Synthesis and antimicrobial activity of 1H-1,2,3-triazole and carboxylate analogues of metronidazole

• Satya Kumar Avula,
• Syed Raza Shah,
• Khdija Al-Hosni,
• Muhammad U. Anwar,
• Rene Csuk,
• Biswanath Das and
• Ahmed Al-Harrasi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2377–2384, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.154

• methylene protons of –N–CH2-CH2–N3. A singlet peak at δ 2.50 was due to methyl protons on the imidazole ring. The high-resolution mass spectrometric data at 197.0737 (M + H)+ confirmed the structure of metronidazide 3. Single crystals of metroazide compound 3 were grown from slow evaporation of DCM solution

• + H)+ supported the structure of 1H-1,2,3-triazole compound 5c. Single crystals of 1H-1,2,3-triazole compound 5c were grown from slow evaporation of MeOH. The structure of 1H-1,2,3-triazole compound 5c was unambiguously confirmed by single crystal X-ray analysis (Figure 4). Synthesis of carboxylate

• spectrometric data at 321.0842 (M + H)+ supported the structure of compound 7b. Single crystals of compound 7b were grown from slow evaporation of MeOH + DCM (1:1) solution. The structure of compound 7b was unambiguously confirmed by single crystal X-ray analysis (Figure 5). In this article, chemical

(Phenylamino)pyrimidine-1,2,3-triazole derivatives as analogs of imatinib: searching for novel compounds against chronic myeloid leukemia

• Luiz Claudio Ferreira Pimentel,
• Lucas Villas Boas Hoelz,
• Henayle Fernandes Canzian,
• Frederico Silva Castelo Branco,
• Andressa Paula de Oliveira,
• Vinicius Rangel Campos,
• Floriano Paes Silva Júnior,
• Rafael Ferreira Dantas,
• Jackson Antônio Lamounier Camargos Resende,
• Anna Claudia Cunha,
• Nubia Boechat and
• Mônica Macedo Bastos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2260–2269, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.144

• NMR spectra. For structural confirmation of these new derivatives, we also carried out an X-ray diffraction study of compound 2b. Yellow single crystals suitable for X-ray diffraction analysis were obtained by slow evaporation of a solution of 2b in dichloromethane. Based on the X-ray crystallographic

Cascade intramolecular Prins/Friedel–Crafts cyclization for the synthesis of 4-aryltetralin-2-ols and 5-aryltetrahydro-5H-benzo[7]annulen-7-ols

• Jie Zheng,
• Shuyu Meng and
• Quanrui Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1481–1489, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.104

• configuration assignment made by NMR analysis, the sulfonate derivative 21 from 14af was prepared by reaction with tosyl chloride. For compound 21, we were able to obtain single crystals suitable for X-ray analysis and the X-ray diffraction studies on 21 confirmed undoubtedly its trans-configuration. The ORTEP

Co-crystallization of an organic solid and a tetraaryladamantane at room temperature

• Fabian Rami,
• Jan Nowak,
• Felix Krupp,
• Wolfgang Frey and
• Clemens Richert

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1476–1480, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.103

• most important methods for purifying organic compounds in industry [19]. It usually produces solids made up of one compound only. It is common knowledge among synthetic chemists that mixtures are difficult to crystallize. In fact, crystallization to obtain single crystals that are suitable for X-ray

• growing crystallites in the 'correct order of events'. We note that our approach is focused on obtaining single crystals suitable for X-ray crystallographic analysis. We study analytes much smaller than the chaperone. Elegant works by Aakeröy, MacGillivray and others have shown how designed co-crystals

Structural effects of meso-halogenation on porphyrins

• Keith J. Flanagan,
• Maximilian Paradiz Dominguez,
• Zoi Melissari,
• Hans-Georg Eckhardt,
• René M. Williams,
• Dáire Gibbons,
• Caroline Prior,
• Gemma M. Locke,
• Alina Meindl,
• Aoife A. Ryan and
• Mathias O. Senge

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1149–1170, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.88

• pressure. The residue was filtered through silica gel using DCM. Column chromatography was performed through silica gel (hexane/DCM, 15:1–2:1, v/v). Further column chromatography was carried out on silica gel (hexane/DCM, 15:1–1:1, v/v) yielding the purple solid 4 (51 mg, 51%). To obtain single crystals

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

Synthesis, structural characterization, and optical properties of benzo[f]naphtho[2,3-b]phosphoindoles

