Synthesis and characterization of novel bioactive 1,2,4-oxadiazole natural product analogs bearing the N-phenylmaleimide and N-phenylsuccinimide moieties

• Catalin V. Maftei,
• Elena Fodor,
• Peter G. Jones,
• M. Heiko Franz,
• Gerhard Kelter,
• Heiner Fiebig and
• Ion Neda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2202–2215, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.259

• temperatures above 100 °C [35][36]. Microwave techniques have also been employed in the synthesis of such heterocycles. The advantage of CDI is that it activates the carboxylic acid in situ and can be used for step 1 and step 2 in DMF. Scheme 2 presents the one-pot synthesis of 4-(3-tert-butyl-1,2,4-oxadiazol

• cycloaddition route. One-pot synthesis of 4-(3-tert-butyl-1,2,4-oxadiazol-5-yl)aniline (1) by using the amidoxime route. i. 1.1 equiv CDI in DMF, 30 minutes; ii. 1.1 equiv CDI in DMF, 120 °C, 4 h. One-pot synthesis of 4-(3-tert-butyl-1,2,4-oxadiazol-5-yl)aniline (1) by using the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition route

Gold-catalyzed glycosidation for the synthesis of trisaccharides by applying the armed–disarmed strategy

• Abhijeet K. Kayastha and
• Srinivas Hotha

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2147–2155, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.252

• the more acid-sensitive p-methoxybenzyl derivative 12 underwent deprotection of the p-methoxybenzyl moiety to give alcohol 13 with 88% yield. The deprotection of the p-methoxybenzyl moiety can be utilized for the one-pot synthesis of glycerol mannosides from mannosyl donor 1 and compound 12 in 67

The chemistry of isoindole natural products

• Klaus Speck and
• Thomas Magauer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2048–2078, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.243

• methods. This was also exemplified by medicinal chemists from AstraZeneca in the manufacturing route to an mGluR2 positive allosteric modulator [4]. In 2012, a programmable enantioselective one-pot synthesis of isoindolines was reported by Waldmann [5]. Several other strategies were pursued for the

One-step synthesis of pyridines and dihydropyridines in a continuous flow microwave reactor

• Mark C. Bagley,
• Vincenzo Fusillo,
• Robert L. Jenkins,
• M. Caterina Lubinu and
• Christopher Mason

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1957–1968, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.232

• –Rahtz pyridine synthesis in batch and flow The reaction conditions, temperature and residence time were optimized in batch mode under microwave irradiation for the one pot synthesis of pyridine 2b (Scheme 3) using ethyl β-aminocrotonate (11) and a readily available ethynyl ketone, phenylpropynone 12b (R

Synthesis of enones, pyrazolines and pyrrolines with gem-difluoroalkyl side chains

• Assaad Nasr El Dine,
• Ali Khalaf,
• Danielle Grée,
• Olivier Tasseau,
• Fares Fares,
• Nada Jaber,
• Philippe Lesot,
• Ali Hachem and
• René Grée

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1943–1948, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.230

• used for the preparation of chemical libraries. Strategy towards the target molecules. Synthesis of enones with a gem-difluoroalkyl side chain. Synthesis of pyrazolines with a gem-difluoro side chain. One-pot synthesis of pyrazolines with a gem-difluoro side chain. Synthesis of pyrrolines with a gem

• -difluoro alkyl side chain. One-pot synthesis of pyrrolines with a gem-difluoro side chain. Pd-catalyzed coupling reactions towards chemical libraries of pyrazolines with a gem-difluoro side chain. Pd-catalyzed coupling reactions towards chemical libraries of pyrrolines with a gem-difluoro side chain

Gold(I)-catalysed one-pot synthesis of chromans using allylic alcohols and phenols

• Eloi Coutant,
• Paul C. Young,
• Graeme Barker and
• Ai-Lan Lee

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1797–1806, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.209

Methylidynetrisphosphonates: Promising C₁ building block for the design of phosphate mimetics

• Vadim D. Romanenko and
• Valery P. Kukhar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 991–1001, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.114

• -step one-pot synthesis of propargyl-substituted trisphosphonate 15. Synthetic route to trisphosphonate 18 via 7,7-bisphosphonyl-3,5-di-tert-butylquinone methide 17. Synthesis of trisphosphonate 18 starting from 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-(dichloromethyl)phenol. Synthesis of triphosphorus derivatives 20 via

Intramolecular carbonickelation of alkenes

• Rudy Lhermet,
• Muriel Durandetti and
• Jacques Maddaluno

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 710–716, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.81

