Synthesis of O⁶-alkylated preQ₁ derivatives

• Laurin Flemmich,
• Sarah Moreno and
• Ronald Micura

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2295–2301, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.147

• 6. Finally, the auxiliary functions were cleaved using trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) in dichloromethane and the target compound 2, m6preQ1, was isolated as TFA salt. The here established path to synthesize m6preQ1 offers high flexibility with respect to the O6 substituent. We demonstrate this by

• & 112.6 (C(arom, DMTr)), 74.5 (CAr3(DMTr)), 70.3 (CAr3(DMTr)), 55.3 (H3CO(DMTr)), 53.4 (H3CO(6)), 38.9 (H2CC(7)) ppm; ESIMS (m/z): [M + H]+ calcd, 798.3650; found, 798.3629. O6-Methyl preQ1 (trifluoroacetate salt) (2). Compound 6 (120 mg, 150 µmol) was dissolved in 500 µL dichloromethane. Trifluoroacetic

• acid (60 µL, 0.75 mmol) and 10 µL water were added. After 45 minutes the reaction was quenched by the addition of 100 µL methanol. Afterwards the solvents were removed in vacuo. The residue was triturated five times with dichloromethane and dried on high vacuum to give 35 mg of compound 2 (76%) as a

Transition-metal-free intramolecular Friedel–Crafts reaction by alkene activation: A method for the synthesis of some novel xanthene derivatives

• Tülay Yıldız,
• İrem Baştaş and
• Hatice Başpınar Küçük

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2203–2208, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.142

• carried out in order to synthesize the desired xanthene derivatives using the alkenes as starting compounds. The intramolecular Friedel–Crafts reaction was catalyzed by trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) and provided some novel substituted 9-methyl-9-arylxanthenes with good yields at room temperature within 6–24

• hours. As a result, an alkene compound was used for activation with TFA in the synthesis of xanthene through intramolecular Friedel–Crafts alkylation for the first time. Keywords: alkene activation; intramolecular Friedel–Crafts alkylation; trifluoroacetic acid; xanthene; Introduction The interest in

• Brønsted acids and Lewis acids as catalysts (Table 1) to develop an intramolecular FCA protocol with activating alkenes effectively and economically in order to obtain some originally substituted arylxanthenes under mild conditions for the first time. We found that, among these acids, trifluoroacetic acid

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

• , Fukutomi, and Nakayama [19] reported the synthesis of what they described as ‘true polyazulene’ through a cationic polymerization reaction. Their protocol involved heating the trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) solution of azulene (1) followed by treatment with triethylamine to obtain a brown polymeric product

Recent advances in the syntheses of anthracene derivatives

• Giovanni S. Baviera and
• Paulo M. Donate

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2028–2050, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.131

• -dibromo-2,5-dimethylbenzene (101), with subsequent Suzuki cross-coupling of compound 102 with potassium vinyltrifluoroborate, removal of the N-Boc protecting group of 103 with trifluoroacetic acid, and borylative cyclization of precursor aminostyrene 104 [58]. Sparr’s research group developed the 1,5

On the application of 3d metals for C–H activation toward bioactive compounds: The key step for the synthesis of silver bullets

• Renato L. Carvalho,
• Amanda S. de Miranda,
• Mateus P. Nunes,
• Roberto S. Gomes,
• Guilherme A. M. Jardim and
• Eufrânio N. da Silva Júnior

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1849–1938, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.126

• , laxative, and diuretic activities [97]. Trifluoroacetic acid was used as an additive, being suggested to avoid oxidation of the amine moiety by the formation of the corresponding ammonium salt. Similar conditions have been reported for an alternative synthesis of both enantiomers of the antitumor

Iodine-catalyzed electrophilic substitution of indoles: Synthesis of (un)symmetrical diindolylmethanes with a quaternary carbon center

• Thanigaimalai Pillaiyar,
• Masoud Sedaghati,
• Andhika B. Mahardhika,
• Lukas L. Wendt and
• Christa E. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1464–1475, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.102

