Advancements in the mechanistic understanding of the copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition

• Regina Berg and
• Bernd F. Straub

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2715–2750, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.308

• but-2-ynedioate and phenyl azide at 100 °C in a sealed tube and suggested that regioisomeric triazoles were formed [1]. However, it was only in the 1960s that Huisgen recognized this type of reaction for its generality, scope and mechanism [2][3][4][5], and coined the term 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition

• . The classical thermal Huisgen cycloaddition of organoazides and alkynes proceeds very slowly even at high temperatures, and gives a mixture of 1,4- and 1,5-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles (Scheme 1). In 2002, the groups of Meldal and Sharpless independently discovered a copper-catalyzed variant of

• Huisgen’s azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC reaction). In fact, the catalytic effect of copper ions had first been mentioned by L’Abbé in 1984 [7], but had henceforth been overlooked until Meldal presented a copper(I)-catalyzed solid-phase synthesis of 1,2,3-triazoles. In this procedure, the terminal alkyne

Recent advances in transition metal-catalyzed Csp²-monofluoro-, difluoro-, perfluoromethylation and trifluoromethylthiolation

• Grégory Landelle,
• Armen Panossian,
• Sergiy Pazenok,
• Jean-Pierre Vors and
• Frédéric R. Leroux

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2476–2536, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.287

• [114] as well as of various arenes and heteroarenes (pyridines, pyrimidines, pyrazines, quinolines, pyrroles, thiophenes, furans, pyrazoles, imidazoles, thiazoles, oxazoles, thiadiazoles, triazoles) [115]. The yields were low to excellent, depending on the substrate (Scheme 12 and Figure 20). Iron(II

Microwave-assisted synthesis of 5,6-dihydroindolo[1,2-a]quinoxaline derivatives through copper-catalyzed intramolecular N-arylation

• Fei Zhao,
• Lei Zhang,
• Hailong Liu,
• Shengbin Zhou and
• Hong Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2463–2469, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.285

• , the copper-catalyzed N-arylation has been extensively utilized for C–N coupling, especially for the arylation of N-containing heterocycles such as indoles, imidazoles, indazoles, pyrroles, pyrazoles and triazoles [25][26][27][28] to construct more fused heterocycles. In recent years, several

[3 + 2]-Cycloadditions of nitrile ylides after photoactivation of vinyl azides under flow conditions

• Stephan Cludius-Brandt,
• Lukas Kupracz and
• Andreas Kirschning

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1745–1750, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.201

• with thermal formation of 2H-azirines. Photochemically, the ring of the 2H-azirines was opened to yield the nitrile ylides, which underwent a [3 + 2]-cycloaddition with 1,3-dipolarophiles. When diisopropyl azodicarboxylate serves as the dipolarophile, 1,3,4-triazoles become directly accessible starting

Efficient continuous-flow synthesis of novel 1,2,3-triazole-substituted β-aminocyclohexanecarboxylic acid derivatives with gram-scale production

• Sándor B. Ötvös,
• Ádám Georgiádes,
• István M. Mándity,
• Lóránd Kiss and
• Ferenc Fülöp

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 1508–1516, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.172

• safe and straightforward way. The obtained 1,2,3-triazole-substituted β-aminocyclohexanecarboxylates can be regarded as interesting precursors for drugs with possible biological effects. Keywords: β-amino acids; click chemistry; continuous-flow; copper; flow chemistry; triazoles; Introduction In

• recent years, triazole-containing compounds have become potential targets for drug discovery [1][2]. A large number of 1,2,3-triazoles exhibit various biological effects [3], e.g., antiviral (1), antibacterial (2), antifungal (3) and anticancer (4) activities [4][5][6][7] (Figure 1). The 1,2,3-triazole

• applications in numerous other areas of modern chemical sciences, such as bioconjugation [13], supramolecular chemistry, [14] and polymer sciences [15]. Probably the most useful and powerful procedure for the synthesis of 1,2,3-triazoles is the Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of organic azides with

