Nucleophilic functionalization of thianthrenium salts under basic conditions

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

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• further potential in organic synthesis. Despite establishing a few preliminary methods for preparing organothianthrenium salts, their application potential is historically thwarted by harsh synthetic conditions and the poor durability of the resulting products [7]. Recently, Ritter and co-workers have

• [35], it is still a great challenge to transform alcohols into valuable chemicals [36][37][38]. A recent study by Shi and co-workers has successfully converted alcohols into thianthrenium salts, enabling the transformation of the hydroxy (OH) group into various functional groups via the photoassisted

• ]. Recently, Ritter and co-workers reported that alkylthianthrenium salts can be employed to undergo reactions with N/O-nucleophiles under photocatalytic conditions [46]. Nevertheless, additional transition metal catalysts, visible light, or electrochemical devices are required for the reported works

Catalytic multi-step domino and one-pot reactions

• Svetlana B. Tsogoeva

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• advances in the field. A Review article by Pounder, Tam, and co-authors summarizes new transition-metal-catalyzed domino reactions of strained bicyclic alkenes, including both homo- and heterobicyclic alkenes highly useful for the construction of biologically significant compounds with multiple

• of transannular cycloadditions of cycloalkenone hydrazones catalyzed by BINOL-derived phosphoric acid are reported in the Full Research Paper by Vicario, Merino, and co-workers [10]. Their methodologies can now be used to predict the reactivity of different substrates in other cycloaddition reactions

• through concerted or stepwise mechanisms. An enantioselective palladium-catalyzed three-component reaction of glyoxylic acid, sulfonamides, and aryltrifluoroborates toward synthetically useful α-arylglycine compounds is described by the Manolikakes group [11]. Moreover, Šebesta and co-workers report a

Photochromic derivatives of indigo: historical overview of development, challenges and applications

• Gökhan Kaplan,
• Zeynel Seferoğlu and
• Daria V. Berdnikova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 228–242, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.23

• (9a, Figure 7) was reported by Wyman and co-workers [37]. Interestingly, compound 9a showed pronounced negative photochromism in benzene with the best E–Z conversion upon irradiation with yellow light (λirr > 520 nm), while in chloroform no photochromism was detected. The formation of the Z-isomer of

• ) and N,N'-dimethyl-5,5',7,7'-tetrabromoindigo (12) showed similar photochemical isomerization in the chloroalkane solvents. Additionally, a slow photoreaction in benzene was detected for compound 12 [40]. 11 years later, Margerum and co-workers investigated the photochromic behavior of 11a and 12 using

• accelerated in the presence of acid. In 2017 and 2022, Hecht, Jacquemin and co-workers successfully synthesized a range of N,N'-disubstituted indigos, including N,N'-dialkyl derivatives, using novel approaches and investigated their photophysical properties, in particular, the thermal half-lives and the ratio

Optimizations of lipid II synthesis: an essential glycolipid precursor in bacterial cell wall synthesis and a validated antibiotic target

• Milandip Karak,
• Cian R. Cloonan,
• Brad R. Baker,
• Rachel V. K. Cochrane and
• Stephen A. Cochrane

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 220–227, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.22

• -(phenylsulfonyl)ethyl ester, as previously reported by Saha and co-workers [44]. This modification prevents a deleterious side reaction occurring, wherein during glycosylation, muramic acid esters undergo a 6-exo-trig cyclization with the 4-OH group. Comprehensive experimental protocols detailing the preparation

• . Finally, the benzyl-protecting groups in compound 7 were cleaved via hydrogenolysis, followed by co-evaporation of the resulting crude product in pyridine. This yielded a monopyridyl salt, setting the stage for the final lipid coupling and deprotection sequence. To establish the vital lipid diphosphate

