Ultrasound-assisted Strecker synthesis of novel 2-(hetero)aryl-2-(arylamino)acetonitrile derivatives

• Emese Gal,
• Luiza Gaina,
• Hermina Petkes,
• Alexandra Pop,
• Castelia Cristea,
• Gabriel Barta,
• Dan Cristian Vodnar and
• Luminiţa Silaghi-Dumitrescu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2929–2936, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.242

• -benzoxazole [13] or different other acetohydrazines [14], complexation of phenothiazinyl-chalcone using diiron nonacarbonyl [15], and regioselective oxidation [16]. α-Aminonitriles are versatile synthetic intermediates that are readily obtainable by a Strecker reaction involving the addition of a cyanide

Easy access to a carbohydrate-based template for stimuli-responsive surfactants

• Thomas Holmstrøm,
• Daniel Raydan and
• Christian Marcus Pedersen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2788–2794, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.229

• with high regioselectivity via the Černý epoxide [20]. Results and Discussion Synthesis The synthesis was initiated by a regioselective esterification of levoglucosan (1) with tosyl chloride in pyridine, first presented by Černý and co-workers, in order to afford the 1,6-anhydro-2,4-di-O-tosyl-β-ᴅ

Synthesis of purines and adenines containing the hexafluoroisopropyl group

• Viacheslav Petrov,
• Rebecca J. Dooley,
• Alexander A. Marchione,
• Elizabeth L. Diaz,
• Brittany S. Clem and
• William Marshall

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2739–2748, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.224

• products in 47–78% yield. While for purine and 4- and 5-azabenzimidazole, the reaction led to a mixture of two isomers, the reaction of adenine and the corresponding 2-fluoro derivative was regioselective, resulting in the formation of only one isomer in each case. The alkylation of theophylline led to the

Selective and reversible 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of 6-aryl-1,5-diazabicyclo[3.1.0]hexanes with 1,3-diphenylprop-2-en-1-ones under microwave irradiation

• Alexander P. Molchanov,
• Mariia M. Efremova,
• Mariya A. Kryukova and
• Mikhail A. Kuznetsov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2679–2686, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.218

• liberation of the aromatic aldehyde and formation of the new azomethine imines. Conclusion The cycloaddition of azomethine imines, generated from 6-aryl-1,5-diazabicyclo[3.1.0]hexanes under microwave heating, with 1,3-diarylpropenones occurs regioselective with the formation of 2-benzoyl-substituted pyrazolo

Hierarchically assembled helicates as reaction platform – from stoichiometric Diels–Alder reactions to enamine catalysis

• David Van Craen,
• Jenny Begall,
• Johannes Großkurth,
• Leonard Himmel,
• Oliver Linnenberg,
• Elisabeth Isaak and
• Markus Albrecht

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2338–2345, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.195

• providing the stereoinformation necessary for induction during the C–C bond formation. Catalytic approaches for C–C bond-forming reactions even found their way into the relatively young field of supramolecular chemistry, e.g., regioselective Diels–Alder reactions within supramolecular hosts as described by

Formation of an exceptionally stable ketene during phototransformations of bicyclo[2.2.2]oct-5-en-2-ones having mixed chromophores

• Asitanga Ghosh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2297–2303, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.190

• like phenyl or isopropenyl at the bridgehead position were analyzed for the first time in different solvents and upon irradiation with different wavelengths. In all cases, a regioselective photoinduced 1,5-phenyl migration leading to vinyl ketenes from the more congested site of the molecule to the

• photoreactions of bridged bicyclic systems like 3a–g were carried out [9][10][11][12][13]. These molecules contain a δ-keto-α,β-enone system juxtaposed with a (cis)-dibenzoylalkene moiety. Interestingly, photoreactions of 3a–f were found to follow regioselective photoindiuced 1,5-phenyl migration from the more

• ]. Photoreaction of 7a and 7b Irradiation of a degassed solution of 7a,b in benzene at 254 nm for 3–4 h yielded a pale yellow solid of ketene 10a,b (Scheme 5, Table 2) through regioselective photoinduced 1,5-phenyl migration and we did not obtain any 1,2-AS or any other photoproduct. The same ketenes were isolated

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

• performed the similar transformation in almost identical yield using Swern oxidation reaction conditions. The diketone 19 was then transformed into the enantiopure iodonorbornanone 22 in three steps which on further regioselective Pd-catalyzed cyclotrimerization furnished the syn-benzocyclotrimer 23 in 55

