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Advances in the use of metal-free tetrapyrrolic macrocycles as catalysts
- Mandeep K. Chahal
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3085–3112, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.257
- batteries, due to the ease of their structural modification, rich redox chemistry, and robust coordination M–N4 environment [100][101][102][103][104][105]. The key processes employed in energy transfer and storage are the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), and oxygen
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Figure 1: Chemical structures of the main tetrapyrrolic macrocycles studied in this review for their role as ...
Figure 2: Calix[4]pyrroles 3 and 4 and an their acyclic analogue 5 used for the transformation of Danishefsky...
Figure 3: Calixpyrrole-based organocatalysts 11 and 12 for the diastereoselective addition reaction of TMSOF ...
Figure 4: (a) Chemical structures of macrocyclic organocatalysts used for the synthesis of cyclic carbonates ...
Figure 5: Cuprous chloride-catalyzed aziridination of styrene (22) by chloramine-T (23) providing 1-tosyl-2-p...
Figure 6: Chemical structures of the various porphyrin macrocycles (18, 25–41) screened as potential catalyst...
Figure 7: Organocatalytic activity of distorted porphyrins explored by Senge and co-workers. Planar macrocycl...
Figure 8: Chemical structures of H2EtxTPP (x = 0, 2, 4, 6, 8) compounds with incrementally increasing nonplan...
Figure 9: Chemical structures of OxP macrocycles tested as potential organocatalysts for the conjugate additi...
Figure 10: a) Fundamental structure of the J-aggregates of diprotonated TPPS3 53 and b) its use as a catalyst ...
Figure 11: Chemical structures of amphiphilic porphyrin macrocycles used as pH-switchable catalysts based on i...
Figure 12: a) Chemical structures of porphyrin macrocycles for the cycloaddition of CO2 to N-alkyl/arylaziridi...
Figure 13: Electron and energy-transfer processes typical for excited porphyrin molecules (Por = porphyrin mac...
Figure 14: Proposed mechanism for the light-induced α-alkylation of aldehydes with EDA in the presence of H2TP...
Figure 15: a) Chemical structures of porphyrins screened as photoredox catalysts, b) model reaction of furan (...
Figure 16: Porphyrin macrocycles H2TPP (18) and PPIX 78 as photoreductants for the red light-induced C–H aryla...
Figure 17: Porphyrin macrocycles H2TPP (18) and PPIX 78 as photoredox catalyst for (a) α-alkylation of an alde...
Figure 18: Corrole macrocycles 98–100 as photoredox catalysts for C–H arylation and borylation reactions. Adap...
Figure 19: Proposed catalytic cycle of electrocatalytic generation of H2 evolution using tetrapyrrolic macrocy...
Figure 20: a) Chemical structures of tetrapyrrolic macrocycles 109, 73, and 110 used for oxygen reductions in ...
Figure 21: a) Absorption spectra (left) of the air-saturated DCE solutions containing: 5 × 10−5 M H2TPP (black...
Figure 22: Chemical structures of N,N’-dimethylated saddle-distorted porphyrin isomers, syn-Me2P 111 and anti-...
Figure 23: Reaction mechanisms for the two-electron reduction of O2 by a) syn-Me2Iph 113 and b) anti-Me2Iph 114...
Figure 24: O2/H2O2 interconversion using methylated saddle-distorted porphyrin and isophlorin (reduced porphyr...
Figure 25: Chemical structures of distorted dodecaphenylporphyrin macrocycle 117 and its diprotonated form 118...
Advances in radical peroxidation with hydroperoxides
- Oleg V. Bityukov,
- Pavel Yu. Serdyuchenko,
- Andrey S. Kirillov,
- Gennady I. Nikishin,
- Vera A. Vil’ and
- Alexander O. Terent’ev
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2959–3006, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.249
- -scission [31][32], which can lead to side reactions. Some aspects of the rich metal–peroxide redox chemistry have been discussed in previous reviews [33]. Specifically, the radical functionalization of C–C bonds accessed through the transition metal-mediated reduction of organic peroxides has been covered
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Scheme 1: Organic peroxide initiators in polymer chemistry.
Scheme 2: Synthesis of organic peroxides.
Scheme 3: Richness of radical cascades with species formed from hydroperoxides in redox conditions.
Scheme 4: Co-catalyzed allylic peroxidation of alkenes 1 and 3 by TBHP.
Scheme 5: Allylic peroxidation of alkenes 6 by Pd(II)TBHP.
Scheme 6: Cu(I)-catalyzed allylic peroxidation.
Scheme 7: Enantioselective peroxidation of alkenes 10 with TBHP in the presence of copper(I) compounds.
Scheme 8: Oxidation of α-pinene (12) by the Cu(I)/TBHP system.
Scheme 9: Introduction of the tert-butylperoxy fragment into the α-position of cyclic ketones 15 and 17.
Scheme 10: α-Peroxidation of β-dicarbonyl compounds 19 using the Cu(II)/TBHP system.
Scheme 11: Co-catalyzed peroxidation of cyclic compounds 21 with TBHP.
Scheme 12: Co-, Mn- and Fe-catalyzed peroxidation of 2-oxoindoles 23, barbituric acids 25, and 4-hydroxycoumar...
Scheme 13: Cu-catalyzed and metal-free peroxidation of barbituric acid derivatives 31 and 3,4-dihydro-1,4-benz...
Scheme 14: Electrochemical peroxidation of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds 35.
Scheme 15: Peroxidation of β-dicarbonyl compounds, cyanoacetic esters and malonic esters 37 by the TBAI/TBHP s...
Scheme 16: Cu-catalyzed peroxidation of malonodinitriles and cyanoacetic esters 39 with TBHP.
Scheme 17: Mn-catalyzed remote peroxidation via trifluromethylation of double bond.
Scheme 18: Cu-catalyzed remote peroxidation via trifluromethylthiolation of double bond.
Scheme 19: Fe-, Mn-, and Ru-catalyzed peroxidation of alkylaromatics 45, 47, 49, and 51 with TBHP.
Scheme 20: Cu-catalyzed peroxidation of diphenylacetonitrile (53) with TBHP.
Scheme 21: Cu-catalyzed peroxidation of benzyl cyanides 60 with TBHP.
Scheme 22: Synthesis of tert-butylperoxy esters 63 from benzyl alcohols 62 using the TBAI/TBHP system.
Scheme 23: Enantioselective peroxidation of 2-phenylbutane (64) with TBHP and chiral Cu(I) complex.
Scheme 24: Photochemical synthesis of peroxides 67 from carboxylic acids 66.
Scheme 25: Photochemical peroxidation of benzylic C(sp3)–H.
Scheme 26: Cu- and Ru-catalyzed peroxidation of alkylamines with TBHP.
Scheme 27: Peroxidation of amides 76 with the TBAI/TBHP system.
Scheme 28: Fe-catalyzed functionalization of ethers 78 with TBHP.
Scheme 29: Synthesis of 4-(tert-butylperoxy)-5-phenyloxazol-2(3H)-ones 82 from benzyl alcohols 80 and isocyana...
Scheme 30: Fe- and Co-catalyzed peroxidation of alkanes with TBHP.
Scheme 31: Rh-catalyzed tert-butylperoxy dienone synthesis with TBHP.
Scheme 32: Rh- and Cu-catalyzed phenolic oxidation with TBHP.
Scheme 33: Metal-free peroxidation of phenols 94.
Scheme 34: Cu-catalyzed alkylation–peroxidation of acrylonitrile.
Scheme 35: Cu-catalyzed cycloalkylation–peroxidation of coumarins 99.
Scheme 36: Metal-free cycloalkylation–peroxidation of coumarins 102.
Scheme 37: Difunctionalization of indene 104 with tert-butylperoxy and alkyl groups.
Scheme 38: Acid-catalyzed radical addition of ketones (108, 111) and TBHP to alkenes 107 and acrylates 110.
Scheme 39: Cu-catalyzed alkylation–peroxidation of alkenes 113 with TBHP and diazo compounds 114.
Scheme 40: Cobalt(II)-catalyzed addition of TBHP and 1,3-dicarbonyl compound 116 to alkenes 117.
Scheme 41: Cu(0)- or Co(II)-catalyzed addition of TBHP and alcohols 120 to alkenes 119.
Scheme 42: Fe-catalyzed functionalization of allenes 122 with TBHP.
Scheme 43: Fe-catalyzed alkylation–peroxidation of alkenes 125 and 127.
Scheme 44: Fe- and Co-catalyzed alkylation–peroxidation of alkenes 130, 133 and 134 with TBHP and aldehydes as...
Scheme 45: Carbonylation–peroxidation of alkenes 137, 140, 143 with hydroperoxides and aldehydes.
