Oxetanes: formation, reactivity and total syntheses of natural products

• Peter Gabko,
• Martin Kalník and
• Maroš Bella

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 1324–1373, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.101

• cell membrane permeability were measured and the results suggested that these substrates might be promising bioisosteric replacements for thioesters. Five years later, the research group expanded the scope of this methodology to include alcohols as the nucleophiles (Scheme 35) [85], thus avoiding the

Synthesis of 2H-azirine-2,2-dicarboxylic acids and their derivatives

• Anastasiya V. Agafonova,
• Mikhail S. Novikov and
• Alexander F. Khlebnikov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3191–3197, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.264

• -ylcarbonyl)-2H-azirines, 1-(2H-azirine-2-carbonyl)benzotriazoles, 2H-azirine-2-carbonyl azides, anhydrides, amides, esters, and thioesters of azirine carboxylic acids, as well as azirine carboxylic acids themselves, have been prepared over the last decade (see [2] and references therein). Azirine-2

Stereoselective mechanochemical synthesis of thiomalonate Michael adducts via iminium catalysis by chiral primary amines

• Michał Błauciak,
• Dominika Andrzejczyk,
• Błażej Dziuk and
• Rafał Kowalczyk

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2313–2322, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.198

• Technology, wyb. Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland 10.3762/bjoc.20.198 Abstract The study presents a novel approach utilizing iminium salt activation and mild enolization of thioesters, offering an efficient and rapid synthesis of Michael adducts with promising stereoselectivity and marking a

• . Mild enolization of thioesters allows for the generation of Michael adducts with good yields and stereoselectivities. Reactions in a ball mill afford product formation with similar efficacy to solution-phase reactions but with slightly reduced enantioselectivity, yet they yield products in just one

• hour compared to 24 or even 168 hours in solution-based reactions. It is noteworthy that this represents one of the early reports on the application of iminium catalysis using first-generation chiral amines under mechanochemical conditions, along with the utilization of easily enolizable thioesters as

Selective hydrolysis of α-oxo ketene N,S-acetals in water: switchable aqueous synthesis of β-keto thioesters and β-keto amides

• Haifeng Yu,
• Wanting Zhang,
• Xuejing Cui,
• Zida Liu,
• Xifu Zhang and
• Xiaobo Zhao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2225–2233, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.190

• thioesters and β-keto amides is reported. In refluxing water, the hydrolysis reactions of α-oxo ketene N,S-acetals in the presence of 1.0 equiv of dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid effectively afforded β-keto thioesters in excellent yield, while β-keto amides were successfully obtained in excellent yield when the

• hydrolysis reactions were carried out in the presence of 3.0 equiv of NaOH. The green approach to β-keto thioesters and β-keto amides avoids the use of harmful organic solvents, thiols and thiolacetates as well as amines, which could result in serious environmental and safety issues. Keywords: α-oxo ketene

• structural characters and multiple good reactivities [1][2][3][4]. Both β-keto thioesters [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] and β-keto amides [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] have served as useful synthetic intermediates for the synthesis of a range of potent natural products. Therefore, much effort has

Access to 2-oxoazetidine-3-carboxylic acid derivatives via thermal microwave-assisted Wolff rearrangement of 3-diazotetramic acids in the presence of nucleophiles

• Ivan Lyutin,
• Vasilisa Krivovicheva,
• Grigory Kantin and
• Dmitry Dar’in

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1894–1899, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.164

• and thioesters 3o–q were successfully obtained in moderate to high yields. The synthesis of compound 3k was additionally carried out on a scaled-up experiment (1.5 mmol vs 0.25 mmol), allowing sufficient amounts to be obtained for further modifications (vide infra). However, a marked decrease in the

Direct synthesis of acyl fluorides from carboxylic acids using benzothiazolium reagents

• Lilian M. Maas,
• Alex Haswell,
• Rory Hughes and
• Matthew N. Hopkinson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 921–930, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.82

• afford (trifluoromethyl)thioethers, while subsequent work focused on the direct deoxygenative synthesis of fluorinated thioesters from carboxylic acids [29][30][31]. In each case, the reactions proceeded smoothly under operationally simple conditions while BT-SCF3 and related BT-SRF reagents are easy-to

