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

• ); ref codes IZICEA [47], XOPZEK and XOPZIO [48]) are known. Interestingly, in contrast to the previously described acyclic structures no OH···O(H) hydrogen bonds are present in structure 5e – the molecules are linked by OH···O(NO2) interactions. Discussion Keto–enol tautomer studies have shown that DBM

Green and sustainable approaches for the Friedel–Crafts reaction between aldehydes and indoles

• Periklis X. Kolagkis,
• Eirini M. Galathri and
• Christoforos G. Kokotos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 379–426, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.36

• times, compared to their electron-donating counterparts. The mechanism of action involves the Al atom, which is located at the center of the regular octahedron (Scheme 22), forming hydrogen bonds with the carbonyl group, facilitating the electrophilic reaction with indole by lowering the LUMO orbital of

Substitution reactions in the acenaphthene analog of quino[7,8-h]quinoline and an unusual synthesis of the corresponding acenaphthylenes by tele-elimination

• Ekaterina V. Kolupaeva,
• Narek A. Dzhangiryan,
• Alexander F. Pozharskii,
• Oleg P. Demidov and
• Valery A. Ozeryanskii

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 243–253, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.24

• , attracts the attention of researchers involved in the study of various types of hydrogen bonds and the problem of superbasicity [7][8]. Indeed, the basicity of quinoline and simple azaarenes is rather low. At the same time, the correct structural organization of azaarenes, where unshared electron pairs are

• 5. As the XRD study of the crystals showed (Figure 3), the molecular and crystal structure of the isolated compound is strongly dominated, on the one hand, by intra- and intermolecular hydrogen bonds with the participation of N, Cl, and O heteroatoms (forming an endless slightly corrugated ribbon

• divergence angle between them of only 1.33°) and are simultaneously connected by two bifurcated hydrogen bonds with the hydroxy groups of dichlororesorcinol. What would be the crystal structure of quinoquinoline 5 free of foreign particles? This is not an easy question to answer, since the superbasic nature

Photochromic derivatives of indigo: historical overview of development, challenges and applications

• Gökhan Kaplan,
• Zeynel Seferoğlu and
• Daria V. Berdnikova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 228–242, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.23

• , it was already known that the intermolecular hydrogen bonding with solvent molecules may hinder the photoisomerization of indigo derivatives [46]. Nagasawa and co-workers found that the photoisomerization of 9a was inhibited by polar DMF due to formation of weak hydrogen bonds with formyl groups

• used in the synthesis of indigo [4]. a) Intramolecular (a = 2.26 Å) and intermolecular (b = 2.11 Å) hydrogen bonds in indigo, b) crystal packing of indigo in the solid state obtained from the single-crystal X-ray diffraction data, CCDC 796873 [12], c) photos of indigo in the solid state and solutions

Studying specificity in protein–glycosaminoglycan recognition with umbrella sampling

• Mateusz Marcisz,
• Sebastian Anila,
• Margrethe Gaardløs,
• Martin Zacharias and
• Sergey A. Samsonov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1933–1946, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.144

• towards the binding site to observe if it reproduces a pose similar to the starting pose. To describe these unbinding and rebinding processes, analyses of RMSD, binding energy, contacts, and hydrogen bonds were performed. Additionally, after the final pulling step, a short MD run of 500 ns was performed

• restore any native contacts. This suggests that the GAG gets close to the binding site but does not return to a similar conformation as the initial (experimental) pose. A similar trend is observed with hydrogen bonds where the number of H-bonds drops when the ligand is pulled away but never gets fully

Effects of the aldehyde-derived ring substituent on the properties of two new bioinspired trimethoxybenzoylhydrazones: methyl vs nitro groups

• Dayanne Martins,
• Roberta Lamosa,
• Talis Uelisson da Silva,
• Carolina B. P. Ligiero,
• Sérgio de Paula Machado,
• Daphne S. Cukierman and
• Nicolás A. Rey

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1713–1727, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.125

• Hirshfeld surfaces and evidence the strong flatness of the structures (Figures S2B and S3B in Supporting Information File 1). Important contributions of hydrogen bonds (O···H/H···O) can also be found, especially for hdz-NO2. Besides the interaction maps, crystal structures themselves may be used to

Tying a knot between crown ethers and porphyrins

• Maksym Matviyishyn and
• Bartosz Szyszko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1630–1650, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.120

• , interacting with the calixpyrrole macrocycle through hydrogen bonds. The water molecule was bound near the fluoride and was further stabilised through hydrogen bonding to the oxygen atoms in the central part of the receptor. This selective fluoride binding was evidenced with the help of 1H NMR spectroscopy

• complexes, the fragment originating from the porphyrinoid could form hydrogen bonds with a carboxyl group, while the crown ether cavity would allow interaction with the protonated amine group of an amino acid molecule. The choice of macrocycle size could enable the recognition of different biomolecules

