Transition-metal-free decarbonylation–oxidation of 3-arylbenzofuran-2(3H)-ones: access to 2-hydroxybenzophenones

• Bhaskar B. Dhotare,
• Seema V. Kanojia,
• Chahna K. Sakhiya,
• Amey Wadawale and
• Dibakar Goswami

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2655–2667, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.223

• , all the structures corroborated with the expected structure, as shown in Figure 3. To confirm the formation of hydroperoxide in THF via autooxidation, freshly distilled THF was heated under open atmosphere at 50 °C for 4 h, and was concentrated under vacuum to obtain the hydroperoxide residue. 1H NMR

• analysis of the residue, recorded in CDCl3 (Supporting Information File 1, Figure S1) confirmed the presence of hydroperoxide. Resonances attributable to O–CH–O were observed as a quartet centered at δ 5.40 ppm in the NMR spectrum. The –O–OH group in hydroperoxide gave rise to a singlet at 10.91 ppm. The

The scent gland composition of the Mangshan pit viper, Protobothrops mangshanensis

• Jonas Holste,
• Paul Weldon,
• Donald Boyer and
• Stefan Schulz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2644–2654, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.222

• ) were observed with similar mass spectra. The amount of secretion available and the complex mixture did not allow for the isolation of enough material for NMR analysis. Therefore, for the structure elucidation of these unknown compounds, we used different analytical methods, including GC–MS, GC–IR, and

• product research has recently been published by our team [41]. Conclusion 4,6-Dimethylalk-5-enoic acids are important components of the scent gland secretion of Protobothrops mangshanensis. Since NMR analysis was not possible due to the low amounts present, the compounds were identified only with the help

Photoredox-catalyzed intramolecular nucleophilic amidation of alkenes with β-lactams

• Valentina Giraldi,
• Giandomenico Magagnano,
• Daria Giacomini,
• Pier Giorgio Cozzi and
• Andrea Gualandi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2461–2468, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.210

• , entry 1). Assignment of the relative configurations as cis or trans was achieved by 1H NMR analysis, considering the chemical shifts of the proton in the α-position of the β-lactam nitrogen atom and the geminal protons in the benzylic position (see Supporting Information File 1). The difference in the

• stereocenter in the five-membered ring was attributed by 1H NMR analysis for 11c. Moreover, the configuration was also confirmed by NOE studies on the two isolated diastereoisomers, which confirmed the preferred trans-isomer formation (see Supporting Information File 1). Analysis of the dr values revealed that

• intramolecular photoredox reaction. Photoredox-catalyzed intramolecular N-alkylation reactions of various β-lactams. The trans/cis dr was determined by 1H NMR analysis of the crude reaction mixture. Synthesis of the model substrate 14 and its photoredox-catalyzed intramolecular N-alkylation reaction. The trans

Synthesis and conformational analysis of pyran inter-halide analogues of ᴅ-talose

• Olivier Lessard,
• Mathilde Grosset-Magagne,
• Paul A. Johnson and
• Denis Giguère

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2442–2454, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.208

• order to decipher the key physical properties of complex pyran inter-halides, we performed 19F NMR analysis of halogenated talose analogues 12–15 (Figure 2). First, all analogues adopt standard 4C1-like conformations. Comparison of the vicinal and geminal coupling constants for each organohalogen

• −200.55 ppm for 15. Talopyranose analogues 12–15 incorporate a 2,3-cis, 3,4-cis relationship for the halogens. We previously prepared a small set of trihalogenated allopyranose analogues that also included the 2,3-cis, 3,4-cis relationship for the halogens (Figure 1a) [23]. 19F NMR analysis of halogenated

Efficient one-step synthesis of diarylacetic acids by electrochemical direct carboxylation of diarylmethanol compounds in DMSO

• Hisanori Senboku and
• Mizuki Hayama

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2392–2400, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.203

• in less than 10% yield, determined through 1H NMR analysis, except for Table 1, entries 3 (13%) and 5 (25%). It should also be noted that electrolysis was carried out at room temperature, but the temperature of the reaction mixture increased to 40–50 °C at the end of the electrolysis in every case

• of dechlorinated diphenylmethanol (1a) in the recovered starting material were confirmed by 1H NMR analysis. These results suggested that 2a was produced from 1a, which was generated in situ by electroreductive dechlorination of 1b. In other words, electroreductive dechlorination of 1b, producing 1a