• Mio Matsumura,
• Takahiro Teramoto,
• Masato Kawakubo,
• Masatoshi Kawahata,
• Yuki Murata,
• Kentaro Yamaguchi,
• Masanobu Uchiyama and
• Shuji Yasuike

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 671–677, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.56

• shift for P-modified phospholes 3–7 (δ = 22.5−39.3 ppm) relative to that of the parent compound 2 (δ = −13.27 ppm). These results suggest that the electron densities of the latter were reduced in comparison to that of 2. Single crystals of 2 suitable for X-ray analysis were obtained by repeated

Ultrasound-assisted Strecker synthesis of novel 2-(hetero)aryl-2-(arylamino)acetonitrile derivatives

• Emese Gal,
• Luiza Gaina,
• Hermina Petkes,
• Alexandra Pop,
• Castelia Cristea,
• Gabriel Barta,
• Dan Cristian Vodnar and
• Luminiţa Silaghi-Dumitrescu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2929–2936, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.242

• molecules of the synthesized α-(arylamino)acetonitrile derivatives in the aggregated crystalline state, single crystals suitable for X-ray analysis were obtained by crystallization from isopropanol. The crystallographic data for the structure 2a reported in this paper have been deposited at the Cambridge

A heterobimetallic tetrahedron from a linear platinum(II)-bis(acetylide) metalloligand

• Matthias Hardy,
• Marianne Engeser and
• Arne Lützen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2701–2708, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.220

• succeed to obtain single crystals of our metallosupramolecular assemblies that were suitable for single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiments. Therefore, we generated energy-minimized gas phase structures of 4, employing a force-field approach using the GFN2-xTB approach recently established to model

Synthesis and characterization of S,N-heterotetracenes

• Astrid Vogt,
• Florian Henne,
• Christoph Wetzel,
• Elena Mena-Osteritz and
• Peter Bäuerle

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2636–2644, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.214

• quantitative yield [47]. Single crystals of intermediate thienopyrrole 25 were obtained by slow evaporation of a chloroform solution and an X-ray structure analysis was performed. Structural details and packing motifs of the molecule are described in Supporting Information File 1. Alkylation to N-propyl

Thermodynamic and electrochemical study of tailor-made crown ethers for redox-switchable (pseudo)rotaxanes

• Henrik Hupatz,
• Marius Gaedke,
• Hendrik V. Schröder,
• Julia Beerhues,
• Arto Valkonen,
• Fabian Klautzsch,
• Sebastian Müller,
• Felix Witte,
• Kari Rissanen,
• Biprajit Sarkar and
• Christoph A. Schalley

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2576–2588, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.209

• Information File 1). Slow diffusion of CH3CN into a concentrated solution of NDIC7 in CH2Cl2 yielded single crystals suitable for X-ray diffraction (Figure 2b). The macrocycle displays a folded conformation in the solid state due to the flexible linker, featuring an intramolecular NDI/naphthalene stacking

• with a typical π-stacking distance of 3.58 Å and a tilt angle of 5.8°. The free electron pair of the tertiary amine points towards the inside of the crown ether. In contrast, single crystals of NDIC8 (Figure 2c), obtained by slow evaporation of a concentrated dimethylformamide (DMF) solution, exhibit a

Rearrangement of o-(pivaloylaminomethyl)benzaldehydes: an experimental and computational study

• Csilla Hargitai,
• Györgyi Koványi-Lax,
• Tamás Nagy,
• Péter Ábrányi-Balogh,
• András Dancsó,
• Gábor Tóth,
• Judit Halász,
• Angéla Pandur,
• Gyula Simig and
• Balázs Volk

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1636–1648, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.136

• structure determination of products 3b and 8b was also supported by single-crystal X-ray measurements. These compounds were obtained as racemates and Figure 1 shows those enantiomers in which the chiral center of the isoindoline moiety possesses an R configuration. All attempts to grow appropriate single

• crystals from derivative 8a were unsuccessful. It has to be emphasized that theoretically, the formation of four dimer-like regioisomers could be expected from aldehydes 1a–d, each of them as the mixture of two diastereomeric racemates. Although HPLC–MS measurements indeed indicated the presence of

Five-component, one-pot synthesis of an electroactive rotaxane comprising a bisferrocene macrocycle

• Natalie Lagesse,
• Luca Pisciottani,
• Maxime Douarre,
• Pascale Godard,
• Brice Kauffmann,
• Vicente Martí-Centelles and
• Nathan D. McClenaghan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1564–1571, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.128

