N-doped carbon dots covalently functionalized with pillar[5]arenes for Fe³⁺ sensing

• Jia Gao,
• Ming-Xue Wu,
• Dihua Dai,
• Zhi Cai,
• Yue Wang,
• Wenhui Fang,
• Yan Wang and
• Ying-Wei Yang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1262–1267, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.123

• a good linear correlation (R2 = 0.992) and the lowest detection limit (LOD) was determined to be 1.2 μM [16][24][25]. Subsequently, the quenching mechanism of Fe3+ toward CCDs was investigated. As demonstrated in Figure 3e, the UV–vis absorption of Fe3+ overlaid with the emission peak of CCDs, thus

• , quenching performance can be contributed to the energy transfer between ions and the materials [26]. Meanwhile, the UV–vis absorption peaks of CCDs exhibited no shift and regeneration before and after Fe3+ sensing, indicating that the fluorescence quenching is not resulted from the formation of new

• nm, Em. 5 nm. Fluorescence quenching degrees of a) CCDs and b) CN-dots in the presence of different metal ions. The concentrations of metal ions were 400 μМ. c) Fluorescence spectra of a CCDs system in the presence of different concentrations of Fe3+ ions (0–500 μM). d) Linear curve of the relative

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

• -assembly behavior in various solvents was investigated particularly in aqueous medium, due to the recently discovered hydrophilic properties of B21C7 crown macrocycle. An unexpected fluorescence quenching phenomenon was observed in the PDI-B21C7 macrocycle conjugate in chloroform. The detailed UV–vis

• quenching (ACQ) effect, the fluorescence of 1 in MeCN decreased dramatically, and was almost totally quenched in MeOH and H2O. It is surprising to us that the fluorescence of 1 in CHCl3 is also quenched even at such a low concentration (5.0 × 10−6 M), as only a faint blue fluorescent emission of 1 could be

• detected (Figure 1b inset). According to previous reports, such a fluorescent quenching indicated the formation of a dimeric structure [67][95], and the electron rich substituents at the imide nitrogen should play an important role [96][97]. For comparison, UV–vis absorption and fluorescence spectra of 2

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

• significantly (>90:10, 17:18) if the reaction was maintained at −78 °C for several hours before quenching at that temperature, giving isolated yields of 30–50% for 17. The absolute configuration of 17 was based on the chemical correlation studies of Seebach [17][18][19] and of Pan [26] for benzylations, and

• principally arose from alkylation (then protonation, by unreacted 7) [19] of the (achiral) dienolate 36 (Scheme 10) of 7. In the current work, where the major difference is prolonged reaction time at low temperature and no warming before quenching, the minor diastereomer is not observed – but dialkylated

• time at −78 °C, followed by quenching at that temperature; these conditions also avoid cogeneration of the (racemic) diastereomer side-product originally observed on warming. Essentially racemic dialkylated tartrate is observed as a minor side-product under our modified conditions. The reaction

Precious metal-free molecular machines for solar thermal energy storage

• Meglena I. Kandinska,
• Snejana M. Kitova,
• Vladimira S. Videva,
• Stanimir S. Stoyanov,
• Stanislava B. Yordanova,
• Stanislav B. Baluschev,
• Silvia E. Angelova and
• Aleksey A. Vasilev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1096–1106, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.106

• other processes, quenching the photoisomerization; (v) the energy storing MOST materials have to utilize light in the visible range of the spectrum; (vi) it will be a crucial benefit for the MOST technology, if toxic and precious metals are avoided. Focusing on environmentally friendly MOST system is an

Synthesis of (macro)heterocycles by consecutive/repetitive isocyanide-based multicomponent reactions

• Angélica de Fátima S. Barreto and
• Carlos Kleber Z. Andrade

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 906–930, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.88

• macrocycles [40]. Synthesis of cholane-based hybrid macrolactams by MiBs [41]. Synthesis of macrocyclic oligoimine-based DCL using the Ugi-4CR-based quenching approach [42]. Dye-modified and photoswitchable macrocycles by MiBs [43]. Synthesis of nonsymmetric cryptands by two sequential double Ugi-4CR-based

Mechanochemistry of supramolecules

• Anima Bose and
• Prasenjit Mal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 881–900, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.86

• hydrogen to control basicity of the amines [114]. a) Identified exothermic reactions. b) Successful reaction by quenching the heat intramolecularly. c) The plausible mechanism of acidic C–H functionalization intramolecularly. Acknowledgements A.B. thank CSIR (India) for fellowship.