Scheme 46: Carbamoylation–peroxidation of alkenes 146 with formamides and TBHP.
Scheme 47: TBAB-catalyzed carbonylation–peroxidation of alkenes.
Scheme 48: VOCl2-catalyzed carbonylation–peroxidation of alkenes 152.
Scheme 49: Acylation–peroxidation of alkenes 155 with aldehydes 156 and TBHP using photocatalysis.
Scheme 50: Cu-catalyzed peroxidation of styrenes 158.
Scheme 51: Fe-catalyzed acylation-peroxidation of alkenes 161 with carbazates 160 and TBHP.
Scheme 52: Difunctionalization of alkenes 163, 166 with TBHP and (per)fluoroalkyl halides.
Scheme 53: Difunctionalization of alkenes 169 and 172 with hydroperoxides and sodium (per)fluoromethyl sulfina...
Scheme 54: Trifluoromethylation–peroxidation of styrenes 175 using MOF Cu3(BTC)2 as a catalyst.
Scheme 55: Difunctionalization of alkenes 178 with tert-butylperoxy and dihalomethyl fragments.
Scheme 56: Difunctionalization of alkenes 180 with the tert-butylperoxy and dihalomethyl moieties.
Scheme 57: The nitration–peroxidation of alkenes 182 with t-BuONO and TBHP.
Scheme 58: Azidation–peroxidation of alkenes 184 with TMSN3 and TBHP.
Scheme 59: Co-catalyzed bisperoxidation of butadiene 186.
Scheme 60: Bisperoxidation of styrene (189) and acrylonitrile (192) with TBHP by Minisci.
Scheme 61: Mn-catalyzed synthesis of bis(tert-butyl)peroxides 195 from styrenes 194.
Scheme 62: Bisperoxidation of arylidene-9H-fluorenes 196 and 3-arylidene-2-oxoindoles 198 with TBHP under Mn-c...
Scheme 63: Synthesis of bisperoxides from styrenes 200 and 203 using the Ru and Rh catalysis.
Scheme 64: Iodine-catalyzed bisperoxidation of styrenes 206.
Scheme 65: Synthesis of di-tert-butylperoxyoxoindoles 210 from acrylic acid anilides 209 using a Pd(II)/TBHP o...
Scheme 66: Pinolation/peroxidation of styrenes 211 catalyzed by Cu(I).
Scheme 67: TBAI-catalyzed acyloxylation–peroxidation of alkenes 214 with carboxylic acids and TBHP.
Scheme 68: Difunctionalization of alkenes 217 with TBHP and water or alcohols.
Scheme 69: TBAI-catalyzed hydroxyperoxidation of 1,3-dienes 220.
Scheme 70: Hydroxyperoxidation of 1,3-dienes 220.
Scheme 71: Iodination/peroxidation of alkenes 223 with I2 and hydroperoxides.
Scheme 72: The reactions of cyclic enol ethers 226 and 228 with I2/ROOH system.
Scheme 73: Synthesis of 1-(tert-butylperoxy)-2-iodoethanes 231.
Scheme 74: Synthesis of 1-iodo-2-(tert-butylperoxy)ethanes 233.
Scheme 75: Cu-catalyzed phosphorylation–peroxidation of alkenes 234.
Scheme 76: Co-catalyzed phosphorylation–peroxidation of alkenes 237.
Scheme 77: Ag-catalyzed sulfonylation–peroxidation of alkenes 241.
Scheme 78: Co-catalyzed sulfonylation–peroxidation of alkenes 244.
Scheme 79: Synthesis of α/β-peroxysulfides 248 and 249 from styrenes 247.
Scheme 80: Cu-catalyzed trifluoromethylthiolation–peroxidation of alkenes 250 and allenes 252.
Scheme 81: Photocatalytic sulfonyl peroxidation of alkenes 254 via deamination of N-sulfonyl ketimines 255.
Scheme 82: Photoredox-catalyzed 1,4-peroxidation–sulfonylation of enynones 257.
Scheme 83: Cu-catalyzed silylperoxidation of α,β-unsaturated compounds 260 and enynes 261.
Scheme 84: Fe-catalyzed silyl peroxidation of alkenes.
Scheme 85: Cu-catalyzed germyl peroxidation of alkenes 267.
Scheme 86: TBAI-catalyzed intramolecular cyclization of diazo compounds 269 with further peroxidation.
Scheme 87: Co-catalyzed three-component coupling of benzamides 271, diazo compounds 272 and TBHP.
Scheme 88: Co-catalyzed esterification-peroxidation of diazo compounds 274 with TBHP and carboxylic acids 275.
Scheme 89: Cu-catalyzed alkylation–peroxidation of α-carbonylimines 277 or ketones 280.
Scheme 90: Mn-catalyzed ring-opening peroxidation of cyclobutanols 282 with TBHP.
Scheme 91: Peroxycyclization of tryptamines 284 with TBHP.
Scheme 92: Radical cyclization–peroxidation of homotryptamines 287.
Scheme 93: Iodine-catalyzed oxidative coupling of indoles 288, cyanoacetic esters and TBHP.
Scheme 94: Summary of metal-catalyzed peroxidation processes.
Hydrogen-bond activation enables aziridination of unactivated olefins with simple iminoiodinanes
- Phong Thai,
- Lauv Patel,
- Diyasha Manna and
- David C. Powers
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2305–2312, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.197
- of the sulfonamide resulted in O–H proton signal of HFIP being at 5.64 ppm with FWHM = 11.3 Hz. Second, to evaluate the impact of HFIP on the redox chemistry of PhINTs, we collected cyclic voltammograms (CVs) of iminoiodinane 2c in MeCN in the presence of varying HFIP increments (Scheme 4b). The CV
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Scheme 1: a) Lewis acid activation of hypervalent iodine reagents can enhance the reactivity of these reagent...
Scheme 2: Scope and limitations of HFIP-promoted direct aziridination with iminoiodinane reagents. Conditions...
Scheme 3: Scope of nitrogen group transfer in the aziridination of aliphatic olefins. Conditions using synthe...
Scheme 4: a) The broadening of the hydroxide proton (denoted by asterisk *) of HFIP in the presence of iminoi...
Perspectives on push–pull chromophores derived from click-type [2 + 2] cycloaddition–retroelectrocyclization reactions of electron-rich alkynes and electron-deficient alkenes
- Michio Yamada
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 125–154, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.13
- , the ensuing RE process yields the corresponding TCBD derivatives. The resulting TCBDs and related products exhibit strong light absorption, resulting from the intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) in the visible region; they also exhibit a rich redox chemistry [11]. In the [2 + 2] CA–RE reaction of
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Scheme 1: Pathway of the [2 + 2] CA–RE reaction of an electron-rich alkyne with TCNE or TCNQ. EDG = electron-...
Scheme 2: Reaction pathway for DMA-appended acetylene and TCNEO.
Scheme 3: Pathway of the [2 + 2] CA–RE reaction between 1 and DCFs.
Scheme 4: Sequential double [2 + 2] CA–RE reactions between 1 and TCNE.
Scheme 5: Divergent chemical transformation pathways of TCBD 6.
Scheme 6: Synthesis of 12.
Scheme 7: [2 + 2] CA–RE reaction of 1 with 14. TCE = 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane.
Scheme 8: Autocatalytic model proposed by Nielsen et al.
Scheme 9: Synthesis of anthracene-embedded TCBD compound 19.
Scheme 10: Sequence of the [2 + 2] CA–RE reaction between dibenzo-fused cyclooctyne or cyclooctadiyne and TCNE...
Scheme 11: [2 + 2] CA–RE reaction between the CPP derivatives and TCNE. THF = tetrahydrofuran.
Scheme 12: [2 + 2] CA–RE reaction between ethynylfullerenes 31 and TCNE and subsequent thermal rearrangement.
Scheme 13: Pathway of the [2 + 2] CA–RE reaction between TCNE and 34, followed by additional skeletal transfor...
Scheme 14: Synthesis scheme for heterocycle 38 from the reaction between TCNE and 1 in water and a surfactant.
Scheme 15: Synthesis scheme of the CDA product 41.
Scheme 16: Synthesis of rotaxanes 44 and 46 via the [2 + 2] CA–RE reaction.
Scheme 17: Synthesis of a CuI bisphenanthroline-based rotaxane 50.
Figure 1: Structures of the chiral push–pull chromophores 51–56.
Figure 2: Structures of the axially chiral TCBD 57 and DCNQ 58 bearing a C60 core.
Figure 3: Structures of the axially chiral SubPc–TCBD–aniline conjugates 59 and 60 and the subporphyrin–TCBD–...
Figure 4: Structures of 63 and the TCBD 64.
Figure 5: Structures of the fluorophore-containing TCBDs 65–67.
