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Dicarboxylate recognition based on ultracycle hosts through cooperative hydrogen bonding and anion–π interactions

  • Wen-Hui Mi,
  • Teng-Yu Huang,
  • Xu-Dong Wang,
  • Yu-Fei Ao,
  • Qi-Qiang Wang and
  • De-Xian Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 884–889, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.72

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  • carbon skeletons of many dicarboxylates make selective recognition particularly difficult. To address these challenges, we envisioned that ultracycles composed of macrocycles with anion-binding capabilities could serve as suitable hosts for efficient and selective dicarboxylate recognition. In this study
  • introduction of lower-rim hydroxy substituents effectively enhances the dicarboxylate binding through cooperative hydrogen bonding and anion–π interactions. The selective recognition of long and flexible dicarboxylates holds exciting promise for the use of dicarboxylate sensors in medicine and industry. (a, b
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Cu–Bpin-mediated dimerization of 4,4-dichloro-2-butenoic acid derivatives enables the synthesis of densely functionalized cyclopropanes

  • Patricia Gómez-Roibás,
  • Andrea Chaves-Pouso and
  • Martín Fañanás-Mastral

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 877–883, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.71

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  • organoboron compound with CuOt-Bu and subsequent SN2’-selective allylic alkylation of 1. The densely functionalized structure of these dimerization products offers a versatile synthetic handle for further chemoselective functionalization. Considering the presence of two enolizable esters together with the
  • details). In contrast, the use of CsF in dioxane at 70 °C proved to be efficient and selectively provided cyclopropane 9 in good yield, albeit with no diastereoselectivity (Table 2, entry 1). Cs2CO3 was also selective for this cyclization and provided a slight increase in diastereoselectivity, although
  • . However, when the reaction was carried out with KOt-Bu, we observed the selective conversion of 9 into product 20 featuring a different cyclopropane scaffold. Slight modification of the reaction conditions allowed us to obtain product 20 in 56% yield as a single diastereomer (Scheme 5a). Taking advantage
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Published 05 May 2025

Light-enabled intramolecular [2 + 2] cycloaddition via photoactivation of simple alkenylboronic esters

  • Lewis McGhie,
  • Hannah M. Kortman,
  • Jenna Rumpf,
  • Peter H. Seeberger and
  • John J. Molloy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 854–863, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.69

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  • prohibitively high in energy for selective reactivity [5]. The inception of energy transfer catalysis (EnT) has expedited discoveries concerning the photoactivation of organic molecules [15][16][17], enabling direct access to the triplet excited state through the use of a photocatalyst (Figure 1A, top
  • achieved. It is pertinent to note the enhanced levels of diastereoselectivity obtained for this reaction further underscore the potential of gold catalysts for future EnT reactions. Control reactions indicate selective activation of the α,β-unsaturated ester (see Supporting Information File 1 for full
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Published 30 Apr 2025

Unraveling cooperative interactions between complexed ions in dual-host strategy for cesium salt separation

  • Zhihua Liu,
  • Ya-Zhi Chen,
  • Ji Wang,
  • Qingling Nie,
  • Wei Zhao and
  • Biao Wu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 845–853, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.68

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  • dual-host systems for selective ion separation. Keywords: anion binding; cesium extraction; dual-host strategy; ion-pair interaction; solid–liquid extraction; Introduction Ion-pair interaction, defined as the electrostatic attraction between a positively charged cation and a negatively charged anion
  • ]. According to our previous results, the binding affinity of L with chloride, sulfate and phosphate is determined to be 2.2 × 102 M−1, 9.9 × 104 M−1, and 3.8 × 106 M−1, respectively (in DMSO) [31]. Such strong anion binding affinity has led to selective extraction of sulfate and phosphate from basic aqueous
  • accessibility of the dual-host strategy and suggest that cooperative interactions between receptor-complexed ions can be fine-tuned for selective ion separation. Ongoing work aims to explore diverse combinations of anion and cation receptors for targeted ion separation applications. (a) Schematic illustration
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Published 29 Apr 2025

