Copper-mediated oxidative C−H/N−H activations with alkynes by removable hydrazides

• Feng Xiong,
• Bo Li,
• Chenrui Yang,
• Liang Zou,
• Wenbo Ma,
• Linghui Gu,
• Ruhuai Mei and
• Lutz Ackermann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1591–1599, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.113

• ] auxiliaries (Figure 1a). Besides, the cobalt(II)- [31] or nickel(II)-catalyzed [32][33], pyridine oxide (PyO)-directed tandem alkynylation/annulation was realized by Niu and Song et al., which also provided the 3-methyleneisoindolin-1-one scaffolds (Figure 1b). Notably, a sustainable cupraelectro-catalyzed

• , the robust copper-mediated C−H activation featured remarkable compatibility of synthetically meaningful functional groups, giving facile access to valuable 3-methyleneisoindolin-1-one scaffolds. Experimental General information Yields refer to isolated compounds, estimated to be >95% pure as

Cascade intramolecular Prins/Friedel–Crafts cyclization for the synthesis of 4-aryltetralin-2-ols and 5-aryltetrahydro-5H-benzo[7]annulen-7-ols

• Jie Zheng,
• Shuyu Meng and
• Quanrui Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1481–1489, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.104

• -promoted condensation of a homoallylic alcohol and an aldehyde to give an oxocarbenium ion, which is then reacted with an olefinic/alkynic bond generating a carbocation that undergoes a Friedel–Crafts reaction. Given the potential value of tetralin-2-ol scaffolds to drug research programs, we decided to

Synthesis of 1-indolyl-3,5,8-substituted γ-carbolines: one-pot solvent-free protocol and biological evaluation

• Premansh Dudhe,
• Mena Asha Krishnan,
• Kratika Yadav,
• Diptendu Roy,
• Krishnan Venkatasubbaiah,
• Biswarup Pathak and
• Venkatesh Chelvam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1453–1463, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.101

• extreme thermal conditions with the use of corrosive reagents. Much later, Larock and co-workers developed a Pd/Cu-catalyzed imino-annulation of internal alkynes [15], which paved the way for transition-metal-catalyzed cyclizations as easy access to these scaffolds. Notably, the gold-catalyzed tandem

Double-headed nucleosides: Synthesis and applications

• Vineet Verma,
• Jyotirmoy Maity,
• Vipin K. Maikhuri,
• Ritika Sharma,
• Himal K. Ganguly and
• Ashok K. Prasad

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1392–1439, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.98

• terminal carbons only. Double-headed nucleosides are synthetically derived nucleoside scaffolds that are known to impact significantly secondary structures in nucleic acids [29]. Some oligonucleotides containing a particular double-headed nucleotide monomer have been found to form a three-way junction

Design, synthesis and photophysical properties of novel star-shaped truxene-based heterocycles utilizing ring-closing metathesis, Clauson–Kaas, Van Leusen and Ullmann-type reactions as key tools

• Shakeel Alvi and
• Rashid Ali

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1374–1384, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.96

• functional materials and the opportunities are now open. Herein, we have assembled diverse truxene scaffolds containing heterocyclic systems involving trimerization, ring-closing metathesis, Clauson–Kaas and Van Leusen reactions as vital steps. Moreover, we have revealed the preliminary photophysical

A comprehensive review of flow chemistry techniques tailored to the flavours and fragrances industries

• Guido Gambacorta,
• James S. Sharley and
• Ian R. Baxendale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1181–1312, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.90

Application of the Meerwein reaction of 1,4-benzoquinone to a metal-free synthesis of benzofuropyridine analogues

• Rashmi Singh,
• Tomas Horsten,
• Rashmi Prakash,
• Swapan Dey and
• Wim Dehaen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 977–982, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.79

• presence of a catalytic amount of piperidine afforded pyridopsoralen 22 in 46% yield. Analogously, pyridopsoralen 23 was prepared from 16 by Knoevenagel condensation with diethyl malonate and subsequent lactonization with 62% yield (Scheme 4) [13]. To the best of our understanding, the scaffolds 21–23 are

