Conjugates of methylated cyclodextrin derivatives and hydroxyethyl starch (HES): Synthesis, cytotoxicity and inclusion of anaesthetic actives

• Lisa Markenstein,
• Antje Appelt-Menzel,
• Marco Metzger and
• Gerhard Wenz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 3087–3096, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.325

• ] and its Cu+-catalyzed version, called click reaction [31][32], is of special interest because this coupling proceeds rapidly and specific in aqueous media and tolerates many functional groups. Mono-6-azido-6-deoxy-β-CD was already coupled by the click reaction to propargylated dextrane by Nielsen et

• propargyl ether leading to a highly water soluble polymer 3 with DSHES(propargyl) = 0.55. Coupling of the CD azides 1a and 1b to the propargylated HES was performed by Cu+-catalyzed [2 + 3] cycloaddition, the so-called click reaction, leading to the corresponding triazol groups (Scheme 3). The standard

• polymer backbone by the click-reaction is a very efficient way to synthesise polymeric hosts with both low toxicity and excellent binding potential. The conjugate of DIMEB and HES 5a is regarded as a good candidate for oral or parenteral delivery of hydrophobic drugs. Experimental Complexation of

Organic chemistry on surfaces: Direct cyclopropanation by dihalocarbene addition to vinyl terminated self-assembled monolayers (SAMs)

• Malgorzata Adamkiewicz,
• David O’Hagan and
• Georg Hähner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2897–2902, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.307

• -SiCl3 and silicon substrate). In the latter chemical modification of the reactive groups of the pre-coated SAM has to be efficient enough such that a reasonable conversion can be obtained, with chemical specificity and lack of surface degradation. In this respect ‘click’ reactions have become attractive

A small azide-modified thiazole-based reporter molecule for fluorescence and mass spectrometric detection

• Stefanie Wolfram,
• Hendryk Würfel,
• Stefanie H. Habenicht,
• Christine Lembke,
• Phillipp Richter,
• Eckhard Birckner,
• Rainer Beckert and
• Georg Pohnert

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2470–2479, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.258

• profiling (ABPP); bioorthogonal; click chemistry; mass defect; molecular probe; Introduction Fluorescent dyes are widely used for detection and monitoring in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, medicine and material sciences. Due to sensitive and selective detection methods and

• fluorophores requires the attachment of the fluorescent reporter to bio(macro)molecules or synthetic probes. Especially “click chemistry”, introduced by Sharpless and coworkers in 2001 [7], is a widely used strategy to attach fluorophores covalently to other molecules. Among "click" reactions the Cu(I

Synthesis of aromatic glycoconjugates. Building blocks for the construction of combinatorial glycopeptide libraries

• Markus Nörrlinger and
• Thomas Ziegler

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2453–2460, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.256

• hydrogenation of the latter with Lindlar catalyst afforded 7 almost quantitatively. Likewise, copper(I)-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition (Click reaction) [15][16][17][18] of 5 with Fmoc-protected propargylamine afforded first t-butyl benzoate 8 in 87% yield. Hydrogenation of the latter with Pd on charcoal

Reversibly locked thionucleobase pairs in DNA to study base flipping enzymes

• Christine Beuck and
• Elmar Weinhold

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2293–2306, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.239

• -linking reaction itself is straight-forward, the vinyl-substituted nucleosides need to be chemically synthesized and subsequently converted into their phosphoamidites for chemical DNA synthesis. The same holds true for cross-links based on aldehyde [8][35][36][37] or click chemistry [38]. In addition

Solution phase synthesis of short oligoribonucleotides on a precipitative tetrapodal support

• Alejandro Gimenez Molina,
• Amit M. Jabgunde,
• Pasi Virta and
• Harri Lönnberg

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2279–2285, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.237

• support by a Cu(I) catalyzed click reaction and conventional phosphoramidite chemistry is then applied. The advantage of this support is that the small molecular reagents and byproducts are removed in each coupling cycle by two fully quantitative precipitations from MeOH, one after oxidation and the

Synthesis and optical properties of pyrrolidinyl peptide nucleic acid carrying a clicked Nile red label

• Nattawut Yotapan,
• Chayan Charoenpakdee,
• Pawinee Wathanathavorn,
• Boonsong Ditmangklo,
• Hans-Achim Wagenknecht and
• Tirayut Vilaivan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2166–2174, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.224

• , pyrrolidinyl peptide nucleic acid (acpcPNA) was labeled at its backbone with Nile red, a solvatochromic benzophenoxazine dye, by means of click chemistry. The optical properties of the Nile red-labeled acpcPNA were investigated by UV–vis and fluorescence spectroscopy in the absence and in the presence of DNA

