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

• potential (MESP) maps of two such complexes are shown in Figure 6. It is noteworthy that the intensity of the red color indicative of the negative charge density is maximum around the Cu atom conferring a nucleophilic character on it. Thus, the reaction is initiated by the nucleophilic attack of the NHC–Cu

Functional characterisation of twelve terpene synthases from actinobacteria

• Anuj K. Chhalodia,
• Houchao Xu,
• Georges B. Tabekoueng,
• Binbin Gu,
• Kizerbo A. Taizoumbe,
• Lukas Lauterbach and
• Jeroen S. Dickschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1386–1398, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.100

• viridis [14][15][16]. Only few terpene synthases have been characterised from other organisms, including enzymes from insects [17], octocorals [18][19], red algae [20][21], and amobae [22][23]. Despite these previous efforts, for many known terpenes still no terpene synthases catalysing their formation

• -α-eudesmol synthase from S. viridochromogenes [29][30]. In order to expand the knowledge about terpene synthase catalysis, fifteen uncharacterised terpene synthase homologs as listed in Table 1 were selected for further studies from different branches of the tree (indicated by red arrows in Figure 2

• branches indicate groups of homologous sesquiterpene synthases, green branches indicate groups of homologous diterpene synthases, and purple branches indicate groups of homologous sesterterpene synthases from which at least one representative was functionally characterised. The red arrows highlight enzymes

Organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence material with strained benzoguanidine donor

• Alexander C. Brannan,
• Elvie F. P. Beaumont,
• Nguyen Le Phuoc,
• George F. S. Whitehead,
• Mikko Linnolahti and
• Alexander S. Romanov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1289–1298, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.95

• exhibits a featureless yellow CT-type luminescence with λmax = 525 nm that is 44 and 25 nm red-shifted compared to 4CzIPN (λmax = 481 and 500 nm in Zeonex and MCH, respectively) [12]. The solution photoluminescent quantum yield (PLQY) of 4BGIPN is 46% under inert atmosphere and decreases down to 18% in

• the benzoguanidine moieties around the central benzene ring. Representative example for the torsion angle α is shown in red; (c) Crystal structure for compound 4BGIPN in triclinic form; (d) packing diagram with key geometrical parameters and intermolecular contacts shown as a cyan dashed line; (e

Unravelling a trichloroacetic acid-catalyzed cascade access to benzo[f]chromeno[2,3-h]quinoxalinoporphyrins

• Chandra Sekhar Tekuri,
• Pargat Singh and
• Mahendra Nath

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1216–1224, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.89

• spectroscopy. The preliminary photophysical results revealed a significant red-shift in their absorption and emission spectra as compared to the meso-tetrakis(4-methylphenyl)porphyrins due to the extended π-conjugation. Keywords: bathochromic shift; benzo[f]chromeno[2,3-h]quinoxalinoporphyrins; catalysis

• other materials applications [4][5][6][7]. Among the previously synthesized synthetically modified porphyrinoids, β,β’-fused meso-tetraphenylporphyrins have gained a considerable importance because of their red-shifted absorption and emission due to the extended π-conjugation. In particular, β,β’-fused

• newly prepared copper(II), free-base and zinc(II) benzo[f]chromeno[2,3-h]quinoxalinoporphyrins displayed a significant red-shift in their Soret and Q-bands by ≈20–30 nm as compared to their corresponding meso-tertakis(4-methylphenyl)porphyrins (Cu-TMPP, Soret band at 416 nm; TMPP, Soret band at 419 nm

Exploring the role of halogen bonding in iodonium ylides: insights into unexpected reactivity and reaction control

• Carlee A. Montgomery and
• Graham K. Murphy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1171–1190, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.86

• weakening in the host/donor R–X bond, and an accompanied decrease in the HOMO–LUMO gap which may be experimentally observed as a red-shift in the vibrational frequency [46][47][64][65]. 1.2 Halogen bonding in monovalent iodine The σ-holes expressed by both molecular iodine and other organoiodine compounds

• a near identical mechanism to that of Wang (Figure 8). Strong evidence for formation of an initial EDA complex was found when measuring the UV–vis absorption spectra of 39, alone and in the presence of 32. The latter showed a significant absorption red shift, which implied a structural change in 39

