From steroids to aqueous supramolecular chemistry: an autobiographical career review

• Bruce C. Gibb

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 684–701, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.69

• using “Click” chemistry [37]. Forming stable complexes for a broad range of guests, the capsules formed by octa-acid are ideal nano-scale (yocto-liter) reaction vessels. Our first foray into this topic relied on collaboration with Vaidhyanathan Ramamurthy, and examined a wide range of photophysics, and

A comparative study of the interactions of cationic hetarenes with quadruplex-DNA forming oligonucleotide sequences of the insulin-linked polymorphic region (ILPR)

• Darinka Dzubiel,
• Heiko Ihmels,
• Mohamed M. A. Mahmoud and
• Laura Thomas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2963–2974, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.314

• , Applied Photophysics. Methods All photometric and fluorimetric titrations were performed in thermostated quartz cuvettes at 20 °C. Titrant solutions were freshly prepared by dilution from the stock solution. Spectrophotometer slit widths were 2 nm for photometric experiments and 5 nm for fluorimetric

Scalable synthesis of 5,11-diethynylated indeno[1,2-b]fluorene-6,12-diones and exploration of their solid state packing

• Bradley D. Rose,
• Peter J. Santa Maria,
• Aaron G. Fix,
• Chris L. Vonnegut,
• Lev N. Zakharov,
• Sean R. Parkin and
• Michael M. Haley

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2122–2130, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.219

• an Emmanuil Troyanski Fellowship as well as the NSF for a GK-12 Fellowship (DGE-0742540). P.J.S.M. acknowledges the NSF for an REU Summer Fellowship (CHE-1062512). We thank Dr. Johannes Gierschner for initial discussions regarding the photophysics of the IF-6,12-diones as well as Prof. John Anthony

One-pot three-component synthesis and photophysical characteristics of novel triene merocyanines

• Christian Muschelknautz,
• Robin Visse,
• Jan Nordmann and
• Thomas J. J. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 599–612, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.51

• , and photophysics. Inspired by the concept of a diversity-oriented synthetic approach to chromophores [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] we have launched a program to apply transition metal-catalyzed processes as an entry to consecutive multicomponent [27][28] and domino reactions [29]. These highly

A chemist and biologist talk to each other about caged neurotransmitters

• Graham C.R. Ellis-Davies

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 64–73, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.8

• development of such optical probes, as skills in organic chemistry, photophysics, ion-channel biophysics and neurobiology are ideally all involved in the process. Secondly, the main goal of the team was set by the biological problem [25], and often such problems are not well understood by chemists working in

Fine-tuning alkyne cycloadditions: Insights into photochemistry responsible for the double-strand DNA cleavage via structural perturbations in diaryl alkyne conjugates

• Wang-Yong Yang,
• Samantha A. Marrone,
• Nalisha Minors,
• Diego A. R. Zorio and
• Igor V. Alabugin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 813–823, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.93

• transformation does not require H-atom abstraction from an external H-atom source such as CHD and DNA, and thus the DNA-damaging ability of this chromophore is not expected to be significant. Photophysics and kinetics of photoinduced electron transfer The fluorescence quenching by triethylamine (Et3N) was

Control of stilbene conformation and fluorescence in self-assembled capsules

• Mark R. Ams,
• Dariush Ajami,
• Stephen L. Craig,
• Jye-Shane Yang and
• Julius Rebek Jr

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 79, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.79

• little else is known about the photophysics of guests in this capsule. This research was undertaken to understand what controls the behavior of stilbenes in this and related constrained environments. Results and Discussion The space inside capsule 1.1 is defined by two pyramids comprising resorcinarenes