• insertion are suggestive of different interactions between the Nile red label and the duplexes. Keywords: click chemistry; deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA bulge; fluorescence; nucleic acids; solvatochromism; Introduction Fluorescent labels are important tools for investigating the structure and dynamics of

• of Nile red-labeled DNA by acpcPNA [32], no combination of the Nile red label and PNA has yet been reported in the literature. It is therefore our purpose to develop a facile method for synthesizing Nile red-labeled acpcPNA based on the click strategy [33][34][35][36] and to investigate its optical

Convergent synthetic methodology for the construction of self-adjuvanting lipopeptide vaccines using a novel carbohydrate scaffold

• Vincent Fagan,
• Istvan Toth and
• Pavla Simerska

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1741–1748, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.181

• ‘click’ reaction [20] was employed to couple multiple copies of purified B cell peptide antigens onto the carbohydrate core and lipidic adjuvanting moiety. This type of convergent approach has a number of advantages over the previously described divergent route. Since each component is synthesized

• building block 1 reported here is concise and efficient, involving only one chromatographic step and takes advantage of the highly efficient “click” reaction. Synthesis of lipo-amino acid Lipidation of peptides is important as it is often used to improve stability and permeability of potential therapeutics

Investigations of thiol-modified phenol derivatives for the use in thiol–ene photopolymerizations

• Sebastian Reinelt,
• Monir Tabatabai,
• Urs Karl Fischer,
• Norbert Moszner,
• Andreas Utterodt and
• Helmut Ritter

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1733–1740, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.180

• [13][14], siloranes [15] or spiroorthocarbonates [16] are worth to be mentioned. Since Sharpless et al. published their concept of click chemistry in 2001, these reactions gained growing impact on the design of new materials [17]. Besides the alkyne–azide reaction, especially thiol–ene reactions were

Clicked and long spaced galactosyl- and lactosylcalix[4]arenes: new multivalent galectin-3 ligands

• Silvia Bernardi,
• Paola Fezzardi,
• Gabriele Rispoli,
• Stefania E. Sestito,
• Francesco Peri,
• Francesco Sansone and
• Alessandro Casnati

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1672–1680, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.175

• . Furthermore, we confirmed that in case of this specific lectin binding the presentation of lactose units on a cone calixarene is highly preferred with respect to its isomeric form in the 1,3-alternate structure. Keywords: glycocalixarenes; cluster glycoside effect; multivalency; click chemistry; surface

• glycocalixarenes “Click Chemistry” [23] reactions are extensively used to conjugate (oligo)saccharides to macrocyclic structures due to the mild conditions and the high yields [24]. For the synthesis of glycocalixarenes the amino–isothiocyanate condensation [25][26][27][28][29][30] or the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition

• substitution reaction of chloride with NaN3 (Scheme 3) led to the corresponding azido derivative 15, which was used to “click” both the cone (8) and 1,3-alternate (18) pentynoic amides. Compound 18 was obtained from the corresponding 1,3-alternate p-aminocalix[4]arene 17 [47] by a reaction with EDC in CH2Cl2

Chemistry of polyhalogenated nitrobutadienes, 14: Efficient synthesis of functionalized (Z)-2-allylidenethiazolidin-4-ones

• Viktor A. Zapol’skii,
• Jan C. Namyslo,
• Mimoza Gjikaj and
• Dieter E. Kaufmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1638–1644, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.170

• (1) as a precursor for the “click synthesis” of highly functionalized (hetero)cyclic as well as acyclic compounds [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. The corresponding syntheses that we have developed up to now [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13], always start with the attack of

Triazol-substituted titanocenes by strain-driven 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions

• Andreas Gansäuer,
• Andreas Okkel,
• Lukas Schwach,
• Laura Wagner,
• Anja Selig and
• Aram Prokop

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1630–1637, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.169

• active complexes allows the identification of structural features essential for biological activity. Keywords: azides; click-chemistry; cycloadditions; cytotoxicity; titanocenes; Introduction Group 4 metallocenes and derivatives of Cp2TiCl2, in particular, continue to be in the focus of contemporary

The search for new amphiphiles: synthesis of a modular, high-throughput library

• George C. Feast,
• Thomas Lepitre,
• Xavier Mulet,
• Charlotte E. Conn,
• Oliver E. Hutt,
• G. Paul Savage and
• Calum J. Drummond

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1578–1588, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.163

• anomeric linkages. A library of 80 amphiphiles was subsequently produced, using a 24-vial array, with the majority formed in very good to excellent yields. A preliminary assessment of the liquid-crystalline phase behaviour is also presented. Keywords: amphiphiles; carbohydrates; click chemistry; high

• delivery. Many other fields have utilised the copper-catalysed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) ‘click’ reaction [16][17] to generate libraries of compounds, including enzyme inhibitors [18][19][20], catalysis ligands [21][22][23] and metal frameworks [24][25]. We have recently demonstrated that a

