Automated glycan assembly of arabinomannan oligosaccharides from Mycobacterium tuberculosis

• Alonso Pardo-Vargas,
• Priya Bharate,
• Martina Delbianco and
• Peter H. Seeberger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2936–2940, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.288

• -step purification and global deprotection [25]. Linear α-(1,6)-hexamannoside 4 was synthesized using six coupling cycles and 6.5 equiv of mannose building block (BB) 1. No deletion sequences were observed and the crude product was purified using normal-phase HPLC to obtain hexamannoside 4 in 55% yield

• 8 were addressed using building block 1 and arabinose BB 3 for the α-(1,5)-Ara linkage. Procedure A efficiently provided the linear mannose backbone, but resulted only in partial glycosylation of arabinose BB 3, thus giving the hexamannoside as main product as well as multiple side products missing

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

• studies [20], that SNAc thioesters can serve as a mimic of PPant and thus get accepted by the subsequent C domain which forms the peptide bond with the downstream building block. Because it lacks arg2, the carrier-associated tripeptide produced by the first NRPS subunit is not available for biosynthesis

A toolbox of molecular photoswitches to modulate the CXCR3 chemokine receptor with light

• Xavier Gómez-Santacana,
• Sabrina M. de Munnik,
• Tamara A. M. Mocking,
• Niels J. Hauwert,
• Shanliang Sun,
• Prashanna Vijayachandran,
• Iwan J. P. de Esch,
• Henry F. Vischer,
• Maikel Wijtmans and
• Rob Leurs

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2509–2523, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.244

• for Scientific Research for financial support (TOPPUNT, “7 ways to 7TMR modulation (7-to-7)”, 718.014.002). We thank Danny Scholten, Chris de Graaf, and Luc Roumen for helpful discussions, Hans Custers for recording HRMS spectra and Mounir Andaloussi for providing key building block 7.

In search of visible-light photoresponsive peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) for reversible control of DNA hybridization

• Lei Zhang,
• Greta Linden and
• Olalla Vázquez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2500–2508, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.243

• , 12-mer long sequences are a suitable starting point for our preliminary tests. An overview of all the sequences of this study can be found in Table 1 and Table 2. Contrary to the previous synthetic approach of azobenzene-containing PNAs [35][36][41], in which the preformed monomer building block was

Effect of ring size on photoisomerization properties of stiff stilbene macrocycles

• Sandra Olsson,
• Óscar Benito Pérez,
• Magnus Blom and
• Adolf Gogoll

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2408–2418, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.233

• from Z to E at 300 nm and from E to Z at 360 nm (Scheme 1) [2]. The photochemical mechanism of this reaction is thoroughly described by Quick et al. [2]. The stiff stilbenes ability to photoisomerize has made it a useful building block of photodynamic triggers, switches and machines [3][4][5][6][7][8

Functionalization of 4-bromobenzo[c][2,7]naphthyridine via regioselective direct ring metalation. A novel approach to analogues of pyridoacridine alkaloids

• Benedikt C. Melzer,
• Alois Plodek and
• Franz Bracher

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2304–2310, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.222

• cross-coupling reactions, 4-bromo-5 iodobenzo[c][2,7]naphthyridine (13) is regarded as an interesting building block for synthetic chemists. Another interesting building block is ester 14, which was obtained in 37% yield by quenching 5-metalated 9d with diethyl carbonate. The quenching of 9d after

Cyclopropanation–ring expansion of 3-chloroindoles with α-halodiazoacetates: novel synthesis of 4-quinolone-3-carboxylic acid and norfloxacin

• Sara Peeters,
• Linn Neerbye Berntsen,
• Pål Rongved and
• Tore Bonge-Hansen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2156–2160, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.212

• 6,7-difluoro-4-quinolone-3-carboxylate building block 10 was accessed in high yield in only three steps from commercially available substrates. The nature of the cyclopropanation–ring expansion makes the 4-chloro-3-carboxy-quinoline structure with perfect positioning of the carboxylate and chlorine