A facile, rapid, one-pot regio/stereoselective synthesis of 2-iminothiazolidin-4-ones under solvent/scavenger-free conditions

• Murugan Sathishkumar,
• Sangaraiah Nagarajan,
• Poovan Shanmugavelan,
• Murugan Dinesh and
• Alagusundaram Ponnuswamy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 689–697, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.78

• -triazoles [25], 1,2,3-triazolylchalcones [26], and 1,2,3-triazolyldihydropyrimidine-2-thiones [27], we herein present a one-pot solvent/scavenger-free synthetic protocol for 2-iminothiazolidin-4-ones. This environmentally benign method avoids toxic organic solvents and acid scavengers, the details of which

Synthesis of 2,3-dihydronaphtho[2,3-d][1,3]thiazole-4,9-diones and 2,3-dihydroanthra[2,3-d][1,3]thiazole-4,11-diones and novel ring contraction and fusion reaction of 3H-spiro[1,3-thiazole-2,1'-cyclohexanes] into 2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-1H-carbazole-6,11-diones

• Lidia S. Konstantinova,
• Kirill A. Lysov,
• Ljudmila I. Souvorova and
• Oleg A. Rakitin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 577–584, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.62

• heterocycles (pyrrole [6][7], and triazoles [8]) were found to possess antifungal and antitumor activity toward a number of species causing fungal diseases and toward Walker 256 carcinoma cell lines. The compounds with the thiazoloanthroquinone structure have not been reported in the literature so far. We were

Microwave-assisted three-component domino reaction: Synthesis of indolodiazepinotriazoles

• Rajesh K. Arigela,
• Sudhir K. Sharma,
• Brijesh Kumar and
• Bijoy Kundu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 401–405, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.41

• ; indolodiazepinotriazoles; Introduction The intermolecular Huisgen azide–alkyne 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction [1][2][3][4][5][6] for the synthesis of 1,2,3-triazoles in both aqueous [7][8][9][10] and organic solvents under either metal-catalyzed [11][12][13] or metal-free conditions [14][15][16] has received

Spin state switching in iron coordination compounds

• Philipp Gütlich,
• Ana B. Gaspar and
• Yann Garcia

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 342–391, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.39

Copper-catalyzed CuAAC/intramolecular C–H arylation sequence: Synthesis of annulated 1,2,3-triazoles

• Rajkumar Jeyachandran,
• Harish Kumar Potukuchi and
• Lutz Ackermann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1771–1777, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.202

• -economical syntheses of annulated 1,2,3-triazoles were accomplished through copper-catalyzed intramolecular direct arylations in sustainable one-pot reactions. Thus, catalyzed cascade reactions involving [3 + 2]-azide–alkyne cycloadditions (CuAAC) and C–H bond functionalizations provided direct access to

• fully substituted 1,2,3-triazoles with excellent chemo- and regioselectivities. Likewise, the optimized catalytic system proved applicable to the direct preparation of 1,2-diarylated azoles through a one-pot C–H/N–H arylation reaction. Keywords: cascade reaction; C–H functionalization; copper

• ; heteroarenes; triazoles; Introduction Transition-metal-catalyzed C–H bond functionalizations are increasingly viable tools for step-economical syntheses of various valuable bioactive compounds [1][2][3], which avoid the preparation and use of preactivated substrates [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15

A quantitative approach to nucleophilic organocatalysis

• Herbert Mayr,
• Sami Lakhdar,
• Biplab Maji and
• Armin R. Ofial

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1458–1478, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.166

• adducts could only be isolated when the reaction mixtures containing 16 (for R2 = H) were worked up with dry K2CO3. Aqueous workup led to regeneration of the reactants. Vicario’s report that imidazoles, in contrast to triazoles and tetrazoles, do not readily undergo iminium activated additions to α,β

Parallel solid-phase synthesis of diaryltriazoles

• Matthias Wrobel,
• Jeffrey Aubé and
• Burkhard König

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1027–1036, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.115

