gem-Difluorination of carbon–carbon triple bonds using Brønsted acid/Bu₄NBF₄ or electrogenerated acid

• Mizuki Yamaguchi,
• Hiroki Shimao,
• Kengo Hamasaki,
• Keiji Nishiwaki,
• Shigenori Kashimura and
• Kouichi Matsumoto

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2261–2269, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.194

• , entry 6), but TfOH gave the product 2a in 72% yield (Table 1, entry 7). As for the solvent, CH3CN slightly afforded 2a, although N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) were not suitable for the reactions (Table 1, entries 8–10). A fluorine source, such as Bu4NF or BF3·Et2O, instead of

Cell-free protein synthesis with technical additives – expanding the parameter space of in vitro gene expression

• Tabea Bartsch,
• Stephan Lütz and
• Katrin Rosenthal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2242–2253, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.192

• was set to ensure adequate mixing. DMSO and methanol are highly soluble in water, which facilitates handling. Their influence on the viscosity of the CFPS system is negligible, as can be seen in Table 2. The polarities of the different solvents cover a wide range to show the effect on CFPS and give

• water, is better accepted than DMSO. In vitro thscGAS-sfGFP production with additives The CPFS system used, or CFPS in general, is not further optimized for the production of thscGAS-sfGFP or other specific enzymes. By default, GFP is generally used as a model protein to optimize the composition of CFPS

• robust against various technical additives. The general trend is a decrease in protein concentration with increasing concentrations of additives, but still detectable amounts of product were reported with 10% of PEG, choline chloride/urea, betaine/ethylene glycol, DMSO, methanol, and n-hexane. The

Metal-free double azide addition to strained alkynes of an octadehydrodibenzo[12]annulene derivative with electron-withdrawing substituents

• Naoki Takeda,
• Shuichi Akasaka,
• Susumu Kawauchi and
• Tsuyoshi Michinobu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2234–2241, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.191

• apparently smaller than those previously reported for the reaction between DBA-OHex and benzyl azide (Table S1 in Supporting Information File 1). However, the Ea values were previously measured in DMSO-d6 and C6D6, and it is known that there is a solvent polarity effect on the reactivity of SpAACs. In order

Natural resorcylic lactones derived from alternariol

• Joachim Podlech

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2171–2207, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.187

Novel truxene-based dipyrromethanes (DPMs): synthesis, spectroscopic characterization and photophysical properties

• Shakeel Alvi and
• Rashid Ali

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2163–2170, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.186

• to get the anticipated compound 9. Synthesis of the 5,5,10,10,15,15-hexabutyl-10,15-dihydro-5H-diindeno[1,2-a:1',2'-c]fluorene (10): Pristine truxene 9 (4 g, 11.68 mmol), DMSO (35 mL), and t-BuOK (11.79 g, 105.12 mmol), were mixed in a two-necked round bottom (RB) flask (100 mL) under nitrogen

Harnessing the versatility of hydrazones through electrosynthetic oxidative transformations

• Aurélie Claraz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1988–2004, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.175

• ) [43]. In parallel, Sheng and Zhang et al. found that 2-(1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl)aniline derivatives 38 could be electrochemically synthesized from isatins 35 and acylhydrazine 36. The transformation was carried out in an undivided cell at high temperature in DMSO using potassium iodide as supporting

1,2-Difluoroethylene (HFO-1132): synthesis and chemistry

• Liubov V. Sokolenko,
• Taras M. Sokolenko and
• Yurii L. Yagupolskii

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1955–1966, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.171

• ]. Additionally, when the reaction was performed using DMSO-d6 (or CD3CN) and CH3ONa, H/D exchange occurred already at ambient temperature (25 °C, 20 h) [78]. The formation of CDF=CDF was confirmed by NMR spectroscopy, namely by the change of signal multiplicity in the 19F NMR spectra of E- and Z-isomers of 1,2

Regioselective alkylation of a versatile indazole: Electrophile scope and mechanistic insights from density functional theory calculations

• Pengcheng Lu,
• Luis Juarez,
• Paul A. Wiget,
• Weihe Zhang,
• Krishnan Raman and
• Pravin L. Kotian

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1940–1954, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.170

• purified by chromatography (silica [24 g], eluting with EtOAc in hexane from 0–70%) to give methyl 5-bromo-1-alkyl-1H-indazole-3-carboxylate, in 90–98%. For 15a, 284.5 mg, 90%, as a white solid. Mp 141.3 °C; 1H NMR (300 MHz, DMSO-d6) δ 8.19 (dd, J = 1.9, 0.7 Hz, 1H), 7.82 (dd, J = 9.0, 0.7 Hz, 1H), 7.65

