N-tert-Butanesulfinyl imines in the asymmetric synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocycles

• Joseane A. Mendes,
• Paulo R. R. Costa,
• Miguel Yus,
• Francisco Foubelo and
• Camilla D. Buarque

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1096–1140, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.86

• ]. Other regio- and stereoisomeric 2-pyrrolidones 80 were also prepared by a stereoselective tandem Barbier process of 79 with alkyl and aryl bromide [100]. The process was performed in this case under Barbier reaction conditions. Namely, the formation of the nucleophile (organomagnesium reagent) is

• carried out in the presence of the electrophile (chiral imine 79). Surprisingly, both diastereomeric aldimines 79 (RS and SS) gave similar results concerning the stereochemical outcome, suggesting that the chiral sulfonamide moiety was not involved in the stereocontrol during this tandem Barbier addition

• interest for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological disorders (Scheme 37). The diastereoselective synthesis of trans-5-hydroxy-6-substituted 2-piperidinones 139 was also achieved from O-benzyl protected aldimine 138 following the previously commented tandem Grignard reagent addition

Recent advances in palladium-catalysed asymmetric 1,4–additions of arylboronic acids to conjugated enones and chromones

• Jan Bartáček,
• Jan Svoboda,
• Martin Kocúrik,
• Jaroslav Pochobradský,
• Alexander Čegan,
• Miloš Sedlák and
• Jiří Váňa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1048–1085, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.84

• the addition of the boronic acid to the β-(2-hydroxyaryl)enone could be oxidized to afford optically pure 4-phenylchroman-2-one (Scheme 1). Also in 2007, Miyaura and co-workers presented the synthesis of enantioenriched 1-aryl-1H-indenes by a tandem 1,4-addition of arylboronic acids to enones and

Prins cyclization-mediated stereoselective synthesis of tetrahydropyrans and dihydropyrans: an inspection of twenty years

• Asha Budakoti,
• Pradip Kumar Mondal,
• Prachi Verma and
• Jagadish Khamrai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 932–963, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.77

• of indium metal to produce homoallylic alcohol 156 (Scheme 37), which underwent a silyl-Prins cyclization to form polysubstituted exo-methylene THPs 157 [72]. Tandem allylation–silyl-Prins cyclization Tetrahydropyran can also be synthesized stereoselectively by sequential allylation to an aldehyde

• strain with the existing stereogenic center (pseudoaxial group), leading to the formation of cis-tetrahydropyran 161 rather than a trans-tetrahydropyran. Floreancig and co-workers utilized a tandem allylation–silyl-Prins cyclization strategy to afford 2,6-disubstituted tetrahydropyran 167 by ionizing α,β

• ]. Similar to Prins cyclization of allylsilanes, Dobbs and co-workers recently utilized the corresponding vinylsilane as an alternative for the synthesis of cis-2,6-dihydropyran [89][90]. The synthesis involves tandem addition of vinylsilane, followed by silyl-Prins cyclization reaction. For example, 4

Microwave-assisted multicomponent reactions in heterocyclic chemistry and mechanistic aspects

• Shivani Gulati,
• Stephy Elza John and
• Nagula Shankaraiah

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 819–865, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.71

• ]. Therefore, researchers have quested upon generation of pyrans and benzopyrans employing MCR powered by microwave assistance. For instance, Tu and co-workers [55] reported a one-pot two-step tandem procedure subjecting phenylenediamine 23, 2-hydroxynaphthalene-1,4-diones (11), aldehyde 5 with malononitrile

α,γ-Dioxygenated amides via tandem Brook rearrangement/radical oxygenation reactions and their application to syntheses of γ-lactams

• Mikhail K. Klychnikov,
• Radek Pohl,
• Ivana Císařová and
• Ullrich Jahn

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 688–704, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.58

