Synthesis of imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine-containing peptidomimetics by tandem of Groebke–Blackburn–Bienaymé and Ugi reactions

• Oleksandr V. Kolomiiets,
• Alexander V. Tsygankov,
• Maryna N. Kornet,
• Aleksander A. Brazhko,
• Vladimir I. Musatov and
• Valentyn A. Chebanov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 727–735, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.53

• Oleksandr V. Kolomiiets Alexander V. Tsygankov Maryna N. Kornet Aleksander A. Brazhko Vladimir I. Musatov Valentyn A. Chebanov Division of Chemistry of Functional Materials, State Scientific Institution “Institute for Single Crystals” of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Nauky Ave., 60

Phenanthridine–pyrene conjugates as fluorescent probes for DNA/RNA and an inactive mutant of dipeptidyl peptidase enzyme

• Josipa Matić,
• Tana Tandarić,
• Marijana Radić Stojković,
• Filip Šupljika,
• Zrinka Karačić,
• Ana Tomašić Paić,
• Lucija Horvat,
• Robert Vianello and
• Lidija-Marija Tumir

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 550–565, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.40

• 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia Laboratory for the Computational Design and Synthesis of Functional Materials, Division of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička cesta 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia Laboratory for Physical Chemistry and Corrosion, Department of Chemistry and

Investigation of cationic ring-opening polymerization of 2-oxazolines in the “green” solvent dihydrolevoglucosenone

• Solomiia Borova and
• Robert Luxenhofer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 217–230, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.21

• Solomiia Borova Robert Luxenhofer Functional Polymer Materials, Chair for Advanced Materials Synthesis, Institute for Functional Materials and Biofabrication, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Julius-Maximilans-University of Würzburg, Röntgenring 11, 97070 Würzburg, Germany Soft Matter

Synthesis of meso-pyrrole-substituted corroles by condensation of 1,9-diformyldipyrromethanes with pyrrole

• Baris Temelli and
• Pinar Kapci

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1403–1409, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.145

• devices and functional materials, the synthesis of corrole-based analogues has been rather limited due to very few synthetic methods developed to produce corroles with polymerizable substituents at the meso- or beta positions [10][11][12][13]. To date, meso-substituted corroles have been synthesized by

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

• optical band gap [18][27][28]. Thus, the combination of molecular structure modification and atom replacement could be a viable strategy, for the precise modulation molecular energy levels and yield molecules with strong application potential in organic functional materials, such as OFETs, and CPLs, among

Copper-catalyzed multicomponent reactions for the efficient synthesis of diverse spirotetrahydrocarbazoles

• Shao-Cong Zhan,
• Ren-Jie Fang,
• Jing Sun and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 796–808, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.80

• carbazole derivatives also show important applications in various functional materials [4][5][6][7]. Owing to their remarkable significance, developing convenient synthetic protocols for functionalized tetrahydrocarbazoles has attracted continual attention in synthetic and pharmaceutical chemistry [8][9][10

Continuous flow synthesis of azobenzenes via Baeyer–Mills reaction

• Jan H. Griwatz,
• Anne Kunz and
• Hermann A. Wegner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 781–787, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.78

• the proposed mechanism, which involves nucleophilic attack of the aniline on the nitrosobenzene derivatives in acidic or basic media (Scheme 1) [18][19][20][21]. However, in order to use azobenzenes as functional materials, access to a large-scale process is necessary. In this context continuous flow

Heteroleptic metallosupramolecular aggregates/complexation for supramolecular catalysis

• Prodip Howlader and
• Michael Schmittel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 597–630, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.62

• has led to a significant number of self-sorted cages/assemblies that have demonstrated their potential to act as functional materials [30]. Various self-sorting protocols leading to quantitative formation of heteroaggregates under thermodynamic control have recently proven their capacity. A prominent

Syntheses of novel pyridine-based low-molecular-weight luminogens possessing aggregation-induced emission enhancement (AIEE) properties

• Masayori Hagimori,
• Tatsusada Yoshida,
• Yasuhisa Nishimura,
• Yukiko Ogawa and
• Keitaro Tanaka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 580–587, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.60

• the electronic nature of the compounds with and without AIEE properties. Keywords: acceptor–donor–acceptor; AIEE; low molecular weight; one-pot reaction; ((pyridin-2-yl)amino)maleimide; TD-DFT calculation; Introduction Fluorescent compounds have attracted considerable attention as functional

• materials because of their applications in areas such as information devices, displays, and clinical diagnosis [1][2][3]. Organic compounds with planar structures and large π systems exhibit strong fluorescence in dilute solutions [4][5]. However, these compounds usually form aggregate structures in high

Comparative study of thermally activated delayed fluorescent properties of donor–acceptor and donor–acceptor–donor architectures based on phenoxazine and dibenzo[a,j]phenazine

• Saika Izumi,
• Prasannamani Govindharaj,
• Anna Drewniak,
• Paola Zimmermann Crocomo,
• Satoshi Minakata,
• Leonardo Evaristo de Sousa,
• Piotr de Silva,
• Przemyslaw Data and
• Youhei Takeda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 459–468, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.48