• mono-substituted sumanene derivatives 49b–d in a stereoselective manner as can be inspected from Scheme 10 [41][42]. In another event, Amaya, Ito, Katoh and Hirao reported a vital building block 53 to extend the π-conjugation bidirectionally through regioselective functionalization (Scheme 11) [43]. To

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

• -fluoroalkylated indenols, together with a very small amount of 3-fluoroalkylated indanones as side products. Keywords: [2 + 3] cycloaddition; cobalt catalyst; fluorine-containing; indenols; regioselective; Introduction 2,3-Disubstituted indenol derivatives are important compounds possessing high potential due

Photosensitized direct C–H fluorination and trifluoromethylation in organic synthesis

• Shahboz Yakubov and
• Joshua P. Barham

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2151–2192, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.183

• chemoselectivity. Overall, chemo- and regioselective C(sp3)–H fluorinations continue to challenge chemists. Most direct C(sp3)–H fluorinations are reported to proceed under radical pathways involving hydrogen atom transfer (HAT), although proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) has also been reported [44][49][50

• : Very recently, Lectka, Dudding and co-workers reported the regioselective C(sp3)–H fluorination of acetonide ketals (Scheme 26A) [205]. C(sp3)–H bonds α to ketal oxygen atoms were fluorinated with surprisingly high selectivity to afford the products 60–63 in moderate to excellent yield (41–91%, Scheme

Synthesis of monophosphorylated lipid A precursors using 2-naphthylmethyl ether as a protecting group

• Jundi Xue,
• Ziyi Han,
• Gen Li,
• Khalisha A. Emmanuel,
• Cynthia L. McManus,
• Qiang Sui,
• Dongmian Ge,
• Qi Gao and
• Li Cai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1955–1962, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.162

• ) group under basic conditions followed by peracetylation afforded compound 10 on a ≈150 g scale. The regioselective anomeric deacetylation with hydrazine and reprotection of the anomeric hydroxy group as tert-butyldimethylsilyl ether (TBS) led to compound 12. Compound 12 was then treated with sodium

• FmocCl in the presence of diisopropylethylamine (DIPEA) to give the fully protected compound 17. The regioselective opening of the arylidene acetal at O6 with Et3SiH and PhBCl2 in the presence of molecular sieves at −78 °C [22] gave compound 18 in good yield (80%) having a free C-6 hydroxy group

Stereoselective Biginelli-like reaction catalyzed by a chiral phosphoric acid bearing two hydroxy groups

• Xiaoyun Hu,
• Jianxin Guo,
• Cui Wang,
• Rui Zhang and
• Victor Borovkov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1875–1880, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.155

• To develop new efficient stereoselective catalysts for Biginelli-like reactions, a chiral phosphoric acid bearing two hydroxy groups derived from ʟ-tartaric acid was successfully synthesized via highly regioselective transformations of enantiopure 1,1,4,4-tetraphenylbutanetetraol. The obtained

• followed by further modifications involving highly regioselective 1,4-cycloetherization [19], 2,3-spiroboration [20], 2,3-sulfitation [21], and 2,3-methylation [22] of 1. Therefore, the strategy for the catalyst’s preparation was based on the established regioselective 2,3-sulfitation reaction of 1 and

• hydroxy groups in 3 for this reaction, the methylated derivative 7 was synthesized (Scheme 2). As shown in Scheme 2, first (2R,3R)-1 was subjected to highly regioselective 2,3-dimethylation [23] with NaH/MeI to give product (2R,3R)-6. Then the corresponding dimethylated chiral phosphoric acid 7 was

One-pot synthesis of oxazolidinones and five-membered cyclic carbonates from epoxides and chlorosulfonyl isocyanate: theoretical evidence for an asynchronous concerted pathway

• Esra Demir,
• Ozlem Sari,
• Yasin Çetinkaya,
• Ufuk Atmaca,
• Safiye Sağ Erdem and
• Murat Çelik

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1805–1819, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.148

• ), respectively (Table 2). These results show that the relative configuration is preserved. 4-Phenyl-1,3-dioxolan-2-one (8f) and 4-phenyloxazolidin-2-one (9f) were obtained from the reaction of CSI with styrene oxide (7f) showing the regioselective nature of the reaction. In addition, we report the synthesis of