• reported. The sequence starts with a new tandem nucleophilic substitution/Brook rearrangement/single electron transfer-induced radical oxygenation furnishing orthogonally protected α,γ-dioxygenated N-allylamides with wide scope, mostly good yields, and partly good diastereo- and enantioselectivity for

• ; electron transfer; γ-lactams; tandem reactions; Introduction Nitrogen-containing heterocycles are widely distributed in biologically active compounds [1][2][3][4]. Saturated nitrogen heterocycles such as pyrrolidines [5][6][7][8][9], piperidines, pyrrolizidines or indolizidines [10][11][12][13][14][15][16

• cyclizations to lactams of type 10 based on the persistent radical effect (PRE) are unknown and may provide a simple access to 3,4-disubstituted γ-lactams. We report here that tandem nucleophilic epoxide ring-opening/Brook rearrangement/radical oxygenation reactions are indeed very effective for the synthesis

Effective microwave-assisted approach to 1,2,3-triazolobenzodiazepinones via tandem Ugi reaction/catalyst-free intramolecular azide–alkyne cycloaddition

• Maryna O. Mazur,
• Oleksii S. Zhelavskyi,
• Eugene M. Zviagin,
• Svitlana V. Shishkina,
• Vladimir I. Musatov,
• Maksim A. Kolosov,
• Elena H. Shvets,
• Anna Yu. Andryushchenko and
• Valentyn A. Chebanov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 678–687, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.57

• benzodiazepine skeleton [9]. But these days more and more research groups significantly shift their efforts towards the wide application of a tandem synthetic approach to solve different matters. This approach consists of a combination of several versatile reactions allowing assembling complex molecules just in

• a few steps and constitutes one of the most actual and promising synthetic routes of modern organic chemistry. Among a wide variety of tandem strategies combination of an isocyanide-based multicomponent Ugi reaction with secondary transformations is one of the most powerful tools and provides access

• includes a [3 + 2] click reaction between the azide ion with the triple bond and further C–N coupling instead of the IAAC reaction. Compounds having no fused benzene ring or with a heterocyclic moiety instead could also be obtained via the tandem approach Ugi reaction/IAAC [15][16]. Despite the

Valorisation of plastic waste via metal-catalysed depolymerisation

• Francesca Liguori,
• Carmen Moreno-Marrodán and
• Pierluigi Barbaro

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 589–621, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.53

• cosmetics [147]. The catalyst could be recycled, however, with reduced performance due to Pt nanoparticle oxidation. 3.1.2 Polybutadiene (PBD): Partial depolymerisation of 1,4-PBD (cis, trans, Mw 1800–500000 g⋅mol−1) was achieved by an unconventional tandem ring-opening–ring-closing metathesis route

Amino- and polyaminophthalazin-1(2H)-ones: synthesis, coordination properties, and biological activity

• Zbigniew Malinowski,
• Emilia Fornal,
• Agata Sumara,
• Renata Kontek,
• Karol Bukowski,
• Beata Pasternak,
• Dariusz Sroczyński,
• Joachim Kusz,
• Magdalena Małecka and
• Monika Nowak

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 558–568, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.50

• 63Cu2+/65Cu2+ ion complex containing two ligands L2. However, a significant amount of unchanged ligand was also visible. For the ion at m/z = 719.5 Da, tandem spectra were recorded. The first fragmentation gave ions at m/z = 329.3 Da (L2 + H+) and 391.4 Da (ligand L2 and copper). The further

• fragmentation of the ion at m/z = 391.4 Da gave rise to an ion series: 362.4 Da (probably after elimination of HCO), 311.4 Da, 286.3 Da (100%), and 235.4 Da. We did not observe in the tandem spectra the signal after the elimination of copper alone. Similarly, the ESIMS spectrum of an equimolar mixture of

Helicene synthesis by Brønsted acid-catalyzed cycloaromatization in HFIP [(CF₃)₂CHOH]

• Takeshi Fujita,
• Noriaki Shoji,
• Nao Yoshikawa and
• Junji Ichikawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 396–403, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.35