Regioselective formal hydrocyanation of allenes: synthesis of β,γ-unsaturated nitriles with α-all-carbon quaternary centers

  • Seeun Lim,
  • Teresa Kim and
  • Yunmi Lee

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 800–806, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.63

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  • Seeun Lim Teresa Kim Yunmi Lee Department of Chemistry, Kwangwoon University, Seoul 01897, Republic of Korea 10.3762/bjoc.21.63 Abstract This study introduces a highly selective hydrocyanation method based on copper-catalyzed hydroalumination of allenes with diisobutylaluminum hydride, followed
  • with diverse functional groups [12][13][14]. Consequently, the development of selective and predictable strategies for the introduction of cyano groups into quaternary carbon frameworks has become necessary in organic synthesis. The transition-metal-catalyzed hydrocyanation of carbon–carbon double
  • -system configuration promotes selective functionalization, enabling the synthesis of various complex products through a single transformation [17][18][19]. Therefore, allenes have become versatile intermediates in numerous transition-metal-catalyzed reactions [20][21]. Despite extensive studies on the
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Published 17 Apr 2025

Recent advances in the electrochemical synthesis of organophosphorus compounds

  • Babak Kaboudin,
  • Milad Behroozi,
  • Sepideh Sadighi and
  • Fatemeh Asgharzadeh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 770–797, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.61

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  • activities. Budnikova et al. [50] reported a C–P bond formation via the reaction of acridine compounds with trialkyl phosphites in electrochemical conditions without metal catalysts and strong oxidizing reagents, conducting selective C9 phosphorylation with high yield. The reaction was carried out in an
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Published 16 Apr 2025

New advances in asymmetric organocatalysis II

  • Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 766–769, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.60

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  • contributions in stereoselective organocatalytic transformations. The collection contains nine articles featuring various aspects of asymmetric organocatalysis. In the first contribution, Waser et al. examined how chiral phase-transfer catalysts promote β-selective additions of azlactones to allenoates. Maruoka
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Published 15 Apr 2025

Copper-catalyzed domino cyclization of anilines and cyclobutanone oxime: a scalable and versatile route to spirotetrahydroquinoline derivatives

  • Qingqing Jiang,
  • Xinyi Lei,
  • Pan Gao and
  • Yu Yuan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 749–754, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.58

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  • report the copper-catalyzed synthesis of tetrahydroquinoline derivatives via a domino reaction of aniline with cyclobutanone oxime. This method demonstrates a selective approach for generating bioactive tetrahydroquinoline scaffolds, which have broad applications in pharmaceutical chemistry. The reaction
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Published 09 Apr 2025

Orthogonal photoswitching of heterobivalent azobenzene glycoclusters: the effect of glycoligand orientation in bacterial adhesion

  • Leon M. Friedrich and
  • Thisbe K. Lindhorst

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 736–748, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.57

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  • potency as inhibitors of Man-specific bacterial adhesion investigated. Results and Discussion Synthesis For the preparation of the homobivalent glycocluster 6αMan3αMan 2, the known mannosyl thioacetate 7 [31] was prepared from the trichloroacetimidate 6 [32] and thioacetic acid in an α-selective reaction
  • Table 1 shows that the PSS values of the bis-azobenzene glycoclusters 1 and 2 are in a similar range. Furthermore, the glycoazobenzene antennas comprised in 1 and 2 show a similar switching behavior as the individual antennas 6αMan 3, 6βGlc 4, and 3αMan 5. Wavelength-selective photoswitching of 2 as
  • to the O-azobenzene (AB) photoswitch. (Orthogonal) photoswitching alters the relative spatial orientation of the two sugar units. Glucose (Glc) moieties are colored in blue and mannose (Man) in green according to the symbol nomenclature for carbohydrates (SNFG) [29][30]. A: Wavelength-selective
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Acyclic cucurbit[n]uril bearing alkyl sulfate ionic groups

