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Binding of tryptophan and tryptophan-containing peptides in water by a glucose naphtho crown ether

  • Gianpaolo Gallo and
  • Bartosz Lewandowski

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 541–546, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.42

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  • binding of tryptophan is therefore important for diagnostic and medicinal applications. Recently, we reported a glucose naphtho crown ether which is a chemoselective receptor for the esters of aromatic amino acids, in particular tryptophan, in water. Herein, we demonstrate that the same compound also
  • – a chemoselective receptor for aromatic amino acid esters in water. Fluorescence emission spectra of receptor 1 (25 μM in H2O) upon addition of increasing amounts of tripeptide 2. The concentration of the guest corresponding to each curve is indicated on the right. The arrow marks the quenching of
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Published 10 Mar 2025

Recent advances in electrochemical copper catalysis for modern organic synthesis

  • Yemin Kim and
  • Won Jun Jang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 155–178, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.9

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  • potential of copper-based electrochemical methodologies while also inspiring future research in this rapidly growing field. Review C–H Functionalization Site- and chemoselective C–H functionalization has emerged as a powerful platform for the formation of new C–C and C–heteroatom bonds, offering an
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Published 16 Jan 2025

Germanyl triazoles as a platform for CuAAC diversification and chemoselective orthogonal cross-coupling

  • John M. Halford-McGuff,
  • Thomas M. Richardson,
  • Aidan P. McKay,
  • Frederik Peschke,
  • Glenn A. Burley and
  • Allan J. B. Watson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3198–3204, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.265

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  • further diversification of the triazole products, including chemoselective transition metal-catalysed cross-coupling reactions using bifunctional boryl/germyl species. Keywords: chemoselectivity; click chemistry; copper; germanium; triazole; Introduction Since its inception, click chemistry has been
  • cross-couplings. Schoenebeck and co-workers have shown that Ge-based compounds are versatile reagents within chemoselective cross-coupling processes for the formation of a variety of C–C and C–X bonds [55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63]. Importantly, these transformations can take place in the presence
  • to chemical biology (Scheme 3a). The utility of the germanyl triazole products was then assessed by subsequent derivatisation of exemplar compounds 15 and 21 (Scheme 3b). Chemoselective Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling of the BPin moiety in 21 was straightforward, giving 28 in excellent yield [73
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Published 05 Dec 2024

Recent advances in transition-metal-free arylation reactions involving hypervalent iodine salts

  • Ritu Mamgain,
  • Kokila Sakthivel and
  • Fateh V. Singh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2891–2920, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.243

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  • functional entities. In 2021, Byrne et al. published an impressive report detailing a novel protocol for the chemoselective late-stage variation of proteins and peptides at cysteine residues 91 and 94 in an aqueous buffer in the presence of suitably functionalized diaryliodonium salts 92 and 95 (Scheme 38
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Published 13 Nov 2024

A review of recent advances in electrochemical and photoelectrochemical late-stage functionalization classified by anodic oxidation, cathodic reduction, and paired electrolysis

  • Nian Li,
  • Ruzal Sitdikov,
  • Ajit Prabhakar Kale,
  • Joost Steverlynck,
  • Bo Li and
  • Magnus Rueping

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2500–2566, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.214

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  • achieved compared to many classical methods. In light of the general trend towards more chemoselective protocols with broader functional group compatibility, there has been a growing interest in exploring the potential of electrosynthesis for the late-stage functionalization of complex scaffolds
  • oxyformylation with brominations/chlorinations/trifluoromethylations using DMF and NaBr/NaCl/NaSO2CF3 as readily available reagents. The reported yields for this regio- and chemoselective transformation are high. For each reaction type, one LSF example was demonstrated using an estrone derivative
  • bonds (Scheme 25a) [34]. Besides, the same group published a comprehensive analysis on N-ammonium ylide mediators, which were found to be superior to quinuclidine scaffolds for a chemoselective C(sp3)–H oxidation (Scheme 25b) [35]. The electrochemical C(sp3)–H fluorination of unactivated C–H bonds is
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Published 09 Oct 2024