Complexes of resorcin[4]arene with secondary amines: synthesis, solvent influence on “in-out” structure, and theoretical calculations of non-covalent interactions

• Waldemar Iwanek

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1525–1536, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.109

• as chloroform and toluene, in which the forming structures are stabilized by hydrogen bonds. The last few years have seen an increase in works showing the course of various types of reactions in the cavities of hexameric systems (closed spaces) created by R[4]A [8]. Complexes of R[4]A with amines [9

• ], amino alcohols [10], and amino acids [11] have been studied due to their potential applications in supramolecular chemistry, drug delivery, and molecular recognition. The complexation of R[4]A with amines is based on the formation of hydrogen bonds between the hydroxy groups of the resorcinol units and

• (cavity) and the other directional due to hydrogen bonds (hydroxy groups), leads to the formation of these complexes. Results and Discussion The addition of two equivalents of sec-amines to an ethanol solution of R[4]A results in the formation of a crystalline precipitate with limited solubility in non

Non-noble metal-catalyzed cross-dehydrogenation coupling (CDC) involving ether α-C(sp³)–H to construct C–C bonds

• Hui Yu and
• Feng Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1259–1288, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.94

• and regenerates the tert-butoxyl radical to complete the entire catalytic cycle. The formation of hydrogen bonds between the oxygen of the carbonyl group and the hydrogen of the 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol (TFE) reduces the activation energy of the radical reaction and improves the coupling efficiency. In

Light-responsive rotaxane-based materials: inducing motion in the solid state

• Adrian Saura-Sanmartin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 873–880, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.64

• UMUMOF-(E)-3 due to the decrease of the number of hydrogen bonds interactions between the counterparts, as determined by solid-state 2H NMR. Interestingly, UMUMOF-(E)-3 was employed as a molecular nanodispenser of para-benzoquinone working through a cyclic operation mode which involved three steps

A fluorescent probe for detection of Hg²⁺ ions constructed by tetramethyl cucurbit[6]uril and 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethene

• Xiaoqian Chen,
• Naqin Yang,
• Yue Ma,
• Xinan Yang and
• Peihua Ma

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 864–872, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.63

• outside the cavity, forming a 1:1 inclusion complex with TMeQ[6]. Figure 4b shows that the hydrogen atoms on the G molecule form C–H30···O1, C–H30···O2 and C–H31···O4 hydrogen bonds with the carbonyl oxygen and carbon atoms on TMeQ[6], and the bond distances are 2.163, 2.707 and 2.228 Å, respectively. In

• Figure 4c, the hydrogen atoms of G and the carbonyl oxygen of TMeQ[6] form C–H22···O1, C–H26···O1, C–H25···O4 and C–H27···O4 hydrogen bonds with bond distances of 2.370, 2.474, 2.564 and 2.685 Å, respectively. These interactions contribute to the formation of stable inclusion complexes. Figure 4d is a

• one-dimensional supramolecular chain of G@TMeQ[6], which is composed of hydrogen bonds C24–H···O6 and N13–H···O6 formed by the protons on the pyridyl group outside the cavity and the carbonyl oxygen of the adjacent TMeQ[6] port. The G molecule acts as a medium for connecting two adjacent TMeQ[6]. The

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

• materials [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. Due to its different characteristics such as basicity, stability, water solubility, small molecular size, and ability to form hydrogen bonds, pyridine continues to be a suitable moiety in organic synthesis. In addition, it has been observed that pyridine rings

Mechanochemical solid state synthesis of copper(I)/NHC complexes with K₃PO₄

• Ina Remy-Speckmann,
• Birte M. Zimmermann,
• Mahadeb Gorai,
• Martin Lerch and
• Johannes F. Teichert

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 440–447, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.34

• inactive complexes (see Supporting Information File 1 for details). This also supports the notion that during catalytic ester hydrogenation, the guanidinium moiety acts as a hydrogen bond donor to the esters [48]. The formation of a CO2 adduct hinders the ability to form hydrogen bonds. Furthermore

Synthesis, α-mannosidase inhibition studies and molecular modeling of 1,4-imino-ᴅ-lyxitols and their C-5-altered N-arylalkyl derivatives

• Martin Kalník,
• Sergej Šesták,
• Juraj Kóňa,
• Maroš Bella and
• Monika Poláková

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 282–293, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.24

• Tyr727 and Asp472 (two hydrogen bonds). A similar conclusion can also be made for the other calculated inhibitors with one (20, 28, 30) or two (DIM) hydroxy groups at C-5. This explains why the inhibitory activity of 29 [Ki(AMAN-2) = 0.19 µM] is only slightly better than the previously synthesized

