Electrocatalytic hydrogenation of cyanoarenes, nitroarenes, quinolines, and pyridines under mild conditions with a proton-exchange membrane reactor

• Koichi Mitsudo,
• Atsushi Osaki,
• Haruka Inoue,
• Eisuke Sato,
• Naoki Shida,
• Mahito Atobe and
• Seiji Suga

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• synthesis. Therefore, the electroreduction of pyridine (8a) was performed (Table 6). First, the electroreduction of 8a was performed with 0.1 equiv of PTSA, and 1.0 equiv of PTSA was added after electrolysis to determine the yield by 1H NMR analysis (Table 6, entry 1). The yield of 9a·PTSA (26% yield) was

• mmol; solvent, CH2Cl2 (0.5 M); flow rate of the solution of 6a, 0.75 mL min−1; flow rate of H2 gas, 100 mL min−1; reaction temperature, room temperature; current density, 50 mA cm−2. The solution was circulated until the passage of 50 F mol−1 (10 h). The yields were determined by 1H NMR analysis using

• H2 gas, 100 mL min−1; reaction temperature, room temperature; current density, 50 mA cm−2 (10 h). The solution was circulated until the passage of 50 F mol−1. The yields were determined by 1H NMR analysis using 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane as an internal standard. Plausible mechanism for the reduction

Mining raw plant transcriptomic data for new cyclopeptide alkaloids

• Draco Kriger,
• Michael A. Pasquale,
• Brigitte G. Ampolini and
• Jonathan R. Chekan

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• ], the majority of the proposed structures for these known cyclopeptide alkaloids are simply predicted by MS/MS fragmentation. Therefore, we isolated ceanothine B and completed full structural characterization using NMR, Marfey’s analysis, and MS/MS fragmentation (Supporting Information File 1, Figure S2

• African clubmoss (Selaginella kraussiana) [8]. To confirm these proposed structures from A. bettzickiana, full elucidation by NMR will be required. Localization of cyclopeptide alkaloids in plants Traditionally, cyclopeptide alkaloids have been isolated from the roots and bark of the producing plants [1

• additional purification step using an HPLC system (Agilent) with a C18 column (C18 250 × 4.6 mm Luna Omega 5 5 µm C18 100 Å) and gradient of 55–70% B was employed. Structure elucidation of ceanothine B Ceanothine B was analyzed by 1D and 2D NMR in methanol-d4 in 5 mm NMR tubes (Wilmad LabGlass). NMR

Benzylic C(sp³)–H fluorination

• Alexander P. Atkins,
• Alice C. Dean and
• Alastair J. J. Lennox

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• radical benzylic C(sp3)–H fluorination using Selectfluor. Silver and amino acid-mediated benzylic fluorination. Copper-catalysed radical benzylic C(sp3)–H fluorination using NFSI. Copper-catalysed C(sp3)–H fluorination of benzylic substrates with electrochemical catalyst regeneration. Yields are NMR

• with Selectfluor. Benzylic fluorination using triethylborane as a radical chain initiator. Heterobenzylic C(sp3)–H radical fluorination with Selectfluor. Benzylic fluorination of phenylacetic acids via a charge-transfer complex. NMR yields in parentheses. Oxidative radical photochemical benzylic C(sp3

• fluoride. Manganese-catalysed benzylic C(sp3)–H fluorination with AgF and Et3N·3HF and proposed mechanism. 19F NMR yields in parentheses. Iridium-catalysed photocatalytic benzylic C(sp3)–H fluorination with nucleophilic fluoride and N-acyloxyphthalamide HAT reagent. Iridium-catalysed photocatalytic

Primary amine-catalyzed enantioselective 1,4-Michael addition reaction of pyrazolin-5-ones to α,β-unsaturated ketones

• Pooja Goyal,
• Akhil K. Dubey,
• Raghunath Chowdhury and
• Amey Wadawale

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• ent-3aa-ent-3na, 1H, 13C NMR spectra of 3aa–na, 1H NMR of ent-3aa–ent-3na and their HPLC traces and single crystal data of ent-3ba. Acknowledgements The authors are thankful to Ms. Ketki Lele for her help in some preliminary experiments. Funding The authors thank the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE

Tetrabutylammonium iodide-catalyzed oxidative α-azidation of β-ketocarbonyl compounds using sodium azide

• Christopher Mairhofer,
• David Naderer and
• Mario Waser

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• , entry 14). Tests using other solvents under these optimized conditions were also carried out (details not given in Table 1, which showed that CH2Cl2 (95% NMR yield), toluene (95% NMR yield), acetonitrile (90% NMR yield), and THF (85% NMR yield) are also very well-tolerated. Having identified high

