Synthesis of 2-benzyl N-substituted anilines via imine condensation–isoaromatization of (E)-2-arylidene-3-cyclohexenones and primary amines

• Lu Li,
• Na Li,
• Xiao-Tian Mo,
• Ming-Wei Yuan,
• Lin Jiang and
• Ming-Long Yuan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1468–1475, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.130

• –dehydrogenative aromatization strategy with amines as nucleophiles [11][12]. For instance, the groups of Deng and Li reported the Pd catalyzed oxidative coupling of 2-cyclohexenones with amines [13]. Later, the same group demonstrated the direct amination of phenols by reductive coupling of in situ generated 2

Synthesis of 4-functionalized pyrazoles via oxidative thio- or selenocyanation mediated by PhICl₂ and NH₄SCN/KSeCN

• Jialiang Wu,
• Haofeng Shi,
• Xuemin Li,
• Jiaxin He,
• Chen Zhang,
• Fengxia Sun and
• Yunfei Du

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1453–1461, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.128

• oxidant. This metal-free approach was postulated to involve the in situ generation of reactive thio/selenocyanogen chloride (Cl–SCN/SeCN) from the reaction of PhICl2 and NH4SCN/KSeCN, followed by an electrophilic thio/selenocyanation of the pyrazole skeleton. Keywords: PhICl2; pyrazoles; selenocyanation

Rapid construction of tricyclic tetrahydrocyclopenta[4,5]pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridine via isocyanide-based multicomponent reaction

• Xiu-Yu Chen,
• Ying Han,
• Jing Sun and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1436–1443, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.126

• -3,4b,5,6,7(1H)-pentacarboxylates in high yields and with high diastereoselectivity. The reaction was finished by in situ generation of activated 5-(alkylimino)cyclopenta-1,3-dienes from addition of alkyl isocyanide to two molecules of but-2-ynedioates and sequential formal [3 + 2] cycloaddition

• , Orru reaction and Van Leusen reaction, in which isocyanides were employed as key substrates have become the most powerful tools for rapid construction of various nitrogen-containing organic compounds [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. On the other hand, the reactive Huisgen’ 1,4-dipoles can be in situ

• -deficient alkynes [59][60][61][62][63]. The in situ generated cyclic intermediate C has a resonance hybrid C’. Then, the further nucleophilic addition of the electron-rich enamino unit to 5-(alkylimino)cyclopenta-1,3-diene intermediate C gave intermediate D. At last, the coupling of the iminium cation with

Challenge N- versus O-six-membered annulation: FeCl₃-catalyzed synthesis of heterocyclic N,O-aminals

• Giacomo Mari,
• Lucia De Crescentini,
• Gianfranco Favi,
• Fabio Mantellini,
• Diego Olivieri and
• Stefania Santeusanio

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1412–1420, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.123

• and very practical synthetic intermediates commonly employed for the in situ generation of highly electrophilic iminium ions [38][39][40][41]. Conclusion In summary, we planned the synthesis of decorated imidazo skeletons accessible through a judicious choice of the starting components of a 3-CR

Synthesis of substituted triazole–pyrazole hybrids using triazenylpyrazole precursors

• Simone Gräßle,
• Laura Holzhauer,
• Nicolai Wippert,
• Olaf Fuhr,
• Martin Nieger,
• Nicole Jung and
• Stefan Bräse

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1396–1404, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.121

• subsequent CuAAC with the model compound 17e (see Scheme 4). When conducting the two reaction steps back-to-back in a one-pot setup, a decrease in yield from 86% over two steps (96% and 90%) to 59% of impure product was observed. This is presumably caused by incomplete conversion of the in situ-generated

Synthetic applications of the Cannizzaro reaction

• Bhaskar Chatterjee,
• Dhananjoy Mondal and
• Smritilekha Bera

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1376–1395, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.120

• enantioselectivity of the resultant product (Scheme 1). A one-pot oxidation–Cannizzaro reaction of aryl methyl ketones to mandelic acid derivatives was observed in the presences of ytterbium triflate as the catalyst. The intramolecular reaction sequence employed a SeO2/Yb(OTf)3 combination to affect the in-situ