• regioselective in forming 16, which is a valuable building block for various condensation reactions to yield a diverse set of products, such as polycyclic fused nitrochromenes 21 as well as pyridopsoralens 22 and 23. All these novel scaffolds are interesting structures with potential medicinal applications, and

Prins cyclization-mediated stereoselective synthesis of tetrahydropyrans and dihydropyrans: an inspection of twenty years

• Asha Budakoti,
• Pradip Kumar Mondal,
• Prachi Verma and
• Jagadish Khamrai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 932–963, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.77

• important building blocks and ubiquitous scaffolds in many natural products and active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). Among various established methods, the Prins reaction has emerged as a powerful technique in the stereoselective synthesis of the tetrahydropyran skeleton with various substituents, and

• ; Prins cyclization; stereoselective; tetrahydropyran; Introduction 6-Membered saturated oxygen heterocycles, known as tetrahydropyran (THP), are recognized as privileged scaffolds, present in a variety of biologically important natural products, such as polyether antibiotics, marine toxins, pheromones

Microwave-assisted multicomponent reactions in heterocyclic chemistry and mechanistic aspects

• Shivani Gulati,
• Stephy Elza John and
• Nagula Shankaraiah

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 819–865, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.71

• well-thought-out as an important approach in medicinal chemistry and in drug discovery domains [91][92]. Purine scaffolds, such as allopurinol (106) used as the first choice of drug in gout therapy and temozolomide (107) used in the treatment of brain cancer are well-known examples [93][94]. Among the

• purine scaffolds, 5-aza-9-deazapurine and 5-azapurine have been identified as a favorable skeleton for the construction of new compounds such as 108 and 109 (Figure 8) [95][96]. Considering this fact, Dolzhenko and co-workers [97] reported the first microwave-assisted multicomponent strategy for the

• -alkylated pyridones are valuable scaffolds offering biological activity such as immunomodulators, memory-enhancers and anticancer agents [109][110]. A direct approach to achieve N-alkylated pyridones are less explored and those available present limitations such as poor selectivity and yields, expensive

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

• -functionalization of glycine derivatives. The construction of C–C bonds As a crucial element in the construction of various organic scaffolds, the formation of C–C bonds remains a hot topic in the field of synthetic organic chemistry. The conventional approaches of C–C-bond construction typically employ transition

Synthesis of β-triazolylenones via metal-free desulfonylative alkylation of N-tosyl-1,2,3-triazoles

• Soumyaranjan Pati,
• Renata G. Almeida,
• Eufrânio N. da Silva Júnior and
• Irishi N. N. Namboothiri

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 762–770, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.66

• synthesis of new functionalized 1,2,3-triazoles. Keywords: azoles; cycloaddition; enones; heterocycles; 1,2,3-triazoles; Introduction 1,2,3-Triazoles are significant non-natural heterocyclic scaffolds with extensive applications in biochemistry, agrochemistry and materials chemistry [1][2][3][4][5]. This

• class of heterocycles presents important biological properties, such as antiviral, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial etc. and are considered as key building blocks in pharmaceutical industry [6][7][8][9]. Thus, they marked their presence as prominent scaffolds in many drug molecules such as tazobactam

α,γ-Dioxygenated amides via tandem Brook rearrangement/radical oxygenation reactions and their application to syntheses of γ-lactams

• Mikhail K. Klychnikov,
• Radek Pohl,
• Ivana Císařová and
• Ullrich Jahn

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 688–704, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.58

• . Conclusion We developed a two-step methodology for the synthesis of diverse γ-lactam scaffolds. A tandem reaction combining nucleophilic epoxide opening by N-allylic silylacetamides, Brook rearrangement, and radical oxygenation serves for the preparation of N-allylic α-(aminoxy)-γ-(silyloxy)amides 9, which

Deoxygenative C2-heteroarylation of quinoline N-oxides: facile access to α-triazolylquinolines

• Geetanjali S. Sontakke,
• Rahul K. Shukla and
• Chandra M. R. Volla

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 485–493, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.42

