A novel methodology for the efficient synthesis of 3-monohalooxindoles by acidolysis of 3-phosphate-substituted oxindoles with haloid acids

• Li Liu,
• Yue Li,
• Tiao Huang,
• Dulin Kong and
• Mingshu Wu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2321–2328, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.150

• proton at the C-3-position of 3-monohalooxindoles gave diagnostic singlets (5.25–5.93 Hz) instead of double peaks due to the absence of coupling with the phosphorus atom in the 1H NMR experiment. This indicated that the methylene moiety adjacent to the phosphate group had been displaced by a halogen atom

Post-functionalization of drug-loaded nanoparticles prepared by polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) with mitochondria targeting ligands

• Janina-Miriam Noy,
• Fan Chen and
• Martina Stenzel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2302–2314, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.148

• same conditions as described above. The conjugation product was analysed using 1H and 31P NMR spectroscopy. The 31P NMR spectrum (Figure 2a) shows a peak at 23.07 ppm which belongs to the phosphorus of the triphenylphosphonium moiety. Furthermore, the additional peaks in the region between 7.5–8.2 ppm

Synthesis of O⁶-alkylated preQ₁ derivatives

• Laurin Flemmich,
• Sarah Moreno and
• Ronald Micura

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2295–2301, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.147

• ] and gave nearly quantitative yields of N2-pivaloyl preQ0 in our hands. Finally, transformation of the 6-carbonyl group by using phosphorus oxychloride gave 6-chloro-7-deazapurine derivative 3 [33]. Notably, attempts to directly transform preQ0 (without N2 protection) into 6-chloro-7-cyano-7

Catalyzed and uncatalyzed procedures for the syntheses of isomeric covalent multi-indolyl hetero non-metallides: an account

• Ranadeep Talukdar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2102–2122, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.137

• , nitrogen, oxygen, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, selenium, and tellurium. This review will skip the reports on the corresponding carbon-centered analogs. Boranes First discovered in 1894 [34], 2,2’-bisarylborinates are used for treating prostate cancers utilizing their property of inhibiting the transient

Cationic oligonucleotide derivatives and conjugates: A favorable approach for enhanced DNA and RNA targeting oligonucleotides

• Mathias B. Danielsen and
• Jesper Wengel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1828–1848, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.125

• negatively charged phosphorus-based linkages. ASOs have the distinctive ability to bind endogenous nucleic acid targets in a sequence-specific manner, thereby inhibiting gene expression and offering opportunities for the treatment of a broad range of diseases. As ASOs interact with their RNA (or DNA) targets

• , ASOs carrying the novel guanidinium modification were mainly localized in the cytoplasm, indicating that the ASOs are taken up by endocytosis but are retained in part in the endocytic vesicles [112]. Utilizing the phosphorus atom as an attachment point for cationic aminoalkyl groups has been employed

• strategy to introduce cationic aminoalkylated moieties onto phosphorus atoms of the ON backbone involves aminoalkylated phosphorothioate linkages. In general, modifications of the backbone have been used in the context of the phosphodiester linkage, while only a few examples can be found for the PS linkage

Beyond ribose and phosphate: Selected nucleic acid modifications for structure–function investigations and therapeutic applications

• Christopher Liczner,
• Kieran Duke,
• Gabrielle Juneau,
• Martin Egli and
• Christopher J. Wilds

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 908–931, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.76

• . This modification is achiral at the phosphorus atom (Figure 1C), and thus, unlike the phosphoromonothioate (PS) analogues (extensively covered in other reviews [18][42][87][88]), the synthesized oligonucleotide is stereochemically pure. This simplifies their purification, as there is no longer the need

Highly regio- and stereoselective phosphinylphosphination of terminal alkynes with tetraphenyldiphosphine monoxide under radical conditions

• Dat Phuc Tran,
• Yuki Sato,
• Yuki Yamamoto,
• Shin-ichi Kawaguchi,
• Shintaro Kodama,
• Akihiro Nomoto and
• Akiya Ogawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 866–872, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.72

• Innovation, Faculty of Agriculture, Saga University, 152-1 Shonan-cho, Karatsu, Saga 847-0021, Japan 10.3762/bjoc.17.72 Abstract The homolytic cleavage of the PV(O)–PIII bond in tetraphenyldiphosphine monoxide simultaneously provides both pentavalent and trivalent phosphorus-centered radicals with different

