The charge-assisted hydrogen-bonded organic framework (CAHOF) self-assembled from the conjugated acid of tetrakis(4-aminophenyl)methane and 2,6-naphthalenedisulfonate as a new class of recyclable Brønsted acid catalysts

• Svetlana A. Kuznetsova,
• Alexander S. Gak,
• Yulia V. Nelyubina,
• Vladimir A. Larionov,
• Han Li,
• Michael North,
• Vladimir P. Zhereb,
• Alexander F. Smol'yakov,
• Artem O. Dmitrienko,
• Michael G. Medvedev,
• Igor S. Gerasimov,
• Ashot S. Saghyan and
• Yuri N. Belokon

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1124–1134, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.99

• catalysis are well-known and documented [1][2][3]. However, problems associated with catalyst recovery limit the application of homogeneous catalysts in industry and sometimes make their heterogenization necessary. Unfortunately, the immobilization of a homogeneous catalyst onto supports, such as

• synthetic protocols for the matrix synthesis hamper the routine use of MOFs and COFs in industry, even for the production of high-added-value products. Recently, new supramolecular porous materials named hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks (HOFs) or supramolecular organic frameworks (SOFs) have been

A method to determine the correct photocatalyst concentration for photooxidation reactions conducted in continuous flow reactors

• Clemens R. Horn and
• Sylvain Gremetz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 871–879, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.78

• sources over mercury arcs and other light sources commonly used in industry and classical synthetic organic photochemistry. LEDs typically have much narrower emission spectra when compared to these light sources, all of which have broad emission spectra except for low-pressure sodium vapor lamps [15][16

Aldehydes as powerful initiators for photochemical transformations

• Maria A. Theodoropoulou,
• Nikolaos F. Nikitas and
• Christoforos G. Kokotos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 833–857, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.76

Recent advances in Cu-catalyzed C(sp³)–Si and C(sp³)–B bond formation

• Balaram S. Takale,
• Ruchita R. Thakore,
• Elham Etemadi-Davan and
• Bruce H. Lipshutz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 691–737, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.67

• organosilicon [17][18][19][20] and organoboron [21][22][23][24] compounds (i.e., C(sp3)–Si and C(sp3)–B). Nonetheless, considering the extent of their use and their increasing popularity in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the significant growth in the development of Cu-catalyzed processes applied to

Rhodium-catalyzed reductive carbonylation of aryl iodides to arylaldehydes with syngas

• Zhenghui Liu,
• Peng Wang,
• Zhenzhong Yan,
• Suqing Chen,
• Dongkun Yu,
• Xinhui Zhao and
• Tiancheng Mu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 645–656, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.61

• crucial for new practical applications. Syngas is a mixture of CO and H2, which is cheap, abundant and widely used in chemical industry productions [14][15][16]. In spite of its comprehensive utilization in industry, reactions involving CO are relatively seldom employed in fine chemicals syntheses. This

• chemical industry by offering a practical synthetic tool for the conversion of aryl iodides to arylaldehydes. Results and Discussion Effects of Rh species Rhodium salts coordinated with proper ligands have been reported to be able to realize the activation of CO and H2 and thus might achieve the reductive

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

• nanocomposite, carbon nanocomposite, and magnetic nanocomposites and their catalytic uses in CuAACs will be helpful to the community of scientists working in industry and scholarly laboratories, respectively. This review aims to cover recently published reports from 2014 to 2019 presenting synthetic routes and

• applications that focused on the title catalysts in CuAAC reactions. Review Copper anchored on functionalized silica materials: efficient and recyclable catalysts for CuAAC reactions In recent years, silica or silicon dioxide nanomaterials have received much attention from researchers and industry and have

Photophysics and photochemistry of NIR absorbers derived from cyanines: key to new technologies based on chemistry 4.0

• Bernd Strehmel,
• Christian Schmitz,
• Ceren Kütahya,
• Yulian Pang,
• Anke Drewitz and
• Heinz Mustroph

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 415–444, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.40

• applications related to Chemistry 4.0 standards. These were mainly photopolymer coatings, which can be found for applications in the graphic industry or to protect selected substrates. The huge release of heat on demand upon turning ON or OFF the NIR light source enables them for photothermal treatment in

• where the absorber uptakes the function of a sensitizer to generate initiating radicals and conjugate acid [13][14][15][16][17][58][65]. The fact that these systems work upon turning ON/OFF cycles facilitates their use in Industry 4.0 related applications where printing represents one feasible

• to enable such materials to technologies requesting a higher demand on materials; that is for example the graphic industry where these absorbers have been successfully worked in Computer to Plate (CtP) applications for more than 25 years [11][12][13][14]. Nowadays, manufacturing of symmetric cyanines

Visible-light-induced addition of carboxymethanide to styrene from monochloroacetic acid

• Kaj M. van Vliet,
• Nicole S. van Leeuwen,
• Albert M. Brouwer and
• Bas de Bruin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 398–408, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.38

• chloromethyl radical can be formed with photoredox catalysis from monochloroacetic acid, but we were not yet able to apply such reactions in a productive manner, such as in cyclopropanation reactions. A part of the industry around monochloroacetic acid. Cyclic voltammogram of monochloroacetic acid and