• in red and antimicrobial-binding motifs highlighted with blue arcs. R1 = H or Ac; R2 = H or Ac; R3 = OH, OMe or NH2; R4 = H or COOH; R5 = Gly5, Ala2, Ala-Ser/Ala or ᴅ-Asp; R6 = OH, OMe or NH2. These structural modifications are described in detail by Münch and co-workers [9]. For more details on

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

• Youlong Du Haibo Mei Ata Makarem Ramin Javahershenas Vadim A. Soloshonok Jianlin Han Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China Department of Chemistry, University of

• example, Wan and co-workers developed a cascade reaction of α-diazo esters, nitriles, and carboxylic acids via the generation of nitrile ylides and Mumm rearrangement affording unsymmetric diacyl α-amino acid esters as products (Scheme 1a) [39]. In 2017, Zhang, Hu, and co-workers developed a Cu-catalyzed

Chiral phosphoric acid-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation of 3,3-difluoro-3H-indoles

• Yumei Wang,
• Guangzhu Wang,
• Yanping Zhu and
• Kaiwu Dong

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 205–211, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.20

• organocatalysis using chiral phosphoric acids has also been studied (Scheme 1b) [26][27][28]. In 2010, Magnus Rueping and his co-workers developped an enantioselective Brønsted acid-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation of 3H-indoles [29]. In 2020, Song and Yu successfully applied a new chiral Brønsted acid

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

• (DBDAPs) is disclosed in this article through a palladium and copper-catalyzed amination (Buchwald–Hartwig (B–H) or Chan–Lam (C–L)) followed by a palladium-catalyzed intramolecular aminocarbonylation with Mo(CO)6 as CO surrogate (to avoid toxic CO handling) of readily available o-phenylenediamines and

• not been reported previously (the methods a–c indicated in Scheme 1 have a different route, and none involve either a Chan–Lam or carbonylative cyclization). For the sake of health and safety, and given that our infrastructures did not permit the use of molecular CO, we felt more secure with a

• suitable surrogate. Not only that, the use of safer to use surrogates, is important for use in enabling technologies, like continuous flow and microwave-heated reactions. In fact, CO-free aminocarbonylation reactions are well known, and molybdenum hexacarbonyl (Mo(CO)6) is a very useful surrogate having

Comparison of glycosyl donors: a supramer approach

• Anna V. Orlova,
• Nelly N. Malysheva,
• Maria V. Panova,
• Nikita M. Podvalnyy,
• Michael G. Medvedev and
• Leonid O. Kononov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 181–192, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.18

• overnight, then quenched by addition of dry ice (solid CO2) and concentrated under reduced pressure. The residue was co-concentrated with toluene (3 mL), dried in vacuo, dissolved in anhydrous pyridine (3 mL per 0.1 mmol of sialyl donor), and acetic anhydride (3 mL per 0.1 mmol of sialyl donor) was added

• . The reaction mixture was kept at room temperature overnight, then quenched by addition of methanol (3 mL), and concentrated under reduced pressure. The residue was co-concentrated with toluene (3 mL), dissolved in CH2Cl2 (40 mL), washed with water (40 mL), the organic layer was filtered through a

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

• selective C5-bromination of 8-aminoquinoline amides using carbon tetrabromide and dibromomethane under photo- and electrocatalysis conditions [27][28]. In 2017, Xia and co-workers reported a novel, mild, metal-free, and regioselective bromination of amides, wherein the organic dye eosin Y acted as the

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

• NMR (Figure S3 in Supporting Information File 1) [30] and high-resolution mass spectrometry. You and co-workers proposed a reaction pathway involving the combination of the indole substrate and Umemoto’s reagent to form an electron donor–acceptor (EDA) complex [31]. We excluded the possibility of an

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

• formation of the photocyclization product (Figure 2B). Likewise, in H2O solution with MeCN as co-solvent, no formation of a new absorption band was observed upon irradiation of 2b, either (Figure 2C). Moreover, the aminobenzoquinolizinium 3b could not be isolated after irradiation of 2b at larger scale. As

