Mono- and bithiophene-substituted diarylethene photoswitches with emissive open or closed forms

• A. Lennart Schleper,
• Mariano L. Bossi,
• Vladimir N. Belov and
• Stefan W. Hell

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2344–2354, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.227

• asymmetric DAEs with oxidized 2-ethylbenzo[b]thiophene-3-yl units have high cycloreversion quantum yields (a desirable feature for super-resolution RESOLFT microscopy), large Stokes shifts and acceptable absorptivity [5]. Yet unknown asymmetric “thiophenylated” DAEs may have unique properties

• . Oligothiophenes are highly fluorescent [6][7], and therefore, we reasoned that their incorporation into DAEs with oxidized 2-alkylbenzo[b]thiophene units might produce fluorescent open forms in addition to the intrinsic fluorescence of the closed forms. In particular, we expected that the prolonged conjugation

• ]thiophene core. The structures of “thiophenylated” DAEs AsTh1, AsTh2, SyTh1, SyTh2, AsOTh1, AsOTh2, SyOTh1, and SyOTh2 prepared and studied in this work are given in Figure 1. Methyl esters of the thiophene carboxylic acids were chosen as model building blocks, because they possess optical properties

Recent advances in transition-metal-catalyzed incorporation of fluorine-containing groups

• Xiaowei Li,
• Xiaolin Shi,
• Xiangqian Li and
• Dayong Shi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2213–2270, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.218

• (Scheme 79). Also, phenyl, thiophene, and pyridine derivatives achieved regioselectively trifluoromethylation with N-pivalamide as a directing group. The authors also proposed a possible radical pathway for this reaction. The final trifluoromethylated compounds were generated from pivalamido arenes and

Aggregation-induced emission effect on turn-off fluorescent switching of a photochromic diarylethene

• Luna Kono,
• Yuma Nakagawa,
• Ayako Fujimoto,
• Ryo Nishimura,
• Yohei Hattori,
• Toshiki Mutai,
• Nobuhiro Yasuda,
• Kenichi Koizumi,
• Satoshi Yokojima,
• Shinichiro Nakamura and
• Kingo Uchida

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2204–2212, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.217

• summarized in Table 1. The quantum yields of cyclization and cycloreversion reactions of 1o in THF are obtained to be 0.31 and 6.2 × 10−3, respectively. They are a little bit smaller than those of simple diarylethene switches having thiophene rings as aryl groups [26]. It may be due to the connection with an

• substrate [19]. The X-ray analysis data of a single crystal of 1o is shown in Figure S1 and Table S1 in Supporting Information File 1. The distance between two reactive carbon atoms in the thiophene rings was obtained to be 3.534 Å, which is less than 4.2 Å. It indicates the molecule is photoreactive in the

Functional panchromatic BODIPY dyes with near-infrared absorption: design, synthesis, characterization and use in dye-sensitized solar cells

• Quentin Huaulmé,
• Cyril Aumaitre,
• Outi Vilhelmiina Kontkanen,
• David Beljonne,
• Alexandra Sutter,
• Gilles Ulrich,
• Renaud Demadrille and
• Nicolas Leclerc

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1758–1768, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.169

• spacer [14][21][23][24]. Introduction of such units on those positions is known to lead to a larger bathochromic shift of the S0→S1 absorption band than the same substitution on its 2nd and 6th positions [25]. A thiophene-triphenylamine unit was selected among the reported electron-donating units, due to

• thiophene ring. As we are dealing with charge-transfer electronic excitations, we have adopted a tuned range-separated CAM-B3LYP functional and the polarizable continuum model (PCM) to account for (implicit) solvent effects (in THF). The one-electron energy diagram reported in Figure 2 shows that: (i

• ) Grafting the triphenylamine donor moieties on the thiophene-vinylene bridge only slightly (by ca. 0.1 eV) lowers the ionization potential of the dyes, compare (1,2) to (3,4); this is explained by the fact that the HOMO molecular orbital mostly spreads on the BODIPY-vinylthiophene core of the molecules