Fluorinated azobenzenes as supramolecular halogen-bonding building blocks

• Esther Nieland,
• Oliver Weingart and
• Bernd M. Schmidt

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2013–2019, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.197

• photochemical properties upon introducing the heavy iodine to the azobenzene building block, as well as the effect of the ethynyl group in case of A3 (Figure 2). Vertical electronic absorption spectra of the different azobenzenes were calculated at the TD-B3LYP/def2-TZVP level of theory including Grimme D3

A review of the total syntheses of triptolide

• Xiang Zhang,
• Zaozao Xiao and
• Hongtao Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1984–1995, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.194

• can ensure the optical purity of tripolide by utilizing the natural building block ʟ-dehydroabietic acid, and therefore could give a lot of inspiration for the future syntheses of triptolide and other related natural products from resource-abundant natural scaffolds. Alternatively, inspired by the use

Application of chiral 2-isoxazoline for the synthesis of syn-1,3-diol analogs

• Juanjuan Feng,
• Tianyu Li,
• Jiaxin Zhang and
• Peng Jiao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1840–1847, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.179

• ][21][22][23] is widely used to prepare tert-butyl (3R)-3,5-O-isopropylidene-3,5-dihydroxyhexanoate (Scheme 1a) [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37], which is a building block for synthetic statins [38][39][40][41], though enzymatic syntheses [42][43][44][45][46][47][48] of the

Synthesis of a [6]rotaxane with singly threaded γ-cyclodextrins as a single stereoisomer

• Jason Yin Hei Man and
• Ho Yu Au-Yeung

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1829–1837, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.177

• further interlocking at the γ-CD. Results and Discussion Building block design and rotaxane synthesis To encourage complex formation with γ-CD, axle 1 was designed with a biphenylene core to bind to the macrocycle through hydrophobic effect. The axle is terminated by 2-aminoethyl azide for CB[6]-mediated

• first heated at 100 °C for 5 minutes in a microwave reactor to facilitate the dissolution of the CB[6] (Scheme 2). The solution was then added to a solution mixture of the biphenylene building block 1 and γ-CD at different ratios, and the mixture was heated at 60 °C overnight. The products were analyzed

An azobenzene container showing a definite folding – synthesis and structural investigation

• Abdulselam Adam,
• Saber Mehrparvar and
• Gebhard Haberhauer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1534–1544, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.156

• other. The isolation of the desired container was achieved by column chromatography followed by HPLC. It is noteworthy that the synthesis of this container showing two different Lissoclinum cyclopeptides only took a couple of steps starting from an imidazole and an oxazole building block, an azobenzene

Synthesis and biological evaluation of truncated derivatives of abyssomicin C as antibacterial agents

• Leticia Monjas,
• Peter Fodran,
• Johanna Kollback,
• Carlo Cassani,
• Thomas Olsson,
• Maja Genheden,
• D. G. Joakim Larsson and
• Carl-Johan Wallentin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1468–1474, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.147

• carbonyl addition reaction between aldehyde 3 and the tetronate derivatives 4 and 5, followed by a ring-closing metathesis (Scheme 1). Since both enantiomers of AbC have similar activity [25], we pursued racemic synthesis of the targeted compounds. We synthesized the common building block 3 in six steps

• the TBDMS group from the primary to the secondary alcohol was achieved by a protection/deprotection sequence, which smoothly provided alcohol 10 in 71% yield over two steps. A final Swern oxidation gave the building block 3 in 91% yield (33% overall yield from 1,5-pentanediol 6). The other key

• : R = Me) and 92% (15: R = CH2CH2Ph). b) bromoacetyl bromide (1.5–2.4 equiv), toluene, reflux, 20–24 h, 68% (16: R = Me) and 72% (17: R = CH2CH2Ph). c) PPh3 (1.5 equiv), DIPEA (1.2 equiv), THF, 70 °C, 16 h, 75% (4: R = Me) and 77% (5: R = CH2CH2Ph). Reaction of the building block 3 with 4 or 5 for the