• Takeshi Fujita Noriaki Shoji Nao Yoshikawa Junji Ichikawa Division of Chemistry, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan 10.3762/bjoc.17.35 Abstract A facile synthesis of carbo- and heterohelicenes was achieved via tandem cycloaromatization of

• can be successfully applied to cyclization at multiple reaction sites. By using bisacetals bearing a naphthalene core (Ar2) as substrates, tandem cyclization achieved the efficient synthesis of several ortho-fused six-hexagon benzenoids [21]. On the basis of our work mentioned above, we assumed that

• this powerful cycloaromatization would be applicable to helicene synthesis. Thus, the following strategies were designed to establish a versatile method for the synthesis of helicenes (Scheme 3). Tandem cycloaromatization of bisacetals bearing a teraryl core was shown to be most effective for the one

CF₃-substituted carbocations: underexploited intermediates with great potential in modern synthetic chemistry

• Anthony J. Fernandes,
• Armen Panossian,
• Bastien Michelet,
• Agnès Martin-Mingot,
• Frédéric R. Leroux and
• Sébastien Thibaudeau

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 343–378, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.32

• undergo tandem Friedel–Crafts hydroarylation reactions to give derivatives 130 under TfOH activation at 50 °C. Finally, CF3-substituted chromene derivatives 132 were obtained under the same reaction conditions from ortho-hydroxy or ortho-silyloxy derivatives 131a and 131b, respectively. The common

Regioselective chemoenzymatic syntheses of ferulate conjugates as chromogenic substrates for feruloyl esterases

• Olga Gherbovet,
• Fernando Ferreira,
• Apolline Clément,
• Mélanie Ragon,
• Julien Durand,
• Sophie Bozonnet,
• Michael J. O'Donohue and
• Régis Fauré

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 325–333, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.30

• ][20], and their use involves a challenging tandem reaction [21]. Finally, the synthesis of other, more generic esters that can be used to assay esterases, including Faes, and lipases have been reported [22][23]. In this work, we revisit the preparation of simple feruloylated substrates, such as the 5

Direct synthesis of anomeric tetrazolyl iminosugars from sugar-derived lactams

• Michał M. Więcław and
• Bartłomiej Furman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 115–123, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.12

• standard Ugi–azide reaction conditions [35][36][37][38][39] in a one-pot, tandem process. Subjecting glucose-derived lactam 1 to such a procedure gave the desired product in good yield, but with virtually no diastereoselectivity, as shown in Scheme 2. Optimization and scope An initial optimization study

• first example of using Schwartz’s reagent-mediated partial reduction of lactams and the Ugi–azide multicomponent reaction in a tandem process. Yields of the described products are moderate to good, a satisfying result for such a multistep process. We have shown that such a reaction does not necessarily

Pentannulation of N-heterocycles by a tandem gold-catalyzed [3,3]-rearrangement/Nazarov reaction of propargyl ester derivatives: a computational study on the crucial role of the nitrogen atom

• Giovanna Zanella,
• Martina Petrović,
• Dina Scarpi,
• Ernesto G. Occhiato and
• Enrique Gómez-Bengoa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 3059–3068, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.255

• Studi di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 13, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy 10.3762/bjoc.16.255 Abstract The tandem gold(I)-catalyzed rearrangement/Nazarov reaction of enynyl acetates in which the double bond is embedded in a piperidine ring was computationally and experimentally studied. The

• aim of verifying the conclusions drawn by the calculations. Results and Discussion Computational methods In order to identify the structures and the energies of the critical steps of the mechanism, the potential reaction coordinates of the whole tandem [3,3]-rearrangement/Nazarov cyclization were

• sluggish reactivity of the 3-substituted substrates, in comparison to the 2-substituted analogues that we have previously described. Tandem acetate rearrangement/Nazarov cyclization of different substrates. DFT-computed energy profile of the tandem Au(I)-catalyzed [3,3]-rearrangement/Nazarov reaction of 3

