(Bio)isosteres of ortho- and meta-substituted benzenes

• H. Erik Diepers and
• Johannes C. L. Walker

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 859–890, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.78

• ), deprotection, decarboxylation, oxidation, nitrogen extrusion (to cyclobutadiene) and Diels–Alder reaction yielded annulated tricycle 164. Further intramolecular [2 + 2] cycloaddition formed cubane precursor 165. From diketone 165, 1,3-cubane 166 was obtained by Favorskii ring contraction followed by

• oxidation of alcohol 175 with Dess–Martin periodinane. Synthesis of cubane 166 was then achieved by [2 + 2] cycloaddition of enone 176 using acetone as the photosensitiser (to 177), the first Favorskii ring contraction (to 178), deketalisation, the second Favorskii ring contraction and esterification (to

Synthesis of π-conjugated polycyclic compounds by late-stage extrusion of chalcogen fragments

• Aissam Okba,
• Pablo Simón Marqués,
• Kyohei Matsuo,
• Naoki Aratani,
• Hiroko Yamada,
• Gwénaël Rapenne and
• Claire Kammerer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 287–305, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.30

• strategies in line with the “precursor approach” have been recently reported, in which chalcogen-containing precursors undergo a ring contraction combined with the extrusion of a chalcogen fragment in the ultimate step. In view of the diversity of π-conjugated polycyclic structures potentially accessible via

• can be ascribed to a redox-driven S-extrusion (Scheme 6). This behavior of extended thiepines upon oxidation was further confirmed by investigating the corresponding sulfoxide, which appeared labile and readily underwent ring contraction. Since thiepine precursors (such as 15) and the corresponding

• -doped triphenylene derivative 22. In the same year, An et al. reported their investigations regarding chalcogen-doped hexa-peri-benzocoronene (HBC) derivatives and their controllable conversion into hydrocarbon nanographenes by ring contraction of the heteropine moiety [65]. The authors first tackled

Trifluoromethylated hydrazones and acylhydrazones as potent nitrogen-containing fluorinated building blocks

• Zhang Dongxu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1741–1754, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.127

• a surrogate of acetylene reacted with trifluoroacetonitrile imine to form 1-aryl-3-trifluoromethylpyrazoles, followed by a series of cascade annulation/dehydration/ring contraction reactions when treated with p-TsCl [65] (Scheme 10b). The chemistry of pyrazoles with a fluorine or a fluoroalkylated

Unprecedented synthesis of a 14-membered hexaazamacrocycle

• Anastasia A. Fesenko and
• Anatoly D. Shutalev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1728–1740, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.126

• structure and reactivity of the obtained macrocycle are outlined. Keywords: amidrazones; hexaazamacrocycles; pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines; ring contraction; self-assembly; Introduction The chemistry of polyazamacrocycles (PAMs) is currently one of the most rapidly developing areas of heterocyclic chemistry

Asymmetric tandem conjugate addition and reaction with carbocations on acylimidazole Michael acceptors

• Brigita Mudráková,
• Renata Marcia de Figueiredo,
• Jean-Marc Campagne and
• Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 881–888, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.65

• ]. These non-traditional electrophiles allow access to structurally highly interesting motifs. In addition, they are amenable to valuable synthetic transformations such as oxidative ring contraction of the cycloheptatrienyl ring or reduction of the benzodithiolyl group. In this context, we decided to study

Nucleophile-induced ring contraction in pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzothiazines: access to pyrrolo[2,1-b][1,3]benzothiazoles

• Ekaterina A. Lystsova,
• Maksim V. Dmitriev,
• Andrey N. Maslivets and
• Ekaterina E. Khramtsova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 646–657, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.46

• -containing heterocycles intensively studied in medicinal chemistry and pharmacology. In the present paper, a new synthetic approach to pyrrolobenzothiazoles is developed based on 1,4-thiazine ring contraction in 3-aroylpyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzothiazine-1,2,4-triones under the action of nucleophiles. The

• » conditions (Scheme 4, entry 15) [10][11]. This work reports a new approach to PBTA derivatives via nucleophile-induced ring contraction in pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzothiazines 1 (Scheme 5, entry 16), which can generally be attributed as a new entry to the fourth group of approaches to the PBTA scaffold (Scheme

• , recently, we have reported a new class of FPDs, aroylpyrrolobenzothiazinetriones (APBTTs) 1 (Figure 2) [37][38], whose structural features allowed us to assume a possibility of the development of a new approach to PBTAs via a nucleophile-induced ring contraction in the 1,4-benzothiazine moiety of compounds

