Photoredox catalysis harvesting multiple photon or electrochemical energies

• Mattia Lepori,
• Simon Schmid and
• Joshua P. Barham

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1055–1145, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.81

• obtained by transient absorption spectroscopy with femtosecond pulsed laser excitation and were 2–3 orders of magnitude greater (e.g., keT (*PC1•−) = 6.8 × 1010 s−1) than the diffusion rate in DMSO (kdiff = 4.0 × 108 s−1 of 0.12 M 1d) confirming a preassociation of PC1•− and the substrate prior to PET

• reducing enough to engage the model substrate perfluorooctyl iodide and instead *[FeII(btz)3]2+ was verified as the key catalytic species by transient absorption spectroscopy; even though the strongly reducing α-amino alkyl radical intermediate might also engage in the reduction of alkyl halides or act as

Synthesis of imidazo[4,5-e][1,3]thiazino[2,3-c][1,2,4]triazines via a base-induced rearrangement of functionalized imidazo[4,5-e]thiazolo[2,3-c][1,2,4]triazines

• Dmitry B. Vinogradov,
• Alexei N. Izmest’ev,
• Angelina N. Kravchenko,
• Yuri A. Strelenko and
• Galina A. Gazieva

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1047–1054, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.80

• . However, we also detected by 1H NMR spectroscopy the formation of other minor products, presumably derivatives of a new heterocyclic system, imidazo[4,5-e][1,3]thiazino[2,3-c][1,2,4]triazines 5a,b (Scheme 2). To prepare the new compounds 5, the solvent, amount of KOH, reaction time, and temperature were

• with excess hydrochloric acid and further evaporation of the solvent at 40 °C led to decomposition products, two of which were isolated and characterized by NMR spectroscopy including 2D experiments and HRMS data. The target acids 5k,m were obtained using equivalent amounts of HCl at room temperature

• in the thiazine ring leads to the cleavage of the triazine C–N bond. Further proton transfer gives product 9. The structures of the synthesized compounds 3a,b,j and 5a–k,m were confirmed by IR, 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy, and high-resolution mass spectrometry. the potassium salts 3c–i,k,m were

The effect of dark states on the intersystem crossing and thermally activated delayed fluorescence of naphthalimide-phenothiazine dyads

• Liyuan Cao,
• Xi Liu,
• Xue Zhang,
• Jianzhang Zhao,
• Fabiao Yu and
• Yan Wan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1028–1046, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.79

• states. Femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy (fs-TA) was rarely used for the study of the photophysics of the TADF emitters [12][34][35][36][37], since it suffers from the limitation of the time window of detection (up to a few ns). On the other hand, nanosecond transient absorption spectroscopy

• [38][39][40][41][42][43][44] and, more recently, time-resolved electron paramagnetic resonance (TREPR) spectroscopy [33][39][44][45][46] were also applied to study TADF mechanisms, but the examples are limited. Therefore, much room is left for studies of the photophysical mechanism of the TADF

• different aryl substituents, which contain both electron-donating and -withdrawing moieties. Although we reported NI-PTZ analogous dyads recently, they were not studied by fs-TA spectroscopy and the molecular structures are different from the current dyads [39][47]. The photophysical processes of the dyads

CO₂ complexation with cyclodextrins

• Cecilie Høgfeldt Jessen,
• Jesper Bendix,
• Theis Brock Nannestad,
• Heloisa Bordallo,
• Martin Jæger Pedersen,
• Christian Marcus Pedersen and
• Mikael Bols

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1021–1027, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.78

• get more information about the CO2 content in the crystal samples we also analyzed the crystals by thermogravimetric analysis. The crystal samples where heated to 26–200 °C at different rates and weight loss observed while the gas release was monitored by IR spectroscopy. Two distinguished weight

The unique reactivity of 5,6-unsubstituted 1,4-dihydropyridine in the Huisgen 1,4-diploar cycloaddition and formal [2 + 2] cycloaddition

• Xiu-Yu Chen,
• Hui Zheng,
• Ying Han,
• Jing Sun and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 982–990, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.73

• -dihydropyridines derived from the condensation of acetylacetone also afforded the expected product 4o in 65% yield. The chemical structures of the obtained isoquinoline[2,1-h][1,7]naphthyridines 4a–o were fully characterized by various spectroscopy methods and further confirmed by determination of the single