• , reacting BT-SCF3 with carboxylic acids 1 under similar conditions provides (trifluoromethyl)thioesters 3 via a concerted deoxytrifluoromethylthiolation process from tetrahedral intermediate A affording thiocarbamate by-product B [31]. To test whether thioester species could act as intermediates in the

• only 10 mol % of DIPEA (92% 19F NMR yield, Scheme 5b). This reaction could result from base-assisted nucleophilic attack of adventitious water present in the reaction mixture. In addition to addition/elimination of fluoride ions to thioesters 3, a second potential mechanistic pathway exists for the

Substrate specificity of a ketosynthase domain involved in bacillaene biosynthesis

• Zhiyong Yin and
• Jeroen S. Dickschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 734–740, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.67

• conjunction with 13C NMR to investigate substrate acceptance by BaeJ-KS2 from module 4 of the bacillaene PKS. Results and Discussion Synthesis of N-acetylcysteamine thioesters Previous studies have shown that N-acetylcysteamine thioesters (SNAC esters) can be uploaded to KS domains [22][23][24][25]. Therefore

Chemoenzymatic synthesis of macrocyclic peptides and polyketides via thioesterase-catalyzed macrocyclization

• Senze Qiao,
• Zhongyu Cheng and
• Fuzhuo Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 721–733, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.66

• the other hand, the chemoenzymatic process using purified Sgd TE from its biosynthesis and a linear peptide SNAC substrate gave the macrocycle in an acceptable yield without epimerization (Scheme 3). Although NAC-containing thioesters were widely employed, as described above, it had several

• , coenzyme A (CoA), phosphopantetheine, and thiophenol. The thiophenol thioesters exhibited the highest cyclization rates, suggesting that chemical reactivity precedes cofactor recognition [54]. Moreover, CDA3 TE had a broad substrate spectrum, even indicating activity to cyclize daptomycin and its analogs

• by TycC TE. (c) Second-gen chemoenzymatic synthesis of tyrocidine A. Representative examples of NAC-activated thioesters-mediated biocatalytic macrolactamization. Chemoenzymatic synthesis of CDA, daptomycin and their analogs. (a) Biocatalytic macrocyclization of CDA and daptomycin mediated by

Mechanisms for radical reactions initiating from N-hydroxyphthalimide esters

• Carlos R. Azpilcueta-Nicolas and
• Jean-Philip Lumb

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 346–378, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.35

• halides [93][94], bromoalkynes [95], bromoalkanes [96], and pyridyl thioesters [97] (Scheme 26A). Likewise, the Rousseaux group has recently documented the arylation of NHPI esters obtained from cyclopropanecarboxylic acids [98] and malonic acid half amides [99], while the Reisman lab has pioneered an

Anion–π catalysis on carbon allotropes

• M. Ángeles Gutiérrez López,
• Mei-Ling Tan,
• Giacomo Renno,
• Augustina Jozeliūnaitė,
• J. Jonathan Nué-Martinez,
• Javier Lopez-Andarias,
• Naomi Sakai and
• Stefan Matile

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1881–1894, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.140

• ][56][57]. Anion–π catalysis on fullerenes has been introduced in 2017 [12]. Fullerene anion–π catalysts were developed with the benchmark reaction introduced two years earlier (Figure 2) [2]. In this reaction, at the beginning of all biosynthesis, finetuned malonic acid half thioesters 4 [58][59][60

N-Sulfenylsuccinimide/phthalimide: an alternative sulfenylating reagent in organic transformations

• Fatemeh Doraghi,
• Seyedeh Pegah Aledavoud,
• Mehdi Ghanbarlou,
• Bagher Larijani and
• Mohammad Mahdavi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1471–1502, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.106

• preparation of thioesters, acyl disulfides, ketones, and amides starting from N-thiohydroxy succinimide esters (NTSEs) 1’’’, which can serve as the acylthiolating and acylating source (Scheme 32) [65]. First, they synthesized a series of N-thiohydroxy succinimide esters by treating potassium thiolates with N

• selectively transfer the acyl or acylthio moieties. Arylboronic acids 74 and amines 76 were suitable for the acyl transfer and led to ketones 78 and amides 80 as the desired products. While, Grignard reagents 75 and thiols 77 acted as soft nucleophiles and resulted in thioesters 79 and acyl disulfides 81