• , efficiently leading to a variety of functionalized 2-arylpyridines [17]. More recently, this nickel-catalyzed reaction provided a convenient and mild method for a one-pot synthesis of substituted benzofurans, chromans and indoles by carbonickelation of alkynes [18]. We finally decided to extend the scope of

Carbolithiation of N-alkenyl ureas and N-alkenyl carbamates

• Julien Lefranc,
• Alberto Minassi and
• Jonathan Clayden

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 628–632, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.70

• primary, secondary and tertiary organolithium reagents. N-tert-butoxycarbonyl vinylcarbamates may be carbolithiated, protonated and deprotected in a one-pot synthesis of amines employing this unusual umpolung nucleophilic β-alkylation. With β-substituted vinylureas, the carbolithiation is

Efficient Cu-catalyzed base-free C–S coupling under conventional and microwave heating. A simple access to S-heterocycles and sulfides

• Silvia M. Soria-Castro and
• Alicia B. Peñéñory

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 467–475, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.50

• microwave irradiation the time was drastically reduced to 2 h. Both procedures are simple and involve a low-cost catalytic system. This methodology was also applied to the “one-pot” synthesis of target heterocycles, such as 3H-benzo[c][1,2]dithiol-3-one and 2-methylbenzothiazole, alkyl aryl sulfides, diaryl

• h at 110 °C, has also been reported [52]. As part of our ongoing study on sulfur chemistry, we are interested in the one-pot synthesis of target heterocycles such as the Beaucage reagent and benzothiazole as well as sulfides by using Cu-catalysis to mediate the C–S bond formation. Herein, we report

• S-phenyl benzothioate. Synthesis of S-phenyl thioacetate. Synthesis of 6 by reaction between 7 and 1. Reaction of 2-iodobenzoic acid (9) with 1. Suggested one-pot synthesis of heterocycle 6. Reaction of N-(2-iodophenyl)acetamide (13) with 1. Synthesis of 2-methylbenzothiazole (14). One-pot three

Reactions of salicylaldehyde and enolates or their equivalents: versatile synthetic routes to chromane derivatives

• Ishmael B. Masesane and
• Zelalem Yibralign Desta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 2166–2175, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.244

• -aminochromenes from salicylaldehyde derivatives and cyanoorganic compounds. Yu and co-workers reported the one-pot synthesis of 2-aminochromene 39 in 86% yield from the reaction of bromosalicylaldehyde 38 and cyanoacetate 29 in the presence of 3 Å molecular sieves (Scheme 14) [32]. Various derivatives of 39 were

Organocatalytic asymmetric Michael addition of unprotected 3-substituted oxindoles to 1,4-naphthoquinone

• Jin-Sheng Yu,
• Feng Zhou,
• Yun-Lin Liu and
• Jian Zhou

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1360–1365, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.157

• reactivity and enantioselectivity of this reaction is now in progress in our lab. Cinchona alkaloid-derived catalysts screened for condition optimization (Table 1). A one-pot synthesis of enantioenriched 3,3-diaryloxindoles. Condition optimization for the reaction of 1a and 2a. Substrate scope of unprotected

Asymmetric one-pot sequential Friedel–Crafts-type alkylation and α-oxyamination catalyzed by a peptide and an enzyme

• Kengo Akagawa,
• Ryota Umezawa and
• Kazuaki Kudo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1333–1337, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.152

• -pot sequential Friedel–Crafts-type alkylation/α-oxyamination. Examples of the one-pot synthesis of oxygenated heteroaromatic compounds. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 340: Typical experimental procedure, spectroscopic data for products, determination of stereochemistry, 1H and 13C

Chemo-enzymatic modification of poly-N-acetyllactosamine (LacNAc) oligomers and N,N-diacetyllactosamine (LacDiNAc) based on galactose oxidase treatment

• Christiane E. Kupper,
• Ruben R. Rosencrantz,
• Birgit Henßen,
• Helena Pelantová,
• Stephan Thönes,
• Anna Drozdová,
• Vladimir Křen and
• Lothar Elling

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 712–725, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.80

• one-pot-synthesis. LacNAc–linker–t-Boc (5 mM), synthesised as described previously [45][55], was incubated as starting acceptor substrate together with UDP-α-D-glucose (UDP-Glc) and UDP-α-D-N-acetylglucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc) as donor substrates in 100 mM HEPES-NaOH-buffer pH 7.2, 25 mM KCl, 1 mM DTT, 1

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

• , we prepared new pyrimidine derivatives, which have solid-state blue fluorescence, by means of a one-pot synthesis, involving the reaction of ketene dithioacetals, amines, and guanidine carbonate in pyridine [5]. We have also reported the one-pot synthesis of a new, fluorescent, fused pyrimidine

