Discovery of unguisin J, a new cyclic peptide from Aspergillus heteromorphus CBS 117.55, and phylogeny-based bioinformatic analysis of UngA NRPS domains

• Sharmila Neupane,
• Marcelo Rodrigues de Amorim and
• Elizabeth Skellam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 321–330, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.32

• was evaporated under nitrogen gas flow. The residue was dissolved in 0.5 mL of H2O, and dried using speedvac to remove the residual HCl. The hydrolysates of 1 and 2 as well as authentic amino acid samples were treated with 200 μL of 1 N sodium bicarbonate solution and 100 μL of 1% Marfey’s reagent (Nα

Elucidating the glycan-binding specificity and structure of Cucumis melo agglutinin, a new R-type lectin

• Jon Lundstrøm,
• Emilie Gillon,
• Valérie Chazalet,
• Nicole Kerekes,
• Antonio Di Maio,
• Ten Feizi,
• Yan Liu,
• Annabelle Varrot and
• Daniel Bojar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 306–320, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.31

• instrument company) at 130 rpm in a Multitron 4 incubator (Infors) and transfected at 2 × 106 cells/mL using FectoPro transfection reagent (Polyplus). Protein-containing culture supernatant (0.8 L) was harvested after 120 h, filtered using Polydisc AS 0.45 μm (Whatman, Cytiva) and loaded onto a 5 mL HisExcel

Synthesis of π-conjugated polycyclic compounds by late-stage extrusion of chalcogen fragments

• Aissam Okba,
• Pablo Simón Marqués,
• Kyohei Matsuo,
• Naoki Aratani,
• Hiroko Yamada,
• Gwénaël Rapenne and
• Claire Kammerer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 287–305, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.30

• reactivity in the absence of external reagent (i.e., their photo- and thermal reactivity) has been far less explored than for heteropines. Nowadays, the most common protocol to trigger extrusion from 1,2-dichalcogenins and generate S- and Se-doped π-CPCs still relies on copper (as nanopowder) at high

Additive-controlled chemoselective inter-/intramolecular hydroamination via electrochemical PCET process

• Kazuhiro Okamoto,
• Naoki Shida and
• Mahito Atobe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 264–271, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.27

• electron-transfer to give the corresponding radical species through oxidative X–H bond cleavage. One such species is the amidyl radical, which is broadly synthetically useful as a nitrogen source in hydroamination reactions and as a hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) reagent for remote C–H activation [2][3][4][5

Nucleophilic functionalization of thianthrenium salts under basic conditions

• Xinting Fan,
• Duo Zhang,
• Xiangchuan Xiu,
• Bin Xu,
• Yu Yuan,
• Feng Chen and
• Pan Gao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 257–263, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.26

• % yield (Scheme 4). This operationally simple protocol enables the rapid development of novel thioetherification reactions using bench-stable alkylthianthrenium salts as the electrophiles. As is well known, alkyl trifluoromethanesulfonate (alkyl-OTf), serving as a potent electrophilic reagent, can also

Copper-catalyzed multicomponent reaction of β-trifluoromethyl β-diazo esters enabling the synthesis of β-trifluoromethyl N,N-diacyl-β-amino esters

• Youlong Du,
• Haibo Mei,
• Ata Makarem,
• Ramin Javahershenas,
• Vadim A. Soloshonok and
• Jianlin Han

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 212–219, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.21

• side reactions was carried out with benzyl 3-amino-4,4,4-trifluorobutanoate (1a) and benzoic acid (3a) as model substrates. The initial reaction of amine 1a and acid 3a in acetonitrile in the presence of diazotization reagent tert-butyl nitrite with CuI (10 mol %) as catalysts for 2.5 h at room

Metal-catalyzed coupling/carbonylative cyclizations for accessing dibenzodiazepinones: an expedient route to clozapine and other drugs

• Amina Moutayakine and
• Anthony J. Burke

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 193–204, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.19

• effective ligand in a variety of highly efficient aminocarbonylation reactions with Mo(CO)6 due to its strong basicity and accelerated release of CO from this reagent [21]. The reaction was then screened using two different bidentate ligands, XPhos and XantPhos, and using the previous reaction conditions

• reactions described in Table 1, involving Mo(CO)6 were 20 °C higher than the reactions described in Table 2 and/or (b) Mo(CO)6 acts as a co-catalyst. An investigative study was thus undertaken to elucidate the effect of the molybdenum reagent on the reaction using a simple model system consisting of aniline

• and bromobenzene (see Figure S1 and Table S1 in Supporting Information File 1). The experimental design was limited, in that we only monitored the reaction over a 90 min period. Contrary to what was originally believed the reaction without the Mo reagent gave better results during the first 90 min

Synthesis of the 3’-O-sulfated TF antigen with a TEG-N₃ linker for glycodendrimersomes preparation to study lectin binding