Figure 6: Structures of the fluorophore-containing TCBDs 68–72.
Figure 7: Structures of the urea-containing TCBDs 73–75.
Figure 8: Structures of the fullerene–TCBD and DCNQ conjugates 76–79 and their reference compounds 80–83.
Figure 9: Structures of the ZnPc–TCBD–aniline conjugates 84 and 85.
Figure 10: Structures of the ZnP–PCBD and TCBD conjugates 86–88.
Figure 11: Structures of the porphyrin-based donor–acceptor conjugates (89–104).
Figure 12: Structures of the porphyrin–PTZ or DMA conjugates 105–112.
Figure 13: Structures of the BODIPY–Acceptor–TPA or PTZ conjugates 113–116.
Figure 14: Structures of the corrole–TCBD conjugates 117 and 118.
Figure 15: Structure of the dendritic TCBD 119.
Figure 16: Structures of the TCBDs 120–126.
Figure 17: Structures of the precursor 127 and TCBDs 128–130.
Figure 18: Structures of 131–134 utilized for BHJ OSCs.
Multi-redox indenofluorene chromophores incorporating dithiafulvene donor and ene/enediyne acceptor units
- Christina Schøttler,
- Kasper Lund-Rasmussen,
- Line Broløs,
- Philip Vinterberg,
- Ema Bazikova,
- Viktor B. R. Pedersen and
- Mogens Brøndsted Nielsen
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 59–73, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.8
- a subsequent Glaser–Hay coupling reaction, a RA acceptor unit was introduced to provide a DTF-IF-RA donor–acceptor scaffold with a low-energy charge-transfer absorption and multi-redox behavior. Keywords: alkynes; chromophores; fused-ring systems; heterocycles; redox chemistry; Introduction
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Figure 1: Overview of structural motifs relevant for the work described herein.
Figure 2: Dione/ketones 1, 4–6 and 1,3-dithiole-2-thione compounds 2, 3, 7, and 8 are building blocks used in...
Scheme 1: Synthesis of IF-DTF ketones 9–12 and dimer 13.
Scheme 2: Further functionalization of the IF-DTF ketone 11 via Ramirez/Corey–Fuchs dibromo-olefination and K...
Scheme 3: Coupling of 1,3-dithiole-2-thione building blocks 2 and 3 with fluorenone 5 to afford fluorene-exte...
Scheme 4: Synthesis of acetylenic scaffolds based on IF-DTF. Conditions: (a) Pd(PPh3)2Cl2, CuI, THF, Et3N, rt...
Scheme 5: Synthesis of acetylenic scaffolds with IF as central core. *Not fully characterized due to poor sol...
Scheme 6: Reduction of IF dione 1 to dihydro-IF 29.
Figure 3: UV–vis absorption spectra of compounds 4, 9–12, and 15 in PhMe at 25 °C.
Figure 4: UV–vis absorption spectra of compounds 13, 16, 17, and 30 in CH2Cl2 at 25 °C.
Figure 5: UV–vis absorption spectra of compounds 22, 23, 26, and 27 in CH2Cl2 at 25 °C.
Figure 6: Cyclic voltammograms of compounds 11 (in MeCN), 13 (in CH2Cl2), 15 (in MeCN), 16 (in CH2Cl2), and 17...
Figure 7: Comparison of properties of compounds 13 and 17.
Figure 8: Cyclic voltammograms of compounds 22, 23, 26, and 27 in CH2Cl2; supporting electrolyte: 0.1 M Bu4NPF...
Figure 9: Radical anion (left), dianion (middle), and radical cation (right) of compound 23; the radical anio...
Figure 10: ORTEP plots (50% probability) and crystal packing of compounds a) 25, b) 26, and c) 29. The respect...
Figure 11: Labels of bonds within five-membered ring.
Anion–π catalysis on carbon allotropes
- M. Ángeles Gutiérrez López,
- Mei-Ling Tan,
- Giacomo Renno,
- Augustina Jozeliūnaitė,
- J. Jonathan Nué-Martinez,
- Javier Lopez-Andarias,
- Naomi Sakai and
- Stefan Matile
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1881–1894, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.140
- flow of electrons during a reaction are much larger than the voltage needed to turn-on electron transfer and redox chemistry. This dilemma is overcome by carbon allotropes. They translate voltages weak enough to avoid electron transfer into oriented local molecular macrodipoles that are strong enough
- effective catalyst to substrate ratios, high fields from small voltages, and no need to add electrolytes. These electrochemical microfluidic reactors have been constructed for a completely different purpose, that is practical access to organic redox chemistry [107][108][109][110]. Our results suggest that
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Figure 1: (A) Anion–π catalysis: Stabilization of anionic transition states from substrate S to product P on ...
Figure 2: Bioinspired enolate addition chemistry to benchmark anion–π catalysts: Stabilization of “enol” inte...
Figure 3: Structure and activity of fullerene-amine dyads to catalyze the intrinsically disfavored but biolog...
Figure 4: Asymmetric anion–π catalysis of intrinsically disfavored exo-selective Diels–Alder reactions on ful...
Figure 5: Asymmetric anion–π catalysis to install remote stereogenic centers on fullerene catalyst 21, with n...
Figure 6: Primary anion–π autocatalysis on monofunctional fullerene 31, with catalytic and autocatalytic rate...
Figure 7: (A) Macrodipoles induced by anionic transition states account for anion–π catalysis on fullerenes. ...
Figure 8: Structure and activity of covalently and non-covalently modified SWCNTs and MWCNTs, with A/D ratios...
Figure 9: (A) Epoxide-opening ether cyclization on pristine carbon nanotubes occurs with (XVI) but not withou...
Figure 10: Electric-field-induced anion–π catalysis on MWCNTs 3 on graphite 76 in electrochemical microfluidic...
Tying a knot between crown ethers and porphyrins
- Maksym Matviyishyn and
- Bartosz Szyszko
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1630–1650, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.120
- binding guest molecules/ions, but also to undergo unusual transformations, such as metal-induced expansion/contraction. Depending on the design of the particular hybrid, they present unique features involving intriguing redox chemistry, interesting optical properties, and reactivity towards transition
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Figure 1: Porphyrin and crown ether.
Figure 2: Timeline demonstrating the contributions into the crown ether–porphyrin chemistry.
Figure 3: Tetra-crowned porphyrin 1 and dimer 2 formed upon K+ binding.
Figure 4: meso-Crowned 25-oxasmaragdyrins 3a–c and their boron(III) complexes (3a–c)-BF2.
Scheme 1: CsF ion-pair binding of 4. The molecular structure of 4-CsF is shown on the right [101].
Figure 5: CsF ion pair binding by 5. The molecular structure of 5-CsF is shown on the right [102].
Scheme 2: Ion-pair binding by 6. The molecular structure of (6-CsCl)2 is shown on the right [103].
Scheme 3: Hydrated fluoride binding by 7 [104].
Figure 6: β-Crowned porphyrin 8.
Figure 7: Crown ether-capped porphyrins 9.
Figure 8: The capped porphyrin 10 and complex [10-PQ](PF6)2.
Figure 9: The double-capped porphyrin 11.
Figure 10: Selected examples of iminoporphyrinoids [58,122].
Scheme 4: The synthesis of 13.
Scheme 5: Tripyrrane-based crown ether-embedding porphyrinoid 15.
Figure 11: Macrocycles 16–19 and their coordination compounds.
Scheme 6: The flexibility of 16-Co [66].
Figure 12: Hexagonal wheel composed of six 16-Co(III) monomers [66].
Scheme 7: The synthesis of 16-V [67].
Figure 13: The molecular structure of dimers [16-Mn]2 [67].
Scheme 8: Synthesis of crownphyrins 28–33. Compounds 23a/b and 29a/b were obtained from 4,7,10-trioxa-1,13-tr...
Figure 14: The molecular structures of 22a, 34a·(HCl)2, and 29b [69].
Figure 15: Molecular structures of 22a-Pb and (29b)2-Zn [69].
Scheme 9: Reactivity of 29a/b.
Scheme 10: Synthesis of 36 and 37 [131].
Scheme 11: Synthesis of 40–45.
Figure 16: Potential applications of porphyrin-crown ether hybrids.
Group 13 exchange and transborylation in catalysis
- Dominic R. Willcox and
- Stephen P. Thomas
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 325–348, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.28
- for catalysis, due to the generally higher abundance and lower toxicity of these elements. Group 13 elements have a rich catalogue of stoichiometric addition reactions to unsaturated bonds but cannot undergo the redox chemistry which underpins transition-metal catalysis. Group 13 exchange reactions
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Scheme 1: Group 13 exchange.
Scheme 2: Borane-catalysed hydroboration of alkynes and the proposed mechanism.