Efficient resolution of racemic crown-shaped cyclotriveratrylene derivatives and isolation and characterization of the intermediate saddle isomer

• Sven Götz,
• Andreas Schneider and
• Arne Lützen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1339–1346, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.133

• key compound for the synthesis of cryptophanes but also a very promising building block for the synthesis of other sophisticated (supra)molecular architectures. Using a CHIRALPAK IB as the stationary phase and MeOH as the mobile phase, it is possible to resolve more than 100 mg of racemic material

Bambusuril analogs based on alternating glycoluril and xylylene units

• Tomáš Lízal and
• Vladimír Šindelář

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1268–1274, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.124

• Tomas Lizal Vladimir Sindelar Department of Chemistry and RECETOX, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic 10.3762/bjoc.15.124 Abstract The glycoluril monomer is a popular building block in supramolecular chemistry as it is used for the synthesis of versatile host molecules

Self-assembly behaviors of perylene- and naphthalene-crown macrocycle conjugates in aqueous medium

• Xin Shen,
• Bo Li,
• Tiezheng Pan,
• Jianfeng Wu,
• Yangxin Wang,
• Jie Shang,
• Yan Ge,
• Lin Jin and
• Zhenhui Qi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1203–1209, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.117

• with their linear glycol chain counterparts, B21C7 shows great potential to be an easy-to-accessed building block to probe the non-covalent interactions and chemical transformations influenced by water molecules. Perylene diimide (PDI) and naphthalene diimide (NDI) are polycyclic aromatic chromophores

Alkylation of lithiated dimethyl tartrate acetonide with unactivated alkyl halides and application to an asymmetric synthesis of the 2,8-dioxabicyclo[3.2.1]octane core of squalestatins/zaragozic acids

• Herman O. Sintim,
• Hamad H. Al Mamari,
• Hasanain A. A. Almohseni,
• Younes Fegheh-Hassanpour and
• David M. Hodgson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1194–1202, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.116

• (≈80:20 dr) with reactive organohalides (Scheme 4) [17]. The process was valuable, because it allowed direct elaboration of a chiral pool building block that was readily available as either antipode [22][23], with the major alkylated diastereomer 15 being generated in 97:3 er [18]. The study was also

Insertion of [1.1.1]propellane into aromatic disulfides

• Robin M. Bär,
• Gregor Heinrich,
• Martin Nieger,
• Olaf Fuhr and
• Stefan Bräse

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1172–1180, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.114

• opening of 1 with Grignard reagents enables the synthesis of aryl and some alkyl-substituted BCPs and a subsequent cross-coupling reaction [5][18]. To provide bicyclo[1.1.1]pentylamine as a building block in large-scale syntheses, Bunker et al. developed a synthesis of hydrazine BCP via a manganese

Diaminoterephthalate–α-lipoic acid conjugates with fluorinated residues

• Leon Buschbeck,
• Aleksandra Markovic,
• Gunther Wittstock and
• Jens Christoffers

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 981–991, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.96

• molecular reactions (cleavage, anchoring) in monolayers after their assembly on surfaces. In the course of our project on surface modifications by redox-active SAMs, we envisioned a bifunctionalized DAT as suitable building block. Surface binding to a metal support, e.g., gold, should be accomplished by an

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

• complex heterocyclic systems by the building block system derived from β-ketoenamides KE. Finally, the synthesis of star-shaped compound OX28 is presented. A threefold Sonogashira reaction of 1,3,5-tribromobenzene with ethynyl-substituted OX23 gave the desired OX28 in 22% yield; the major product (41%) of

Synthesis of the polyketide section of seragamide A and related cyclodepsipeptides via Negishi cross coupling

• Jan Hendrik Lang and
• Thomas Lindel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 577–583, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.53