• potential inhibitors of protein–protein interactions. Results and Discussion Synthesis of azide-functionalized Wang resins Two azide-functionalized resins were prepared for the solid-phase synthesis of diaryl-triazoles. The commercially available 4-(bromomethyl)benzoic acid (5) was converted into azide 6 in

• of regioisomers in reaction 3. Instead of the 1,4-disubstituted triazoles obtained from copper(I) catalysis, the complex pentamethylcyclopentadienylbis(triphenylphosphine)ruthenium(II) chloride leads to 1,5-disubstituted triazole compounds [19]. 4-(Azidomethyl)benzoic acid functionalized Wang resin 7

• -disubstituted triazoles due to a characteristic shift of the triazole proton resonance. The triazole proton of the 1,4-disubstituted ring in compound 11k shows a 1H NMR resonance at δ = 8.71 (400 MHz, DMSO-d6), while the resonance signal for the triazole proton of product 13f is observed at δ = 8.00 (400 MHz

Thiophene-based donor–acceptor co-oligomers by copper-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition

• Stefanie Potratz,
• Amaresh Mishra and
• Peter Bäuerle

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 683–692, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.76

• –donor type, in which thiophene moieties work as donor and 1,2,3-triazoles as acceptor units. In this respect, terminally ethynylated (oligo)thiophenes were coupled to halogenated (oligo)thiophenes in the presence of sodium azide and a copper catalyst. Optoelectronic properties of various thiophene-1,2,3

• high yield and purity. Click reactions generally involve a Cu(I)-catalyzed version of the Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of terminal acetylenes and azides (CuAAC), to regioselectively yield 1,4-disubstituted 1H-1,2,3-triazoles [11][12]. In the meanwhile, this type of click reaction has become very

• were investigated, in which thiophene units act as donors and triazoles as acceptors. As a general result we find that weak electronic conjugation through the 1,2,3-triazole ring is operative. Experimental General information All reactions were carried out under an inert atmosphere of argon. All

Synthesis of 2-amino-3-arylpropan-1-ols and 1-(2,3-diaminopropyl)-1,2,3-triazoles and evaluation of their antimalarial activity

• Matthias D’hooghe,
• Stéphanie Vandekerckhove,
• Karen Mollet,
• Karel Vervisch,
• Stijn Dekeukeleire,
• Liesbeth Lehoucq,
• Carmen Lategan,
• Peter J. Smith,
• Kelly Chibale and
• Norbert De Kimpe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1745–1752, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.205

• )methyl]aziridines by Cu(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition, followed by microwave-assisted, regioselective ring opening by dialkylamine towards 1-(2,3-diaminopropyl)-1,2,3-triazoles. Although most of these compounds exhibited weak antiplasmodial activity, six representatives showed moderate

• approach is disclosed towards racemic aminopropanes 4 bearing a 1,2,3-triazole moiety, as structural analogues of the previously reported 1,2,4-triazoles 2 (Figure 1). Both classes of functionalized aminopropanes 3 and 4 were tested for their antiplasmodial activity. Results and Discussion Synthesis Within

• 1,2,3-triazole moiety instead. A powerful methodology towards the synthesis of functionalized 1,2,3-triazoles involves the Cu(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition (CuAAC) [33], which has gained major interest from the synthetic community due to its high efficiency and selectivity. Eligible

Multistep flow synthesis of vinyl azides and their use in the copper-catalyzed Huisgen-type cycloaddition under inductive-heating conditions

• Lukas Kupracz,
• Jan Hartwig,
• Jens Wegner,
• Sascha Ceylan and
• Andreas Kirschning

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1441–1448, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.168

• good yield. The third step involves the formation of vinyl triazoles by a copper-catalyzed Huisgen-"click" cycloaddition. The required heat is generated by electromagnetic induction based on copper. Copper serves both as heatable as well as catalytically active packed-bed material inside the flow

