Synthesis of 4-substituted azopyridine-functionalized Ni(II)-porphyrins as molecular spin switches

• Jannis Ludwig,
• Tobias Moje,
• Fynn Röhricht and
• Rainer Herges

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2589–2597, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.210

• shown that the spin switching efficiency is strongly dependent on the solvent and on the substituent at the 4-position of the pyridine unit. We now introduced thiol, disulfide, thioethers, nitrile and carboxylic acid groups and investigated their spin switching efficiency. Keywords: azopyridines; Ni(II

• porphyrin 22 and the disulfide 12, obviously because of catalyst poisoning by sulfur [32][33]. To circumvent these problems, protection groups were introduced. Protection with methyl 3-mercaptopropionate (15) [29] was successful, however, inhibition of the Suzuki reaction was observed. We assume an alkaline

• procedure of Nishimura et al. using mercury acetate in trifluoroacetic acid and anisole as radical scavenger (Scheme 5) [34]. Cleavage of the tert-butyl protection group yielded the disulfide 1g, which was reduced with catecholborane in tetrahydrofuran to give the free thiol 1h, which readily reoxidizes

A new method for the synthesis of diamantane by hydroisomerization of binor-S on treatment with sulfuric acid

• Rishat I. Aminov and
• Ravil I. Khusnutdinov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2534–2539, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.205

• , experiment B), or in carbon disulfide (CS2, experiment C). In experiment А, the major isomer 1-D2, which is formed upon hydroisomerization of binor-S (2), contains two deuterium atoms. Two more hydrogen atoms are probably provided by cyclohexane. Unexpectedly, the reaction also gave undeuterated diamantane

• (2) acts as the hydrogen source for the isomer C14H17D3, 1-D3. Our attempt to carry out the deuteration of diamantane (1) with D2SO4 in carbon disulfide for 7 h at 20 °C was unsuccessful. Evidently, the deuterium exchange, resulting in the formation of diamantanes 1-D7 and 1-D8 containing 7 and 8

• acid (98%) in carbon disulfide or cyclohexane. It was found that both, sulfuric acid and cyclohexane can serve as the main hydrogen sources. In the presence of H2SO4 with a lower concentration (75–80%), the reaction stops at the step of formation of endo-endo-pentacyclo[7.3.1.12,5.18,10.03,7

Dawn of a new era in industrial photochemistry: the scale-up of micro- and mesostructured photoreactors

• Emine Kayahan,
• Mathias Jacobs,
• Leen Braeken,
• Leen C.J. Thomassen,
• Simon Kuhn,
• Tom van Gerven and
• M. Enis Leblebici

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2484–2504, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.202

• of the photocatalytic oxidation of thiophenol to phenyl disulfide using a Taylor flow in a microreactor that consists of a capillary tube. By varying the flow rate of the gas and liquid phase and comparing the oxygen concentration in the liquid phase with the equilibrium concentration without a

Synthetic approaches to bowl-shaped π-conjugated sumanene and its congeners

• Shakeel Alvi and
• Rashid Ali

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2212–2259, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.186

Automated high-content imaging for cellular uptake, from the Schmuck cation to the latest cyclic oligochalcogenides

• Rémi Martinent,
• Javier López-Andarias,
• Dimitri Moreau,
• Yangyang Cheng,
• Naomi Sakai and
• Stefan Matile

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2007–2016, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.167

• chemistry tools to deliver into living cells has seen a shift of attention from counterion-mediated uptake of cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) and their mimics, particularly the Schmuck cation, toward thiol-mediated uptake with cell-penetrating poly(disulfide)s (CPDs) and cyclic oligochalcogenides (COCs

• increasing number of charges and substrate size [18]. To address both problems, the peptide backbone has been replaced by poly(disulfide)s [18][37]. The resulting cell-penetrating poly(disulfide)s (CPDs) 18 are at least as efficient as CPPs but less toxic because they are degraded by reductive

• depolymerization as soon as they reach the cytosol, and their endosomal capture is minimal because they enter cells by thiol-mediated uptake (Figure 4) [38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48]. This mechanism operates by dynamic covalent disulfide exchange on the cell surface and on the way into the cell

A dynamic combinatorial library for biomimetic recognition of dipeptides in water

