Skeletal rearrangement of 6,8-dioxabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-4-ols promoted by thionyl chloride or Appel conditions

• Martyn Jevric,
• Julian Klepp,
• Johannes Puschnig,
• Oscar Lamb,
• Christopher J. Sumby and
• Ben W. Greatrex

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 823–829, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.74

• alkoxytriphenylphosphonium chloride (26, R = Bn), which then slowly rearranged over 24 hours at 83 °C in DCE, eliminating triphenylphosphine oxide (Figure 2). A single ion was observed in the ESI mass spectrum for the intermediate at m/z 571.1 corresponding to the [M + PPh3 − H]+, and in the 1H NMR, the H4 adjacent to the

• the byproduct triphenylphosphine oxide, necessitating chromatography which resulted in some hydrolysis. There are a number of catalytic activation strategies for Appel or Mitsunobu reactions such as those described by the Denton group [30], and Rutjes and co-workers [31], and while these may prove

• chlorosulfite 25 or the alkoxytriphenylphosphonium chloride 26, respectively. With heating, SO2 or triphenylphosphine oxide is extruded with a concerted migration of the neighbouring O8 leading to an oxocarbenium ion 27, which is then trapped with chloride giving the observed products. The crystal structure for

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

• , Shang and Fu initially demonstrated this approach by utilizing catalytic amounts of triphenylphosphine (PPh3) and sodium iodide (NaI) [67]. Upon formation of EDA complex 80, radical addition to silyl enol ether 81 was promoted under blue light irradiation, affording acetophenone product 82 (Scheme 16A

Metal-catalyzed coupling/carbonylative cyclizations for accessing dibenzodiazepinones: an expedient route to clozapine and other drugs

• Amina Moutayakine and
• Anthony J. Burke

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 193–204, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.19

• (entry 1, Table 1). Next, the same procedure was carried out in the presence of molybdenum hexacarbonyl (Mo(CO)6, 2 equiv) as CO surrogate, under the previous conditions, but again we only observed the formation of intermediate 3a in 21% yield (entry 2, Table 1). Changing the ligand to triphenylphosphine

Aromatic systems with two and three pyridine-2,6-dicarbazolyl-3,5-dicarbonitrile fragments as electron-transporting organic semiconductors exhibiting long-lived emissions

• Karolis Leitonas,
• Brigita Vigante,
• Dmytro Volyniuk,
• Audrius Bucinskas,
• Pavels Dimitrijevs,
• Sindija Lapcinska,
• Pavel Arsenyan and
• Juozas Vidas Grazulevicius

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1867–1880, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.139

• equiv), tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0) (11.6 mg, 0.01 mmol, 0.05 equiv), CuI (1.2 mg, 0.006 mmol, 0.03 equiv) in 2 mL of DMF was degassed with Ar. Then, the appropriate ethynyl derivative (0.24 mmol, 1.2 equiv) and 1 mL of triethylamine were added and the resulting mixture was heated at 90 °C

Thienothiophene-based organic light-emitting diode: synthesis, photophysical properties and application

• Recep Isci and
• Turan Ozturk

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1849–1857, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.137

• ), dimesitylboronfluoride (90%, Sigma-Aldrich), 4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolane (Sigma-Aldrich), tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0) (Pd(PPh3)4, 99%, Sigma-Aldrich), were used as received. Diethyl ether and THF were dried over metallic sodium. Dimethylformamide (HPLC grade) was stored over activated molecular

Recent advancements in iodide/phosphine-mediated photoredox radical reactions

• Tinglan Liu,
• Yu Zhou,
• Junhong Tang and
• Chengming Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1785–1803, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.131

• specificity in the synthesis of β-alkylated styrenes 5. This study underscored the broad applicability and selectivity of the NaI/PPh3 catalytic system in facilitating the synthesis of β-alkylated styrenes using diverse redox-active esters. It is worth highlighting that triphenylphosphine is not essential for

• and colleagues introduced an interesting metal- and oxidant-free photocatalytic C–H alkylation method for coumarins 18 [17]. The method utilized triphenylphosphine and sodium iodide, along with readily available alkyl N-hydroxyphthalimide esters (NHPIs) 3 as the alkylation reagents (Scheme 10

• amount of ammonium iodide under irradiation in the absence of triphenylphosphine (Scheme 12). The generation of alkyl radicals was attributed to the photoactivation of a transient electron donor–acceptor complex formed between iodide and N-(acyloxy)phthalimide, in line with earlier findings. These

