Recent advances in synthetic approaches for bioactive cinnamic acid derivatives

• Betty A. Kustiana,
• Galuh Widiyarti and
• Teni Ernawati

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 1031–1086, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.85

• styrenes with alkyl formates and the oxidant 4-cyano-1-(1-methylethoxy)pyridinium trifluoromethanesulfonate to give the corresponding cinnamate esters 185–192 via intermolecular addition of styrene to an alkoxyradical forming radical adduct 193 (Scheme 59) [102]. Iwasawa and co-workers (2020) employed CO2

Cryptophycin unit B analogues

• Thomas Schachtsiek,
• Jona Voss,
• Maren Hamsen,
• Beate Neumann,
• Hans-Georg Stammler and
• Norbert Sewald

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 526–532, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.40

• -hydroxy-7-azabenzotriazole; HATU = 1-[bis(dimethylamino)methyliumyl]-1H-1,2,3-triazolo[4,5-b]pyridinium 3-oxide hexafluorophosphate. Three-step diol–epoxide transformation starting from diols 24 and 25. a) (MeO)3CH, pyridinium p-toluenesulfonate, CH2Cl2, rt, 3 h; b) AcBr, CH2Cl2, rt, 3–4 h; c) K2CO3

Quantifying the ability of the CF₂H group as a hydrogen bond donor

• Matthew E. Paolella,
• Daniel S. Honeycutt,
• Bradley M. Lipka,
• Jacob M. Goldberg and
• Fang Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 189–199, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.11

• (12) is generally a stronger activator than heteroaryl (1a–6a) or electron-deficient aryl groups (13). In contrast, pyridinium and benzimidazolium (1b–5b) systems show substantially higher capacities to enhance the HB donation ability of the CF2H group, underscoring the distinct nature of these

• -Bu3PO as the concatenation of many non-covalent forces. For example, our experiments showed that some CAr–H bonds, such as those of the pyridinium ring, can serve as good HB donors (Figure 5). Because CAr–H bonds and the CF2H group have comparable HB donation abilities, care needs to be taken when

Hydrogen-bonded macrocycle-mediated dimerization for orthogonal supramolecular polymerization

• Wentao Yu,
• Zhiyao Yang,
• Chengkan Yu,
• Xiaowei Li and
• Lihua Yuan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 179–188, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.10

• effectively applied to form orthogonal supramolecular polymers. The macrocycle-mediated connectivity was confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, which revealed a unique 2:2 binding motif between host and guest, bridged by two cationic pyridinium end groups through π-stacking interactions and other

• , including pyridinium and its derivatives [40]. More importantly, it favors intermolecular π-stacking interactions with aromatic guests [48]. Herein, we report on a novel supramolecular dimerization motif in 2:2 stoichiometry using H-bonded aramide macrocycles for constructing orthogonal supramolecular

• polymers (Scheme 1). The terpyridyl group and the pyridinium cation in the AB-type monomer G2 each function as a “sticker” to enable supramolecular polymerization in the presence of the macrocyclic component and zinc ions. The driving force for the recognition involves multiple cooperative interactions

Hypervalent iodine-mediated intramolecular alkene halocyclisation

• Charu Bansal,
• Oliver Ruggles,
• Albert C. Rowett and
• Alastair J. J. Lennox

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3113–3133, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.258

• PhI(OAc)2 was reported by Liu and Li in 2014 alongside their intramolecular fluorocyclisation (Scheme 23) [30]. The authors reported the formation of 5- and 6-membered chlorinated azaheterocycles 42 from unsaturated amines, using PhI(OAc)2 as an oxidant and pyridinium chloride as a chlorine source

• reported the chlorolactonization and chloroetherification (Scheme 26) of 2,2-diphenylpent-4-enoic acid (47’) and 2,2-diphenyl-4-penten-1-ol (47), respectively, using PhI(OAc)2 as an oxidant and pyridinium chloride as a chlorine source. This was an expansion of their scope that used nitrogen nucleophiles

Cyclodextrin-based rotaxanes for polymer materials: challenge on simultaneous realization of inexpensive production and defined structures

