An uracil-linked hydroxyflavone probe for the recognition of ATP

• Márton Bojtár,
• Péter Zoltán Janzsó-Berend,
• Dávid Mester,
• Dóra Hessz,
• Mihály Kállay,
• Miklós Kubinyi and
• István Bitter

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 747–755, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.63

• precipitated from the solution. The precipitate was filtered, washed with THF thoroughly and dried to yield 264 mg (88%) product as a yellow solid. 1H NMR (500 MHz, DMSO-d6) δ 11.16 (s, 1H, 3-uracil NH), 10.94 (br s, 1H, 1-uracil NH), 8.79 (s, 1H, OH), 8.21 (s, 1H, ArH, triazole), 8.10 (d, J = 8.5 Hz, 2H, 2

• ), 163.64 (C=O6-uracill), 161.90 (CAr-O), 155.98 (CAr-O), 151.16 (C=O2-uracil), 150.85 (C4’-Ar, aniline), 146.17 (CAr-O), 142.98 (CHAr, triazole), 141.70 (CH4-uracil), 136.82 (C-OHchromone), 128.64 (2CH2’-Ar, aniline), 125.96 (CHAr, chromone), 124.83 (CHAr, triazole), 118.06 (CAr, chromone), 115.42 (CAr

Nanoreactors for green catalysis

• M. Teresa De Martino,
• Loai K. E. A. Abdelmohsen,
• Floris P. J. T. Rutjes and
• Jan C. M. van Hest

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 716–733, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.61

• nanoparticles (DSN) have been shown to be highly efficient in the catalysis of olefin hydrogenation and in Suzuki coupling reactions [98][99]. Ornelas et al. entrapped a palladium catalyst with dendrimers containing triazole groups (DSN) (Figure 6) [100]. The aim here was to provide a platform to perform

AuBr₃-catalyzed azidation of per-O-acetylated and per-O-benzoylated sugars

• Jayashree Rajput,
• Srinivas Hotha and
• Madhuri Vangala

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 682–687, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.56

• ], glycoconjugates [30][31][32], N-glycosyl heterocycles [33][34], N-glycosyl triazole [35][36], etc. Glycosyl azides can be accessed from the corresponding glycosyl halides [37][38][39][40] by nucleophilic displacement with NaN3 or using trimethylsilyl azide in the presence of a phase transfer catalyst [41][42][43

Sequential Ugi reaction/base-induced ring closing/IAAC protocol toward triazolobenzodiazepine-fused diketopiperazines and hydantoins

• Robby Vroemans,
• Fante Bamba,
• Jonas Winters,
• Joice Thomas,
• Jeroen Jacobs,
• Luc Van Meervelt,
• Jubi John and
• Wim Dehaen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 626–633, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.49

• multicomponent reactions with intramolecular azide–alkyne cycloaddition (IAAC) for the generation of triazole-fused heterocycles [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. In this report we disclose our results on the development of a sequential synthetic approach involving Ugi 4-component reaction (4-CR

• -turns [43][44][45] and are also known to bind to a number of biological targets [46][47][48]. Interestingly, the fusion of a triazole ring to a 1,4-benzodiazepine core has resulted in an increase in the biological activity as evident from the different drugs with triazolobenzodiazepine structure such as

• commenced with the intramolecular azide–alkyne cycloaddition of 5a which furnished the triazole-fused benzodiazepine 8 in 72% yield after 3 hours. The triazolobenzodiazepine 8 was then subjected to base-induced cyclisation with KOH which failed to afford the expected tetracyclic compound 7a. We believe that

Carbohydrate inhibitors of cholera toxin

• Vajinder Kumar and
• W. Bruce Turnbull

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 484–498, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.34

• chelating mechanism. Hughes and co-workers synthesised and evaluated bivalent 1,2,3 triazole-linked galactopyranosides 14 and 15 as shown in Figure 7 [48]. They used a piperazine core as central divalent core on to which the galactose units were attached via flexible linkers. They found that these compounds

Recent advances on organic blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)

• Thanh-Tuân Bui,
• Fabrice Goubard,
• Malika Ibrahim-Ouali,
• Didier Gigmes and
• Frédéric Dumur

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 282–308, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.18

Fluorogenic PNA probes

• Tirayut Vilaivan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 253–281, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.17

Synthesis and spectroscopic properties of β-meso directly linked porphyrin–corrole hybrid compounds

• Baris Temelli and
• Hilal Kalkan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 187–193, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.13