• protocol starts from alkenes, which are transformed by a 1,2-addition of iodine azide and then to the corresponding vinyl azides. Furthermore, for the first time we present the copper-mediated Huisgen-type “click” cycloaddition of vinyl azides with alkynes to yield vinyl triazoles under inductive-heating

• -type cycloadditions The copper-catalyzed Huisgen-type cycloaddition (CuAAC) is a general and useful method for the synthesis of 1,4-disubstituted-1,2,3-triazoles and is based on the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of alkynes and azides [28]. Besides Cu(I) sources also Cu(0) sources, such as copper wire [29

NMR studies of anion-induced conformational changes in diindolylureas and diindolylthioureas

• Damjan Makuc,
• Jennifer R. Hiscock,
• Mark E. Light,
• Philip A. Gale and
• Janez Plavec

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1205–1214, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.140

• extensively employed in synthetic anion receptors comprising groups such as amides, pyrroles, indoles, ureas and triazoles, as well as in ammonium, guanidinium and imidazolium moieties used as hydrogen bond donors [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. Amongst neutral anion receptor systems, indole and related

Novel synthesis of pseudopeptides bearing a difluoromethyl group by Ugi reaction and desulfanylation

• Jingjing Wu,
• Hui Li and
• Song Cao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1070–1074, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.123

• ][30]. Recently, we reported a novel and general strategy for the construction of a difluoromethyl compound library, and we further illustrated this strategy by application to the synthesis of CF2H-bearing pseudopeptides and 1,2,3-triazoles through Ugi and click reaction, respectively [27][30]. In

Triazole–Au(I) complex as chemoselective catalyst in promoting propargyl ester rearrangements

• Dawei Wang,
• Yanwei Zhang,
• Rong Cai and
• Xiaodong Shi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1014–1020, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.115

• significant challenge in gold catalysis. Results and Discussions Recently, our group reported the synthesis and characterization of the 1,2,3-triazole [36][37][38][39][40] coordinated gold(I) complexes. As revealed by the X-ray crystal structures (Scheme 3), both neutral and anionic triazoles can coordinate

• with Au(I) cation, forming stable TA–Au complexes [41]. The preparation of these complexes was very straightforward. Simply treating the NH-triazoles with PPh3AuCl in methanol under basic conditions (K2CO3, 1 equiv) at room temperature gave the neutral TA–Au-1 in >90% yield. The “cationic” complex TA

Advances in synthetic approach to and antifungal activity of triazoles

• Kumari Shalini,
• Nitin Kumar,
• Sushma Drabu and
• Pramod Kumar Sharma

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 668–677, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.79

• exhibit a broad spectrum of pharmacological activity such as antifungal, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and anticancer etc. Triazoles have increased our ability to treat many fungal infections, for example, candidiasis, cryptococcal meningitis, aspergillosis etc. However, mortality due to these

• antimicrobial [6][7][8][9][10], antitubercular [11], anticancer [12][13], anticonvulsant [14], anti-inflammatory, analgesic [15] and antiviral [16]. Triazoles have also been incorporated in a wide variety of therapeutically interesting drugs including H1/H2 histamine receptor blockers, CNS stimulants, anti

• well as in increasing solubility [20]. Moreover, triazoles can function as attractive linker units which could connect two pharmacophores to give an innovative bifunctional drug, and thus have become increasingly useful and important in constructing bioactive and functional molecules [21][22][23

An overview of the key routes to the best selling 5-membered ring heterocyclic pharmaceuticals

• Marcus Baumann,
• Ian R. Baxendale,
• Steven V. Ley and
• Nikzad Nikbin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 442–495, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.57

• (Scheme 52) [79]. Other synthetic routes to 1,2,4-triazoles have also been reported. For example, the desired triazole ring of anastrozole can be obtained by reacting an appropriately substituted hydrazine hydrochloride salt 269 with triazine (270) (Scheme 53) [80]. It has been proposed that this novel

Palladium- and copper-mediated N-aryl bond formation reactions for the synthesis of biological active compounds