• structures of both bicyclic compounds 5a–o and 6a–o were fully characterized by various spectroscopy methods. The single crystal structures of compounds 5a (Figure 2) and 6f (Figure 3) were successfully determined by X-ray diffraction analysis. From Figure 2 (compound 5a), it can be seen that the

Intermediates and shunt products of massiliachelin biosynthesis in Massilia sp. NR 4-1

• Till Steinmetz,
• Blaise Kimbadi Lombe and
• Markus Nett

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 909–917, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.69

• correlation spectroscopy (COSY; Figure 3). The first spin system is part of a 2,3-substituted phenol moiety featuring proton signals at δH 7.15 (H-5), 6.70 (H-6) and 6.69 ppm (H-4; Table 1). Three aromatic carbon atoms could be assigned due to heteronuclear multiple bond correlation (HMBC) correlations from H

A fluorescent probe for detection of Hg²⁺ ions constructed by tetramethyl cucurbit[6]uril and 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethene

• Xiaoqian Chen,
• Naqin Yang,
• Yue Ma,
• Xinan Yang and
• Peihua Ma

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 864–872, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.63

• cucurbit[6]uril (TMeQ[6]) and 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethene (G) were used to construct a supramolecular fluorescent probe G@TMeQ[6]. The host–guest interaction between TMeQ[6] and G was investigated using 1H NMR spectroscopy, single-crystal X-ray diffraction and various experimental techniques. The results show

• detection methods include atomic absorption spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, emission spectroscopy and electrochemical methods [4][5][6][7]. These detection methods are expensive and time-consuming, and the detection of samples becomes extremely difficult. Therefore, it is of great significance to construct

• detection of heavy metal ions. Results and Discussion The interactions of G with TMeQ[6] UV–vis spectroscopy analysis The binding interaction between G and TMeQ[6] in aqueous solution was studied using UV–vis absorption spectroscopy. Figure 2a shows that the absorbance of G decreases with the addition of

Synthesis of substituted 8H-benzo[h]pyrano[2,3-f]quinazolin-8-ones via photochemical 6π-electrocyclization of pyrimidines containing an allomaltol fragment

• Constantine V. Milyutin,
• Andrey N. Komogortsev,
• Boris V. Lichitsky,
• Mikhail E. Minyaev and
• Valeriya G. Melekhina

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 778–788, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.58

• result, both products could be isolated and characterized using 1H, 13C NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. Moreover, the structure of product 11a was also confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. It might be noted that precipitated crystals of 11a contained two polymorph modifications

• 11g–j were confirmed by 1H, 13C NMR spectroscopy and high-resolution mass spectrometry. In the 1H NMR spectra of the products, characteristic singlets corresponding to the protons of the dihydropyranone fragment in the region δ 5.3–5.4 ppm and the protons of the hydroxy group in the region δ 5.4–5.5

Bromination of endo-7-norbornene derivatives revisited: failure of a computational NMR method in elucidating the configuration of an organic structure

• Demet Demirci Gültekin,
• Arif Daştan,
• Yavuz Taşkesenligil,
• Cavit Kazaz,
• Yunus Zorlu and
• Metin Balci

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 764–770, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.56

• temperatures yielding mixtures of addition products. The structural elucidations of the formed compounds were achieved by NMR spectroscopy. Particularly, the γ-gauche effect and long-range couplings were instrumental in assigning the stereochemistry of the adducts. However, in a recent paper, Novitskiy and

• erroneous mechanistic pathway. Keywords: bromination; computational NMR; γ-gauche effect; NMR; NOE-Diff experiments; Introduction Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is one of the most important analytical tools used to determine the structure of organic compounds. NMR not only confirms the

Synthesis of imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine-containing peptidomimetics by tandem of Groebke–Blackburn–Bienaymé and Ugi reactions

• Oleksandr V. Kolomiiets,
• Alexander V. Tsygankov,
• Maryna N. Kornet,
• Aleksander A. Brazhko,
• Vladimir I. Musatov and
• Valentyn A. Chebanov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 727–735, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.53

• target reaction product was observed by 1H NMR spectroscopy of the crude reaction mixture. It was found that in the case of Table 2, entry 6, the ratio of product 9b to acid 8b was approximately 1:3. The obtained results show that for the synthesis of new compounds containing precisely substituted