Semiautomated glycoproteomics data analysis workflow for maximized glycopeptide identification and reliable quantification

• Steffen Lippold,
• Arnoud H. de Ru,
• Jan Nouta,
• Peter A. van Veelen,
• Magnus Palmblad,
• Manfred Wuhrer and
• Noortje de Haan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 3038–3051, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.253

• digest from affinity-purified immunoglobulins G and A was analyzed on a nano-reversed-phase liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry platform with a high-resolution mass analyzer and higher-energy collisional dissociation fragmentation. Initial glycopeptide identification based on MS/MS data was

• -centered glycoproteomics aims at the characterization of macroheterogeneity and microheterogeneity of protein glycosylation [6]. Reversed-phase liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry (RPLC–MS/MS) is a standard analytical method in the field of glycoproteomics [7]. The

All-carbon [3 + 2] cycloaddition in natural product synthesis

• Zhuo Wang and
• Junyang Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 3015–3031, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.251

• -membered carbocycles. These reactions have been applied successfully in the synthesis of complex natural products. In 2011, Curran and co-workers reported the synthesis of meloscine (158) featuring a tandem radical cyclization of a divinylcyclopropane [70] (Scheme 13A). Slow addition of tributylstannane

Regioselective synthesis of heterocyclic N-sulfonyl amidines from heteroaromatic thioamides and sulfonyl azides

• Vladimir Ilkin,
• Vera Berseneva,
• Tetyana Beryozkina,
• Tatiana Glukhareva,
• Lidia Dianova,
• Wim Dehaen,
• Eugenia Seliverstova and
• Vasiliy Bakulev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2937–2947, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.243

• compound 1e and the product of its rearrangement to 5-(4-nitrophenyl)aminotriazole 1j [54], when the reaction was carried out in n-butanol at 105 °C (Table 2). Therefore, we can conclude that compound 3t was the product of a tandem reaction involving first the rearrangement of thioamide 1e to 1j followed

One-pot multicomponent green Hantzsch synthesis of 1,2-dihydropyridine derivatives with antiproliferative activity

• Giovanna Bosica,
• Kaylie Demanuele,
• José M. Padrón and
• Adrián Puerta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2862–2869, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.235

• ® SMP11 melting point apparatus. Reactions were monitored by TLC and GC. Mass spectra were measured via a Thermo Scientific GC/MS DSQ II device, which contained a column: EC-5 30 m × 0.25 mm i.d. × 0.25 µm or using the direct-infusion method using a Waters® ACQUITY® TQD system with a tandem quadrupole

Ring-closing metathesis of prochiral oxaenediynes to racemic 4-alkenyl-2-alkynyl-3,6-dihydro-2H-pyrans

• Viola Kolaříková,
• Markéta Rybáčková,
• Martin Svoboda and
• Jaroslav Kvíčala

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2757–2768, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.226

• reactions of substrates containing three or more multiple bonds attracted special attention due to the applications in tandem metathesis processes [9][10] or stereodiscriminating enantioselective ring-closing metathetic reactions [11][12][13]. Apart from metathesis, enynes are also interesting substrates

Synthesis and characterization of S,N-heterotetracenes

• Astrid Vogt,
• Florian Henne,
• Christoph Wetzel,
• Elena Mena-Osteritz and
• Peter Bäuerle

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2636–2644, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.214

• -dibromothiophene 6 and Pd(dppf)Cl2 as catalyst to give the corresponding dibromide 7 in a yield of 70%. Organozinc species 6 was obtained from 2,3-dibromothiophene by lithiation with n-BuLi and reaction with zink dichloride. Annulation to TIPS-protected SN4-Hex 8 was achieved in 87% yield by a tandem Buchwald

Thermodynamic and electrochemical study of tailor-made crown ethers for redox-switchable (pseudo)rotaxanes