• Mark Reihill,
• Hanyue Ma,
• Dennis Bengtsson and
• Stefan Oscarson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 173–180, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.17

• in formation of a homogenous solution, but still no conversion to the sulfated product, even when the temperature was raised to 80 °C [28][29]. Switching the sulfating reagent to SO3·Py or performing the reaction at 150 °C in a microwave did not improve the outcome [30][31]. Since there was no

Tandem Hock and Friedel–Crafts reactions allowing an expedient synthesis of a cyclolignan-type scaffold

• Viktoria A. Ikonnikova,
• Cristina Cheibas,
• Oscar Gayraud,
• Alexandra E. Bosnidou,
• Nicolas Casaretto,
• Gilles Frison and
• Bastien Nay

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 162–169, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.15

• leading to the isolation of dihydronaphthalenic product 4 in 82% yield (Table 1, entry 4, these conditions will later be taken as the reference). Trying to reduce this reagent stoichiometry only resulted in a poor yield of 4 and in the isolation of aldehyde 3 in 42% yield (Table 1, entry 5). By contrast

Copper-promoted C5-selective bromination of 8-aminoquinoline amides with alkyl bromides

• Changdong Shao,
• Chen Ma,
• Li Li,
• Jingyi Liu,
• Yanan Shen,
• Chen Chen,
• Qionglin Yang,
• Tianyi Xu,
• Zhengsong Hu,
• Yuhe Kan and
• Tingting Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 155–161, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.14

• -scale use. Therefore, novel bromination reagents and simple bromination approaches are still required to be established. Very recently, we reported a copper-catalyzed C5-bromination and difluoromethylation reaction of 8-aminoquinolines using ethyl bromodifluoroacetate as bifunctional reagent [30] and

Visible-light-induced radical cascade cyclization: a catalyst-free synthetic approach to trifluoromethylated heterocycles

• Chuan Yang,
• Wei Shi,
• Jian Tian,
• Lin Guo,
• Yating Zhao and
• Wujiong Xia

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 118–124, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.12

• radicals. This method allows the efficient synthesis of various indole derivatives without the need of photocatalysts or transition-metal catalysts. Mechanism experiments indicate that the process involves a radical chain process initiated by the homolysis of Umemoto's reagent. This straightforward method

• trifluoromethyl radical source under light irradiation. Umemoto’s reagent, which is capable of releasing a trifluoromethyl radical via a photoinduced single-electron-transfer (SET) process, is usually employed to enable the trifluoromethylation of unsaturated substrates [25][26][27]. Herein, we report a protocol

• to furnish trifluoromethylated dihyropyrido[1,2-a]indolones under mild conditions, without the need of photocatalysts or transition metals [28]. Results and Discussion We initialized our study by employing Ru(bpy)3Cl2·6H2O and Umemoto’s reagent to generate trifluoromethyl radicals via a photo

Photoinduced in situ generation of DNA-targeting ligands: DNA-binding and DNA-photodamaging properties of benzo[c]quinolizinium ions

• Julika Schlosser,
• Olga Fedorova,
• Yuri Fedorov and
• Heiko Ihmels

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 101–117, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.11

• chemicals (Alfa, Merck, Fluorochem or BLDpharm) were of reagent grade and used without further purification. 1H NMR spectra were recorded with a JEOL ECZ 500 (1H: 500 MHz and 13C: 125 MHz) and a Varian VNMR S600 (1H: 600 MHz and 13C: 150 MHz) at T = 25 °C. The 1H NMR and 13C{1H} NMR spectra were referenced

Multi-redox indenofluorene chromophores incorporating dithiafulvene donor and ene/enediyne acceptor units

• Christina Schøttler,
• Kasper Lund-Rasmussen,
• Line Broløs,
• Philip Vinterberg,
• Ema Bazikova,
• Viktor B. R. Pedersen and
• Mogens Brøndsted Nielsen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 59–73, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.8

• variety of reactions; that are, phosphite- or Lawesson’s reagent-mediated olefination reactions (to introduce DTF motifs), Ramirez/Corey–Fuchs dibromo-olefinations followed by Sonogashira couplings (to introduce enediynes motifs), and Knoevenagel condensations (to introduce the vinylic diester motif). By

• -annelated IF-DTF 12 by removal of the tosyl (Ts) group under alkaline conditions, followed by nucleophilic substitution to incorporate the hexyl chain on the pyrrole. Furthermore, treatment of the IF-DTF ketone 4 with Lawesson’s reagent (using a recently established protocol [20]) yielded the large dimer 13

• smaller fluorene PAH. These compounds were prepared by a Lawesson’s reagent-promoted coupling between fluorenone 5 and the Ts-protected 1,3-dithiole-2-thione building blocks 2 and 3, respectively, shown in Scheme 3 (albeit in modest yields). Fluorene-based DTF compounds have previously been explored in