  • Christian Akakpo,
  • Peter Y. Zavalij and
  • Lyle Isaacs

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 717–726, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.55

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  • weakly. The ratio of the binding constants of a common guest to C1 versus M1 is as follows: Me6PDA (26.0), Me6HDA (22.2), PXDA (4.2), Me6PXDA (3.3), CHDA (2.3), Me6CHDA (1.3), AdA (1.2), Me3AdA (1.1). The C1 host is both a tighter and more selective host for the narrower guests than M1. We can also tease
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Origami with small molecules: exploiting the C–F bond as a conformational tool

  • Patrick Ryan,
  • Ramsha Iftikhar and
  • Luke Hunter

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 680–716, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.54

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  • that it is not selective towards injured tissue: it also binds to μ-opioid receptors in healthy tissue, causing side-effects. To overcome this drawback, a fluorinated analogue of fentanyl ((±)-105) was developed [177]. The electron-withdrawing fluorine substituent of 105 lowers the pKaH of the
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Published 02 Apr 2025

Recent advances in allylation of chiral secondary alkylcopper species

  • Minjae Kim,
  • Gwanggyun Kim,
  • Doyoon Kim,
  • Jun Hee Lee and
  • Seung Hwan Cho

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 639–658, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.51

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  • transmetalation of organolithium and organoboron compounds, copper hydride catalysis, and enantiotopic-group-selective transformations of 1,1-diborylalkanes. Detailed mechanistic insights into stereochemical control and current challenges in this field are also discussed. Keywords: allylic substitution; chiral
  • generating configurationally unstable organocopper species with secondary carbon–metal bonds, their unique properties, and related mechanistic insights. This review also aims to outline future research directions and prospects, contributing to the development of more efficient and selective copper-catalyzed
  • (+)-lasiol was achieved through a highly selective SN2 substitution (SN2/SN2' = >99:1, dr = 98:2, 99% ee), while the preparation of (+)-13-norfaranal and (+)-faranal showcased the versatility of the methodology in constructing more complex terpene frameworks. These successful applications in natural product
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Published 20 Mar 2025

Photocatalyzed elaboration of antibody-based bioconjugates

  • Marine Le Stum,
  • Eugénie Romero and
  • Gary A. Molander

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 616–629, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.49

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  • conjugation methods often face challenges related to site-selectivity and heterogeneous product mixtures, highlighting the need to develop new, innovative chemical strategies. Photoredox chemistry emerges as a powerful tool in this context, enabling precise, mild, and selective modifications of peptides and
  • selective chemical reactions, often for bioconjugation, by utilizing photoaffinity reagents. These reagents are typically photoreactive molecules that can be activated by light to form covalent bonds with nearby molecules [31][32][33]. PAL involves using a light-activated group (often a photo-crosslinker
  • ) that can form covalent bonds when exposed to UV or visible light. These photoaffinity tags or crosslinkers are designed to bind to specific biomolecules, such as proteins, nucleic acids, or lipids, in a highly selective manner. The light irradiation triggers a chemical reaction, such as a bond
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Semisynthetic derivatives of massarilactone D with cytotoxic and nematicidal activities

  • Rémy B. Teponno,
  • Sara R. Noumeur and
  • Marc Stadler

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 607–615, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.48

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  • , epidermoid carcinoma A431, ovarian carcinoma SKOV-3, and breast cancer MCF-7 cell lines. Compounds 2 and 3 exhibited significant cytotoxicity against all the tested cells. Some of the semisynthetic derivatives were also tested for their nematicidal activity and compound 4 displayed significant and selective
  • compound 2. This suggests that the presence of the exo-methylene group is a critical structural feature that influences the cytotoxic activity, as outlined earlier [15]. These data also demonstrate possible selective effects of acylated massarilactone D in biological systems. Massarilactone D 3,4,7-tri-O
  • -bromobenzoyl (4) also showed significant and selective nematicidal activity with LD90 and LD50 of 100 and 12.5 µg/mL, respectively. In the case of compound 5, the LD90 was not obtained but the LD50 was determined to be 100 µg/mL. Compounds 1, 6, 7, and 8 showed some mortality at concentrations of 50 and 100 μg
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Total synthesis of (±)-simonsol C using dearomatization as key reaction under acidic conditions

