The chemistry of isoindole natural products

• Klaus Speck and
• Thomas Magauer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2048–2078, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.243

• the enzymes involved in the final oxidative transformations leading to chaetoglobosin A (57) [57]. The diverse biological activities and unique molecular architecture of the cytochalasan alkaloids have made them a famous synthetic target. Total syntheses of several members of the cytochalasans were

A new family of four-ring bent-core nematic liquid crystals with highly polar transverse and end groups

• Kalpana Upadhyaya,
• Venkatesh Gude,
• Golam Mohiuddin and
• Rao V. S. Nandiraju

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 26–35, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.4

• a bent-core molecular architecture can generate an obtuse bond angle of ~145°, which gives rise to an increase in bend angle as well as a strong dipole in the bending direction. The reduced bend from 120 to ~145° of the 1,3-phenyl moiety by the introduction of a chloro group in the 2-position and

• azobenzene or salicylideneimine or phenylbenzoate unit in one of the arms of the bent molecule by a polar cyanobiphenyl moiety lends stiffness to the molecule with a strong dipole moment in the lateral direction. The realization of such a molecular architecture leads to a reduction in rotational disorder as

Theoretical study on β-cyclodextrin inclusion complexes with propiconazole and protonated propiconazole

• Adrian Fifere,
• Narcisa Marangoci,
• Stelian Maier,
• Adina Coroaba,
• Dan Maftei and
• Mariana Pinteala

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 2191–2201, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.247

• in tandem with the semi-empirical PM3 method [13][14][15][16][17]. Because of the experimental limitations, the geometric details and the interactions that stabilize the molecular architecture of β-CD/PPH+ inclusion compounds are still poorly understood. For this reason the present study

Expanding the chemical diversity of spirooxindoles via alkylative pyridine dearomatization

• Chunhui Dai,
• Bo Liang and
• Corey R. J. Stephenson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 986–993, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.111

• activity, thus exemplifying their role in drug development [2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. Moreover, the challenging molecular architecture of spirooxindoles is appealing to chemists because it evokes novel synthetic strategies that address configurational demands and provides platforms for further reaction

Laterally substituted symmetric and nonsymmetric salicylideneimine-based bent-core mesogens

• Sonja Findeisen-Tandel,
• Wolfgang Weissflog,
• Ute Baumeister,
• Gerhard Pelzl,
• H. N. Shreenivasa Murthy and
• Channabasaveshwar V. Yelamaggad

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 129–154, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.15

• group in ortho-position to the CH=N (azomethine) unit not only enhances the photochemical and hydrolytic stability due to intramolecular H-bonding, but also increases the clearing temperature of liquid crystals. Therefore, the introduction of salicylideneimine fragment(s) in the LC molecular

• architecture has attracted significant attention. Several examples demonstrate this, as many salicylideneanilines exhibiting mesophases are listed, see e.g., [12][13]. These salicylideneanilines, but also salicylideneimines, can form metallomesogens by complexation with d- and f-block elements, [14][15][16][17

Synthesis, spectral characterization, electron microscopic study and thermogravimetric analysis of a phosphorus containing dendrimer with diphenylsilanediol as core unit

• E. Dadapeer,
• B. Hari Babu,
• C. Suresh Reddy and
• Naga Raju Charmarthi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, 726–731, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.85

• molecule resembling a tree. Recently, dendrimers and dendrons have been defined in general terms for a class of hyper branched and poly functional macromolecules [4]. They are also called “cascade-type molecules”. Under ideal conditions, the molecular architecture is very uniform. A dendron is one of the

9,10-Dioxa-1,2-diaza-anthracene derivatives from tetrafluoropyridazine

• Graham Pattison,
• Graham Sandford,
• Dmitrii S. Yufit,
• Judith A. K. Howard,
• John A. Christopher and
• David D. Miller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 45, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.45

• ready synthesis of new organic frameworks is still required and, in this context, heterocyclic scaffolds based on novel molecular architecture that bear multiple functionality and can be rapidly processed into many analogues by parallel synthesis are particularly valuable [5][6]. In a continuing

Functional properties of metallomesogens modulated by molecular and supramolecular exotic arrangements

• Alessandra Crispini,
• Mauro Ghedini and
• Daniela Pucci

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 54, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.54

• the higher homologues produce the global rod-like shape responsible for the liquid crystalline behaviour, namely of a lamello-columnar type. Changes of the ancillary ligands have been carried out in order to use dipole coupling as a tool for molecular architecture. Mesomorphic behaviour was found to