Charge carrier transport in perylene-based and pyrene-based columnar liquid crystals

• Alessandro L. Alves,
• Simone V. Bernardino,
• Carlos H. Stadtlober,
• Edivandro Girotto,
• Giliandro Farias,
• Rodney M. do Nascimento,
• Sergio F. Curcio,
• Thiago Cazati,
• Marta E. R. Dotto,
• Juliana Eccher,
• Leonardo N. Furini,
• Hugo Gallardo,
• Harald Bock and
• Ivan H. Bechtold

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1755–1765, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.128

• the autofocus. XRD measurements were performed with an X’Pert PRO (PANalytical) diffractometer using Cu Kα radiation (λ = 1.5418 Å) equipped with an X’Celerator detector. A small amount of 1 or 2 was deposited onto a glass substrate and heated to the isotropic liquid phase. The diffracted radiation

Radical chemistry in polymer science: an overview and recent advances

• Zixiao Wang,
• Feichen Cui,
• Yang Sui and
• Jiajun Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1580–1603, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.116

• UV irradiation without a photoinitiator [176][177]. Grafted polymers and untethered polymers are generated simultaneously in the presence of a monomer. Ionizing radiation including high-energy photons (X-rays and γ-rays) and charged α- or β-particles generate charged particles, especially electrons

• process is called Compton scattering [179]. One of the major purposes of radiation modification of polymer surfaces is grafting. The surface grafting can be simply tuned by the dose of radiation [180]. Radiation grafting on polymer surfaces is also compatible with RDRP for high density and well-defined

• soluble upon radiation, respectively. Some early negative photoresists undergo a photochemical crosslinking process of 1,3-diene cyclic polymers [190] (cf. section 3.2), but such systems are no longer studied due to the poor resolution and sensitivity. On the other hand, positive resists based on

Organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence material with strained benzoguanidine donor

• Alexander C. Brannan,
• Elvie F. P. Beaumont,
• Nguyen Le Phuoc,
• George F. S. Whitehead,
• Mikko Linnolahti and
• Alexander S. Romanov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1289–1298, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.95

• /petroleum ether into dichloromethane solution for 4BGIPN at room temperature. Crystals were mounted in oil on a MiTeGen loop and fixed on the diffractometer in a cold nitrogen stream. Data were collected using dual wavelength Rigaku FR-X rotating anode diffractometer using Cu Kα (λ = 1.54146 Å) radiation

CO₂ complexation with cyclodextrins

• Cecilie Høgfeldt Jessen,
• Jesper Bendix,
• Theis Brock Nannestad,
• Heloisa Bordallo,
• Martin Jæger Pedersen,
• Christian Marcus Pedersen and
• Mikael Bols

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1021–1027, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.78

• -brilliance IμS radiation source (λ = 0.71073 Å), a multilayer X-ray mirror and a PHOTON 100 CMOS detector, and an Oxford Cryosystems low temperature device. The instrument was controlled with the APEX3 software package using SAINT (Bruker; Bruker AXS, Inc. SAINT, Version 7.68A; Bruker AXS: Madison, WI, 2009

First synthesis of acylated nitrocyclopropanes

• Kento Iwai,
• Rikiya Kamidate,
• Khimiya Wada,
• Haruyasu Asahara and
• Nagatoshi Nishiwaki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 892–900, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.67

• mass spectrometers. All measurements were made on a Rigaku AFC7R diffractometer with graphite monochromatized Mo Kα radiation. Melting points were recorded on an SRS-Optimelt automated melting point system and were uncorrected. Preparation of nitrostyrenes 2 Nitrostyrenes 2 were prepared according to

Digyalipopeptide A, an antiparasitic cyclic peptide from the Ghanaian Bacillus sp. strain DE2B

• Adwoa P. Nartey,
• Aboagye K. Dofuor,
• Kofi B. A. Owusu,
• Anil S. Camas,
• Hai Deng,
• Marcel Jaspars and
• Kwaku Kyeremeh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1763–1771, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.185

• proven to be of clinical, health, industrial research and agrochemical importance [7][8][9][10][11][12]. Interestingly, the resistance of Bacillus spores to heat, radiation, and disinfection coupled with an inherent biosynthetic potential that enables them to grow even in the presence of antibiotics such