Morpholine-mediated defluorinative cycloaddition of gem-difluoroalkenes and organic azides

• Tzu-Yu Huang,
• Mario Djugovski,
• Sweta Adhikari,
• Destinee L. Manning and
• Sudeshna Roy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1545–1554, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.111

• -substituted triazole 3’a (entry 1, Table 1), in 21% yield, using NiCl2(PCy3)2 as a catalyst and K3PO4 as a base. A methyl handle on the gem-difluoroalkene 1 was used to aid in 1H NMR analysis. The gem-difluoroalkenes were synthesized in one step using sodium 2-chloro-2,2-difluoroacetate and triphenylphosphine

Synthesis of ether lipids: natural compounds and analogues

• Marco Antônio G. B. Gomes,
• Alicia Bauduin,
• Chloé Le Roux,
• Romain Fouinneteau,
• Wilfried Berthe,
• Mathieu Berchel,
• Hélène Couthon and
• Paul-Alain Jaffrès

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1299–1369, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.96

Selective and scalable oxygenation of heteroatoms using the elements of nature: air, water, and light

• Damiano Diprima,
• Hannes Gemoets,
• Stefano Bonciolini and
• Koen Van Aken

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1146–1154, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.82

• appealing production method. The oxygenation of triphenylphosphine was used as a model reaction, since the batch results showed fast kinetics (15 minutes). Since triphenylphosphine is insoluble in the reaction mixture we opted to use an oscillatory flow reactor (OFR), specifically the HANU flow reactor (i.e

• ., HANU 2X 5 flow reactor) from Creaflow, as this system can easily handle demanding slurry processes under continuous-flow conditions. The reaction was carried out using an adapted setup as illustrated in Scheme 4 as triphenylphosphine is very sticky and tends to clog easily in the feeding tubes. This

• of CH3CN/H2O 8:2 (v:v). b2 equiv toluene as an additive. c1 equiv LiCl as an additive. dProduct not isolated, GC-FID conversion. Setup used in the flow experiment for the triphenylphosphine oxidation. Proposed extra alternative pathway. Optimization experiments of thioanisole oxidation.a Effect of

Facile access to 3-sulfonylquinolines via Knoevenagel condensation/aza-Wittig reaction cascade involving ortho-azidobenzaldehydes and β-ketosulfonamides and sulfones

• Ksenia Malkova,
• Andrey Bubyrev,
• Stanislav Kalinin and
• Dmitry Dar’in

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 800–807, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.60

• conditions reported previously, we began our investigation using o-azidobenzaldehyde (1a), 2-oxopropanesulfonamide 2a, triphenylphosphine, and diethylamine as reagents for the quinoline-3-sulfonamide assembly (Table 1). The reaction mixture was stirred in MeCN at 95 °C for 6 h which led to a mediocre yield

C3-Alkylation of furfural derivatives by continuous flow homogeneous catalysis

• Grédy Kiala Kinkutu,
• Catherine Louis,
• Myriam Roy,
• Juliette Blanchard and
• Julie Oble

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 582–592, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.43

• (triethoxysilyl)ethyl)phosphine L1 or triphenylphosphine [40][41][42]. Their synthesis, well-described in the literature, is detailed in Supporting Information File 1 (pp. S3–S6). Moreover, a kinetic study carried out in batch in the presence of the [Ru3(CO)11(L1)] (comp1), [Ru3(CO)10(L1)2] (comp2) or [Ru3(CO)9

• steps, and thus to consider the direct functionalization of furfural via the in-situ formation of furfurylimine. Furthermore, as the [Ru3(CO)11(PPh3)] comp4 catalyst showed an activity and a solubility in batch similar to comp1, we continued the optimization with the latter, triphenylphosphine being

• relevant building blocks on a large scale. Experimental Triphenylphosphine triruthenium undecacarbonyl (comp4) Following a slightly modified procedure compared to the one reported [41], triruthenium dodecacarbonyl (1.4 g, 2.19 mmol, 1 equiv) was dissolved in freshly distilled and degassed THF (0.036 M) at

Combretastatins D series and analogues: from isolation, synthetic challenges and biological activities

• Jorge de Lima Neto and
• Paulo Henrique Menezes

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 399–427, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.31

