Fluorinated maleimide-substituted porphyrins and chlorins: synthesis and characterization

• Valentina A. Ol’shevskaya,
• Elena G. Kononova and
• Andrei V. Zaitsev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2704–2709, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.263

• chlorins for the development of PDT therapeutics and dependence of their biological properties on the structure of peripheral substituents, we developed a simple synthetic approach for new maleimide derivatives of the fluorinated porphyrins and chlorins. We also believe the synthetic potential of maleimide

In water multicomponent synthesis of low-molecular-mass 4,7-dihydrotetrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines

• Irina G. Tkachenko,
• Sergey A. Komykhov,
• Vladimir I. Musatov,
• Svitlana V. Shishkina,
• Viktoriya V. Dyakonenko,
• Vladimir N. Shvets,
• Mikhail V. Diachkov,
• Valentyn A. Chebanov and
• Sergey M. Desenko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2390–2397, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.231

• biological properties. They have been reported to have anticancer [1], antimicrobial [2][3] and antioxidant [3] activities and to act as inhibitors of hepatitis B virus [4]. The dihydro derivatives of tetrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines belong to a bit special kind of dihydropyrimidines due to the strong electron

Fluorescent phosphorus dendrimers excited by two photons: synthesis, two-photon absorption properties and biological uses

• Anne-Marie Caminade,
• Artem Zibarov,
• Eduardo Cueto Diaz,
• Aurélien Hameau,
• Maxime Klausen,
• Kathleen Moineau-Chane Ching,
• Jean-Pierre Majoral,
• Jean-Baptiste Verlhac,
• Olivier Mongin and
• Mireille Blanchard-Desce

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2287–2303, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.221

• modifications, on the terminal functions [28][29], at the core [30] or linked to the core [31], and in the branches [32] have been achieved. In this review, we will gather the syntheses, fluorescence properties, and some biological properties of phosphorhydrazone dendrimers bearing in some part of their

• two different locations in the structure of the dendrimers, and will report at the end the biological properties. Review The synthesis of phosphorhydrazone dendrimers necessitates two steps to build one generation. Starting from a core having P–Cl functions, such as the hexachlorocyclotriphosphazene

• confinement in the double layer dendrimer has a detrimental influence on the TPA properties [63]. Biological properties of dendrimers having TPA properties Most of the water-soluble fluorescent dendrimers shown in the previous paragraphs have been synthesized for diverse biological purposes. The first type of

Regioselective Pd-catalyzed direct C1- and C2-arylations of lilolidine for the access to 5,6-dihydropyrrolo[3,2,1-ij]quinoline derivatives

• Hai-Yun Huang,
• Haoran Li,
• Thierry Roisnel,
• Jean-François Soulé and
• Henri Doucet

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2069–2075, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.204

• methodology provides a straightforward access to several lilolidine derivatives from commercially available compounds via one, two or three C–H bond functionalization steps allowing to tune their biological properties. Keywords: catalysis: C–C bond formation; C–H bond activation; lilolidine; palladium

• 10 mol % of CuI as catalyst in DMF at 100 °C. The late stage C–H bond functionalization of molecules represents a powerful method for the easy screening of the biological properties of compounds containing a bioactive unit. Since the seminal work by Ohta et al. on the Pd-catalyzed C–H bond

• nicely. Therefore, this methodology provides a straightforward access to a wide variety of α- and β-(hetero)aryl-substituted lilolidines allowing to tune or modify their biological properties. Structures of lilolidine, tivantinib and tarazepide. Access to α- and β-arylated lilolidine derivatives

N-(1-Phenylethyl)aziridine-2-carboxylate esters in the synthesis of biologically relevant compounds

• Iwona E. Głowacka,
• Aleksandra Trocha,
• Andrzej E. Wróblewski and
• Dorota G. Piotrowska

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1722–1757, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.168