• -aminoquinoline motif are shown in Figure 1 [46][47]. As a result, a variety of transition metal-catalyzed C2-selective aminations of azine N-oxides were explored extensively [28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. Additionally, various transition metal-free C2-aminations of these scaffolds were also investigated [35][36

• scaffolds. The late-stage modification of natural products is the salient feature of this current transformation. Experimental General procedure for the C2-selective synthesis of α-triazolylquinolines 3 To an oven-dried reaction tube equipped with a magnetic stirring bar were added quinoline N-oxide (1a, 29

Biochemistry of fluoroprolines: the prospect of making fluorine a bioelement

• Vladimir Kubyshkin,
• Rebecca Davis and
• Nediljko Budisa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 439–460, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.40

CF₃-substituted carbocations: underexploited intermediates with great potential in modern synthetic chemistry

• Anthony J. Fernandes,
• Armen Panossian,
• Bastien Michelet,
• Agnès Martin-Mingot,
• Frédéric R. Leroux and
• Sébastien Thibaudeau

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 343–378, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.32

• cations is probably the α-(trifluoromethyl) carbocation. Many efforts are currently devoted to develop methods allowing the efficient insertion of fluorine atoms or fluorinated groups into organic molecules [7][8][9][10][11][12]. The increasing demand for fluorinated scaffolds, due to the striking

Hydrazides in the reaction with hydroxypyrrolines: less nucleophilicity – more diversity

• Dmitrii A. Shabalin,
• Evgeniya E. Ivanova,
• Igor A. Ushakov,
• Elena Yu. Schmidt and
• Boris A. Trofimov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 319–324, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.29

• synthesis of three types of highly functionalized azaheterocyclic scaffolds (dihydropyridazines, tetrahydropyridazines, and partially saturated tricyclic systems) from readily available hydroxypyrrolines and hydrazides are described. The directions of the transformation of a common initial intermediate

• saturated pyridazine scaffolds is both highly topical and necessary. Recently, we have developed a convenient approach to the 1,4-dihydropyridazine core based on the Brønsted acid-catalyzed regioselective recyclization of 5-hydroxypyrrolines (assembled in a one-pot manner from ketoximes and acetylene gas [8

• nucleophilicity of the hydrazides diversifies the recyclization of 5-hydroxypyrrolines and results in the chemoselective formation of highly functionalized azaheterocyclic scaffolds. Such a short-cut to partially saturated azaheterocyclic scaffolds meets the interests of modern medicinal chemistry which today

The preparation and properties of 1,1-difluorocyclopropane derivatives

• Kymbat S. Adekenova,
• Peter B. Wyatt and
• Sergazy M. Adekenov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 245–272, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.25

• . presented a practical method to synthesize monofluorinated allylic scaffolds via a Pd-catalyzed C–C activation/C–F cleavage (Scheme 69) [119]. This ring opening of the gem-difluorocyclopropanes 161 occurred with both O- and N-nucleophiles. The resulting 2-fluorinated allylic products 162 were obtained in

Supramolecular polymerization of sulfated dendritic peptide amphiphiles into multivalent L-selectin binders

• David Straßburger,
• Svenja Herziger,
• Katharina Huth,
• Moritz Urschbach,
• Rainer Haag and
• Pol Besenius

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 97–104, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.10

• polymers as a promising class of synthetic scaffolds [10][11][12][13][14]. Supramolecular polymers do provide additional features like a high degree of flexibility and excellent adaptivity, which are critical in biological interactions [15]. As water is the dominant solvent in biological systems, aqueous

Molecular basis for protein–protein interactions

• Brandon Charles Seychell and
• Tobias Beck

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1–10, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.1

• initial capsid formation is limited due to the time required for an intermediate steady state for the consequent assembly. These mathematical calculations and generalisations, however, do not take into consideration biological scaffolds, such as nucleic acids, which can facilitate or disrupt the capsid

• that a nucleic acid scaffold aids the assembly by concentrating assembly units and providing additional association energy. Some viral capsids can self-assemble around other scaffolds that mimic the viral genome in charge and size [89] or can also assemble without any scaffold to form empty capsid