• reactivity of the P–P bond, therefore, when the combination of pentavalent phosphorus and trivalent phosphorus was examined, it was found that the desired radical addition of Ph2P(X)PPh2 (X = O, S) to alkenes successfully occurred [42][43] (Scheme 1c and 1d). However, in the case of Ph2P(O)PPh2, its

• near-UV region. When benzene was used instead of CDCl3 under xenon lamp irradiation, the reaction did not proceed because 1 was less soluble in benzene than CDCl3 (Table 1, entry 4). The radical initiator, V-40, was found to be an appropriate initiator for the generation of phosphorus-centered radicals

Synthetic reactions driven by electron-donor–acceptor (EDA) complexes

• Zhonglie Yang,
• Yutong Liu,
• Kun Cao,
• Xiaobin Zhang,
• Hezhong Jiang and
• Jiahong Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 771–799, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.67

• with N-aryloxyamides, driven by noncovalent anion–π interactions, which has been described for the first time in a light-promoted process. The construction of C–P bonds Many compounds contain phosphorus, which has gained a high degree of interest in materials, agriculture, medical science, and biology

• solvent (Scheme 57). The complex is bound together by weak halogen bonds, in which phosphorus lone-pair electrons interact with σ* orbitals of C–I bonds. A variety of arylphosphonates can be directly afforded by the simple combination of diaryliodonium salts and phosphite esters. In addition, calculations

• challenges to be solved in response, there is no doubt that the future of green chemical synthesis will surely have a very wide prospect for this strategy. The electron transfer process in EDA complexes. Synthesis of benzo[b]phosphorus oxide 3 initiated by an EDA complex. Mechanism of the synthesis of

DNA with zwitterionic and negatively charged phosphate modifications: Formation of DNA triplexes, duplexes and cell uptake studies

• Yongdong Su,
• Maitsetseg Bayarjargal,
• Tracy K. Hale and
• Vyacheslav V. Filichev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 749–761, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.65

• creates a chiral center at the phosphorus atom resulting in a mixture of 2n diastereomers, where n is the number of modified phosphate groups. The reverse-phase (RP) HPLC purification occasionally results in the separation of individual diastereomers (usually for ONs with a single modification), which

Synthesis, structural characterization, and optical properties of benzo[f]naphtho[2,3-b]phosphoindoles

• Mio Matsumura,
• Takahiro Teramoto,
• Masato Kawakubo,
• Masatoshi Kawahata,
• Yuki Murata,
• Kentaro Yamaguchi,
• Masanobu Uchiyama and
• Shuji Yasuike

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 671–677, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.56

• ′-binaphthyl. Various derivatives, such as a phospholium salt and a borane–phosphole complex with functional groups on the phosphorus atom were synthesized using the obtained phosphole as a common starting material. Single-crystal X-ray analysis of the parent benzo[f]naphtho[2,3-b]phosphoindole revealed that

• property; phosphorus; Introduction Phosphole-based heteroacenes are attracting increasing interest in various fields, such as organic synthesis, structural chemistry, and materials science [1][2][3][4]. The phosphorus atom of trivalent phosphorus compounds has a high chemical reactivity. Therefore, this

• phosphorus center can be easily chemically modified and converted to phosphole derivatives with different electronic properties by reactions such as oxidation, alkylation, and coordination to a Lewis acid [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. Theoretically, pentacyclic benzonaphthophosphindole contains six structural

Valorisation of plastic waste via metal-catalysed depolymerisation

• Francesca Liguori,
• Carmen Moreno-Marrodán and
• Pierluigi Barbaro

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 589–621, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.53

• the glycolytic depolymerisation of PET [128][205]. The highest BHET yield (74.7%) was achieved using zinc chloride (0.5% w/w), an EG/PET ratio of 14:1 and reflux conditions (Table 2, entry 8). The use of preformed soluble Co(II) complexes bearing bidentate phosphorus ligands (e.g., 1,2-bis

Synthetic strategies of phosphonodepsipeptides

• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 461–484, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.41

• Jiaxi Xu State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Department of Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, People’s Republic of China 10.3762/bjoc.17.41 Abstract Phosphonodepsipeptides are phosphorus analogues of depsipeptides

