Thiazolidinones: novel insights from microwave synthesis, computational studies, and potentially bioactive hybrids

• Luan A. Martinho,
• Victor H. J. G. Praciano,
• Guilherme D. R. Matos,
• Claudia C. Gatto and
• Carlos Kleber Z. Andrade

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 2618–2636, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.203

• available drugs [1]. These structures exhibit unique properties that influence pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic parameters, including lipophilicity, polarity, hydrogen-bonding capacity, and toxicological profiles [2][3][4]. Among them, five-membered multi-heterocyclic (FMMH) rings are privileged

Thiadiazino-indole, thiadiazino-carbazole and benzothiadiazino-carbazole dioxides: synthesis, physicochemical and early ADME characterization of representatives of new tri-, tetra- and pentacyclic ring systems and their intermediates

• Gyöngyvér Pusztai,
• László Poszávácz,
• Anna Vincze,
• András Marton,
• Ahmed Qasim Abdulhussein,
• Judit Halász,
• András Dancsó,
• Gyula Simig,
• György Tibor Balogh and
• Balázs Volk

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 2220–2233, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.169

• . When correlating clogP and logk in Figure 5, the fitted line showed a moderate linear correlation (R2 = 0.673). According to the plot, the partition coefficients of the outliers (E)-7a, 3e, and 10b seemed to be overestimated by the Percepta software [36]. The lipophilicity of hydrazone (E)-7a was

• permeability values, meanwhile, most of the gray datapoints with insufficient solubility scattered in the right side of the plot, indicating their high lipophilicity. As part of the discussion on structure–property relationships, most of the compounds with low kinetic solubility showed similarities in their

• reduced measured logk value, which diverges from this class of compounds. This finding indicates a lower lipophilicity of 3e, supported by the observation that a reduced logP value is typically linked to a decreased liver microsomal metabolism and any hepatotoxicity-related side effects [45]. Despite

C2 to C6 biobased carbonyl platforms for fine chemistry

• Jingjing Jiang,
• Muhammad Noman Haider Tariq,
• Florence Popowycz,
• Yanlong Gu and
• Yves Queneau

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 2103–2172, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.165

Aryl iodane-induced cascade arylation–1,2-silyl shift–heterocyclization of propargylsilanes under copper catalysis

• Rasma Kroņkalne,
• Rūdolfs Beļaunieks,
• Armands Sebris,
• Anatoly Mishnev and
• Māris Turks

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 1984–1994, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.154

• it improves lipophilicity, oral absorption and biological activity [25]. Results and Discussion Arylation of aliphatic chain-containing propargylsilanes We started our investigation with the arylation of aliphatic chain-containing propargylsilanes. The starting material – tert-butyl(hept-1-yn-3-yl

Systematic pore lipophilization to enhance the efficiency of an amine-based MOF catalyst in the solvent-free Knoevenagel reaction

• Pricilla Matseketsa,
• Margret Kumbirayi Ruwimbo Pagare and
• Tendai Gadzikwa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 1854–1863, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.144

• groups. This selective functionalization yielded MOFs in which the catalytically active amines are confined within highly lipophilic pores, reminiscent of many enzyme active sites. We determined that systematically increasing the lipophilicity of the pores results in a commensurate increase of catalyst

• catalysis have focused on lipophilization to prevent water-based catalyst decomposition, with only a few investigating how lipophilic pores surfaces can increase catalyst efficiency [32][33], despite enzymes employing such a strategy. The lipophilicity of enzyme active sites tends to improve reaction rates

• by increasing the binding affinity for the lipophilic reactants and by decreasing the energy required to desolvate acid/base amino acid catalysts [34][35]. Lipophilicity has also been found to be beneficial in condensation reactions as the removed water molecules are repelled by the hydrophobic

Thermodynamics and polarity-driven properties of fluorinated cyclopropanes

• Matheus P. Freitas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 1742–1747, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.137

• delocalization interactions. Among the compounds shown in Figure 1, 1.2.3-c.c. is the most polar, with a calculated dipole moment of 4.17 D. Polarity is a key molecular property, as it influences solubility, lipophilicity, and various material characteristics. For example, liquid crystals used in LCD devices

Oxetanes: formation, reactivity and total syntheses of natural products

• Peter Gabko,
• Martin Kalník and
• Maroš Bella

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 1324–1373, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.101

• additions and hydrolyses (in case of esters and amides), as well as epimerisations at the α-carbons, oxetanes are stable to such chemical transformations. In case of the gem-dimethyl group, which is commonly used to block metabolically labile sites at the expense of raising lipophilicity, bridging the two

• high yields. Further transformations were also investigated such as a Suzuki coupling (at the aryl group) or oxidation to sulphoxides and sulphones, demonstrating the versatility of these products. In addition, their medicinally relevant physicochemical properties such as lipophilicity, clearance and