• pronucleophile, followed by a phase-transfer-catalyzed nucleophilic substitution by the azide. Furthermore, we also obtained a first proof-of-concept for the conceptually analogous α-nitration by using NaNO2 under otherwise identical conditions. Experimental General details 1H, 13C and 19F NMR spectra were

• recorded on a Bruker Avance III 300 MHz spectrometer with a broad band observe probe and a sample changer for 16 samples, on a Bruker Avance DRX 500 MHz spectrometer, and on a Bruker Avance III 700 MHz spectrometer with an Ascend magnet and TCI cryoprobe, which are all property of the Austro Czech NMR

Towards an asymmetric β-selective addition of azlactones to allenoates

• Behzad Nasiri,
• Ghaffar Pasdar,
• Paul Zebrowski,
• Katharina Röser,
• David Naderer and
• Mario Waser

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• giving access to the acyclic α-amino acid-based amides 6 straightforwardly. Experimental General details 1H and 13C NMR spectra were recorded on a Bruker Avance III 300 MHz spectrometer with a broad band observe probe. All NMR spectra were referenced on the solvent residual peak (CDCl3: δ 7.26 ppm for 1H

• NMR and δ 77.16 ppm for 13C NMR). NMR data are reported as follows: chemical shift (δ ppm), multiplicity (s = singlet, d = doublet, t = triplet, q = quartet, m = multiplet, dd = doublet of doublet), coupling constants (Hz), relative integration value. High-resolution mass spectra were obtained using a

•  1). Obtained as a colorless oil in 61% yield (81:19 er) on 0.1 mmol scale. [α]D22 = −11.4 (c 1.1, CHCl3); 1H NMR (300 MHz, CDCl3, 298.0 K) δ/ppm = 7.85 (dd, J = 8.6, 1.4 Hz, 2H), 7.54 (t, J = 7.4 Hz, 1H), 7.43 (t, J = 7.53 Hz, 2H), 7.24–7.11 (m, 5H), 5.79 (s, 1H), 5.37 (s, 1H), 4.14–3.90 (m, 2H

Electrophotochemical metal-catalyzed synthesis of alkylnitriles from simple aliphatic carboxylic acids

• Yukang Wang,
• Yan Yao and
• Niankai Fu

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• catalytic cycles. Reaction discovery and optimization.a Supporting Information Supporting Information File 18: Experimental procedures, mechanistic studies, analytical data and copies of NMR spectra. Funding We thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22071252) and the Chinese Academy

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

• decreases concomitantly to the appearance of two new bands at 312 and 438 nm (Figure 2, blue line). Two isosbestic points can also be observed at 310 and 429 nm. The back Z→E photoisomerization can be achieved by illumination at 485 nm (Figure 2, red line). 1H NMR spectroscopy has been used to determine the

• silica gel (60 Å pore size, 40–63 µm). 1H and 13C NMR spectra were recorded on a JEOL ECS-400 spectrometer or on Bruker Avance 300 and 400 spectrometers. Structural assignments were made with additional information from gCOSY, HMBC, and gHMQC experiments. High-resolution mass spectra (HRMS) were

• reaction was followed by a combination of 1H NMR and UV–vis absorption spectra, realized by successive irradiations at 370 nm (438 or 485 nm). The E/Z ratios were determined by integration of the azobenzene proton signals of each isomer. A quartz cell of 10 mm path length has been used for solution

Bioinformatic prediction of the stereoselectivity of modular polyketide synthase: an update of the sequence motifs in ketoreductase domain

• Changjun Xiang,
• Shunyu Yao,
• Ruoyu Wang and
• Lihan Zhang

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• product structures were experimentally determined, such as by crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis or by chemical synthesis, were obtained for further analysis. The modules in PKSs were categorized as α-module (containing KS-AT-ACP tridomain), β-module (KS-AT-KR-ACP), γ-module (KS-AT

• assignment of the product, potentially derived from misinterpretation of NMR analyses [14][36][37]. Nevertheless, many of the previously reported unpredictable KRs are from non-actinobacteria or from γ- and δ-module KRs, and bioinformatic prediction of these KRs would require further studies and more

• collected polyketide products were manually checked by literature searches. Absolute configurations determined entirely by chemical methods, such as crystal structures, NMR, chemical degradation and derivatization, were considered reliable. Alternatively, relative configurations determined by NMR methods

Synthesis of 2-benzyl N-substituted anilines via imine condensation–isoaromatization of (E)-2-arylidene-3-cyclohexenones and primary amines

