Synthesis and characterizations of highly luminescent 5-isopropoxybenzo[rst]pentaphene

• Islam S. Marae,
• Jingyun Tan,
• Rengo Yoshioka,
• Zakaria Ziadi,
• Eugene Khaskin,
• Serhii Vasylevskyi,
• Ryota Kabe,
• Xiushang Xu and
• Akimitsu Narita

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 270–276, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.19

• reaction conditions to selectively obtain BPP-OiPr 3 in 55% yield from dialdehyde 1. Additionally, oxidation of BPP-OiPr 3 provided BPP-dione 4 in 70% yield. The photophysical properties of BPP-OiPr 3 and BPP-dione 4 were carefully studied, examining the solvent-polarity dependence of their optical spectra

• , in comparison with parent BPP 2. Notably, both BPP-OiPr 3 and BPP-dione 4 displayed enhanced PLQYs while a significant solvent-polarity dependence of the emission was observed only for the latter, suggesting the photoinduced intramolecular charge-transfer character of 4. Moreover, BPPs 2–4 formed

• -OiPr 3 and BPP-dione 4, their absorption and emission spectra were next measured in different solvents (Figure 2c and d and Supporting Information File 1, Figures S4 and S5). For BPP-OiPr 3 the well-defined vibronic structures were observed without showing any significant solvent-polarity dependence

Synthesis, characterization, and photophysical properties of novel 9‑phenyl-9-phosphafluorene oxide derivatives

• Shuxian Qiu,
• Duan Dong,
• Jiahui Li,
• Huiting Wen,
• Jinpeng Li,
• Yu Yang,
• Shengxian Zhai and
• Xingyuan Gao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3299–3305, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.274

• charge transfer, as indicated by the λmax value of 342 nm. In addition, the effect of solvent polarity on the UV−vis absorption was studied with 7-H (Figure 2b). The spectra show that there is no significant difference in the absorption bands in different solvents, indicating that the polar environment

• induced by the stronger electron-donating feature of the carbazole substituent located on the donor carbazole group. In addition, we tested the emission wavelength of 7-H in different solvents (Figure 3b) and found that the maximum is redshifted gradually with increasing solvent polarity, which indicates

Efficient synthesis of fluorinated triphenylenes with enhanced arene–perfluoroarene interactions in columnar mesophases

• Yang Chen,
• Jiao He,
• Hang Lin,
• Hai-Feng Wang,
• Ping Hu,
• Bi-Qin Wang,
• Ke-Qing Zhao and
• Bertrand Donnio

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3263–3273, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.270

• PH8), with no or little influence of the solvent polarity (Figure 6a). This may suggest that the sigma-bonded F6 and G66 have no conjugation in their ground states, the electron density being located on one triphenylene moiety (see DFT). G66 shows a stronger absorption band than F6, with expected ε

• (λem = 402 nm for PH8) and 460–500 nm for G66, with absolute quantum yields of 30% and 32%, respectively. Further, their fluorescence spectra in solutions show some solvent polarity influence, with a substantial red shift as the solvent polarity is increased. In thin film, the single luminescence

Cyclodextrin-based rotaxanes for polymer materials: challenge on simultaneous realization of inexpensive production and defined structures

• Yosuke Akae

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3026–3049, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.252

• )rotaxane framework The rotaxane framework is often deployed as a molecular device in which the positional relationship between the axle and wheel is controlled by external stimuli [14][32]. Acid–base, photoisomerization, redox, ion recognition, solvent polarity, or heating treatment is generally used for

• tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) and a triazole ring (Figure 7A) [61]. CD was located around the TTF moiety under neutral conditions; however, it moved to the triazole ring, following TTF oxidization. Meanwhile, the structural control by exploring the solvent polarity was reported by Harada and co-workers using the α-CD

Tunable full-color dual-state (solution and solid) emission of push–pull molecules containing the 1-pyrindane moiety

• Anastasia I. Ershova,
• Sergey V. Fedoseev,
• Konstantin V. Lipin,
• Mikhail Yu. Ievlev,
• Oleg E. Nasakin and
• Oleg V. Ershov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 3016–3025, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.251

• ) in tetrachloromethane (CTC) to 588 nm (orange) in formic acid. Therefore, it was found that compound 1c was characterized by a large Stokes shift upon increasing the solvent polarity, which reached 150 nm (5824 cm−1) in formic acid. This was associated with the bathochromic shift of the emission band

• dimethylamino group, were studied (Table 1 and Figure 3). It was found that in most solvents, compound 1i was characterized by a single pronounced absorption maximum in the range of 503–525 nm that red-shifted upon increasing the solvent polarity. In formic acid, due to the protonation of the dimethylamino

• did not occur. In these solvents, a classical pattern for the bathochromic emission shift was observed upon increasing the solvent polarity. Generally, both stilbazoles 1c and 1i were characterized by solvatochromic behavior typical for molecules showing an ICT. A significant long-wavelength shift of

Metal-free double azide addition to strained alkynes of an octadehydrodibenzo[12]annulene derivative with electron-withdrawing substituents

• Naoki Takeda,
• Shuichi Akasaka,
• Susumu Kawauchi and
• Tsuyoshi Michinobu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2234–2241, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.191