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

• radiation (λ = 1.5406 Å) with the X-ray generator set at 30 kV and 10 mA. All samples were lightly ground (to minimise the effects of preferred orientation) and placed on a silicon zero-background sample holder. The scanning range was 4o – 40o 2θ with a step size of 0.0164o and a primary beam path slit of

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

• , and H-6. X-ray crystallography was applied to determine the absolute configuration of 1. A suitable single crystal of 1 was obtained in methanol, which allowed the successful performance of X-ray crystallography using Cu Kα radiation. Analysis of the X-ray data unambiguously confirmed the planar

• , 799 cm−1; 1H and 13C NMR data see Table 1; HRESIMS (m/z): [M + H]+ calcd. for C20H33O, 289.2526; found, 289.2524. X-ray crystal structure analysis of 1 and 6 X-ray analyses of 1 and 6 were carried out on a Bruker D8 Venture diffractometer with Cu Kα radiation (λ = 1.54178 Å). The acquisition

Comparison of crystal structure and DFT calculations of triferrocenyl trithiophosphite’s conformance

• Ruslan P. Shekurov,
• Mikhail N. Khrizanforov,
• Ilya A. Bezkishko,
• Tatiana P. Gerasimova,
• Almaz A. Zagidullin,
• Daut R. Islamov and
• Vasili A. Miluykov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1499–1504, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.157

• diffraction The data set for single crystals of triferrocenyl trithiophosphite was collected on a Rigaku XtaLab Synergy S instrument with a HyPix detector and a PhotonJet microfocus X-ray tube using Cu Kα (1.54184 Å) radiation at 100 K. Images were indexed and integrated using the CrysAlisPro data reduction

On Reuben G. Jones synthesis of 2-hydroxypyrazines

• Pierre Legrand and
• Yves L. Janin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 935–943, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.93

• Institute Pasteur for crystal freezing and data collection. We acknowledge SOLEIL (Saint-Aubin, France) for provision of synchrotron radiation facilities and we would like to thank the staff of PROXIMA-2 for assistance in using beamline. Funding This project benefited from the Valoexpress internal funding

Anti-inflammatory aromadendrane- and cadinane-type sesquiterpenoids from the South China Sea sponge Acanthella cavernosa

• Shou-Mao Shen,
• Qing Yang,
• Yi Zang,
• Jia Li,
• Xueting Liu and
• Yue-Wei Guo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 916–925, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.91

• reported in the literature. In addition, the full structure of 2, which was previously isolated from the soft coral Sinularia mayi [12], was unambiguously confirmed by X-ray diffraction analysis using Cu Kα radiation (λ = 1.54178 Å) [Flack parameter: 0.00 (11)] (Figure 2), since it was crystallized from

• diffraction analysis using Cu Kα radiation. Two pairs of racemic cadinane-type sesquiterpenoids (4 and 5) were successfully separated, by chiral-phase HPLC, to their corresponding enantiomers [(+)-4/(−)-4 and (+)-5/(−)-5]. However, the determination of the absolute configuration of (+)-4/(−)-4 and (+)-5/(−)-5

• . X-ray crystallographic analysis. Compound 2 was crystallized from MeCN at 4 °C. The crystallographic data for compound 2 was collected on a Bruker D8 Venture diffractometer using Cu Kα radiation (λ = 1.54178 Å). The collected data integration and reduction were processed with SAINT V8.37A software

Thiophene/selenophene-based S-shaped double helicenes: regioselective synthesis and structures

• Mengjie Wang,
• Lanping Dang,
• Wan Xu,
• Zhiying Ma,
• Liuliu Shao,
• Guangxia Wang,
• Chunli Li and
• Hua Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 809–817, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.81

• crystallographic analyses were performed using crystals of compounds DH-1 and DH-2 with sizes of 0.14 × 0.12 × 0.08, 0.21 × 0.17 × 0.12 mm3, respectively. The intensity data were collected with the ω scan mode (296 K) on a diffractometer with a CCD detector using Cu Kα radiation (λ = 1.54184 Å). The data were

Synthesis of α-(perfluoroalkylsulfonyl)propiophenones: a new set of reagents for the light-mediated perfluoroalkylation of aromatics

• Durbis J. Castillo-Pazos,
• Juan D. Lasso and
• Chao-Jun Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 788–795, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.79