• Lu Li,
• Na Li,
• Xiao-Tian Mo,
• Ming-Wei Yuan,
• Lin Jiang and
• Ming-Long Yuan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1468–1475, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.130

• were determined by detailed analysis of their NMR spectral data. In particular, 1H NMR spectrum of the representative compound 4aa shows two characteristic signals at δ = 4.16 (singlet) and 3.89 (singlet) that correspond to the two groups of benzylic protons, respectively. Two peaks at δ = 3.77

• -cyclohexenone. This is further supported by the 13C NMR spectrum, which contains two peaks at δ = 38.4 and 47.7 indicating the two types of benzylic carbons. The NMR data of known compound 4ab were also in good correlation with previously reported data [19]. The synthetic practicability of the protocol was

• Information Supporting Information File 6: Experimental procedures, characterization data, and copies of NMR spectra of all new compounds. Funding This research was founded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (22161051, 21302163) and Yunnan XingDian Youth Talent Support Program (XDYC-QNRC

Selectfluor and alcohol-mediated synthesis of bicyclic oxyfluorination compounds by Wagner–Meerwein rearrangement

• Ziya Dağalan,
• Muhammed Hanifi Çelikoğlu,
• Saffet Çelik,
• Ramazan Koçak and
• Bilal Nişancı

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• rearrangement using benzonorbornadiene and the chiral natural compound (+)-camphene as bicyclic alkenes, selectfluor as an electrophilic fluorine source, and water and various alcohols as nucleophile sources. The structure of bicyclic oxy- and alkoxyfluorine compounds was determined by NMR and QTOF-MS analyses

• (Scheme 1). The configurations of fluoroalkoxy compounds 3a–j were confirmed by the COSY 2D-NMR spectrum of compound 3a (Supporting Information File 1). Additionally, (+)-camphene (1b), a chiral natural product, was used as another alkene for fluoroalkoxy reactions. From (+)-camphene (1b), fluoroalkoxy

• rearrangement. Optimizing the conditions for the oxyfluorination of bicyclic alkenesa. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 2: Experimental procedures, copies of 1H NMR, 13C NMR, and HRMS(Q-TOF) spectra. Acknowledgements The authors wish to express their sincerest gratitude to Dr. Barış Anıl for

Rapid construction of tricyclic tetrahydrocyclopenta[4,5]pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridine via isocyanide-based multicomponent reaction

• Xiu-Yu Chen,
• Ying Han,
• Jing Sun and
• Chao-Guo Yan

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• ). The reaction in toluene, methylene dichloride or acetonitrile at room temperature afforded an unexpected tricyclic compound 4a in 12–18% yields (Table 1, entries 4–6). 1H NMR spectra clearly indicated that two molecules of dimethyl but-2-ynedioates took part in the reaction. The yields of the product

• clearly showed that this reaction has a wide scope of substrates. The obtained compounds 4a–t have four chiral carbon atoms. The multicomponent reaction might result in several diastereomers. On the basis of TLC analysis and 1H NMR spectra of the crude products, only one relative stereochemistry was

• that all tricyclic compounds have this kind of relative configuration on the basis of NMR spectra and single crystal structure. In order to develop the scope of the reaction, another kind of 5,6-unsubstituted 1,4-dihydropyridines 5 were also employed in the reaction, which were previously prepared from

Synthesis of cyclic β-1,6-oligosaccharides from glucosamine monomers by electrochemical polyglycosylation

• Md Azadur Rahman,
• Hirofumi Endo,
• Takashi Yamamoto,
• Shoma Okushiba,
• Norihiko Sasaki and
• Toshiki Nokami

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• linear trisaccharide 20b were produced with monomer 17b with a 3,4-di-O-benzyl group (Table 2, entry 2). Although the 3-hydroxy protecting group R3 also affected the product distribution, formation of the corresponding 1,6-anhydrosugars was not observed in both cases. NMR data suggested that cyclic

Challenge N- versus O-six-membered annulation: FeCl₃-catalyzed synthesis of heterocyclic N,O-aminals

• Giacomo Mari,
• Lucia De Crescentini,
• Gianfranco Favi,
• Fabio Mantellini,
• Diego Olivieri and
• Stefania Santeusanio

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1412–1420, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.123

• formation of N,O-aminals 5 and hemiaminals 6. Control mechanistic experiments. Optimization conditions for the Lewis acid-catalyzed intramolecular cyclization of 4a. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 16: General experimental information, synthetic procedures, analytical data and NMR