• Florian Klepel and
• Bart Jan Ravoo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1588–1595, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.131

• ), while AA binds significantly weaker (K ≈ 65–71 M−1). Keywords: artificial receptor; dynamic combinatorial chemistry; dynamic covalent chemistry; molecular recognition; thiolate–disulfide exchange; Introduction Peptides are one of the most abundant and structurally versatile motifs in nature. Thus

• library to be under thermodynamic control. Therefore, the equilibrium responds to stimuli such as addition of a template, which would stabilize a suitable receptor and thus amplifies its formation. This strategy has led to the discovery of many artificial receptors [7][8][9][10], with thiolate disulfide

• cysteines are converted quantitively to disulfides by oxidation with oxygen. Until fully oxidized library members can exchange building blocks in a thiol–disulfide exchange reaction. While a closed monomer can be observed in the beginning (Figure S1, Supporting Information File 1), exclusively cyclic

Heterogeneous photocatalysis in flow chemical reactors

• Christopher G. Thomson,
• Ai-Lan Lee and
• Filipe Vilela

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1495–1549, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.125

An overview on disulfide-catalyzed and -cocatalyzed photoreactions

• Yeersen Patehebieke

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1418–1435, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.118

• , mild, and chemoselective radical catalysts that deserve more attention. The present review highlights the recent progress in the field of disulfide-catalyzed and -cocatalyzed photocatalytic reactions for different reaction types. Keywords: cycloaddition; disulfide catalyst; isomerization; oxidation

• ; photocatalysis; thiyl radical; Introduction Organic disulfides are often used as the skeleton for drugs, pesticides, rubber auxiliaries, polymers, and electronic materials [1]. Over the past decade, organic disulfide-involving photoreactions have attracted increasing attention. Disulfides have versatile

• , oxidations, or isomerizations, disulfides have increasingly proven their power. Herein, we briefly describe the progress in the field of disulfide-involving photocatalysis in recent years for different reaction types. Review Cycloaddition reactions As early as 1988, Feldman and co-workers reported an example

Recent synthesis of thietanes

• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1357–1410, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.116

• transform 1,3-diols 62 into the precursors of γ-mercaptoalkanols with dibenzoxazol-2-yl disulfide (63) and phosphines. They reacted primary or secondary 1,3-diols 62 with disulfide 63 in the presence of Bu3P or Ph3P to selectively synthesize 2-(3-hydroxyalkylthio)benzoxazoles 64. These were treated with KH

• of quadricyclane 218 with thiocarbonyl derivatives 219. With carbon disulfide, mono- and biscycloadducts 221 and 222 were formed depending on concentration, temperature, and pressure conditions [69] (Scheme 43). In the same year, Kanaoka and co-workers reported the intermolecular photo [2 + 2

Oxime radicals: generation, properties and application in organic synthesis

• Igor B. Krylov,
• Stanislav A. Paveliev,
• Alexander S. Budnikov and
• Alexander O. Terent’ev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1234–1276, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.107

Photocatalysis with organic dyes: facile access to reactive intermediates for synthesis

• Stephanie G. E. Amos,
• Marion Garreau,
• Luca Buzzetti and
• Jerome Waser

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1163–1187, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.103

• use of the strong oxidant Mes-Acr-Ph+ (OD3, E(PC+*/PC) ≈ 2 V) as organic photocatalyst leads to the oxidation/decarboxylation of the in situ-generated carboxylates (Eox ≈ 1.3 V). An organic disulfide cocatalyst, (PhS)2, activated by the reduced photocatalyst, was found to act as a co-base (PhS−) and a

Recent applications of porphyrins as photocatalysts in organic synthesis: batch and continuous flow approaches

• Rodrigo Costa e Silva,
• Luely Oliveira da Silva,
• Aloisio de Andrade Bartolomeu,
• Timothy John Brocksom and
• Kleber Thiago de Oliveira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 917–955, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.83

• HEH were used as H donors for both the benzyl and thiyl radicals, respectively. The HEH was needed to avoid the dimerization of the thiophenol to the disulfide (Scheme 11). Fu and co-workers have demonstrated the huge versatility of rhodium porphyrins for photocatalysis. In 2015, they showed that the