Scheme 3: a) Borane-catalysed hydroboration of alkenes and the proposed mechanism. b) H-B-9-BBN-catalysed dou...
Scheme 4: a) Amine-borane-catalysed C‒H borylation of heterocycles and the proposed mechanism. b) Benzoic aci...
Scheme 5: Bis(pentafluorophenyl)borane-catalysed dimerisation of allenes and the proposed mechanism.
Scheme 6: Alkoxide-promoted hydroboration of heterocycles and the proposed mechanism.
Scheme 7: Borane-catalysed reduction of indoles and the proposed mechanism.
Scheme 8: H-B-9-BBN-catalysed hydrocyanation of enones and the proposed mechanism.
Scheme 9: Borane-catalysed hydroboration of nitriles and the proposed mechanism.
Scheme 10: Myrtanylborane-catalysed asymmetric reduction of propargylic ketones and the proposed mechanism.
Scheme 11: H-B-9-BBN-catalysed C–F esterification of alkyl fluorides and the proposed mechanism.
Scheme 12: H-B-9-BBN-catalysed 1,4-hydroboration of enones and the proposed mechanism.
Scheme 13: Boric acid-promoted reduction of esters, lactones, and carbonates and the proposed mechanism.
Scheme 14: H-B-9-BBN-catalysed reductive aldol-type reaction and the proposed mechanism.
Scheme 15: H-B-9-BBN-catalysed diastereoselective allylation of ketones and the Ph-BBD-catalysed enantioselect...
Scheme 16: H-B-9-BBN-catalysed C–F arylation of benzyl fluorides and the proposed mechanism.
Scheme 17: Borane-catalysed S‒H borylation of thiols and the proposed mechanism.
Scheme 18: Borane-catalysed hydroalumination of alkenes and allenes.
Scheme 19: a) Aluminium-catalysed hydroboration of alkynes and example catalysts. b) Deprotonation mechanistic...
Scheme 20: Aluminium-catalysed hydroboration of alkenes and the proposed mechanism.
Scheme 21: Aluminium-catalysed C–H borylation of terminal alkynes and the proposed mechanism.
Scheme 22: Aluminium-catalysed dehydrocoupling of amines, alcohols, and thiols with H-B-9-BBN or HBpin and the...
Scheme 23: Aluminium-catalysed hydroboration of unsaturated compounds and the general reaction mechanism.
Scheme 24: a) Gallium-catalysed asymmetric hydroboration of ketones and the proposed mechanism. b) Gallium-cat...
Scheme 25: Gallium(I)-catalysed allylation/propargylation of acetals and aminals and the proposed mechanism.
Scheme 26: Indium(I)-catalysed allylation/propargylation of acetals, aminals, and alkyl ethers.
Scheme 27: Iron–indium cocatalysed double hydroboration of nitriles and the proposed mechanism.
Figure 1: a) The number of reports for a given group 13 exchange in catalysis. b) Average free energy barrier...
Polymer and small molecule mechanochemistry: closer than ever
- José G. Hernández
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1225–1235, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.128
- polymerizations [57][58][59], arylations and borylations [60], trifluoromethylations [61], as well as dehydrogenative couplings and cycloadditions [62], among others [63][64] in which mechanically polarized piezoelectric materials triggered redox chemistry. Alternative strategies to transduce mechanical force to
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Figure 1: Representation of (a) cavitation and elongational flow caused by pulsed ultrasonication, (b) mixer ...
Scheme 1: (a) Mechanochemical activation of anthracene–endoperoxide mechanophore incorporated in the cross-li...
Scheme 2: Mechanochemical activation of dendronized polymer-based compound 4 by ultrasonication and ball mill...
Figure 2: Structure of cellulose and chitin and approximation to the structure of lignin.
Figure 3: Tensile forces by ball milling change the conformation of a chitin model compound. This deformation...
Figure 4: (a) Representation of a collision between the ball and a particle of a chitin sample and (b) mechan...
Figure 5: (a) Ultrasound-induced ATRP using piezoelectric BaTiO3 and (b) mechanochemical atom transfer radica...
Figure 6: Mechanochemical solid-state complexation of organic capsule 5 with fullerenes C70 in a planetary ba...
Scheme 3: Comparative mechanochemical dissociation of the central C–C bond in TASN derivatives 6 and 8.
Thermodynamic and electrochemical study of tailor-made crown ethers for redox-switchable (pseudo)rotaxanes
- Henrik Hupatz,
- Marius Gaedke,
- Hendrik V. Schröder,
- Julia Beerhues,
- Arto Valkonen,
- Fabian Klautzsch,
- Sebastian Müller,
- Felix Witte,
- Kari Rissanen,
- Biprajit Sarkar and
- Christoph A. Schalley
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2576–2588, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.209
- ; redox chemistry; rotaxanes; supramolecular chemistry; Introduction Pedersen discovered crown ethers in 1967 while searching for multidentate ligands for the vanadyl group [1][2][3]. He was later awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies on the crown ether selective binding properties towards
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Figure 1: Structures of the compounds used in this study: a) crown-8 analogs; b) crown-7 analogs; c) secondar...
Scheme 1: Schematic representation of synthetic routes towards TTFC7, exTTFC7, NDIC7, and NDIC8.
Figure 2: Solid-state structures of a) exTTFC7 (CH3CN molecule omitted for clarity), b) NDIC7 (CH3CN molecule...
Figure 3: a) Synthesis of the [2]rotaxane NDIRot. b) Stacked 1H NMR spectra (700 MHz, CDCl3, 298 K) of NDIC8 ...
Figure 4: UV–vis–NIR spectra obtained by spectroelectrochemical measurements (0.1 M n-Bu4PF6, CH2Cl2/CH3CN 1:...
Palladium nanoparticles supported on chitin-based nanomaterials as heterogeneous catalysts for the Heck coupling reaction
- Tony Jin,
- Malickah Hicks,
- Davis Kurdyla,
- Sabahudin Hrapovic,
- Edmond Lam and
- Audrey Moores
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2477–2483, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.201
- FTIR and PXRD showed little to no structural change to the biomaterials after metal deposition. Heck coupling results demonstrate the importance of using ChNCs as opposed to ChsNCs in order to control the redox chemistry of Pd, with full product yield in relatively mild conditions using PdNP@ChNC. TEM
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Scheme 1: Pathway for the formation of ChNC and subsequently ChsNCs from bulk chitin.
Figure 1: TEM micrographs of (a) ChNCs and (b) ChsNCs. Both samples were stained and prepared on glow-dischar...
Scheme 2: Catalyst fabrication method for the deposition of Pd NPs onto chitin (PdNP@ChNC) and chitosan (PdNP...
Figure 2: TEM micrographs of (a) PdNP@ChNCs and (b) PdNP@ChsNCs. The samples were placed on glow discharged T...
Figure 3: High-resolution X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of the Pd 3d region of (a) PdNP@ChNC and (b) PdNP@...
Photosensitized direct C–H fluorination and trifluoromethylation in organic synthesis
- Shahboz Yakubov and
- Joshua P. Barham
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2151–2192, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.183
- and the substrate. It is necessary to note that this process does not imply any net redox chemistry. For this reason, it is difficult to predict the reactivity of these processes by the electrochemical potentials of the compounds. On the contrary, the triplet state energy of the photocatalyst and the
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Figure 1: Fluorine-containing drugs.
Figure 2: Fluorinated agrochemicals.
Scheme 1: Selectivity of fluorination reactions.
Scheme 2: Different mechanisms of photocatalytic activation. Sub = substrate.
Figure 3: Jablonski diagram showing visible-light-induced energy transfer pathways: a) absorption, b) IC, c) ...
Figure 4: Schematic illustration of TTET.
Figure 5: Organic triplet PSCats.
Figure 6: Additional organic triplet PSCats.
Figure 7: A) Further organic triplet PSCats and B) transition metal triplet PSCats.
Figure 8: Different fluorination reagents grouped by generation.
Scheme 3: Synthesis of Selectfluor®.
Scheme 4: General mechanism of PS TTET C(sp3)–H fluorination.
Scheme 5: Selective benzylic mono- and difluorination using 9-fluorenone and xanthone PSCats, respectively.
Scheme 6: Chen’s photosensitized monofluorination: reaction scope.
Scheme 7: Chen’s photosensitized benzylic difluorination reaction scope.
Scheme 8: Photosensitized monofluorination of ethylbenzene on a gram scale.
Scheme 9: Substrate scope of Tan’s AQN-photosensitized C(sp3)–H fluorination.
Scheme 10: AQN-photosensitized C–H fluorination reaction on a gram scale.
Scheme 11: Reaction mechanism of the AQN-assisted fluorination.