• main reason for the predominant formation of intermediate 10 which results in the regioselective formation of oxazolidinone 9f Optimized geometries for reactant complex RC1 (7f+CSI), transition state TS1 and 10 for the selected path are depicted in Figure 4. This step is common for all paths studied

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

• activation of one substrate, and a two-electron activation by a transition-metal catalyst of the other. The main advantage of such a system is to promote highly regioselective reactions. Indeed, while radical transformations generally suffer from selectivity issues, interception of radicals by metal

• N-heterocyclic compounds such as phenanthridine, carbazole, and dibenzo[b,d]azepine. Simultaneously, Guo’s group published the arylation of nucleosides bearing a purine moiety. The transformation was regioselective and tolerated various substituents at the N9 position of the purine, including sugar

• ) catalyst, followed by SET oxidation to provide an Ar–Au(III) intermediate (Figure 43). This Lewis-acidic Au species promotes the regioselective C–H auration of the electron-rich substrate, delivering a cationic intermediate that under deprotonation and subsequent reductive elimination furnishes the

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

• between an alkyne, an olefin and carbon monoxide, resulting in the regioselective formation of a cyclopentenone derivative (Scheme 1) [18][19][20][21][22]. This cobalt-mediated reaction was initially discovered by Pauson and Khand in the early 70s [23][24][25] and has since become a powerful

• , for alkynes 58b,c the opposite regiochemistry was found. Finally, the use of alkyne 58d with two electron-withdrawing groups resulted in the regioselective formation of product 59d in excellent yield, indicating an inherent trend of the fluoroalkyl group to occupy the α-position regardless of the

Synthesis of new dihydroberberine and tetrahydroberberine analogues and evaluation of their antiproliferative activity on NCI-H1975 cells

• Giacomo Mari,
• Lucia De Crescentini,
• Serena Benedetti,
• Francesco Palma,
• Stefania Santeusanio and
• Fabio Mantellini

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1606–1616, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.133

• , makes this procedure advantageous from both the environmental and the economic point of view. Also, the regioselective reduction of the iminium moiety that leaves unchanged the hydrazono function requires a simple treatment of the hydrazone dihydroberberines with sodium borohydride producing a new class

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

• highly regioselective strategy for the synthesis of a library of polyheteroaromatic compounds under photocatalytic conditions was reported (Scheme 13). The process made use of fac-Ir(ppy)3 (0.3 mol %) as the photoredox catalyst and occurred at room temperature under extremely mild conditions. The

An overview on disulfide-catalyzed and -cocatalyzed photoreactions

• Yeersen Patehebieke

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1418–1435, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.118

• [3 + 2] methylenecyclopentane annulations of olefins with methylenecyclopropanes. This regioselective, mild, and protecting group-free annulation requires only an equimolar amount of the reacting alkene and does not require an excess of the reacting alkene, unlike other methods [9]. Furthermore, the

Recent synthesis of thietanes

• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1357–1410, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.116

• reactions of olefins with thioenones took place on the thiocarbonyl group to give stereospecific and regioselective thietane derivatives. The same group further studied the photo [2 + 2] cycloadditions of thiocoumarin (286) and alkenes 187, 215a,f, and 271, producing the corresponding spirothietane

• tetrahydrotrimethyldithioxo and [3-oxo-1-thioxo or 1-oxo-3-thioxo]isoquinolines 306 and 307 with olefins 215a,b, and 186c or indene (198), the regioselective [2 + 2] cycloaddition occurred to give oxo- or thiooxospiro[isoquinoline-1,2'(or 3,2')-thietane] derivatives 208–310. In some cases, the products were accompanied with

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

• [3,4-e]indoles, which served as precursors in the regioselective synthesis of aza-polycyclic skeletons via an intramolecular Heck arylation reaction. Through the latter reaction, the 3-(N-benzyl-2-pyrrolyl)acrylates give rise to 3-(pyrrolo[2,1-a]isoindol-3-yl)acrylates. A further oxidative

• the solvent at 100 °C afforded pyrrolo[2,1-a]isoindoles 18a–c in good yields. This annulation process was regioselective, showing a preference of the cross-coupling reaction with the C-5 pyrrolic position and not with the vinyl moiety, which would give the dihydropyrrolo[1,2-b]isoquinoline 19. A