• ; found, 501.20295. Crystal structure determination Single crystals of rotaxane 1a (C36H42FeN3O3) were obtained by slow evaporation of a dichloromethane solution. A suitable crystal was mounted on a cryoloop with paratone®-N oil on an AFC11 partial Chi goniometer. The data were collected at 120 K on

One-step route to tricyclic fused 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline systems via the Castagnoli–Cushman protocol

• Aleksandar Pashev,
• Nikola Burdzhiev and
• Elena Stanoeva

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1456–1464, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.121

• –0.200 mm). High-resolution mass spectra (HRMS) were acquired on a Thermo Scientific, model Q-Exactive high resolution LC–MS/MS with a resolution of up to 150000FWHM at m/z 200. X-ray structure determination: Colorless single crystals of compounds 25 and 26 were obtained from DMSO/H2O. Diffraction data

Ferrocenyl-substituted tetrahydrothiophenes via formal [3 + 2]-cycloaddition reactions of ferrocenyl thioketones with donor–acceptor cyclopropanes

• Grzegorz Mlostoń,
• Mateusz Kowalczyk,
• André U. Augustin,
• Peter G. Jones and
• Daniel B. Werz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1288–1295, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.109

• the slightly more polar one was isolated and identified as the minor isomer of 9d. In the course of crystallization from hexane the less polar fraction gave single crystals suitable for the X-ray diffraction analysis, which unambiguously confirmed that in this molecule the Ph(C-5) and Fc(C-2) groups

• ): Yield: 115 mg (65%); yellow crystals; mp 210–211 °C; single crystals were obtained from hexane solution by slow evaporation at rt; 1H NMR δ 2.69 (dd, JH,H = 13.8 Hz, JH,H = 4.3 Hz, 1H, HC(4)), 3.41 (s, 3H, OCH3), 3.47 (s, 3H, OCH3), 3.57 (s, 1H, HC(Fc)), 3.62 (t, JH,H = 13.1 Hz, 1H, CH), 4.01 (s, 1H, HC

• , yellow crystals, 74 mg (less polar fraction, 54%); mp 126–128 °C; single crystals of trans-9d were obtained from hexane/CH2Cl2 solution by slow evaporation at rt; 1H NMR (cis-9d) δ 2.31 (s, 3H, CH3); 2.54 (dd, JH,H = 13.8 Hz, JH,H = 5.3 Hz, 1H, HC(4)); 3.22 (dd, JH,H = 13.8 Hz, JH,H = 12.3 Hz, 1H, HC(4

Synthesis of esters of diaminotruxillic bis-amino acids by Pd-mediated photocycloaddition of analogs of the Kaede protein chromophore

• Esteban P. Urriolabeitia,
• Pablo Sánchez,
• Alexandra Pop,
• Cristian Silvestru,
• Eduardo Laga,
• Ana I. Jiménez and
• Carlos Cativiela

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1111–1123, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.98

• emitting diodes (LEDs) were purchased from Topbright. X-ray crystallography Single crystals of 2c and 4a of suitable quality for X-ray diffraction measurements were grown by slow diffusion of n-pentane into CH2Cl2 solutions of the crude product at –18 °C for several weeks. One selected single crystal was

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

• annulation was favorable for the formation of six-membered rings. Nevertheless, the existence of several rotamers of 1 derived from the restricted rotation of the peripheral phenyl ring substituents and its nonplanar geometry prevented the structure elucidation by proton NMR analysis [35]. Single crystals of

Towards triptycene functionalization and triptycene-linked porphyrin arrays

• Gemma M. Locke,
• Keith J. Flanagan and
• Mathias O. Senge

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 763–777, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.70

• extend this family of triptycene-linked porphyrins from dimers to trimers. Single crystal X-ray analyses To further confirm the structures of the substituted triptycene, we obtained single crystals suitable for analysis of the disubstituted triptycenes 5 and 16. The structure of 5 was solved with one

Synthesis of C₇₀-fragment buckybowls bearing alkoxy substituents

• Yumi Yakiyama,
• Shota Hishikawa and
• Hidehiro Sakurai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 681–690, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.66

• dependent on the temperature as shown in Table 1. It is assumed that the ring-rotation process, which generated the regioisomer did not occurred in case of 4a because of two larger methoxy groups than the methylenedioxy group. Crystal structures of 5a–c Single crystals of 5a–c were successfully obtained by