• ]. However, synthetic methods for efficient synthesis of unsymmetrical 3,3'-DIMs with a quaternary carbon center, including trifluoromethyl-substituted 3,3'-DIMs, are still rare. Sasaki et al. reported the reaction of trifluoromethyl(indolyl)phenylmethanols with indoles in the presence of trifluoroacetic

• acid (TFA) and CHCl3 (Figure 2) [36]. Very recently, Ling et al. reported the same reaction in the presence of Ga(OTf)3 in acetonitrile (Figure 2) [37]. Although these methods are certainly useful, they have several undeniable drawbacks, including the use of heavy-metal catalysts and the necessity of

Double-headed nucleosides: Synthesis and applications

• Vineet Verma,
• Jyotirmoy Maity,
• Vipin K. Maikhuri,
• Ritika Sharma,
• Himal K. Ganguly and
• Ashok K. Prasad

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1392–1439, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.98

• -6-ynofuranoses 88a,b The ʟ-ido- and ᴅ-gluco precursors 88a,b were reacted with trifluoroacetic acid followed by acetic anhydride to afford the 1,2,3,5-tetra-O-acetyl nucleoside analogs 89a and 89b, respectively. Montgomery and Hewson base coupling reaction [60] of 1,2,3,5-tetra-O-acetyl nucleoside

A comprehensive review of flow chemistry techniques tailored to the flavours and fragrances industries

• Guido Gambacorta,
• James S. Sharley and
• Ian R. Baxendale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1181–1312, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.90

• ]. The reaction that took 24 hours to run to completion in batch, reached 100% conversion after just 20 minutes in flow (Scheme 1). The Swern oxidation under trifluoroacetic acid-promoted conditions is often problematic due the formation of side products. In batch, benzaldehyde (17) was formed in 49

Beyond ribose and phosphate: Selected nucleic acid modifications for structure–function investigations and therapeutic applications

• Christopher Liczner,
• Kieran Duke,
• Gabrielle Juneau,
• Martin Egli and
• Christopher J. Wilds

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 908–931, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.76

Enhanced target cell specificity and uptake of lipid nanoparticles using RNA aptamers and peptides

• Roslyn M. Ray,
• Anders Højgaard Hansen,
• Maria Taskova,
• Bernhard Jandl,
• Jonas Hansen,
• Citra Soemardy,
• Kevin V. Morris and
• Kira Astakhova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 891–907, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.75

• removal of the side-chain protecting groups was achieved by using trifluoroacetic acid (TFA)/phenol/water/triisopropylsilane (TIPS) 88:5:5:2 (3 × 60 min). After cleavage, the remaining resin was extracted with DCM (2 × 10 min). All DCM extracts and TFA cleavages were combined, and the resulting mixture

Synthetic reactions driven by electron-donor–acceptor (EDA) complexes

• Zhonglie Yang,
• Yutong Liu,
• Kun Cao,
• Xiaobin Zhang,
• Hezhong Jiang and
• Jiahong Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 771–799, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.67

• that electron transfer is accompanied by proton transfer in the process (Scheme 43). In 2020, Stephenson and colleagues [14] employed 2-methoxynaphthalene (124) and acylated ethyl isonicotinate N-oxide obtained from 125 and trifluoroacetic acid anhydride to form EDA complexes for the preparation of

β-Lactamase inhibition profile of new amidine-substituted diazabicyclooctanes

• Zafar Iqbal,
• Lijuan Zhai,
• Yuanyu Gao,
• Dong Tang,
• Xueqin Ma,
• Jinbo Ji,
• Jian Sun,
• Jingwen Ji,
• Yuanbai Liu,
• Rui Jiang,
• Yangxiu Mu,
• Lili He,
• Haikang Yang and
• Zhixiang Yang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 711–718, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.60

• deprotection was achieved by using trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) before the preparative HPLC. The synthesis of compounds A22 and A23 was accomplished by an alternative route elaborated in Scheme 5. Coupling of compound 5 and intermediate 2 was achieved by using HATU and DIPEA in a DMF/CH2Cl2 mixture to form the

Synthesis and physicochemical evaluation of fluorinated lipopeptide precursors of ligands for microbubble targeting

• Masayori Hagimori,
• Estefanía E. Mendoza-Ortega and
• Marie Pierre Krafft

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 511–518, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.45