• photophysical properties of compound 1. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 40: General information, synthetic procedures, spectral data, photophysical data, and theoretical calculation data. Funding Y.T. acknowledges a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Area “Aquatic Functional

• Materials: Creation of New Materials Science for Environment-Friendly and Active Functions” (JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP19H05716) from the MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology, Japan), a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP20H02813), and the

A Se···O bonding catalysis approach to the synthesis of calix[4]pyrroles

• Qingzhe Tong,
• Zhiguo Zhao and
• Yao Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 325–330, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.36

• ]. Despite these significant advances, catalysis with chalcogen bonding interactions is still in its infancy and the development of new types of reactions is highly desirable. Calix[4]pyrrole derivatives have been widely used as transition metal ligands and functional materials [50][51][52][53]. Thus far

A two-phase bromination process using tetraalkylammonium hydroxide for the practical synthesis of α-bromolactones from lactones

• Yuki Yamamoto,
• Akihiro Tabuchi,
• Kazumi Hosono,
• Takanori Ochi,
• Kento Yamazaki,
• Shintaro Kodama,
• Akihiro Nomoto and
• Akiya Ogawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2906–2914, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.198

• the α-position relative to the carbonyl group, is the most versatile synthetic intermediate [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. α-Bromolactones are widely used as synthetic intermediates for functional materials and pharmaceuticals, as well as initiators in atom-transfer living radical

Recent advances in the asymmetric phosphoric acid-catalyzed synthesis of axially chiral compounds

• Alemayehu Gashaw Woldegiorgis and
• Xufeng Lin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2729–2764, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.185

• , axially chiral allenes and spiranes [25] are well-known scaffolds widely used in natural products, ligands, organocatalysts, and functional materials as well as versatile chiral building blocks in organic synthesis [14][26][27]. Chiral phosphoric acids represent an important and widely used class of

• hydrogen bonds. Axially chiral allenes and derivatives occur in overwhelming numbers in natural products, pharmaceuticals, functional materials, and useful intermediates in organic synthesis [101]. Therefore, great efforts have been made to synthesize these axially chiral scaffolds [102]. In this regard

• considerable attention in recent years due to their wide application in the total synthesis of axially chiral natural products, functional materials, bioactive compounds, privileged chiral ligands, and have further potential applications in asymmetric catalysis and drug discovery. Accordingly, considerable

Recent advances in the tandem annulation of 1,3-enynes to functionalized pyridine and pyrrole derivatives

• Yi Liu,
• Puying Luo,
• Yang Fu,
• Tianxin Hao,
• Xuan Liu,
• Qiuping Ding and
• Yiyuan Peng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2462–2476, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.163

• -heterocycle that is widely used in pharmaceuticals, photoelectric materials, and functional materials [20][21][22][23]. Many pyrrole derivatives play a significant role in the life science and medicine domains due to the good bioactivities, such as antitumor, anti-HIV, and anti-HSV-1 activity [24][25][26][27

Photoredox catalysis in nickel-catalyzed C–H functionalization

• Lusina Mantry,
• Rajaram Maayuri,
• Vikash Kumar and
• Parthasarathy Gandeepan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2209–2259, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.143

• transformations have become one of the most reliable and basic tools for designing and manufacturing biologically relevant molecules and functional materials [1][2][3][4]. The formation of highly chemo-, regio-, and stereoselective products with excellent yields is the key reason for transition-metal catalysis as

• under slightly modified reaction conditions with exclusion of the nickel catalyst (Scheme 36) [113]. Acylation The ketone motif is an important functional group in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and functional materials [114][115][116][117]. Hence continuous efforts devoted to developing a convenient

Chemical syntheses and salient features of azulene-containing homo- and copolymers

• Vijayendra S. Shetti

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2164–2185, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.139

• reported azulene-containing homo- and copolymers have proven to be efficient functional materials for organic field-effect transistor (OFET), all-polymer solar cell (PSC) applications, and they can also exhibit NIR absorption and electrochromism, and electrical conductivity. However, the reports on

An initiator- and catalyst-free hydrogel coating process for 3D printed medical-grade poly(ε-caprolactone)

• Jochen Löblein,
• Thomas Lorson,
• Miriam Komma,
• Tobias Kielholz,
• Maike Windbergs,
• Paul D. Dalton and
• Robert Luxenhofer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2095–2101, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.136

• Jochen Loblein Thomas Lorson Miriam Komma Tobias Kielholz Maike Windbergs Paul D. Dalton Robert Luxenhofer Polymer Functional Materials, Chair for Advanced Materials Synthesis, Institute for Functional Materials and Biofabrication, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Julius-Maximilians

Recent advances in the application of isoindigo derivatives in materials chemistry

• Andrei V. Bogdanov and
• Vladimir F. Mironov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1533–1564, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.111

• of functional materials are analyzed and summarized. These bisheterocycles can be used in the creation of organic solar cells, sensors, lithium ion batteries as well as in OFET and OLED technologies. The potentials of the use of polymer structures based on isoindigo as photoactive component in the