Photochemical generation of the 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl (TEMPO) radical from caged nitroxides by near-infrared two-photon irradiation and its cytocidal effect on lung cancer cells

• Ayato Yamada,
• Manabu Abe,
• Yoshinobu Nishimura,
• Shoji Ishizaka,
• Masashi Namba,
• Taku Nakashima,
• Kiyofumi Shimoji and
• Noboru Hattori

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 863–873, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.84

• ultraviolet (355 nm) irradiation (Scheme 1) [33]. De-aerated conditions are necessary for the triplet-sensitized generation of TEMPO due to the triplet quenching ability of O2. The polymerization reactions were initiated via photochemical reaction [34][35][36]. For physiological studies, however, the

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

• physicochemical properties of the bound guest molecules are also greatly affected. Thus, complexation of naphthalene diimide carboxylato ligands leads to a substantial (>95%) quenching of the diimide fluorescence [5], and incorporation of a Fe(CpCO2H)2 unit leads to a significant anodic shift of the metallocene’s

Synthesis and fluorescent properties of N(9)-alkylated 2-amino-6-triazolylpurines and 7-deazapurines

• Andrejs Šišuļins,
• Jonas Bucevičius,
• Yu-Ting Tseng,
• Irina Novosjolova,
• Kaspars Traskovskis,
• Ērika Bizdēna,
• Huan-Tsung Chang,
• Sigitas Tumkevičius and
• Māris Turks

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 474–489, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.41

• with a possible character of TICT [55], which could explain a dual-fluorescence and fluorescence quenching in the high polarity media. The charge transfer nature of the transitions for the compounds 8c and 11c, compared to reference compounds 8a and 11a, was confirmed by quantum chemical calculations

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

• group and – after quenching with water – to give NMN analogues with one alkoxy group at the phosphorus atom. The resulting compounds were purified by column chromatography on an aminopropyl-modified silica gel Quadrasil AP column to yield the pure NMN analogues in low to moderate yields (8–40%). The

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

• (dtbbpy)PF4 as photocatalyst, and K2HPO4 as base in MeCN under the irradiation of 24 W blue LED light at room temperature for 12–36 h. A plausible mechanism is shown in Scheme 19. Firstly, the substrate 84a underwent oxidative quenching under the action of an iridium photoredox catalyst to afford the

Synthesis of nonracemic hydroxyglutamic acids

• Dorota G. Piotrowska,
• Iwona E. Głowacka,
• Andrzej E. Wróblewski and
• Liwia Lubowiecka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 236–255, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.22

• . However, when the reaction mixture was warmed to 0 °C before quenching, an intramolecular cyclization occurred under basic conditions to give the oxazolidine (4S,5R)-25 as an almost (>20:1) pure diastereoisomer. The hydroxy group which acted as a nucleophile preferred to attack the re-face of the double

N-Arylphenothiazines as strong donors for photoredox catalysis – pushing the frontiers of nucleophilic addition of alcohols to alkenes

• Fabienne Speck,
• David Rombach and
• Hans-Achim Wagenknecht

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 52–59, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.5

• insufficient reduction potential of the photoredox catalyst, the Markovnikov addition of alcohols through oxidative quenching is yet limited to highly activated, aromatic alkenes. To the best of our knowledge no methods are known today that allow the addition of alcohols to α-methyl-substituted styrenes

• , and N-phenylphenothiazine 1. Having this electron shuttle (ca. 1 M) in the reaction mixture efficiently leads to silent or non-silent quenching of the reactive species due to the following modes of quenching. While the back-electron transfer under generation of the triethylamine radical cation

Selective ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of cyclobutenes. Unsymmetrical ladderphane containing polycyclobutene and polynorbornene strands

• Yuan-Zhen Ke,
• Shou-Ling Huang,
• Guoqiao Lai and
• Tien-Yau Luh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 44–51, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.4

• monomer 9 (Scheme 4). Synthesis of unsymmetrical ladderphane 8 by sequential ROMPs catalyzed by 6 Polymerization of monomer 9 in the presence of 10 mol % of 6 was performed in THF at 0 °C for 4 h, followed by quenching with ethyl vinyl ether to give polymer 14 in 86% yield (Scheme 5). It is worth noting

A simple and effective preparation of quercetin pentamethyl ether from quercetin

• Jin Tatsuzaki,
• Tomohiko Ohwada,
• Yuko Otani,
• Reiko Inagi and
• Tsutomu Ishikawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 3112–3121, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.291

