Sulfate radical anion-induced benzylic oxidation of N-(arylsulfonyl)benzylamines to N-arylsulfonylimines

• Joydev K. Laha,
• Pankaj Gupta and
• Amitava Hazra

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 771–777, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.57

• of the intermediate product 2c and 2-aminobenzamide gave 2-(p-tolyl)quinazolin-4(3H)-one (4b) in 85% yield. Furthermore, when various other ortho-substituted aniline derivatives such as 2-aminobenzylamine, 2-aminothiophenol, and o-phenylenediamine are reacted with imine 2a in a similar manner, the

Dissecting Mechanochemistry III

• Lars Borchardt and
• José G. Hernández

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1454–1456, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.150

• an appropriate oxidant for C–N couplings towards the synthesis of 1,2-disubstituted benzimidazoles and quinazolin-4(3H)-one derivatives under mechanochemical conditions, as evidenced by Mal and co-workers (Scheme 5) [9]. However, the findings within Mechanochemistry III span beyond the synthesis or

DDQ in mechanochemical C–N coupling reactions

• Shyamal Kanti Bera,
• Rosalin Bhanja and
• Prasenjit Mal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 639–646, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.64

• the presence of DDQ, the intramolecular C(sp2)–H amidation of N-(2-(arylideneamino)phenyl)-p-toluenesulfonamides leads to 1,2-disubstituted benzimidazoles and the one-pot coupling of 2-aminobenzamides with aryl/alkyl aldehydes resulted in substituted quinazolin-4(3H)-one derivatives in high yields

• . Keywords: ball mill; 1H-benzo[d]imidazole; C(sp2)–H amidation; DDQ; mechanochemistry; quinazolin-4(3H)-one; Introduction The reawakening approaches to use solvent-free and environmentally benign conditions in organic synthesis have facilitated new opportunities [1][2][3][4]. The research area of

• toward the synthesis of 1,2-disubstituted benzimidazoles [39] under mechanochemical (ball milling) conditions (Figure 1a). In addition, the one-pot coupling of 2-aminobenzamides with aryl/alkyl aldehydes in the presence of DDQ resulted in substituted quinazolin-4(3H)-one [40] derivatives (Figure 1b

The PIFA-initiated oxidative cyclization of 2-(3-butenyl)quinazolin-4(3H)-ones – an efficient approach to 1-(hydroxymethyl)-2,3-dihydropyrrolo[1,2-a]quinazolin-5(1H)-ones

• Alla I. Vaskevych,
• Nataliia O. Savinchuk,
• Ruslan I. Vaskevych,
• Eduard B. Rusanov,
• Oleksandr O. Grygorenko and
• Mykhailo V. Vovk

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2787–2794, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.189

• diphenyl ether (10 mL) was heated at 230 °C for 4 h, then cooled to rt, and diluted with hexanes (20 mL). The precipitate was filtered, washed with t-BuOMe/hexanes (1:3), and dried to give product 7. An analytical sample was obtained by recrystallization from t-BuOMe. 2-(But-3-en-1-yl)quinazolin-4(3H)-one

The mechanochemical synthesis of quinazolin-4(3H)-ones by controlling the reactivity of IBX

• Md Toufique Alam,
• Saikat Maiti and
• Prasenjit Mal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2396–2403, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.216

• intramolecular control. At maximum contact of the reacting substances, i.e., under solvent-free mechanochemical conditions, 2-aminobenzamides, aryl-, alkylaldehydes and the iodine(V) reagent o-iodoxybenzoic acid (IBX) led to substituted quinazolin-4(3H)-one derivatives in fair yields. Keywords: ball-mill

• ; contact explosive; IBX; mechanochemical synthesis; quinazolin-4(3H)-one; Introduction An iodine and ammonia mixture is a well-known contact explosive due to formation of NI3 [1]. Similarly, hypervalent iodines as oxidizing compounds [2] react violently with amines under solvent-free conditions [3

• ., under ball-milling conditions (Figure 2c). Towards optimization of the reaction conditions, 2-aminobenzamide (1) and 4-ethylbenzaldehyde (2a) were chosen as model substrates (Table 1). Initially, 70% of 2-(4-ethylphenyl)quinazolin-4(3H)-one (3a) were obtained, when 1, 2a and 1.1 equiv of IBX were milled

A novel method for heterocyclic amide–thioamide transformations

• Walid Fathalla,
• Ibrahim A. I. Ali and
• Pavel Pazdera

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 174–181, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.20

• dicyclohexylthiourea (3, Scheme 2). We have extended the scope of this process to involve the transformation of a number of heterocyclic amides; quinazolin-4(3H)-one (A1), 2-substituted quinazolin-4(3H)-one A3–A6 and 4-subsituted phthalazin-1(2H)-ones A7 and A8 into the corresponding heterocyclic thioamides C1 and C3