• formation of seco-acid 36. Macrolactonization attempts conducted under high dilution, including the Mitsunobu conditions [35] gave only the cyclic diolide. However, the use of higher dilution conditions and the dropwise addition of seco-acid 36 to a solution of DEAD (7.7 equiv) and triphenylphosphine (7.5

• formation of compound 92, which was reduced to the corresponding alcohol and then converted into the bromide 94. Ozonolysis followed by reaction with triphenylphosphine gave the corresponding phosphonium salt 96, which was subjected to different conditions for the intramolecular Wittig reaction. The best

Group 13 exchange and transborylation in catalysis

• Dominic R. Willcox and
• Stephen P. Thomas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 325–348, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.28

• [85][88][89][97][101][105][106][107][108][109]. The aluminium-catalysed hydroboration of CO2 was reported by Fontaine using tris(triphenylphosphine)aluminium as the catalyst and HBcat as the terminal reductant [110]. So et al. reported the bis(phosphoranyl)methanido aluminium hydride-catalysed

Continuous flow synthesis of 6-monoamino-6-monodeoxy-β-cyclodextrin

• János Máté Orosz,
• Dóra Ujj,
• Petr Kasal,
• Gábor Benkovics and
• Erika Bálint

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 294–302, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.25

• Staudinger reduction using triphenylphosphine (PPh3) and N3-β-CD (3) in DMF has been the most popular method for the synthesis of NH2-β-CD (4) since its first publication by Bonnet et al. [46]. This is despite the fact, that PPh3 and its oxidized product (triphenylphosphine oxide) form complexes with β-CD

Revisiting the bromination of 3β-hydroxycholest-5-ene with CBr₄/PPh₃ and the subsequent azidolysis of the resulting bromide, disparity in stereochemical behavior

• Christian Schumacher,
• Jas S. Ward,
• Kari Rissanen,
• Carsten Bolm and
• Mohamed Ramadan El Sayed Aly

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 91–99, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.9

• C3 hydroxy of 1 is activated. Deprotonation of 10 at C2 with bromide as base provides diene 9 as the minor product. Bromide 4 is formed via cyclopropyl cation 11, which is generated from 10 by loss of triphenylphosphine oxide being supported by involvement of the Δ5 π-bond electrons from the α-face

NaI/PPh₃-catalyzed visible-light-mediated decarboxylative radical cascade cyclization of N-arylacrylamides for the efficient synthesis of quaternary oxindoles

• Dan Liu,
• Yue Zhao and
• Frederic W. Patureau

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 57–65, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.5

• ethers and N-heteroarenes by using a novel catalytic system based on sodium iodide (NaI) and triphenylphosphine (PPh3), suggested to function as an electron donor–acceptor (EDA) complex [55][56][57][58][59][60]. Compared to previously reported radical reactions, this novel catalytic system has the key

Improving the accuracy of ³¹P NMR chemical shift calculations by use of scaling methods

• William H. Hersh and
• Tsz-Yeung Chan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 36–56, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.4

• use of the locally dense basis set approach, in which the larger pcS-3 basis set was used on phosphorus and the smaller pcS-2 basis set was then used on all the other atoms, allowed the computation of chemical shifts for a variety of benchmark compounds up to 35-atom triphenylphosphine oxide

Preparation of β-cyclodextrin-based dimers with selectively methylated rims and their use for solubilization of tetracene

• Konstantin Lebedinskiy,
• Volodymyr Lobaz and
• Jindřich Jindřich

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1596–1606, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.170

• kind of reaction engaging the azido group in the CD chemistry is the phosphine imide reaction [30][31]. This transformation involves triphenylphosphine and carbon dioxide to convert azide into isocyanate [31], allowing coupling with amines or other nucleophile groups. It is interesting to note that the

Simple synthesis of multi-halogenated alkenes from 2-bromo-2-chloro-1,1,1-trifluoroethane (halothane)

• Yukiko Karuo,
• Atsushi Tarui,
• Kazuyuki Sato,
• Kentaro Kawai and
• Masaaki Omote

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1567–1574, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.167

• functionalized enyne structure that will be useful in various molecular transformations [27][28][29]. On the basis of a previous report, Sonogashira cross-coupling of 2 with trimethylsilylacetylene was performed with a bis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(II) dichloride. The reaction proceeded smoothly to give