Oligomeric ricinoleic acid preparation promoted by an efficient and recoverable Brønsted acidic ionic liquid

• Fei You,
• Xing He,
• Song Gao,
• Hong-Ru Li and
• Liang-Nian He

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 351–361, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.34

• industry [4]. Especially, the characteristics of non-volatility and biodegradability make plant oil the most promising material to develop functional polymeric materials with superior performance [5][6][7]. Castor oil is one kind of nonedible oil and can be extracted from the seeds of the castor bean plant

• industry [9][10]. Numerous platform chemicals such as ricinoleic acid and undecylenic acid can be prepared from castor oil, wherein ricinoleic acid is a crucial platform chemical for derivation of useful chemicals [11][12][13][14]. Ricinoleic acid can be easily prepared by hydrolysis of castor oil [15

Recent developments in photoredox-catalyzed remote ortho and para C–H bond functionalizations

• Rafia Siddiqui and
• Rashid Ali

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 248–280, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.26

• research topic in modern synthetic organic chemistry for the constructions of challenging bonds, having the foremost scope in academia, pharmacy, and industry. Therefore, the development of green, simpler, and effective methodologies to accomplish direct C–H bond functionalization is well overdue and

• bonds in the presence of photoredox catalyst 8, with a similar mechanism as shown in Figure 22, and the photocatalytic mechanism was elucidated by nanosecond laser flash photolysis (Scheme 24) [168]. Fluorine-18 is an important radioisotope used in the radiopharmaceutical industry (e.g., for drug

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

• of HPPA to HGA is interfered with an HPPD inhibitor [9][10]; consequently, plants become severely damage when exposed to sunlight, ultimately resulting in bleaching symptoms followed by necrosis and death [11][12]. Therefore, HPPD inhibitors play important roles in the herbicide industry. In addition

• commercialized and applied in the agrochemical industry. These herbicides are mainly divided into three categories: triketones, pyrazoles, and isoxazoles [9][15][16]. Figure 1 shows some HPPD-inhibiting herbicides, namely mesotrione, tefuryltrione, isoxaflutole, topramezone, and pyrasulfotole. Among them

• spectra of synthesized compounds. Acknowledgments The author thanks Prof. Da-Yong Zhang and Hao Huang for experimental guidance, Zhejiang University Chemical Industry Research Institute for biological activity assay, and National Natural science Foundation of China (30973607, 81172934), "Double First

Understanding the role of active site residues in CotB2 catalysis using a cluster model

• Keren Raz,
• Ronja Driller,
• Thomas Brück,
• Bernhard Loll and
• Dan T. Major

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 50–59, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.7

• by featuring anticancer, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and antiretroviral activities [37]. Moreover, they are applied in the food industry as antioxidants and sweeteners [4]. CotB2 is a bacterial diterpene cyclase from S. melanosporofaciens, which catalyzes the formation of cyclooctat-9-en-7-ol

A green, economical synthesis of β-ketonitriles and trifunctionalized building blocks from esters and lactones

• Daniel P. Pienaar,
• Kamogelo R. Butsi,
• Amanda L. Rousseau and
• Dean Brady

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2930–2935, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.287

• hydroxy ester 4 followed by reaction with acetonitrile (CH3CN), a multistep approach would be less economical in industry (Scheme 1). Results and Discussion To date, the most economically appealing conditions from an environmentally friendly perspective entail relatively mild base-promoted (potassium tert

Palladium-catalyzed Sonogashira coupling reactions in γ-valerolactone-based ionic liquids

• László Orha,
• József M. Tukacs,
• László Kollár and
• László T. Mika

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2907–2913, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.284

• arylacetylenes [7][8] having great importance in organic synthetic schemes of the pharmaceutical industry. From the environmental point of view, the Sonogashira reactions are usually performed in fossil-based common organic reaction media having high vapor pressure even at higher temperatures, toxicity

• into Class 2, of which applications should be strictly limited, particularly in pharmaceutical industry. To develop an environmentally benign alternative of this useful method, the reaction has been extended to green solvents such as water [16], fluorous solvents [17], supercritical CO2 [18], and very

Progress in metathesis chemistry

• Karol Grela and
• Anna Kajetanowicz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2765–2766, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.267

• reflected by a growing number of new industrial openings. No new metathesis-based biorefineries have been built, while the traditional polymer industry seems to prefer ill-definied catalysts, and sadly, no new drugs are being produced by metathesis. On the contrary, Janssen Therapeutics recently announced

Arylisoquinoline-derived organoboron dyes with a triaryl skeleton show dual fluorescence

• Vânia F. Pais,
• Tristan Neumann,
• Ignacio Vayá,
• M. Consuelo Jiménez,
• Abel Ros and
• Uwe Pischel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2612–2622, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.254

• fluoroboronate complexes, HPLC traces for the dyes 16–19. Acknowledgements Funding by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness (CTQ2014-54729-C2-1-P for U.P., CTQ2013-48164-C2-1-P and CTQ2013-48164-C2-2-P for A.R., Ramón y Cajal contracts RYC-2013-12585 for A.R. and RYC-2015-17737 for I.V