• Henrik Hupatz,
• Marius Gaedke,
• Hendrik V. Schröder,
• Julia Beerhues,
• Arto Valkonen,
• Fabian Klautzsch,
• Sebastian Müller,
• Felix Witte,
• Kari Rissanen,
• Biprajit Sarkar and
• Christoph A. Schalley

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2576–2588, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.209

• supports the mechanically interlocked structure for NDIRot in analogy to similar structures investigated by tandem mass spectrometry earlier [35][40]. Cyclic voltammograms of NDIRot show two reversible reductions E1/2red1 and E1/2red2 independent of the used solvent (pure DCE or DCE/CH3CN 1:1, Figure S11

Comparative ligand structural analytics illustrated on variably glycosylated MUC1 antigen–antibody binding

• Christopher B. Barnett,
• Tharindu Senapathi and
• Kevin J. Naidoo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2540–2550, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.206

• between MUC1 and antibodies has received much attention, and the specificity of this interaction is of interest in improving the performance of these biomarker assays [12][13]. The extracellular domain of MUC1 contains a variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR). The VNTR region is comprised of a repeating

Leveraging glycomics data in glycoprotein 3D structure validation with Privateer

• Haroldas Bagdonas,
• Daniel Ungar and
• Jon Agirre

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2523–2533, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.204

• used to counteract the need for complementary analytic techniques. One of the examples of this is tandem mass spectrometry, where the glycan fragmentation is controlled to obtain the identification of the glycosylation sites and a complete description of the glycan structure compositions, including

Synthetic approaches to bowl-shaped π-conjugated sumanene and its congeners

• Shakeel Alvi and
• Rashid Ali

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2212–2259, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.186

• catalyst 15 to yield the trimerized products 12 (syn) and 13 (anti) in respectable yields (Scheme 2). The alkene-bridge exchange of 12 (syn) was accomplished by tandem ring-opening and ring-closing metathesis (ROM–RCM) in the presence of Grubbs’ first generation (G-I) catalyst to generate a C3-symmetric

• hexahydrosumanene 17 which on subsequent aromatization using DDQ furnished the desired molecule sumanene (2) in good yield. To their surprise, tandem metathesis for achieving compound 17 from 13 (anti) was fruitless may be because of the endothermic reaction by 37.4 kcal/mol as compared to the exothermic (51.4 kcal

• % yield. Next, the methyl substituents were introduced at the position of the carbonyl groups of 23 to generate the methyl-substituted olefin derivative 25 via alkenyl phosphates 24 by means of three-fold cross-coupling reaction with methylmagnesium iodide in THF. Finally, during the tandem ROM–RCM, they

GlypNirO: An automated workflow for quantitative N- and O-linked glycoproteomic data analysis

• Toan K. Phung,
• Cassandra L. Pegg and
• Benjamin L. Schulz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2127–2135, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.180

• diseased states [8]. The current state-of-the art technology for the characterisation, identification, and quantification of the glycome or glycoproteome is liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) [9]. Popular and powerful glycoproteomic workflows typically involve standard

Metal-free synthesis of phosphinoylchroman-4-ones via a radical phosphinoylation–cyclization cascade mediated by K₂S₂O₈

• Qiang Liu,
• Weibang Lu,
• Guanqun Xie and
• Xiaoxia Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1974–1982, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.164

• motifs were conveniently synthesized from readily available diphenylphosphine oxides and alkenyl aldehydes via a metal-free tandem phosphinoylation/cyclization protocol. The reaction utilizes K2S2O8 as oxidant and proceeds in DMSO/H2O at environmentally benign conditions with a broad substrate scope and

• under metal-free conditions and uses cheap K2S2O8 as oxidant with easy handling and a broad substrate scope. The reaction proceeds through a radical phosphinoylation–cyclization via a tandem C–P and C–C-bond formation. Biologically active compounds featuring the chroman-4-one framework. X-ray structure