Synthesis, photophysical and electrochemical properties of pyridine, pyrazine and triazine-based (D–π–)₂A fluorescent dyes

• Keiichi Imato,
• Toshiaki Enoki,
• Koji Uenaka and
• Yousuke Ooyama

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1712–1721, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.167

• and OUJ-2 with two (diphenylamino)carbazole thiophene units as D (electron-donating group)–π (π-conjugated bridge) moiety and a pyridine, pyrazine or triazine ring as electron-withdrawing group (electron-accepting group, A) have been designed and synthesized. The photophysical and electrochemical

• group, we have designed and synthesized the (D–π–)2A fluorescent dyes OUY-2, OUK-2 and OUJ-2 with two (diphenylamino)carbazole thiophene units as the D–π moiety and a pyridine, pyrazine or triazine ring as the A moiety (Figure 1), although we have already reported the synthesis of (D–π–)2A fluorescent

• two (diphenylamino)carbazole thiophene units as D–π moiety to a pyridine, pyrazine or triazine ring as A moiety. For OUK-2, the shoulder band was observed at around 430 nm. Thus, the ICT-based photoabsorption band of the three dyes appears at a longer wavelength region in the order of OUY-2 < OUK-2

Recent advances on the transition-metal-catalyzed synthesis of imidazopyridines: an updated coverage

• Gagandeep Kour Reen,
• Ashok Kumar and
• Pratibha Sharma

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1612–1704, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.165

• groups (EDGs) at different positions on the phenyl ring. However, the use of aliphatic aldehydes such as 3-methylbutanal and cyclohexanecarbaldehyde and aliphatic acetylene viz., hex-1-yne resulted in a comparatively lower yield of 66, 70 and 60%, respectively. Heteroaromatic aldehydes such as thiophene

Selenophene-containing heterotriacenes by a C–Se coupling/cyclization reaction

• Pierre-Olivier Schwartz,
• Sebastian Förtsch,
• Astrid Vogt,
• Elena Mena-Osteritz and
• Peter Bäuerle

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1379–1393, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.138

• investigated and successfully used as building blocks for high-performance organic electronic materials and devices [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. Among the different heteroatoms that can be introduced into heteroacenes and in contrast to corresponding thiophene-based systems, selenium (Se) has only

• sparingly been used most probably because of the high price of selenophene itself, the limited number of commercially available derivatives, and the less explored chemistry. Nevertheless, the implementation of selenophenes as heteroanalogues of thiophene-based materials is highly attractive, because

• molecules containing selenophene fragments instead of thiophene showed promising optical and electrochemical properties [17][18][19] and improved charge transport characteristics [20]. With respect to fused selenoloacenes, only the shortest parent system consisting of two fused heterocycles, mixed thieno

Multicomponent reactions (MCRs): a useful access to the synthesis of benzo-fused γ-lactams

• Edorta Martínez de Marigorta,
• Jesús M. de Los Santos,
• Ana M. Ochoa de Retana,
• Javier Vicario and
• Francisco Palacios

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1065–1085, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.104

• , including a thiophene derivative. With the aid of several dedicated experiments, the researchers proposed a mechanism initiated by the formation of an arylsulfonyl radical 72, which then would add to the alkene moiety in 67 to produce a radical intermediate 73 (Scheme 22). The photocatalyst-assisted

The LANCA three-component reaction to highly substituted β-ketoenamides – versatile intermediates for the synthesis of functionalized pyridine, pyrimidine, oxazole and quinoxaline derivatives

• Tilman Lechel,
• Roopender Kumar,
• Mrinal K. Bera,
• Reinhold Zimmer and
• Hans-Ulrich Reissig

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 655–678, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.61