• pyrrolizine-containing polycycles, including isoindolo[2,1-a]indole-based tetrahydro and fully aromatic pentacycles. These findings reveal the synthetic value of 2-formylpyrrole (13a) for the diastereo- and regioselective construction of isoindolo- and pyrrolo-fused polycyclic indoles. Theoretical

Synthesis of 3-substituted isoxazolidin-4-ols using hydroboration–oxidation reactions of 4,5-unsubstituted 2,3-dihydroisoxazoles

• Lívia Dikošová,
• Júlia Laceková,
• Ondrej Záborský and
• Róbert Fischer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1313–1319, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.112

• hydroborations were highly regioselective, leading only to the formation of isoxazolidines with the hydroxy group in the C-4 position. From a stereochemical point of view, the additions took place with an excellent trans selectivity with respect to the substituent at C-3. A sequential oxidation/reduction route

• NOE enhancements observed in the isoxazolidin-4-ol trans-8a. The arrows show the NOESY correlations. Selected NOE enhancements observed in the isoxazolidin-4-ol cis-10a. The arrows show the NOESY correlations. Synthetic approach towards isoxazolidin-4-ols via the regioselective reductive cleavage of

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

• exocyclic C=C bonds of the oxazolone, which is optimal for their [2 + 2] photocycloaddition. Accordingly, irradiation of 3 with blue light (465 nm) results in the regioselective formation of the corresponding dinuclear ortho-metallated cyclobutane complexes 4, which contain the skeleton of the 1,3

Palladium-catalyzed regio- and stereoselective synthesis of aryl and 3-indolyl-substituted 4-methylene-3,4-dihydroisoquinolin-1(2H)-ones

• Valeria Nori,
• Antonio Arcadi,
• Armando Carlone,
• Fabio Marinelli and
• Marco Chiarini

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1084–1091, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.95

• palladium-catalyzed regioselective cascade cyclization of propargylamides/coupling with ArB(OH)2 in dioxane/water, to give trisubstituted arylidene-isoquinolinones [44] was published. However, the Ugi four-component reaction used to construct the starting building blocks was limited to the preparation of

Recent applications of porphyrins as photocatalysts in organic synthesis: batch and continuous flow approaches

• Rodrigo Costa e Silva,
• Luely Oliveira da Silva,
• Aloisio de Andrade Bartolomeu,
• Timothy John Brocksom and
• Kleber Thiago de Oliveira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 917–955, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.83

• highly regioselective photoinduced hydro-defluorination of perfluoroarenes with RhIII(TSPP) [38]. The oxidative addition of the perfluoroarene to the metal complex furnished the active rhodium aryl complex intermediate, which led to the product after visible light irradiation. The hydro-defluorination

• ion, then giving an imine after deprotonation (Scheme 50). Adopting this strategy, Che and co-workers obtained several imines in 90–99% yield from secondary amines [102] (Scheme 51). The authors observed that the oxidation is regioselective, occurring at the less substituted position of nonsymmetric

• RhIII(TSPP) under visible light irradiation. Regioselective photocatalytic hydro-defluorination of perfluoroarenes by RhIII(TSPP). Formation of 2-methyl-2,3-dihydrobenzofuran by intramolecular hydro-functionalization of allylphenol using RhIIITMPP under visible light irradiation. Photocatalytic

Efficient synthesis of dipeptide analogues of α-fluorinated β-aminophosphonates

• Marcin Kaźmierczak and
• Henryk Koroniak

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 756–762, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.69

• Pudovik reaction, but also improved its yield drastically (Table 1). The implementation of this allowed us to obtain the anti-isomer (1R,2S) in very good yields. There are not many literature examples of the regioselective fluorination of amino alcohols using by PyFluor (1) or PBSF (2). In general, the

Combining enyne metathesis with long-established organic transformations: a powerful strategy for the sustainable synthesis of bioactive molecules

• Valerian Dragutan,
• Ileana Dragutan,
• Albert Demonceau and
• Lionel Delaude

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 738–755, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.68

• the second-generation Hoveyda–Grubbs catalyst (5 mol %, 83% yield), under an ethylene atmosphere. The subsequent regioselective NaIO4-mediated oxidative cleavage of the pendant double bond, followed by the installation of the unsaturated N-butenyl group, oxidation, and deprotection provided the final