• phosphonodepsipeptides with C-1-hydroxyalkylphosphonic acids. Keywords: alkylation; mimetic; multicomponent condensation; peptide; phosphonopeptide; phosphonodepsipeptide; phosphonylation; Introduction Both, phosphonopeptides and phosphonodepsipeptides are phosphorus analogues of peptides [1][2][3][4][5]. The

• and selective hydrolysis. Synthesis of α-phosphonodepsipeptides In 1987, a series of phosphonodepsidipeptides 10 was synthesized as phosphorus analogues of peptides and evaluated as inhibitors of leucine aminopeptidase from porcine kidney and two compounds, i.e., 10e and 10h (R = isobutyl, benzyl

1,2,3-Triazoles as leaving groups in S_NAr–Arbuzov reactions: synthesis of C6-phosphonated purine derivatives

• Kārlis-Ēriks Kriķis,
• Irina Novosjolova,
• Anatoly Mishnev and
• Māris Turks

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 193–202, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.19

• development of this topic [8][9][10][11]. On the contrary, only a few examples can be found in the literature where a phosphorus-containing substituent is directly attached to the purine ring [12][13]. In 2008, an SNAr–Arbuzov reaction was developed for 6-chloropurine derivatives under microwave irradiation

Au(III) complexes with tetradentate-cyclam-based ligands

• Ann Christin Reiersølmoen,
• Thomas N. Solvi and
• Anne Fiksdahl

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 186–192, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.18

• showed no interaction with Au(III), as expected. A similar resistance to coordinate was observed for the open diamides 1c–e. The phosphorus containing ligand 1c did undergo phosphorus oxidation instead of Au(III) coordination. No effect was obtained by refluxing or by adding additives, such as silver

Silver-catalyzed synthesis of β-fluorovinylphosphonates by phosphonofluorination of aromatic alkynes

• Yajing Zhang,
• Qingshan Tian,
• Guozhu Zhang and
• Dayong Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 3086–3092, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.258

• subsequent fluorine atom transfer. Keywords: β-fluorovinylphosphonates; fluorine atom transfer; P-centered radical; silver catalysis; three-component reaction; Introduction As one of the most important topics in organic chemistry, the introduction of fluorine and phosphorus atoms into double bonds is an

• attractive approach for the synthesis of a variety of valuable organic compounds [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Although progress has been achieved in the formation of C(sp2)–F bonds from various substrates [8][9][10][11][12][13], new catalytic reactions to introduce fluorine and phosphorus are seldom reported

Regioselective synthesis of heterocyclic N-sulfonyl amidines from heteroaromatic thioamides and sulfonyl azides

• Vladimir Ilkin,
• Vera Berseneva,
• Tetyana Beryozkina,
• Tatiana Glukhareva,
• Lidia Dianova,
• Wim Dehaen,
• Eugenia Seliverstova and
• Vasiliy Bakulev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2937–2947, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.243

• corresponding amides 4a–d by treatment with phosphorus decasulfide (Scheme 1). It is worth noting that amides of 1-alkyl-1,2,3-triazole-4-carboxylic acids are poorly represented in the literature and the methods of their preparation require the addition of alkyl azides to acetylene carboxylic esters and

Selective recognition of ATP by multivalent nano-assemblies of bisimidazolium amphiphiles through “turn-on” fluorescence response

• Rakesh Biswas,
• Surya Ghosh,
• Shubhra Kanti Bhaumik and
• Supratim Banerjee

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2728–2738, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.223

• the nucleotides, 1-pyrenecarboxaldehyde, sodium borohydride, sodium hydride, phosphorus tribromide and 1-bromobutane, 1-bromodecane, 1-bromododecane and 1-bromotetradecane were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. Imidazole, dibromomethane and tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane were purchased from TCI chemicals

Synthetic approaches to bowl-shaped π-conjugated sumanene and its congeners

• Shakeel Alvi and
• Rashid Ali

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2212–2259, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.186

Metal-free synthesis of phosphinoylchroman-4-ones via a radical phosphinoylation–cyclization cascade mediated by K₂S₂O₈

• Qiang Liu,
• Weibang Lu,
• Guanqun Xie and
• Xiaoxia Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1974–1982, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.164