• , took place preferentially over electroreductive C(sp3)–O bond cleavage of 1b. It should also be noted that no aromatic carboxylic acids were detected by 1H NMR analysis. In contrast, the electrochemical carboxylation of 1c, containing a fluorine atom, gave a mixture of fluorine-containing carboxylic

Asymmetric organocatalytic synthesis of chiral homoallylic amines

• Nikolay S. Kondratyev and
• Andrei V. Malkov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2349–2377, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.201

• two enantiotopic faces of acylimine 2, exposing only one face to the attack by the allyl group. The replacement of one isopropoxy (iPrO) group between allylboronate 1 with BINOL was confirmed by ESI-MS and NMR analysis of the reaction mixture. Interestingly, both (E)- and (Z)-crotyl boronates 6 and 8

gem-Difluorination of carbon–carbon triple bonds using Brønsted acid/Bu₄NBF₄ or electrogenerated acid

• Mizuki Yamaguchi,
• Hiroki Shimao,
• Kengo Hamasaki,
• Keiji Nishiwaki,
• Shigenori Kashimura and
• Kouichi Matsumoto

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2261–2269, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.194

• in the presence of the substrate. The total electricity of 3.0 F/mol vs 1a was passed to the solution. Interestingly, the result gave the corresponding difluorinated compound 2a in 29% yield in the case of 8 mA, as shown by 19F NMR analysis. In addition, 2a was obtained in 42% yield by 19F NMR

• the formation of the corresponding product 2d in 40% yield as the 19F NMR analysis (Table 2, entry 6), but the isolation of 2d was difficult [54]. Method B gave 2d in 35% yield, as shown by the 19F NMR analysis (Table 2, entry 7). Another alkyne, namely, octadec-1-yne (1e), was found to be a nice

• yield (Table 2, entry 16). Likewise, method B also gave 2i in 21% yield, as shown by the 19F NMR analysis (Table 2, entry 17), but it was difficult to purify and isolate the product 2i in this case. Finally, the internal aliphatic alkyne such as dodec-6-yne (1j) was found to be effective for the gem

Electrochemical radical cation aza-Wacker cyclizations

• Sota Adachi and
• Yohei Okada

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1900–1905, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.165

• with stirring. The solution was diluted with water and extracted with dichloromethane. The combined organic layers were dried over Na2SO4, filtered, and concentrated in vacuo. Yields were determined by 1H NMR analysis using benzaldehyde as an internal standard (Table 1). Silica gel column

A facile three-component route to powerful 5-aryldeazaalloxazine photocatalysts

• Ivana Weisheitelová,
• Radek Cibulka,
• Marek Sikorski and
• Tetiana Pavlovska

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1831–1838, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.161

• source in this reaction, a deuterium labelling experiment was conducted (Scheme 2C). Indeed, the deazaalloxazine derivative 6-d with quantitative incorporation of deuterium in C(5) position, was isolated and confirmed by 1H NMR analysis and mass spectrometry (for more details on possible reaction

Methyltransferases from RiPP pathways: shaping the landscape of natural product chemistry

• Maria-Paula Schröder,
• Isabel P.-M. Pfeiffer and
• Silja Mordhorst

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1652–1670, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.147

• and NMR analysis of the natural product, no knockout studies were performed to identify which enzyme is responsible for the S-methylation. The authors propose LopH as the most likely enzyme, as it shares modest sequence and structural similarity with other MTs. This also hints at a possible new MT

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

• synthesis. Therefore, the electroreduction of pyridine (8a) was performed (Table 6). First, the electroreduction of 8a was performed with 0.1 equiv of PTSA, and 1.0 equiv of PTSA was added after electrolysis to determine the yield by 1H NMR analysis (Table 6, entry 1). The yield of 9a·PTSA (26% yield) was

• mmol; solvent, CH2Cl2 (0.5 M); flow rate of the solution of 6a, 0.75 mL min−1; flow rate of H2 gas, 100 mL min−1; reaction temperature, room temperature; current density, 50 mA cm−2. The solution was circulated until the passage of 50 F mol−1 (10 h). The yields were determined by 1H NMR analysis using

• H2 gas, 100 mL min−1; reaction temperature, room temperature; current density, 50 mA cm−2 (10 h). The solution was circulated until the passage of 50 F mol−1. The yields were determined by 1H NMR analysis using 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane as an internal standard. Plausible mechanism for the reduction

Bioinformatic prediction of the stereoselectivity of modular polyketide synthase: an update of the sequence motifs in ketoreductase domain

• Changjun Xiang,
• Shunyu Yao,
• Ruoyu Wang and
• Lihan Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1476–1485, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.131