  • Xiao-Yang Bi,
  • Xiao-Shuai Yang,
  • Shan-Shan Chen,
  • Jia-Jun Sui,
  • Zhao-Nan Cai,
  • Yong-Ming Chuan and
  • Hong-Bo Qin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 601–606, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.47

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  • scaffold of simonsol C, utilizing an alkaline dearomatization as the key reaction, followed by a functional-group-selective Wittig reaction and concurrent oxy-Michael addition [6]. A bromophenol acetal was used in the intramolecular alkylative dearomatization, which was first reported by Magnus et al. [8
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Formaldehyde surrogates in multicomponent reactions

  • Cecilia I. Attorresi,
  • Javier A. Ramírez and
  • Bernhard Westermann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 564–595, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.45

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  • byproducts (Scheme 26b) [76][78]. Because of the tendency of formaldehyde to generate these byproducts, several efforts have been made to optimize the chemoselectivity of the Kabachnik–Fields reaction. In this context, Zhao et al. proposed a more selective strategy for the synthesis of α-amino phosphorus
  • amine with two methyl groups and a benzyl or allyl group, the cleavage of the N–CH2Ph and N–allyl bond takes place more selective (by 85% and 67%, respectively), instead of the cleavage of an N–Me bond. This explains the high selectivity observed for some examples in Scheme 27. Finally, this methodology
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Published 13 Mar 2025

Binding of tryptophan and tryptophan-containing peptides in water by a glucose naphtho crown ether

  • Gianpaolo Gallo and
  • Bartosz Lewandowski

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 541–546, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.42

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  • Gianpaolo Gallo Bartosz Lewandowski Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland 10.3762/bjoc.21.42 Abstract Tryptophan fulfills a plethora of important functions in nature both in its free form and as a component of peptides and proteins. Selective
  • peptides [4][5]. Tryptophan also serves as a substrate to produce hormones such as serotonin or melatonin [6][7]. Due to the biological relevance of tryptophan synthetic receptors for this amino acid are highly sought after [8]. From a biological perspective it is especially desirable to achieve selective
  • binding of tryptophan in water [9]. However, the development of selective amino acid receptors in aqueous environments is challenging since it requires a combination of hydrophobic and polar interactions for binding [10][11][12]. As a result, the number of reported selective receptors for tryptophan in
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Vinylogous functionalization of 4-alkylidene-5-aminopyrazoles with methyl trifluoropyruvates

  • Judit Hostalet-Romero,
  • Laura Carceller-Ferrer,
  • Gonzalo Blay,
  • Amparo Sanz-Marco,
  • José R. Pedro and
  • Carlos Vila

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 533–540, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.41

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  • compounds is a significant and important reaction for the selective synthesis of homoallylic alcohols in an efficient and sustainable way [2][3]. As carbonyl compounds, alkyl trifluoropyruvates [4][5] are an interesting class of compounds that have been used in addition reactions of different nucleophiles
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Published 10 Mar 2025

Cryptophycin unit B analogues

  • Thomas Schachtsiek,
  • Jona Voss,
  • Maren Hamsen,
  • Beate Neumann,
  • Hans-Georg Stammler and
  • Norbert Sewald

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 526–532, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.40

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  • University, Universitätsstraße 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany 10.3762/bjoc.21.40 Abstract Drug conjugates using toxic payloads are a promising approach for selectively combating cancer while sparing healthy tissue. The lack of highly cytotoxic and at the same time selective therapeutics against cancer is an
  • 8 was obtained in good yield of 61% through reductive amination with excess formaldehyde and NaBH3CN as reductant, the selective installation of only one methyl group, providing monomethyl aniline 7, proved to be more troublesome. Either reductive amination using the same protocol, but under strict
  • deaths in cancer patients and MDR-selective therapeutics are lacking [36], we expect that cryptophycins 1 and 2 will be considered as viable cytotoxins for the use in targeted tumour therapy, especially against MDR cancers. A: Structure of cryptophycin-52. B: Cryptophycin-52 derivatives modified with
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Synthesis of the aggregation pheromone of Tribolium castaneum