A general and facile one-pot process of isothiocyanates from amines under aqueous conditions

• Nan Sun,
• Bin Li,
• Jianping Shao,
• Weimin Mo,
• Baoxiang Hu,
• Zhenlu Shen and
• Xinquan Hu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 61–70, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.6

• with TCT. Because inorganic bases were more efficient during the conversion of arylamines to N-aryl dithiocarbamates in aqueous systems [54][55][56][57][58][59], we chose inorganic bases to screen the optimal reaction conditions for the one-pot synthesis of 4. Following the literature procedure, N

Pseudo five-component synthesis of 2,5-di(hetero)arylthiophenes via a one-pot Sonogashira–Glaser cyclization sequence

• Dominik Urselmann,
• Dragutin Antovic and
• Thomas J. J. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1499–1503, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.174

• efficiency is also variable. Just recently we reported a very straightforward one-pot synthesis of symmetric 1,4-di(hetero)arylated 1,3-butadiynes starting from (hetero)aryl iodides by virtue of a sequentially Pd/Cu-catalyzed [14] Sonogashira–Glaser process (Scheme 1) [15]. According to this general one-pot

Manganese dioxide mediated one-pot synthesis of methyl 9H-pyrido[3,4-b]indole-1-carboxylate: Concise synthesis of alangiobussinine

• Jessica Baiget,
• Sabin Llona-Minguez,
• Stuart Lang,
• Simon P. MacKay,
• Colin J. Suckling and
• Oliver B. Sutcliffe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1407–1411, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.164

Amines as key building blocks in Pd-assisted multicomponent processes

• Didier Bouyssi,
• Nuno Monteiro and
• Geneviève Balme

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1387–1406, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.163

• step. Xi and co-workers developed an elegant one-pot synthesis of 2-alkynylindoles 64 involving o-bromo-(2,2-dibromovinyl)benzenes 63, arylamines and terminal alkynes as starting partners [36]. It should be noted that the three components are present at the same time in the reaction system and the best

A simple and convenient one-pot synthesis of substituted isoindolin-1-ones via lithiation, substitution and cyclization of N'-benzyl-N,N-dimethylureas

• Keith Smith,
• Gamal A. El-Hiti,
• Amany S. Hegazy and
• Benson Kariuki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1219–1227, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.142

Recent advances in the gold-catalyzed additions to C–C multiple bonds

• He Huang,
• Yu Zhou and
• Hong Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 897–936, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.103

• ee values have been obtained with thiourea-cinchonine [176], chiral carbene [177], BINAP [178][179][180], and BIPHEP [181][182][183][184][185][186][187][188][189][190] analogs. Monge et al. reported a direct asymmetric one-pot synthesis of optically active 2,3-dihydropyrroles from propargyl

First synthesis of 2-(benzofuran-2-yl)-6,7-methylene dioxyquinoline-3-carboxylic acid derivatives

• Wentao Gao,
• Jia Liu,
• Yun Jiang and
• Yang Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 210–217, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.28

• -6,7-methylenedioxyquinoline-3-carboxylate (5). One-pot synthesis of the targeted compounds 3a–g. Possible mechanistic pathway of formation of 2-(benzofuran-2-yl)-6,7-methylenedioxyquinoline-3-carboxylic acid (3a). Synthesis of 2-benzofuranyl-6,7-methylenedioxyquinoline-3-carboxylic acids 3a–h

SbCl₃-catalyzed one-pot synthesis of 4,4′-diaminotriarylmethanes under solvent-free conditions: Synthesis, characterization, and DFT studies

• Ghasem Rezanejade Bardajee

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 135–144, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.19

Synthesis of Ru alkylidene complexes

• Renat Kadyrov and
• Anna Rosiak

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 104–110, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.14

• employed two equivalents of iPr3P in 2-butanol and hydrogen [7]. This last attractive one-pot procedure without the use of hydrogen was improved by the Ciba-group [8][9]. Werner and co-workers also published a one-pot synthesis of the complex (PCy3)2Cl2Ru=CHMe (1a) by direct reduction of RuCl3 with Mg

Kinetics and mechanism of vanadium catalysed asymmetric cyanohydrin synthesis in propylene carbonate

• Michael North and
• Marta Omedes-Pujol

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, 1043–1055, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.119

• synthesis of hydrogen peroxide [71], and by the combination of these processes into a one-pot synthesis of propylene oxide from propene, hydrogen and oxygen [72][73]. In addition, it has been shown that in the presence of an appropriate catalyst, the reaction between epoxides and carbon dioxide can be