• various examples (Table 1, entries 15–19, 26–28, and 34). Even with acrylic acid the expected product KE15 was isolated in 91% yield. Although we did not systematically study nitriles with heterocyclic substituents, we showed that thiophene-2-carbonitrile is an excellent substrate leading to KE32–35 in

Synthesis of C₃-symmetric star-shaped molecules containing α-amino acids and dipeptides via Negishi coupling as a key step

• Sambasivarao Kotha and
• Saidulu Todeti

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 371–377, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.33

• product was directly treated with thiophene-2-carboxylic acid in the presence of 2-(1H-benzotriazol-1-yl)-1,1,3,3-tetramethyluronium hexafluorophosphate (HBTU) and N,N-diisopropylethylamine (DIPEA) in CH2Cl2 at room temperature for 5 h to give trimer 11 in 86% yield (Scheme 3). In addition, different amino

• the reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for 1 h. Then, the mixture was concentrated at reduced pressure to remove the solvent and dried under vacuum. Later, without further purification the Negishi coupling deprotection product was reacted with 3 equiv of thiophene 2-carboxylic acid or

A convenient and practical synthesis of β-diketones bearing linear perfluorinated alkyl groups and a 2-thienyl moiety

• Ilya V. Taydakov,
• Yuliya M. Kreshchenova and
• Ekaterina P. Dolotova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 3106–3111, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.290

• condensation; copper chelate; β-diketones; perfluorinated esters; thiophene; Introduction Classical β-diketones have been studied for more than a century, and no doubt, they are the most popular O,O-ligands in the coordination chemistry of d- and f-elements [1][2][3]. These compounds are widely used as

• to suppression of multiphonon non-radiative relaxation [7][12][13]. Among all β-diketones, one derivative of thiophene, namely 2-thenoyltrifluoroacetone (Htta, 4,4,4-trifluoro-1-(2-thienyl)butane-1,3-dione), is produced on industrial scale and extensively used in the nuclear fuel separation cycle [14

• for the isolation of the β-diketones. Several methods for decomposition of copper chelates were described in literature. Usually sulfuric acid with various concentrations (10–95%) was applied [22][23][34][35], but the thiophene ring is known to be sensitive to sulfuric acid. For this reason, we

Oxidative and reductive cyclization in stiff dithienylethenes

• Michael Kleinwächter,
• Ellen Teichmann,
• Lutz Grubert,
• Martin Herder and
• Stefan Hecht

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2812–2821, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.259

• the Z-isomers of sDTEs are able to undergo oxidative cyclization. In contrast, in the dianionic state formal cross-conjugation between the thiophene moieties and the central double bond persists and no rotation takes place. Thus, only the dianion of the Z-isomer undergoes cyclization while the

Targeting the Pseudomonas quinolone signal quorum sensing system for the discovery of novel anti-infective pathoblockers

• Christian Schütz and
• Martin Empting

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2627–2645, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.241

• (His71) sidechain via π-stacking. For the thiophene-containing fragment 26 a π–π interaction of the sulfur with Phe195 can be observed. In vitro evaluation was performed using a combined PqsDE assay due to the aforementioned instability of 2-ABA-CoA which in this scenario is generated in situ from

Cobalt- and rhodium-catalyzed carboxylation using carbon dioxide as the C1 source

• Tetsuaki Fujihara and
• Yasushi Tsuji

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2435–2460, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.221

• , respectively. The reaction of unsymmetrical 1-phenyl-1-hexyne with 18a afforded 19d-H and 19d-Et regioselectively. In addition, an alkyne with a thiophene ring regioselectively produced the desired product 19e-Me after methylation with MeI. It is noteworthy that an alkynoate was also converted into the

Synergistic electrodeposition of bilayer films and analysis by Raman spectroscopy

• Saadeldin E. T. Elmasly,
• Luca Guerrini,
• Joseph Cameron,
• Alexander L. Kanibolotsky,
• Neil J. Findlay,
• Karen Faulds and
• Peter J. Skabara

