Supramolecular assemblies of amphiphilic donor–acceptor Stenhouse adducts as macroscopic soft scaffolds

• Ka-Lung Hung,
• Leong-Hung Cheung,
• Yikun Ren,
• Ming-Hin Chau,
• Yan-Yi Lam,
• Takashi Kajitani and
• Franco King-Chi Leung

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1590–1603, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.142

• specified. All reactions were performed under nitrogen unless otherwise specified. Analytical thin-layer chromatography (TLC) was performed with Macherey-Nagel silica gel 60 UV254 aluminum plates, and visualization was accomplished by UV light (254 nm or 365 nm) or by staining with phosphomolybdic acid and

• heating. Flash column chromatography was performed using Macherey-Nagel silica gel 60 (230–400 mesh). Deuterated solvents were purchased from Cambridge Isotope Laboratories. UV–vis spectroscopy UV–vis measurements were performed on an Agilent Cary 60 UV–vis spectrophotometer with a quartz cuvette of 1 cm

Benzylic C(sp³)–H fluorination

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

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1527–1547, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.137

• predominately considered to be stable to isolation conditions, secondary and tertiary suffer from the elimination of HF, especially in the presence of silica gel or glass vessels. Therefore, benzyl fluorides have been derivatised, for example in C–O, C–N and C–C bond-forming reactions [18][19][20], thereby also

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

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1518–1526, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.136

• temperature. The crude reaction mixture was purified by silica gel (230–400 mesh) column chromatography (petroleum ether/EtOAc as the eluent) to give the product 3 or ent-3. Selected examples of drugs and bioactive molecules bearing a pyrazole core. Single crystal X-ray structure of ent-3ba (CCDC 2234286

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

• Christopher Mairhofer,
• David Naderer and
• Mario Waser

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1510–1517, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.135

• were recorded on an Agilent QTOF 6520 spectrometer with an ESI source. Melting points are recorded using a Büchi M-560 apparatus and are reported uncorrected. TLC was performed on Macherey-Nagel pre-coated TLC plates (silica gel, 60 F254, 0.20 mm, ALUGRAM® Xtra SIL). Preparative column chromatography

• was carried out using Davisil LC 60 Å 70-200 MICRON silica gel. All chemicals were purchased from commercial suppliers and used without further purification unless otherwise stated. General α-azidation procedure Sodium azide (7.8 mg, 120 µmol, 1.2 equiv) and TBAI (7.4 mg, 20 µmol, 20 mol %) were

• diluted with 8 mL dichloromethane and extracted with 5 mL of sat. aq NaHCO3. The aqueous phase was then extracted twice with 10 mL of DCM. The organic layer and the extracts were then filtered consecutively through a pad of anhydr. sodium sulfate and deactivated silica gel. The solvents were removed in

Towards an asymmetric β-selective addition of azlactones to allenoates

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

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1504–1509, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.134

• and EtOAc), concentrated under reduced pressure, and subsequently purified by preparative TLC (silica gel, heptanes/EtOAc 4:1) to obtain the products 2 in the given yields and enantiopurities. Details for the parent compound 5a (details for the other targets can be found in Supporting Information File

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

• through alumina or molecular sieves-containing cartridges using a solvent purificator MBRAUN SPS-800. All the reactions with azobenzene-containing substrates were carried out in the dark. Reactions were monitored by TLC on Silica Gel 60F-254 plates with detection by UV (254 nm or 365 nm) or by spraying

• 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

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

• purified by column chromatography on silica gel to give product 4. In the case of reacting with 3-NO2 bearing 2f, 2-benzylphenol 5f was partially obtained together with normal product 4fa. 4-CN substituted 2o generated 2-benzylphenol 5o exclusively. Synthesis of aniline derivatives from 2-cyclohexenones or

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

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1421–1427, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.124

• was further washed with aqueous 1 M HCl solution and dried over Na2SO4. Then, the solvent was removed under reduced pressure, and the crude product (220 mg) was purified with recycling preparative gel permeation chromatography equipped with two series-connected JAIGEL-2HH columns (eluent: CHCl3, flow

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

• . Louis, MO), or Acros Organics (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Geel, Belgium) and used without further purification. Thin-layer chromatography was performed using silica gel (60 F254, Merck, Darmstadt, Germany) plates. Melting points were recorded by Büchi melting point B-540 apparatus (Büchi Labortechnik AG

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

• Guoqing Cheng and
• Naoki Komatsu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1298–1307, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.113

