthesis

• Igor B. Krylov,
• Stanislav A. Paveliev,
• Alexander S. Budnikov and
• Alexander O. Terent’ev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1234–1276, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.107

• Cu(ClO4)2 afforded a better yield of the C–O coupling product 48 then the manganese-based oxidants in this case (Scheme 17) [94]. A radical mechanism was suggested. The copper(II) ion reacts with oxime 19 to generate iminoxyl radical 20 and also forms complex 49 with dinitrile 47. Interaction of

• oxidation of α,β-unsaturated oxime 109’. As a result, 5-endo-trig cyclization affording hydroxyisoxazoline 110’ in good yield was observed. Another approach to the synthesis of hydroxy-substituted isoxazolines 113 is the manganese(III) acetylacetonate catalyzed reaction of β,γ-unsaturated oximes 112 with

Synthesis of esters of diaminotruxillic bis-amino acids by Pd-mediated photocycloaddition of analogs of the Kaede protein chromophore

• Esteban P. Urriolabeitia,
• Pablo Sánchez,
• Alexandra Pop,
• Cristian Silvestru,
• Eduardo Laga,
• Ana I. Jiménez and
• Carlos Cativiela

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1111–1123, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.98

• chromatography (TLC) was performed on Macherey-Nagel Polygram® SIL G/UV254 silica gel on polyester sheets, with manganese-activated zinc silicate with green fluorescence for short-wave UV (254 nm) and special inorganic fluorescent pigment with blue fluorescence for long-wave UV (366 nm) as indicators. Fluka

Targeted photoswitchable imaging of intracellular glutathione by a photochromic glycosheet sensor

• Xianzhi Chai,
• Hai-Hao Han,
• Yi Zang,
• Jia Li,
• Xiao-Peng He,
• Junji Zhang and
• He Tian

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2380–2389, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.230

• integrate these functions into one molecule. By taking advantages of both redox-active/high loading features of two-dimensional (2D) manganese dioxide (MnO2) and dynamic fluorescence photoswitching of photochromic sensors, we here design a hybrid photochromic MnO2 glycosheet (Glyco-DTE@MnO2) to achieve the

Functionalization of 4-bromobenzo[c][2,7]naphthyridine via regioselective direct ring metalation. A novel approach to analogues of pyridoacridine alkaloids

• Benedikt C. Melzer,
• Alois Plodek and
• Franz Bracher

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2304–2310, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.222

• added at C-5 of 4-chloro- (9a) and 4-fluorobenzo[c][2,7]naphthyridine (9b) as well as the 4-carboxamide 9c to give 5-substituted-5,6-dihydro derivatives, which were readily aromatized with manganese dioxide [13]. Further functionalization was performed by Stille cross coupling of a 4-chloro intermediate

Recent advances in transition-metal-catalyzed incorporation of fluorine-containing groups

• Xiaowei Li,
• Xiaolin Shi,
• Xiangqian Li and
• Dayong Shi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2213–2270, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.218

• Groves [82] developed two manganese catalysts for the fluorination of C(sp3)–H bonds (Scheme 38). On the one hand, they employed a manganese porphyrin to catalyze the oxidative aliphatic C–H fluorination with iodosylbenzene (PhIO) as a stoichiometric oxidant. A variety of substrates, including simple

Recent advances on the transition-metal-catalyzed synthesis of imidazopyridines: an updated coverage

• Gagandeep Kour Reen,
• Ashok Kumar and
• Pratibha Sharma

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1612–1704, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.165

• a rich library of compounds with good yields except 5-bromo, 4-methyl and 3-methyl substitution on 2-AP with 41, 45 and 49% yield, respectively. Meng et al. have used copper supported on manganese oxide-based octahedral molecular sieves OMS-2 (CuOx/OMS-2) as a heterogeneous catalytic system for a

Insertion of [1.1.1]propellane into aromatic disulfides

• Robin M. Bär,
• Gregor Heinrich,
• Martin Nieger,
• Olaf Fuhr and
• Stefan Bräse

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1172–1180, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.114

• opening of 1 with Grignard reagents enables the synthesis of aryl and some alkyl-substituted BCPs and a subsequent cross-coupling reaction [5][18]. To provide bicyclo[1.1.1]pentylamine as a building block in large-scale syntheses, Bunker et al. developed a synthesis of hydrazine BCP via a manganese