Asymmetric organocatalytic synthesis of chiral homoallylic amines

  • Nikolay S. Kondratyev and
  • Andrei V. Malkov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2349–2377, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.201

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  • N-(2-hydroxy)phenylimines with allyltributyltin. Scope of the reaction [37]. The two-step N-(2-hydroxy)phenyl group deprotection procedure [37]. Low-temperature (−40 °C) NMR experiments evidencing the reversible formation of the active COBI–imine chiral complex [37]. Highly chemoselective and
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Published 16 Sep 2024

Multicomponent syntheses of pyrazoles via (3 + 2)-cyclocondensation and (3 + 2)-cycloaddition key steps

  • Ignaz Betcke,
  • Alissa C. Götzinger,
  • Maryna M. Kornet and
  • Thomas J. J. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2024–2077, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.178

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  • hydrazines 3 (Scheme 1) [44]. It is important for a chemoselective synthesis that the 1,3-diketones 2 formed are not further acylated, which is prevented by using LiHMDS as a base. The method provides good to excellent yields and tolerates diverse functional groups. However, one limitation of the synthesis
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Published 16 Aug 2024

Solvent-dependent chemoselective synthesis of different isoquinolinones mediated by the hypervalent iodine(III) reagent PISA

  • Ze-Nan Hu,
  • Yan-Hui Wang,
  • Jia-Bing Wu,
  • Ze Chen,
  • Dou Hong and
  • Chi Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1914–1921, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.167

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  • isoquinolinone derivatives. The method provides highly chemoselective access to 3- or 4-substituted isoquinolinone derivatives by reacting o-alkenylbenzamide derivatives with PISA in either acetonitrile or wet hexafluoro-2-isopropanol. Keywords: annulation; C–H amination; hypervalent iodine reagent; iodine(III
  • ) diacetate (PIDA) [22][23]. And more recently, Du and our group have developed a method for the chemoselective cycloisomerization of o-alkenylbenzamides to 3-arylisoquinolinones, using PhIO as oxidant in combination with a catalytic amount of trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate [24]. Although
  • considerable progress has been made in the synthesis of isoquinolinone derivatives, there is still the need to develop chemoselective strategies based on easily adjustable factors, such as solvent selection to obtain 3- or 4-substituted isoquinolinone derivatives. In 2018, our group has reported the
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Published 07 Aug 2024

Syntheses and medicinal chemistry of spiro heterocyclic steroids

  • Laura L. Romero-Hernández,
  • Ana Isabel Ahuja-Casarín,
  • Penélope Merino-Montiel,
  • Sara Montiel-Smith,
  • José Luis Vega-Báez and
  • Jesús Sandoval-Ramírez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1713–1745, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.152

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  • protecting group yielded the corresponding hydroxyalkynyl derivative 4. Subsequent Lindlar reduction resulted in the (Z)-alkene and a chemoselective tosylation of the primary alcohol led to the formation of tosylate 5. This intermediate underwent a stereospecific 4-exo cyclization upon exposure to iodine
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Published 24 Jul 2024

Chemo-enzymatic total synthesis: current approaches toward the integration of chemical and enzymatic transformations

  • Ryo Tanifuji and
  • Hiroki Oguri

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1693–1712, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.151

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  • the P450 RhF reductase domain (RhFRED) [88]. TylI-RhFRED facilitated the in vitro site-selective enzymatic hydroxylation of the C6 ethyl substituent in 80, yielding M-4365 G3 (juvenimicin B1, 81). Subsequent chemoselective oxidation of the resulting primary alcohol furnished M-4365 G2 (82) bearing an
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Published 23 Jul 2024

Electrocatalytic hydrogenation of cyanoarenes, nitroarenes, quinolines, and pyridines under mild conditions with a proton-exchange membrane reactor

  • Koichi Mitsudo,
  • Atsushi Osaki,
  • Haruka Inoue,
  • Eisuke Sato,
  • Naoki Shida,
  • Mahito Atobe and
  • Seiji Suga