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

• bearing indolocarbazole electron donor and benzothienopyrimidine electron acceptor moieties (Figure 14A and B) [72]. In general, three possible pathways can lead to catalyst deactivation and thus, kinetically limit the overall photon economy (Figure 14C, red arrows). Firstly, both photoinduced electron

• the distinctive absorption band (λmax = 802 nm) of PC1•− (electrochemically generated) in the absence of light, this absorption band rapidly vanished upon irradiation with red light (λmax = 630 nm), corroborating *PC1•− as the key catalytic species. The rate constants for SET from *PC•− to 1d were

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

• carbonyl groups of the urea fragment are observed (Figure 4). Values of spin–spin interaction constants 3JCH equal to 5.3–6.0 Hz indicate the cis-orientation of the vinyl proton and the carbonyl (for 4a, blue) or the carboxyl group (for 5a, red) relative to the double bond [24][25][26]. The values of spin

• –spin interaction constants of other doublets (2JCH = 1.3–1.5 Hz) indicate the position of the carboxyl (for 4a, red) or carbonyl (for 5a, blue) groups through two bonds relative to the olefinic proton. The structure of compound 5a was additionally confirmed by X-ray structural analysis data (Figure 5

• synthetic bioactive 1,3-thiazine and imidazothiazolotriazine derivatives with high antiproliferative activity. 1H NMR spectra of the starting compound 1d (a) and the reaction mixture after 1.5 (b) and 4 (c) hours in DMSO-d6 (the colored signals correspond to the protons shown in red in Scheme 4). 1H NMR

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

• strongly quenched and red-shifted in polar solvents, as compared to that in CHX and HEX. The higher polarity solvents can stabilize the CS state, and the energy of CS state will decrease. As a result, the emission band will be red-shifted and the fluorescence intensity will be greatly reduced. The results

• blue line, which has two sharp peaks at 430 nm and 530 nm and a wide peak at 600–750 nm, indicates the beginning of 1CS state formation. Then, within 9.67 ps, there is a vibrational relaxation of the charge separated (CS) state (red line in Figure 7d). Later in about 4.53 ns, the triplet features of

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

• work. X-ray crystal structure of CO2 bound to α-CD. TGA curve (blue) and dTGA curve (red) for CO2-1 crystals. Two lumps are seen with the former predominantly being CO2 and the second pre-dominantly water. Cell used to measure vis spectra under pressure (left), structure of 7 (middle) and spectrum of 7

• (40 μM) and 1 (2 mM) in citrate phospate buffer pH 3 (right) from 350–400 nm with 0 (blue), 2 (red), 4 (green), 6 (orange) and 8 (grey) bar of CO2. Binding of CO2 to 1 as a function of pressure. The results of crystallization of α-cyclodextrin from water in an atmosphere of CO2 carried out in a

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

• protein RS02200: FAAL: fatty acyl-AMP ligase; ACP: acyl carrier protein; KS: β-ketoacyl synthase; AT: acyltransferase; KR: ketoreductase; C: condensation; A: adenylation; MT: methyltransferase; PCP: peptidyl carrier protein. A discrete enzyme, the thiazolinyl imide reductase RS02195 (Red), catalyzes the

First synthesis of acylated nitrocyclopropanes

• Kento Iwai,
• Rikiya Kamidate,
• Khimiya Wada,
• Haruyasu Asahara and
• Nagatoshi Nishiwaki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 892–900, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.67

• the two cyclization modes, the reaction of 4e was monitored by 1H NMR in 5 min intervals (Figure 1). In Figure 1, the red triangles are the total yields of furans 8e and 11e. The yields of cyclopropane 1e and furans 8e and 11e increased with increasing reaction time, without disturbing the shape of

Light-responsive rotaxane-based materials: inducing motion in the solid state

• Adrian Saura-Sanmartin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 873–880, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.64

• -crystal X-ray structure of rotaxane 1a (R1 = Me, R2 = R3 = H) showing two interlocked molecules of the crystalline array [44]. Colour key of the solid structure: light blue = carbon atoms; purple = nitrogen atoms; red = oxygen atoms; and orange = iron atoms. Hydrogen atoms are omitted for clarity. (a

• the solid structure of UMUMOF-(E)-3 showing a rhombohedral metallogrid; and (c) cartoon representation of the operation mode of UMUMOF-(E)-3 as a molecular nanodispenser [62]. Colour key of the solid structure: light blue = carbon atoms; purple = nitrogen atoms; red = oxygen atoms; and grey = copper