Figure 9: 3D structures of the singlet ground and triplet excited states of Selectfluor®.
Scheme 12: Associated transitions for the activation of acetophenone by violet light.
Scheme 13: Ethylbenzene C–H fluorination with various PSCats and conditions.
Scheme 14: Effect of different PSCats on the C(sp3)–H fluorination of cyclohexane (39).
Scheme 15: Reaction scope of Chen’s acetophenone-photosensitized C(sp3)–H fluorination reaction.
Figure 10: a) Site-selectivity of Chen’s acetophenone-photosensitized C–H fluorination reaction [201]. b) Site-sele...
Scheme 16: Formation of the AQN–Selectfluor® exciplex Int1.
Scheme 17: Generation of the C3 2° pentane radical and the Selectfluor® N-radical cation from the exciplex.
Scheme 18: Hydrogen atom abstraction by the Selectfluor® N-radical cation from pentane to give the C3 2° penta...
Scheme 19: Fluorine atom transfer from Selectfluor® to the C3 2° pentane radical to yield 3-fluoropentane and ...
Scheme 20: Barrierless fluorine atom transfer from Int1 to the C3 2° pentane radical to yield 3-fluoropentane,...
Scheme 21: Ketone-directed C(sp3)–H fluorination.
Scheme 22: Ketone-directed fluorination through a 5- and a 6-membered transition state, respectively.
Scheme 23: Effect of different PSCats on the photosensitized C(sp3)–H fluorination of 47.
Scheme 24: Substrate scope of benzil-photoassisted C(sp3)–H fluorinations.
Scheme 25: A) Benzil-photoassisted enone-directed C(sp3)–H fluorination. B) Classification of the reaction mod...
Scheme 26: A) Xanthone-photoassisted ketal-directed C(sp3)–H fluorination. B) Substrate scope. C) C–H fluorina...
Scheme 27: Rationale for the selective HAT at the C2 C–H bond of galactose acetonide.
Scheme 28: Photosensitized C(sp3)–H benzylic fluorination of a peptide using different PSCats.
Scheme 29: Peptide scope of 5-benzosuberenone-photoassisted C(sp3)–H fluorinations.
Scheme 30: Continuous flow PS TTET monofluorination of 72.
Scheme 31: Photosensitized C–H fluorination of N-butylphthalimide as a PSX.
Scheme 32: Substrate scope and limitations of the PSX C(sp3)–H monofluorination.
Scheme 33: Substrate crossover monofluorination experiment.
Scheme 34: PS TTET mechanism proposed by Hamashima and co-workers.
Scheme 35: Photosensitized TFM of 78 to afford α-trifluoromethylated ketone 80.
Scheme 36: Substrate scope for photosensitized styrene TFM to give α-trifluoromethylated ketones.
Scheme 37: Control reactions for photosensitized TFM of styrenes.
Scheme 38: Reaction mechanism for photosensitized TFM of styrenes to afford α-trifluoromethylated ketones.
Scheme 39: Reaction conditions for TFMs to yield the cis- and the trans-product, respectively.
Scheme 40: Substrate scope of trifluoromethylated (E)-styrenes.
Scheme 41: Strategies toward trifluoromethylated (Z)-styrenes.
Scheme 42: Substrate scope of trifluoromethylated (Z)-styrenes.
Scheme 43: Reaction mechanism for photosensitized TFM of styrenes to afford E- or Z-products.
Applications of organocatalysed visible-light photoredox reactions for medicinal chemistry
- Michael K. Bogdos,
- Emmanuel Pinard and
- John A. Murphy
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2035–2064, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.179
- compounds changes their properties and makes them capable of redox chemistry. In some cases, e.g., MesAcr, the produced excited state is only strongly oxidising, in others the excited state is a molecule which can both reduce and oxidise different species, depending on their relative redox potentials. 1.4
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Figure 1: Depiction of the energy levels of a typical organic molecule and the photophysical processes it can...
Figure 2: General catalytic cycle of a photocatalyst in a photoredox organocatalysed reaction. [cat] – photoc...
Figure 3: Structures and names of the most common photocatalysts encountered in the reviewed literature.
Figure 4: General example of a reductive quenching catalytic cycle. [cat] – photocatalyst, [cat]* – photocata...
Figure 5: General example of an oxidative quenching catalytic cycle. [cat] – photocatalyst, [cat]* – photocat...
Scheme 1: Oxidative coupling of aldehydes and amines to amides using acridinium salt photocatalysis.
Figure 6: Biologically active molecules containing a benzamide linkage.
Scheme 2: The photocatalytic reduction of amino acids to produce the corresponding free or protected amines.
Scheme 3: The organocatalysed photoredox base-mediated oxidation of thiols to disulfides.
Scheme 4: C-Terminal modification of peptides and proteins using organophotoredox catalysis.
Scheme 5: The reduction and aryl coupling of aryl halides using a doubly excited photocatalyst (PDI).
Figure 7: Mechanism for the coupling of aryl halides using PDI, which is excited sequentially by two photons.
Scheme 6: The arylation of five-membered heteroarenes using arenediazonium salts under organophotoredox condi...
Scheme 7: The C–H (hetero)arylation of five-membered heterocycles under Eosin Y photocatalysis.
Scheme 8: The C–H sulfurisation of imidazoheterocycles using Eosin B-catalyzed photochemical methods.
Scheme 9: The introduction of the thiocyanate group using Eosin Y photocatalysis.
Scheme 10: Sulfonamidation of pyrroles using oxygen as the terminal oxidant.
Scheme 11: DDQ-catalysed C–H amination of arenes and heteroarenes.
Scheme 12: Photoredox-promoted radical Michael addition reactions of allylic or benzylic carbons.
Figure 8: Proposed mechanistic rationale for the observed chemoselectivities.
Scheme 13: The photocatalytic manipulation of C–H bonds adjacent to amine groups.
Scheme 14: The perylene-catalysed organophotoredox tandem difluoromethylation–acetamidation of styrene-type al...
Figure 9: Examples of biologically active molecules containing highly functionalised five membered heterocycl...
Scheme 15: The [3 + 2]-cycloaddition leading to the formation of pyrroles, through the reaction of 2H-azirines...
Figure 10: Proposed intermediate that determines the regioselectivity of the reaction.
Figure 11: Comparison of possible pathways of reaction and various intermediates involved.
Scheme 16: The acridinium salt-catalysed formation of oxazoles from aldehydes and 2H-azirines.
Scheme 17: The synthesis of oxazolines and thiazolines from amides and thioamides using organocatalysed photor...
Figure 12: Biologically active molecules on the market containing 1,3,4-oxadiazole moieties.
Scheme 18: The synthesis of 1,3,4-oxadiazoles from aldehyde semicarbazones using Eosin Y organophotocatalysis.
Scheme 19: The dimerization of primary thioamides to 1,2,4-thiadiazoles catalysed by the presence of Eosin Y a...
Scheme 20: The radical cycloaddition of o-methylthioarenediazonium salts and substituted alkynes towards the f...
Scheme 21: The dehydrogenative cascade reaction for the synthesis of 5,6-benzofused heterocyclic systems.
Figure 13: Trifluoromethylated version of compounds which have known biological activities.
Scheme 22: Eosin Y-catalysed photoredox formation of 3-substituted benzimidazoles.
Scheme 23: Oxidation of dihydropyrimidines by atmospheric oxygen using photoredox catalysis.
Scheme 24: Photoredox-organocatalysed transformation of 2-substituted phenolic imines to benzoxazoles.
Scheme 25: Visible light-driven oxidative annulation of arylamidines.
Scheme 26: Methylene blue-photocatalysed direct C–H trifluoromethylation of heterocycles.
Scheme 27: Photoredox hydrotrifluoromethylation of terminal alkenes and alkynes.
Scheme 28: Trifluoromethylation and perfluoroalkylation of aromatics and heteroaromatics.
Scheme 29: The cooperative asymmetric and photoredox catalysis towards the functionalisation of α-amino sp3 C–...
Scheme 30: Organophotoredox-catalysed direct C–H amidation of aromatics.
Scheme 31: Direct C–H alkylation of heterocycles using BF3K salts. CFL – compact fluorescent lamp.
Figure 14: The modification of camptothecin, demonstrating the use of the Molander protocol in LSF.
Scheme 32: Direct C–H amination of aromatics using acridinium salts.
Scheme 33: Photoredox-catalysed nucleophilic aromatic substitution of nucleophiles onto methoxybenzene derivat...
Scheme 34: The direct C–H cyanation of aromatics with a focus on its use for LSF.