Synthesis, structure, and properties of switchable cross-conjugated 1,4-diaryl-1,3-butadiynes based on 1,8-bis(dimethylamino)naphthalene

• Semyon V. Tsybulin,
• Ekaterina A. Filatova,
• Alexander F. Pozharskii,
• Valery A. Ozeryanskii and
• Anna V. Gulevskaya

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 674–686, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.49

• -conjugation of 1,8-bis(dimethylamino)naphthalene (DMAN) fragments through a butadiyne linker and a donor–acceptor aryl–C≡C–DMAN conjugation path. The conjugation path can be “switched” simply by protonation of DMAN fragments. X-ray diffraction, UV–vis spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry are applied to analyze

• us to undertake the current study. X-ray crystallography, UV–vis spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry were applied to analyze the extent of π-electron conjugation and the efficiency of the particular donor–acceptor conjugation path in chromophores 5. Results and Discussion Synthesis The target

• through a butadiyne linker and aryl–C≡C–DMAN conjugation paths. A comprehensive study by X-ray diffraction, NMR spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry revealed that the “butadiyne pathway” is realized in cases where the aryl substituent is p-methoxyphenyl, phenyl or p-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl. Oligomers 5

pH-Responsive fluorescent supramolecular nanoparticles based on tetraphenylethylene-labelled chitosan and a six-fold carboxylated tribenzotriquinacene

• Nan Yang,
• Yi-Yan Zhu,
• Wei-Xiu Lin,
• Yi-Long Lu and
• Wen-Rong Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 635–645, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.45

• in the range of 200 to 800 nm at 25 °C. Fluorescence spectroscopy. The solid-state fluorescence intensities of three CS-TPE bioconjugates and their fluorescence intensities at different pH values, as well as those of the three TBTQ-C6/CS-TPE supramolecular vesicles at different pH values were

Direct C2–H alkylation of indoles driven by the photochemical activity of halogen-bonded complexes

• Martina Mamone,
• Giuseppe Gentile,
• Jacopo Dosso,
• Maurizio Prato and
• Giacomo Filippini

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 575–581, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.42

• both UV–vis and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy [29]. In particular, the optical absorption spectra of substrate 2a (green dotted line), DABCO (red dotted line), and the solution containing both 2a and DABCO (blue line) were recorded in acetonitrile (Figure 2). Specifically, it was

Phenanthridine–pyrene conjugates as fluorescent probes for DNA/RNA and an inactive mutant of dipeptidyl peptidase enzyme

• Josipa Matić,
• Tana Tandarić,
• Marijana Radić Stojković,
• Filip Šupljika,
• Zrinka Karačić,
• Ana Tomašić Paić,
• Lucija Horvat,
• Robert Vianello and
• Lidija-Marija Tumir

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 550–565, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.40

• Josipa Matic Tana Tandaric Marijana Radic Stojkovic Filip Supljika Zrinka Karacic Ana Tomasic Paic Lucija Horvat Robert Vianello Lidija-Marija Tumir Laboratory for Biomolecular Interactions and Spectroscopy, Division of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička cesta

• , and polynucleotide binding affinity has been investigated by UV–vis, fluorescence and CD spectroscopy and molecular modeling. Further, binding of Phen-Py-1 to human dipeptidyl peptidase III enzyme was investigated by fluorescence spectroscopy and microcalorimetric measurements. Results and Discussion

• and probability of contact, including steric shielding and charge–charge interactions [41]. Circular dichroism (CD) experiments CD spectroscopy was chosen to monitor conformational changes of polynucleotide's secondary structure induced by small molecule binding [42]. Compounds Phen-Py-1 and Phen-Py-2

Access to cyclopropanes with geminal trifluoromethyl and difluoromethylphosphonate groups

• Ita Hajdin,
• Romana Pajkert,
• Mira Keßler,
• Jianlin Han,
• Haibo Mei and
• Gerd-Volker Röschenthaler

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 541–549, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.39