• array [63]. Colour key of the solid structure: light blue = carbon atoms; purple = nitrogen atoms; red = oxygen atoms; and magenta = uranium atoms. Acknowledgements All figures included in this article are original and have been redrawn based on the content of the referenced research articles by using

Honeycomb reactor: a promising device for streamlining aerobic oxidation under continuous-flow conditions

• Masahiro Hosoya,
• Yusuke Saito and
• Yousuke Horiuchi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 752–763, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.55

• revealed that this reaction was almost a zero-order reaction as shown by the red line in Figure 2, which did not depend on the concentration of 1a (Figure 2). As shown in entries 3 vs 4 in Table 2, the rate-determining step is considered to be the catalytic cycle A in Scheme 1, which is consistent with the

Construction of hexabenzocoronene-based chiral nanographenes

• Ranran Li,
• Di Wang,
• Shengtao Li and
• Peng An

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 736–751, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.54

• HPLC. Due to the large conjugated structure, NG 110 exhibited a significantly red-shifted emission in the near-infrared (NIR) region. Furthermore, the structure extension causes significant improvements both in the fluorescence quantum yield and CPL properties. The dissymmetry factors glum of (P)- and

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

• nitro group. There are two types of independent non-equivalent dications, marked in blue and green, and two types of BF4− anions, marked in red and yellow, in the crystal structure of salt 11c (Figure S68 in Supporting Information File 1). Monomer fragments in both are identical (Table 2, Figure 5). The

• -trifluoromethylphenyl rings. By the way, the qr parameters calculated for two independent molecules of 11c were 0.008 and 0.009, which is slightly less than in the case of compounds 5. As for the crystal packing of 11c, BF4− anions of two types (“red” and “yellow”) interact with cations in different ways. The “red

• yellow, 5d (R = CN) is orange, and 5e (R = NO2) is a crimson crystalline substance. As can be seen from Table 3, compound 5b with electron-releasing methoxy groups shows the smallest λmax value, while the absorption maximum of the nitro derivative 5e is the most red-shifted in the series. There is a

Enolates ambushed – asymmetric tandem conjugate addition and subsequent enolate trapping with conventional and less traditional electrophiles

• Péter Kisszékelyi and
• Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 593–634, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.44

• :1). Additional transformation of compound 230 following an A–AB–ABC synthetic strategy resulted in the desired complex tricyclic skeleton opening the door for the total synthesis of 12-epi-JBIR-23/24 (Scheme 61). The sulfated β-glycoside peyssonnoside A was isolated only recently from the red algae

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

A new oxidatively stable ligand for the chiral functionalization of amino acids in Ni(II)–Schiff base complexes

• Alena V. Dmitrieva,
• Oleg A. Levitskiy,
• Yuri K. Grishin and
• Tatiana V. Magdesieva

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 566–574, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.41

• are presented in different colors: the hydrogen bonding are labeled in blue color of the reduced density gradient isosurface; green color corresponds to the dispersion interactions (van der Waals interactions, the π-stacking); red color represents steric clashes. The interplay of these through-space

• protons. Low-gradient isosurfaces with low densities (blue color of the isosurface corresponds to the hydrogen bonding; the dispersion interactions (van der Waals interactions, the π-stacking) are marked in green color; red color indicates steric clashes) obtained for the ʟ- (left image) and ᴅ-alanine

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

• a pH-dependent excimer formation that is significantly red-shifted relative to the pyrene and phenanthridine fluorescence. While the conjugate with a short linker showed negligible spectrophotometric changes due to the polynucleotide addition, the conjugate with a longer and more flexible linker

• excimer formation characterized by a new fluorescence emission band at 475 nm, which is significantly red-shifted compared to either fluorescent emission of single phenanthridine (λmax = 400 nm) or pyrene (λmax = 378 and 400 nm) molecule (Supporting Information File 1, Figure S2, left pH 5.0; right pH 7.0

• ). Phen-Py-2 also showed a shoulder at 480 nm (besides the main emission signal at 400 nm) which could be attributed to the excimer formation (Figure S2, Supporting Information File 1). A similar new red-shifted emission band was noticed for other exciplex examples: pyrene–guanine [10] pyrene–quinolone