A versatile route to polythiophenes with functional pendant groups using alkyne chemistry
- Xiao Huang,
- Li Yang,
- Rikard Emanuelsson,
- Jonas Bergquist,
- Maria Strømme,
- Martin Sjödin and
- Adolf Gogoll
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2682–2688, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.265
- . The synthetic utility of pyEDOT is demonstrated by the following examples involving a range of pendant groups. The electron acceptor units diethyl terephthalate (DET) and 9,10-anthraquinone (AQ) are of particular interest for their redox chemistry in energy storage applications [34]. Their ester and
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Scheme 1: Previous and present EDOT functionalization routes.
Scheme 2: The synthetic route from glycidol to pyEDOT (3).
Scheme 3: The synthetic route from D-mannitol diketal to eEDOT 8 and TMS-eEDOT 8’.
Scheme 4: New EDOT derivatives 9–13 accessible from pyEDOT with bromo-pendant group precursors via Sonogashir...
Figure 1: CVs of electrochemical polymerization of (a) pyEDOT 3 and (b) EDOT in MeCN solution with 0.1 M TEAPF...
Figure 2: CVs of electrochemical polymerization of (a) pyEDOT-DeT (9), (b) pyEDOT-AQ (12) and (c) pyEDOT-MVPF...
A new paradigm for designing ring construction strategies for green organic synthesis: implications for the discovery of multicomponent reactions to build molecules containing a single ring
- John Andraos
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2420–2442, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.236
- involve redox chemistry and are simply characterized as condensation or coupling reactions. The exceptions, Khodaei and Mizar plans, involve substrates which require a corrective oxidation state change that fortunately do not require additional oxidizing agents beyond oxygen from the air. A full
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Figure 1: Possible two-component couplings for various monocyclic rings frequently encountered in organic mol...
Figure 2: Possible three-component couplings for various monocyclic rings frequently encountered in organic m...
Figure 3: Possible four-component couplings for various monocyclic rings frequently encountered in organic mo...
Figure 4: Permutations of two-component coupling patterns for synthesizing the cyclohexanone ring. Synthesis ...
Figure 5: Permutations of two-component coupling patterns for synthesizing the cyclohexanone ring overlayed w...
Scheme 1: Conjectured syntheses of cyclohexanone via [5 + 1] strategies.
Scheme 2: Conjectured syntheses of cyclohexanone via [4 + 2] strategies.
Scheme 3: Conjectured syntheses of cyclohexanone via [3 + 3] strategies.
Figure 6: Permutations of three-component coupling patterns for synthesizing the cyclohexanone ring. Synthesi...
Figure 7: Permutations of three-component coupling patterns for synthesizing the pyrazole ring via [2 + 2 + 1...
Scheme 4: Literature method for constructing the pyrazole ring via the A4 [2 + 2 + 1] strategy.
Scheme 5: Literature methods for constructing the pyrazole ring via the A5 [2 + 2 + 1] strategy.
Scheme 6: Literature methods for constructing the pyrazole ring via the A1 [2 + 2 + 1] strategy.
Scheme 7: Literature methods for constructing the pyrazole ring via the B4 [3 + 1 + 1] strategy.
Figure 8: Intrinsic green performance of documented pyrazole syntheses according to [2 + 2 + 1] and [3 + 1 + ...
Scheme 8: Conjectured reactions for constructing the pyrazole ring via the A2 and A3 [2 + 2 + 1] strategies.
Scheme 9: Conjectured reactions for constructing the pyrazole ring via the B1, B2, B3, and B4 [3 + 1 + 1] str...
Figure 9: Permutations of three-component coupling patterns for synthesizing the Biginelli ring adduct. Synth...
Scheme 10: Reported syntheses of the Biginelli adduct via the traditional [3 + 2 + 1] mapping strategy.
Scheme 11: Reported syntheses of the Biginelli adduct via new [3 + 2 + 1] mapping strategies.
Scheme 12: Reported syntheses of the Biginelli adduct via a new [2 + 2 + 1 + 1] mapping strategy.
Scheme 13: Conjectured syntheses of the Biginelli adduct via new [2 + 2 + 2] mapping strategies.
Scheme 14: Conjectured syntheses of the Biginelli adduct via new [3 + 2 + 1] mapping strategies.
Figure 10: Intrinsic green performance of documented Biginelli adduct syntheses according to [3 + 2 + 1] three...
Figure 11: Intrinsic green performance of newly conjectured Biginelli adduct syntheses according to [4 + 1 + 1...
Supramolecular polymer assembly in aqueous solution arising from cyclodextrin host–guest complexation
- Jie Wang,
- Zhiqiang Qiu,
- Yiming Wang,
- Li Li,
- Xuhong Guo,
- Duc-Truc Pham,
- Stephen F. Lincoln and
- Robert K. Prud’homme
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 50–72, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.7
- than are the dodecyl substituents of PAAddn. An interesting variation on the redox chemistry of ferrocene in polymer systems was presented by Zhu et al. who attached ferrocene, FC, as a substituent to branched poly(ethylene imine), BPEI, through reaction with ferrocenecarboxaldehyde to give the
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Figure 1: Structures of α-, β- and γ-CD. Individual carbon atom numbering is shown for one D-glucopyranose su...
Figure 2: Associations of hydrophobic substituents (circled) (a) and their disruption through host–guest comp...
Figure 3: Decrease of aqueous solution viscosity at a shear rate of 50 s−1 due to α-CD (circles), β-CD (recta...
Figure 4: The effect of (a) α-CD, (b) β-CD and (c) γ-CD on the hydrophobic interactions between n-C18H37 subs...
Figure 5: The effect of SDS addition on viscosity shear rate dependence for 2 wt % aqueous PAAodn solutions c...
Figure 6: Host–guest complexation between polymers with cyclodextrin and hydrophobic substituents.
Figure 7: Variation of viscosity with mole ratio of CD substituents to hydrophobic substituents on poly(acryl...
Figure 8: Illustration of the competitive intermolecular host–guest complexation of either the adamantyl subs...
Figure 9: Competitive host–guest complexations in which either the adamantyl substituent (red) or the n-hexyl...
Figure 10: (a) Substituted chitosan in which acyl- and adamantyl-substitution is 5% and 12 %, respectively. (b...
Figure 11: The formation of a AD-PEG micelle followed by the formation of a AD-PEG/α-CD supramolecular hydroge...
Figure 12: Interaction of PEG-b-PAA block copolymer with cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II), cisplatin, to form ...
Figure 13: Solution to hydrogel transitions (a)–(d) for a PAAddn segment in the presence of competitive photo-...
Figure 14: Structures of the poly(acrylate)-based polymers PAAAzo (trans), PAAAzo (cis), PAA3α-CD and PAA6α-CD...
Figure 15: Variation of viscosity of a PAA6α-CD/PAAAzo solution (circles) and a PAA3α-CD/PAAAzo solution (tria...
Figure 16: The structures proposed for the poly(ethylene glycol)-b-poly(ethylamine)-g-dextran·γ-CD, PEG-PEI-de...
Figure 17: Structure of poly(ethylene glycol) polyrotaxane with adamantyl end substituents, and its temperatur...
Figure 18: Copolymers of either (a) N,N-dimethylacrylamide (DMAA) or (b) N-isopropylacrylamine (NIPAAM) with 1...
Figure 19: The copolymer of isopropylacrylamine and methacrylated β-CD (a) and its complexation of the anions ...
Figure 20: Solution to hydrogel transitions for two segments of PAAddn in the presence of β-CD and change in t...
Figure 21: Preparation of a β-CD and adamantyl substituted acrylamide polymer hydrogel involving host–guest co...
Figure 22: Aqueous solutions of the polymers poly-β-CD and poly-α-BrNP form the poly-β-CD/poly-α-BrNP hydrogel ...
Figure 23: (a) Randomly β-CD substituted poly(acrylate), PAA-6β-CD. (b) Randomly ferrocenyl substituted poly(a...
Figure 24: (a) The β-CD, adamantyl and ferrocenyl substituted pAAm and pNiPAAM polymers. (b) The β-CD, adamant...
Molecular ordering at electrified interfaces: Template and potential effects
- Thanh Hai Phan and
- Klaus Wandelt
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2243–2254, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.233
- the uncharged viologen species DBV0, respectively. The first investigations on the surface redox chemistry as well as the self-assembly of DBV-species on a chloride modified Cu(100) surface, were presented by Safarowsky et al. and Pham et al. [5][6][7]. In the present paper we will describe for the
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Figure 1: Cyclic voltammograms of Cu(111) in pure 10 mM HCl (dashed grey curve) and in viologen molecules con...
Figure 2: Reversible redox-state of viologen molecule; Φ = dihedral angle of the respective bipyridinium core....
Figure 3: Chloride-modified Cu(111) surface : a) STM image 70 nm × 70 nm, bias voltage Ub +220 mV, tunneling ...