Enolates ambushed – asymmetric tandem conjugate addition and subsequent enolate trapping with conventional and less traditional electrophiles

• Péter Kisszékelyi and
• Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 593–634, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.44

• substituents on the chromenone or piperidinone core (Scheme 28). Furthermore, cycloheptatrienyl and benzodithiolyl substituents can be further modified, thus, expanding the synthetic possibilities of this methodology. The cycloheptatrienyl substituent allows oxidative ring contraction to form a phenyl ring

1,4-Dithianes: attractive C2-building blocks for the synthesis of complex molecular architectures

• Bram Ryckaert,
• Ellen Demeyere,
• Frederick Degroote,
• Hilde Janssens and
• Johan M. Winne

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 115–132, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.12

• reported for vinyl sulfides, including dihydrodithiin 13 (Scheme 5a) [36]. In fact, Parham has found that fully unsaturated dithiins can undergo this electrophilic formylation, but at the same time also undergo a ring contraction and an aromatizing desulfurization to yield thiophenes as the main formylated

Isolation and biosynthesis of daturamycins from Streptomyces sp. KIB-H1544

• Yin Chen,
• Jinqiu Ren,
• Ruimin Yang,
• Jie Li,
• Sheng-Xiong Huang and
• Yijun Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1009–1016, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.101

• via the terphenylquinone atromentin (Figure 1), followed by oxidative ring contraction [17]. However, the details of cyclopentenone formation involving ring contraction have remained unclear. In this study, two novel diarylcyclopentenones daturamycins A amd B (1 and 2), one new p-terphenyl daturamycin

• molecules of phenylpyruvic acid (7) undergo direct condensation to form a five-membered ring intermediate or (path b) polyporic acid (8) undergoes oxidative ring contraction or conversion to generate the cyclopentenone skeleton. To verify which pathway was responsible for the biosynthesis of daturamycins in

A two-phase bromination process using tetraalkylammonium hydroxide for the practical synthesis of α-bromolactones from lactones

• Yuki Yamamoto,
• Akihiro Tabuchi,
• Kazumi Hosono,
• Takanori Ochi,
• Kento Yamazaki,
• Shintaro Kodama,
• Akihiro Nomoto and
• Akiya Ogawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2906–2914, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.198

• conditions. In sharp contrast, the corresponding six-membered α-bromo-δ-valerolactone has a more-distorted ring and is extremely unstable, even at room temperature [39][40][41]. In fact, it must be stored in a freezer because ring-opening polymerization and ring-contraction reactions occur readily at room

α-Ketol and α-iminol rearrangements in synthetic organic and biosynthetic reactions

• Scott Benz and
• Andrew S. Murkin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2570–2584, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.172

• Serusi et al. in a tandem reaction to synthesize functionalized tryptamines from 2-hydroxycyclobutanones 107 with a primary aniline [30]. Notably, the α‑iminol rearrangement results in a ring contraction to give the 2-aminocyclopropyl ketone intermediate 109, which upon condensation with a second

• silica gel on 38 and the other by NaOMe on both 38 and 39, part of the total synthesis of silvestrol (34) and episilvestrol (35). PMP = p-methoxyphenyl. α-Ketol rearrangement of triumphalone (41) to isotriumphalone (42) via ring contraction. Tandem reaction of strophasterol A synthetic intermediate 43 to

Synthesis of multiply fluorinated N-acetyl-D-glucosamine and D-galactosamine analogs via the corresponding deoxyfluorinated glucosazide and galactosazide phenyl thioglycosides

• Vojtěch Hamala,
• Lucie Červenková Šťastná,
• Martin Kurfiřt,
• Petra Cuřínová,
• Martin Dračínský and
• Jindřich Karban

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1086–1095, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.85

• 1,6-anhydro derivative 10, we were able to isolate one of the side-products in sufficient purity and quantity to assign the structure of C-furanoside 20 (Scheme 2). This compound resulted from pyranose ring contraction probably caused by intramolecular displacement of the C2 azide aided by

• coordination of ZnI2. When the α-anomer of thioglycoside 17 was separately subjected to the reaction conditions, the byproduct 20 started to form in trace amounts in accordance with the suggested mechanism. The ring contraction may involve formation of a transient oxiranium cation as suggested in Scheme 2 [42