• depend on their structures [1]. To obtain specific structures, remarkable progress has been made in separation of SWNTs by various methods such as gel column chromatography [2][3], aqueous two-phase extraction (ATPE) [4][5], and polymer wrapping [6][7]. As compared with these methods, our separation by

• Sigma-Aldrich Co., Nacalai Tesque Co., Tokyo Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd. All organic solvents are purchased from Nacalai Tesque Co., FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd. and were used without purification unless indicated otherwise. The silica gel 60

• N (spherical, neutral) was purchased from Kanto Chemical Co., Ltd. All reactions were performed in oven-dried glassware unless stated otherwise and were monitored by TLC using 0.25 mm silica gel plates with UV indicator (70F-254). Commercial HiPco (purchased from Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc., with

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

• environment. Acetonitrile (99.9%) was bought from Avra Chemicals Private Ltd. and used without any further purification. Selenium dioxide and a range of reactants were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. TLC was performed using silica-gel-coated aluminum sheets (TLC silica gel 60 F254). 1H, 13C, and 77Se NMR (500

• in a different round-bottom flask, and the solvent was evaporated in a rotary evaporator. The resulting solid was dissolved in DCM, and silica gel was added to the DCM layer. This slurry was subjected to column chromatography on silica gel (100–200 mesh) using petroleum ether and ethyl acetate as

• solid. The filtrate was evaporated and column-chromatographed on silica gel (100–200 mesh) using petroleum ether and ethyl acetate as an eluent. The initial yellowish orange fraction containing N1,N2-bis(2-methoxyphenyl)oxalamide, collected with 22% ethyl acetate, was recrystallized from a chloroform

Introduction of peripheral nitrogen atoms to cyclo-meta-phenylenes

• Koki Ikemoto and
• Hiroyuki Isobe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1207–1212, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.103

• overnight to give 3a in 6% yield (272 mg, 0.592 mmol) after the extraction. The latter was purified by silica gel short path and GPC (column: YMC-GPC T30000-40 + T4000-40 + T2000-40, eluent: CHCl3, flow rate: 30 mL/min) to give 3a in 1% yield (52.8 mg, 0.115 mmol) and 3b in 3% yield (118 mg, 0.193 mmol). In

Two-fold addition reaction of silylene to C₆₀: structural and electronic properties of a bis-adduct

• Masahiro Kako,
• Masato Kai,
• Masanori Yasui,
• Michio Yamada,
• Yutaka Maeda and
• Takeshi Akasaka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1179–1188, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.100

• accompanied by mono-adduct 2 (22% yield) by silica gel flash column chromatography using mixed solvents of hexane/CH2Cl2 by changing the ratios of volumes from 10:1 to 3:1. In thin-layer chromatography (TLC) analysis using silica gel, the Rf values are 0.55 for 2 and 0.33 for 3, respectively, with hexane

Bismuth(III) triflate: an economical and environmentally friendly catalyst for the Nazarov reaction

• Manoel T. Rodrigues Jr.,
• Aline S. B. de Oliveira,
• Ralph C. Gomes,
• Amanda Soares Hirata,
• Lucas A. Zeoly,
• Hugo Santos,
• João Arantes,
• Catarina Sofia Mateus Reis-Silva,
• João Agostinho Machado-Neto,
• Leticia Veras Costa-Lotufo and
• Fernando Coelho

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1167–1178, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.99

• different compounds containing the indanone moiety. Synthesis of unsaturated β-ketoesters (Knoevenagel derivatives). aIsolated yield after purification using silica gel column chromatography. Synthesis of 3-aryl-2-ethoxycarbonyl-1-indanones mediated by bismuth triflate. aIsolated yield after purification

• using silica gel column chromatography. bExtensive degradation. cRecovery of starting material. Basic protocol: The Knoevenagel product 9 (0.5 mmol), dry acetonitrile (2 mL), and Bi(OTf)3 (0.05 mmol) were added to a sealed tube. The reaction mixture was stirred at 60 °C and monitored by TLC. Controlled

• decarboxylation directed by bismuth triflate at 100 °C. Synthesis of 3-aryl-1-indanones. aIsolated yield after purification using silica gel column chromatography. bReaction performed at 60 °C. cFrom tert-butyl Knoevenagel derivative. Basic protocol: The Knoevenagel product 9 (0.5 mmol), dry acetonitrile (2 mL

Kinetically stabilized 1,3-diarylisobenzofurans and the possibility of preparing large, persistent isoacenofurans with unusually small HOMO–LUMO gaps

• Qian Liu and
• Glen P. Miller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1099–1110, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.97