Electron-beam-promoted fullerene dimerization in nanotubes: insights from DFT computations

• Laura Abella,
• Gerard Novell-Leruth,
• Josep M. Ricart,
• Josep M. Poblet and
• Antonio Rodríguez-Fortea

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 92–100, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.10

• ) [6][7][8]. Different stages of dimerization of C60 molecules inside a peapod, a reaction confined within a one-dimensional nanoscale space, have been detected in the last decade [3][4][7][9]. Nakamura and co-workers termed ‘phase 1’ the stage with reversible bond formation and ‘phase 2’ the stage

Optimizing reaction conditions for the light-driven hydrogen evolution in a loop photoreactor

• Pengcheng Li,
• Daniel Kowalczyk,
• Johannes Liessem,
• Mohamed M. Elnagar,
• Dariusz Mitoraj,
• Radim Beranek and
• Dirk Ziegenbalg

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 74–91, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.9

• with a heating rate of 10 °C min−1. The resulting yellow solid was then finely grounded using an agate mortar. For the photochemical deposition of the Pt co-catalyst, 6 g of the produced PCN were first dispersed in 340 mL of water and subjected to sonication for 90 min. Subsequently, a mixture

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

• -olefination reaction was first discovered by Ramirez and co-workers [22] and used in the first step of the Corey–Fuchs reaction that ultimately provides an alkyne [23]. To elucidate the properties of the donor part itself of the pyrrolo-annelated IF-DTF systems, we prepared compounds 16 and 17 containing a

Preparing a liquid crystalline dispersion of carbon nanotubes with high aspect ratio

• Keiko Kojima,
• Nodoka Kosugi,
• Hirokuni Jintoku,
• Kazufumi Kobashi and
• Toshiya Okazaki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 52–58, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.7

• carbon nanotube dispersions with high aspect ratios, we utilized DWCNTs obtained from Shenzhen Nanotech Port Co. Ltd. Supporting Information File 1 provides characterization details. Briefly, the Raman G/D ratio was approximately 37 (Supporting Information File 1, Figure S1d), indicating high

• substrate, is necessary to fully utilize CNT-LC dispersions. Experimental Characterization of DWCNT DWCNTs were purchased from Shenzhen Nanotech Port Co. Ltd. (NTP9112, Product Number DW220817). For the transmission electron microscope observations (Topcon Corporation, EM-002B), DWCNTs were suspended in

• , the glass slide was washed with acetone and then irradiated with UV light for a duration of 1 hour via an ozone cleaner (Meiwafosis, PC-450 plus). Later, the substrate was coated using a bar coater (OSG SYSTEM PRODUCTS Co., LTD, Select-Roller L60, OSP-10 (bar groove pitch: 0.2 mm, depth: 24 μm)) with

Using the phospha-Michael reaction for making phosphonium phenolate zwitterions

• Matthias R. Steiner,
• Max Schmallegger,
• Larissa Donner,
• Johann A. Hlina,
• Christoph Marschner,
• Judith Baumgartner and
• Christian Slugovc

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 41–51, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.6

• , 4JP-C = 2.2 Hz, CCH3), 96.6 (d, 1JP-C = 99.0 Hz, C6), 124.6 (d, 1JP-C = 86.0 Hz, Ci-Ph), 127.3 (d, 2JP-C = 12.5 Hz, C5), 129.4 (d, 3JP-C = 11.9 Hz, C4), 131.3 (d, 4JP-C = 1.4 Hz, C3), 132.6 (d, 3JP-C = 9.3 Hz, C2), 132.9 (d, 3JP-C = 2.7 Hz, Cm-Ph), 133.4 (d, 2JP-C = 14.8 Hz, Co-Ph), 140.5 (d, 4JP-C

