New approaches to organocatalysis based on C–H and C–X bonding for electrophilic substrate activation

• Pavel Nagorny and
• Zhankui Sun

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2834–2848, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.283

• (NIS) in nitromethane. The resultant carbocation-like species presumably underwent a 1,2-alkyl shift to provide a silylated oxocarbenium ion. The following silyl cation trapping with a bromide anion resulted in 2-phenylcycloheptanone. When a chiral substrate (59% ee) was treated with NIS, a product

Synthesis of the C8’-epimeric thymine pyranosyl amino acid core of amipurimycin

• Pramod R. Markad,
• Navanath Kumbhar and
• Dilip D. Dhavale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1765–1771, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.165

• oxocarbenium ion at C1 to which concomitant addition of a hydroxy group (present in the side chain at C3) will give the requisite pyranose ring skeleton. Intermediate B could be derived from the allyl alcohol C by using the Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation followed by regioselective epoxide ring opening with

• /13 could be explained as follows (Scheme 3). Thus, treatment of 10/11 with TFA–H2O resulted in the opening of the 1,2-acetonide functionality and generation of an oxocarbenium ion Y. Intermolecular and reversible addition of water would lead to hemiacetal Z, however, intramolecular and irreversible

• attack of the secondary hydroxy group to the oxocarbenium ion Y led to a stable six-membered pyranose ring compound thus shifting the equilibrium in favour of bridged bicyclic system 12/13. In order to validate the configurational assignments at the newly generated stereocenters, the coupling constants

TMSBr-mediated solvent- and work-up-free synthesis of α-2-deoxyglycosides from glycals

• Mei-Yuan Hsu,
• Yi-Pei Liu,
• Sarah Lam,
• Su-Ching Lin and
• Cheng-Chung Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1758–1764, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.164

• that the acid-catalysed nucleophilic addition of an alcohol to a glycal is likely to proceed through the formation of an oxocarbenium ion via the protonation at C2 [6][63]. In the presence of TPPO, the oxocarbenium cation is stabilized by the ion–dipole interaction with TPPO oriented preferably at the

Enantioselective additions of copper acetylides to cyclic iminium and oxocarbenium ions

• Jixin Liu,
• Srimoyee Dasgupta and
• Mary P. Watson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2696–2706, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.290

• ; enantioselectivity; iminium ion; oxocarbenium ion; Introduction Nitrogen and oxygen heterocycles with α-stereogenic centers represent important classes of biologicially active compounds [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Enantioselective addition of chiral nucleophiles to imines, iminium ions, carbonyls, or oxocarbenium ions

• -based catalysts [9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Among these, chiral copper catalysts have been used with remarkable success in the alkynylation of cyclic iminium ion and oxocarbenium ion intermediates. This review will focus on the development of these enantioselective, copper-catalyzed alkynylations

• the alkynylations of iminium ions discussed above, we have pursued the development of enantioselective, metal-catalyzed alkynylation of cyclic oxocarbenium ion intermediates. In the course of these studies, we have found that copper-based catalysts are uniquely effective in promoting these

Multicomponent reactions in nucleoside chemistry

• Mariola Koszytkowska-Stawińska and
• Włodzimierz Buchowicz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1706–1732, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.179

• ), followed by the coupling of the resulting oxocarbenium ion with the silylated nucleobase 118. Compounds 119 were obtained as single diastereoisomers. The similar (not shown) reaction employing the silylated thymine and ethyl glyoxalate gave the corresponding product as 1:1 mixture of isomers at the C-2'a

Silver and gold-catalyzed multicomponent reactions

• Giorgio Abbiati and
• Elisabetta Rossi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 481–513, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.46

Stereoselectively fluorinated N-heterocycles: a brief survey

• Xiang-Guo Hu and
• Luke Hunter

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2696–2708, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.306

• sugar moiety of natural substrates, or to the activated intermediate of hydrolysis (i.e. the oxocarbenium ion). As a consequence, iminosugars show great promise for the treatment of a variety of diseases including diabetes, viral infection, bacterial infection, and lysosomal storage disorders [37

• oxocarbenium ion, the iminosugars 31 and 41–44 (Figure 11) must bear a positive charge, and since the pKaH values vary considerably amongst the different derivatives, it follows that each derivative has a different “optimal” pH for maximal inhibitory potency. This explains why the Ki values in Figure 11 do not

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

• presence of the aglycon can protonate the exocyclic oxygen present in the disaccharide 4. The protonation of the exocyclic oxygen and subsequent cleavage could give rise to oxocarbenium ion intermediates A and B as shown in Scheme 2. The formation of 1,6-anhydro sugar 5 can be easily envisioned by the

Addition of lithiated enol ethers to nitrones and subsequent Lewis acid induced cyclizations to enantiopure 3,6-dihydro-2H-pyrans – an approach to carbohydrate mimetics

• Fabian Pfrengle and
• Hans-Ulrich Reissig

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 75, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.75

• stabilized carbenium ion 6 (Scheme 3). Subsequent attack of the oxocarbenium ion on the enol ether moiety leads to ring closure affording the cationic pyran intermediate 7. Subsequent proton transfer to the (moderately basic) hydroxylamine nitrogen re-establishes the enol ether moiety. During aqueous work-up

Diels- Alder reactions using 4,7-dioxygenated indanones as dienophiles for regioselective construction of oxygenated 2,3-dihydrobenz[f]indenone skeleton

• Natsuno Etomi,
• Takuya Kumamoto,
• Waka Nakanishi and
• Tsutomu Ishikawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 15, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.15

• with conjugation to oxocarbenium ion 36 (path D). In this case, generation of the desired 4,8,9-trioxygenated 2,3-dihydrobenz[f]indenone 28 seemed unlikely due to unfavorable adjacent dicationic intermediate 38 after C5-O bond cleavage of 37. Thus, formation of an alternative dication 39 through C8-O

Vinylogous Mukaiyama aldol reactions with 4-oxy-2-trimethylsilyloxypyrroles: relevance to castanospermine synthesis

• Roger Hunter,
• Sophie C. M. Rees-Jones and
• Hong Su

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 38, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-38

• destabilization of the intermediate oxocarbenium ion by the adjacent α-ammonium cation. Conclusion In summary, the present work has laid the foundation for a full enantioselective synthesis of castanospermine using a C-8/C-8a disconnection strategy. Future work will focus on C-1 transformation earlier in the