5th International Symposium on Synthesis and Catalysis (ISySyCat2023)

• Anthony J. Burke and
• Elisabete P. Carreiro

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2704–2707, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.227

• -dihydro[1,3]thiazolo[4,5-b]pyridine derivatives that exhibited strong herbicidal activity against commercially significant grass weeds in preemergence greenhouse tests. The synthetic route for this new family of compounds was developed and optimized, involving several reaction steps, included Pd-catalyzed

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

• control plant diseases but also have some herbicidal activity. Compound I showed good inhibitory activity against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum on detached oilseed rape leaves [8], and compound II has excellent herbicidal activity against dicot weeds, such as Zinnia elegans Jacq. and Abutilon theophrasti

Synthesis and biological profile of 2,3-dihydro[1,3]thiazolo[4,5-b]pyridines, a novel class of acyl-ACP thioesterase inhibitors

• Jens Frackenpohl,
• David M. Barber,
• Guido Bojack,
• Birgit Bollenbach-Wahl,
• Ralf Braun,
• Rahel Getachew,
• Sabine Hohmann,
• Kwang-Yoon Ko,
• Karoline Kurowski,
• Bernd Laber,
• Rebecca L. Mattison,
• Thomas Müller,
• Anna M. Reingruber,
• Dirk Schmutzler and
• Andrea Svejda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 540–551, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.46

• show good acyl-ACP thioesterase inhibition in line with strong herbicidal activity against commercially important weeds in broadacre crops, e.g., wheat and corn. The desired substituted 2,3-dihydro[1,3]thiazolo[4,5-b]pyridines were prepared via an optimized BH3-mediated reduction involving tris

• ]pyridines. It is worth noting that this reduction proved to be thiazole-specific and gave access to a broad range of desired target compounds. Several substituted 2,3-dihydro[1,3]thiazolo[4,5-b]pyridines showed promising herbicidal activity against commercially important grass weeds in preemergence

Cyanothioacetamides as a synthetic platform for the synthesis of aminopyrazole derivatives

• Valeriy O. Filimonov,
• Alexandra I. Topchiy,
• Vladimir G. Ilkin,
• Tetyana V. Beryozkina and
• Vasiliy A. Bakulev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1191–1197, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.87

• the biosynthesis of fatty acids in plants, which leads to herbicidal activity [9]. Pyraclonil is used as a protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitor for weed control. Such inhibitors not only block the production of chlorophyll and gem in plant pests, but also lead to the formation of highly reactive

On the application of 3d metals for C–H activation toward bioactive compounds: The key step for the synthesis of silver bullets

• Renato L. Carvalho,
• Amanda S. de Miranda,
• Mateus P. Nunes,
• Roberto S. Gomes,
• Guilherme A. M. Jardim and
• Eufrânio N. da Silva Júnior

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1849–1938, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.126

Ultrasound-assisted Strecker synthesis of novel 2-(hetero)aryl-2-(arylamino)acetonitrile derivatives

• Emese Gal,
• Luiza Gaina,
• Hermina Petkes,
• Alexandra Pop,
• Castelia Cristea,
• Gabriel Barta,
• Dan Cristian Vodnar and
• Luminiţa Silaghi-Dumitrescu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2929–2936, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.242

• biological properties exhibiting enzymatic activity as potent and selective protease inhibitors, fungicidal and herbicidal activity [17], we designed an efficient, simple, and ecofriendly synthetic procedure for the preparation of new synthetic compounds containing joint phenothiazine/ferrocene and α-amino

Conformational preferences of fluorine-containing agrochemicals and their implications for lipophilicity prediction

• Daniela Rodrigues Silva,
• Joyce K. Daré and
• Matheus P. Freitas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2469–2476, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.200

• involving organofluorine agrochemicals, for example, towards modeling herbicidal activity, and/or for environmental risk assessment. Computational Details The conformational search of agrochemicals I–VII was performed at the ωB97X-D/6-31G(d,p) [16][17] level of theory using the Spartan’18 software [30]. The

Synthesis and herbicidal activities of aryloxyacetic acid derivatives as HPPD inhibitors