• Carolin Fischer and
• Burkhard Koenig

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 59–74, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.10

• resulted in good yields [4][26]. Copper-diamine-catalysed N-arylation facilitated the arylation of pyrroles, pyrazoles, indazoles, imidazoles, triazoles, benzimidazoles and indoles [27][28][29]. Besides aryl halides as the aryl donor, arylsiloxanes [30], arylstannanes [31], iodonium salts [32], aryl lead

Synthetic incorporation of Nile Blue into DNA using 2′-deoxyriboside substitutes: Representative comparison of (R)- and (S)-aminopropanediol as an acyclic linker

• Daniel Lachmann,
• Sina Berndl,
• Otto S. Wolfbeis and
• Hans-Achim Wagenknecht

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 13, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.13

• ” ligation strategy has become an important strategy for postsynthetic labeling of DNA [12][13]. Huisgen described first the [2+3]-cycloaddition between alkynes and azides yielding 1,2,3-triazoles [14]. The utility of this reaction as a bioligation method has grown incredibly after Meldal [15] and – almost

Synthesis of 3-(phenylazo)-1,2,4-triazoles by a nucleophilic reaction of primary amines with 5-chloro- 2,3-diphenyltetrazolium salt via mesoionic 2,3-diphenyltetrazolium- 5-aminides

• Shuki Araki,
• Satoshi Hirose,
• Yoshikazu Konishi,
• Masatoshi Nogura and
• Tsunehisa Hirashita

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 8, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.8

• amines have been examined. In the presence of an inorganic base such as NaHCO3, primary and secondary amines undergo a nucleophilic substitution to give the corresponding 5-aminotetrazolium salts. When triethylamine is used as a base, primary amines give 3-phenylazo-1,2,4-triazoles. A plausible dual-path

• mechanism is proposed for the formation of the triazoles via Type B mesoionic tetrazolium-5-aminides. Keywords: formazan; mesoionic compounds; nucleophilic substitution; tetrazolium; 1,2,4-triazole; Introduction Mesoionic compounds can be classified into two families, type A and type B mesoions, according

• , such as ethanolamine and ethyl glycinate gave the corresponding triazoles 3c and 3d. Interestingly, sterically bulky primary amines as well as secondary amines gave the respective 5-aminotetrazolium salts 4d–h. It is worthy to note that the reaction of isopropylamine/triethylamine gave 3

Dimerization of propargyl and homopropargyl 6-azido- 6-deoxy- glycosides upon 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition

• Nikolas Pietrzik,
• Daniel Schmollinger and
• Thomas Ziegler

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 30, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.30

• -butynyl 2,3,4-tri-O-acetyl-6-azido-6-deoxy-glycopyranosides in the D-gluco, D-galacto and D-manno series afford the corresponding dimeric cycloaddition products. Keywords: click reaction; cyclodimerization; glycosides; triazoles; Introduction Our ongoing interest in constructing combinatorial libraries

• -triazoles which are known to be easily generated through a copper-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of an organic azide and an alkynyl derivative (Click Reaction) [5][6][7]. For review articles on copper-catalyzed Click Reactions see references [8][9][10][11]. Recently, we applied this approach to a

Synthesis of 2-substituted 9-oxa-guanines {5-aminooxazolo[5,4-d]pyrimidin- 7(6H)-ones} and 9-oxa-2-thio- xanthines {5-mercaptooxazolo[5,4-d]pyrimidin- 7(6H)-ones}

• Subrata Mandal,
• Wen Tai Li,
• Yan Bai,
• Jon D. Robertus and
• Sean M. Kerwin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 26, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.26

• with benzyl azide or 2-morpholinoethyl azide in the presence of catalytic CuSO4 and sodium ascorbate to afford the triazoles 9 and 10, respectively, in good yield (Figure 5). The copper-catalyzed Huisgen cycloaddition of terminal alkynes and alkyl azides favors formation of the 1,4-triazole