Au(III) complexes with tetradentate-cyclam-based ligands

• Ann Christin Reiersølmoen,
• Thomas N. Solvi and
• Anne Fiksdahl

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 186–192, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.18

• showed no interaction with Au(III), as expected. A similar resistance to coordinate was observed for the open diamides 1c–e. The phosphorus containing ligand 1c did undergo phosphorus oxidation instead of Au(III) coordination. No effect was obtained by refluxing or by adding additives, such as silver

• cyclam tetraamino-coordination was obtained by 1H,15N-HMBC NMR. The polyamides (1, 2) failed to undergo Au(III) coordination, which confirmed the previously observed resistance of amides to coordinate to Au(III). The catalytic ability of the new Au(III) complexes were screened in selected test reactions

Synthesis of aryl 2-bromo-2-chloro-1,1-difluoroethyl ethers through the base-mediated reaction between phenols and halothane

• Yukiko Karuo,
• Ayaka Kametani,
• Atsushi Tarui,
• Kazuyuki Sato,
• Kentaro Kawai and
• Masaaki Omote

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 89–96, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.9

• agrochemical sciences because deliberately incorporated fluorine atoms often change the chemical properties of the parent molecules by improving the absorption, resistance to metabolism, and pharmacological activities. To date, difluoromethyl or difluoromethylene compounds have been studied extensively as well

One-pot multicomponent green Hantzsch synthesis of 1,2-dihydropyridine derivatives with antiproliferative activity

• Giovanna Bosica,
• Kaylie Demanuele,
• José M. Padrón and
• Adrián Puerta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2862–2869, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.235

• the general procedure. Biological screening The 1,4-DHP scaffold displays an extensive range of biological activities, including reversing multidrug resistance (through the inhibition of the P-glycoprotein) [26] and antiproliferative effects on human cancer cell lines [27]. We wondered whether the

Dawn of a new era in industrial photochemistry: the scale-up of micro- and mesostructured photoreactors

• Emine Kayahan,
• Mathias Jacobs,
• Leen Braeken,
• Leen C.J. Thomassen,
• Simon Kuhn,
• Tom van Gerven and
• M. Enis Leblebici

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2484–2504, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.202

Palladium nanoparticles supported on chitin-based nanomaterials as heterogeneous catalysts for the Heck coupling reaction

• Tony Jin,
• Malickah Hicks,
• Davis Kurdyla,
• Sabahudin Hrapovic,
• Edmond Lam and
• Audrey Moores

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2477–2483, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.201

• resistance to reduction was surprising and in contradiction to what we observed with deposition onto CNC of Pd in the presence of H2 [7], or Ag alone [20]. The striking difference between CNC on one hand and ChNC/ChsNC on the other is the presence of carboxylates on the latter. Carboxylates are expected to

Conformational preferences of fluorine-containing agrochemicals and their implications for lipophilicity prediction

• Daniela Rodrigues Silva,
• Joyce K. Daré and
• Matheus P. Freitas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2469–2476, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.200

• lipophilicity with the molecular conformation. Keywords: dipole moment; fluorinated compounds; gauche effect; herbicides; log P; Introduction Whilst in the last years the agrochemical industry has encountered a period of downturn affected by new regulations, low crop prices, biochemical resistance, among

Azo-dimethylaminopyridine-functionalized Ni(II)-porphyrin as a photoswitchable nucleophilic catalyst

• Jannis Ludwig,
• Julian Helberg,
• Hendrik Zipse and
• Rainer Herges

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2119–2126, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.179

• at higher concentrations can be explained by the intermolecular coordination, which stabilizes the trans isomer. Long-term switching experiments were performed to investigate the fatigue resistance of 1. In contrast to other record player molecules, which are stable up to 100 000 switching cycles

Design, synthesis and application of carbazole macrocycles in anion sensors

• Alo Rüütel,
• Ville Yrjänä,
• Sandip A. Kadam,
• Indrek Saar,
• Mihkel Ilisson,
• Astrid Darnell,
• Kristjan Haav,
• Tõiv Haljasorg,
• Lauri Toom,
• Johan Bobacka and
• Ivo Leito

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1901–1914, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.157

• resistance and geometric capacitance were attributed to the high-frequency semicircle. The membrane bulk resistance and geometric capacitance were heavily influenced by the properties of the plasticizer, DOS (εr = 4.01 [34]), because it accounted for most of the mass in all of the membranes. The bulk

Synthesis of the tetrasaccharide repeating unit of the O-specific polysaccharide of Azospirillum doebereinerae type strain GSF71^T using linear and one-pot iterative glycosylations

• Arin Gucchait,
• Pradip Shit and
• Anup Kumar Misra

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1700–1705, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.141

• cause environmental pollution, resistance in plant pathogens as well as high production costs of crops [1][2][3]. Varieties of crop plants have symbiotic relationships with microorganisms by hosting them in their roots and utilize their beneficial effects such as improving the quality of soil and

• nitrogen fixing capabilities, Azospirillum produce a number of plant-growth-promoting vitamins and phytohormones [9][10]. Their potential to promote resistance towards bacterial infections in rice was also documented [11]. The potential of stimulating plant-growth-related biochemical processes of