• , respectively. The latter compound as an unprotected acid was identified as a component of immunosuppressive thalassospiramide A [95] and siderophores called crochelins [96]. On the other hand, the former one was used in the synthesis of edenine A and D analogues [97] to study their biological properties. When

• as components of a variety of plants and exhibit a wide range of biological properties including inhibition of glucosidases [102]. When the aziridine epoxide 162 was treated with acetic acid the aziridine ring cleavage was observed to give the epoxyaldehyde 178 (Scheme 45) [94]. Catalytic

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

• exploitation of the MCR potential in the rapid diversification of steroidal products for screening of their pharmaceutical and biological properties. We expect this review serves as inspiration for the MCR community to further explore the scope of steroids in the development of new reactions and methods

Novel (2-amino-4-arylimidazolyl)propanoic acids and pyrrolo[1,2-c]imidazoles via the domino reactions of 2-amino-4-arylimidazoles with carbonyl and methylene active compounds

• Victoria V. Lipson,
• Tetiana L. Pavlovska,
• Nataliya V. Svetlichnaya,
• Anna A. Poryvai,
• Nikolay Yu. Gorobets,
• Erik V. Van der Eycken,
• Irina S. Konovalova,
• Svetlana V. Shiskina,
• Alexander V. Borisov,
• Vladimir I. Musatov and
• Alexander V. Mazepa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1032–1045, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.101

• metabolites of marine sponges with interesting biological properties has received considerable attention from both chemists and pharmacologists. In the middle of 2000s, the authors of the studies [17][18][19] proposed a facile one-pot two-step procedure for the synthesis of diversely substituted 2

Solid-phase synthesis of biaryl bicyclic peptides containing a 3-aryltyrosine or a 4-arylphenylalanine moiety

• Iteng Ng-Choi,
• Àngel Oliveras,
• Lidia Feliu and
• Marta Planas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 761–768, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.72

• ; cross-coupling; cyclization; macrocycles; solid-phase synthesis; Introduction Monocyclic and bicyclic peptides are acquiring a relevant interest in current drug discovery. They display improved biological properties over their acyclic counterparts and, at the same time, they are suitable to modulate

• amino acids [11]. Cyclic peptides containing biaryl linkages constitute attractive targets. On the one hand, a wide range of biaryl natural products have been reported to display interesting biological properties, such as biphenomycins, arylomycins and glycopeptide antibiotics [4]. On the other hand

Synthesis and biological activity of methylated derivatives of the Pseudomonas metabolites HHQ, HQNO and PQS

• Sven Thierbach,
• Max Wienhold,
• Susanne Fetzner and
• Ulrich Hennecke

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 187–193, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.18

• effect of methylation of AQs on their biological properties more systematically. To this end, we prepared selectively methylated derivatives of the most important heptyl-AQs including HHQ, HQNO and PQS derivatives. These synthetic compounds were tested for their antimicrobial properties against S. aureus

Ring-closing-metathesis-based synthesis of annellated coumarins from 8-allylcoumarins

• Christiane Schultze and
• Bernd Schmidt

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2991–2998, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.278

• tested for bacteriostatic activity [73] and insect-antifeedant activity [74], respectively. A common denominator of these reports is that a thorough investigation into the spectral and biological properties of these compounds is hampered by unsatisfactory yields and selectivities if classical coumarin

Synthesis of a tyrosinase inhibitor by consecutive ethenolysis and cross-metathesis of crude cashew nutshell liquid

• Jacqueline Pollini,
• Valentina Bragoni and
• Lukas J. Gooßen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2737–2744, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.252

• estimated CNSL production of 1.2 million tons per year [5]. CNSL is a mixture of phenolic compounds such as anacardic acid (1), cardol and cardanol, each bearing a C-15 side chain in meta-position to the hydroxy group with a varying degree of unsaturation [6]. CNSL exhibits a broad range of biological

• properties and industrial applications, for instance in surfactants, plasticizers, resins, soft materials and diverse medical applications [7]. Isolated via cold-press or solvent extraction processes, it contains predominantly anacardic acid (1). Upon distillation or any other thermal treatment, anacardic