Hypervalent iodine-catalyzed amide and alkene coupling enabled by lithium salt activation

• Akanksha Chhikara,
• Fan Wu,
• Navdeep Kaur,
• Prabagar Baskaran,
• Alex M. Nguyen,
• Zhichang Yin,
• Anthony H. Pham and
• Wei Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1405–1411, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.122

• . Acknowledgements We thank Dr. Yong W. Kim (University of Toledo) for NMR assistance. Mr. Babatunde Obadawo (University of Toledo) is acknowledged for collecting the high-resolution mass spectrometry data. We acknowledge Dr. Navdeep Kaur’s Ph. D. for her contributions in her Ph. D. thesis titled “Selective

Synthesis of substituted triazole–pyrazole hybrids using triazenylpyrazole precursors

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

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• were submitted to the repository chemotion (https://www.chemotion-repository.net/). All DOIs minted for the data are linked in Supporting Information File 1 and the NMR spectra are given in Supporting Information File 2. Information on the availability of the data and the physical material of the

• /data_request/cif. Supporting Information File 8: Experimental part. Supporting Information File 9: NMR spectra. Supporting Information File 10: Information on the availability of the data and the physical material of the target compounds. Acknowledgements We thank Jana Barylko for synthetic assistance

Rhodium-catalyzed homo-coupling reaction of aryl Grignard reagents and its application for the synthesis of an integrin inhibitor

• Kazuyuki Sato,
• Satoki Teranishi,
• Atsushi Sakaue,
• Yukiko Karuo,
• Atsushi Tarui,
• Kentaro Kawai,
• Hiroyuki Takeda,
• Tatsuo Kinashi and
• Masaaki Omote

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1341–1347, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.118

• Information Supporting Information File 98: General procedures and analytical data, including copies of 1H NMR and 13C NMR spectra. Acknowledgements We would like to thank Dr. Antal Harsányi at Euroapi Hungary for his helpful comments to improve the quality of the article.

Synthesis of 1,2,3-triazoles containing an allomaltol moiety from substituted pyrano[2,3-d]isoxazolones via base-promoted Boulton–Katritzky rearrangement

• Constantine V. Milyutin,
• Andrey N. Komogortsev and
• Boris V. Lichitsky

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• be noted that based on NMR spectroscopy data the synthesized product 3b exists as a mixture of E/Z isomers. Having in hands hydrazone 3 we tried to perform the Boulton–Katritzky rearrangement into corresponding 1,2,3-triazole 4. In order to achieve the best yields of product 4b we varied the used

• hydrazones also can be utilized in the considered rearrangement. It should be mentioned that the presented reaction is the first example of a recyclization of the pyrano[2,3-d]isoxazolone core. The obtained 1,2,3-triazoles 4 are solid crystalline products, whose structures were proved by 1H, 13C NMR

• obtained the recyclized product 6a (Scheme 6), whose structure was confirmed by 1H, 13C NMR spectroscopy, high-resolution mass spectrometry and X-ray analysis. Based on the aforementioned reaction we have synthesized a set of pyrazolylisoxazoles 6 (Scheme 7). The proposed mechanism of investigated

Transition-metal-catalyst-free electroreductive alkene hydroarylation with aryl halides under visible-light irradiation

• Kosuke Yamamoto,
• Kazuhisa Arita,
• Masami Kuriyama and
• Osamu Onomura

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1327–1333, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.116

• Supporting Information Supporting Information File 94: Experimental procedures, characterization data, and copies of NMR spectra of the products. Acknowledgements The spectral data were collected with the research equipment shared in the MEXT Project for promoting public utilization of advanced research

Computation-guided scaffold exploration of 2E,6E-1,10-trans/cis-eunicellanes

• Zining Li,
• Sana Jindani,
• Volga Kojasoy,
• Teresa Ortega,
• Erin M. Marshall,
• Khalil A. Abboud,
• Sandra Loesgen,
• Dean J. Tantillo and
• Jeffrey D. Rudolf

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1320–1326, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.115

• collected NMR data of 1 in chloroform [5], but when we dissolved 2 in chloroform for NMR, it cyclized into two 6/6/6-tricyclic diterpenes (5 and 6) [7]. We discovered that 2 was much more sensitive to acid than 1 and eventually took advantage of its reactivity to determine its absolute configuration [7

• (Figure 4 and Figures S13–S23 in Supporting Information File 1). The 1H NMR chemical shifts for H6 of 6-chlorogersemiene (14), 3.81 ppm (J = 12.1, 4.8 Hz), and 6-bromogersemiene (15), 4.03 ppm (J = 12.4, 4.7 Hz), supported their assignments. The large coupling constants (>10 Hz) of H6 support its axial