Synthesis and solvodynamic diameter measurements of closely related mannodendrimers for the study of multivalent carbohydrate–protein interactions

• Yoann M. Chabre,
• Alex Papadopoulos,
• Alexandre A. Arnold and
• René Roy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1524–1535, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.157

• 9-mer 12, 17, and 21 were determined by pulsed-field-gradient-stimulated echo (PFG-STE) NMR experiments and were found to be 3.0, 2.5, and 3.4 nm, respectively. Keywords: carbohydrates; click chemistry; dendrimers; glycodendrimers; lectins; multivalent glycosystems; Introduction Multivalent

• signal (3H) at δ 4.81 ppm and corresponding HRMS data. Zemplén deprotection (NaOMe, MeOH) afforded 5 in 94% yield. Synthesis of the related homolog 9, prepared in 74% overall yield from known 6 [17] by an analogous click chemistry, is also described in Scheme 1. To this end, trichloride 1 was treated as

• -products together with a better assessment of complete surface group modifications. Hence, known 14 [36] was first cycloadded to mannosylazide 3 under the above CuAAc conditions. The “click reaction” proceeded exceptionally efficiently and provided bromoacylated dendron precursor 18 in 94% yield

Pyrene-modified PNAs: Stacking interactions and selective excimer emission in PNA₂DNA triplexes

• Alex Manicardi,
• Lucia Guidi,
• Alice Ghidini and
• Roberto Corradini

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1495–1503, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.154

• click chemistry or as a masked amino group both in a PNA monomer and in PNA oligomers, allowing to produce a variety of modified PNAs from a single precursor [35]. This chemistry introduces a moderate degree of flexibility which can be useful for allowing interactions with other groups to occur within

Multichromophoric sugar for fluorescence photoswitching

• Stéphane Maisonneuve,
• Rémi Métivier,
• Pei Yu,
• Keitaro Nakatani and
• Juan Xie

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1471–1481, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.151

• photo resistance. Keywords: click chemistry; energy transfer; fluorophore; monosaccharide; photochromism; Introduction The development of functional nanomaterials is nowadays a very attractive field of fundamental and applied research. The chemical functions at the molecular level yield properties

• because sophisticated multistep experimental procedures are often implicated. Recently, the Cu(I)-catalyzed alkyne–azide cycloaddition reaction (CuAAC, an excellent example of click chemistry) has been demonstrated as a robust and highly efficient ligation tool to conjugate various azido- and alkyne

• -functionalized moieties [18][19][20]. Monosaccharides can be readily functionalized with several propargyl groups to synthesize, using click chemistry, multivalent neoglycoconjugates for recognition studies with carbohydrate-binding proteins (lectins) [21][22][23][24] or to develop light-harvesting antenna

Carbohydrate PEGylation, an approach to improve pharmacological potency

• M. Eugenia Giorgi,
• Rosalía Agusti and
• Rosa M. de Lederkremer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1433–1444, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.147

• increase solubility [8], prolong the in vivo action [9] or for targeting drug delivery [10] has been described. The potent anti-inflammatory drug dexamethasone was coupled to a multifunctional PEG, prepared by a click reaction, for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis [11]. A heterobifunctional PEG has been

• -caprolactone for targeting dendritic cells and macrophages (Figure 4) [45] Both mannose and galactose were attached to PEGylated nanoparticles by click-chemistry between their propargyl glycosides and a gold nanoparticles derivatized with an azide-functionalized PEG [46]. Also, several unprotected carbohydrate

• units of mannose, fucose or lactose, have been incorporated into the surface of PEGylated dendritic polymers by means of click chemistry. The larger dendrimer generations have demonstrated an increased capacity to aggregate lectins [47]. Analogs of lactose have been reported as inhibitors of the enzyme

Synthesis of the first examples of iminosugar clusters based on cyclopeptoid cores

• Mathieu L. Lepage,
• Alessandra Meli,
• Anne Bodlenner,
• Céline Tarnus,
• Francesco De Riccardis,
• Irene Izzo and
• Philippe Compain

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1406–1412, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.144

• context cyclopeptoids 2–4 appear as ideal building blocks because of their simplicity of synthesis and easy functionalization by click reaction (Figure 1). In the present paper, we report the synthesis of the first examples of cyclopeptoid-based iminosugar clusters. The influence of valency, size, linker

• stages of the DNJ cluster synthesis were based on a robust two-step process, recently developed in our group for the preparation of iminosugar click clusters [4][5][9][10][11]. The first step of the process involved the attachment of peracetylated azido iminosugars 5 [4] onto polyalkyne scaffolds 2–4 by