Figure 4: Typical STM images of the surface morphology and high-resolution images of the DBV2+ related herrin...
Figure 5: Structural correlation between the ordered DBV2+ herring-bone phase and the anionic chloride lattic...
Figure 6: A series of STM images recorded with the same tunneling parameters (46.67 nm × 46.67 nm, Ub = 386 m...
Figure 7: Series of STM images showing the desintegration of the stripe pattern and restoration of the corres...
Figure 8: a) Typical STM image showing two rotational domains of the DBV+• alterating stripe pattern (see tex...
Figure 9: STM images of the DBV2+ cavitand phase on c(2 × 2)Cl/Cu(100); a) 29.2 nm × 29.2 nm, b) and c) 7.5 n...
Figure 10: Typical STM image showing two rotational domains of the DBV+• stripe pattern on Cl/Cu(100): a) 57.6...
Figure 11: Structure models for the observed ordered layers of DBV2+ dications and DBV+• monocation radicals o...
Visible light mediated intermolecular [3 + 2] annulation of cyclopropylanilines with alkynes
- Theresa H. Nguyen,
- Soumitra Maity and
- Nan Zheng
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 975–980, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.96
- parent amine. This oxidation step can be realized enzymatically [6][7][8], chemically [9][10][11][12][13][14], electrochemically [15][16], and photochemically [17][18][19][20]. Recently, visible light photoredox catalysis has emerged as a powerful method to manipulate the redox chemistry of organic
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Figure 1: Substrate scope.
Scheme 1: Synthesis of a fused indoline.
Scheme 2: Proposed catalytic cycle.
The renaissance of organic radical chemistry – deja vu all over again
- Corey R. J. Stephenson,
- Armido Studer and
- Dennis P. Curran
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2778–2780, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.312
- homolytic aromatic substitution (BHAS) [3], b) photoredox catalysis [4][5][6][7][8], c) redox chemistry using Bu4NI in combination with t-BuOOH [9], d) transition metal catalyzed processes where radicals are suggested to interact directly with copper, nickel, zinc, palladium, gold and so on [10][11][12][13
Advancements in the mechanistic understanding of the copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition
- Regina Berg and
- Bernd F. Straub
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2715–2750, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.308
- the 5-iodotriazole product. Although DMAP must play an eminent role in this context, the redox chemistry leading to the formation of an “I+” equivalent was not discussed by these authors [141]. In order to further ameliorate the preparation of 5-iodo-1,4-disubstituted-1,2,3-triazoles, the groups of
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Scheme 1: Exemplary 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of phenylacetylene with phenyl azide [6].
Scheme 2: CuAAC reaction of benzyl azide with (prop-2-yn-1-yloxy)benzene [12].
Scheme 3: Bioconjugation reaction of capsid-bound azide groups with alkynyl-functionalized dye molecules (cow...
Figure 1: Tris(triazolylmethyl)amine ligands for CuAAC applications in bioorganic chemistry: TBTA = tris[(1-b...
Figure 2: Derivatives of 2,2’-bipyridine and 1,10-phenanthroline, commonly used ligands in CuAAC reactions un...
Scheme 4: CuAAC reaction with copper(II) precursor salt and rate-accelerating monodentate phosphoramidite lig...
Scheme 5: Synthesis of 1-(adamant-1-yl)-1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-ylcarbonyl-Phe-Gly-OH by solid-supported Click cat...
Scheme 6: CuAAC reaction with re-usable copper(I)-tren catalyst [129].
Scheme 7: CuAAC test reaction with chlorido[tris(1-benzyl-1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)methanol-κ3N3]copper(I) and a...
Scheme 8: CuAAC model reaction with [Cu2(μ-TBTA-κ4N2,N3,N3’,N3’’)2][BF4]2 [131].
Scheme 9: Application of a (2-aminoarenethiolato)copper(I) complex as homogeneous catalyst for the CuAAC test...
Scheme 10: Application of [CuBr(PPh3)3] as homogeneous catalyst for the CuAAC test reaction of benzyl azide wi...
Figure 3: Phosphinite and phosphonite copper(I) complexes presented by Díez-González [144].
Scheme 11: Effect of additives on the CuAAC test reaction with [(SIMes)CuCl] [149].
Scheme 12: Initiation of the catalytic cycle by formation of the copper acetylide intermediate from [(ICy)2Cu]...
Scheme 13: Early mechanistic proposal by Sharpless [12,42].
Scheme 14: Chemoselective synthesis of a 5-iodo-1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazole [156].
Scheme 15: Mechanistic proposals for the copper-catalyzed azide–iodoalkyne cycloaddition [156].
Scheme 16: 1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition of 3-hexyne catalyzed by [(SIMes)CuBr] [146].
Scheme 17: Mechanistic picture for the cycloaddition of internal alkynes catalyzed by NHC-copper(I) complexes ...
Scheme 18: Catalytic cycle of the CuAAC reaction on the basis of the proposed mechanistic scheme by Fokin and ...
Figure 4: Schematic representation of the single crystal X-ray structures of copper(I) acetylide complexes [Cu...
Figure 5: Acetylide-bridged dicopper complexes with tris(heteroarylmethyl)amine ligand(s) as key intermediate...
Scheme 19: Off-cycle equilibrium between unreactive polymeric copper(I) acetylide species (right) and reactive...
Figure 6: Categories of tris(heteroarylmethyl)amine ligands regarding their binding ability to copper(I) ions ...
Scheme 20: Mechanistic scheme for ligand-accelerated catalysis with tripodal tris(heteroarylmethyl)amine ligan...
Scheme 21: Synthesis of supposed intermediates in the CuAAC’s catalytic cycle [164,187].
Figure 7: Tetranuclear copper acetylide complexes as reported by Weiss (left) [176] and Tasker (middle) [185] and model...
Figure 8: Gibbs free energy diagram for the computed mechanistic pathway of the CuAAC reaction starting from ...
Figure 9: Energy diagram by Ahlquist and Fokin [125].
Scheme 22: Mechanistic proposal for the CuAAC reaction based on DFT calculations by Fokin [125] and our group [186] ([Cu...
Figure 10: ORTEP plot [202,203] of the X-ray powder diffraction crystal structure of (phenylethynyl)copper(I) [(PhC≡CCu)...
Scheme 23: Synthesis of [(PhC≡CCu)2]n as co-product in the Glaser coupling of phenylacetylene in the presence ...
Scheme 24: Mechanistic explanation for the isotopic enrichment in the product triazolide in the presence of th...
Scheme 25: Homogeneous CuAAC catalysis with a bistriazolylidene dicopper complex (0.5 mol %) and comparison wi...
Flow photochemistry: Old light through new windows
- Jonathan P. Knowles,
- Luke D. Elliott and
- Kevin I. Booker-Milburn
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 2025–2052, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.229
- been shown to be unsuccessful under batch conditions. Nevertheless, the low flow rates and low concentrations involved limited output to 2.4 µmol/h, leaving significant questions over its synthetic utility [48][49][50]. Other redox chemistry to be performed by using titanium dioxide photocatalysts
Graphical Abstract
Figure 1: An immersion-well batch reactor with 125 W medium pressure Hg lamp.
Figure 2: Transmission profile of a 0.05 M solution, ε = 200 M−1 cm−1.
Figure 3: Schematic of a typical microflow photochemical reactor (above) and detail of a triple-channel micro...
Figure 4: Schematic of a typical macroflow photochemical reactor (above) and images of the FEP photochemical ...
Scheme 1: [2 + 2] photocycloadditions of enones with enol derivatives.
Scheme 2: Competing reactions in an intramolecular [2 + 2] photocycloaddition.
Scheme 3: Diastereocontrolled cycloaddition of a cyclic enone with cyclopentene.
Scheme 4: Comparison of yields and reaction times for a batch reactor with a microflow system.
Scheme 5: Intramolecular [2 + 2] photocycloaddition.
Scheme 6: Paterno–Büchi reaction of benzophenone with an allylic alcohol.
Scheme 7: Photooxygenation of cyclopentadiene.
Scheme 8: Preparation of the anthelmintic ascaridole 23.
Scheme 9: Production of rose oxide 27 from (−)-β-citronellol (24).
Scheme 10: Photocatalytic alkylation of benzylamine.
Scheme 11: Photocatalytic reduction of 4-nitroacetophenone.
Scheme 12: Conversion of L-lysine to L-pipecolinic acid.
Scheme 13: Photocatalytic hydrodehalogenation.
Scheme 14: Photocatalytic aza-Henry reactions.
Scheme 15: Photocatalytic α-alkylation of aliphatic ketones.
Scheme 16: Decarboxylative photochemical additions.
Scheme 17: Photochemical addition of isopropanol to furanones.
Scheme 18: Photochemical addition of methanol to limonene.