Oxidative radical ring-opening/cyclization of cyclopropane derivatives

• Yu Liu,
• Qiao-Lin Wang,
• Zan Chen,
• Cong-Shan Zhou,
• Bi-Quan Xiong,
• Pan-Liang Zhang,
• Chang-An Yang and
• Quan Zhou

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 256–278, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.23

• olefins and cyclopropanols) over the last 20 years. Review Oxidative radical ring-opening and cyclization of methylenecyclopropanes (MCPs) In 2004, Huang and co-workers reported the first manganese(III) acetate-mediated radical ring-opening and cyclization of methylenecyclopropanes (MCPs, 1) with malonic

• another molecule Mn(OAc)3 [48]. Later, Shi et al. demonstrated an oxidative annulation of MCPs 1 with 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds 7 using manganese(III) catalysis under room temperature conditions, which afforded 4,5-dihydrofuran derivatives 8 as [3 + 2] annulation products (cyclopropyl retained adducts) in

Mn-mediated sequential three-component domino Knoevenagel/cyclization/Michael addition/oxidative cyclization reaction towards annulated imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines

• Olga A. Storozhenko,
• Alexey A. Festa,
• Delphine R. Bella Ndoutoume,
• Alexander V. Aksenov,
• Alexey V. Varlamov and
• Leonid G. Voskressensky

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 3078–3087, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.287

• as optimal conditions), probably due to improved solubility of manganese salt. To understand the scope of this three-component reaction of nitromethane, the optimized conditions were used with different o-hydroxybenzaldehydes to prepare products 5a–h with 37–68% yields, displaying tolerance to

Synthesis of unnatural α-amino esters using ethyl nitroacetate and condensation or cycloaddition reactions

• Glwadys Gagnot,
• Vincent Hervin,
• Eloi P. Coutant,
• Sarah Desmons,
• Racha Baatallah,
• Victor Monnot and
• Yves L. Janin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2846–2852, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.263

• improve this transformation (trials with manganese(III) acetate were not successful either). We then resorted to a different approach to prepare the oxazole-bearing α-amino ester 36 from 2,4,5-trimethyloxazole (33). Deprotonation of this compound was achieved using lithium diisopropylamide (LDA) and this

An overview on recent advances in the synthesis of sulfonated organic materials, sulfonated silica materials, and sulfonated carbon materials and their catalytic applications in chemical processes

• Hashem Sharghi,
• Pezhman Shiri and
• Mahdi Aberi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2745–2770, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.253

• this IL with manganese(II) chloride as a co-catalyst also exhibited excellent yield in cellobiose (61) hydrolysis in dilute aqueous sulfuric acid (Scheme 11). The authors found that the highest enhancement in the yield of the product happens at 60 °C. This may be owing to this fact that a weak

• interaction between manganese(II) chloride and cellobiose generates the co-catalytic effect. The interactions of MnCl2 with -OH groups and other oxygen atoms of cellobiose were confirmed by IR spectroscopy [53]. In another study, 1-(3-sulfopropyl)-3-methyl-1H-imidazolium chloride (63) and 1-(4-sulfobutyl)-3

Design and synthesis of C₃-symmetric molecules bearing propellane moieties via cyclotrimerization and a ring-closing metathesis sequence

• Sambasivarao Kotha,
• Saidulu Todeti and
• Vikas R. Aswar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2537–2544, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.230

• (−)-aspidophytine (5) differs from 1-acetylaspidoalbidine (4) only in the degree of unsaturation and the substitution pattern on the aromatic ring (Figure 1). The design of propellanes demands unique synthetic methods and these include: manganese or palladium-catalyzed transformations [10], the Diels–Alder (DA

A novel and practical asymmetric synthesis of eptazocine hydrobromide

• Ruipeng Li,
• Zhenren Liu,
• Liang Chen,
• Jing Pan,
• Kuaile Lin and
• Weicheng Zhou

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2340–2347, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.209

• , entry 3). When other oxidants, such as selenium oxide and manganese dioxide, were used, even at reflux temperature, no reaction took place (Table 2, entries 4 and 5). Owing to the concern of heavy metal pollution from the metal oxidant, organic oxidants were tested. Fortunately, DDQ in dioxane could

One-pot synthesis of epoxides from benzyl alcohols and aldehydes

• Edwin Alfonzo,
• Jesse W. L. Mendoza and
• Aaron B. Beeler

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2308–2312, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.205