• ][43][44][45]. Analogous ring-contraction reactions have been described for substrates possessing a good C2 leaving group [42][46][47][48][49][50]. We initially considered converting thioglycosides 14–19 to benzyl glycosides because thioglycosides give glycosyl fluorides on reaction with diethylamino

Synthesis of dibenzosuberenone-based novel polycyclic π-conjugated dihydropyridazines, pyridazines and pyrroles

• Ramazan Koçak and
• Arif Daştan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 719–729, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.61

• ring contraction under reductive conditions in presence of zinc dust in acetic acid according to the Boger procedure, which is a highly reliable synthetic approach [66][67][68]. For pyrrole conversions, methoxycarbonyl- and 2-pyridylpyridazine derivatives 4a and 4b were used. When

Fluorine effect in nucleophilic fluorination at C4 of 1,6-anhydro-2,3-dideoxy-2,3-difluoro-β-D-hexopyranose

• Danny Lainé,
• Vincent Denavit,
• Olivier Lessard,
• Laurie Carrier,
• Charles-Émile Fecteau,
• Paul A. Johnson and
• Denis Giguère

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2880–2887, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.237

• fluorine electron density to attack equatorially. Although we propose an oxiranium intermediate for the C4 deoxyfluorination of 13, we did not observe any ring rearrangement, typically as a result of ring contraction (for example, compound 19, step d) [26][29][38]. Also, we did not observe any 1,2-alkyl

Recent synthesis of thietanes

• Jiaxi Xu

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

• thietane backbones developed during 1966 to 2019. Keywords: cycloaddition; cyclization; ring contraction; ring expansion; thietane; thiotherification; Review 1. Introduction Thietanes are a class of important aliphatic four-membered thiaheterocycles. Some simple alkyl and dialkyl thietanes are components

Regio- and stereoselective synthesis of new ensembles of diversely functionalized 1,3-thiaselenol-2-ylmethyl selenides by a double rearrangement reaction

• Svetlana V. Amosova,
• Andrey A. Filippov,
• Nataliya A. Makhaeva,
• Alexander I. Albanov and
• Vladimir A. Potapov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 515–523, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.47

• potassium selenocyanate proceeded via a rearrangement with ring expansion, leading to a six-membered 2,3-dihydro-1,4-thiaselenin-2-yl selenocyanate (kinetic product) which in turn underwent rearrangement with ring contraction to a 1,3-thiaselenol-2-ylmethyl selenocyanate (thermodynamic product). These

• -dihydro-1,4-thiaselenines (up to 96% yields) – products of rearrangement with ring expansion, which in turn underwent rearrangement with ring contraction, forming a new family of 1,3-thiaselenoles in up to 99% yield. The article was included in the RSC themed web collection "The chemistry of Selenium

• temperature underwent rearrangement and ring contraction to 1,3-thiaselenol-2-ylmethyl selenocyanate 4. These rearrangements proceeded via a seleniranium cation 2 that is attacked by the nucleophilic selenocyanate anion at two different carbon atoms of the three-membered ring. The regio- and stereoselective

Bacterial terpene biosynthesis: challenges and opportunities for pathway engineering

• Eric J. N. Helfrich,
• Geng-Min Lin,
• Christopher A. Voigt and
• Jon Clardy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2889–2906, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.283

• further oxidation to carbonyls or carboxylates. Other reactions, such as epoxidation, ether bond formation, and structural rearrangement have also been reported (Figure 7). CYP114 in gibberellin (5) biosynthesis, for example, catalyzes the unique oxidation/six-membered to five-membered ring contraction of

• examples of terpene modification by bacterial CYPs. a) Hydroxylation [89]. b) Carboxylation, hydroxylation, and ring contraction [41]. c) Ether formation [90]. d) Rearrangement [91]. Off-target effects observed during heterologous expression of terpenoid BGCs. Unexpected oxidation of 34b by an

Steroid diversification by multicomponent reactions

• Leslie Reguera,
• Cecilia I. Attorresi,
• Javier A. Ramírez and
• Daniel G. Rivera

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1236–1256, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.121

• MCR is due to the ring contraction of the 7-membered ring cyclic intermediate by transannular acyl transfer, which leads to the β-lactam derivative. Despite the chiral nature of the steroidal substrate, no significant stereoselective induction was observed, probably because the 7-membered ring

Gold-catalyzed ethylene cyclopropanation

• Silvia G. Rull,
• Andrea Olmos and
• Pedro J. Pérez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 67–71, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.7