• (dd, J = 8.9, 1.9 Hz, 1H), 4.17 (s, 3H), 3.92 (s, 3H); 13C{1H} NMR (75 MHz, DMSO-d6) δ 161.8, 139.4, 132.7, 129.4, 124.1, 123.0, 116.0, 113.0, 51.8, 36.6; IR (KBr disk): 1722, 1466, 1433, 1395, 1354, 1289, 1200, 1183, 1153 cm−1; HRESIMS (m/z): [M + H]+ calcd for C10H10BrN2O2+, 268.9921; found

• ethyl acetate in hexane from 0–60%) to give methyl 5-bromo-2-alkyl-2H-indazole-3-carboxylate in 90–97% yield. For 16a, 291 mg, 92%, as a light pink solid. Mp 110.7 °C; 1H NMR (300 MHz, DMSO-d6) δ 8.14 (d, J = 2.0 Hz, 1H), 7.77 (dd, J = 9.1, 0.7 Hz, 1H), 7.49 (dd, J = 9.0, 1.9 Hz, 1H), 4.42 (s, 3H), 3.98

A new platform for the synthesis of diketopyrrolopyrrole derivatives via nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions

• Vitor A. S. Almodovar and
• Augusto C. Tomé

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1933–1939, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.169

• + H+, 100%). Compound 3c. Yield: 53%; mp 252–256 °C; 1H NMR (300 MHz, DMSO-d6) δ (ppm) 10.08 (s, 2H), 7.78 (AA’BB’, J = 8.7 Hz, 4H), 7.55–7.61 (m, 8H), 7.22 (AA’BB’, J = (8.7 Hz, 4H), 5.09 (s, 4H), 2.03 (s, 6H); 13C NMR (125 MHz, DMSO) δ (ppm) 169.1, 164.7, 161.2, 147.3, 139.9, 136.7, 131.6, 130.9

• , 130.6, 129.5, 126.4, 125.4, 120.4, 120.1, 109.3, 31.3, 24.5; 19F NMR (282 MHz, DMSO-d6) δ (ppm) −131.31 to −131.54 (m, 4F), −137.94 to −138.07 (m, 4F); ESIMS m/z: 1011.0 (M + H+, 100%). Compound 3d. Yield: 56%; mp 249–251 °C; 1H NMR (300 MHz, CDCl3) δ (ppm) 8.02 (AA’XX’, J = 9 Hz, 4H), 7.68 (AA’BB’, J

• %; mp 262–265 °C; 1H NMR (300 MHz, CDCl3) δ (ppm) 7.66 (AA’BB’, J = 8.7 Hz, 4H), 7.47 (AA’BB’, J = 8.7 Hz, 4H), 7.28 (AA’BB’, J = 9 Hz, 4H), 6.75 (AA’BB’, J = 9 Hz, 4H), 5.09 (s, 4H), 1.70 (s, 4H), 1.34 (s, 12H), 0.70 (s, 18H); 13C NMR (125 MHz, DMSO) δ (ppm) 161.7, 154.7, 147.3, 145.8, 137.9, 129.9

The Groebke–Blackburn–Bienaymé reaction in its maturity: innovation and improvements since its 21st birthday (2019–2023)

• Cristina Martini,
• Muhammad Idham Darussalam Mardjan and
• Andrea Basso

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1839–1879, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.162

A facile three-component route to powerful 5-aryldeazaalloxazine photocatalysts

• Ivana Weisheitelová,
• Radek Cibulka,
• Marek Sikorski and
• Tetiana Pavlovska

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1831–1838, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.161

• , 1.0 mmol). As illustrated in Table 1, DMSO was preferred as the optimal solvent, and 130 °C was chosen as the most suitable reaction temperature (Table 1, entry 1). Other solvents showed low yields, or the product was not isolated at all. However, we found that the yield of 5-phenyldeazaalloxazine 2a

• was significantly enhanced when refluxing in DMF with a catalytic amount of AlCl3 compared to the reaction in clear DMF (Table 1, entries 7–9). Other Lewis acids were not as effective, except for a combination of DMSO/TMSOTf (Table 1, entry 4). The application of AcOH/PPA for the synthesis of 5

• heating conditions (CH). Syntheses were performed in DMSO, DMSO/AlCl3, DMF/AlCl3 and AcOH/H2SO4 at 110 °C (Table 1, entries 5, 6, 9, and 12). Under these conditions, the reaction time was significantly reduced to 1 hour from the usual 15 hours, however, the yields stayed in the range of 30%, and the