Generation of alkyl and acyl radicals by visible-light photoredox catalysis: direct activation of C–O bonds in organic transformations

• Mithu Roy,
• Bitan Sardar,
• Itu Mallick and
• Dipankar Srimani

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1348–1375, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.119

• great importance of these strategies, the direct use of acids or alcohols is more fascinating as this approach circumvents the additional synthesis of special functionalized compounds. The strategy involves in situ activation by appropriate reagent, followed by photochemical C–O bond scission to

• alcohols. To address the instability of the catecholate products, they were converted in situ to the Bpin esters by introducing pinacol and Et3N into the reaction mixture. In 2021, Wu and co-workers [52] developed a method in which alkyl radicals were generated via photocatalytic deoxygenation of alcohols

• (Scheme 16). This one-pot strategy involved the reaction of xanthates formed in situ with electron-deficient alkenes under visible-light photoredox conditions in the presence of PPh3. This approach did not require multistep synthesis of starting materials. In addition, alcohol groups in polyols could be

Rhodium-catalyzed homo-coupling reaction of aryl Grignard reagents and its application for the synthesis of an integrin inhibitor

• Kazuyuki Sato,
• Satoki Teranishi,
• Atsushi Sakaue,
• Yukiko Karuo,
• Atsushi Tarui,
• Kentaro Kawai,
• Hiroyuki Takeda,
• Tatsuo Kinashi and
• Masaaki Omote

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1341–1347, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.118

• solvent as the best conditions (Table 2, entry 1). As shown above, the commercially available Grignard reagent 4a gave the corresponding homo-coupled product 3a in a short reaction time at room temperature. Subsequently, for the purpose of expanding the scope of substrates, we examined the in situ

• , since the preparation of Grignard reagents derived from haloarenes with Mg in situ requires heating for a long time, we decided to use heating conditions for the one-pot homo-coupling reaction. Most homo-coupling products were obtained in this reaction, although the product yield decreased when using

Diameter-selective extraction of single-walled carbon nanotubes by interlocking with Cu-tethered square nanobrackets

• Guoqing Cheng and
• Naoki Komatsu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1298–1307, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.113

• -TOF mass spectra. Upon extraction of SWNTs with the nanobracket and copper(II), in situ-formed square Cu-nanobrackets are found to interlock SWNTs to disperse them in 2-propanol. The interlocking is confirmed by Raman spectroscopy after thorough washing of the extracted SWNTs. Pristine SWNTs were

• -nanobrackets 1b) tethered by copper(II) dipyrrin linkage was designed, synthesized, and applied to SWNT separation. Cu-nanobrackets 1b were in situ formed by interlocking SWNTs to disperse them in 2-propanol. Raman and absorption spectroscopies reveal the diameter enrichment of several kinds of SWNTs in the

Oxidative hydrolysis of aliphatic bromoalkenes: scope study and reactivity insights

• Amol P. Jadhav and
• Claude Y. Legault

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1286–1291, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.111

• ). In situ generation of Koser-like reagent by addition of excess TsOH·H2O (2.0 equiv) to either PIDA or p-OMe-PIDA did not further improve the yield for α-bromoketone (Table 1, entries 3 and 4). We envisioned that altering the iodonium intermediate counterion by replacing TsOH with either MsOH or HNTf2

• ). We then explored catalytic conditions for the generation of the iodine(III) reagent. Remarkably, when catalytic PhI (0.2 equiv) was employed for in situ generation of Koser’s reagent by using m-CPBA (1.2 equiv) as an oxidant, almost similar results were obtained (Table 2, entry 1) with those obtained

Cofactor-independent C–C bond cleavage reactions catalyzed by the AlpJ family of oxygenases in atypical angucycline biosynthesis

• Jinmin Gao,
• Liyuan Li,
• Shijie Shen,
• Guomin Ai,
• Bin Wang,
• Fang Guo,
• Tongjian Yang,
• Hui Han,
• Zhengren Xu,
• Guohui Pan and
• Keqiang Fan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1198–1206, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.102