• Yosuke Akae

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3026–3049, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.252

• challenging owing to the introduction of unconventional functional groups, such as pyridinium or deoxynucleotide. For a flexible integration with the polymer system, a size-complementary rotaxane comprising a simple structure is desired. Based on the foregoing, we developed size-complementary rotaxanes via

Advances in radical peroxidation with hydroperoxides

• Oleg V. Bityukov,
• Pavel Yu. Serdyuchenko,
• Andrey S. Kirillov,
• Gennady I. Nikishin,
• Vera A. Vil’ and
• Alexander O. Terent’ev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2959–3006, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.249

• were achieved using 1 equiv TBHP. This can be explained by reoxidation of Fe(II) to Fe(III) by oxygen, which is released during thermal decomposition of pyridinium nitrate presented in the system. Later, Mn-catalyzed peroxidation of alkylarenes 47 [50][62] and peroxidation of alkylarenes 49 using Ru

Improved deconvolution of natural products’ protein targets using diagnostic ions from chemical proteomics linkers

• Andreas Wiest and
• Pavel Kielkowski

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2323–2341, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.199

• charged pyridinium or imidazolium residues (Figure 7D) [88]. The presence of a stable positively charged moiety in the linker has, in case of imidazolium, increased by 70–90% the relative abundance of modified peptides. In combination with release of the glycan-related oxonium ions during fragmentation

Hydrogen-bond activation enables aziridination of unactivated olefins with simple iminoiodinanes

• Phong Thai,
• Lauv Patel,
• Diyasha Manna and
• David C. Powers

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2305–2312, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.197

• recently developed a metal-free aziridination of unactivated olefins via the intermediacy of an N-pyridinium iminoiodinane (Scheme 1b) [34]. We rationalized the enhanced reactivity towards olefin aziridination as a result of charge-enhanced iodine-centered electrophilicity arising from the cationic N

• -pyridinium substituent. Based on those observations, we reasoned that similarly enhanced reactivity might be accessed by Lewis acid or H-bond activated iminoiodinanes. Here, we describe the HFIP-promoted aziridination of unactivated olefins with N-sulfonyl iminoiodinane reagents, which are among the most

Harnessing the versatility of hydrazones through electrosynthetic oxidative transformations

• Aurélie Claraz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1988–2004, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.175

• cyclization of 2-acetylpyridine-derived N-phenylhydrazone 1a to form triazolopyridinium salt 2a [34]. The process was further applied to various 2-acetylpyridine and 2-benzoylpyridine derivatives (Scheme 1) [35][36]. The corresponding pyridinium salts 2 were obtained in high yields when the electrolysis was

Oxidation of benzylic alcohols to carbonyls using N-heterocyclic stabilized λ³-iodanes

• Thomas J. Kuczmera,
• Pim Puylaert and
• Boris J. Nachtsheim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1677–1683, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.149

• easily overoxidized to carboxylic acids. Over the past decades a variety of methods have been developed, utilizing toxic heavy metals such as pyridinium dichromate (PDC) [3][4][5] or manganese dioxide (Figure 1) [6][7]. Molecular oxygen [8] and peroxides [9][10] can also be used as inexpensive terminal

Electrocatalytic hydrogenation of cyanoarenes, nitroarenes, quinolines, and pyridines under mild conditions with a proton-exchange membrane reactor

• Koichi Mitsudo,
• Atsushi Osaki,
• Haruka Inoue,
• Eisuke Sato,
• Naoki Shida,
• Mahito Atobe and
• Seiji Suga

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1560–1571, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.139

• anilines were obtained. The quinoline reduction was efficiently promoted by adding a catalytic amount of p-toluenesulfonic acid (PTSA) or pyridinium p-toluenesulfonate (PPTS). Pyridine was also reduced to piperidine in the presence of PTSA. Keywords: cyanoarene; nitroarene; PEM reactor; pyridine

• was reused eight times, and 7a was obtained in high yield in each run. The addition of pyridinium p-toluenesulfonate (PPTS) was also efficient, and MEA was repeatedly used to afford 7a in high yield (Figure 4). After further tunings, we found that the charge for electro-reduction of 6a could be