• thiosulfonates and N-arylthio succinimides.· Suggested mechanism for difunctionalization of alkynyl bromides with thiosulfonates and N-arylthio succinimides. Synthesis of thioesters, acyl disulfides, ketones, and amides by N-thiohydroxy succinimide esters. Proposed mechanism for metal-catalyzed selective

Application of N-heterocyclic carbene–Cu(I) complexes as catalysts in organic synthesis: a review

• Nosheen Beig,
• Varsha Goyal and
• Raj K. Bansal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1408–1442, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.102

• -workers [61] extended the application of NHC–copper catalysts to the conjugate addition of boronates to acyclic α,β-unsaturated carboxylic esters, ketones, and thioesters leading to the enantioselective formation of boron-substituted quaternary carbon stereogenic centers (Scheme 43). All transformations

Retraction: One-pot odourless synthesis of thioesters via in situ generation of thiobenzoic acids using benzoic anhydrides and thiourea

• Mohammad Abbasi and
• Reza Khalifeh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1170–1170, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.85

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

• organoboron reagents were realized [12]. Also, in terms of suitable Michael acceptors as substrates, unsaturated ketones, aldehydes, esters, thioesters, amides, alkenyl heterocycles and enoyl heterocycles became viable for conjugate additions. The maturity and robustness of this methodology is documented by

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

• addition with Grignard reagents Feringa and co-workers realized the tandem conjugate addition of Grignard reagents to 4-chlorocrotonates 46 [42]. The enolate 47, which was formed in this process, underwent an intramolecular nucleophilic substitution to form cyclopropane derivatives. Thioesters, esters as

Total synthesis of insect sex pheromones: recent improvements based on iron-mediated cross-coupling chemistry

• Eric Gayon,
• Guillaume Lefèvre,
• Olivier Guerret,
• Adrien Tintar and
• Pablo Chourreu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 158–166, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.15

• -coupling reactions between alkylmanganese nucleophiles AlkylMnX and thioesters RC(O)SEt using Fe(acac)3 as catalyst could act as a ligand to on-cycle organoiron(II) intermediates (Table 2, entry 3) [39]. This behaviour opens the door to interesting synthetic perspectives, since it suggests that leaving

Comparison of crystal structure and DFT calculations of triferrocenyl trithiophosphite’s conformance

• Ruslan P. Shekurov,
• Mikhail N. Khrizanforov,
• Ilya A. Bezkishko,
• Tatiana P. Gerasimova,
• Almaz A. Zagidullin,
• Daut R. Islamov and
• Vasili A. Miluykov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1499–1504, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.157

• orientations towards the phosphorus lone electron pair (LEP). A comparison of DFT calculations and X-ray diffraction data is presented, herein we show which conformations are preferred for a given ligand. Keywords: DFT calculations; multi-ferrocenyl compounds; phosphorus thioesters; trithiophosphite; X-ray

Supramolecular approaches to mediate chemical reactivity

• Pablo Ballester,
• Qi-Qiang Wang and
• Carmine Gaeta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1463–1465, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.152

• tetraaminobisthiourea chiral macrocycles as catalysts in decarboxylative Mannich reactions. Low macrocycle loading was used to catalyze the decarboxylative addition of malonic acid half thioesters to isatin-derived ketimines with excellent yields and good enantioselectivity. It was reported that effective activation

Synthesis of α-(perfluoroalkylsulfonyl)propiophenones: a new set of reagents for the light-mediated perfluoroalkylation of aromatics

• Durbis J. Castillo-Pazos,
• Juan D. Lasso and
• Chao-Jun Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 788–795, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.79

• generated in situ from propiophenone, and second, the deprotection of propiophenone α-thioesters in the presence of perfluoroalkyliodides and subsequent oxidation of the formed perfluorothioether into the sulfone. However, none of these proposed pathways gave yields high enough for the reaction to be

Bioinspired tetraamino-bisthiourea chiral macrocycles in catalyzing decarboxylative Mannich reactions

• Hao Guo,
• Yu-Fei Ao,
• De-Xian Wang and
• Qi-Qiang Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 486–496, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.51

• . Only 5 mol % of the optimal macrocycle catalyst efficiently catalyzed the decarboxylative addition of a broad scope of malonic acid half thioesters to isatin-derived ketimines with excellent yields and good enantioselectivity. The rigid macrocyclic framework and the cooperation between the thiourea and