Synthetic terpenoids in the world of fragrances: Iso E Super^® is the showcase

• Alexey Stepanyuk and
• Andreas Kirschning

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2590–2602, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.252

• products obtained can change drastically [22]. Conclusion and Outlook Here, we presented a short story on Iso E Super® and derivatives formed during synthesis, a group of molecules that has changed the perfume industry, but has its roots in the terpenoid ingredients of classical essential oils geranium and

• backbones. Thus, in the presence of presilphiperfolan-8-β-ol synthase (Bot2) a novel tricyclic product 70 was obtained from unnatural farnesyldiphosphate ether 69. The olfactory analysis revealed an ethereal, peppery and camphoric scent (Scheme 10) [39]. Future prospects of the fragrance industry will be

Current understanding and biotechnological application of the bacterial diterpene synthase CotB2

• Ronja Driller,
• Daniel Garbe,
• Norbert Mehlmer,
• Monika Fuchs,
• Keren Raz,
• Dan Thomas Major,
• Thomas Brück and
• Bernhard Loll

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2355–2368, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.228

• , antibiotic, neuroprotective and even insecticidal activities, which makes these compounds high-value commercial targets for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry [9][10]. Structural diversity of diterpenes is created by the terpene synthase (TPS) enzyme family, which use acyclic isoprenoid precursors to

Genome mining in Trichoderma viride J1-030: discovery and identification of novel sesquiterpene synthase and its products

• Xiang Sun,
• You-Sheng Cai,
• Yujie Yuan,
• Guangkai Bian,
• Ziling Ye,
• Zixin Deng and
• Tiangang Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2052–2058, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.202

• ]. The C15 sesquiterpenoids constitute a large class of terpenoids with a wide range of industrial and commercial applications, including uses in flavours and perfumes, as bioactive molecules in the pharmaceutical industry, and in health care products [11]. Sesquiterpenoids are biosynthesised from the

Morphology-tunable and pH-responsive supramolecular self-assemblies based on AB₂-type host–guest-conjugated amphiphilic molecules for controlled drug delivery

• Yang Bai,
• Cai-ping Liu,
• Di Chen,
• Long-hai Zhuo,
• Huai-tian Bu and
• Wei Tian

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1925–1932, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.188

• Yang Bai Cai-ping Liu Di Chen Long-hai Zhuo Huai-tian Bu Wei Tian Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Chemical Additives for Industry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710021, China MOE Key Laboratory of Material Physics and Chemistry under

Vicinal difunctionalization of alkenes by four-component radical cascade reaction of xanthogenates, alkenes, CO, and sulfonyl oxime ethers

• Shuhei Sumino,
• Takahide Fukuyama,
• Mika Sasano,
• Ilhyong Ryu,
• Antoine Jacquet,
• Frédéric Robert and
• Yannick Landais

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1822–1828, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.176

• Gel 60N (spherical, neutral, 40–50 μm)) and, if necessary, were further purified by recycling preparative HPLC (Japan Analytical Industry Co. Ltd., LC-918) equipped with GPC columns (JAIGEL-1H + JAIGEL-2H columns) using CHCl3 as eluent. Xanthogenate 1a,b [20], 1c [36], alkene 2c [37], and oxime ester

Water inside β-cyclodextrin cavity: amount, stability and mechanism of binding

• Stiliyana Pereva,
• Valya Nikolova,
• Silvia Angelova,
• Tony Spassov and
• Todor Dudev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1592–1600, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.163

• ; hydration; macrocycles; thermodynamic characteristics; Introduction Cyclodextrins (CDs), a family of enzymatically modified starches, are widely used as host macrocycles in forming inclusion complexes with various molecular entities of interest to food industry, pharmacology, cosmetics, catalysis, and

Synthesis and conformational preferences of short analogues of antifreeze glycopeptides (AFGP)

• Małgorzata Urbańczyk,
• Michał Jewgiński,
• Joanna Krzciuk-Gula,
• Jerzy Góra,
• Rafał Latajka and
• Norbert Sewald

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1581–1591, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.162

• ., in food industry and biomedicine. Keywords: antifreeze glycopeptides; conformational preferences; NMR; PP II; solid phase synthesis; Introduction Certain species of polar and sub-polar fish created evolutionary strategies to survive in water at temperatures below the colligative freezing point

• better understanding of the correlation between structure and activity of AFGPs would not only improve the basic knowledge on molecular recognition, but could also help designing new tailored antifreeze agents for many applications, e.g., cooling systems, coating technology, ice-templating, food industry

Mechanochemistry II

• José G. Hernández

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1521–1522, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.154

• strategy for the future of chemical synthesis. In fact, the potential of mechanochemistry in various domains of research, industry and in commercial entities has been recently recognized by the IUPAC after the inclusion of mechanochemistry among the ten chemical innovations that will change our world [2

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

• : abyssomicin C; antibiotic; antibiotic resistance; MRSA; truncated natural products; Introduction Antibiotic resistance is a major threat to global health, and numerous actions are presently taken in both academia and industry to combat this major societal challenge. There are many different approaches to