Syntheses and medicinal chemistry of spiro heterocyclic steroids

• Laura L. Romero-Hernández,
• Ana Isabel Ahuja-Casarín,
• Penélope Merino-Montiel,
• Sara Montiel-Smith,
• José Luis Vega-Báez and
• Jesús Sandoval-Ramírez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1713–1745, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.152

Polymer degrading marine Microbulbifer bacteria: an un(der)utilized source of chemical and biocatalytic novelty

• Weimao Zhong and
• Vinayak Agarwal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1635–1651, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.146

• reclassified as Saccharophagus degradans 2-40 [118]. Two additional GH18 chitinases, MtCh509 [50] and rChi1602 [79] were characterized from Microbulbifer thermotolerans DAU221 and Microbulbifer sp. BN3, respectively. MtCh509 was expressed in E. coli. Some organic solvents (benzene, DMSO, hexane, isoamyl

pKalculator: A pK_a predictor for C–H bonds

• Rasmus M. Borup,
• Nicolai Ree and
• Jan H. Jensen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1614–1622, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.144

• benchmarked against 695 experimentally determined C–H pKa values in DMSO. The ML model is trained on a diverse dataset of 775 molecules with 3910 C–H sites. Our ML model predicts C–H pKa values with a mean absolute error (MAE) and a root mean squared error (RMSE) of 1.24 and 2.15 pKa units, respectively

• (DMSO) using a graph convolutional neural network (GCNN) [3]. Using a mix of experimental and computed pKa data, they achieved a mean absolute error (MAE) of 2.1 pKa units. Lee and co-workers also addressed this problem by creating a general machine learning (ML) model using either a neural network or

• and achieved a MAE of 1.5 pKa units for the solvent DMSO using XGBoost [4][5]. Unfortunately, neither the Grzybowski group nor the Lee group have made their models generally available to other users. Inspired by the efforts of the Grzybowski group and the Lee group, we have developed pKalculator, a

Regio- and stereochemical stability induced by anomeric and gauche effects in difluorinated pyrrolidines

• Ana Flávia Candida Silva,
• Francisco A. Martins and
• Matheus P. Freitas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1572–1579, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.140

• differences did not impact the selection of the best levels based on geometry criteria. Regarding the conformational energy, 3-fluoropyrrolidine exhibited four conformers in the gas phase, although this was reduced to three in implicit DMSO experiments (Table 1). In both cases, a cis-twist ring with an axial

• . Consequently, a total of 10 different structures was identified in the gas phase, with two additional structures observed in implicit DMSO (using solvation model density, SMD), bringing the total to 12. Since the atomic composition of the compounds in Figure 4 was the same, the relative energy may be compared

• , and a stability landscape covering all optimized structures may be obtained from this analysis. Among these structures, only six were found to be significantly stable (<3 kcal⋅mol−1) in either the gas phase or DMSO. Remarkably, structure 19 was the most stable, followed by structure 17, as shown in

Photoswitchable glycoligands targeting Pseudomonas aeruginosa LecA

• Yu Fan,
• Ahmed El Rhaz,
• Stéphane Maisonneuve,
• Emilie Gillon,
• Maha Fatthalla,
• Franck Le Bideau,
• Guillaume Laurent,
• Samir Messaoudi,
• Anne Imberty and
• Juan Xie

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1486–1496, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.132

• respectively 71%, 41%, and 37% total yields (Scheme 1). Photophysical characterization The photoswitching properties of galactosyl azobenzenes 1–5 were realized in water or in Tris buffer containing 5 to 10% DMSO, in accordance with the biophysical evaluation conditions by using ITC. All these compounds

• Z/E ratios during irradiation, showing an excellent photoconversion yield of Z/E = 99:1 at PSS370, and E/Z = 87:13 at PSS485 in D2O/5% DMSO (Figure 3). As the Z-isomer is metastable, its half-life has been determined to be 44.4 h in water at room temperature (Figure S9 in Supporting Information File

• ITC200 isothermal titration calorimeter (Microcal-Malvern Panalytical, Grenoble, France). The lyophilized LecA protein was dissolved in a buffer composed of 20 mM Tris.HCl (pH 7.5), 100 mM NaCl and 100 μM CaCl2 with 5% or 10% DMSO final. All compounds were first dissolved in DMSO then in same buffer for

Synthesis of substituted triazole–pyrazole hybrids using triazenylpyrazole precursors

• Simone Gräßle,
• Laura Holzhauer,
• Nicolai Wippert,
• Olaf Fuhr,
• Martin Nieger,
• Nicole Jung and
• Stefan Bräse

