Synthesis of benzannelated sultams by intramolecular Pd-catalyzed arylation of tertiary sulfonamides

• Valentin A. Rassadin,
• Mirko Scholz,
• Anastasiia A. Klochkova,
• Armin de Meijere and
• Victor V. Sokolov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1932–1939, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.187

• in 1:1 ratios – were always formed, which is a serious drawback of this approach. Another well-known method based on retrosynthetic disconnections at the same C–C bond employed intramolecular vicarious nucleophilic substitution of hydrogen in the substituted N-(3-nitrophenyl)chloromethylsulfonamides

Synthesis and nucleophilic aromatic substitution of 3-fluoro-5-nitro-1-(pentafluorosulfanyl)benzene

• Javier Ajenjo,
• Martin Greenhall,
• Camillo Zarantonello and
• Petr Beier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 192–197, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.21

• . The title compound was subjected to a nucleophilic aromatic substitution of the fluorine atom with oxygen, sulfur and nitrogen nucleophiles affording novel (pentafluorosulfanyl)benzenes with 3,5-disubstitution pattern. Vicarious nucleophilic substitution of the title compound with carbon, oxygen, and

• nitrogen nucleophiles provided 3-fluoro-5-nitro-1-(pentafluorosulfanyl)benzenes substituted in position four. Keywords: direct fluorination; fluorine; nucleophilic aromatic substitution; pentafluorosulfanyl group; vicarious nucleophilic substitution; Introduction Organic compounds with a

• oxidative nucleophilic substitution for hydrogen reactions (ONSH) with organolithium or magnesium species or in vicarious nucleophilic substitution reactions (VNS) with carbon, oxygen or nitrogen nucleophiles [29]. VNS is a very powerful process for selective alkylation, amination and hydroxylation of

Simple synthesis of pyrrolo[3,2-e]indole-1-carbonitriles

• Adam Trawczyński,
• Robert Bujok,
• Zbigniew Wróbel and
• Krzysztof Wojciechowski

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 934–941, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.107

• palladium-catalyzed hydrogenation of 5-nitroindol-4-ylacetonitriles 2 [6]. In the latter synthesis of pyrrolo[3,2-e]indole 3 the starting nitrile 2 was obtained by the vicarious nucleophilic substitution (VNS) [7][8][9][10][11] of hydrogen in 1-alkyl-5-nitroindole 1 with 4-chlorophenoxyacetonitrile [12

Synthesis of SF₅-containing benzisoxazoles, quinolines, and quinazolines by the Davis reaction of nitro-(pentafluorosulfanyl)benzenes

• Petr Beier and
• Tereza Pastýříková

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 411–416, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.43

• Umemoto’s two-step procedure starting from diaryldisulfides or mercaptoaromatics [21]. We have recently reported SNAr reactions of the nitro group in compounds 3 and 4 with alkoxides and thiolates [22], vicarious nucleophilic substitution (VNS) of the hydrogen with carbon [23][24], oxygen [25] and nitrogen

Highly selective synthesis of (E)-alkenyl-(pentafluorosulfanyl)benzenes through Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction

• George Iakobson and
• Petr Beier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1185–1190, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.131

• the only known SEAr of 1 or 2 is the nitration of 2 under harsh conditions and in low yield [14], we have recently described SNAr of the nitro group in compounds 1 and 2 with alkoxides and thiolates [15], vicarious nucleophilic substitution (VNS) of the hydrogen with carbon [16], oxygen [17] and

• and 4, which are available by vicarious nucleophilic substitution (VNS) of commercial nitrobenzenes 1 and 2 with diethyl chloromethylphosphonate [16]. If required, the nitro group can be removed by a reduction/diazotization/reduction sequence before or after the HWE reaction (Scheme 1). The HWE

• George Iakobson Petr Beier Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo nám. 2, 166 10 Prague, Czech Republic 10.3762/bjoc.8.131 Abstract Diethyl 2-nitro-(pentafluorosulfanyl)benzylphosphonates, available by the vicarious nucleophilic

Directed aromatic functionalization

• Victor Snieckus

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1215–1218, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.141

• extent, nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr) [2][6][7] reactions as taught to many generations of students in their first organic chemistry courses [8] (Figure 1). Being less steeped in history, radical nucleophilic substitution (SRN1) [9] and vicarious nucleophilic substitution (VNS) [10][11][12