Scheme 19: Light-promoted reduction of flavone.
Scheme 20: Photoreduction of benzophenone with benzhydrol.
Scheme 21: Barton reaction in a microflow system.
Scheme 22: Microflow synthesis of vitamin D3.
Scheme 23: photochemical chlorination of cyclohexane.
Scheme 24: photochemical cyanation of pyrene.
Scheme 25: Intermolecular [2 + 2] cycloaddition of maleimide (76) and intramolecular [2 + 2] cycloaddition of ...
Scheme 26: Intramolecular [5 + 2] cycloaddition of maleimide under flow conditions.
Scheme 27: Intramolecular [5 + 2] cycloaddition as a key step in the synthesis of (±)-neostenine.
Scheme 28: In situ generation of a thioaldehyde by photolysis of a phenacyl sulfide.
Scheme 29: Photodimerisation of maleic anhydride.
Scheme 30: [2 + 2] cycloaddition of a chiral enone with ethylene.
Scheme 31: Intramolecular [2 + 2] cycloaddition of a cyclopentenone.
Scheme 32: Photochemical Wolff rearrangement and cyclisation to β-lactams.
Scheme 33: Photochemical rearrangement of aryl azides.
Scheme 34: Rearrangement of quinoline N-oxides to quinolones.
Scheme 35: Photochemical rearrangement of cyclobutenones.
Scheme 36: Photoisomerisation en route to a vitamin-D derivative.
Scheme 37: Schematic of the Seeberger photooxygenation apparatus and sensitised photooxygenation of citronello...
Scheme 38: Sensitised photooxygenation of dihydroartemisinic acid.
Scheme 39: Photochemical preparation of CpRu(MeCN)3PF6.
Scheme 40: In situ photochemical generation and reaction of a [CpRu]+ catalyst.
Scheme 41: Intermolecular alkene–alkyne coupling with photogenerated catalyst.
Scheme 42: PET deoxygenation of nucleosides.
Scheme 43: Photochemical defluorination of DABFT.
Scheme 44: Aromatic azide reduction by visible-light-mediated photocatalysis.
Scheme 45: Examples of visible-light-mediated reactions.
Scheme 46: Visible-light-mediated formation of iminium ions.
Scheme 47: Examples of visible-light-mediated photocatalytic reactions.
Scheme 48: Anhydride formation from a visible-light-mediated process.
Scheme 49: Light-mediated conjugate addition of glycosyl bromide 141 to acrolein.
Scheme 50: Visible-light-mediated photocyclisation to [5]helicene.
Modulating the activity of short arginine-tryptophan containing antibacterial peptides with N-terminal metallocenoyl groups
- H. Bauke Albada,
- Alina-Iulia Chiriac,
- Michaela Wenzel,
- Maya Penkova,
- Julia E. Bandow,
- Hans-Georg Sahl and
- Nils Metzler-Nolte
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1753–1764, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.200
- , ruthenocene and its derivatives typically undergo irreversible two-electron redox chemistry. Whether this difference in redox chemistry of the two metallocenes could interplay with the piezoelectric properties of phospholipid membranes [63] remains to be determined. Ruthenocene is known to have more extended
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Figure 1: Structures of the most active peptides that have been used in this study. The top row shows two rep...
Figure 2: Bactericidal activity of (RW)3 against S. aureus 133 (panel A and D) or B. megaterium (panel B) and...
Figure 3: Growth kinetics of B. megaterium under the influence of different amounts of synAMP (red: (RW)3; or...
Metal–ligand multiple bonds as frustrated Lewis pairs for C–H functionalization
- Matthew T. Whited
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1554–1563, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.177
- eliminations frequently utilized to generate such multiply bonded units. The limitations of these sorts of reactions in terms of potential catalytic applications are largely related to the reluctance of the metal center to undergo redox chemistry (e.g., N–C reductive elimination to generate an amine). The
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Scheme 1: Heterolytic cleavage of H2 by a phosphine/borane FLP by H2 polarization in the P–B cavity [5,11].
Scheme 2: Insertion of carbon dioxide into a phosphine/borane FLP [14].
Figure 1: Simplified frontier-molecular-orbital diagrams for (a) Mδ+═Eδ− and (b) Mδ−═Eδ+ FLPs (n = 1 for line...
Figure 2: Quenching of M═E FLPs by dimerization: (a) generic Mδ+═Eδ− case, and (b) Bergman's arylimido zircon...
Scheme 3: Oxygen-atom extrusion from CO2 by a Ta(V) neopentylidene [27].
Scheme 4: Oxygen-atom transfer from acetone at a Zr(IV) imide [28].
Scheme 5: Alkyne cycloaddition at a Zr(IV) imide [38].
Scheme 6: Nitrile-alkyne cross metathesis at a W(VI) nitride [40,41].
Scheme 7: C–H and H–H addition across a zirconium(IV) imide [42].
Scheme 8: Formal [2 + 2] cycloaddition of methyl isocyanate at a ruthenium silylene [58].
Scheme 9: Oxygen-atom transfer from phenyl isocyanate to a cationic terminal borylene [60].
Scheme 10: Coupling of a phosphorus ylide with an iridium methylene [62].
Scheme 11: Reactions of (PNP)Ir═C(H)Ot-Bu with oxygen-containing heterocumulenes [71].
Scheme 12: Reductive coupling of two CS2 units at (PNP)Ir═C(H)Ot-Bu [73].
Figure 3: Single-crystal X-ray structure of a silver(I) triflate adduct of (PNP)Ir═C(H)Ot-Bu with most H atom...
Scheme 13: Possible routes to C–H functionalization by 1,2-addition across a polarized metal–element multiple ...
Scheme 14: Alkoxycarbene formation by double C–H activation at (PNP)Ir [88].
Scheme 15: Catalytic oxidation of MTBE by multiple C–H activations and nitrene-group transfer to a Mδ−═Eδ+ FLP ...
Hybrid super electron donors – preparation and reactivity
- Jean Garnier,
- Douglas W. Thomson,
- Shengze Zhou,
- Phillip I. Jolly,
- Leonard E. A. Berlouis and
- John A. Murphy
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 994–1002, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.112
- determined. The 1H NMR spectrum showed the characteristic upfield shift of proton signals for nonaromatic electron-rich donors. Figure 2 shows the cyclic voltammogram of 21 (blue trace) and a comparison with 8 (X = PF6) (red trace). As seen, 21 undergoes reversible redox chemistry [E1½ (DMF) = −1.75 V, E2
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Figure 1: Super-electron-donors and related compounds.
Scheme 1: Preparation of the oxidised disalts.
Figure 2: Cyclic voltammograms in DMF of 8/4 (red) and 21/11 (blue). Current plotted vs V (relative to Fc/Fc+...
Scheme 2: Reductive reactions of donor 11 [17,18].
Figure 3: Cyclic voltammograms in DMF of 8/4 (red), 6/1 (green) and 22/9 (blue). Current plotted vs V relativ...
Scheme 3: Reductive reactions of donor 9.
Figure 4: (a) c.v. in DMF of 7/2 (red), 6/1 (green) and 27/10 (blue); (b) c.v. in DMF of 27/10 at different s...
Scheme 4: Use of hybrid donor 10 in reduction of iodoarenes.
Scheme 5: Reductive chemistry from disalt 15.
Scheme 6: Rationalisation of effect of excess NaH base.
Building photoswitchable 3,4'-AMPB peptides: Probing chemical ligation methods with reducible azobenzene thioesters
- Gehad Zeyat and
- Karola Rück-Braun
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 890–896, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.101
- ; molecular switches; peptides; redox chemistry; Introduction Optical switches not only offer the advantage to elucidate, but also to control biological processes with high spatial and temporal resolution by using light, either in vitro or in vivo [1]. In this context, azobenzenes remain a privileged class
- -terminal thioester peptide and either an N-terminal cysteine peptide or Nα-auxiliary-capped peptides. However, for elucidating the complex redox chemistry of the two azobenzene building blocks under the reducing conditions of ligation methods, we solely applied the Boc-protected azobenzene ω-amino acid
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Figure 1: Structures of azobenzene thioesters, Nα-ligation auxiliaries and peptides for the application in li...
Scheme 1: Structural differences between the trans- and the cis-state of azopeptides with a SKV PDZ binding m...
Figure 2: Structure of the glycine-linked auxiliary conjugates 7 and 8.
Scheme 2: Solid-phase synthesis of the ligation-mediating peptides 3–5.
Scheme 3: Reduction of the diazene unit of 4,4'-AMPB thioesters and peptides during aliphatic thiol-based Nα-...
Scheme 4: Synthesis of the azopeptides 16/17 by final TFA cleavage of the Boc-protecting groups, and of the a...