Stereoselective total synthesis and structural revision of the diacetylenic diol natural products strongylodiols H and I

• Pamarthi Gangadhar,
• Sayini Ramakrishna,
• Ponneri Venkateswarlu and
• Pabbaraja Srihari

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2313–2320, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.206

• continue to attract significant interest owing to their structural architectures and impressive biological properties that include antibacterial [3], anticancer [4][5][6], antiviral [7] and neuritogenic activities [8]. Watanabe et al. [9][10] have isolated strongylodiols A–J (1–10, Figure 1) [11] from the

Investigation of the electrophilic reactivity of the biologically active marine sesquiterpenoid onchidal and model compounds

• Melissa M. Cadelis and
• Brent R. Copp

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2229–2235, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.197

• binneyi) also exhibit biological properties including feeding deterrence, antibacterial and anticholinesterase activities. Chemical reactivity studies using polygodial (1), scalaradial (2) and caulerpenyne (3) have demonstrated evidence of pyrrole formation upon reaction with primary amines, with

Synthesis and photophysical studies of a multivalent photoreactive Ru^II-calix[4]arene complex bearing RGD-containing cyclopentapeptides

• Sofia Kajouj,
• Lionel Marcelis,
• Alice Mattiuzzi,
• Adrien Grassin,
• Damien Dufour,
• Pierre Van Antwerpen,
• Didier Boturyn,
• Eric Defrancq,
• Mathieu Surin,
• Julien De Winter,
• Pascal Gerbaux,
• Ivan Jabin and
• Cécile Moucheron

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1758–1768, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.150

• its receptor [44][45][46], clustered RGD-containing compounds were developed and were shown to exhibit attractive biological properties for the imaging of tumors [47][48][49][50] and for the targeted drug delivery [51][52][53]. In the course of designing phototherapeutic agents that could specifically

Oligonucleotide analogues with cationic backbone linkages

• Melissa Meng and
• Christian Ducho

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1293–1308, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.111

• anionic nucleic acids is only scarcely understood and will require further research efforts. Studies on the biological properties of (partially) zwitterionic and cationic oligonucleotide analogues in cellular systems, in particular with respect to their cellular uptake, are currently only available for

Sequential Ugi reaction/base-induced ring closing/IAAC protocol toward triazolobenzodiazepine-fused diketopiperazines and hydantoins

• Robby Vroemans,
• Fante Bamba,
• Jonas Winters,
• Joice Thomas,
• Jeroen Jacobs,
• Luc Van Meervelt,
• Jubi John and
• Wim Dehaen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 626–633, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.49

• currently being evaluated for their biological properties, the results of which will be reported in due course. Triazolobenzodiazepine drugs. Generality in the synthesis of diketopiperazine-fused triazolobenzodiazepine 7. Reaction conditions: 1. 2-azidobenzaldehyde 1 (1.85 mmol), propargylamine 2 (1.85 mmol

Mannich base-connected syntheses mediated by ortho-quinone methides

• Petra Barta,
• Ferenc Fülöp and
• István Szatmári

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 560–575, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.43

• ]. Their relatively easy accessibility and promising biological properties have led to the resurgence of their chemistry coming again into the focus of pharmacological research. The formation of aminonaphthols can be explained by two mechanisms. According to one possibility, first the reaction of the amine

• published about o-QM generation, applicability in organic syntheses and biological properties [11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. However, in this review we would like to focus on their role in syntheses connected to Mannich base chemistry as well as their wider applicability and properties. Formation of Mannich

• were also formed in around 90% yields under microwave irradiation (Scheme 7). Miscellaneous reactions It is also known that o-QMs could cross-link two biologically important molecules such as peptides, proteins or nucleic bases. (see section Biological properties) Achieving the reaction under

Synthesis of fluoro-functionalized diaryl-λ³-iodonium salts and their cytotoxicity against human lymphoma U937 cells

