Molecular basis for the plasticity of aromatic prenyltransferases in hapalindole biosynthesis

• Takayoshi Awakawa and
• Ikuro Abe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1545–1551, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.157

• HU and HA were located at the same position, but their orientations were completely different. These data indicated that the hydrophobic interaction between the enzyme and the terpenoid moiety is important to support the prenyl acceptor, and the orientation can be altered dependently on their steric

• structures. The indole of HU, W117, and Y168 formed a cation shield [27][28], which stabilizes the cation intermediate after the removal of the phosphate from DMAPP in the HU structure, and Y225 was substituted with Y168 in the HA structure (Figure 5). The orientation of W117 changed in accordance with the

• orientation of the indole in HU and HA. As expectedly, W117 was shown to be important for the reaction through a point mutation study, in which W117A and W117F completely lost the catalytic activity. In the HU structure, the distance between C-2 of HU and C-3 of DMSPP (Figure 5A, a: 3.6 Å) is shorter than

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

• the high dispersion energy in the compact cis,cis-isomer. Keywords: azobenzene; macrocycles; molecular switch; Introduction In supramolecular chemistry rigid scaffolds are required to arrange different recognition units in predefined distances and spatial orientation to each other [1]. One example

• for such rigid systems are macrocycles which stem from Lissoclinum cyclopeptide alkaloids (Figure 1) [2][3]. Here, the required recognition units can be introduced via the amino acid side chains or via the side chains of the azole rings. The orientation and the distance between the recognition units

• is the design of artificial Lissoclinum cyclopeptides which can be switched by the incorporation of a suitable switching unit into the scaffold. A switching process would allow to vary the orientation and the distance between the recognition units. Examples for such switching units are photochromic

2,3-Dibutoxynaphthalene-based tetralactam macrocycles for recognizing precious metal chloride complexes

• Li-Li Wang,
• Yi-Kuan Tu,
• Huan Yao and
• Wei Jiang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1460–1467, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.146

• pre-organized. In addition, there exist two conformations for both macrocycles 1 and 2 because the two 2,3-dibutoxynaphthalene moieties can be aligned either in parallel or antiparallel orientation (Scheme 1). These two conformations have different cavities defined by the parallel or antiparallel

• parallel orientation. Three of the four NH protons are directed into the cavity, and the fourth one flipped outward and forms a hydrogen bond with the oxygen atom of H2O (H···O distance: 1.97 Å). Two CH3CN molecules were trapped in the cavities by the amide groups through N–H···N hydrogen bonds (H···N

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

• Å with S and 3.028 Å with Se) in a face-to-edge orientation (Figure 3c, Table S4a in Supporting Information File 1) [40]. We found as well several non-bonding S–Se contacts (3.644 Å) with four neighboring molecules in all crystallographic axes, which are slightly shorter than the sum of the van der

• formed dimers showed some differences: in DTT 1 the molecules overlap in a parallel orientation whereas in DST 3 an antiparallel orientation of the molecules in the dimer was found. The degree of overlap was determined to 73% and 64% for DTT 1 and DST 3, respectively. Less degree of overlap (43–53% and

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

• ][51][52][53][54][55][56][57] we were intrigued by the class of chiral CTVs. This is especially true for derivative 1 (Scheme 2) due to its interesting trifold substitution pattern with an almost orthogonal orientation of the functional groups which make it an ideal precursor for the synthesis of other

Synthesis of dipolar molecular rotors as linkers for metal-organic frameworks

• Sebastian Hamer,
• Fynn Röhricht,
• Marius Jakoby,
• Ian A. Howard,
• Xianghui Zhang,
• Christian Näther and
• Rainer Herges

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1331–1338, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.132

• in a MOF. Five different orientations in C2v, C2h and D2h symmetry are considered. The energy difference between the most favourable and the most unfavourable orientation is 9.7 kcal mol−1. It is important to note that the energy states of 3D ensembles of dipoles assuming periodic boundary conditions

• Müllen et al. [32] without compromising MOF compatibility by 4,5-diamino substitution. Synthesis of dipolar molecular rotor linkers The key step for the synthesis of all reported linkers is the coupling of a substituted aromatic core unit with two ethynyl substituents in para-orientation as spacer units

• orientation of the dipoles. The calculated dipole moment µ of the rotor (chemical structure on top left) is 8.6 D. Structures of molecular dipolar rotors/linker molecules 1–5. General synthetic strategy to prepare the dipolar rotors 1–5. Synthesis of 3,3'-(2,3-difluoro-1,4-phenylene)dipropiolic acid (1