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1560–1571, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.139

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  • compounds with the PEM-type reactor. The chemoselective reduction of nitrogen-containing compounds under mild conditions is important for organic synthesis, and we believe that the PEM reaction system is a powerful tool that can be applied to a wide variety of nitrogen-containing compounds. Schematic of (a
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Published 11 Jul 2024

Manganese-catalyzed C–C and C–N bond formation with alcohols via borrowing hydrogen or hydrogen auto-transfer

  • Mohd Farhan Ansari,
  • Atul Kumar Maurya,
  • Abhishek Kumar and
  • Saravanakumar Elangovan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1111–1166, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.98

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  • optimized conditions with 100 mol % of the base, however, only a poor yield was obtained (Scheme 31). Later, Gunanathan and co-workers reported an efficient method for the chemoselective alkylation of ketones and secondary alcohols with primary alcohols using a Mn(I)-PNP pincer complex [63]. The reaction of
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Published 21 May 2024

Auxiliary strategy for the general and practical synthesis of diaryliodonium(III) salts with diverse organocarboxylate counterions

  • Naoki Miyamoto,
  • Daichi Koseki,
  • Kohei Sumida,
  • Elghareeb E. Elboray,
  • Naoko Takenaga,
  • Ravi Kumar and
  • Toshifumi Dohi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1020–1028, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.90

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  • 1,3,5-trimethoxybenzene are highly recommended for chemoselective arylation processes. Aryl(TMP)iodonium(III) salts have been successfully used as transition metal-free arylating reagents for various nucleophiles such as nitrogen- [23][24][25][26], oxygen- [13][27][28][29], sulfur- [30], and carbon- [31
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Published 03 May 2024

Carbonylative synthesis and functionalization of indoles

  • Alex De Salvo,
  • Raffaella Mancuso and
  • Xiao-Feng Wu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 973–1000, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.87

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  • catalyst system was Pd(OAc)2/CuI, in addition, a base (K2CO3) was added in DMF as solvent. Performing the reactions at 90 °C for 24 hours led to 38 products with isolated yields up to 94% (Scheme 40). Instead, Zeng and Alper presented a new regioselective and chemoselective method for the direct coupling
  • secondary amines. The direct Sonogashira carbonylation coupling reaction of indoles and alkynes via Pd/CuI catalysis reported by Li et al. [71] (top). The Pd-catalyzed regio- and chemoselective direct coupling of indoles/CO/alkynyl carboxylates developed by Zeng and Alper [72] (bottom). Synthesis of indole
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Published 30 Apr 2024

Synthesis and properties of 6-alkynyl-5-aryluracils

  • Ruben Manuel Figueira de Abreu,
  • Till Brockmann,
  • Alexander Villinger,
  • Peter Ehlers and
  • Peter Langer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 898–911, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.80

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  • Abstract The development of a new and straightforward chemoselective method for the synthesis of uracil-based structures by combining Suzuki–Miyaura and Sonogashira–Hagihara cross-coupling is reported. The methodology was applied to synthesize a series of novel compounds. The tolerance of the combination
  • this work, we report a new chemoselective method for the synthesis of a series of hitherto unknown uracil-based compounds by combining Suzuki–Miyaura and Sonogashira–Hagihara cross-coupling [60][61]. The method is designed to be flexible and could also be used to synthesize other structural motifs
  • effect can be observed for 3e, 3f and 3i. Furthermore, the separation of these products has proven to be more challenging than other compounds with higher yields. In the reaction with 3-pyridylacetylene no product 3g could be obtained. The reaction at 50 °C was found to be chemoselective, giving only the
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Published 22 Apr 2024

Advancements in hydrochlorination of alkenes

  • Daniel S. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 787–814, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.72

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  • transfer (MH HAT) reactions (Figure 6A). As pointed out by Shenvi in a recent review [11], the major difference between traditional polar hydrochlorinations of alkenes and MH HAT is that the latter is far more chemoselective and proceeds under “milder” conditions. As shown in Figure 7B, carbocations or
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Published 15 Apr 2024