• phosphorus functionalities [27][28], thus combining the characteristics of both components in one molecule may find useful applications. However, there are only few ways to prepare such compounds. For example, in 2008 Rovis et al. [27] reported an intramolecular Stetter reaction of alkenyl aldehydes to

• , we successfully separated a small amount of byproduct 4 which was identified by NMR spectroscopy. These experiments clearly support a phosphorus-centered radical reaction pathway. It has been reported that phosphorus-centered radicals could be generated from phosphine oxides in the presence of

• phosphonate-functionalized chroman-4-ones [28]. Initially, K2S2O8 thermally decomposes to form sulfate radical anions (SO4•−) [29][30], which react with diphenylphosphine oxide (DPPO, 2) to give the phosphorus-centered radical I [42][43][44]. Then, the phosphorus centered radical I added to the C–C double

Synthesis of 3(2)-phosphonylated thiazolo[3,2-a]oxopyrimidines

• Ksenia I. Kaskevich,
• Anastasia A. Babushkina,
• Vladislav V. Gurzhiy,
• Dmitrij M. Egorov,
• Nataly I. Svintsitskaya and
• Albina V. Dogadina

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1947–1954, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.161

• our opinion, the presence of a phosphorus fragment in a thiazolo[3,2-a]pyrimidine molecule significantly facilitates the determination of the structure by means of 13C, 1H, and 31P NMR spectroscopy methods. Results and Discussion Aiming to synthesize a new series of phosphonylated thiazolopyrimidines

• that in the case of the reported 3-(4-bromophenyl)-7-trifluoromethyl-5H-[1,3]thiazolo[3,2-a]pyrimidine-5-one [18] the signal of the uracil proton H6 appeared at δH 6.67 ppm. The 13C NMR spectra of the isomers 8c and 9c differed only in the values of the carbon signals at the phosphorus atom, i.e

Clickable azide-functionalized bromoarylaldehydes – synthesis and photophysical characterization

• Dominik Göbel,
• Marius Friedrich,
• Enno Lork and
• Boris J. Nachtsheim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1683–1692, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.139

• are highly desirable [16][17][34][35][36][37]. Two approaches are applied to achieve organic phosphors: (1) introduction of nonmetal heavy atoms, such as halogens (Br or I) or functionalities containing lone pairs, in particular carbonyl groups, nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus derivatives which

Pauson–Khand reaction of fluorinated compounds

• Jorge Escorihuela,
• Daniel M. Sedgwick,
• Alberto Llobat,
• Mercedes Medio-Simón,
• Pablo Barrio and
• Santos Fustero

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1662–1682, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.138

• . In contrast, the phosphorus analog 29d was obtained in 45% yield, which could be explained by favorable electronic and steric effects of the phosphonate group. In the same work, the authors also evaluated the PKR of CF3-substituted enynes 30. In this case, bicyclic products 31 were formed as mixtures

Photocatalyzed syntheses of phenanthrenes and their aza-analogues. A review

• Alessandra Del Tito,
• Havall Othman Abdulla,
• Davide Ravelli,
• Stefano Protti and
• Maurizio Fagnoni

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1476–1488, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.123

• in Figure 1). For these reasons, apart from the well-known dehydrative ring-closure of acyl-o-xenylamines in the presence of phosphorus oxychloride proposed by Morgan and Walls [16], several synthetic protocols for constructing the phenanthridine structure have been reported [17][18]. These include

One-pot synthesis of 1,3,5-triazine-2,4-dithione derivatives via three-component reactions

• Gui-Feng Kang and
• Gang Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1447–1455, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.120

• method, triazinethione derivatives were synthesized through the sulfidation of triazine using phosphorus oxychloride and hydrogen sulfide (Scheme 1c) [18]. This strategy required harsh reaction conditions and also suffered from an awful smell. Therefore, the development of facile and environmentally

The McKenna reaction – avoiding side reactions in phosphonate deprotection

• Katarzyna Justyna,
• Joanna Małolepsza,
• Damian Kusy,
• Waldemar Maniukiewicz and
• Katarzyna M. Błażewska

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1436–1446, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.119

• as phosphorus acids and esters are prevailing in nature [3][4], and the compounds found wide applications as therapeutics [5][6], probes [7] or in materials science [8]. The McKenna reaction involves two steps: In the first step an alkyl ester is transformed into the corresponding trimethylsilyl