• ), piperidine, acetic anhydride, trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), triisopropylsilane (TIS), Rink Amide AM resin (4-(2’,4’-dimethoxyphenyl-Fmoc-aminomethyl)phenoxyacetamido-aminomethyl resin, 100–200 mesh), and Tube-O-DIALYZER™ mini dialysis system (MWCO 1K) from Merck (Darmstadt, Germany). 1,2

Hydrazides in the reaction with hydroxypyrrolines: less nucleophilicity – more diversity

• Dmitrii A. Shabalin,
• Evgeniya E. Ivanova,
• Igor A. Ushakov,
• Elena Yu. Schmidt and
• Boris A. Trofimov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 319–324, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.29

• -pyrroline (1a) with an equimolar amount of benzohydrazide (2a) was initially performed in the presence of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA, 10 mol %) in refluxing acetonitrile for 3 h. Unexpectedly, 6-(2'-benzoylhydrazinyl)-1,4,5,6-tetrahydropyridazine 3aa was isolated in a 46% yield, while the anticipated 1,4

Synthesis, crystal structures and properties of carbazole-based [6]helicenes fused with an azine ring

• Daria I. Tonkoglazova,
• Anna V. Gulevskaya,
• Konstantin A. Chistyakov and
• Olga I. Askalepova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 11–21, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.2

• acid as a cyclizing agent [72]. Unfortunately, only in the case of compound 9c, heating in trifluoroacetic acid led to isomerization into the required carbazole-based [6]helicene 10c (Table 5, entry 3). Under these conditions, alkynes 9a and 9b produced an unseparable mixture of some products. To our

• without THF solvent producing alkyne 9b in 82% yield (Table 4, entry 2). The structure of 9c was unambiguously proved by X-ray structural analysis (see Supporting Information File 1, Figure S34). Earlier, at the final step of a similar synthesis of the azine-fused [5]helicenes, we used trifluoroacetic

Pentannulation of N-heterocycles by a tandem gold-catalyzed [3,3]-rearrangement/Nazarov reaction of propargyl ester derivatives: a computational study on the crucial role of the nitrogen atom

• Giovanna Zanella,
• Martina Petrović,
• Dina Scarpi,
• Ernesto G. Occhiato and
• Enrique Gómez-Bengoa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 3059–3068, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.255

• ) [46]. The treatment of 11 with a catalytic amount of trifluoroacetic acid in toluene at 140 °C for 7 min led to the elimination of methanol and provided the 3-iodoenesulfonamide 12 in 77% yield [47]. To avoid the use of these harsh reaction conditions, we employed other methods, but both the

Semiautomated glycoproteomics data analysis workflow for maximized glycopeptide identification and reliable quantification

• Steffen Lippold,
• Arnoud H. de Ru,
• Jan Nouta,
• Peter A. van Veelen,
• Magnus Palmblad,
• Manfred Wuhrer and
• Noortje de Haan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 3038–3051, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.253

• , capacity 8 g/L) were obtained from ThermoFisher Scientific (Leiden, Netherlands). All used chemicals were from Sigma-Aldrich (Zwijndrecht, Netherlands) except for trifluoroacetic acid (Merck, Darmstadt, Germany) and acetonitrile (Biosolve, Valkenswaard, Netherlands). Purified water was used from a Purelab

All-carbon [3 + 2] cycloaddition in natural product synthesis

• Zhuo Wang and
• Junyang Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 3015–3031, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.251

• ). An intermolecular [3 + 2] cycloaddition of tetrasubstituted alkene 150 and the dhdt-2-methanol reagent 151 under the effect of trifluoroacetic acid produced adduct 154 in 52% yield. The authors identified that the cyclic nature of the dhdt-2-methanol reagent 151 is essential for the cycloaddition to

Nocarimidazoles C and D, antimicrobial alkanoylimidazoles from a coral-derived actinomycete Kocuria sp.: application of ¹J_C,H coupling constants for the unequivocal determination of substituted imidazoles and stereochemical diversity of anteisoalkyl chains in microbial metabolites