Six-fold C–H borylation of hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene

• Mai Nagase,
• Kenta Kato,
• Akiko Yagi,
• Yasutomo Segawa and
• Kenichiro Itami

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 391–397, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.37

• subjected to X-ray crystallographic analysis. Orange single crystals were formed by the diffusion of pentane vapor to a 1,1,1-trichloroethane solution of 1 synthesized by the C–H borylation method. The crystal structure confirmed that the C–H borylation proceeded regioselectively at the least hindered C–H

Synthesis and circularly polarized luminescence properties of BINOL-derived bisbenzofuro[2,3-b:3’,2’-e]pyridines (BBZFPys)

• Ryo Takishima,
• Yuji Nishii,
• Tomoaki Hinoue,
• Yoshitane Imai and
• Masahiro Miura

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 325–336, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.32

• . Compound 4b: Synthesized similarly to 4b from 3b (254 mg, 0.30 mmol). Purified by silica gel column chromatography (eluent: hexane/EtOAc 4:1) and GPC to give the title compound as pale yellow solid; (S)-4b (45.4 mg, 18% yield), (R)-4b (30.2 mg, 12% yield). Single crystals suitable for the X-ray analysis

• /EtOAc 4:1) and GPC to give the title compound as pale yellow solid; (S)-4c (74.1 mg, 29% yield), (R)-4c (90.0 mg, 36% yield). Single crystals suitable for the X-ray analysis were obtained by hexane vapor diffusion into CHCl3 solution. Mp >300 °C; 1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3) δ 1.41 (s, 18H), 1.45 (s, 18H

Absolute configurations of talaromycones A and B, α-diversonolic ester, and aspergillusone B from endophytic Talaromyces sp. ECN211

• Ken-ichi Nakashima,
• Junko Tomida,
• Takao Hirai,
• Yoshiaki Kawamura and
• Makoto Inoue

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 290–296, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.28

• in good agreement with those of 1 (Figure 3b), the absolute configuration of 2 was also assigned to be R. Single crystals of α-diversonolic ester (3) were obtained as colorless prisms by vapor diffusion with acetone/n-hexane, and single-crystal X-ray diffractometry determined the structure shown in

•  4b). This is the first experimental evidence that corroborates the absolute configurations of 3 and 4, compounds that were reported previously without evidence for this stereochemistry. We also obtained single crystals of glauconic acid (5) as prisms by slow evaporation in CH2Cl2/n-hexane at 10 °C. X

Ultrasonic-assisted unusual four-component synthesis of 7-azolylamino-4,5,6,7-tetrahydroazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines

• Yana I. Sakhno,
• Maryna V. Murlykina,
• Oleksandr I. Zbruyev,
• Anton V. Kozyryev,
• Svetlana V. Shishkina,
• Dmytro Sysoiev,
• Vladimir I. Musatov,
• Sergey M. Desenko and
• Valentyn A. Chebanov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 281–289, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.27

• Yana I. Sakhno Maryna V. Murlykina Oleksandr I. Zbruyev Anton V. Kozyryev Svetlana V. Shishkina Dmytro Sysoiev Vladimir I. Musatov Sergey M. Desenko Valentyn A. Chebanov Division of Chemistry of Functional Materials, State Scientific Institution “Institute for Single Crystals” of National Academy

Synthesis and herbicidal activities of aryloxyacetic acid derivatives as HPPD inhibitors

• Man-Man Wang,
• Hao Huang,
• Lei Shu,
• Jian-Min Liu,
• Jian-Qiu Zhang,
• Yi-Le Yan and
• Da-Yong Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 233–247, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.25

• Supporting Information File 1. The chemical structures of all title compounds were confirmed by 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopic analyses and HRMS spectrometric analyses. X-ray diffraction Single crystals of compounds I18 and III4 were cultivated for structure validation. Compound I18 was recrystallized from a

Synthesis of 3-alkenylindoles through regioselective C–H alkenylation of indoles by a ruthenium nanocatalyst

• Abhijit Paul,
• Debnath Chatterjee,
• Srirupa Banerjee and
• Somnath Yadav

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 140–148, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.16

• essentially zerovalent Ru nanoparticles promotes their catalytic ability towards several challenging reactions, such as CO oxidation [67][68] and hydrogen evolution [69]. Interestingly, pristine Ru(0) single crystals have been reported to perform poorly in these reactions when compared to the surface-oxidised