• ) position of substitution (meso or β). So far, corrole macrocyles have been integrated into porphyrin conjugates via anthracene, biphenylene, xanthene, dibenzofuran [16][17][18][19][20], amide [21] and triazole [22][23] linkers. Despite the large number of studies on the synthesis of porphyrin–corrole

Recent applications of click chemistry for the functionalization of gold nanoparticles and their conversion to glyco-gold nanoparticles

• Vivek Poonthiyil,
• Thisbe K. Lindhorst,
• Vladimir B. Golovko and
• Antony J. Fairbanks

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 11–24, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.2

• ; click chemistry; glyco-gold nanoparticles; triazole; Introduction Metal nanoparticles (NPs), with their unique physicochemical properties, have drawn significant interest in recent years, and are expected to form the basis of many biological and technological innovations during the remainder of the

• azide–alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition AuNP surface modification using NCAAC The azide–alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition (AAC) is a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition between an organic azide and an alkyne that gives triazole products [37][38]. The non-catalysed azide–alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition (NCAAC) is very slow

• , and gives a mixture of 1,4- and 1,5-triazole regioisomers (Scheme 1) [39]. Interest in and applications of the AAC have surged over the past 15 or so years, since the introduction of Cu(I) catalysis, which led to significant improvements in both the regioselectivity and rates of the reaction [40][41

Synthetic mRNA capping

• Fabian Muttach,
• Nils Muthmann and
• Andrea Rentmeister

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2819–2832, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.274

• translation in in vitro translation experiments. In a further step, tetraphosphates with methylene(bisphosphonate) moieties were prepared which improved binding to eIF4E and in some cases conferred enzymatic resistance against DcpS degradation [67]. N2-Triazole-containing monophosphate cap analogues were

• modified methylguanosine resulting in a capped RNA containing a triazole linkage after CuAAC reaction (Figure 7B) [121]. In a similar approach a 5′-azido-modified RNA was prepared by solid-phase synthesis and reacted with an alkyne-functionalized m7G-cap analogue in a CuAAC reaction [122]. Besides its

• utility on long RNA, this click chemistry approach was also applied to the chemical synthesis of cap analogues, simplifying the typically laborious and time-consuming synthesis [121]. A plethora of cap analogues was synthesized replacing one phosphate bridge with a triazole linkage. Depending on their

Vinylphosphonium and 2-aminovinylphosphonium salts – preparation and applications in organic synthesis

• Anna Kuźnik,
• Roman Mazurkiewicz and
• Beata Fryczkowska

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2710–2738, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.269

• reaction of 4-amino-5-alkyl-2,4-dihydro-1,2,4-triazole-3-thione with DAAD and triphenylphosphine was reported by Mosslemin et al. [25]. The reaction of triphenylphosphine with DAAD and triazole as the NH-acid and a precursor of the ambident sulfur nucleophile gave the corresponding vinylphosphonium salt 83

• . Generation of resonance-stabilized phosphorus ylides in the reaction of triphenylphosphine, dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates, and 1,2,4-triazole-3-thione derivatives. Synthesis of resonance-stabilized phosphorus ylides via the reaction of triphenylphosphine with dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates and 2

Recent progress in the racemic and enantioselective synthesis of monofluoroalkene-based dipeptide isosteres

• Myriam Drouin and
• Jean-François Paquin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2637–2658, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.262

• reacted easily in a SN2 reaction to give a more functionalized molecule. For example, treatment of the chlorinated monofluoroalkene with NaN3 provided the corresponding N3-containing monofluoroalkene. The azide group underwent a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition to give a 1,2,3-triazole, which is also a peptide

¹⁵N-Labelling and structure determination of adamantylated azolo-azines in solution

• Sergey L. Deev,
• Alexander S. Paramonov,
• Tatyana S. Shestakova,
• Igor A. Khalymbadzha,
• Oleg N. Chupakhin,
• Julia O. Subbotina,
• Oleg S. Eltsov,
• Pavel A. Slepukhin,
• Vladimir L. Rusinov,
• Alexander S. Arseniev and
• Zakhar O. Shenkarev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2535–2548, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.250

• product structure were also found for N-arylation or N-alkylation with tert-butyl fragments in the series of 1,2,3-triazole [15][16], tetrazole [17][18][19][20], and purine [21] derivatives. Meanwhile, knowledge of the accurate chemical structures of N-substituted heterocycles is essential for biomedical

• the most efficient way to measure JHN couplings [24]. Previously, the incorporation of a single 15N label in position 1 of the 1,2,4-triazole fragment of compounds 5 and 6 and analysis of the JCN couplings permitted the unambiguous identification of the structures of the N3-adamantylated derivatives