• of TLC (2 h), and 1 was easily isolated in pure form in 85% yield simply by partition with ethyl acetate (EtOAc, run 2 in Table 2). QPE (1) was also obtained when NaOH was used in place of KOH (run 3 in Table 2); in this case the product was isolated by filtration after quenching the reaction mixture

Degenerative xanthate transfer to olefins under visible-light photocatalysis

• Atsushi Kaga,
• Xiangyang Wu,
• Joel Yi Jie Lim,
• Hirohito Hayashi,
• Yunpeng Lu,
• Edwin K. L. Yeow and
• Shunsuke Chiba

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 3047–3058, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.283

• state of the photocatalyst is a key factor for the energy transfer mechanism. To obtain a detailed mechanistic insight, steady-state photoluminescence (PL) quenching of photocatalyst 8 was examined using xanthate 1a and 1-octene (2a) as potential quenchers (Figure 1). The intensity of the PL peak of

• xanthate 1a was gradually increased, a reduction in the PL intensity (I) of photocatalyst 8 was observed (Figure 1A). The Stern–Volmer plot of the ratio I0/I, where I0 is the initial PL intensity in the absence of quencher, versus concentration of 1a showed a linear relationship with a quenching rate kq

• = 1.25 × 107 M−1s−1 (see Supporting Information File 1). On the other hand, the addition of 1-octene (2a, 40 mM), in place of xanthate 1a, resulted in only a small PL quenching of photocatalyst 8 (<8%, Figure 1B). The time-resolved PL lifetime decay profiles of photocatalyst 8 (25 μM solution in degassed

Organometallic vs organic photoredox catalysts for photocuring reactions in the visible region

• Aude-Héloise Bonardi,
• Frédéric Dumur,
• Guillaume Noirbent,
• Jacques Lalevée and
• Didier Gigmes

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 3025–3046, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.282

• should be long enough to exhibit a high quenching efficiency with the additives, i.e., to have enough time to react with the additives. This is frequently referred as the Golden Rules of photoredox catalysis. Photoredox catalysis has been largely developed in organic chemistry in the last decades and

• complex as described in [68], i.e., nitro-functionalization and sulfino-functionalization decreased the photocatalytic activity of the complex. Moreover, this functionalization affects the oxidative quenching rate and the stability of the complex. Thus, as for other complexes described above, the choice

• . Thus, radicals are produced to initiate the polymerization. The polymerization can be controlled through oxidative or reductive pathways. An example is provided where the controlled photopolymerizations are based on an oxidative quenching mechanism. This means that the photoredox catalyst is irradiated

Generation of 1,2-oxathiolium ions from (arysulfonyl)- and (arylsulfinyl)allenes in Brønsted acids. NMR and DFT study of these cations and their reactions

• Stanislav V. Lozovskiy,
• Alexander Yu. Ivanov,
• Olesya V. Khoroshilova and
• Aleksander V. Vasilyev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2897–2906, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.268

• , D2SO4), (arysulfonyl)allenes (ArSO2–CR1=C=CR2R3) and (arylsulfinyl)allenes (ArSO–CR1=C=CR2R3) undergo cyclization into the corresponding stable 1,2-oxathiolium ions, which were studied by means of NMR and DFT calculations. Quenching of solutions of these cations with low nucleophilic media, aqueous HCl

• followed by aqueous quenching of the reaction mixture are shown in Table 3. These reactions resulted in the formation of three different products, Z-3a, Z-4a and 5a, depending on the reaction conditions. At room temperature in CF3SO3H or H2SO4 for a short time, 10 min or 1 h, respectively, butadiene Z-3a

• strongly depends on the nucleophilicity of the quenching medium. Under the conditions of low nucleophilic work-up with aqueous HCl (Table 3, entry 4), the deprotonation takes place leading to butadiene Z-3a. The predominant formation of the Z-isomer of 3a may reveal that cation Ba undergoes deprotonation

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

• . aeruginosa quorum quenching assays was observed [56]. This highlights a notable issue when addressing intracellular targets of this Gram-negative bacterium, as permeating the outer and inner membrane while escaping efflux and enzymatic deactivation may represent a true challenge. The elucidation of the

• pocket next to T265. This also indicates that the quorum quenching activity of 36 depends on slight conformational changes. The L1 loop main chain and a rotation of the T265 side chain are hypothesized to be important for antagonistic/inverse agonistic functionality of PqsR-targeting QSIs. More recently

Transition metal-free oxidative and deoxygenative C–H/C–Li cross-couplings of 2H-imidazole 1-oxides with carboranyl lithium as an efficient synthetic approach to azaheterocyclic carboranes