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2186–2189, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.191

• dependent on the π-electron delocalisation within the polymer and, therefore, produce dramatic changes both in frequency and intensity due to the different electronic structure of each polymer. In particular, in the p-doped PEDOT spectrum (Figure 2a), Raman features corresponding to the thiophene ring at

First thia-Diels–Alder reactions of thiochalcones with 1,4-quinones

• Grzegorz Mlostoń,
• Katarzyna Urbaniak,
• Paweł Urbaniak,
• Anna Marko,
• Anthony Linden and
• Heinz Heimgartner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1834–1839, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.156

• centrosymmetric, the compound in the crystal is racemic. The S-atom of the thiophene ring is disordered over two unequally occupied positions as a result of slight but opposite directions of envelope puckering of the ring. The hydroxy group forms an intramolecular hydrogen bond with the adjacent quinoid O-atom

• (for C26H20O2S): 395 (100, [M − 1]−). ORTEP plot [29] of the molecular structure of 4k showing the major conformation of the disordered thiophene ring (50% probability ellipsoids; arbitrary numbering of the atoms). Products of the reactions of thiochalcones 1a and 1b with 1,4-benzoquinone (2a) and of

Hypervalent organoiodine compounds: from reagents to valuable building blocks in synthesis

• Gwendal Grelier,
• Benjamin Darses and
• Philippe Dauban

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1508–1528, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.128

• Jiang has very recently described a complementary method for the synthesis of carbazoles by combining cyclic diaryl-λ3-iodanes with sodium azide in the presence of copper(I) thiophene-2-carboxylate (CuTc) and triphenylphosphine. The reaction affords the expected of N–H free derivatives 63 in moderate to

• been further extended to the synthesis of a new series of molecules 77, where the central thiophene moiety is replaced by a 6-membered heterocycle, which is substituted by a gem-dimethyl or a cyclopropyl group. In this case, the reaction can be performed under metal-free conditions in the presence of a

Recent advances in phosphorescent platinum complexes for organic light-emitting diodes

• Cristina Cebrián and
• Matteo Mauro

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1459–1481, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.124

• former, a clear impact on the emission colour was observed due to the participation of the cyclometalating unit to the HOMO frontier orbital. Thus, an emission ranging from green to yellow and finally to red was obtained going from phenyl, thiophene and benzothiophene cyclometalating rings, respectively

• , together with the use of heterocyclic moieties such as thiophene or carbazole, clearly favours the luminescence properties of these type of platinum(II) complexes [68]. As aforementioned, N-deprotonable azole units constitute a compelling alternative to C-cyclometalating ligands [16]. In this regard

Atom-economical group-transfer reactions with hypervalent iodine compounds

• Andreas Boelke,
• Peter Finkbeiner and
• Boris J. Nachtsheim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1263–1280, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.108

• thiophene, cyclopentene and adamantyl derivatives 30a–c with good AE values (51% for 30a). The proposed mechanism involves two distinct catalytic cycles for the amination and the arylation reaction step (Scheme 17). First, a metallanitrene B is formed via the reaction of the (dicarboxyiodo)benzene 20 with

Synthesis of pyrazolopyrimidinones using a “one-pot” approach under microwave irradiation

• Mark Kelada,
• John M. D. Walsh,
• Robert W. Devine,
• Patrick McArdle and
• John C. Stephens

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1222–1228, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.104

•  1). The heterocyclic furan and thiophene substituents allowed generation of the desired 5-aminopyrazoles in 75% and 81% yields, respectively (Scheme 1). Alkyl groups appeared to be less well tolerated, where the corresponding alkyl-substituted 5-aminopyrazoles were isolated in lower yields. With a

Rapid transformation of sulfinate salts into sulfonates promoted by a hypervalent iodine(III) reagent