• = 8.0 Hz, Cp-Ph), 174.1 (d, 2JP-C = 4.4 Hz, C1), 174.8 (d, 3JP-C = 13.9 Hz, CO); 31P{1H} NMR (δ in ppm, 162 MHz, CDCl3, 298 K) 25.1; UV–vis (CHCl3): λmax = 352 nm (ε = 5.53 × 103 L mol−1 cm−1). 1H NMR spectrum of 2a recorded on a 300 MHz spectrometer in CDCl3 at 23 °C; the inset shows a 3D-model based

Identification of the p-coumaric acid biosynthetic gene cluster in Kutzneria albida: insights into the diazotization-dependent deamination pathway

• Seiji Kawai,
• Akito Yamada,
• Yohei Katsuyama and
• Yasuo Ohnishi

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• by co-expressing with the sfp gene to obtain the holo-form of CmaA3 [21]. We tested whether CmaA1 and holo-CmaA3 are involved in the initial reaction in polyketide synthesis similar to AvaA1 and AvaA3; AvaA1 loads 3,4-AHBA (1) onto holo-AvaA3 using ATP in the biosynthetic pathway of avenalumic acid

• NdeI and XhoI sites of pColdI using In-Fusion (TaKaRa Bio Inc.). The primers used for plasmid construction are listed in Table S4 of Supporting Information File 1. Each protein expression plasmid was introduced into E. coli BL21(DE3). To obtain holo-CmaA3, pACYC-sfp [21] was co-introduced with pColdI

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

• ], Pd(II) [31][32][33], Pt(II) [34][35], Fe(III) [36][37], Cu(I) [38][39][40][41], Co(III) [42][43][44], as well as other metals, have been widely studied. In addition, methods involving Brønsted acids, alone or in presence of Lewis acids as co-catalysts, have been developed [45][46][47][48][49][50][51

• their recovery and reusability after several reaction cycles [55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68], or the use of eco-friendly reaction media [69][70][71][72]. Recently, Zhang and co-workers reported an electrochemical procedure for the hydration of arylacetylenes, under mild reaction

• hexafluorophosphate (BMIm-PF6) as co-solvent with methanol and water to allow recycling of a phosphine-based Au(I) complex, as an efficient catalytic system for the hydration of terminal alkynes [87]. Moreover, the interesting properties of ILs have also been exploited to synthesize new solid polymeric catalysts for

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

• monomers N,N-dimethylacrylamide and sodium acrylate, and the cross-linking agent N,N'-methylenebisacrylamide were added, and the polymerization was initiated with ammonium persulfate and N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA). The full-length sequence 3 was co-polymerized into the polymer 5, and

Aldiminium and 1,2,3-triazolium dithiocarboxylate zwitterions derived from cyclic (alkyl)(amino) and mesoionic carbenes

• Nedra Touj,
• François Mazars,
• Guillermo Zaragoza and
• Lionel Delaude

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1947–1956, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.145

• of charges (Figure 1) [13][14][15][16]. Crabtree and co-workers first reported the abnormal binding of an imidazolium salt to an iridium hydride at the C4 carbon atom instead of C2 in 2001 [17][18]. Since then, many other metal complexes bearing imidazol-4-ylidene ligands (F) have been reported [7

Studying specificity in protein–glycosaminoglycan recognition with umbrella sampling

• Mateusz Marcisz,
• Sebastian Anila,
• Margrethe Gaardløs,
• Martin Zacharias and
• Sergey A. Samsonov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1933–1946, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.144

• GAG properties, especially protein recognition specificity and multipose binding. We found that the binding free energy landscape in the proximity of the GAG native binding pose is complex and implies the co-existence of several binding poses. The sliding of a GAG chain along a protein surface could

• to multipose binding, wherein various configurations of the protein–GAG complex may exhibit similar free binding energies, allowing them to co-exist. Interpreting the “sulfation code”, the amount (net sulfation) and particular positions of the sulfation group (sulfation pattern), could assist in the

• interactions is important in understanding the nature of the interactions and the stability of the binding pose, including the scenario when several co-existing binding poses are identified. We analyze the binding interactions between the GAGs heparin, heparan sulfate, and chondroitin sulfate, and the proteins