• product structures were experimentally determined, such as by crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis or by chemical synthesis, were obtained for further analysis. The modules in PKSs were categorized as α-module (containing KS-AT-ACP tridomain), β-module (KS-AT-KR-ACP), γ-module (KS-AT

Selectfluor and alcohol-mediated synthesis of bicyclic oxyfluorination compounds by Wagner–Meerwein rearrangement

• Ziya Dağalan,
• Muhammed Hanifi Çelikoğlu,
• Saffet Çelik,
• Ramazan Koçak and
• Bilal Nişancı

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1462–1467, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.129

• his kind contributions for NMR analysis. Funding M.H.Ç. and B.N are grateful to The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBİTAK) (Project number 2209-A) for financial support. Ziya Dağalan thanks to YÖK 100/2000 and TUBİTAK BİDEB 2211A program for their support.

Novel analogues of a nonnucleoside SARS-CoV-2 RdRp inhibitor as potential antivirotics

• Luca Julianna Tóth,
• Kateřina Krejčová,
• Milan Dejmek,
• Eva Žilecká,
• Blanka Klepetářová,
• Lenka Poštová Slavětínská,
• Evžen Bouřa and
• Radim Nencka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1029–1036, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.91

• insufficient evidence provided even by meticulous NMR analysis and eventually had to be confirmed by X-ray crystallography (Figure S1, Supporting Information File 1). Changing the ester function from an ethyl to an allyl group enabled a very mild cleavage using a Pd-mediated reaction with triethylsilane [28

Enantioselective synthesis of β-aryl-γ-lactam derivatives via Heck–Matsuda desymmetrization of N-protected 2,5-dihydro-1H-pyrroles

• Arnaldo G. de Oliveira Jr.,
• Martí F. Wang,
• Rafaela C. Carmona,
• Danilo M. Lustosa,
• Sergei A. Gorbatov and
• Carlos R. D. Correia

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 940–949, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.84

• data for the new compounds. Acknowledgements We acknowledge the Ph.D. student Otto Daolio Köster for the fruitful discussions and assistance with the experimental work, and Mr. Anderson S. Pedrosa for technical assistance with NMR analysis. Funding We thank the financial support of the São Paulo

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

• equiv of NaH in DCM under conditions similar to our previous reports on the deoxygenative trifluoromethylthiolation of carboxylic acids [31]. 19F NMR analysis of the crude reaction mixture after 2 h at rt revealed no conversion towards the desired acyl fluoride product 2a, however, 30% of thioester 3a

•  1, entry 9). To further investigate the potential for reducing the loading of the deoxyfluorinating reagent, 0.5 equiv of the carboxylic acid substrate 1a was reacted with 0.5 equiv of both BT-SCF3 and DIPEA in DCM for 30 min at rt. 19F NMR analysis of the mixture indicated the clean formation of

• product resulting from addition of 1 to thiocarbonyl difluoride. After a further 30 minutes at rt, 19F NMR analysis of the crude mixture indeed indicated the formation of 2a in an overall yield of 74%, implying both pathways are feasible and that sub-stoichiometric amounts of BT-SCF3 relative to the

Discovery and biosynthesis of bacterial drimane-type sesquiterpenoids from Streptomyces clavuligerus

• Dongxu Zhang,
• Wenyu Du,
• Xingming Pan,
• Xiaoxu Lin,
• Fang-Ru Li,
• Qingling Wang,
• Qian Yang,
• Hui-Min Xu and
• Liao-Bin Dong

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 815–822, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.73

• indicated that CavA specifically oxidizes albicanol (5) and drim-8-ene-11-ol (6) to synthesize 7–9, while other substrates showed no reactivity with CavA (Figure 4c). Following this, we increased the substrate concentration to enrich and isolate these products, elucidating their structures through NMR

• analysis (Figure 4b). In these experiments, CavA was found to hydroxylate drim-8-ene-11-ol (6) at the C-3 and C-7 positions to produce 8 and 9, respectively, while albicanol (5) was modified only at the C-3 position. Compound 7 is a known natural product, and its chemical structure was determined by

Synthesis and characterization of water-soluble C₆₀–peptide conjugates

• Yue Ma,
• Lorenzo Persi and
• Yoko Yamakoshi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 777–786, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.71

• . Purple arrows in (b) indicate the split peaks. The 1H NMR spectrum of purified 5b was measured in D2O with 2% NaOD (Figure S12, Supporting Information File 1). 13C NMR analysis of the same sample was not possible due to the high ionic strength of the solution. NMR characterization was performed using a