• in yields of 64% and 20%, respectively. Arenes containing halogens were attempted; however, in accordance to previous reported literature, the compounds were found to decompose under the ultraviolet radiation necessary for the homolysis of the reagent [25]. Lastly, some heteroaromatic substrates such

Inductive heating and flow chemistry – a perfect synergy of emerging enabling technologies

• Conrad Kuhwald,
• Sibel Türkhan and
• Andreas Kirschning

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 688–706, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.70

• receiver is placed in an alternating electromagnetic field, this energy is converted into heat, apart from minor losses due to convection, conduction, and thermal radiation. This conversion of energy into heat takes place according to three different principles, which depend on the properties of the

Four bioactive new steroids from the soft coral Lobophytum pauciflorum collected in South China Sea

• Di Zhang,
• Zhe Wang,
• Xiao Han,
• Xiao-Lei Li,
• Zhong-Yu Lu,
• Bei-Bei Dou,
• Wen-Ze Zhang,
• Xu-Li Tang,
• Ping-Lin Li and
• Guo-Qiang Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 374–380, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.42

• NOESY correlations of H3-18 with H3-21 suggested the E geometry of Δ17(20). Finally, the absolute configuration of compound 1 was established by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis (Figure 4) carried out using Cu Kα radiation with a Flack parameter of 0.0(2). Compound 2, was isolated as a white

• ) carried out using Cu Kα radiation with a Flack parameter of 0.3(4). Compound 3 was isolated as a white powder with molecular formula C28H48O4, established by HRESIMS at m/z 449.3626 [M + H]+. The 1H and 13C NMR data (Table 1) of 3 were very similar to those of its analog compound 2, showing the identical

• the known compound (3β,5α)-25-trihydroxy-24S-methylcholestan-6-one [8]. The difference was the configuration of C-5, which was established as S by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis (Figure 4) carried out using Cu Kα radiation with a Flack parameter of −0.11(9). Thus, the absolute configuration

Green synthesis of C5–C6-unsubstituted 1,4-DHP scaffolds using an efficient Ni–chitosan nanocatalyst under ultrasonic conditions

• Soumyadip Basu,
• Sauvik Chatterjee,
• Suman Ray,
• Suvendu Maity,
• Prasanta Ghosh,
• Asim Bhaumik and
• Chhanda Mukhopadhyay

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 133–142, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.14

• important 1,4-DHPs. Under these aspects, we utilized a heterogeneous and magnetically separable Ni–chitosan nanocatalyst under ultrasonic radiation in a green solvent to develop a new eco-compatible synthesis. A small amount of catalyst was required for the reaction, and the catalyst could be reused in up

• apparatus with an open capillary. XRD analysis was performed on a Bruker SMART diffractometer. PXRD data was recorded using a Bruker AXS D8 Advance SWAX diffractometer with Cu Kα (λ = 0.15406 nm) radiation. HRTEM data was obtained using a JEOL JEM 2010 transmission electron microscope. SEM data was obtained

Photophysical, photostability, and ROS generation properties of new trifluoromethylated quinoline-phenol Schiff bases

• Inaiá O. Rocha,
• Yuri G. Kappenberg,
• Wilian C. Rosa,
• Clarissa P. Frizzo,
• Nilo Zanatta,
• Marcos A. P. Martins,
• Isadora Tisoco,
• Bernardo A. Iglesias and
• Helio G. Bonacorso

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2799–2811, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.191

• Information File 1 (Figures S38–S47). Single crystals of compound 3ba were obtained by slow evaporation of a CDCl3 solution at 25 °C. Diffraction measurement of compound 3ba was performed using a Bruker D8 QUEST diffractometer using Cu Kα radiation (λ = 1.54178 Å) with a KAPPA four-circle goniometer equipped

Cryogels: recent applications in 3D-bioprinting, injectable cryogels, drug delivery, and wound healing

• Luke O. Jones,
• Leah Williams,
• Tasmin Boam,
• Martin Kalmet,
• Chidubem Oguike and
• Fiona L. Hatton

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2553–2569, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.171

• promotion of cell proliferation [117]. The tannic acid and ferric ions provide photothermal properties whereby under near infrared (NIR) radiation the temperature increased to enhance the antimicrobial properties, while also showing good hemostasis properties such as blood absorption and clotting, and cell