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1396–1404, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.121

• , THF/pyridine (9:1), −20 °C to 21 °C, 12 h, b) Cs2CO3, DMSO, 120 °C, 2–3 d, c) TFA, TMS-N3, DCM, 25 °C, 12 h, d) 1. TFA, TMS-N3, DCM, 0–50 °C, 12 h; 2. alkyne, THF/H2O, CuSO4, sodium ascorbate, 16 h, 50 °C. Synthesis of triazenylpyrazoles 15a–d and functionalization to N-substituted triazenylpyrazoles

Synthetic applications of the Cannizzaro reaction

• Bhaskar Chatterjee,
• Dhananjoy Mondal and
• Smritilekha Bera

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1376–1395, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.120

• phthalides 100, as evidenced by the per-O-methylated derivative of pestalone, a marine natural substance. Either in a Cannizarro–Tishchenko-type reaction with nucleophile catalysis (NaCN) or under photochemical conditions (DMSO, 350 nm), the transformation often proceeds without any problems in DMSO (Scheme

Sustainable tandem acylation/Diels–Alder reaction toward versatile tricyclic epoxyisoindole-7-carboxylic acids in renewable green solvents

• Ayhan Yıldırım

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1308–1319, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.114

• yields and the desired stereoselectivity [59][60][61]. The viscous nature of the aminofuranes usually requires the use of toxic solvents such as toluene, and in some studies, solvents such as DMSO, which are difficult to remove from the reaction medium [62][63][64]. Although solvent effects are of little

• reaction, the acylation is followed by an intramolecular Diels–Alder reaction and the amide intermediate (a sample compound has been previously isolated and fully characterized as a result of detailed studies) is in equilibrium with the final product at room temperature in polar solvents such as DMSO

• chloroform-d (CDCl3) or hexadeuterodimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO-d6) as a solvent. Chemical shifts (δ) are reported in ppm and J values in Hertz. The elemental analyses were performed using an LECO CHNS-932 elemental analyzer (Saint Joseph, MI, USA). Representative procedure for the IMDAF reaction to afford 2a In

Competing electrophilic substitution and oxidative polymerization of arylamines with selenium dioxide

• Vishnu Selladurai and
• Selvakumar Karuthapandi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1221–1235, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.105

• repeated several times to obtain a sufficient amount of the mixture for 77Se NMR spectroscopy. Indeed, two major resonance signals at 371 and 296 ppm were observed in the 77Se NMR spectrum of the mixture recorded in DMSO-d6 (Figure S5, Supporting Information File 1), which could be assigned to diaryl

• )selanyl)aniline (2): Black solid (28.2 mg); 77Se NMR (95 MHz, DMSO-d6, δ) 371.2, 296.1; HRESIMS (m/z): [M + H]+ calcd for C12H13N2Se (ortho/para), 265.0238; found, 265.0229, [M + H − PhNH2]+ calcd for C6H6NSe (ortho/para), 172.0238; found, 171.9667; FTIR (KBr) ν̃max: 3436, 3354, 3220, 3026, 1595, 1490

Structure–property relationships in dicyanopyrazinoquinoxalines and their hydrogen-bonding-capable dihydropyrazinoquinoxalinedione derivatives

• Tural N. Akhmedov,
• Ajeet Kumar,
• Daken J. Starkenburg,
• Kyle J. Chesney,
• Khalil A. Abboud,
• Novruz G. Akhmedov,
• Jiangeng Xue and
• Ronald K. Castellano

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1037–1052, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.92

• equiv of 1,2-aceanthrylenedione, the reaction provided pure 3a product in moderate yield (41%). Subsequent recrystallization with boiling DMSO provided pristine red-brown crystals of 3a. The synthesis of DCPQ 4a was simple and proceeded with the condensation of a 1:1 mixture of acenaphthenequinone and

• and its high thermal stability. Optical properties The electronic properties of the DCPQs 1a–6a and DPQDs 1b–7b were explored by UV–vis absorption spectroscopy in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) at 25 °C (Figure 3). The electronic absorption spectra of DCPQs exhibited structureless bands with λmax values

• this investigation [32]. Also, DPQDs displayed higher molar extinction coefficients (ε) than the corresponding DCPQs by a factor of approximately 1.4 to 5.3 in DMSO (Table 1). Furthermore, in all cases, the compounds from both families adhere to the Beer–Lambert law at the observed concentrations, as

Carbonylative synthesis and functionalization of indoles

• Alex De Salvo,
• Raffaella Mancuso and
• Xiao-Feng Wu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 973–1000, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.87