• Lidia A. Smyshliaeva,
• Mikhail V. Varaksin,
• Pavel A. Slepukhin,
• Oleg N. Chupakhin and
• Valery N. Charushin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2618–2626, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.240

• effects of various factors (type of acylating agents, exposure time for which the reaction mass is kept after mixing 2H-imidazole N-oxide 1 with carboranyllithium 2 and quenching with an acylating agent, as well as the temperature regime, at which the deoxygenative agent is added) have been studied. The

Pathoblockers or antivirulence drugs as a new option for the treatment of bacterial infections

• Matthew B. Calvert,
• Varsha R. Jumde and
• Alexander Titz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2607–2617, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.239

• significantly reduced. In some cases, however, resistance has already been observed (e.g., through increased expression of efflux pumps to circumvent quorum quenching), with the likelihood of the appearance of resistance mechanisms seemingly dependent upon the importance of the targeted virulence factor to the

Learning from B₁₂ enzymes: biomimetic and bioinspired catalysts for eco-friendly organic synthesis

• Keishiro Tahara,
• Ling Pan,
• Toshikazu Ono and
• Yoshio Hisaeda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2553–2567, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.232

• with the report by Yoon et al. in which light irradiation to Ru(bpy)32+ resulted in rapid decomposition during the photocatalytic reaction [113]. It was remarkable that a significantly high turnover number based on 1 (10,880) was obtained in the prolonged reaction with Irdfppy. Quenching experiments

• with time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy revealed that the oxidative quenching of the excited state of Irdfppy favorably proceeds over the reductive quenching mechanism. The combination of 1 and Irdfppy offers the best choice for the dechlorination of DDT among our light-driven systems in

Quinolines from the cyclocondensation of isatoic anhydride with ethyl acetoacetate: preparation of ethyl 4-hydroxy-2-methylquinoline-3-carboxylate and derivatives

• Nicholas G. Jentsch,
• Jared D. Hume,
• Emily B. Crull,
• Samer M. Beauti,
• Amy H. Pham,
• Julie A. Pigza,
• Jacques J. Kessl and
• Matthew G. Donahue

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2529–2536, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.229

• quenching with ethyl chlorooxolate furnishing ethyl oxalate 4a in 29–79% yield [12]. This sequence works well with the unsubstituted benzene ring of the series a compounds where R = H. However, to access quinoline 2 with scaffolds such as 4b with halogen substitution in the benzene ring at the 5-, 6-, 7- or

Synthesis of aryl sulfides via radical–radical cross coupling of electron-rich arenes using visible light photoredox catalysis

• Amrita Das,
• Mitasree Maity,
• Simon Malcherek,
• Burkhard König and
• Julia Rehbein

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2520–2528, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.228

• disulfide (Figure 3b). Stern–Volmer quenching studies showed that the arene is quenched at a much higher rate than the disulfide (Figure 3c). This indicates that the oxidation of the arene is the key step in the C–H sulfenylation reaction. Anisole does not quench the luminescence of [Ir(dF(CF3)ppy)2(dtbpy

• (1,3,5-TMB•+) is formed indeed during the quenching process of the catalyst by 1,3,5-TMB (Scheme 5) ns-time-resolved transient absorption spectroscopy was used [50]. To allow for a decomposition of the multicomponent spectra we conducted laser flash photolysis (LFP) experiments on the single components

• -trimethoxybenzene in CH3CN. (b) Changes in the fluorescence spectra upon the addition of diphenyl disulfide in CH3CN. (c) Stern–Volmer quenching plot of iridium catalyst in the presence of 1,2,4-trimethoxybenzene and diphenyl disulfide. Kq (arene) = 318 ± 2.6 M−1 L and Kq (disulfide) = 36 ± 0.7 M−1 L. Black line

Calixazulenes: azulene-based calixarene analogues – an overview and recent supramolecular complexation studies

• Paris E. Georghiou,
• Shofiur Rahman,
• Abdullah Alodhayb,
• Hidetaka Nishimura,
• Jaehyun Lee,
• Atsushi Wakamiya and
• Lawrence T. Scott

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2488–2494, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.225

• thermostated dual beam UV–vis spectrophotometer. Addition of microlitre aliquots of DCM solutions of the respective tetraalkylammonium salts (TRAX; where R = Me, Et; n-Bu and X = Cl−, Br−, I− or BF4−) resulted in quenching of the absorption spectra in the 300–700 nm range, with visible isosbestic points at