Construction of diazepine-containing spiroindolines via annulation reaction of α-halogenated N-acylhydrazones and isatin-derived MBH carbonates

• Xing Liu,
• Wenjing Shi,
• Jing Sun and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1923–1932, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.143

• ][45][46][47][48]. However, the [4 + 3] cycloaddition reaction of isatin-derived MBH carbonates with active diene components has not been well developed probably due to the lack of suitable active diene compounds [49][50][51][52][53]. In this respect, Chen and co-workers were the first who reported the

• sequentially underwent a [4 + 3] cycloaddition reaction (reaction 1 in Scheme 1) [54]. Recently, Chen and co-workers reported a chiral tertiary amine-catalyzed asymmetric γ-regioselective [4 + 3] annulation reaction of isatin-derived MBH carbonates and cyclic 2-benzylidenebenzo[b]thiophen-3-ylidene

• )benzenesulfonamides to give chiral azepane spirooxindoles with excellent stereoselectivity (reaction 2 in Scheme 1) [55][56]. Du and co-workers reported a DABCO-mediated [4 + 3] cycloaddition reaction between o-quinone methides and isatin-derived MBH carbonates to give functionalized benzo[b]oxepine derivatives in

Biphenylene-containing polycyclic conjugated compounds

• Cagatay Dengiz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1895–1911, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.141

• 2,2'-dihalogenated biphenyls 4 as starting materials [24][25]. Although the cobalt-mediated alkyne trimerization route frequently used by Vollhardt and co-workers is not the first choice for the synthesis of the biphenylene itself, it has led to the synthesis of structurally demanding substituted

• number of Clar sextets, while concurrently minimizing any adverse impact on electronic properties resulting from reduced electron delocalization. In 1983, McOmie and co-workers reported the first synthesis of phenylene-containing oligoacenes (POAs) [33]. The primary objective of their work was to

• ]biphenylene (18). In their efforts to find a more general method for the synthesis of benzo[b]biphenylenes, Barton and co-workers were able to synthesize benzo[b]biphenylene (18) in 71% yield by the reaction of equal molar amounts of tetrabromo compound 16 and 1,1,2,2-tetrabromo-1,2-dihydrobenzocyclobutene

Anion–π catalysis on carbon allotropes

• M. Ángeles Gutiérrez López,
• Mei-Ling Tan,
• Giacomo Renno,
• Augustina Jozeliūnaitė,
• J. Jonathan Nué-Martinez,
• Javier Lopez-Andarias,
• Naomi Sakai and
• Stefan Matile

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1881–1894, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.140

• respective electron-poor motifs by induced cation–π interactions, and the combination with co-catalysts interfaced on MWCNTs should provide general access to asymmetric catalysis. OEEF-induced anion–π and cation–π catalysis on carbon allotropes, affordable, clean and general, thus have the potential to non

• We thank all collaborators and co-workers who contributed to this research. Funding We thank the University of Geneva, the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Molecular Systems Engineering (51NF40-205608) and the Swiss NSF for financial support (Excellence Grant 200020 204175; Swiss-ERC

Aromatic systems with two and three pyridine-2,6-dicarbazolyl-3,5-dicarbonitrile fragments as electron-transporting organic semiconductors exhibiting long-lived emissions

• Karolis Leitonas,
• Brigita Vigante,
• Dmytro Volyniuk,
• Audrius Bucinskas,
• Pavels Dimitrijevs,
• Sindija Lapcinska,
• Pavel Arsenyan and
• Juozas Vidas Grazulevicius

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1867–1880, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.139

• NMR spectra. Funding This work was supported by the project of scientific co-operation program between Latvia, Lithuania, and Taiwan, "Synthesis and study of deep-blue TTF fluorescent emitters to exceed theoretical OLED external quantum efficiency reaching 15%" (grant LV-LT-TW/2023) and Research