• Man-Man Wang,
• Hao Huang,
• Lei Shu,
• Jian-Min Liu,
• Jian-Qiu Zhang,
• Yi-Le Yan and
• Da-Yong Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 233–247, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.25

• = 0.013 µM). Furthermore, the newly synthesized compounds show significant greenhouse herbicidal activities against tested weeds at dosages of 150 g ai/ha. In particular, II4 exhibited high herbicidal activity for pre-emergence treatment that was slightly better than that of mesotrione. In addition

• . Keywords: aryloxyacetic acid; herbicidal activity; 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase; modification; synthesis; Introduction 4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (EC 1.13.11.27, HPPD), which belongs to the family of non-heme FeII-containing enzymes, is a vital enzyme for tyrosine catabolism. This enzyme

• 2,4-D and the 1,3-dicarbonyl unit, we designed and synthesized a series of novel aryloxyacetic acid derivatives. In this context, these derivatives were subjected to HPPD inhibition, herbicidal activity, crop safety and structure–activity relationship (SAR) studies. As expected, many of the title

Varioloid A, a new indolyl-6,10b-dihydro-5aH-[1]benzofuro[2,3-b]indole derivative from the marine alga-derived endophytic fungus Paecilomyces variotii EN-291

• Peng Zhang,
• Xiao-Ming Li,
• Xin-Xin Mao,
• Attila Mándi,
• Tibor Kurtán and
• Bin-Gui Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2012–2018, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.188

• prolific source of bioactive secondary metabolites of diverse structures, including, for example, semiviriditoxin derivatives with antibacterial activity [3], cornexistin and hydroxycornexistin with herbicidal activity [4], and paecilocins with antibacterial activity [5]. During our ongoing effort to

Synthesis, fluorescence properties and the promising cytotoxicity of pyrene–derived aminophosphonates

• Jarosław Lewkowski,
• Maria Rodriguez Moya,
• Anna Wrona-Piotrowicz,
• Janusz Zakrzewski,
• Renata Kontek and
• Gabriela Gajek

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1229–1235, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.117

• phosphonic analogues of phenylglycine, exhibited their herbicidal activity [10], and are used as plant growth regulators [10], agrochemical fungicides [11][12] and glutamate receptor modulators [13]. It is therefore expectable that C-pyrene derivatives may have similar or even more promising biological

Selected synthetic strategies to cyclophanes

• Sambasivarao Kotha,
• Mukesh E. Shirbhate and
• Gopalkrushna T. Waghule

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1274–1331, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.142

• ]. Macrocidin A (19) and macrocidin B (20) [64] belong to a family of plant pathogens produced by Phoma macrostoma, a microorganism parasitic to Canadian thistle. Macrocidins contain a tetramic acid group in their skeleton and show selective herbicidal activity on broadleaf weeds but do not affect grasses

Multicomponent reactions in nucleoside chemistry

• Mariola Koszytkowska-Stawińska and
• Włodzimierz Buchowicz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1706–1732, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.179

• (+/−)-6-carba-analog of (+)-hydantocidin, compound (+/−)-103 was devoided of herbicidal activity at 1000 ppm concentration. 9. Miscellaneous reactions Dondas et al. reported the synthesis of a derivative of compound 107 bearing the pyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole skeleton at the furanose C-4' position from uracil

Reactions of nitroxides XIII: Synthesis of the Morita–Baylis–Hillman adducts bearing a nitroxyl moiety using 4-acryloyloxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl as a starting compound, and DABCO and quinuclidine as catalysts

• Jerzy Zakrzewski

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1515–1522, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.171

• consistent with the spectra of the typical series of the MBH adducts of common aldehydes and methyl acrylate, presented in [32]. Synthesized compounds 5a–o showed a weak antifungal activity. No insecticidal, acaricidal and herbicidal activity were shown. Conclusion In conclusion, it has been demonstrated

Screening of ligands for the Ullmann synthesis of electron-rich diaryl ethers

• Nicola Otto and
• Till Opatz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1105–1111, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.122

• , antifungal and herbicidal activity, rendering this compound class attractive for pharmaceutical and agrochemical research [1][2]. Prominent examples of bioactive natural representatives include the glycopeptide antibiotic vancomycin [3][4], the bisbenzylisoquinolines tubocurarine [5] and