One-pot synthesis of dicyclopenta-fused peropyrene via a fourfold alkyne annulation

• Ji Ma,
• Yubin Fu,
• Junzhi Liu and
• Xinliang Feng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 791–797, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.72

• 1 were obtained by slow evaporation from a carbon disulfide solution, allowing us to disclose the molecular structure by X-ray crystallography (Figure 2a). As shown in Figure 2a, the crystal structure of 1 clearly displayed a nonplanar conformation, resulting from steric repulsion between the phenyl

The use of isoxazoline and isoxazole scaffolding in the design of novel thiourea and amide liquid-crystalline compounds

• Itamar L. Gonçalves,
• Rafaela R. da Rosa,
• Vera L. Eifler-Lima and
• Aloir A. Merlo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 175–184, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.20

• thioureas is the reaction of carbon disulfide with either one or two different amines [9]. Due to their self-assembly and self-organization through intermolecular hydrogen bonding, thioureas display interesting technological applications to this group of molecules, one of which explores its application in

Synthesis, liquid crystalline behaviour and structure–property relationships of 1,3-bis(5-substituted-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl)benzenes

• Afef Mabrouki,
• Malek Fouzai,
• Armand Soldera,
• Abdelkader Kriaa and
• Ahmed Hedhli

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 149–158, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.17

• acids in the presence of phosphorus oxychloride according to standard methods [29], oxadiazole derivatives 2 were obtained (Scheme 1). On the other hand, we converted compound 1 into sulfanyloxadiazole derivatives 4 by treatment with carbon disulfide and subsequent alkylation of the obtained

Potent hemithioindigo-based antimitotics photocontrol the microtubule cytoskeleton in cellulo

• Alexander Sailer,
• Franziska Ermer,
• Yvonne Kraus,
• Rebekkah Bingham,
• Ferdinand H. Lutter,
• Julia Ahlfeld and
• Oliver Thorn-Seshold

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 125–134, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.14

• , lithium diisopropylamide (LDA)-mediated cyclisation of 2-(methylthio)benzamides, which were obtained by directed ortho-metalation of the respective benzamides followed by quenching with dimethyl disulfide [27] (Supporting Information File 1, Scheme S1). In general, we found the LDA-mediated cyclisation

Synthesis of novel sulfide-based cyclic peptidomimetic analogues to solonamides

• José Brango-Vanegas,
• Luan A. Martinho,
• Lucinda J. Bessa,
• Andreanne G. Vasconcelos,
• Alexandra Plácido,
• Alex L. Pereira,
• José R. S. A. Leite and
• Angelo H. L. Machado

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2544–2551, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.247

• cocktail afforded the resin-free linear peptidomimetics 8. The SN2’ macrocyclization step was performed immediately after the cleavage procedure to avoid the oxidative disulfide dimerization observed when preparative HPLC purification of the resin-free linear peptidomimetics 8 was tried. Thus, a 1 mM

Targeted photoswitchable imaging of intracellular glutathione by a photochromic glycosheet sensor

• Xianzhi Chai,
• Hai-Hao Han,
• Yi Zang,
• Jia Li,
• Xiao-Peng He,
• Junji Zhang and
• He Tian

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2380–2389, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.230

• high intracellular concentration of GSH is another feature for HepG2 cells. Therefore, amounts of work on HepG2 cell imaging have targeted GSH as the characteristic biomarker [40][41]. Strategies like reduction of disulfide [42][43][44] and Michael addition [45][46][47] have been utilized to design

Recent advances in transition-metal-catalyzed incorporation of fluorine-containing groups

• Xiaowei Li,
• Xiaolin Shi,
• Xiangqian Li and
• Dayong Shi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2213–2270, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.218

A review of the total syntheses of triptolide

• Xiang Zhang,
• Zaozao Xiao and
• Hongtao Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1984–1995, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.194

• new methodologies of butenolide formation. The first butenolide formation started with the reaction of ketone 68 with carbon disulfide (CS2) and iodomethane (MeI) to give the ketene dithioacetal intermediate 69, which was subjected to a Corey–Chaykovsky epoxidation, followed by acid hydrolysis to give

A novel three-component reaction between isocyanides, alcohols or thiols and elemental sulfur: a mild, catalyst-free approach towards O-thiocarbamates and dithiocarbamates