• Elsa Deruer,
• Vincent Hamel,
• Samuel Blais and
• Sylvain Canesi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1203–1207, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.101

• such as thiophene or anisole. It should be stressed that the formation of substituted aromatic systems through a Friedel–Crafts type process [36] is an argument in favor of the formation of the electrophilic sulfonium species 3 (Scheme 1). In the presence of thiophene, compounds 9 were obtained in 23

• 10a. If anisole was used instead of thiophene an expected mixture of compounds 11a and 11b was observed in a ratio 1:1 and in a low yield of 14%. So far, the yields observed with carbon-based nucleophiles have been low, but they clearly demonstrate the feasibility of this approach. Further

An overview of recent advances in duplex DNA recognition by small molecules

• Sayantan Bhaduri,
• Nihar Ranjan and
• Dev P. Arya

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1051–1086, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.93

• , thereby reducing strength of electrostatic interactions between the ligands with DNA phosphate backbone [120]. Wilson et al. rationally designed benzimidazole derivatives by keeping pre-organized N-methylbenzimidazole (N-MeBI)-thiophene as central fragment (conjugates 55 and 56, Figure 10) in order to

• selectively bind mixed G·C and A·T sequences of DNA. They hypothesized that thiophene (positive electrostatic potential) and the electron-donor nitrogen of N-MeBI should pre-organize the conformation for accepting hydrogen bond from G-NH2, which was validated by replacing the thiophene moiety with other

• heterocyclic rings such as furan 62 and 63 [126], thiophene 64 [127] and pyridine 65 (Figure 11) [128]. These conjugates exhibit potent antibacterial and antiprotozoal activity with much reduced toxicity. It was further concluded that π-stacking, H-bonding with the floor of the minor groove along with

Hypervalent iodine-guided electrophilic substitution: para-selective substitution across aryl iodonium compounds with benzyl groups

• Cyrus Mowdawalla,
• Faiz Ahmed,
• Tian Li,
• Kiet Pham,
• Loma Dave,
• Grace Kim and
• I. F. Dempsey Hyatt

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1039–1045, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.91

• donation is also demonstrated in the thiophene (1j) group tested (Table 2, entry 9). In the case of electron-withdrawing groups, deactivation occurs and the only reaction is the decomposition of the I(III) to I(I) (Table 2, entries 10 and 11). The fact that no product was formed when using electron

Fluorogenic PNA probes

• Tirayut Vilaivan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 253–281, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.17

• discrimination between complementary and mismatched duplex observed with benzothiophene-uracil was limited to sequences with flanking Cs. No discrimination was observed with benzofuran-uracil PNA unless it was used in combination with GO as a quencher for ssPNA [196]. In this respect, the thiophene-modified

One-pot sequential synthesis of tetrasubstituted thiophenes via sulfur ylide-like intermediates

• Jun Ki Kim,
• Hwan Jung Lim,
• Kyung Chae Jeong and
• Seong Jun Park

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 243–252, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.16

• those of others. Keywords: 5-(heterocyclic)thiophenes; one-pot sequential synthesis; sulfur ylide; tetrasubstituted thiophene; Introduction Since the discovery of stable sulfonium ylides 1 in 1930 [1] and the pioneering work of several research groups during the 1960s (2 and 3) [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9

• and 2B), Al-Showiman and co-workers reported a trisubstituted 5-(pyridin-2-yl)thiophene, obtained from the reaction of 5-(enaminone)thiophene with 2,4-pentanedione in glacial acetic acid in the presence of ammonium acetate [54][55]. Ila and co-workers reported the synthesis of tri- and

• yield (32%). Starting from malonitrile, compound 8an was also prepared in a moderate yield (50%) via a Thorpe–Ziegler-type cyclization of N,S-acetal 7an. In this case, the intramolecular cyclization reaction was carried out at 100 °C for 3 h. With 5,5-dimethylcyclohexane-1,3-dione, thiophene 8ao was