Doebner-type pyrazolopyridine carboxylic acids in an Ugi four-component reaction

• Maryna V. Murlykina,
• Oleksandr V. Kolomiets,
• Maryna M. Kornet,
• Yana I. Sakhno,
• Sergey M. Desenko,
• Victoriya V. Dyakonenko,
• Svetlana V. Shishkina,
• Oleksandr A. Brazhko,
• Vladimir I. Musatov,
• Alexander V. Tsygankov,
• Erik V. Van der Eycken and
• Valentyn A. Chebanov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1281–1288, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.126

• diversity and obtaining two types of structures with different orientation of substituents (containing a carboxylic group either at C4 or C6 position of the pyrazolopyridine core). The optimal methodology for the synthesis of target products was elaborated (mixture of methanol and DMF (2:1) and heating to

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

• the orientation of one glycoluril unit were obtained. The building blocks within the macrocycles connected via methylene bridges are flexible giving rise to two preferred conformers for each diastereomer. These conformers were identified by molecular modelling and also by low-temperature NMR

Steroid diversification by multicomponent reactions

• Leslie Reguera,
• Cecilia I. Attorresi,
• Javier A. Ramírez and
• Daniel G. Rivera

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1236–1256, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.121

• , but with the tetrahydropyrane ring having α orientation. A mixture of epimers at position 4' was also obtained when using the C-5 epimer of substrate 33. Asif et al. [36] developed another 3CR for the synthesis of steroidal thiazole derivatives. As shown in Scheme 11, cholestanic ketone 7 was reacted

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

• imines 99 to furnish complex spirocyclic γ-lactams 101 (Scheme 29) [107]. These products show a trans orientation of the benzene moiety in the isoindolinone and the substituent in R2, according to NOE experiments and crystal structure analysis. The proposed mechanism involves an initial palladium

Stereo- and regioselective hydroboration of 1-exo-methylene pyranoses: discovery of aryltriazolylmethyl C-galactopyranosides as selective galectin-1 inhibitors

• Alexander Dahlqvist,
• Axel Furevi,
• Niklas Warlin,
• Hakon Leffler and
• Ulf J. Nilsson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1046–1060, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.102

Mechanistic investigations on multiproduct β-himachalene synthase from Cryptosporangium arvum

• Jan Rinkel and
• Jeroen S. Dickschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1008–1019, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.99

• D, (12-13C)- [43] and enzymatically prepared (13-13C)FPP from (9-13C)GPP [39] and IPP with FPPS were incubated with HcS to follow the fate of the geminal methyl groups for 1 (Figure 6). Combined with the relative orientation of each methyl group deduced by NOESY, these experiments showed an 11Re

Halogen bonding and host–guest chemistry between N-alkylammonium resorcinarene halides, diiodoperfluorobutane and neutral guests

• Fangfang Pan,
• Mohadeseh Dashti,
• Michael R. Reynolds,
• Kari Rissanen,
• John F. Trant and
• Ngong Kodiah Beyeh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 947–954, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.91

• The endo-inclusion of guests by NARXs greatly influences the geometry of the system and directly affects the orientation of the upper rim arms. This is particularly true for the NARX derivatives with long chain upper rim substituents. We have previously observed that even with the most suitable

• for interactions with the electropositive methyl groups of either MeCN or MeOH causing the orientation to be similar in both cases. Deformation of the resorcinarene is a result of the small solvent size leading to a decrease in internal cavity volume of the receptor. The calculated space sizes are

• 79.45 Å3 in MeOH@1 and 101.17 Å3 in MeCN@1 (rprobe = 1.2 Å) [34]. The deformation also shifts the relative positions of the N-alkyl “arms” and the halide anions, which additionally change the relative orientation of DIOFB XB donors when directional halogen bonding forms. Two DIOFB linked two MeOH-MeCN@1

Coordination chemistry and photoswitching of dinuclear macrocyclic cadmium-, nickel-, and zinc complexes containing azobenzene carboxylato co-ligands

• Jennifer Klose,
• Tobias Severin,
• Peter Hahn,
• Alexander Jeremies,
• Jens Bergmann,
• Daniel Fuhrmann,
• Jan Griebel,
• Bernd Abel and
• Berthold Kersting

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 840–851, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.81

• of [Cd2L(μ-azo-NMe2)]ClO4·0.5MeOH (6·0.5MeOH). Only one orientation of the disordered azobenzene carboxylato co-ligand is displayed. Hydrogen atoms omitted for clarity. Thermal ellipsoids are drawn at the 50% probability level. Space filling representation of the packing of four [Cd2L(μ-azo-NMe2

• ·8EtOH (7·8EtOH). Only one orientation of the disordered azo-carboxylato co-ligand is displayed. Hydrogen atoms omitted for clarity. Thermal ellipsoids are drawn at the 50% probability level. Left: ORTEP representation of the molecular structure of the [Cd2L(μ-azo-CO2Me)]+ cation in crystals of 8·MeCN