Origami with small molecules: exploiting the C–F bond as a conformational tool

• Patrick Ryan,
• Ramsha Iftikhar and
• Luke Hunter

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 680–716, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.54

• effects, too, e.g., modulating lipophilicity [44][113][114][115], enabling target-binding interactions to be elucidated [116][117], or providing the opportunity for 19F and 18F imaging. Other reviews have covered many of these aspects [118][119], but here we will focus exclusively on the conformational

Quantifying the ability of the CF₂H group as a hydrogen bond donor

• Matthew E. Paolella,
• Daniel S. Honeycutt,
• Bradley M. Lipka,
• Jacob M. Goldberg and
• Fang Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 189–199, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.11

• exhibits slower acid dissociation [25] and different lipophilicity [19][20][26][27][28]. For these reasons, it is an attractive synthetic target [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43] and an important bioisostere in drug design and biochemical studies [30][44][45][46]. Despite the

Direct trifluoroethylation of carbonyl sulfoxonium ylides using hypervalent iodine compounds

• Radell Echemendía,
• Carlee A. Montgomery,
• Fabio Cuzzucoli,
• Antonio C. B. Burtoloso and
• Graham K. Murphy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3182–3190, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.263

• of compounds, increase their metabolic stability, and boost their lipophilicity [5][6][7]. Consequently, developing new synthetic techniques that incorporate fluorine and fluorinated groups represents a significant area of research in synthetic organic chemistry [8][9]. Among the various fluorine

Synthesis of extended fluorinated tripeptides based on the tetrahydropyridazine scaffold

• Thierry Milcent,
• Pascal Retailleau,
• Benoit Crousse and
• Sandrine Ongeri

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3174–3181, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.262

• groups (CF3 or CF2H) in organic molecules can modulate their physicochemical (pKa, lipophilicity), structural (additional hydrophobic and hydrogen-bond interactions), and biological properties (metabolic stability, membrane permeability) [14][15]. Alongside the very well-known CF3 group, the CF2H group

C–H Trifluoromethylthiolation of aldehyde hydrazones

• Victor Levet,
• Balu Ramesh,
• Congyang Wang and
• Tatiana Besset

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2883–2890, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.242

• moiety [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51], an interesting fluorinated moiety with unique electron-withdrawing character and lipophilicity [52][53], have recently garnered interest from the scientific community

Synthesis of fluoroalkenes and fluoroenynes via cross-coupling reactions using novel multihalogenated vinyl ethers

• Yukiko Karuo,
• Keita Hirata,
• Atsushi Tarui,
• Kazuyuki Sato,
• Kentaro Kawai and
• Masaaki Omote

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2691–2703, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.226

• Fluoroalkenes are one of the important frameworks for a wide range of industrial fields. For example, they are used as a bioisostere of amide bonds in medicines and agrochemicals, and contribute to the synthesis of peptide medicines that are stable to enzymatic metabolism and possess high lipophilicity [1]. In

Synthesis and conformational analysis of pyran inter-halide analogues of ᴅ-talose

• Olivier Lessard,
• Mathilde Grosset-Magagne,
• Paul A. Johnson and
• Denis Giguère

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2442–2454, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.208

• predictions of such compounds remain very challenging [32]. Results and Discussion Our recent discovery that the nature of halogen atoms can have a large impact on conformation and lipophilicity motivated us to investigate novel pyran inter-halides [23]. We used a halo-divergent route starting from the known

Phenylseleno trifluoromethoxylation of alkenes

• Clément Delobel,
• Armen Panossian,
• Gilles Hanquet,
• Frédéric R. Leroux,
• Fabien Toulgoat and
• Thierry Billard

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2434–2441, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.207

• moieties is an active research field [12]. Among these emerging fluorinated groups, the association of the CF3 moiety with chalcogens is an interesting approach. In particular, the trifluoromethoxy group (CF3O) possesses valuable properties such as electronegativity [13][14], lipophilicity [15][16

Synthesis, electrochemical properties, and antioxidant activity of sterically hindered catechols with 1,3,4-oxadiazole, 1,2,4-triazole, thiazole or pyridine fragments

• Daria A. Burmistrova,
• Andrey Galustyan,
• Nadezhda P. Pomortseva,
• Kristina D. Pashaeva,
• Maxim V. Arsenyev,
• Oleg P. Demidov,
• Mikhail A. Kiskin,
• Andrey I. Poddel’sky,
• Nadezhda T. Berberova and
• Ivan V. Smolyaninov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2378–2391, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.202