Bismuth(III) triflate: an economical and environmentally friendly catalyst for the Nazarov reaction

• Manoel T. Rodrigues Jr.,
• Aline S. B. de Oliveira,
• Ralph C. Gomes,
• Amanda Soares Hirata,
• Lucas A. Zeoly,
• Hugo Santos,
• João Arantes,
• Catarina Sofia Mateus Reis-Silva,
• João Agostinho Machado-Neto,
• Leticia Veras Costa-Lotufo and
• Fernando Coelho

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1167–1178, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.99

• according to well-established protocols [71][72][73][74]. The β-ketoesters were obtained employing a sequence of two reactions, the formation of the benzylic alcohol derivative, through a Reformatsky reaction using In(0), followed by a pyridinium chlorochromate (PCC) oxidation, giving the β-ketoesters 7a–g

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

• a parallel direction, as the bulky -OMe groups are located outside the tweezer’s cavity to avoid steric hindrance with each other. When protonated, the pyridinium group acts as a hydrogen-bond donor for the two methoxy groups and triggers the rotation of the respective benzene rings along with the

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

• concomitant formation of radical 69. Finally, aromatization of 69 via SET to NHPI ester 3, generates pyridinium 73 as a byproduct, while propagating the radical chain reaction. Aggarwal and co-workers discovered the photoinduced decarboxylative borylation of NHPI esters mediated by bis(catecholato)diboron

Chiral phosphoric acid-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation of 3,3-difluoro-3H-indoles

• Yumei Wang,
• Guangzhu Wang,
• Yanping Zhu and
• Kaiwu Dong

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 205–211, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.20

• mechanism of the CPA-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation reaction was proposed (Figure 2). The activation of 3,3-difluoro-substituted 3H-indole 1 by protonation through the Brønsted acid generates the iminium A. Subsequent hydrogen transfer from the Hantzsch ester gives the chiral amine 2 and pyridinium salt B

Facile access to pyridinium-based bent aromatic amphiphiles: nonionic surface modification of nanocarbons in water

• Lorenzo Catti,
• Shinji Aoyama and
• Michito Yoshizawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 32–40, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.5

• both their biological and material applications, but so far has mainly relied on covalent modifications or amphiphiles featuring ionic side-chains. Here, we report a facile 2–4-step synthesis of pyridinium-based, bent aromatic amphiphiles with modular nonionic side-chains (i.e., CH3 and CH2CH2(OCH2CH2

• ., graphitic carbon nitride) in the form of 10–30 nm-sized stacks is also demonstrated using the present amphiphiles. Keywords: aromatic micelle; nanocarbon; nonionic surface modification; pyridinium; water-solubilization; Introduction Nanocarbons, such as fullerenes, graphenes, and carbon nanotubes, are

• technology. We here report pyridinium-based, bent aromatic amphiphiles PA-R, featuring a pyridinium salt (Py-R+·Cl−) as the key motif, capable of providing both a cationic hydrophilic hinge and a variety of nonionic side-chains (i.e., CH3 and CH2CH2(OCH2CH2)2–Y (Y = OCH3, OH, and imidazole); Figure 1b). The

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

Enabling artificial photosynthesis systems with molecular recycling: A review of photo- and electrochemical methods for regenerating organic sacrificial electron donors

• Grace A. Lowe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1198–1215, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.88

• on increasing solubility and stability while decreasing the reduction potential, weight, and cost of the anolyte species. To this end, Sanford and co-workers have worked on developing pyridinium analogues to out-perform the bipyridinium viologens [65][66]. The pyridinium analogue represented in

• photosynthesis. It is also noteworthy that the reduced pyridinium compounds resemble Hantzsch esters which are organic reductants commonly used in organic synthesis. Quinones and hydroquinones have also been used in RFBs. Notably, 1,4-hydroquinone and 1,4-benzoquinone were used to create membrane-less RFBs with

Pyridine C(sp²)–H bond functionalization under transition-metal and rare earth metal catalysis

• Haritha Sindhe,
• Malladi Mounika Reddy,
• Karthikeyan Rajkumar,
• Akshay Kamble,
• Amardeep Singh,
• Anand Kumar and
• Satyasheel Sharma