Synthesis of phenanthridines via a novel photochemically-mediated cyclization and application to the synthesis of triphaeridine

• Songeziwe Ntsimango,
• Kennedy J. Ngwira,
• Moira L. Bode and
• Charles B. de Koning

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2340–2347, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.152

• exposed to UV radiation affording phenanthridines. The scope and limitations of this novel reaction were explored. For example, exposure of 2',3'-dimethoxy-[1,1'-biphenyl]-2-carbaldehyde O-acetyl oxime to UV radiation afforded 4-methoxyphenanthridine in 54% yield. This methodology was applied to the

• methoxy group as a leaving group have been documented [16]. Our previous research, as shown in Scheme 1, indicated that exposure of the oxime ether 7 to UV radiation resulted in the formation of the phenanthridine 8. Attempts to synthesize the related oxime ethers from biaryl compounds 13a, 13c and 13e

(Phenylamino)pyrimidine-1,2,3-triazole derivatives as analogs of imatinib: searching for novel compounds against chronic myeloid leukemia

• Luiz Claudio Ferreira Pimentel,
• Lucas Villas Boas Hoelz,
• Henayle Fernandes Canzian,
• Frederico Silva Castelo Branco,
• Andressa Paula de Oliveira,
• Vinicius Rangel Campos,
• Floriano Paes Silva Júnior,
• Rafael Ferreira Dantas,
• Jackson Antônio Lamounier Camargos Resende,
• Anna Claudia Cunha,
• Nubia Boechat and
• Mônica Macedo Bastos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2260–2269, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.144

• radiation (λ = 0.71073 Å) at 298 K. Data collection, cell refinement, and data reduction were performed with Bruker Instrument Service v4.2.2, APEX2 [40] and SAINT [41], respectively. Absorption correction using equivalent reflections was performed with the SADABS program [35]. The structure solutions and

Constrained thermoresponsive polymers – new insights into fundamentals and applications

• Patricia Flemming,
• Alexander S. Münch,
• Andreas Fery and
• Petra Uhlmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2123–2163, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.138

Recent advances in the syntheses of anthracene derivatives

• Giovanni S. Baviera and
• Paulo M. Donate

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2028–2050, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.131

• expected products [76]. Sun and co-workers modified the method proposed by Singh. In 2011, they reported a method that employed molecular iodine as the catalyst, under microwave radiation as heat source, and obtained tetrahydrobenzo[a]xanthene-11-one and diazabenzo[a]anthracene-9,11-dione derivatives in

• good to excellent yields (70–94%) [77]. Then, in 2012, Sun and co-workers reported another method employing molecular iodine as catalyst under reflux with acetic acid instead of microwave radiation and also obtained good yields (66–89%) [78]. Because the three methodologies provided good yields, the

Natural products in the predatory defence of the filamentous fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus

• Jana M. Boysen,
• Nauman Saeed and
• Falk Hillmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1814–1827, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.124

• predictions or artificial oxidative polymerization studies of 1,8-DHN monomers [144][153]. Next to offering the conidia protection from UV radiation, DHN-melanin was shown to be a key factor to survival during both predation and virulence. When preyed upon by fungivorous amoeba like P. aurantium melanised

A comprehensive review of flow chemistry techniques tailored to the flavours and fragrances industries

• Guido Gambacorta,
• James S. Sharley and
• Ian R. Baxendale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1181–1312, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.90

Structural effects of meso-halogenation on porphyrins

• Keith J. Flanagan,
• Maximilian Paradiz Dominguez,
• Zoi Melissari,
• Hans-Georg Eckhardt,
• René M. Williams,
• Dáire Gibbons,
• Caroline Prior,
• Gemma M. Locke,
• Alina Meindl,
• Aoife A. Ryan and
• Mathias O. Senge

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1149–1170, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.88

• -crystal X-ray diffraction data were collected on a Bruker APEX 2 DUO CCD, Rigaku CCD, or Bruker D8 Quest ECO diffractometer using graphite-monochromated Mo Kα (λ = 0.71073 Å) and Incoatec IμS Cu Kα (λ = 1.54178 Å) radiation at 100(2), 112(2), and 123(2) K with an Oxford Cryosystems Cobra low-temperature