• by the reisomerization of the initially formed N2-adamantylated product (15a-15N2). Indeed, 2 h of refluxing of isolated 15a-15N2 in TFA with 1.5 molar equivalents of 14 yielded a mixture of compounds 15a-15N2 and 15b-15N2 in the same (1:2) ratio (Scheme 1). The use of [1-15N]-3-amino-1,2,4-triazole

A permutation approach to the assignment of the configuration to diastereomeric tetrads by comparison of experimental and ab initio calculated differences in NMR data

• Przemysław J. Boratyński

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2478–2485, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.245

• 1 and 2 were obtained by epimerization at C9. Mixtures of the isomers of 1 were formed in TBAF desilylation of Cinchona 4-TMS-triazole derivatives. Partial isomerisation of 2a into 2b was performed by transient deprotonation using in situ generated sodium methylsulfinylmethylide (Scheme 1). Both

Asymmetric synthesis of propargylamines as amino acid surrogates in peptidomimetics

• Matthias Wünsch,
• David Schröder,
• Tanja Fröhr,
• Lisa Teichmann,
• Sebastian Hedwig,
• Nils Janson,
• Clara Belu,
• Jasmin Simon,
• Shari Heidemeyer,
• Philipp Holtkamp,
• Jens Rudlof,
• Lennard Klemme,
• Alessa Hinzmann,
• Beate Neumann,
• Hans-Georg Stammler and
• Norbert Sewald

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2428–2441, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.240

• , Bielefeld University, Universitätsstraße 25, D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany 10.3762/bjoc.13.240 Abstract The amide moiety of peptides can be replaced for example by a triazole moiety, which is considered to be bioisosteric. Therefore, the carbonyl moiety of an amino acid has to be replaced by an alkyne in

• N-sulfinylimines, which leads to amines with the same configuration as the proteinogenic (S)-configured amino acids. This stereoselection was confirmed by various X-ray crystal structures of propargylamines obtained during our investigations like 7a, 7c–e, 7s, 7i–k, 7q and triazole 13w (see

• sulfinamide (S)-1 into N-sulfinylimine 5w, which was reacted with (trimethylsilyl)ethynyllithium. However, following the usual procedure GP-4 with warming up the reaction mixture to room temperature before quenching with water led to the formation of triazole 13w, which was isolated in 56% yield (Table 4

Synthesis, effect of substituents on the regiochemistry and equilibrium studies of tetrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine/2-azidopyrimidines

• Elisandra Scapin,
• Paulo R. S. Salbego,
• Caroline R. Bender,
• Alexandre R. Meyer,
• Anderson B. Pagliari,
• Tainára Orlando,
• Geórgia C. Zimmer,
• Clarissa P. Frizzo,
• Helio G. Bonacorso,
• Nilo Zanatta and
• Marcos A. P. Martins

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2396–2407, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.237

• atom of the enone, both soft sites of the starting materials [29]. In recent research, we developed an efficient method to obtain 1,2,4-triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines from the cyclocondensation reaction of 1,1,1-trifluoro-4-metoxy-3-alken-2-one or β-enaminones with 5-amino-1,2,4-triazole. The methodology

• reactions were planned between phenylacetylene and compounds 6a–c. The 1,2,3-triazole synthesis from the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction between 6a–c and terminal alkynes catalyzed by copper salts (CuAAC) [41][42][43] confirms that the reaction passes through an azide intermediate. In addition to mild

Solvent-free copper-catalyzed click chemistry for the synthesis of N-heterocyclic hybrids based on quinoline and 1,2,3-triazole

• Martina Tireli,
• Silvija Maračić,
• Stipe Lukin,
• Marina Juribašić Kulcsár,
• Dijana Žilić,
• Mario Cetina,
• Ivan Halasz,
• Silvana Raić-Malić and
• Krunoslav Užarević

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2352–2363, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.232

• reactions using Cu(II), Cu(I) and Cu(0) catalysts have been successfully implemented to provide novel 6-phenyl-2-(trifluoromethyl)quinolines with a phenyl-1,2,3-triazole moiety at O-4 of the quinoline core. Milling procedures proved to be significantly more efficient than the corresponding solution

• synthesis of 5–8 Based on the recently obtained 1,2,3-triazole-appended N-heterocycles, as promising lead compounds with efficient and selective cytostatic activities [8][9], our research groups share an interest in derivatization of target compounds by a triazole bridge [33]. Quinoline is an important