• published a route to a 1:1 mixture of diastereomers of a TBS-protected analogue of building block 18 [41]. Negishi cross coupling of sp3 organozinc homoenolate 8 (2.75 equiv) and iodoalkene 18 (10 mol % [Pd(dppf)Cl2 × DCM] in DCM) afforded a satisfying 75% yield of the protected nonenoic acid 20 (Scheme 3

• recent synthesis of plusbacin A3, Ichikawa et al. experienced similar difficulties when attempting esterification of a bulky β-OTIPS-substituted amino acid with a secondary alcohol under a variety of conditions [49]. Conclusion We developed a short synthesis of the polyketide building block present in

Annulation of 1H-pyrrole-2,3-diones by thioacetamide: an approach to 5-azaisatins

• Aleksandr I. Kobelev,
• Ekaterina E. Stepanova,
• Maksim V. Dmitriev and
• Andrey N. Maslivets

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 364–370, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.32

• heterocycles; thioamides; Introduction Omnipresent among natural compounds and drugs, the indole core is a privileged scaffold for library design and drug discovery [1]. Its dioxo derivative, isatin (1H-indole-2,3-dione), is an important building block for the construction of diverse indole-based compounds

Unexpected loss of stereoselectivity in glycosylation reactions during the synthesis of chondroitin sulfate oligosaccharides

• Teresa Mena-Barragán,
• José L. de Paz and
• Pedro M. Nieto

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 137–144, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.14

• -O-pivaloylated building block. Pivaloyl groups are widely employed in carbohydrate chemistry and are especially indicated for the protection of 2-OH groups of glycosyl donors because they minimize the formation of orthoester byproducts. However, glycosylation experiments between monosaccharide units

Synthesis of a tubugi-1-toxin conjugate by a modulizable disulfide linker system with a neuropeptide Y analogue showing selectivity for hY1R-overexpressing tumor cells

• Rainer Kufka,
• Robert Rennert,
• Goran N. Kaluđerović,
• Lutz Weber,
• Wolfgang Richter and
• Ludger A. Wessjohann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 96–105, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.11

• (Scheme 1) shows that, in addition to tubugi-1 itself, only the readily accessible building block 4 is required to construct the activated compound tubugi-1-SSPy (3) as a universal precursor for peptide–toxin conjugate syntheses [57]. The pyridyl disulfide is a leaving group which can be substituted by

• isolation this is directly converted using building block 4 and HBTU and DIPEA as reagents to give tubugi-1-SSPy (3, Scheme 2). Purification by column chromatography finally yields the target compound tubugi-1-SSPy (3), which constitutes the payload with a rather universally pre-activated linker. The

• -1)-βA),F7,L17,P34]-hNPY (8), was synthesized by reacting the tubugi-1-SSPy (3) with the free thiol function of a β-alanine–cysteine dipeptide (βAC) linked to the side chain of Lys4 of the targeting peptide. For this purpose, 1 mol equiv of the tubugi-1-SSPy building block 3 and one molar equivalent

Synthesis, biophysical properties, and RNase H activity of 6’-difluoro[4.3.0]bicyclo-DNA

• Sibylle Frei,
• Adam K. Katolik and
• Christian J. Leumann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 79–88, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.9

• -DNA (6’-diF-bc4,3-DNA). The difluorinated thymidine phosphoramidite building block was synthesized starting from an already known gem-difluorinated tricyclic glycal. This tricyclic siloxydifluorocyclopropane was converted into the [4.3.0]bicyclic nucleoside via cyclopropane ring-opening through the

• addition of an electrophilic iodine during the nucleosidation step followed by reduction. The gem-difluorinated bicyclic nucleoside was then converted into the corresponding phosphoramidite building block which was incorporated into oligonucleotides. Thermal denaturation experiments of these

• analog by RNase H. In addition, the RNase H experiment was also performed with the previously report 6’F-bc4,3-DNA (Figure 1) [37]. Results and Discussion Synthesis of the phosphoramidite building block In the literature there exist several procedures to construct an α,α-difluoroketone from a