• András György Németh,
• György Miklós Keserű and
• Péter Ábrányi-Balogh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1523–1533, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.155

• based on the reaction of amines and the readily available, but toxic and volatile carbon disulfide [42][43][44][45]. Greener methods for the synthesis of thiocarbamates and dithiocarbamates have been developed such as the addition of the amine component to potassium thiocyanate [46][47] or

Steroid diversification by multicomponent reactions

• Leslie Reguera,
• Cecilia I. Attorresi,
• Javier A. Ramírez and
• Daniel G. Rivera

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1236–1256, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.121

• the 1,4-dihydropyridine scaffold. As depicted in Scheme 14, compound 46 was later subjected to a variety of post-MCR cyclizations, including the reaction with carboxylic acids to form the fused steroidal pyridopyrimidinones 47 and with carbon disulfide to form pyridopyrimidinedithione 48 in very good

Understanding the unexpected effect of frequency on the kinetics of a covalent reaction under ball-milling conditions

• Ana M. Belenguer,
• Adam A. L. Michalchuk,
• Giulio I. Lampronti and
• Jeremy K. M. Sanders

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1226–1235, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.120

• Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK 10.3762/bjoc.15.120 Abstract We here explore how ball-mill-grinding frequency affects the kinetics of a disulfide exchange reaction. Our kinetic data show that the reaction progress is similar at all the frequencies studied (15–30 Hz

• of bis(2-nitrophenyl) disulfide and bis(4-chlorophenyl) disulfide in the presence of a small amount of the base catalyst 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene (DBU) to produce 4-chlorophenyl 2-nitrophenyl disulfide (see Scheme 1). Reliable experimental procedures have already been established for this

• ) conditions with 50 μL of acetonitrile added to 200 mg of powder. The kinetic points prepared for this study are all single point experiments. The reaction under study is a base-catalyzed disulfide exchange reaction starting from equimolar amounts of homodimers using DBU as the base catalyst to result in the

Insertion of [1.1.1]propellane into aromatic disulfides

• Robin M. Bär,
• Gregor Heinrich,
• Martin Nieger,
• Olaf Fuhr and
• Stefan Bräse

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1172–1180, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.114

• as bioisosters of para-substituted benzene and alkyne moieties. The most promising precursor for BCPs is [1.1.1]propellane (1). The available methods to synthesize BCPs are quite limited and many groups contribute to the development of novel methods. The insertion of 1 into disulfide bonds is known

• , but has never been thoroughly investigated. In this study, we show that an UV initiated radical reaction can be used to synthesize symmetrically and unsymmetrically substituted BCP sulfides by reaction of [1.1.1]propellane (1) with disulfides. Depending on the ratio of 1 to the disulfide, only the BCP

• of the thiol addition [24]. In analogy to this reaction, the insertion of 1 into disulfide bonds has been discovered early, but only very few examples can be found in the literature [10][11][25][26][27][28]. In this work, the insertion of [1.1.1]propellane (1) into disulfide bonds was investigated

Synthesis of aryl cyclopropyl sulfides through copper-promoted S-cyclopropylation of thiophenols using cyclopropylboronic acid

• Emeline Benoit,
• Ahmed Fnaiche and
• Alexandre Gagnon

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1162–1171, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.113

• equivalent of copper(II) acetate, 1.0 equivalent of bipyridine, and 2.0 equivalents of sodium carbonate in dichloroethane at 70 °C for 16 hours provided the desired S-cyclopropylated compound 1a in 86% yield accompanied by only 4% of the diaryl disulfide side-product 26a (Table 1, entry 1, "standard

• disulfide product, suggesting a deleterious effect of oxygen (Table 1, entry 3). Yet, to our surprise, performing the reaction under argon also negatively impacted the yield of the reaction (Table 1, entry 4), showing that air is the ideal (and also most convenient) atmosphere for this reaction. Changing

• ). Attempts at reducing the reaction time led to a minor erosion in the yield of the reaction (Table 1, entry 10). Replacing cyclopropylboronic acid (25) with cyclopropylboronic acid pinacol ester (27) or cyclopropylboronic acid MIDA ester 28 afforded 85% and 96% of the corresponding diaryl disulfide 26a