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 820–863, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.62

• and the base the initial direct C–H activation of the ylide 12 gives the copper pyridinium ylide 15. The latter reacts with the diazo compound formed through reaction of hydrazone 13 with the base to give the copper–carbene species 16. Then, the intermediate 16 undergoes a Cu–carbene migratory

• . Except lately, in 2020, Chen and group [82] reported a Pd/Cu-catalyzed regio- and stereoselective synthesis of C2-alkenylated pyridines starting from internal alkynes 84 and pyridinium salts in a stereodivergent manner (Scheme 17a). The interesting part of this work was the switching of the alkene

• configuration of the products by modifying the substituents on the nitrogen of the pyridinium salts. Further, the method showed a wide substrate scope for both the Z- and E-alkenylated products in which Z-selectivity was achieved when N-methylpyridinium salts were used and E-selectivity when N-benzylpyridinium

Formal total synthesis of macarpine via a Au(I)-catalyzed 6-endo-dig cycloisomerization strategy

• Jiayue Fu,
• Bingbing Li,
• Zefang Zhou,
• Maosheng Cheng,
• Lu Yang and
• Yongxiang Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1589–1595, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.169

• trimethylsilylacetylene was performed to furnish aldehyde 3 [17][18] in 89% yield. A following nucleophilic addition reaction of aldehyde 3 by methylmagnesium bromide (MeMgBr) gave alcohol 4 in 99% yield, which was oxidized by pyridinium chlorochromate (PCC) leading to the formation of ketone compound and the

Preparation of an advanced intermediate for the synthesis of leustroducsins and phoslactomycins by heterocycloaddition

• Anaïs Rousseau,
• Guillaume Vincent and
• Cyrille Kouklovsky

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1385–1395, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.143

• of the residue by column chromatography (20 to 30% AcOEt/cyclohexane) gave the coupling product 23 as an orange oil, which was carried into the next step without further characterization (140 mg, 46%). Product 23 was redissolved in 96% EtOH (3.9 mL) and pyridinium para-toluenesulfonate (17 mg, 0.066

Ionic multiresonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters for light emitting electrochemical cells

• Merve Karaman,
• Abhishek Kumar Gupta,
• Subeesh Madayanad Suresh,
• Tomas Matulaitis,
• Lorenzo Mardegan,
• Daniel Tordera,
• Henk J. Bolink,
• Sen Wu,
• Stuart Warriner,
• Ifor D. Samuel and
• Eli Zysman-Colman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1311–1321, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.136

• a green EL with a peak brightness of 572 cd m−2 and an EQEmax of 6.8% at 4.0 V. The half-life of their device reached 218 h at a brightness of 162 cd m−2. Recently, Su et al. reported two ionic TADF emitters incorporating a pyridinium moiety, Pym-CZ and Pym-tBuCZ as the acceptor and carbazole or

Enantioselective total synthesis of putative dihydrorosefuran, a monoterpene with an unique 2,5-dihydrofuran structure

• Irene Torres-García,
• Josefa L. López-Martínez,
• Rocío López-Domene,
• Manuel Muñoz-Dorado,
• Ignacio Rodríguez-García and
• Miriam Álvarez-Corral

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1264–1269, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.132

• alcohol 6 with amberlyst-15® leading to the monoterpene 1. Other systems tested for the elimination of the hydroxy group in 6 were pyridinium p-toluenesulfonate (PPTS) and camphorsulfonic acid (CSA), that gave poorer results, failing to afford a single product. On the other hand, lactone 5 could also be

Dienophilic reactivity of 2-phosphaindolizines: a conceptual DFT investigation

• Nosheen Beig,
• Aarti Peswani and
• Raj Kumar Bansal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1217–1224, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.127

• -electrocyclization of the initially formed pyridinium alkoxycarbonyl-dichlorophosphinomethylide followed by 1,2-elimination affording 1,3-bis(alkoxycarbonyl)-2-phosphaindolizines [5]. After having access to a good number of differently substituted derivatives of these four classes of 2-phosphaindolizines, we were