1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate as suitable solvent for BF₃: the case of alkyne hydration. Chemistry vs electrochemistry

• Marta David,
• Elisa Galli,
• Richard C. D. Brown,
• Marta Feroci,
• Fabrizio Vetica and
• Martina Bortolami

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1966–1981, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.147

• (Table 5, entry 10), which had not been achieved using BF3·Et2O as a reagent (see Table 4, entry 10). For the aliphatic alkyne 1k the hydration product 2k was obtained with moderate yield by exploiting the electrogeneration of 2 F/mol of BF3 (Table 5, entry 11). Unfortunately, an increase in the amount

Long oligodeoxynucleotides: chemical synthesis, isolation via catching-by-polymerization, verification via sequencing, and gene expression demonstration

• Yipeng Yin,
• Reed Arneson,
• Alexander Apostle,
• Adikari M. D. N. Eriyagama,
• Komal Chillar,
• Emma Burke,
• Martina Jahfetson,
• Yinan Yuan and
• Shiyue Fang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1957–1965, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.146

• . To ensure full coverage of CPG in the column by reagent solutions in each of the over one thousand reactions, the synthesizer manufacturer’s recommendation of 1 µmol instead of 0.2 µmol for standard synthetic cycle was used with several minor but critical modifications (see Supporting Information

• CBP, correct sequence selection by cloning and sequencing, gene construction, sequence confirmation by sequencing to gene expression is successfully established. In theory, using long ODNs for gene and genome construction can save significant amount of reagent and solvent for ODN synthesis because

• using short ODNs, the gene and genome would need to be covered by ODNs almost two times due to the need of overlaps between adjacent ODNs. In contrast, using long ODNs only negligible portions require double coverage. In terms of reagent consumption and timing, the type of synthesizer makes a

N-Boc-α-diazo glutarimide as efficient reagent for assembling N-heterocycle-glutarimide diads via Rh(II)-catalyzed N–H insertion reaction

• Grigory Kantin,
• Pavel Golubev,
• Alexander Sapegin,
• Alexander Bunev and
• Dmitry Dar’in

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1841–1848, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.136

• component into a glutarimide framework employing a Rh2(esp)2-catalyzed N–H insertion with the involvement of N-Boc-α-diazo glutarimide. The new diazo reagent is more stable, soluble and convenient to prepare than the previously suggested one. The approach permits the application of diverse heterocycles

• with a diazo reagent under neutral conditions may give rise to a separate regioisomer which is different from the product obtained by reaction with an alkyl halide under basic conditions. Recently, we designed a thalidomide analogue 1a in which the phthalimide moiety was replaced with benzotriazole

• , the proposed diazo reagent 4 possesses several drawbacks, primarily, insufficient stability during storage and comparatively low solubility in non-polar solvents, as well as complications when isolating it in a pure form. This study focuses on the development of a "diazo" technique to incorporate a

Recent advancements in iodide/phosphine-mediated photoredox radical reactions

• Tinglan Liu,
• Yu Zhou,
• Junhong Tang and
• Chengming Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1785–1803, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.131

• radical and I· played a pivotal as an intermediate step in the production of alkyl iodides B. Compound B could undergo a further elimination reaction to yield various olefins 11. Regarding benzyl substrates, the radical I· demonstrated its efficacy as a reagent for hydrogen atom transfer (HAT

Cyclodextrins permeabilize DPPC liposome membranes: a focus on cholesterol content, cyclodextrin type, and concentration

• Ghenwa Nasr,
• Hélène Greige-Gerges,
• Sophie Fourmentin,
• Abdelhamid Elaissari and
• Nathalie Khreich

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1570–1579, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.115

• hydroxypropyl-β-CD (HPBCD, DS = 5.6) were provided by Roquette Frères (Lestrem, France). Sulfobutyl ether-β-CD (SBE-β-CD, DS = 6.5) was provided by LIGAND Pharmaceuticals (San Diego, CA, USA). Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and trizma base (buffer reagent) were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich, Switzerland

Secondary metabolites of Diaporthe cameroonensis, isolated from the Cameroonian medicinal plant Trema guineensis

• Bel Youssouf G. Mountessou,
• Élodie Gisèle M. Anoumedem,
• Blondelle M. Kemkuignou,
• Yasmina Marin-Felix,
• Frank Surup,
• Marc Stadler and
• Simeon F. Kouam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1555–1561, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.112

• . Experimental General experimental procedures Column chromatography (60.4 cm length × 5.5 cm inner diameter) was carried out on silica gel 230–400 mesh (Merck). Analytical TLC was performed on Merck pre-coated silica gel 60 F254 plates, and spots were detected using ceric sulfate spray reagent and/or diluted