Transition-metal-catalyzed domino reactions of strained bicyclic alkenes

• Austin Pounder,
• Eric Neufeld,
• Peter Myler and
• William Tam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 487–540, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.38

• sketched in red, with newly formed cyclic structures being highlighted. Review Earth-abundant metals Among the transition metal used in organic synthesis, the late transition metals like rhodium, palladium, and iridium have taken center stage when it comes to methodology development. Although these late

Computational studies of Brønsted acid-catalyzed transannular cycloadditions of cycloalkenone hydrazones

• Manuel Pedrón,
• Jana Sendra,
• Irene Ginés,
• Tomás Tejero,
• Jose L. Vicario and
• Pedro Merino

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 477–486, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.37

• dotted traces refer to lone pairs (monosynaptic basins) and colored plain traces to bonds (disynaptic basins). The vertical red line indicates the transition state (see Supporting Information File 1 for the full data). Quantitative NCI analysis [36] for the reaction of series a–f leading to fused

• red unfavorable interactions are represented. (a) Transannular cycloadditons of compounds 1a–k. (b) Houk’s distortion model applied to the reactions. TS2-a and TS2-b have been calculated separately. (c) and (d) Model reactions with tether A and B, respectively, to be subjected to the Houk’s distortion

Asymmetric synthesis of a stereopentade fragment toward latrunculins

• Benjamin Joyeux,
• Antoine Gamet,
• Nicolas Casaretto and
• Bastien Nay

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 428–433, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.32

• latrunculins. Structure of latrunculins (the red dots show the natural product stereopentade). General strategy for latrunculin cycle disconnections (left), previous works towards linear precursor 4 (A), and our alternative disconnection of 7 through the aldol reaction (B). Synthesis of fragment 15 from (+)-β

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

• -cyclodextrin/Corylus avellana oil/hesperidin ternary complex at a 1:1:1 molar ratio (blue), β-cyclodextrin hydrate (red), C. avellana oil (pink), and hesperidin (green). Superposition of the FTIR spectra for the β-cyclodextrin/Corylus avellana oil/hesperidin ternary complex at a 3:1:1 molar ratio (blue), β

• -cyclodextrin hydrate (red), C. avellana oil (pink), and hesperidin (green). PC2 versus PC1 scores plot from the FTIR–PCA analysis of the flavonoid glycoside and flavonolignan antioxidants (codes: “H” – hesperidin, “N” – naringin, “R” – rutin and “S” – silymarin); only wavenumbers of the FTIR bands were used as

Strategies to access the [5-8] bicyclic core encountered in the sesquiterpene, diterpene and sesterterpene series

• Cécile Alleman,
• Charlène Gadais,
• Laurent Legentil and
• François-Hugues Porée

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 245–281, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.23

• Aplysia dactylomela and red seaweed Laurencia poitei, bears a rare rearranged trans-bicyclo[6.3.0]undecane isoprenoid skeleton. Its structure is – only – composed of a bicyclic ring with fused five- and eight-membered rings, with a hydroxy group at the junction cycle [37][38]. In 1996, Fürstner and

• access to exo-methylene [38][55]. This concept was exemplified with the synthesis of poitediol (118) (Scheme 21), a bicyclopentacyclooctane compound isolated from the red seaweed Laurencia poitei in 1978. This sesquiterpene bearing a [5-8] bicyclic structure includes an exo-methylidene moiety on the

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

• . Initiation with AcCl resulted in a slower monomer conversion and required a reaction time of 24 hours to achieve 90% monomer conversion. The 1H NMR spectrum also shows signals attributed to PEtOx and significant signals at 3.52–3.71 ppm attributed to side products as before (Figure 2b, dark red). The use of

• obtained at 60 °C and initiated with MeOTs is bimodal, and the Mn is lower than expected (0.51 vs 5.0 kg/mol, Figure 6b, red). After initiation with MeOTf, the resulting Mn remained much lower than expected from the [M]0/[I]0 ratio with the presence of low-molecular weight products (Figure 6b, black). The

• polymerization initiated with methyl triflate (black), methyl tosylate (red), 2-ethyl-3-methyl-2-oxazolinium triflate (blue), benzyl bromide (green) after 3 h of incubation and acyl chloride (dark red), propionyl chloride (purple) after 24 h of incubation in DLG. Peaks marked with asterisks originate from