• Md. Rokon Ul Karim,
• Enjuro Harunari,
• Amit Raj Sharma,
• Naoya Oku,
• Kazuaki Akasaka,
• Daisuke Urabe,
• Mada Triandala Sibero and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2719–2727, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.222

• , and as expected, supplementation of a trace amount of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) to DMSO-d6, combined with a longer relaxation delay (d1 = 30 s) for the 13C NMR experiment, greatly improved the detectability of sp2 carbon resonances. The 13C and HSQC spectra collected in this solvent mixture allowed

• Bruker AVANCE II 500 MHz NMR spectrometer in DMSO-d6 supplemented with a trace amount of trifluoroacetic acid using the signals of the residual solvent protons (δH 2.49) and carbon atoms (δC 39.5) as internal standards for compounds 1–5, or in CDCl3 using the signals of the residual solvent protons (δH

Synthesis of 4-substituted azopyridine-functionalized Ni(II)-porphyrins as molecular spin switches

• Jannis Ludwig,
• Tobias Moje,
• Fynn Röhricht and
• Rainer Herges

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2589–2597, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.210

• procedure of Nishimura et al. using mercury acetate in trifluoroacetic acid and anisole as radical scavenger (Scheme 5) [34]. Cleavage of the tert-butyl protection group yielded the disulfide 1g, which was reduced with catecholborane in tetrahydrofuran to give the free thiol 1h, which readily reoxidizes

Styryl-based new organic chromophores bearing free amino and azomethine groups: synthesis, photophysical, NLO, and thermal properties

• Anka Utama Putra,
• Deniz Çakmaz,
• Nurgül Seferoğlu,
• Alberto Barsella and
• Zeynel Seferoğlu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2282–2296, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.189

• donor than the phenol group [52][53]. Furthermore, trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) was added to a solution containing the deprotonated forms of dyes 8–12 in DMSO, so as to investigate the reversible protonation of the dyes. As can be seen in Figure 5, the addition of 5 equiv of TFA to a basic solution of 12

Synthetic approaches to bowl-shaped π-conjugated sumanene and its congeners

• Shakeel Alvi and
• Rashid Ali

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2212–2259, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.186

• , they obtained o-bromohydroxysumanene 72 instead of 71. More interestingly, it was also noticed that by treating 71 with trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), it instantly transformed into sumanene derivative 72, suggesting that 71 is unstable under acidic conditions. The acid-catalyzed aromatization can be

Naphthalene diimide bis-guanidinio-carbonyl-pyrrole as a pH-switchable threading DNA intercalator

• Poulami Jana,
• Filip Šupljika,
• Carsten Schmuck and
• Ivo Piantanida

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2201–2211, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.185

• adjacent amino groups (pH 7, green) and decorated by two GCP arms protonated at pH 5 (red; pH-switchable DNA groove binders). Synthesis of compound 4. Conditions: a) mono-N-Boc-ethylenediamine, DMF, 90 °C; b) i) trifluoroacetic acid (TFA)/CH2Cl2 1:1, ii) Fmoc-Lys(Boc)-OH, DIPEA, HCTU; c) i) TFA/CH2Cl2 1:1

Access to highly substituted oxazoles by the reaction of α-azidochalcone with potassium thiocyanate

• Mysore Bhyrappa Harisha,
• Pandi Dhanalakshmi,
• Rajendran Suresh,
• Raju Ranjith Kumar and
• Shanmugam Muthusubramanian

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2108–2118, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.178

• -azirine, an efficient source of nitrogen, was employed as starting material for the synthesis of oxazole with various coupling partners such as aldehyde, trifluoroacetic acid, etc. [8][45][46][47][48][49][50] (Scheme 1). Thiazole is a common structural motif that is found in a wide variety of naturally

On the hydrolysis of diethyl 2-(perfluorophenyl)malonate

• Ilya V. Taydakov and
• Mikhail A. Kiskin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1863–1868, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.153

• of diethyl 2-(perfluorophenyl)malonate, acid-catalyzed reactions were also tested. Trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) is a common reagent for the catalytic cleavage of tert-butyl esters, but in the stoichiometric quantity it is also suitable for the cleavage of nonvolatile methyl or ethyl esters due to