Synthesis of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 9V oligosaccharide antigens

• Sharavathi G. Parameswarappa,
• Claney L. Pereira and
• Peter H. Seeberger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1693–1699, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.140

• developing countries [3]. With increasing antimicrobial resistance to antibiotics, vaccines are becoming even more important to control these pathogens. Despite the availability of multivalent polysaccharide and glycoconjugate vaccines such as Pneumovax, Prevnar® 13, and Synflorix, pneumonococcal diseases

Heterogeneous photocatalysis in flow chemical reactors

• Christopher G. Thomson,
• Ai-Lan Lee and
• Filipe Vilela

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1495–1549, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.125

Disposable cartridge concept for the on-demand synthesis of turbo Grignards, Knochel–Hauser amides, and magnesium alkoxides

• Mateo Berton,
• Kevin Sheehan,
• Andrea Adamo and
• D. Tyler McQuade

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1343–1356, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.115

• , custom-made, and thermally bonded parts. Parts were built of fully perfluorinated materials, providing an excellent chemical resistance. We chose thermal bonding because this type of bond can provide a leakproof system without the need of fittings. All the fluidic items and reagents assembled together

Anthelmintic drug discovery: target identification, screening methods and the role of open science

• Frederick A. Partridge,
• Ruth Forman,
• Carole J. R. Bataille,
• Graham M. Wynne,
• Marina Nick,
• Angela J. Russell,
• Kathryn J. Else and
• David B. Sattelle

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1203–1224, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.105

• , diethylcarbamazine, ivermectin and praziquantel are insufficiently efficacious, contraindicated in some populations, or at risk of the development of resistance, thereby impeding progress towards World Health Organization goals to control or eliminate these neglected tropical diseases. However, there has been

• cattle treated annually is hundreds of millions [1]. Treatment of horses, other equids, and companion animals is also a major use of anthelmintics. Anthelmintic drug discovery has been a continued emphasis in the animal health industry, driven by the spread of resistance to the macrocyclic lactones [2

• ]. In the past 25 years, three new classes of anthelmintic drugs have reached the market: derquantel, emodepside and monepantel. However, the continuing emergence of anthelmintic resistance combined with less predictable infection patterns due to changes in climate have resulted in a breakdown of

Activated carbon as catalyst support: precursors, preparation, modification and characterization

• Melanie Iwanow,
• Tobias Gärtner,
• Volker Sieber and
• Burkhard König

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1188–1202, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.104

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

• 10 mm diameter each LED. The LEDs were serially connected in blocks of 6, with the minimum voltage possible (3 V) and a resistance of 60 Ω (according to Ohm's law). The output power per LED unit (blue, 465 nm) was 250 kmcd; the optical output power of the PCB of LEDs measured with a photometer

Synthesis of new asparagine-based glycopeptides for future scanning tunneling microscopy investigations

• Laura Sršan and
• Thomas Ziegler

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 888–894, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.80

• example, in anti-HIV therapy, MUC1-based antitumor vaccines, or as antibiotics [12][13][14]. Especially glycans bearing noncanonical amino acids, which can only be introduced into a peptide by organic synthesis, are suitable for cancer therapy since they show better resistance to enzymatic degradation in

A systematic review on silica-, carbon-, and magnetic materials-supported copper species as efficient heterogeneous nanocatalysts in “click” reactions

• Pezhman Shiri and
• Jasem Aboonajmi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 551–586, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.52

• thicker layers of Cu on Au nanoparticles. Other findings in this study were: a) copper leaching decreased using gold nanoparticles, b) increasing the dendron generation increased the diffusion resistance. As shown in Scheme 5, a silica nanomaterial was decorated with a novel copper complex of poly(N

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

• , HPPD inhibiting herbicides are advantageous because of their low toxicities, high efficiencies, broad-spectrum weed control, and safety toward crops and the environment [13][14][15]. However, the abuse of HPPD inhibitors has led to increased weed resistance and crop damage. Furthermore, the long-term

• applications of a single herbicide result in the resistance of the weed to the agent [14]. Therefore, exploring effective HPPD-inhibiting compounds for the control of resistant weeds is an emergent and important objective [2]. A considerable number of HPPD inhibiting herbicides have recently been

Potent hemithioindigo-based antimitotics photocontrol the microtubule cytoskeleton in cellulo

• Alexander Sailer,
• Franziska Ermer,
• Yvonne Kraus,
• Rebekkah Bingham,
• Ferdinand H. Lutter,
• Julia Ahlfeld and
• Oliver Thorn-Seshold

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 125–134, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.14

• hemithioindigo-based indanone-like tubulin inhibitors (HITubs) and optimised their cellular potency as antimitotic photopharmaceuticals. These HITubs feature reliable and robust visible-light photoswitching and high fatigue resistance. The use of the hemithioindigo scaffold also permitted us to employ a para