• biosynthetic intermediate in kinamycin biosynthesis, establishing AlpG as a bifunctional hydroxylase/dehydratase same to JadH (Figure 1, trace c) [25]. Next, employing the AlpG-catalyzed reaction of 9 as an in situ generation system of 8, we introduced AlpJ (in the absence of Fre) to the reaction. Apart from

Manganese-catalyzed C–C and C–N bond formation with alcohols via borrowing hydrogen or hydrogen auto-transfer

• Mohd Farhan Ansari,
• Atul Kumar Maurya,
• Abhishek Kumar and
• Saravanakumar Elangovan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1111–1166, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.98

• condenses with hydrazine followed by reduction and condensation with another aldehyde to afford the N-substituted hydrazones (Scheme 8). Balaraman and co-workers established a phosphine-free manganese catalyst generated in situ from a manganese precursor and a ligand for the N-alkylation of anilines with

• intramolecular manganese amidate rather than the traditional β-hydride elimination process. In 2018, Maji’s group reported the α-alkylation of ketones with primary alcohols using a phosphine-free manganese catalyst generated in situ from Mn(CO)5Br and L3 [58]. Under optimized conditions (2 mol % Mn(CO)5Br, 10

• conditions provided the alkylated products with up to 72% yield at 80 °C (Scheme 52). C-C Bond formation via alkylation of nitriles with alcohols In 2018, an in situ-generated manganese catalytic system for the α-alkylation of nitriles using primary alcohols was studied [80]. Various substituted nitriles

Kinetically stabilized 1,3-diarylisobenzofurans and the possibility of preparing large, persistent isoacenofurans with unusually small HOMO–LUMO gaps

• Qian Liu and
• Glen P. Miller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1099–1110, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.97

• persistence associated with isoacenofurans is of great concern if these molecules are to be utilized as organic semiconductors. Likewise, Hamura and co-workers’ 1,3-diphenethynylisobenzofurans were fleeting intermediates that could not be isolated, but were instead trapped in situ by a suitable dienophile [4

Synthesis of 1,4-azaphosphinine nucleosides and evaluation as inhibitors of human cytidine deaminase and APOBEC3A

• Maksim V. Kvach,
• Stefan Harjes,
• Harikrishnan M. Kurup,
• Geoffrey B. Jameson,
• Elena Harjes and
• Vyacheslav V. Filichev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1088–1098, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.96

• basic conditions. Compound 3 was obtained nearly on a 20 g scale in 89% yield after purification by sublimation in vacuo. In the presence of a catalytic amount of AIBN, compound 3 reacted with bis(trimethylsiloxy)phosphine (4) that was prepared in situ [66]. Treatment of the reaction mixture with MeOH

• ], followed by treatment of 2-deoxyribofuranosylamine formed in situ with chloroacetyl chloride and Et3N, led to 2-deoxyribofuranosyl 2-chloroacetamide 16 in 38% yield with a β/α ratio of about 1:1 (Scheme 2). Phosphinate 10 was then alkylated with compound 16 in the presence of HMDS at elevated temperature

Light on the sustainable preparation of aryl-cored dibromides

• Fabrizio Roncaglia,
• Alberto Ughetti,
• Nicola Porcelli,
• Biagio Anderlini,
• Andrea Severini and
• Luca Rigamonti

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1076–1087, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.95

• can complicate product separation, and will require disposal. Lastly, only one half of the halogen load is incorporated into the product, the other half being lost as bromide ion. A solution for some of the aforementioned problems is the in situ generation of bromine: firstly, the handling of Br2 is

• no longer an issue, since it is formed inside the reaction vessel, secondly this approach allows enhanced selectivity of the bromination, as the amount and timing of the chemical generation can be modulated. In addition, in situ regeneration of bromine from bromide byproducts improves the atom