• containing a trifluoromethyl group at C-2 and a p-halogen-substituted and non-substituted phenyl-1,2,3-triazole moieties. The synthesis of 2-(trifluoromethyl)-6-phenylquinolone was achieved by Conrad–Limpach reaction of a primary aromatic amine with a β-ketoester [37][38]. Namely, thermal condensation of 4

Synthesis and application of trifluoroethoxy-substituted phthalocyanines and subphthalocyanines

• Satoru Mori and
• Norio Shibata

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2273–2296, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.224

• aggregation can be suppressed due to strong repulsion by the introduction of a trifluoroethoxy group into the flexible binuclear phthalocyanine, which always adopts an open clamshell conformation. Binuclear phthalocyanines connected via a flexible triazole linker that are substituted by a tert-butyl (11) [81

• spectra of 9 (A) and 5 (B). Structure of binuclear phthalocyanines linked by a triazole linker. Structure of trinuclear phthalocyanines linked by a triazole linker, and windmill-like molecular structure vs aggregated structure. Direction of energy transfer of phthalocyanine–fullerene conjugates. Structure

Intramolecular glycosylation

• Xiao G. Jia and
• Alexei V. Demchenko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2028–2048, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.201

• attempt to simplify the synthesis of the non-symmetrical tethers, a highly trendy triazole-forming click chemistry was combined with rigid spacers by the Schmidt group. α,α’-Dibromo ortho- and meta-xylene-derived rigid spacers were used in this application, and this approach allowed to investigate the

• , disaccharide 48 was obtained with complete β-selectivity when the ortho-xylyl group (15-membered ring) was used, versus α/β = 1:3 selectivity in the case of the meta-xylene linked counterpart [80]. As in the previous example with the xylylene-derived linker, the triazole linker was removed under standard

Mechanochemical synthesis of small organic molecules

• Tapas Kumar Achar,
• Anima Bose and
• Prasenjit Mal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1907–1931, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.186

• triazole moiety (Scheme 37a) using benzyl halides, sodium azide and a terminal alkyne via an alumina-supported copper catalyst. Using 10 mol % of Cu/Al2O3, differently substituted phenyl acetylenes and aliphatic alkynes led to 70–96% yield of triazoles [152]. Phenyl boronic acids were also used to

• synthesize the triazole rings with additional 1 equiv of K2CO3 which resulted in >85% of product (Scheme 37b). Mack and co-workers reported another mechanochemical variation of “click” reaction [153][154] where they could isolate 33–90% of triazole derivatives using copper reaction vial in ball mill for 16 h

Influence of the milling parameters on the nucleophilic substitution reaction of activated β-cyclodextrins

• László Jicsinszky,
• Kata Tuza,
• Giancarlo Cravotto,
• Andrea Porcheddu,
• Francesco Delogu and
• Evelina Colacino

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1893–1899, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.184

• derivative and is used in analytical chemistry as chiral stationary phase [6]. CDs functionalized with triazole substituents can be similarly prepared through click reactions involving the azido group as a dipolarophile [7], and utilized as suitable starting material to access hydroxy functionality after

The chemistry and biology of mycolactones

• Matthias Gehringer and
• Karl-Heinz Altmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1596–1660, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.159

Effect of uridine protecting groups on the diastereoselectivity of uridine-derived aldehyde 5’-alkynylation

• Raja Ben Othman,
• Mickaël J. Fer,
• Laurent Le Corre,
• Sandrine Calvet-Vitale and
• Christine Gravier-Pelletier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1533–1541, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.153

• devoted to the synthesis of new MraY inhibitors [49][50], we were interested in developing a more efficient access to 5’-ethynyluridine, a crucial building block for the further synthesis of triazole-containing compounds [49]. Intrigued by the moderate diastereomeric ratio reported for the addition or

Synthesis of oligonucleotides on a soluble support

• Harri Lönnberg

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1368–1387, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.134

• pyridine and 2,6-lutidine using 1-(mesitylene-2-sulfonyl)-3-nitro-1,2,4-triazole (MSNT; 6 equiv) as an activator and N-methylimidazole (NMI; 10 equiv) as a nucleophilic catalyst. Each coupling was followed by precipitation/recrystallization from EtOH, capping with Ac2O in pyridine and precipitation from

Strategies toward protecting group-free glycosylation through selective activation of the anomeric center

• A. Michael Downey and
• Michal Hocek

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1239–1279, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.123

• , L-ascorbic acid and applying mild heat, the desired 1,2-trans click triazole could be obtained in good to excellent yield [85]. This reaction was shown to be very robust as not only di- and oligosaccharides can be formed (one example is shown in Scheme 28B), but also cancer-associated MUC1