• ), 153.9; 19F NMR (376 MHz, CDCl3) δ −80.5 (s, 1F), −80.6 (s, 1F); EIMS m/z: 250, 252 [M]+; HREIMS: [M]+ calcd for C8H5BrClFO, 249.9196, 251.9176; found, 249.9202, 251.9172. (3-Chloro-4-fluoro-4-phenoxybut-3-en-1-yn-1-yl)trimethylsilane (7): To a solution of 2a (0.5 mmol), bis(triphenylphosphine)palladium

An alternative C–P cross-coupling route for the synthesis of novel V-shaped aryldiphosphonic acids

• Stephen J. I. Shearan,
• Enrico Andreoli and
• Marco Taddei

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1518–1523, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.160

• catalyst, tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0), was introduced by Hirao and co-workers, which allowed for the lowering of the reaction temperature to approximately 90 °C [29][30][31]. In this work, we have developed an alternative experimental protocol to perform the Ni-catalyzed C–P cross-coupling

Modular synthesis of 2-furyl carbinols from 3-benzyldimethylsilylfurfural platforms relying on oxygen-assisted C–Si bond functionalization

• Sebastien Curpanen,
• Per Reichert,
• Gabriele Lupidi,
• Giovanni Poli,
• Julie Oble and
• Alejandro Perez-Luna

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1256–1263, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.131

• , given that the cross-coupling product 21 was obtained in only 40% yield (along with 23% of 22) in the absence of P(OEt)3 (Table 1, entry 5). The solution was the replacement of triethylphosphite by triphenylphosphine, which allowed to suppress the formation of the protodesilylated product and to obtain

Molecular diversity of the base-promoted reaction of phenacylmalononitriles with dialkyl but-2-ynedioates

• Hui Zheng,
• Ying Han,
• Jing Sun and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 991–998, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.99

• reaction of phenacyl bromide, malononitrile, dialkyl but-2-ynedioate, and triphenylphosphine has been already reported, in which diethyl 3-phenyl-5,5-dicyanocyclopent-2-ene-1,2-dicarboxylates were produced by further elimination of a hydroxy group [30]. In the present reaction, the hydroxy group is still

Tri(n-butyl)phosphine-promoted domino reaction for the efficient construction of spiro[cyclohexane-1,3'-indolines] and spiro[indoline-3,2'-furan-3',3''-indolines]

• Hui Zheng,
• Ying Han,
• Jing Sun and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 669–679, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.68

• and 2 in Table 1). Additionally, no reaction was observed when triphenylphosphine was used as catalyst (Table 1, entry 3). However, in the presence of tri(n-butyl)phosphine, the reaction in methylene dichloride, chloroform, and toluene at room temperature gave the expected functionalized spiro

• triphenylphosphine. It should be pointed out that the synthesis of polysubstituted cyclohexanones was reported by a tri(n-butyl)phosphine-catalyzed reaction of 1,4-dien-3-ones with 2-aryl-1,1-dicyanoalkenes [36]. At higher temperature (50 °C), the yield of the product 3a increased to 40% (in CH2Cl2), 65% (in toluene

• acted not only as a catalyst. It was also noticed that when triphenylphosphine was used instead of tri(n-butyl)phosphine, the expected product was not obtained. Under the optimized reaction conditions, we next investigated the scope of the reaction by using various substituted ethyl isatylidene

Synthesis of sulfur karrikin bioisosteres as potential neuroprotectives

• Martin Pošta,
• Václav Zima,
• Lenka Poštová Slavětínská,
• Marika Matoušová and
• Petr Beier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 549–554, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.57

• closure (Scheme 1). A plausible mechanism for the cyclization of compounds 7 is the Darzens reaction to episulfide, followed by Barton–Kellogg-type reaction with triphenylphosphine and elimination of triphenylphosphine sulfide. Compound 8 showed lower germination activity than KAR1 [22], but achieved IC50

Menadione: a platform and a target to valuable compounds synthesis

• Acácio S. de Souza,
• Ruan Carlos B. Ribeiro,
• Dora C. S. Costa,
• Fernanda P. Pauli,
• David R. Pinho,
• Matheus G. de Moraes,
• Fernando de C. da Silva,
• Luana da S. M. Forezi and
• Vitor F. Ferreira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 381–419, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.43

• , menadione was obtained in 90% yield in 5 hours [89]. Another route was developed by Murahashi and co-workers that used p-cresol as synthetic precursor [90]. First, p-cresol, in the presence of tert-butyl hydroperoxide, was oxidized to 4-methyl-4-tert-butyldioxycyclohexadienone using tris(triphenylphosphine