• of DFT calculations on the atropisomers 10a/10b and the free energy barriers for clockwise (blue) and counter-clockwise (red) rotations. Scaffold exploration of the 2E-trans-eunicellane skeleton. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 90: Experimental methods, NMR and MS spectra, and

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

• Ayhan Yıldırım

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• and in good yields. The ring stereochemistry (exo- or endo-geometry) of the product, epoxyisoindole-7-carboxylic acid, is easily determined by 1H NMR by evaluating the coupling constants of the protons Ha, Hb and Hc (Figure 2) [119][127][128]. The values of the coupling constants shown in Figure 2 are

• the bis structure are in equilibrium with maleamic acid precursors (Scheme 3) complicates the interpretation of their 1H and 13C NMR spectra. The existence of these precursors is clearly demonstrated by both their 1H and 13C NMR spectra (Supporting Information File 1). It should be noted that in the

• case of compound 2p, unlike the other two compounds, the equilibrium is largely in favor of the product of interest and the NMR spectra confirm this. From the mechanistic point of view of the IMDAF reaction, the presence of both s-cis and s-trans conformations of maleamic acid intermediates in the

Diameter-selective extraction of single-walled carbon nanotubes by interlocking with Cu-tethered square nanobrackets

• Guoqing Cheng and
• Naoki Komatsu

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• (Scheme 2) [11]. The products were fully characterized by 1H and 13C NMR, and MALDI-TOF mass spectroscopy (see Supporting Information File 1). The total yield of 4b (5.5%) based on 2,7-dibromopyrene is much lower than that of 4a (44%) [11], because a larger amount of the product 4b was lost in the

• measurements and analyzed with mMass [29] software. 1H and 13C NMR spectra were recorded on JNM-ECS 400 spectrometer using the sample solutions in chloroform-d (CDCl3). Raman spectra were recorded on LabRam HR800 (Horiba Ltd.) and take the average of more than ten different spots for the final curve. UV–Vis

• , rt, 1.5 h; iv) p-chloranil, dichloromethane, rt, 5 h. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 86: Details of theoretical calculations, experimental procedures, copies of 1H and 13C NMR spectra. Acknowledgements Computation time was provided by supercomputer system, Academic Center for

Oxidative hydrolysis of aliphatic bromoalkenes: scope study and reactivity insights

• Amol P. Jadhav and
• Claude Y. Legault

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• catalytic amount of TsOH·H2O (0.2 equiv each), in the presence of m-CPBA (1.2 equiv) proved to be the most superior conditions (59% NMR yield, Table 2, entry 3). To rule out the possibility of direct involvement of m-CPBA in the oxidative hydrolysis reaction, 1a was reacted in the absence of any hypervalent

Synthesis of indano[60]fullerene thioketone and its application in organic solar cells

• Yong-Chang Zhai,
• Shimon Oiwa,
• Shinobu Aoyagi,
• Shohei Ohno,
• Tsubasa Mikie,
• Jun-Zhuo Wang,
• Hirofumi Amada,
• Koki Yamanaka,
• Kazuhira Miwa,
• Naoyuki Imai,
• Takeshi Igarashi,
• Itaru Osaka and
• Yutaka Matsuo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1270–1277, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.109

• of Lawesson's reagent and the reaction temperature. The transformation from ketone to thioketone was confirmed by 13C NMR, which showed a downfield shift from 198 ppm for the carbonyl carbon to 235 ppm for the thiocarbonyl carbon. With the optimized conditions (Table 1, entry 9) in hand, different

Competing electrophilic substitution and oxidative polymerization of arylamines with selenium dioxide

• Vishnu Selladurai and
• Selvakumar Karuthapandi

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• , and methyl anthranilate, with selenium dioxide in acetonitrile. A systematic analysis of the reaction products with the help of 77Se NMR and single-crystal X-ray crystallography revealed that the reaction progress follows three major reaction pathways, electrophilic selenation, oxidative

• with arylamines follows a complex reaction pathway, leading to a mixture of compounds. We established the possible reaction pathways using 77Se NMR spectroscopy and single-crystal X-ray crystallographic studies. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were carried out to understand the relative

• based on HRMS data. To test whether the isolated black solid was a single compound or an isomeric mixture of compounds 1 and 2, 77Se NMR spectroscopy could be a convenient tool. Unfortunately, 77Se NMR data was not reported in the work of Bhat et al. [37]. With this question in mind, the reaction was