• copolymerization of ethylene and ethyl diazoacetate with rhodium-based catalysts (Scheme 2a). Ethyl cyclopropanecarboxylate has been prepared in several ways, alternative to the direct carbene addition to ethylene (Scheme 2b): ring contraction of 2-halocyclobutanone [5], cyclization of alkyl 4-halobutanoates [6

Glycosylation reactions mediated by hypervalent iodine: application to the synthesis of nucleosides and carbohydrates

• Yuichi Yoshimura,
• Hideaki Wakamatsu,
• Yoshihiro Natori,
• Yukako Saito and
• Noriaki Minakawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1595–1618, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.137

• ’-thioribonucleosides [31]. We also synthesized 4’-thioribonucleosides constructing the skeleton of the 4-thioribose via a ring-contraction reaction under reductive conditions [32] from 2-mesylate 23, which was obtained from 22. As shown in Scheme 3, the reaction first started to form an episulfonium ion 24 triggered

• by intramolecular SN2 reaction at the 5-position by sulfur atom. Secondary, ring contraction from thiopyranose to thiofuranose occurred to produce 5-aldehyde 26. Finally, hydride reduction of 26 gave the 4-thiofuranose derivative 27. The Pummerer-type glycosylation reaction of 5-O-silylated sulfoxide

Herpetopanone, a diterpene from Herpetosiphon aurantiacus discovered by isotope labeling

• Xinli Pan,
• Nicole Domin,
• Sebastian Schieferdecker,
• Hirokazu Kage,
• Martin Roth and
• Markus Nett

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2458–2465, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.242

• NMR data for 2 [22] confirmed our assignment of the octahydro-1H-indene skeleton. The biosynthesis of the bicyclic ring system in 2 was previously proposed to occur via an α-cadinol intermediate, which undergoes a ring contraction reaction [19]. The cadinane family of sesquiterpenes, which also

• cation. Eventually, the addition of OH− would lead to an α-cadinol-type diterpene. For the ring contraction, we would propose a two-step sequence of epoxidation and rearrangement [24], which would directly lead to the acetyl group in 1. Recently, heterologous expression of the terpene cyclase Haur_2987

Exploring endoperoxides as a new entry for the synthesis of branched azasugars

• Svenja Domeyer,
• Mark Bjerregaard,
• Henrik Johansson and
• Daniel Sejer Pedersen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 644–647, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.63

• anticipated that the reaction conditions could be optimised to favour the desired diol product. Ring contraction of acetonide-protected endoperoxide 23 by treatment with triphenylphosphine provided ready access to tetrahydrofuran 24 in good yield [21]. Finally, treatment of endoperoxide 23 with Co(salen) gave

An effective one-pot access to polynuclear dispiroheterocyclic structures comprising pyrrolidinyloxindole and imidazothiazolotriazine moieties via a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition strategy

• Alexei N. Izmest’ev,
• Galina A. Gazieva,
• Natalya V. Sigay,
• Sergei A. Serkov,
• Valentina A. Karnoukhova,
• Vadim V. Kachala,
• Alexander S. Shashkov,
• Igor E. Zanin,
• Angelina N. Kravchenko and
• Nina N. Makhova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2240–2249, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.216

• aromatic aldehyde, similarly to the synthesis of compounds 1a–c. The reaction of aromatic aldehydes with imidazotriazinethiones without phenyl substituents in acidic media results in hydrazone formation and triazine-ring contraction [45]. The reaction of compounds 1d–f with sarcosine and isatins 3a,d,f

Biosynthesis of oxygen and nitrogen-containing heterocycles in polyketides

• Franziska Hemmerling and
• Frank Hahn

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1512–1550, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.148

• up the benzobisfuran motif in 106, the second rearranges the anthraquinone in 106 to the xanthone in 107 and the third is an oxidative ring contraction towards the cyclopentanone in 94 (Scheme 16). After several enzymatic post-PKS modifications, the oxoaverantin (OAVN) cyclase transforms 5

Synthesis of Xenia diterpenoids and related metabolites isolated from marine organisms

• Tatjana Huber,
• Lara Weisheit and
• Thomas Magauer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2521–2539, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.273

• state, the substituents are oriented with minimal steric hindrance to give the E,E-configured nine-membered ring. Ring contraction reactions of 13-membered lactams afford cyclononenes via intramolecular acyl transfer reactions. The configuration of the double bond derives from precursor D and thus