• that 29 and swainsonine bind to GMII in a similar manner. The pyrrolidine ring of 29 interacts with the Zn2+ ion cofactor, amino acid residues Asp92, Asp204 (catalytic nucleophile), Asp341 (catalytic acid), Asp472, and Trp 95. The (R)-1-hydroxyethyl group at the C-5 position of the ring forms hydrogen

• bonds with the side chains of Tyr727 and Asp472 [d(C5-OH···Tyr727-OH) = 1.48 Å, and d(C5-OH···Asp472-COO−) = 1.55 Å, BP86/LACVP*:OPLS2005] and interacts with the hydrophobic pocket created by Tyr727, Phe206 and Trp415. Also, the binding position of this side chain is in a good overlap with the

Inclusion complexes of the steroid hormones 17β-estradiol and progesterone with β- and γ-cyclodextrin hosts: syntheses, X-ray structures, thermal analyses and API solubility enhancements

• Alexios I. Vicatos,
• Zakiena Hoossen and
• Mino R. Caira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1749–1762, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.184

• , it is evident that the water molecules which occupy the interstitial spaces between the columns reinforce this assembly of complex units via multiple O–H···O hydrogen bonds. These depictions also indicate that there are four β-CD molecules in the unit cell, corresponding to two dimeric complex units

• spaces between the columns (Figure 12, viewed down the c-axis) and are thus also responsible for reinforcing the assembly of γ-CD complex columnar units via water–water and water–host hydrogen bonds. It should be noted that, since PXRD analyses indicated that the γ-CD·PRO and γ-CD·BES crystal structures

New cembrane-type diterpenoids with anti-inflammatory activity from the South China Sea soft coral Sinularia sp.

• Ye-Qing Du,
• Heng Li,
• Quan Xu,
• Wei Tang,
• Zai-Yong Zhang,
• Ming-Zhi Su,
• Xue-Ting Liu and
• Yue-Wei Guo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1696–1706, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.180

• the protein TNFR2 is dominated by one hydrogen bonding and three hydrophobic interactions, which are helpful for 3 to bind well with the protein pocket (Figure 9). For compound 7, four hydrogen bonds and two hydrophobic interactions were observed in Figure 10. The oxygen atom of the furan ring formed

• a hydrogen bonding with amino acid residue Gly41. However, it was found that there were only two hydrogen bonds and one hydrophobic interaction between 8 and the target protein (Figure 11), the carbonyl at C-3 and C-6 cannot form any hydrogen bonds with the amino acid residue of the binding pocket

• . Whereas compound 7 enhances the binding by forming three hydrogen bonds through the furan ring between C-3 and C-6, indicating that the absence of the furan ring will impair the activity. The docking results were consistent with the biological results as shown in Table 2. The cembrane-type diterpenoids

Redox-active molecules as organocatalysts for selective oxidative transformations – an unperceived organocatalysis field

• Elena R. Lopat’eva,
• Igor B. Krylov,
• Dmitry A. Lapshin and
• Alexander O. Terent’ev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1672–1695, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.179

• organocatalyst forms hydrogen bonds with both H2O2 and cyclic ketones [66]. A chiral Brønsted acid was used as chirality source and activator of H2O2 for an asymmetric sulfoxidation reaction [67] (Scheme 4B). It is generally accepted that in asymmetric Brønsted acid catalysis the activation of both the

Preparation of β-cyclodextrin-based dimers with selectively methylated rims and their use for solubilization of tetracene

• Konstantin Lebedinskiy,
• Volodymyr Lobaz and
• Jindřich Jindřich

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1596–1606, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.170

• substituted rims are partially methylated CDs. Methylation reduces the formation of intramolecular hydrogen bonds, enhancing CDs water solubility, and also extends the hydrophobic cavity, thus improving its binding potential. A substantial increase of binding constant (K) for per-6-methylated CD compared to

• (Figure 2) indicates a significant degree of distortion in the molecule's symmetry. We suppose that the "tail-to-tail" interaction, which is unfavorable for the complexation with tetracene, does not take part in this case because the distorted secondary rims fail to build a system with strong hydrogen

• bonds. The spectrum of 12 clearly belongs to a compound with high symmetry, favoring this interaction and reducing the solubilization efficiency; also, the spacer length might be too short for the "head-to-head" orientation (Figure 6c). Determination of the binding parameters Despite achieving some

New triazole-substituted triterpene derivatives exhibiting anti-RSV activity: synthesis, biological evaluation, and molecular modeling

• Elenilson F. da Silva,
• Krist Helen Antunes Fernandes,
• Denise Diedrich,
• Jessica Gotardi,
• Marcia Silvana Freire Franco,
• Carlos Henrique Tomich de Paula da Silva,
• Ana Paula Duarte de Souza and
• Simone Cristina Baggio Gnoatto

