Solvent-free copper-catalyzed click chemistry for the synthesis of N-heterocyclic hybrids based on quinoline and 1,2,3-triazole

• Martina Tireli,
• Silvija Maračić,
• Stipe Lukin,
• Marina Juribašić Kulcsár,
• Dijana Žilić,
• Mario Cetina,
• Ivan Halasz,
• Silvana Raić-Malić and
• Krunoslav Užarević

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2352–2363, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.232

• halogen bonding observed in their crystal structures. Milling procedures using Cu(II), Cu(I) and Cu(0) catalysts proved to be significantly more efficient than the corresponding solution reactions, with up to 15-fold gain in yield. Both procedures showed the same reactivity trend, resulting in the H < Cl

New approaches to organocatalysis based on C–H and C–X bonding for electrophilic substrate activation

• Pavel Nagorny and
• Zhankui Sun

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2834–2848, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.283

• hydrogen bonds or halogen bonding (C–X···X or C–X···A interactions) in organocatalyst design. Such non-covalent interactions have been traditionally viewed as “weak” when compared to classical A–H···A hydrogen bonds. However, in some cases the term “weak” may be misleading as an increasing number of

• examples demonstrate the effectiveness of such interactions for organocatalyst design. While C–H···A hydrogen bonds have been invoked in biological processes, halogen bonding is not commonly observed in natural enzyme-catalyzed reactions. Therefore, application of these new interactions for small molecule

• bond was found to be ≈180°. Since these reports, numerous other examples of halogen bonding have been uncovered, and halogen bonding has become of great importance to the fields of chemistry and materials science. Not only halogens, but also neutral halogen-containing organic molecules were found to

My maize and blue brick road to physical organic chemistry in materials

• Anne J. McNeil

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 229–238, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.24

• structures, such as ribbons, fibers, and sheets. This self-aggregation is driven by noncovalent interactions, including hydrogen bonding, π stacking, van der Waals interactions, and halogen bonding. Physical interactions amongst these larger structures lead to gel formation. Because noncovalent interactions

Supramolecular chemistry: from aromatic foldamers to solution-phase supramolecular organic frameworks

• Zhan-Ting Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2057–2071, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.222

• mixtures, although I had been to Beijing for X-ray diffraction experiments at Peking University. We thus proposed that the two compounds formed 1:1 charge-transfer complexes (Scheme 1). Currently, this N···I interaction is termed as halogen bonding, which is widely used in supramolecular crystal

• molecules to evaluate their binding to these triazole foldamers. He finally found that these foldamers were good halogen bonding receptors for tritopic and ditopic guests, including 30 in dichloromethane or its mixture with hydrocarbons. Yanhua further utilized the C–H····F hydrogen bonding to induce the

Trifluoromethyl-substituted tetrathiafulvalenes

• Olivier Jeannin,
• Frédéric Barrière and
• Marc Fourmigué

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 647–658, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.73

• of secondary non-bonding interactions such as hydrogen or halogen bonding [6][7], an issue of current strong interest in organic solid state chemistry [8][9]. However, it was also recognized that the introduction of only one or two of such EWG on the TTF core could limit this anodic shift, and

Computational evidence for intramolecular hydrogen bonding and nonbonding X···O interactions in 2'-haloflavonols

• Tânia A. O. Fonseca,
• Matheus P. Freitas,
• Rodrigo A. Cormanich,
• Teodorico C. Ramalho,
• Cláudio F. Tormena and
• Roberto Rittner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 112–117, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.12

• involved in electrostatic halogen bonding. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 36: Optimized structures for all minima of 2'-haloflavonols and the corresponding Cartesian coordinates. Acknowledgements The authors thank FAPEMIG and FAPESP for the financial support of this research, as well

Supramolecular chemistry II

• Christoph A. Schalley

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1541–1542, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.181

• synthetic receptors, crystallographic studies of halogen bonding and the use of polymers for protein binding. The second series again has a broad scope, as you will discover in the coming months as the series develops. With the second Thematic Series on supramolecular chemistry, we wish to contribute to the

The subtle balance of weak supramolecular interactions: The hierarchy of halogen and hydrogen bonds in haloanilinium and halopyridinium salts

• Kari Raatikainen,
• Massimo Cametti and
• Kari Rissanen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 4, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.4

• -ClPhNH3H2PO4 (8), 3-IPyBnCl (9), 3-IPyHCl (10) and 3-IPyH-5NIPA (3-iodopyridinium 5-nitroisophthalate, 13), where hydrogen or/and halogen bonding represents the most relevant non-covalent interactions, has been prepared and characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction. This series was further complemented

• it was possible to highlight the balance between non-covalent forces acting in these systems, where the relative strength of the halogen bonding C–X···A− (X = I, Br or Cl) and the ratio between the halogen and hydrogen bonds [C–X···A− : D–H···A−] varied across the series. Keywords: crystal

• engineering; halogen bonding; hydrogen bonding; supramolecular chemistry; weak interactions; Introduction Non-covalent interaction, such as hydrogen bonding and metal coordination represent the basic set of tools for the construction of elaborate architectures in the supramolecular chemistry of organic or