• NBS in absence (left) or exposed to light (right). Scifinder® reaction hits for the structure “as drawn” (January 2024). Yields obtained in the preparation of aryl-cored halides. Light-mediated bromination of p-xylene with in situ-generated Br2.a p-Xylene bromination with in situ-generated Br2 in

Mild and efficient synthesis and base-promoted rearrangement of novel isoxazolo[4,5-b]pyridines

• Vladislav V. Nikol’skiy,
• Mikhail E. Minyaev,
• Maxim A. Bastrakov and
• Alexey M. Starosotnikov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1069–1075, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.94

• general synthetic scheme (Scheme 1C), commercially available 2-chloro-3-nitropyridines 1a–c were reacted with ethyl acetoacetate in the presence of NaH to give compounds 2a–c which were not isolated and directly subjected to an in situ nitrosation affording isonitroso compounds 3a–c in good yields

• , for example a formyl group. Thus, the key isonitroso compounds 7 were synthesized from chlorides 1a–c via in situ formation of pyridylacetoacetic esters 2a–c followed by decarbonylation to give 2-methyl-3-nitropyridines 5a–c [24] which were used in the next step without purification. Their reactions

Structure–property relationships in dicyanopyrazinoquinoxalines and their hydrogen-bonding-capable dihydropyrazinoquinoxalinedione derivatives

• Tural N. Akhmedov,
• Ajeet Kumar,
• Daken J. Starkenburg,
• Kyle J. Chesney,
• Khalil A. Abboud,
• Novruz G. Akhmedov,
• Jiangeng Xue and
• Ronald K. Castellano

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1037–1052, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.92

• , ethanol, ethylene glycol, and diethylene glycol in the presence of excess triethylamine (Scheme 2). These products provide evidence for the in situ formation of DCPQ 7a and demonstrate its ability to undergo trapping with various nucleophiles through an SNAr mechanism. An alternate strategy was employed

• precipitation occurred and precipitates were subsequently collected via vacuum filtration with no exception for any DPQDs 1b–6b. The yields obtained in this step were moderate to excellent (61–99%). Target 7b was synthesized from 12 and 7e via the in situ generation of 7a and subsequent SNAr with KOH given the

• dicyanopyrazinoquinoxaline derivatives 1a–7a. Synthesis of bis-alkoxy-substituted π-conjugated phenanthrolines 16a, 16b, 16c, and 16d. An alternative synthetic route to access 7a. Synthesis of DPQDs 1b–7b from their corresponding DCPQs 1a–7a. *THF/H2O/1,4-dioxane (4:5:1). **in situ formation. Absorbance properties of 1a–6a

Auxiliary strategy for the general and practical synthesis of diaryliodonium(III) salts with diverse organocarboxylate counterions

• Naoki Miyamoto,
• Daichi Koseki,
• Kohei Sumida,
• Elghareeb E. Elboray,
• Naoko Takenaga,
• Ravi Kumar and
• Toshifumi Dohi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1020–1028, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.90

• a cartridge filled with powdered oxone® for in situ generation of bis(trifluoroacetoxyiodo)arenes and their reaction with electron-rich arene or arylboronic acid [19] (Scheme 1B). Carboxylic acids, such as acetic acid and benzoic acid, characterized by substantial difference in pKa values when

Carbonylative synthesis and functionalization of indoles

• Alex De Salvo,
• Raffaella Mancuso and
• Xiao-Feng Wu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 973–1000, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.87

• the presence of K2CO3 (3 equiv) as base, an isonitrile (1.2 equiv), and Pd(OAc)2 (10 mol %) which in situ undergoes a reduction to Pd(0) (Scheme 2). Another example was published by Wu's group, who carried out the synthesis of 1-(1H-indol-1-yl)-2-arylethan-1-one derivatives by promoting the formation

• presence of trimethyl orthoformate to transform, in situ, the primary amino group into a secondary amino group with an easy-to-remove substituent thus performing a not direct synthesis process. Indeed, the desired N–H-free product was obtained by acidic treatment of the reaction crude. In both cases, the