• 40 g) on a CombiFlash® Rf 200 instrument (Teledyne Isco, Inc.). Evaporation of solvents was accomplished using an IKA® RV 10 digital rotary evaporator. Baker-flex® silica gel IB2-F thin-layer chromatography (TLC) plates were purchased from J.T. Baker. A 4 watt 254 nm lamp (Analtytik Jena Co.) and a

• gel CombiFlash chromatography (hexane/EtOAc 9:1) to obtain 22 as a yellow solid (0.44 g, 35%, Scheme 5). Mp 59–60 °C; 1H NMR (500 MHz, CDCl3) δ 7.43 (s, 4H), 6.93 (s, 4H), 2.64 (q, J = 7.6 Hz, 4H), 2.53 (q, J = 7.5 Hz, 8H), 1.25 (t, J = 7.6 Hz, 6H), 1.08 (t, J = 7.5 Hz, 12H); 13C NMR (126 MHz, CDCl3

• mixture was heated to reflux for 51 hours. The mixture was cooled to room temperature and toluene was removed by rotary evaporation at reduced pressure to give a sticky, dark brown solid. The solid was pre-purified by silica gel CombiFlash chromatography (hexane/EtOAc 9:1) to obtain a yellow oil as crude

Synthesis of 1,4-azaphosphinine nucleosides and evaluation as inhibitors of human cytidine deaminase and APOBEC3A

• Maksim V. Kvach,
• Stefan Harjes,
• Harikrishnan M. Kurup,
• Geoffrey B. Jameson,
• Elena Harjes and
• Vyacheslav V. Filichev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1088–1098, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.96

• /Et3N, followed by silica gel column chromatography, led to the triethylammonium salt of 2-N-Boc-aminoethylphosphinic acid 5 in 50 % yield. Alkylation of acid 5 with methyl chloroacetate in the presence of TMSCl and Et3N took five days at room temperature, and compound 6 as triethylammonium salt was

• obtained in 84% yield after silica gel purification. Removal of the Boc protecting group from 6 in the presence of trifluoroacetic acid in DCM at room temperature overnight, followed by cyclisation in boiling pyridine/triethylamine, led to 4-hydroxy-1,4-azaphosphinan-2,4-dione (7) in 84% yield. The free

• phosphinic acid 7 was further protected with benzyl alcohol by a procedure adopted from reference [67] using TBTU and Et3N in refluxing dichloroethane. Compound 8 was obtained in 65% yield after silica gel column chromatography. To synthesise a nucleobase for nucleosides Va and Vb, we first obtained

Light on the sustainable preparation of aryl-cored dibromides

• Fabrizio Roncaglia,
• Alberto Ughetti,
• Nicola Porcelli,
• Biagio Anderlini,
• Andrea Severini and
• Luca Rigamonti

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1076–1087, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.95

• the addition was complete, the mixture was left under stirring for 1 h and 30 min. After the workup, operated as described previously, a brown slurry was obtained. Yield: 42%. The crude product was purified via column chromatography on silica gel 60, eluting with petroleum ether. The pure product

Novel analogues of a nonnucleoside SARS-CoV-2 RdRp inhibitor as potential antivirotics

• Luca Julianna Tóth,
• Kateřina Krejčová,
• Milan Dejmek,
• Eva Žilecká,
• Blanka Klepetářová,
• Lenka Poštová Slavětínská,
• Evžen Bouřa and
• Radim Nencka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1029–1036, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.91

• antivirals. Structure of HeE1-2Tyr (1) and of the derivatives synthesized in this work. Analysis of inhibitory activity against SARS-CoV-2 RdRp using primer extension assay. A) Gel-based polymerase assay with a constant concentration of fluorescently labeled template/primer RNA (0.5 µM) and the polymerase

• complex (nsp7, nsp8 3 µM and nsp12 1 µM), along with increasing concentrations of compounds as indicated at the top. Reactions were initiated by adding 10 µM NTPs and run for 1 h at 30 °C. The reactions were stopped by adding stop buffer, and the products were separated on a 20% denaturing gel. B

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

• was performed on Merck Silica gel 60 (particle size 63–200 μm). Solvents for extraction and column chromatography were distilled prior employment. Representative method for the preparation of starting materials 5-Bromo-6-chloro-1,3-dimethyluracil (2). Uracil 1 (22.9 mmol; 4.00 g) was dissolved in

Activity assays of NnlA homologs suggest the natural product N-nitroglycine is degraded by diverse bacteria