• cyclopropanation. Reaction conditions: alkene (0.15 mmol), diazo compound 5 (0.1 mmol), CuI (1 mol %), dry toluene, 111 °C, Ar atmosphere. aYields refer to isolated products; bdr ratio determined by 19F NMR spectroscopy. Scope of the cyclopropanation. Reaction conditions: alkene (0.15 mmol), diazo compound 5 (0.1

• mmol), CuI (1 mol %), dry toluene, 111 °C, Ar atmosphere. aYields refer to isolated products; bdr ratio determined by 19F NMR spectroscopy. Addition of CuI to the diazo compound 5. Possible addition of styrene to Int2 yielding Int4_1 and Int4_2 through Int3_1 and Int3_2. Possible addition of styrene to

Mechanochemical solid state synthesis of copper(I)/NHC complexes with K₃PO₄

• Ina Remy-Speckmann,
• Birte M. Zimmermann,
• Mahadeb Gorai,
• Martin Lerch and
• Johannes F. Teichert

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 440–447, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.34

• synthesized via the mechanochemical route is isolated as a CH2Cl2 adduct (5/CH2Cl2 = 1:1) as confirmed by NMR spectroscopy and elemental analysis. If complex 5 is formed via the liquid state synthesis [48][49], also a CH2Cl2 adduct is isolated, albeit with a 5/CH2Cl2 ratio of 2:1. In order to demonstrate the

Discrimination of β-cyclodextrin/hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.) oil/flavonoid glycoside and flavonolignan ternary complexes by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy coupled with principal component analysis

• Nicoleta G. Hădărugă,
• Gabriela Popescu,
• Dina Gligor (Pane),
• Cristina L. Mitroi,
• Sorin M. Stanciu and
• Daniel Ioan Hădărugă

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 380–398, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.30

• , Polytechnic University of Timişoara, Carol Telbisz 6, 30001 Timişoara, Romania 10.3762/bjoc.19.30 Abstract The goal of the study was the discrimination of β-cyclodextrin (β-CD)/hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.) oil/antioxidant ternary complexes through Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy coupled with

• , cyclosporine A and polyvinyl alcohol, ketoprofen and phospholipids, dihydroartemisinin and lecithin, cefixime and ʟ-arginine, flurbiprofen and naproxen/ketoprofen/ethenzamide [50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59]. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) is a very fast, nondestructive and cheap method

• -transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) of ternary complexes FTIR is a fast method that allows the evaluation of the presence of a compound in a complex through specific absorption bands. β-CD consists of seven 1→4-linked α-ᴅ-glucopyranose units forming a macrocycle. As a consequence, the FTIR specific bands

CuAAC-inspired synthesis of 1,2,3-triazole-bridged porphyrin conjugates: an overview

• Dileep Kumar Singh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 349–379, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.29

• % yield. Furthermore, this zinc conjugate was demetallated using H3PO4 in THF to form the free-base porphyrin 148b in 90% yield. The photophysical properties of this dendronized porphyrin molecule was investigated by absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy in different solvents, and the amphiphilic

• )-catalyzed click reaction between 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(3,5-dipropargyloxyphenyl)-Zn-porphyrin 173 and the azide 124 in the presence of CuSO4 and sodium ascorbate in THF/H2O (Scheme 38). UV–vis spectroscopy showed that the porphyrin 174 was readily soluble in water, and no porphyrin–porphyrin stacking

Group 13 exchange and transborylation in catalysis

• Dominic R. Willcox and
• Stephen P. Thomas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 325–348, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.28

• esters, lactones, and carbonates with HBpin under microwave irradiation (Scheme 13) [57]. When HBpin and boric acid were reacted together, BH3-coordinated HBpin and O(Bpin)2 were detected by 11B NMR spectroscopy. Supported by computational analysis and single-turnover experiments, the reaction was

Investigation of cationic ring-opening polymerization of 2-oxazolines in the “green” solvent dihydrolevoglucosenone

• Solomiia Borova and
• Robert Luxenhofer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 217–230, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.21

• kinetic study of the polymerization was monitored by 1H NMR spectroscopy analysis. NMR spectra were recorded on a Fourier 300 spectrometer (1H; 300.12 MHz and 13C (1H); 75.48 MHz; Bruker Biospin; Rheinstetten, Germany) at a temperature of 298 K and evaluated using the MestReNova V.6.0.2.-5475 software