• compounds leads to an increased lipophilicity and, as a result, facilitates the transfer of the molecule through cell membranes to the target site [22]. 1,2,4-Triazole derivatives also play a key role in medicinal chemistry, especially in the development of new antivirals [23][24] and antibacterial agents

O,S,Se-containing Biginelli products based on cyclic β-ketosulfone and their postfunctionalization

• Kateryna V. Dil and
• Vitalii A. Palchykov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2143–2151, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.184

• not violate the Lipinski, Ghose, Veber, Egan, and Muegge rules and PAINS filter [48][49][50][51][52]. The lipophilicity (estimated as log Po/w) for all compounds was shown to be in a wide range from 0.43 to 4.11. The topological polar surface area (TPSA), which is important for oral bioavailability

Selectfluor and alcohol-mediated synthesis of bicyclic oxyfluorination compounds by Wagner–Meerwein rearrangement

• Ziya Dağalan,
• Muhammed Hanifi Çelikoğlu,
• Saffet Çelik,
• Ramazan Koçak and
• Bilal Nişancı

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1462–1467, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.129

• compounds by changing their metabolic stability, hydrogen bonding ability, lipophilicity, solubility, bioavailability, conformation and general structure [1][2][3][4]. About 20% of commercially available drugs contain fluorine, and this ratio is estimated to increase further [5][6]. Among organofluorines

Synthesis and optical properties of bis- and tris-alkynyl-2-trifluoromethylquinolines

• Stefan Jopp,
• Franziska Spruner von Mertz,
• Peter Ehlers,
• Alexander Villinger and
• Peter Langer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1246–1255, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.107

• methyl groups and are known to protect from metabolic oxidation [16]. Fluorine-containing arenes are metabolically more stable as compared to non-fluorinated arenes and they show a higher lipophilicity. Known synthetic approaches towards 2-trifluoromethylquinolines include the cyclisation of anilines

Innovative synthesis of drug-like molecules using tetrazole as core building blocks

• Jingyao Li,
• Ajay L. Chandgude,
• Qiang Zheng and
• Alexander Dömling

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 950–958, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.85

• ready-to-screen drug-like molecules remains a key challenge in the medicinal chemistry field [5][6]. Tetrazole is considered as a privileged scaffold in pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry, used as a carboxylic acid bioisostere and a cis-amide mimic contributing to improvements in lipophilicity

(Bio)isosteres of ortho- and meta-substituted benzenes

• H. Erik Diepers and
• Johannes C. L. Walker

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 859–890, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.78

• early drug discovery process. In many cases, the primary aim is the enhancement of biological activity, but in others, modulation of other critical properties such as aqueous solubility, metabolic stability, polarity, or lipophilicity is the target. In the latter cases, there is often a desire to retain

• fluorothalidomide [8]. Similarly, the reduction in the number of aromatic groups and increase in the level of saturation have risen to prominence as a way of improving low aqueous solubility, metabolic instability, or low lipophilicity in drug candidates that contain a high number of these functionalities [9][10

• employed their method for the synthesis of 1,2,3-trisubsituted BCPs and a number of other bridged bicyclic scaffolds. Comparison of physicochemical data of 1,2-BCHs and ortho-benzenes was reported by Mykhailiuk and co-workers (Figure 5) [36]. Lipophilicity of 1,2-BCHs was measured by experimental

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

• ]pyridine 7b had a higher water solubility of 173 mg/L and a lower LogP of 1.59 (pH 2.3). However, the lipophilicity of the new 2,3-dihydro[1,3]thiazolo[4,5-b]pyridines was highly dependent on the substituents. For example, the brominated analogs 13b and 13c showed considerably higher LogP values of 2.88

Synthesis of 2,2-difluoro-1,3-diketone and 2,2-difluoro-1,3-ketoester derivatives using fluorine gas

• Alexander S. Hampton,
• David R. W. Hodgson,
• Graham McDougald,
• Linhua Wang and
• Graham Sandford

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 460–469, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.41

• present in many agrochemical and pharmaceutical products owing to the beneficial properties imparted such as increased metabolic stability, lipophilicity and bioavailability of the bioactive entity [1][2][3]. In 2018, 30% of FDA approved drugs contained at least one fluorine atom, with an average of 2.7

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

• excellent yield and enantioselectivity. Keywords: asymmetric organocatalysis; chiral Brønsted acid; 3,3-difluoroindoline; Hantzsch ester; transfer hydrogenation; Introduction The introduction of fluoro atoms into organic molecules can alter their lipophilicity, solubility, metabolic stability, and

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

• ring (Table 3, entries 1–5). Although BMIm-BF4 gave a slightly higher yield than that obtained with EMIm-BF4, the general trend suggests that probably the increase in the lipophilicity of the ILs impairs the reaction, hindering the attack of water to the triple bond. Furthermore, the reaction in BDMIm