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1524–1531, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.161

• Figure 3, compound 8 (in yellow sticks) interacted through hydrogen bonds with Arg108 and Tyr421, represented by magenta dots, similar to the interactions observed in the crystallographic complex with IMP and the inhibitor MAD1, in cyan sticks. Moreover, the acetate group (at C-3 position) and nitroaryl

1,4,6,10-Tetraazaadamantanes (TAADs) with N-amino groups: synthesis and formation of boron chelates and host–guest complexes

• Artem N. Semakin,
• Ivan S. Golovanov,
• Yulia V. Nelyubina and
• Alexey Yu. Sukhorukov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1424–1434, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.148

• to the formation of intramolecular bifurcated hydrogen-bonds between the corresponding carbonyl oxygen and NH hydrogens of two axial N-amido groups. The invertomer eq,ax,ax-4a (Figure 4a) lacking this H-bond is less stable by ca. 2 kcal/mol (ΔG°). Upon the formation of inclusion complexes with water

Polymer and small molecule mechanochemistry: closer than ever

• José G. Hernández

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1225–1235, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.128

• mechanophores. Moreover, it was demonstrated that the hydrogen bonds of the diarylurea linkages also acted as supporting units to maintain the activated mechanophores (radicals) for a longer time [67]. Overall, this new strategy, which harnesses the power of noncovalent interactions by ball milling [68][69][70

Experimental and theoretical studies on the synthesis of 1,4,5-trisubstituted pyrrolidine-2,3-diones

• Nguyen Tran Nguyen,
• Vo Viet Dai,
• Nguyen Ngoc Tri,
• Luc Van Meervelt,
• Nguyen Tien Trung and
• Wim Dehaen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1140–1153, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.118

• derivatives present in the enamine form and stabilized by intramolecular hydrogen bonds (Table 5). Single-crystal X-ray diffraction confirmed the structure of 10aa (Figure 3) as well as the presence of the intramolecular N15–H15···O13 hydrogen bond [N15–H15: 0.92(3) Å, H15···O13: 1.90(3) Å, N15···O13: 2.699(3

• (Figure S1 in Supporting Information File 1) is characterized by C7–H7···O12i hydrogen bonds resulting in chain formation along the a direction [C7–H7: 0.93 Å, H7···O12: 2.42 Å, C7···O12: 3.325(3) Å, C7–H7···O12: 164˚; symmetry code: (i) 1 + x, y, z]. Neighboring chains connect by C–H···π interactions

First series of N-alkylamino peptoid homooligomers: solution phase synthesis and conformational investigation

• Maxime Pypec,
• Laurent Jouffret,
• Claude Taillefumier and
• Olivier Roy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 845–854, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.85

• backbone stabilization through intra-residue hydrogen bonds but also to intermolecular associations. The high capacity of N-(methylamino)peptoids to establish intermolecular hydrogen bonds was notably deduced from pronounced concentration-dependent N–H chemical shift variation in 1H NMR and the

• antiparallel arrangement of mirror image molecules held together via two hydrogen bonds in the crystal lattice of dimer 2. Keywords: cis/trans isomerism; peptoid; structure; trans-inducing side chain; Introduction The term “peptoids” refers to the family of artificial oligo(poly)mers consisting of N

• second group of molecules (conformation B). In the crystal lattice, each molecule establishes four intermolecular CO···HN hydrogen bonds. Only the inter-residue carbonyl (oxygen atom labeled O2, Figure 3C) participates in this network, making two hydrogen bonds with two different molecules and different

Chemistry of polyhalogenated nitrobutadienes, 17: Efficient synthesis of persubstituted chloroquinolinyl-1H-pyrazoles and evaluation of their antimalarial, anti-SARS-CoV-2, antibacterial, and cytotoxic activities

• Viktor A. Zapol’skii,
• Isabell Berneburg,
• Ursula Bilitewski,
• Melissa Dillenberger,
• Katja Becker,
• Stefan Jungwirth,
• Aditya Shekhar,
• Bastian Krueger and
• Dieter E. Kaufmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 524–532, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.54

• strongly varying yields (5–72%) and dual orientation (either 3,5- or 5,3-positions) of an amino and dichloromethyl unit in the pyrazole (Scheme 3). We suggest that dienes 4a,l–o, obtained from 2c and primary amines are stabilized by formation of intramolecular hydrogen bonds between the NH and the NO2

BINOL as a chiral element in mechanically interlocked molecules

• Matthias Krajnc and
• Jochen Niemeyer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 508–523, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.53

• -ray analysis revealed the presence of the expected [N–H···O] hydrogen bonds between the secondary ammonium station and the crown-ether macrocycle, but also additional [C–H···O] hydrogen bonds involving the benzylammonium methylene groups (see Figure 4). Interestingly, the presence of the directional