• full monomer conversion. Monomer conversion was monitored by 1H NMR spectroscopy. After complete monomer consumption, the reaction was terminated by adding 3.0 equiv of water and left to react overnight at 45 °C. The polymer was purified by precipitation from cold diethyl ether (Et2O) or direct

• polymerization at 90 °C. The initial monomer concentration was kept at 3 M and [M]0/[I]0 was kept at 50 for the initial kinetic investigation. The monomer conversion was followed by 1H NMR spectroscopy and plotted in the common semi-logarithmic kinetic plots (Figure 2). For the majority of initiators, the

Germacrene B – a central intermediate in sesquiterpene biosynthesis

• Houchao Xu and
• Jeroen S. Dickschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 186–203, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.18

• Humulus lupulus, and the structures of both compounds were elucidated by 1H NMR spectroscopy and catalytic hydrogenation, yielding the same compound selinane in both cases [54]. Both compounds were later also isolated from Cannabis sativa [55]. Unfortunately, no optical rotations were given in these

• was determined by NMR spectroscopy and verified by the acid-catalysed conversion into δ-selinene (26) (Scheme 9A) [72]. The same compound 18 was also reported from the closely related alga Laurencia nipponica [73] and from lime oil (Citrus aurantifolia) [74]. Fully assigned 1H and 13C NMR data were

• assignments and even error propagation, and shows the importance of structure elucidation by classical methods, i.e., isolation and compound characterisation by NMR spectroscopy and determination of optical rotation. Compound 51 can be generated biosynthetically from I3a through 1,2-methyl migration to I3b

Total synthesis of insect sex pheromones: recent improvements based on iron-mediated cross-coupling chemistry

• Eric Gayon,
• Guillaume Lefèvre,
• Olivier Guerret,
• Adrien Tintar and
• Pablo Chourreu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 158–166, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.15

• RMgX:EtOMgX ratios, minor species possibly featuring alkoxide stabilized ferrous [FeII]-OEt intermediates were observed by paramagnetic 1H NMR spectroscopy. In line with this result, Fleischer and Lefèvre also recently demonstrated that the anionic thiolate leaving group EtS– released in Fukuyama cross

Synthesis and characterisation of new antimalarial fluorinated triazolopyrazine compounds

• Kah Yean Lum,
• Jonathan M. White,
• Daniel J. G. Johnson,
• Vicky M. Avery and
• Rohan A. Davis

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 107–114, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.11

• (0.1% TFA) were held for the first 1 min, followed by a linear gradient to 100% MeOH (0.1% TFA) over 59 min, all at a flow rate of 9 mL/min. Sixty fractions (60 × 1 min) were collected from the start of the HPLC run. Fractions containing UV-active material were analysed by 1H NMR spectroscopy and LCMS

Improving the accuracy of ³¹P NMR chemical shift calculations by use of scaling methods

• William H. Hersh and
• Tsz-Yeung Chan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 36–56, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.4

• development nor in the energy benchmarks that are used. Instead, we looked at recent work, mostly on 13C NMR spectroscopy, for recommendations [7][90][91][96][97][98]. Results are collected in Table 4 for the chemical shifts for compounds 1a, 8, and 32, scaled using only the first and last points for the

Digyalipopeptide A, an antiparasitic cyclic peptide from the Ghanaian Bacillus sp. strain DE2B

• Adwoa P. Nartey,
• Aboagye K. Dofuor,
• Kofi B. A. Owusu,
• Anil S. Camas,
• Hai Deng,
• Marcel Jaspars and
• Kwaku Kyeremeh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1763–1771, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.185

• , 1H, H-7), 4.53 (ov., 1H, H-12), 4.52 (ov., 1H, H-16), 4.18 (ov., 1H, H-22), 4.08 (dd, J = 8.8, 6.0 Hz, 1H, H-33), and 4.44 (ov., 1H, H-27) which were indicative of the presence of α-hydrogens belonging to amino acid residues typical for peptides. Using 1H,1H homonuclear correlation spectroscopy (COSY

• ) and 1H,13C total correlation spectroscopy (HSQC-TOCSY), the individual spin systems within each amino acid residue were fully established. Subsequently, seven amino acid residues were identified as glutamic acid, valine-1, aspartic acid, leucine-1, valine-2, leucine-2 and valine-3, see Table 1 and