Strong hyperconjugative interactions limit solvent and substituent influence on conformational equilibrium: the case of cis-2-halocyclohexylamines

• Camila B. Francisco,
• Cleverton S. Fernandes,
• Ulisses Z. de Melo,
• Roberto Rittner,
• Gisele F. Gauze and
• Ernani A. Basso

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 818–829, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.79

• –H (M06-2X/aug-cc-pVDZ) shows that each conformer has three lower-energy rotamers, identified according to the orientation of the nitrogen lone pair as anti (a) and gauche (gX and gH) to H1 (Figure 3). Optimization and frequency calculations were performed for these rotamers at different theory

• equatorial halogen orientation). Previous publications have already reported the C–H bond as slightly better donor than C–C bond [34][35]. Therefore, in the sum of interactions existent in the studied systems the hyperconjugation stands out, explaining the axial halogen and equatorial NH2 (ea) preference in

• ea conformer being the most stable for all series, both in the gas phase and in solution. For the C–N rotation, the most unstable rotamers are gX for the ae conformer and a for ea, due to the orientation of the nitrogen lone pair electrons toward the halogen, which provides greater electrostatic

Diastereo- and enantioselective preparation of cyclopropanol derivatives

• Marwan Simaan and
• Ilan Marek

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 752–760, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.71

• or arylcuprates proceeded smoothly to give the desired cyclopropanols (7a–h) after hydrolysis. In all cases, the easily prepared cyclopropanol derivatives were obtained with the methyl, the incoming organometallic and the alcohol in the syn-orientation which was determined through comparison of the

Homo- and hetero-difunctionalized β-cyclodextrins: Short direct synthesis in gram scale and analysis of regiochemistry

• Gábor Benkovics,
• Mihály Bálint,
• Éva Fenyvesi,
• Erzsébet Varga,
• Szabolcs Béni,
• Konstantina Yannakopoulou and
• Milo Malanga

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 710–720, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.66

• regioselectivity is observed. On the other hand, tosylation under aqueous basic conditions has a different reaction mechanism in which p-TsCl occupies the CD cavity prior to the reaction [23]. This orientation of the first tosyl group has a great impact on the substitution of the second tosyl moiety, which can

• in glucopyranose structures: gauche-gauche (gg, 180°), gauche-trans (gt, −60°) and trans-gauche (tg, +60°) [29]. The gg orientation, where both H6 and H6’ are rotated toward the cavity interior and the tosyl group is turned outwards, corresponds to large geminal JH6-H6’ (11.5 Hz) and very small

• vicinal JH6-H5 ≈ JH6’-H5 (<1.5 Hz) coupling constants resulting in one H6,6’ doublet with somewhat broad components. The gt orientation, on the other hand, is associated with small JH6-H5, as in gg, but considerably large JH6’-H5 (≈7 Hz) vicinal coupling constants and gives rise to two signals: a doublet

New sesquiterpenoids from the South China Sea soft corals Clavularia viridis and Lemnalia flava

• Qihao Wu,
• Yuan Gao,
• Meng-Meng Zhang,
• Li Sheng,
• Jia Li,
• Xu-Wen Li,
• Hong Wang and
• Yue-Wei Guo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 695–702, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.64

• , m) with H-4 (δH 2.20, m) and H3-13 (δH 0.99, s) suggesting these protons were on the opposite orientation. In view of the above evidences, the relative configuration of compound 6 was determined as 4R*,5S*,6R*,7R*. In fact, the only difference between compounds 6 and 6a was the configuration of the

• hydroxy group at C-1 with α-orientation for 6 while β-orientation for 6a [19][20]. Further, due to the influence of the configuration inversions of C-1, the 13C NMR chemical shift of the carbon at C-1 (δC 85.5, qC), was apparently upfield shifted (Δδ = −3.0) comparing to compound 6a (Table 2), giving the

Influence of per-O-sulfation upon the conformational behaviour of common furanosides

• Alexey G. Gerbst,
• Vadim B. Krylov,
• Dmitry A. Argunov,
• Maksim I. Petruk,
• Arsenii S. Solovev,
• Andrey S. Dmitrenok and
• Nikolay E. Nifantiev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 685–694, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.63

• and β-galactose. Full exploration of the furanoside ring by means of ab initio calculations was performed and coupling constants were calculated for each of the low-energy conformers. The results demonstrated preferred trans-orientation of H4–H5 protons in the non-sulfated molecules which changed to

• gauche-orientation upon sulfation. The effect is less pronounced in the galactosides. For all the studied structures changes in the conformational distribution were revealed by quantum mechanical calculations, that explained the observed changes in intraring coupling constants occurring upon introduction