Green and sustainable approaches for the Friedel–Crafts reaction between aldehydes and indoles

  • Periklis X. Kolagkis,
  • Eirini M. Galathri and
  • Christoforos G. Kokotos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 379–426, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.36

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  • , rendering this protocol applicable for the chemoselective conversion of aromatic aldehydes to corresponding bis(indolyl)methanes in the presence of aliphatic aldehydes and ketones [81]. The proposed reaction mechanism for this protocol is showcased in Scheme 5. At the beginning of the reaction, the bromide
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Published 22 Feb 2024

Additive-controlled chemoselective inter-/intramolecular hydroamination via electrochemical PCET process

  • Kazuhiro Okamoto,
  • Naoki Shida and
  • Mahito Atobe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 264–271, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.27

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Published 12 Feb 2024

N-Sulfenylsuccinimide/phthalimide: an alternative sulfenylating reagent in organic transformations

  • Fatemeh Doraghi,
  • Seyedeh Pegah Aledavoud,
  • Mehdi Ghanbarlou,
  • Bagher Larijani and
  • Mohammad Mahdavi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1471–1502, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.106

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  • , tetrahydrofuran, methanol, toluene, hexane, and n-pentane were employed, in which the products in non-polar hydrocarbon solvents like hexane and n-pentane were obtained in excellent efficiency and enantioselectivity. Song et al. found that the chemoselective α-sulfenylation and β-thiolation of α,β-unsaturated
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Published 27 Sep 2023

One-pot nucleophilic substitution–double click reactions of biazides leading to functionalized bis(1,2,3-triazole) derivatives

  • Hans-Ulrich Reissig and
  • Fei Yu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1399–1407, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.101

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  • reaction time and the fairly high amount of catalyst employed. As an alternative method, which should be more chemoselective, we examined the reduction with samarium diiodide [60]. This versatile one-electron transfer reagent is known to cleave N–O bonds with high selectivity [61][62] and was applied
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Published 18 Sep 2023

Non-noble metal-catalyzed cross-dehydrogenation coupling (CDC) involving ether α-C(sp3)–H to construct C–C bonds

  • Hui Yu and
  • Feng Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1259–1288, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.94

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  • chemoselective and regioselective CDC between pyridines and ethers, which used Sc(OTf)3 as the catalyst and DTBP as the oxidant (Scheme 36) [101]. This strategy allowed the synthesis of a series of α-substituted pyridine derivatives. The control experiments showed that the mechanism may proceed via a radical
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Published 06 Sep 2023
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  • sacrificial donors [40]. More recently, other groups have published the electrochemical hydrogenation of carbonyl compounds using more earth-abundant electrocatalysts. For instance, Siewert and co-worker used a manganese complex as an electrocatalyst for the chemoselective carbonyl hydrogenation [41
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Published 08 Aug 2023

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

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  • understood. Intramolecular halogen bonds might be expected to block the proximal (strong) σ-hole and prevent fluoride addition at that site (64a, Figure 14); however, computational results suggested that adduct formation at the strong σ-hole was key to the chemoselective reductive elimination of the
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Published 07 Aug 2023

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

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  • generation of reactive intermediates for both oxidative and reductive processes via photon activation of a catalyst. Although this represents a significant step towards chemoselective and, more generally, sustainable chemistry, its efficacy is limited by the energy of visible light photons. Nowadays
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Published 28 Jul 2023

Clauson–Kaas pyrrole synthesis using diverse catalysts: a transition from conventional to greener approach

  • Dileep Kumar Singh and
  • Rajesh Kumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 928–955, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.71

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  • chemoselective procedure in which the iodine counterion and MeCN played key roles in the unique reactivity of this catalytic system. To optimize the reaction conditions, many catalysts, solvents, and temperatures were studied and finally, 10 mol % MgI2∙(OEt2)n as the catalyst, CH3CN as the solvent, and 80 °C
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