• Prajwalita Das,
• Etsuko Tokunaga,
• Hidehiko Akiyama,
• Hiroki Doi,
• Norimichi Saito and
• Norio Shibata

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 364–372, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.24

• arylation reactions in synthetic organic chemistry, but their biological properties are not fully understood. Herein, after initially investigating 18 fluoro-functionalized reagents, we discovered that the ortho-fluoro-functionalized diaryliodonium salt reagents showed remarkable cytotoxicity in vitro

Continuous-flow retro-Diels–Alder reaction: an efficient method for the preparation of pyrimidinone derivatives

• Imane Nekkaa,
• Márta Palkó,
• István M. Mándity and
• Ferenc Fülöp

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 318–324, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.20

• antibiotics [41]. Our aim in the present study was to synthesize functionalized pyrimidinone systems through rDA reactions. Many of these products are of high importance in drug design due to their diverse biological properties including antimicrobial, antiviral, antioxidant and antitumor activities. In

5-Aminopyrazole as precursor in design and synthesis of fused pyrazoloazines

• Ranjana Aggarwal and
• Suresh Kumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 203–242, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.15

• pharmacological activities such as: anticancer [1][2], anti-inflammatory [3][4], antioxidant [5], antibacterial [6][7][8], analgesic [9], antiviral [10][11], antimicrobial [12][13], antifungal [6], antiglycemic [14], antiamoebic [15] and antidepressive [16][17]. Considering the immense biological properties

Nucleophilic fluoroalkylation/cyclization route to fluorinated phthalides

• Masanori Inaba,
• Tatsuya Sakai,
• Shun Shinada,
• Tsuyuka Sugiishi,
• Yuta Nishina,
• Norio Shibata and
• Hideki Amii

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 182–186, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.12

• synthesis of useful bioactive compounds. There is a growing interest in the usefulness of phthalides and their derivatives. Organofluorine compounds often show attractive physical, chemical, and biological properties and are widely used in many fields, such as pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and materials

The synthesis of the 2,3-difluorobutan-1,4-diol diastereomers

• Robert Szpera,
• Nadia Kovalenko,
• Kalaiselvi Natarajan,
• Nina Paillard and
• Bruno Linclau

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2883–2887, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.280

• opening; fluorinated building block; vicinal difluoride; Introduction The introduction of fluorine in organic compounds usually results in the modification of a range of chemical, physical and biological properties [1]. Fluorine incorporation is therefore a common strategy to optimise the properties of

Consecutive hydrazino-Ugi-azide reactions: synthesis of acylhydrazines bearing 1,5-disubstituted tetrazoles

• Angélica de Fátima S. Barreto,
• Veronica Alves dos Santos and
• Carlos Kleber Z. Andrade

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2596–2602, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.256

• and, in particular, it displays a wide range of biological properties such as analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, anticancer, among others [3][4][5]. The tetrazole nucleus most widely described in the literature is the 1,5-disubstituted tetrazole [6][7] because it presents a wide range of

Hydrolysis, polarity, and conformational impact of C-terminal partially fluorinated ethyl esters in peptide models

• Vladimir Kubyshkin and
• Nediljko Budisa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2442–2457, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.241

• of fluorination, as these parameters strongly impact other important biological properties, such as the potential distribution in biochemical compartments and the metabolic stability [44][45]. Considering the variety of spectroscopic applications, a labeling strategy that allows specific

Exploring mechanochemistry to turn organic bio-relevant molecules into metal-organic frameworks: a short review

• Vânia André,
• Sílvia Quaresma,
• João Luís Ferreira da Silva and
• M. Teresa Duarte

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2416–2427, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.239

• centers, in order to obtain compounds with enhanced biological properties. New metal-organic frameworks, BioMOFs, for the use of controlled drug delivery and/or release or other biological applications, were successfully synthesized either by direct incorporation of the bioactive molecule in the framework