• : O4–C1–O1–CH2 torsion was set to +60° or −60° depending on α- or β-configuration of the sugar in accordance with the exo-anomeric effect. Other starting torsions in the propyl group had trans-orientation. Geometry optimizations of all the thus obtained structures were carried out at ab initio HF/6-311

Design, synthesis and spectroscopic properties of crown ether-capped dibenzotetraaza[14]annulenes

• Krzysztof M. Zwoliński and
• Julita Eilmes

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 617–622, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.57

• Krzysztof M. Zwolinski Julita Eilmes Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 2, 30-387 Kraków, Poland 10.3762/bjoc.15.57 Abstract The first crown ether-capped dibenzotetraaza[14]annulenes (DBTAAs), featuring two macrocyclic binding sites fixed in a face-to-face orientation

• macrocyclic components in a face-to-face orientation create a central cavity lined by the two converging binding sites. We decided to make use of the previously reported DBTAA derivatives, bearing 3-bromopropoxy- [31] and 4-bromobutoxybenzoyl [32] pendants, since the presence of rigidifying benzoyl

Conformational signature of Ishikawa´s reagent using NMR information from diastereotopic fluorines

• Laize A. F. Andrade,
• Lucas A. Zeoly,
• Rodrigo A. Cormanich and
• Matheus P. Freitas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 506–512, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.44

• the Ishikawa´s reagent was analyzed using NMR 3JH,F coupling constant data in different solvents, since the orientation of the diastereotopic fluorines relative to H-2 and F-2 changes with the medium. In nonpolar cyclohexane solvent, the preferred conformation experiences a weaker steric and

• similar systems [15][16][17][18]. In turn, the fluorine gauche effect may result from the gauche orientation between F-1 and F-2, which is sterically and electrostatically disfavored, but it is stabilized by σC–H/C–C → σ*C–F hyperconjugative interactions [19][20][21][22][23]. Recently, electrostatic

• would then be worth to evaluate. It is worth mentioning, however, that the relative and interchangeable orientation of the atoms in a molecule (conformations) is dependent on the medium; while only intramolecular interactions drive the conformational stability of a molecule in the vacuum, the solvent

Syntheses and chemical properties of β-nicotinamide riboside and its analogues and derivatives

• Mikhail V. Makarov and
• Marie E. Migaud

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 401–430, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.36

• position of the pyridinium core (see Figure 6). This regioselectivity is explained by the particular mutual orientation of the pyridinium cation and the dithionite anion and by the match of interatomic distances between the two negatively charged oxygen atoms in dithionite and the positively charged

Sigmatropic rearrangements of cyclopropenylcarbinol derivatives. Access to diversely substituted alkylidenecyclopropanes

• Guillaume Ernouf,
• Jean-Louis Brayer,
• Christophe Meyer and
• Janine Cossy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 333–350, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.29

• ’ were considered which would lead to five-membered ring transition states in which the aryl group occupies a preferential pseudo-equatorial or a less favorable pseudo-axial orientation, respectively (Scheme 3) [33][34]. The authors also showed that phosphine oxide (E)-3f could be reduced to the

• rearrangement of cyclopropenylcarbinyl acetates, the observed stereoselectivity was explained by invoking a chair-like transition state model TS4 in which the aryl group preferentially occupies a pseudo-equatorial orientation (Scheme 11) [48]. Although the presence of a halogen atom was tolerated, as

• preferentially occupy a pseudo-equatorial orientation. Additionally, the same sequence applied to the enantioenriched alcohol (R)-25 (ee = 88%) delivered urea (−)-29 with essentially the same optical purity (ee = 86%), thereby indicating that chirality transfer (from C4 to C2) occurred during the sigmatropic

Oxidative radical ring-opening/cyclization of cyclopropane derivatives

• Yu Liu,
• Qiao-Lin Wang,
• Zan Chen,
• Cong-Shan Zhou,
• Bi-Quan Xiong,
• Pan-Liang Zhang,
• Chang-An Yang and
• Quan Zhou

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 256–278, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.23

• strategies, such as photocatalysis or electrocatalysis, can be another orientation for further developments. This review opens the scope for future developments in new methodologies which promise the synthesis of novel fused cyclic systems with a wide range of medicinal and synthetic applications. The

Catalysis of linear alkene metathesis by Grubbs-type ruthenium alkylidene complexes containing hemilabile α,α-diphenyl-(monosubstituted-pyridin-2-yl)methanolato ligands

• Tegene T. Tole,
• Johan H. L. Jordaan and
• Hermanus C. M. Vosloo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 194–209, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.19

• Ru–N chelation, it needs relatively high energy. In 8 the methyl group is in exactly the opposite orientation to the two α-phenyl groups. Therefore, the steric crowdedness that is observed in 6 that will lead to steric resistance to open the Ru–N chelation does not exist. Thus 8 is more susceptible