• . Meanwhile, they also discovered that by conducting the reaction under non-oxidative conditions the reaction mechanism changed, leading to the formation of indol-2-acetic esters via the H–PdII–I species formed in situ [19]. The reaction was performed in the presence of PdI2 and KI (2 mol % and 20 mol

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

• -stoichiometric levels, further increasing the attractiveness of the method. Advantages of acyl fluorides compared to acyl chlorides, previous work on BT-SRF reagents [29][30][31][32][33] and a summary of this work on the BT-SCF3-mediated in situ formation of acyl fluorides and their use for the synthesis of

(Bio)isosteres of ortho- and meta-substituted benzenes

• H. Erik Diepers and
• Johannes C. L. Walker

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 859–890, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.78

• -workers reported a method for the selective bridge bromination of BCPs, giving access to brominated 1,2-BCP (±)-16 (Scheme 2) [33]. By exploiting the homolytic cleavage of the C–Br bond using in situ-generated silyl radicals, they were then able to harness the installed bromide functionality in

• -cubanes (Scheme 9B) [51]. Partial deprotection of diester 88 led to acid 89 as a key intermediate and in situ activation of the acid as the hypervalent iodine complex enabled a photoredox decarboxylative amination to 1,2-cubane 90. Alternatively, conversion of the acid moiety of 89 to redox active esters

Advancements in hydrochlorination of alkenes

• Daniel S. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 787–814, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.72

• simultaneous mechanism [15][16][17][18][19]. 2) Radical hydrochlorinations: These reactions involve the in situ formation of a carbon-centered radical, which is then trapped by an appropriate chlorine source. 3) anti-Markovnikov products: This category describes a new field in hydrochlorination reactions

• ). Conveniently, these parameters are freely available on Mayr's database of reactivity parameters [28]. On the other hand, one can assess the stability of the in situ-generated cation. The greater its stability, the easier the protonation of the alkene will be, making it more reactive towards hydrochlorination

• involving the in situ-formation of HCl gas. Lastly, the third section discusses reactions using an aqueous solution of HCl (hydrochloric acid). It is crucial to emphasize the distinction between hydrochloric acid and HCl (gas) or HCl solutions in apolar solvents, as HCl molecules in hydrochloric acid are

Synthesis of new representatives of A₃B-type carboranylporphyrins based on meso-tetra(pentafluorophenyl)porphyrin transformations

• Victoria M. Alpatova,
• Evgeny G. Rys,
• Elena G. Kononova and
• Valentina A. Ol'shevskaya

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 767–776, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.70

• the ability of the amino group in porphyrin 5 to enter acylation reactions with 4-(N-maleimido)benzoyl chloride (8, prepared in situ from 4-(N-maleimido)benzoic acid (9) and oxalyl chloride) and chloroacetyl chloride (10) with the aim of using these compounds for further functionalization. The

Synthesis of photo- and ionochromic N-acylated 2-(aminomethylene)benzo[b]thiophene-3(2Н)-ones with a terminal phenanthroline group

• Vladimir P. Rybalkin,
• Sofiya Yu. Zmeeva,
• Lidiya L. Popova,
• Irina V. Dubonosova,
• Olga Yu. Karlutova,
• Oleg P. Demidov,
• Alexander D. Dubonosov and
• Vladimir A. Bren

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 552–560, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.47

• series method, compounds 2a–c formed the 2:1 complexes 4a–c with Fe2+ (Scheme 3 and Figure 7). It was found that selective interaction of the resulting in situ complex 4a with AcO− led to restoration of the initial absorption and emission properties [31][32]. Other tetra-n-butylammonium salts (TBAX, X

Switchable molecular tweezers: design and applications

• Pablo Msellem,
• Maksym Dekthiarenko,
• Nihal Hadj Seyd and
• Guillaume Vives

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 504–539, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.45

• ligands. The reversibility of the opening/closing process was achieved in situ by the addition and removal of CO yielding one of the first examples of allosteric regulation in artificial systems. Dissymmetric molecular tweezers are also accessible with high selectivity using two different hemilabile