Lewis acid-promoted hydrofluorination of alkynyl sulfides to generate α-fluorovinyl thioethers

• Davide Bello and
• David O'Hagan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1902–1909, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.205

• Organofluorine compounds have found wide use in tuning the properties of performance compounds in medicinal and materials chemistry [1][2]. Also the electronegativity of fluorine has been used to design and tune steric and electronic mimetics of functional groups for applications in biomolecular chemistry. For

Asymmetric 1,4-bis(ethynyl)bicyclo[2.2.2]octane rotators via monocarbinol functionalization. Ready access to polyrotors

• Cyprien Lemouchi and
• Patrick Batail

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1881–1885, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.202

• )bicyclo[2.2.2]octane rotators. The good yields allow the large amounts required for self-assembly and subsequent investigations of the dynamics of the rotors in the solid state to be readily prepare. The chemistry, physical chemistry and materials chemistry and physics of asymmetric rotors and their

Polythiophene and oligothiophene systems modified by TTF electroactive units for organic electronics

• Alexander L. Kanibolotsky,
• Neil J. Findlay and
• Peter J. Skabara

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1749–1766, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.191

• in organic field effect transistors and solar cells. Keywords: donor; oligothiophene; organic electronics; polythiophene; semiconductor; tetrathiafulvalene; Introduction Sulfur-rich π-functional systems are important building blocks in materials chemistry. Among them, tetrathiafulvalene (TTF

Bis(vinylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene analogues of BEDT-TTF

• Erdal Ertas,
• İlknur Demirtas and
• Turan Ozturk

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 403–415, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.46

• chemistry, materials chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and polymer chemistry. 1,8-Diketones have been demonstrated to be versatile starting materials for the synthesis of various challenging analogues of ET, possessing dithiin and thiophene moieties. This chemistry not only led to the production of the

Specific DNA duplex formation at an artificial lipid bilayer: fluorescence microscopy after Sybr Green I staining

• Emma Werz and
• Helmut Rosemeyer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2307–2321, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.240

• Emma Werz Helmut Rosemeyer Organic Materials Chemistry and Bioorganic Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry of New Materials, University of Osnabrück, Barbarastr. 7, D-49069 Osnabrück, Germany Ionovation GmbH, Westerbreite 7 (CUT), D-49084 Osnabrück, Germany 10.3762/bjoc.10.240 Abstract The article

Chiral phosphines in nucleophilic organocatalysis

• Yumei Xiao,
• Zhanhu Sun,
• Hongchao Guo and
• Ohyun Kwon

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2089–2121, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.218

• provided a versatile and promising strategy for tailoring carbon materials (e.g., fullerenes, carbon nanotubes), imparting them with desired properties for applications in materials chemistry [42][43]. To further develop nucleophilic phosphine-catalyzed asymmetric reactions, Marinetti and co-workers

Facile synthesis of 1-alkoxy-1H-benzo- and 7-azabenzotriazoles from peptide coupling agents, mechanistic studies, and synthetic applications

• Mahesh K. Lakshman,
• Manish K. Singh,
• Mukesh Kumar,
• Raghu Ram Chamala,
• Vijayender R. Yedulla,
• Domenick Wagner,
• Evan Leung,
• Lijia Yang,
• Asha Matin and
• Sadia Ahmad

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1919–1932, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.200

• reported to be promising entities in the treatment of glutamate mGluR2 receptor dysfunction-related diseases, such as neurological and psychological disorders [11]. Benzotriazole-derived compounds also have applications in materials chemistry. For example, 5-alkyl- and 5-alkanoylaminobenzotriazoles have

Carbon nanomaterials

• Anke Krueger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1785–1786, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.186

• involving materials science, organic chemistry and physics. Synthetic organic chemistry is a major part of carbon materials chemistry as the rational synthesis of carbon allotropes such as fullerenes and nanotubes and related molecular compounds with and without heteroatoms remains a challenging task. The

On the bromination of the dihydroazulene/vinylheptafulvene photo-/thermoswitch

• Virginia Mazzanti,
• Martina Cacciarini,
• Søren L. Broman,
• Christian R. Parker,
• Magnus Schau-Magnussen,
• Andrew D. Bond and
• Mogens B. Nielsen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 958–966, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.108

• not perform the controlled elimination of HBr by LiHMDS to generate the corresponding 7-bromo-DHA as we could from 3. The structure of the azulene 14 was confirmed by X-ray crystallographic analysis (Figure 3c). Functionalized azulenes are themselves interesting in materials chemistry for their

Imidazole as a parent π-conjugated backbone in charge-transfer chromophores

• Jiří Kulhánek and
• Filip Bureš

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 25–49, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.4

• modern materials chemistry. This year, Liu, Yin, and co-workers [57][58] published a very nice example of photoswitchable diimidazole chromophores 32,33 with a distinct difference in optical properties between the open and closed forms. N-Unsubstituted diimidazoles can easily be oxidized to the

• , higher thermal stability, and NLO responses as well as prospective applicability in modern materials chemistry. The second-order susceptibilities of nonlinear optical polymers are historically referred to as “dij” coefficients (1/2 of the respective χij(2) values). The electro-optic coefficient rij

• (non)linearities. Imidazole-derived chromophores have found also a wide range of practical applications in OLEDs, OPVCs, switches, memories, and polymers. A combination of all of these properties makes imidazole a very promising scaffold for materials chemistry. Schematic representation of organic D-π

Efficient synthesis of 1,3-diaryl-4-halo-1H-pyrazoles from 3-arylsydnones and 2-aryl-1,1-dihalo-1-alkenes

• Yiwen Yang,
• Chunxiang Kuang,
• Hui Jin,
• Qing Yang and
• Zhongkui Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1656–1662, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.195

• [9] and fungicides [10], and as well as antiviral [11] and antibacterial agents [12]. Pyrazoles are gaining interest as ligands for transition metals, and in the field of materials chemistry [13][14]. Pyrazole and its derivatives can be synthesized by several methods [15]. The most common approach is

Themed series in organo- fluorine chemistry

• David O'Hagan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 11, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.11

• ]. Organo-fluorine compounds have also found a significant role in soft materials chemistry such as liquid crystals, photoresist polymers and self assembling monolayers [3]. Allied to this breadth of activity is a steady development in the number and range of fluorination reagents and methodologies. DAST