Substrate specificity of a ketosynthase domain involved in bacillaene biosynthesis

• Zhiyong Yin and
• Jeroen S. Dickschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 734–740, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.67

• glutamate decarboxylase, and incubated with BaeJ-KS2. Substrate binding was demonstrated through 13C NMR analysis of the products against the background of various control experiments. Keywords: bacillaene; biosynthesis; enzyme mechanisms; isotopes; trans-AT polyketide synthases; Introduction Polyketides

• have established a new method based on stable isotope (13C) labelling to investigate the KS domain substrate specificity that makes use of simple 13C NMR analysis of protein preparations obtained by a buffer exchange after enzyme incubations with substrate surrogates (SNAC esters), and its application

Palladium-catalyzed three-component radical-polar crossover carboamination of 1,3-dienes or allenes with diazo esters and amines

• Geng-Xin Liu,
• Xiao-Ting Jie,
• Ge-Jun Niu,
• Li-Sheng Yang,
• Xing-Lin Li,
• Jian Luo and
• Wen-Hao Hu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 661–671, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.59

• temperature (rt), the desired unsaturated ε-AA derivative 4a was obtained in 75% isolated yield (Table 1, entry 1). Isolation and NMR analysis demonstrated that this model reaction provided amino acid 4a with good E-selectivity and excellent regioselectivity (E/Z = 91:9, 1,4-/1,2-addition >20:1). Control

Isolation and structure determination of a new analog of polycavernosides from marine Okeania sp. cyanobacterium

• Kairi Umeda,
• Naoaki Kurisawa,
• Ghulam Jeelani,
• Tomoyoshi Nozaki,
• Kiyotake Suenaga and
• Arihiro Iwasaki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 645–652, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.57

• in 96-well plates (Iwaki) and cultured overnight. Various concentrations of compounds were then added, and cells were incubated for 72 h. Cell proliferation was measured by the MTT assay. Structures of compounds 1, 2, and 5. Planar structure of polycavernoside E (1) based on 2D NMR analysis. Relative

Production of non-natural 5-methylorsellinate-derived meroterpenoids in Aspergillus oryzae

• Jia Tang,
• Yixiang Zhang and
• Yudai Matsuda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 638–644, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.56

• ). After large-scale cultivation, 3 was isolated and subjected to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis, which suggested that 3 is the C-5′ desmethyl form of preterretonin A [17]. However, several missing signals in the 13C NMR spectrum, likely due to keto–enol tautomerization in the D-ring, hindered

• designated as 5′-demethylinsuetusin A1. Unlike compounds 3–7, the molecular formula of 8 was determined to be C25H38O5, which corresponds to the hydrogenated form of 7. NMR analysis revealed that the double bond at C-2′/C-3′ of 7 was reduced to a single bond in 8 and that 8 contained the enol functionality

HPW-Catalyzed environmentally benign approach to imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines

• Luan A. Martinho and
• Carlos Kleber Z. Andrade

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 628–637, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.55

• reproducible. Unsuccessful substrates for these reactions were also detected (Scheme 4). The use of 2-amino-3-hydroxypyridine provided a complex mixture of products (1H and 13C NMR analysis). When 6-amino-2-thiouracil was used, only the starting materials were recovered. Regarding the aldehyde component, the

Chemical and biosynthetic potential of Penicillium shentong XL-F41

• Ran Zou,
• Xin Li,
• Xiaochen Chen,
• Yue-Wei Guo and
• Baofu Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 597–606, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.52

• IMS Q-Tof liquid chromatograph mass spectrometer. For NMR analysis, we utilized an AVANCE II 600 spectrometer, referencing residual solvent peaks at δH/δC 7.27/77.0 ppm in CDCl3 for chemical shift calibration. We utilized commercial silica gel from Yantai Xinnuo New Material Technology Co., Ltd

Synthesis of 2,2-difluoro-1,3-diketone and 2,2-difluoro-1,3-ketoester derivatives using fluorine gas

• Alexander S. Hampton,
• David R. W. Hodgson,
• Graham McDougald,
• Linhua Wang and
• Graham Sandford

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 460–469, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.41

• reaction of compound 1a with Selectfluor in acetonitrile (MeCN) gave high yields of the monofluorinated product 2a with no difluorinated product being observed by 19F NMR analysis of the product mixture after 5 h (Scheme 1). In contrast, attempts to fluorinate 1a with one equivalent of fluorine gas in MeCN