  • Biyu An,
  • Xueyang Wang,
  • Ao Jiao,
  • Qinghua Bian and
  • Jiangchun Zhong

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 510–514, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.38

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  • of (R)-2-methyloxirane ((R)-2) with allylmagnesium bromide (3) catalyzed by CuI produced a mixture of (R)-hex-5-en-2-ol ((R)-4) and (S)-2-methylpent-4-en-1-ol ((S)-4’) (ratio 8:1, determined by 1H NMR spectroscopy) [25][26]. The primary alcohol (S)-4’ could be easily removed by a selective TEMPO
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Published 06 Mar 2025

Synthesis of electrophile-tethered preQ1 analogs for covalent attachment to preQ1 RNA

  • Laurin Flemmich and
  • Ronald Micura

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 483–489, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.35

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  • were required to obtain the corresponding mesylate 3b. Similar to 11, compound 12 was isolated as its trifluoroacetate salt. Selective Boc protection of the aliphatic amine gave 13, which was selectively O-mesylated to give compound 14. Compound 14 was found to slowly undergo intramolecular cyclization
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Photomechanochemistry: harnessing mechanical forces to enhance photochemical reactions

  • Francesco Mele,
  • Ana M. Constantin,
  • Andrea Porcheddu,
  • Raimondo Maggi,
  • Giovanni Maestri,
  • Nicola Della Ca’ and
  • Luca Capaldo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 458–472, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.33

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  • photons and forces, streamlining the combination of mechanochemical and photochemical processes and paving the way for more efficient, sustainable, and selective transformations in organic synthesis. An unexplored opportunity is offered by resonant acoustic mixing (RAM) [82], a technology that leverages
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Electrochemical synthesis of cyclic biaryl λ3-bromanes from 2,2’-dibromobiphenyls

  • Andrejs Savkins and
  • Igors Sokolovs

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 451–457, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.32

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  • diaryl λ3-bromanes under remarkably mild conditions with subsequent applications of the in situ-generated arynes in cycloaddition reactions [3], meta-selective reactions with oxygen and nitrogen nucleophiles [4][5], regiodivergent meta or ortho-alkynylations [6], and regioselective (di)halogenation [7
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Published 27 Feb 2025

Beyond symmetric self-assembly and effective molarity: unlocking functional enzyme mimics with robust organic cages

  • Keith G. Andrews

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 421–443, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.30

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  • across many fields of selective catalysis under the term confinement [3], a term borrowed from heterogeneous catalysis. Polarization can be understood as the catalyst providing an electrostatic environment that works to stabilize electron redistribution. Since all reactions redistribute electrons, and
  • a size-selective space [105][126][129][130][132][134]. A key advantage is that these capsules have been made on multi-hundred-gram scales and can be recycled [132]. Additionally, control of structural or bound water by the capsule [105] and properties such as a lowered pKa inside [125] demonstrate a
  • selective substrate and transition-state binding, and for which extensive synthetic development is known [350][351][352][353][354][355]; (iii) they are the lowest possible symmetry polymacrocyclic structure (removing one edge piece will result in a macrocycle) [356][357], meaning ordered asymmetric
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Identification and removal of a cryptic impurity in pomalidomide-PEG based PROTAC

  • Bingnan Wang,
  • Yong Lu and
  • Chuo Chen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 407–411, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.28

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  • chimera (PROTAC) has made it a popular starting point to develop selective small-molecule degraders [2]. Currently, leveraging ubiquitination by the von Hippel–Lindau (VHL) protein or cereblon (CRBN) is the most successful method to achieve targeted protein degradation [3][4]. For initial studies, a short
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