Design, synthesis and photophysical properties of novel star-shaped truxene-based heterocycles utilizing ring-closing metathesis, Clauson–Kaas, Van Leusen and Ullmann-type reactions as key tools

• Shakeel Alvi and
• Rashid Ali

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1374–1384, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.96

• hint for its utility as novel building block for the development of a range of advanced functional materials for innumerable applications [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. Moreover, truxene has also been vividly used for the construction of fullerenes and their bowl-shaped fragments besides their

• synthetic strategies and also novel truxene-based functional materials with unique properties. Bearing in mind the importance of the truxene framework, herein, we report diverse C3-symmetric heterocyclic systems possessing the truxene scaffold in their structures by means of cyclotrimerization, ring-closing

• medicinally active as well as smart functional materials possessing the pyrrole as a fundamental subunit [28][29][30]. Additionally, 3,4-disubstituted pyrrole derivatives are versatile building blocks for the production of diverse bioactive molecules like co-enzyme, alkaloids, porphyrins and other related

Effective microwave-assisted approach to 1,2,3-triazolobenzodiazepinones via tandem Ugi reaction/catalyst-free intramolecular azide–alkyne cycloaddition

• Maryna O. Mazur,
• Oleksii S. Zhelavskyi,
• Eugene M. Zviagin,
• Svitlana V. Shishkina,
• Vladimir I. Musatov,
• Maksim A. Kolosov,
• Elena H. Shvets,
• Anna Yu. Andryushchenko and
• Valentyn A. Chebanov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 678–687, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.57

• Maryna O. Mazur Oleksii S. Zhelavskyi Eugene M. Zviagin Svitlana V. Shishkina Vladimir I. Musatov Maksim A. Kolosov Elena H. Shvets Anna Yu. Andryushchenko Valentyn A. Chebanov Division of Chemistry of Functional Materials, State Scientific Institution “Institute for Single Crystals” of National

Metal-free visible-light-enabled vicinal trifluoromethyl dithiolation of unactivated alkenes

• Xiaojuan Li,
• Qiang Zhang,
• Weigang Zhang,
• Jinzhu Ma,
• Yi Wang and
• Yi Pan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 551–557, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.49

• in natural products, drug molecules, biologically active molecules, and functional materials. However, the highly selective incorporation of two different sulfur-bearing moieties across double bonds remains challenging [42]. Herein, we describe a visible-light-enabled cascade radical

Synthesis of N-perfluoroalkyl-3,4-disubstituted pyrroles by rhodium-catalyzed transannulation of N-fluoroalkyl-1,2,3-triazoles with terminal alkynes

• Olga Bakhanovich,
• Viktor Khutorianskyi,
• Vladimir Motornov and
• Petr Beier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 504–510, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.44

• , agrochemicals, and functional materials (polymers, dyes, films, etc.) (Figure 1) [1][2][3][4]. Numerous methods exist for pyrrole synthesis, including the classical and industrially important condensation approaches, such as the Hantzsch, Huisgen, and Paal–Knorr processes [5]. However, the direct modification

• , agrochemicals, and functional materials. Transformation of N-sulfonyl-1,2,3-triazoles to pyrroles via metal iminocarbenes. Transannulation of triazoles 2 with phenylacetylene. Transannulation of N-perfluoroalkyl-1,2,3-triazoles with aliphatic alkynes. Reaction of 1a with hex-5-ynenitrile. Metalation and

Diels–Alder reaction of β-fluoro-β-nitrostyrenes with cyclic dienes

• Savva A. Ponomarev,
• Roman V. Larkovich,
• Alexander S. Aldoshin,
• Andrey A. Tabolin,
• Sema L. Ioffe,
• Jonathan Groß,
• Till Opatz and
• Valentine G. Nenajdenko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 283–292, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.27

• contains at least one fluorine atom [6][7][8]. Fluorinated functional materials have also found wide application as durable ion exchange membranes, e.g., in fuel cells [9][10][11], as thermoplastic polymers [12][13][14], in electronic and optoelectronic technologies [15], and in liquid crystal display

The preparation and properties of 1,1-difluorocyclopropane derivatives

• Kymbat S. Adekenova,
• Peter B. Wyatt and
• Sergazy M. Adekenov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 245–272, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.25

• the gem-dihalomethylene fragment. Thus, they are of interest not only for the direct application as biologically active substances and functional materials but also as precursors to other fluorine-containing compounds [1][2]. Fluorine forms stable bonds to carbon and due to its high electronegativity

Circularly polarized luminescent systems fabricated by Tröger's base derivatives through two different strategies

• Cheng Qian,
• Yuan Chen,
• Qian Zhao,
• Ming Cheng,
• Chen Lin,
• Juli Jiang and
• Leyong Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 52–57, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.6

• test the chirality of luminescent materials [11][12]. As a useful building block in constructing functional materials [13][14], Tröger’s base (TB), first synthesized in 1887 [15], shows high controllability and obvious advantages. There are eleven sites in its framework that could be modified without