• indole derivatives were obtained by catalyzing the reaction with 5 mol % of Pd(tfa)2 (palladium(II) trifluoroacetate) and 1.5 equivalents of p-benzoquinone as oxidant in a 1:5 DMSO/MeOH solvent mixture at a temperature between 0 °C and 15 °C and, for a time between 48 and 120 hours depending on the

• mixture in DMSO and the reaction was carried out at 120 °C for 12 hours under a low pressure of CO (1 bar) [55]. Another version was reported by Han and co-workers, who synthesized the desired products starting from 2-(2-iodophenyl)-1H-indoles, catalyzing the reaction with Pd(OAc)2, PPh3, and K2CO3. The

• processes took place in a Schlenk tube loaded with 2.5 mol % of Pd(PPh3)2Cl2 as catalyst, 10 mol % of Cu(OAc)2 as co-catalyst, 5 mol % of PPh3 as ligand under a mixture of CO/air 7:1 in toluene/DMSO as solvent at 100 °C for 36 h. The desired products were isolated in yields up to 98% (Scheme 35). Unlike

Enantioselective synthesis of β-aryl-γ-lactam derivatives via Heck–Matsuda desymmetrization of N-protected 2,5-dihydro-1H-pyrroles

• Arnaldo G. de Oliveira Jr.,
• Martí F. Wang,
• Rafaela C. Carmona,
• Danilo M. Lustosa,
• Sergei A. Gorbatov and
• Carlos R. D. Correia

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 940–949, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.84

• purified compounds. Synthesis of (R)-baclofen hydrochloride (6) from 4dd and (R)-rolipram (5b) from 4de. Reaction conditions: a) 4dd (0.20 mmol, 1.0 equiv), PhSH (0.30 mmol, 1.5 equiv), K2CO3 (0.40 mmol, 2 equiv), MeCN (2 mL), DMSO (0.75 mL), 25 °C, 2 h, then 6 N HCl (0.5 mL), 100 °C, 10 h. Reaction

• conditions: b) 4de (0.105 mmol, 1.0 equiv), PhSH (0.16 mmol, 1.5 equiv), K2CO3 (0.21 mmol, 2 equiv), MeCN (1 mL), DMSO (0.4 mL), 25 °C, 2 h. Enantiomeric ratio (er) determined by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis of the purified compounds. A rationale for the catalytic cycle for the Heck

Synthesis and properties of 6-alkynyl-5-aryluracils

• Ruben Manuel Figueira de Abreu,
• Till Brockmann,
• Alexander Villinger,
• Peter Ehlers and
• Peter Langer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 898–911, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.80

• using Pd(PPh3)Cl2 (5 mol %), CuI (5 mol %), NEt3 (10 equiv), DMSO, at 25 °C for 6 h as reaction conditions with excellent yield and selectivity. With the optimized conditions in hand, the next step was to investigate the scope and afford 3a–j. The corresponding results are depicted in Scheme 2. The

• precipitate was then filtered and dried. Representative procedure A for the synthesis of 3a–j. A mixture of 2 (1.99 mmol; 0.504 mg), Pd(PPh3)Cl2 (5 mol %; 98.3 µmol; 6.9 mg), CuI (5 mol %; 98.7 µmol; 18.8 mg) was dissolved in DMSO (5 mL) and stirred for 5 min under an argon atmosphere. NEt3 (11 equiv; 21.5

• 5. Conditions: i) Br2 (1.0 equiv), Ac2O (1.5 equiv), AcOH, 25 °C, 1 h [62]; ii) Pd(PPh3)Cl2 (5 mol %), CuI (5 mol %), NEt3 (10 equiv), DMSO, 25 °C, 6 h; iii) Pd(CH3CN)2Cl2 (5 mol %), CuI (5 mol %), NEt3 (10 equiv), 1,4-dioxane, 100 °C, 6 h; iv) Pd(PPh3)4 (10 mol %), NaOH (3 equiv), 1,4-dioxane/water

Ortho-ester-substituted diaryliodonium salts enabled regioselective arylocyclization of naphthols toward 3,4-benzocoumarins

• Ke Jiang,
• Cheng Pan,
• Limin Wang,
• Hao-Yang Wang and
• Jianwei Han

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 841–851, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.76

• solvents including dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF), toluene, acetic acid (AcOH) and water (Table 1, entries 9–13) were carried out. However, polar solvents such as AcOH and H2O were proved to be unsuitable for this reaction. For catalysts, we found that Cu(OAc)2 gave the best results