• report a systematic synthesis of tetraamino-bisthiourea chiral macrocycles and their performance in catalyzing the decarboxylative Mannich addition of malonic acid half thioesters (MAHTs) to isatin-derived ketimines. The macrocycle-enabled hydrogen-bonding activation network and the associated confined

• and activation ability. Catalytic reaction optimization The synthesized macrocycles were then applied as catalysts in the decarboxylative addition of malonic acid half thioesters (MAHTs) to isatin-derived ketimines [48]. The reaction between ketimine 6a and MAHT 7a was initially performed in THF at

Organocatalytic asymmetric nitroso aldol reaction of α-substituted malonamates

• Ekta Gupta,
• Narendra Kumar Vaishanv,
• Sandeep Kumar,
• Raja Krishnan Purshottam,
• Ruchir Kant and
• Kishor Mohanan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 217–224, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.25

• hydroxyamination of oxindoles and β-ketoamides [49][50][51][52][53][54]. Recently, it has been shown that malonate derivatives such as malonate half thioesters and malonamides could be effectively used in various enantioselecive addition reactions [55][56][57][58][59][60]. In this context, Chen and co-workers

Synthesis and late stage modifications of Cyl derivatives

• Phil Servatius and
• Uli Kazmaier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 174–181, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.19

• (apicidin [19], microsporin A [20]), carboxylic acids (azumamides [21]), α-hydroxy ketones (FR235222 [22]) or thioesters (largazole [23]). These cyclopeptides mainly differ in the amino acid sequence of the peptide backbone, which causes selectivity towards the different HDAC isoforms. In fact, many

• naturally occurring HDAC inhibitors contain sulfur moieties like, e.g., disulfides or thioesters. They seem to lack a zinc-chelating group at first sight, but the disulfide or thioester acts as a prodrug and are reduced/cleaved in vivo to liberate the free thiol, a strong Zn-binding group [24][25]. Results

Chemoselective N-acylation of indoles using thioesters as acyl source

• Tianri Du,
• Xiangmu Wei,
• Honghong Xu,
• Xin Zhang,
• Ruiru Fang,
• Zheng Yuan,
• Zhi Liang and
• Yahui Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 89–94, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.9

• requires sensitive and reactive acyl chloride derivatives. Here, we report a mild, efficient, functional group tolerant, and highly chemoselective N-acylation of indoles using thioesters as a stable acyl source. A series of indoleamides have been obtained with moderate to good yields. In addition

• , heterocycles, such as carbazole, can also be used as nucleophiles in this reaction. Keywords: indole; N-acylation; nucleophilic substitution; thioesters; Introduction Molecules containing N-acylindoles have attracted wide attention in the synthetic polymers and pharmaceutical industry because of their unique

• transthioesterification of aryl halides for the synthesis of thioethers and thioesters [17] (Scheme 1, C). In addition, we also used this reagent to trap alkylcopper(I) intermediates and to form C−S bonds [18]. To the best of our knowledge, thioesters have not been developed as indole N-amidation reagent. Based on our

Asymmetric organocatalyzed synthesis of coumarin derivatives

• Natália M. Moreira,
• Lorena S. R. Martelli and
• Arlene G. Corrêa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1952–1980, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.128

• half-thioesters 67 to coumarins 66 using a sulphonamide organocatalyst 69 was reported by Nakamura et al. [55]. The hydrogen bond between the secondary amine and the coumarin carboxyl provides a nucleophilic addition on the Re face, and therefore resulting in products 68 with R absolute configuration

• -hydroxycoumarins (1) and aromatic imines 63 promoted by cupreine (65). Asymmetric addition of malonic acid half-thioesters 67 to coumarins 66 using the sulphonamide organocatalyst 69. Enantioselective 1,4-addition of azadienes 71 to 3-homoacyl coumarins 70. Michael addition/intramolecular cyclization of 3

On the application of 3d metals for C–H activation toward bioactive compounds: The key step for the synthesis of silver bullets

• Renato L. Carvalho,
• Amanda S. de Miranda,
• Mateus P. Nunes,
• Roberto S. Gomes,
• Guilherme A. M. Jardim and
• Eufrânio N. da Silva Júnior

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1849–1938, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.126