• . The 1H signals were assigned by 2D experiments (COSY). ESI–HRMS mass spectra were carried out on a Bruker MicroTOF spectrometer. Purifications were performed with silica gel 60 (230–400 mesh, 0.040–0.063 mm). General procedure for the synthesis of cyclopeptoid-based iminosugar click clusters 9a–f To a

A complete series of 6-deoxy-monosubstituted tetraalkylammonium derivatives of α-, β-, and γ-cyclodextrin with 1, 2, and 3 permanent positive charges

• Martin Popr,
• Simona Hybelbauerová and
• Jindřich Jindřich

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1390–1396, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.142

• Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition [30] (most popular ‘click reaction’) or the reduction to the amine. Our strategy involved the synthesis of the alkylation agent 1-azido-2-iodoethane (24) (Scheme 5) which would be used for the quaternization of the tertiary amine intermediate. The reaction sequence for

An economical and safe procedure to synthesize 2-hydroxy-4-pentynoic acid: A precursor towards ‘clickable’ biodegradable polylactide

• Quanxuan Zhang,
• Hong Ren and
• Gregory L. Baker

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1365–1371, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.139

• onto polymers from a single monomer via convenient ‘click’ chemistry with organic azides. The incorporation of various pendant functional groups could effectively tailor the physicochemical properties of polylactide. The reported synthesis of 1 started from propargyl bromide and ethyl glyoxylate

• hydroxylation of propargylic malonate 5 without work-up of any intermediate. Keywords: alkylation; ‘click’ chemistry; ‘clickable’ polylactide; decomposition; diethyl 2-acetamidomalonate; 2-hydroxy-4-pentynoic acid; one-pot; optimization; propargyl bromide; propargyl tosylate; safe and economical; Introduction

• groups onto polymers via convenient ‘click’ reaction with organic azido molecules without PLA backbone degradation [17]. ‘Click’ chemistry [20], which is copper(I)-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azides and alkynes, has been developed and utilized in recent years as a powerful synthetic strategy

Molecular recognition of surface-immobilized carbohydrates by a synthetic lectin

• Melanie Rauschenberg,
• Eva-Corrina Fritz,
• Christian Schulz,
• Tobias Kaufmann and
• Bart Jan Ravoo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1354–1364, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.138

• -terminated SAMs [33], by Diels–Alder reaction of cyclopentadienes and furans on maleimide-terminated SAMs [34], by thiol–ene click reaction of functionalized thiols on alkene-terminated SAMs [35] as well as by strain promoted cycloadditions on azide- and nitriloxide-terminated SAMs [36] using μCP. Homogenous

Design and synthesis of multivalent neoglycoconjugates by click conjugations

• Feiqing Ding,
• Li Ji,
• Ronny William,
• Hua Chai and
• Xue-Wei Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1325–1332, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.134

• hydroamination/glycosylation on glycal scaffolds has been developed to form propargyl 3-tosylamino-2,3-dideoxysugars in a one-pot manner. Subsequent construction of multivalent 3-tosylamino-2,3-dideoxyneoglycoconjugates with potential biochemical applications was presented herein involving click conjugations as

• the key reaction step. The copper-catalyzed regioselective click reaction was tremendously accelerated with assistance of microwave irradiation. Keywords: click conjugations; copper-catalyzed; microwave irradiation; multivalent glycosystems; neoglycoconjugates; one-pot; Introduction Oligosaccharides

• ]. Moreover, the inertness of both azide and alkyne groups towards a majority of functional groups connected to the core of a variety of biomolecules also renders the click reaction particularly suitable for covalently linking bioactive molecular entities [21][22]. For example, the click strategy is

Synthesis, characterization and DNA interaction studies of new triptycene derivatives

• Sourav Chakraborty,
• Snehasish Mondal,
• Rina Kumari,
• Sourav Bhowmick,
• Prolay Das and
• Neeladri Das

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1290–1298, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.130

• various interesting applications in organic chemistry [9][10][11] as well as material science [12][13][14][15] and drug discovery [16][17][18]. Organic azides in general are popular in recent times because of their use as synthons in Cu(I)-catalyzed “click chemistry” [19]. It is also well known that

Automated solid-phase peptide synthesis to obtain therapeutic peptides

• Veronika Mäde,
• Sylvia Els-Heindl and
• Annette G. Beck-Sickinger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1197–1212, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.118

• obtain the desired polypeptide. The condensation can occur via chemoselective ligation techniques such as native chemical ligation (NCL), expressed protein ligation (EPL), Staudinger ligation or click reaction [8][79]. Recently, peptide drugs as the pharmaceuticals Enfuvirtide, Eptifibitide and

Atherton–Todd reaction: mechanism, scope and applications

• Stéphanie S. Le Corre,
• Mathieu Berchel,
• Hélène Couthon-Gourvès,
• Jean-Pierre Haelters and
• Paul-Alain Jaffrès

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1166–1196, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.117