• Kara A. Strickland,
• Brenda Martinez Rodriguez,
• Ashley A. Holland,
• Shelby Wagner,
• Michelle Luna-Alva,
• David E. Graham and
• Jonathan D. Caranto

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 830–840, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.75

• band observed in the SDS-PAGE gel of each homolog is consistent with the expected monomer molecular masses of approximately 21 kDa, several other bands appear (Figure 2A). The banding patterns of each of the homologs are similar to those of Vs NnlA. These higher molecular weight bands are likely not

Advancements in hydrochlorination of alkenes

• Daniel S. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 787–814, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.72

• -workers [10][58]. They observed that silica gel and alumina, when thermally equilibrated (120 °C, 48 h), facilitated efficient hydrochlorinations when treated with HCl or reactive chlorides. A compelling demonstration of the potent role of silica gel is presented in Table 4. In the absence of silica gel

• , cycloheptene (61), when exposed to a concentrated solution of HCl in dichloromethane, did not show any reaction (Table 4, entry 1). Under the same conditions, in the presence of silica gel, they observed 97% conversion and a GC yield of 62% for chloride 62 (Table 4, entry 2). Further optimization identified

• and the surface area of the silica gel or alumina. Ethereal solvents were found to yield hydrochlorination reactions only with highly reactive alkenes, such as pinene. Subsequent studies revealed the need to adapt the hydrochlorination procedure for each substrate (e.g., Table 5). For instance, the

Isolation and structure determination of a new analog of polycavernosides from marine Okeania sp. cyanobacterium

• Kairi Umeda,
• Naoaki Kurisawa,
• Ghulam Jeelani,
• Tomoyoshi Nozaki,
• Kiyotake Suenaga and
• Arihiro Iwasaki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 645–652, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.57

• hexane. The aqueous MeOH portion was purified by reversed-phase column chromatography (ODS silica gel, MeOH/H2O), automated flash chromatography (hexane/EtOAc), and repeated reversed-phase HPLC to give polycavernoside E (1, 0.5 mg as a colorless oil). The isolation of compound 1 was directed by its

• based on HMBC and HMQC experiments. HRESIMS spectra were obtained on a Bruker timsTOF mass spectrometer. For reversed-phase column chromatography, ODS silica gel Cosmosil 75C18-OPN (Nacalai Tesque) was used. For medium pressure column chromatography, AFCS (Smart Flash AKROS, Yamazen) consisting of a

Chemical and biosynthetic potential of Penicillium shentong XL-F41

• Ran Zou,
• Xin Li,
• Xiaochen Chen,
• Yue-Wei Guo and
• Baofu Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 597–606, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.52

• extract was partitioned between EtOAc and H2O. The EtOAc fraction was chromatographed repeatedly over silica gel and reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC), resulting in the isolation of pure compounds 1–12 (Figure 2). According to literature reports of known compounds, some of

• IMS Q-Tof liquid chromatograph mass spectrometer. For NMR analysis, we utilized an AVANCE II 600 spectrometer, referencing residual solvent peaks at δH/δC 7.27/77.0 ppm in CDCl3 for chemical shift calibration. We utilized commercial silica gel from Yantai Xinnuo New Material Technology Co., Ltd

• gradient of petroleum ether–ethyl acetate (PE–EA) and ethyl acetate–methanol (EA–MeOH) to yield 22 fractions (Fr.A–Fr.N) as determined by TLC analysis. Fraction Fr.J (62.32 mg) was further purified using silica gel column chromatography with a PE–EtOAc gradient to obtain nine subfractions (Fr.J1–Fr.J9

A myo-inositol dehydrogenase involved in aminocyclitol biosynthesis of hygromycin A

• Michael O. Akintubosun and
• Melanie A. Higgins

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 589–596, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.51

• imidazole in binding buffer (10, 20, 50, and 500 mM imidazole). Fractions were run on an ExpressPlusTM PAGE Gel (GenScript) and protein was visualized using Coomassie Brilliant Blue G-250 (VWR). Fractions containing Hyg17 were pooled and further purified using a HiLoad 16/600 Superdex 75 pg size exclusion

• . Reactions for thin-layer chromatography analysis were carried out using the same general reaction conditions reported above. Six μL of each reaction were spotted on the TLC silica gel 60 F254 (Sigma) and run with a solvent system containing butanol/ethanol/water 5:4:3. The TLC was stained using a solution

Switchable molecular tweezers: design and applications

• Pablo Msellem,
• Maksym Dekthiarenko,
• Nihal Hadj Seyd and
• Guillaume Vives

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 504–539, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.45