Morpholine-mediated defluorinative cycloaddition of gem-difluoroalkenes and organic azides

• Tzu-Yu Huang,
• Mario Djugovski,
• Sweta Adhikari,
• Destinee L. Manning and
• Sudeshna Roy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1545–1554, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.111

• azido amine intermediate INT-3 can be formed via vinylic substitution of INT-1 with an azide which can cyclize to form INT-4 that subsequently aromatizes to afford product 3 (route B). To demonstrate the applicability of this method, a scale-up reaction was performed using 150 mg of the limiting reagent

N-Sulfenylsuccinimide/phthalimide: an alternative sulfenylating reagent in organic transformations

• Fatemeh Doraghi,
• Seyedeh Pegah Aledavoud,
• Mehdi Ghanbarlou,
• Bagher Larijani and
• Mohammad Mahdavi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1471–1502, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.106

• succeeded in synthesizing various diaryl(alkyl) sulfides 5 through the sulfenylation of unactivated arenes 4 with an electrophilic sulfur reagent in the presence of a palladium catalyst (Scheme 3) [45]. In the second phase, dibenzothiophene derivatives 6 were obtained via subsequent intramolecular arylation

• is noteworthy that the use of diphenyl disulfide as a sulfenylating agent was not effective in this protocol. N-(Aryl/alkylthio)phthalimide as an efficient sulfenylating reagent could also react with indoles to produce 3-thioindoles in the presence of 0.5 mol % of MgBr2, as a Lewis acid [68

• azepane. A possible mechanism was suggested for this Lewis base catalysis system. Methanesulfonic acid (MsOH) activated reagent 14, which coordinated with the Lewis base (S)-E, to form complex I. Then, the transfer of the sulfenium ion to the alkene resulted in chiral thiiranium ion II. Capture of the

α-(Aminomethyl)acrylates as acceptors in radical–polar crossover 1,4-additions of dialkylzincs: insights into enolate formation and trapping

• Angel Palillero-Cisneros,
• Paola G. Gordillo-Guerra,
• Fernando García-Alvarez,
• Olivier Jackowski,
• Franck Ferreira,
• Fabrice Chemla,
• Joel L. Terán and
• Alejandro Perez-Luna

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1443–1451, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.103

• enolate and a new R• that propagates the radical chain (Scheme 1). Initiation occurs upon oxidation of the dialkylzinc reagent by oxygen. The feasibility of such 1,4-addition reactions is fully reliant on the ease of the intermediate enoxyl radical to undergo alkylzinc-group transfer. Secondary α-carbonyl

Application of N-heterocyclic carbene–Cu(I) complexes as catalysts in organic synthesis: a review

• Nosheen Beig,
• Varsha Goyal and
• Raj K. Bansal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1408–1442, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.102

• reagents, are commonly used in conjugate addition reactions. In the presence of Grignard reagents, the NHC-precursor salts do not require an addition of base as the Grignard reagent itself performs this role. In this way, Tomioka and co-workers [57] were able to achieve excellent regio- and

• amidating reagent leading to the isolation of copper–arylcarbamato species and the desired product. The developed amidation protocol works highly efficiently and selectively over a broad range of substrates including polyfluorobenzenes, azoles, and quinoline N-oxides (Scheme 74). 2.10 C(sp2)–H thiolation

One-pot nucleophilic substitution–double click reactions of biazides leading to functionalized bis(1,2,3-triazole) derivatives

• Hans-Ulrich Reissig and
• Fei Yu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1399–1407, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.101

• reaction time and the fairly high amount of catalyst employed. As an alternative method, which should be more chemoselective, we examined the reduction with samarium diiodide [60]. This versatile one-electron transfer reagent is known to cleave N–O bonds with high selectivity [61][62] and was applied

Visible-light-induced nickel-catalyzed α-hydroxytrifluoroethylation of alkyl carboxylic acids: Access to trifluoromethyl alkyl acyloins

• Feng Chen,
• Xiu-Hua Xu,
• Zeng-Hao Chen,
• Yue Chen and
• Feng-Ling Qing

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1372–1378, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.98

• elegant strategies on direct conversion of in situ-activated carboxylic acids for ketone synthesis [27][35][38], we chose dimethyl dicarbonate (DMDC, A1) as the activating reagent. To our delight, the reaction of 1a and 2 in the presence of NiBr2(dtbbpy) (10 mol %), Hantzsch ester (HE) and A1 in DMAc

• -difluoroethoxyphthalimide as the fluoroalkylating reagent failed to afford the desired product. According to our previous work [39] and literature precedent [27][35][38], a possible mechanism is proposed in Figure 2. The interaction between 2 and HE generates an electron donor–acceptor (EDA) complex A, which undergoes a