• photoswitching (λ = 450 nm for Z → E and 530 nm for E → Z switching), with the high fatigue resistance characteristic of HTIs. The E-isomer's thermal half-life in EtOAc or DMSO was ca. 40 s (Figure 3 and Supporting Information File 1, Figure S3). Its absorption spectra and photoswitchability were unaltered by

Synthesis of C-glycosyl phosphonate derivatives of 4-amino-4-deoxy-α-ʟ-arabinose

• Lukáš Kerner and
• Paul Kosma

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 9–14, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.2

• identified as a major mechanism contributing to antimicrobial resistance of Gram-negative pathogenic bacteria. Inhibition of the corresponding enzymatic steps, specifically the transfer of 4-amino-4-deoxy-ʟ-arabinose, would thus restore the activity of cationic antimicrobial peptides and several

• derivatives. These intermediates will be of value for their future conversion into transition state analogues as well as for the introduction of various lipid extensions at the anomeric phosphonate moiety. Keywords: antibiotic resistance; glycosyl phosphonate; glycosyl transferase; lipid A

• important, e.g., when connected to dolichol in mammalian systems or to undecaprenol in prokaryotic donor substrates for bacterial glycosyltransferases [2]. 4-Amino-4-deoxy-ʟ-arabinose (Ara4N) is an important microbial carbohydrate in bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS) and has been implicated in resistance

Chemical synthesis of tripeptide thioesters for the biotechnological incorporation into the myxobacterial secondary metabolite argyrin via mutasynthesis

• David C. B. Siebert,
• Roman Sommer,
• Domen Pogorevc,
• Michael Hoffmann,
• Silke C. Wenzel,
• Rolf Müller and
• Alexander Titz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2922–2929, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.286

• ; mutasynthesis; NRPS; peptide synthesis; Introduction Resistance to antibiotics is currently a major threat to public health. Especially Gram-negative bacterial pathogens are of concern, due to their widespread development of resistance mechanisms. To address this general antimicrobial resistance problem, new

• , encoded by the gene fusA1) as their target [11][12]. The co-crystal structure of argyrin B (2) and P. aeruginosa EF-G1 provides structural information of the complex at atomic resolution as basis for further structure-based optimization [11]. Jones and colleagues analyzed possible resistance mechanisms to

• argyrin and established argyrin B as an efflux substrate. Further, they showed that in susceptible Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, resistance appeared by mutational inactivation of the gene fusA1 and overexpression of the alternative elongation factor FusA2 [13]. Due to the dual activity spectrum

Palladium-catalyzed synthesis and nucleotide pyrophosphatase inhibition of benzo[4,5]furo[3,2-b]indoles

• Hoang Huy Do,
• Saif Ullah,
• Alexander Villinger,
• Joanna Lecka,
• Jean Sévigny,
• Peter Ehlers,
• Jamshed Iqbal and
• Peter Langer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2830–2839, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.276

• ]. The isozymes of NPPs are involved in the pathophysiology of different diseases, such as calcification, cancer, and insulin resistance [34][35]. All derivatives of compounds 5 were tested for human recombinant NPPs, i.e., NPP1–3. In addition, we compared the obtained results with those of recently

Chemical tuning of photoswitchable azobenzenes: a photopharmacological case study using nicotinic transmission

• Lorenzo Sansalone,
• Jun Zhao,
• Matthew T. Richers and
• Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2812–2821, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.274

• membrane potential (Rp) = 29.3 ± 3.9 mV and 28.3 ± 7.6 mV; holding currents at −40 mV were 77.65 ± 30.0 pA, and 76.96 ± 38.9 pA; and the input resistance (RInput) = 215.2 ± 36.1 MΩ and 209.1 ± 40.7 MΩ (mutant vs WT, n = 5 cells each). These data show treatment with 1 does not change the electrical activity

Experimental and computational electrochemistry of quinazolinespirohexadienone molecular switches – differential electrochromic vs photochromic behavior

• Eric W. Webb,
• Jonathan P. Moerdyk,
• Kyndra B. Sluiter,
• Benjamin J. Pollock,
• Amy L. Speelman,
• Eugene J. Lynch,
• William F. Polik and
• Jason G. Gillmore

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2473–2485, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.240

• ) direction over an 800 mV window roughly centered on the reduction of Fc/Fc+ redox couple at a scan rate of 0.1–0.5 V/s, 10−4 A sensitivity, and 1 mV sample interval. Internal resistance (iR) compensation was manually set to 95–99.5% of the measured resistance so that the peak separation for the reversible

Photochromic diarylethene ligands featuring 2-(imidazol-2-yl)pyridine coordination site and their iron(II) complexes

• Andrey G. Lvov,
• Max Mörtel,
• Anton V. Yadykov,
• Frank W. Heinemann,
• Valerii Z. Shirinian and
• Marat M. Khusniyarov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2428–2437, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.235

• irradiation (313 nm, toluene, c = 3.4 × 10−5 M). Inset: fatigue resistance upon multiple subsequent irradiation with UV (365 nm) and visible light (green LED) in acetonitrile. Molecular structure of complexes 8 (top) and 9 (bottom) at 100 K. The H atoms are omitted for clarity; the thermal ellipsoids are