• its original disclosure, particular in the area of asymmetric synthesis [22][23][24]. Other notable advancements include the expansion of its scope by using organic bases and a one-pot oxidation/epoxidation sequence of benzyl alcohols with manganese dioxide and an exogenous sulfonium salt [25][26

Cobalt bis(acetylacetonate)–tert-butyl hydroperoxide–triethylsilane: a general reagent combination for the Markovnikov-selective hydrofunctionalization of alkenes by hydrogen atom transfer

• Xiaoshen Ma and
• Seth B. Herzon

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2259–2265, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.201

• corresponding metal alkyl complex. This radical then undergoes addition to a second reagent (SOMOphile) to form the functionalized product (Scheme 1). A wide range of manganese, cobalt, or iron-based complexes containing diverse supporting ligands have found use in these reactions. To the best of our knowledge

• -methoxybenzoate (3a) with N-methoxypyridinium methyl sulfate (6c) to form the hydropyridylation product 4l in 66% yield and as a 4.7:1 ratio of regioisomers (Table 1, entry 13). We also demonstrated that the alkyl radical generated from the HAT process can be trapped by (η6-benzene)manganese tricarbonyl

Cobalt-catalyzed C–H cyanations: Insights into the reaction mechanism and the role of London dispersion

• Eric Detmar,
• Valentin Müller,
• Daniel Zell,
• Lutz Ackermann and
• Martin Breugst

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1537–1545, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.130

• ) to yield complex 5a. In contrast to previous computational studies on manganese(I)-catalyzed fluoro-allylation reactions where β-fluoride and HF eliminations played an important role [41], similar reactions involving amine eliminations seem to be not relevant in this reaction. Furthermore, a

Three-component coupling of aryl iodides, allenes, and aldehydes catalyzed by a Co/Cr-hybrid catalyst

• Kimihiro Komeyama,
• Shunsuke Sakiyama,
• Kento Iwashita,
• Itaru Osaka and
• Ken Takaki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1413–1420, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.118

• coupling reaction between iodobenzene (1a), 5-phenylpenta-1,2-diene (2a), and 4-methylbenzaldehyde (3a) in the presence of CoBr2 (10 mol %), CrCl3 (20 mol %), and manganese powder (2.0 equiv), using trimethylsilyl chloride (TMSCl, 1.2 equiv) as a trapping reagent [7]. These results are summarized in Table

Recent applications of chiral calixarenes in asymmetric catalysis

• Mustafa Durmaz,
• Erkan Halay and
• Selahattin Bozkurt

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1389–1412, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.117

• to the Scheme 31, led to the formation of uranyl and manganese complexes 106a,b–107a,b [70]. While Mn(III) complexes 107a,b have been used as catalysts for asymmetric epoxidation of styrene and substituted styrenes in the presence of NaClO as an oxygen donor and 4-phenylpyridine N-oxide (4-PPNO) as a

Recent developments in the asymmetric Reformatsky-type reaction

• Hélène Pellissier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 325–344, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.21

• ketones with ethyl iodoacetate performed with enantioselectivities of up to 86% ee in the presence of a chiral manganese salen complex [36]. The same year, this author also described the first catalytic enantioselective aza-Reformatsky reaction between in situ generated imines and ethyl iodoacetate [37

CF₃SO₂X (X = Na, Cl) as reagents for trifluoromethylation, trifluoromethylsulfenyl-, -sulfinyl- and -sulfonylation. Part 1: Use of CF₃SO₂Na

• Hélène Guyon,
• Hélène Chachignon and
• Dominique Cahard

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2764–2799, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.272

• to a wide range of alkenes featuring various functional groups. Further reduction of the N–O bond by Mo(CO)6 gave the corresponding alcohols. A protocol free of peroxide initiator was developed by Yang, Vicic and co-workers using a manganese salt and O2 from air [35]. Styrene derivatives were

Phosphonic acid: preparation and applications

• Charlotte M. Sevrain,
• Mathieu Berchel,
• Hélène Couthon and
• Paul-Alain Jaffrès

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2186–2213, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.219

• 14, Figure 4), was assessed to complex indium [86] or terbium [87] with the aim to develop bone targeting and dosimetry. It was also employed to complex 89Y and applied as pH sensitive NMR probe [88], or as organic precursor of crystalline manganese, nickel [89] or lanthanide-containing hybrid