• containers [90]. CCMV was the first icosahedral viral capsid to be disassembled and reassembled in vitro [91]. The CCMV capsid can be reassembled into empty capsids as well as into different conformations, such as disks, rods, tubes, and multiwalled capsids by using different scaffolds [92]. In these cases

All-carbon [3 + 2] cycloaddition in natural product synthesis

• Zhuo Wang and
• Junyang Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 3015–3031, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.251

• quaternary stereocenters (Scheme 7). We believe that the enantioselective all-carbon [3 + 2] cycloaddition provides a new strategy for the preparation of sp3-carbon-enriched complex scaffolds [81][82] for biological studies and potential new drug development. The all-carbon [3 + 2] cycloaddition is

Selected peptide-based fluorescent probes for biological applications

• Debabrata Maity

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2971–2982, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.247

• for biomolecule detection [27][28]. Being intrinsically modular, peptide scaffolds also allow the attachment of multiple fluorophores simultaneously [29]. It provides the opportunity of developing ratiometric fluorescent sensors from the interaction between multiple fluorophores (Figure 1B

Three-component reactions of aromatic amines, 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds, and α-bromoacetaldehyde acetal to access N-(hetero)aryl-4,5-unsubstituted pyrroles

• Wenbo Huang,
• Kaimei Wang,
• Ping Liu,
• Minghao Li,
• Shaoyong Ke and
• Yanlong Gu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2920–2928, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.241

• -bromoacetaldehyde acetal by using aluminum(III) chloride as a Lewis acid catalyst through [1 + 2 + 2] annulation. This new versatile methodology provides a wide scope for the synthesis of different functional N-(hetero)aryl-4,5-unsubstituted pyrrole scaffolds, which can be further derived to access multisubstituted

• ][18] are some of the commonly used approaches for the construction of pyrrole scaffolds. Additionally, the biocatalytic synthesis of substituted pyrroles was also developed [19]. Though sustained efforts have been achieved to develop efficient synthetic methods for the preparation of this structural

• , the transformations can generally be realized through the following three approaches (Scheme 1): (i) [1 + 1 + 3] annulation, in which (hetero)arylamines are reacted with a C3 donor and a C1 donor to construct pyrrole scaffolds. Kumar et al. [26] developed a proline-catalyzed Mannich reaction

Synthesis of imidazo[1,5-a]pyridines via cyclocondensation of 2-(aminomethyl)pyridines with electrophilically activated nitroalkanes

• Dmitrii A. Aksenov,
• Nikolai A. Arutiunov,
• Vladimir V. Maliuga,
• Alexander V. Aksenov and
• Michael Rubin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2903–2910, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.239

• imidazo[1,5-a]pyridine core is also considered to be one of the privileged pharmacophoric scaffolds and can be found in many biologically active compounds, for example, the potent antitumor agent C 1311 inhibiting topoisomerase II [4][5][6][7][8][9] or pirmagrel, a cytotoxic immunosuppressant and DNA

Optical detection of di- and triphosphate anions with mixed monolayer-protected gold nanoparticles containing zinc(II)–dipicolylamine complexes

• Lena Reinke,
• Julia Bartl,
• Marcus Koch and
• Stefan Kubik

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2687–2700, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.219

• receptors based on other scaffolds [22][23][24][25]. To test whether this binding motif induces AuNP crosslinking, we synthesized nanoparticles containing peripheral zinc(II)–DPA complexes together with a solubilizing triethylene glycol-based ligand in different ratios and studied their interaction with

Synthesis of novel fluorinated building blocks via halofluorination and related reactions

• Attila Márió Remete,
• Tamás T. Novák,
• Melinda Nonn,
• Matti Haukka,
• Ferenc Fülöp and
• Loránd Kiss

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2562–2575, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.208

• uncovered, too. The oxidation of (rac)-31 under basic conditions delivered the conjugated diene (rac)-34, possibly through a deselenation/E1cB elimination sequence similar to the one shown in Scheme 22. Conclusion In conclusion, novel fluorine-containing, functionalized small-molecular scaffolds have been