• apparently smaller than those previously reported for the reaction between DBA-OHex and benzyl azide (Table S1 in Supporting Information File 1). However, the Ea values were previously measured in DMSO-d6 and C6D6, and it is known that there is a solvent polarity effect on the reactivity of SpAACs. In order

Structure–property relationships in dicyanopyrazinoquinoxalines and their hydrogen-bonding-capable dihydropyrazinoquinoxalinedione derivatives

• Tural N. Akhmedov,
• Ajeet Kumar,
• Daken J. Starkenburg,
• Kyle J. Chesney,
• Khalil A. Abboud,
• Novruz G. Akhmedov,
• Jiangeng Xue and
• Ronald K. Castellano

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1037–1052, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.92

• and aromatic groups as strong donors in the backbone; the dione groups in the case of DPQDs diminish the acceptor properties of the aza π-system. It is worth mentioning that ICT is significantly influenced by solvent polarity and the comprehensive study of solvent effects is not within the scope of

Ligand effects, solvent cooperation, and large kinetic solvent deuterium isotope effects in gold(I)-catalyzed intramolecular alkene hydroamination

• Ruichen Lan,
• Brock Yager,
• Yoonsun Jee,
• Cynthia S. Day and
• Amanda C. Jones

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 479–496, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.43

• (first order fit in alkene decay) between THF (ε = 7.6, polarity index = 4.0), methylene chloride (ε = 8.9, polarity index = 3.1), and methanol (ε = 32.7, polarity index = 5.1) despite the large differences in solvent polarity (Table 2, entries 3, 4, and 5; rates in THF and MeOH are only 1–2 times faster

Photochromic derivatives of indigo: historical overview of development, challenges and applications

• Gökhan Kaplan,
• Zeynel Seferoğlu and
• Daria V. Berdnikova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 228–242, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.23

• + cations (500 equiv). At the same time, addition of TBA+ cations showed just a minimal impact on the stability of the Z-form comparable with the effect of counter anions and solvent polarity. In 2021, Tsubaki and co-workers synthesized bridged N,N′-dialkyl-substituted indigos 13 and studied their thermal

• the Z-isomers in comparison with the E-forms [62]. In 2018, Nagasawa and co-workers provided a detailed investigation of the influence of solvent polarity and intermolecular hydrogen bonding on the photoisomerization of N,N'-diacetylindigo (9a) by transient absorption spectroscopy [63]. In principle

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

• toluene. This phenomenon aligns with the notion that the TICT states experience stabilization with increasing solvent polarity. Conversely, in contrast to 68–70, and 71, a TCBD derivative 72 incorporating a tetraphenylethylene (TPE) moiety exhibited no emission in toluene, possibly due to the presence of

Using the phospha-Michael reaction for making phosphonium phenolate zwitterions

• Matthias R. Steiner,
• Max Schmallegger,
• Larissa Donner,
• Johann A. Hlina,
• Christoph Marschner,
• Judith Baumgartner and
• Christian Slugovc

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 41–51, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.6

• Michael adduct of acrylamide, and 2h, the Michael adduct of 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate, show blue-shifted absorption maxima of 352 nm and 356 nm, respectively. Upon increasing the solvent polarity by using methanol instead of chloroform, a hypsochromic shift of the absorption maximum occurs (dotted lines in

A deep-red fluorophore based on naphthothiadiazole as emitter with hybridized local and charge transfer and ambipolar transporting properties for electroluminescent devices

• Suangsiri Arunlimsawat,
• Patteera Funchien,
• Pongsakorn Chasing,
• Atthapon Saenubol,
• Taweesak Sudyoadsuk and
• Vinich Promarak

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1664–1676, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.122

• , the molecule contains both the intrinsic LE and CT excited states or demonstrates HLCT characteristics. Besides, the Stokes shifts between absorption and emission spectra were plotted as a function of solvent polarity function (Δf) corresponding to the Lipper–Mataga model which defines the

• PL emission and a weakened emission intensity with the increased solvent polarity [57][58]. As the fw was further raised to 95%, the PL emissions became more intense and were blue-shifted. This was attributable to the formation of nanoaggregates and suppression of the ICT process. This finding proves

• silica substrate and solid powder (insert: fluorescence images of the solution, thin film, and solid powder under UV light at 356 nm). a) Normalized UV–vis absorption/PL spectra in different solvents. b) Lippert–Mataga plot of Stokes shift vs solvent polarity function (Δf). c) Transient PL decay traces

Organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence material with strained benzoguanidine donor

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

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

• experience a very weak solvatochromic effect with increasing solvent polarity from cyclohexane to dichloromethane. This indicates only minor change of the dipole moment upon vertical excitation from S0 (6.4 D) to S1 (7.2 D) excited states according to the TD-DFT theoretical calculations (Table S2, Supporting

Enabling artificial photosynthesis systems with molecular recycling: A review of photo- and electrochemical methods for regenerating organic sacrificial electron donors

• Grace A. Lowe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1198–1215, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.88

• solvent polarity [24][25]. Hence, it is important when considering new reagents and catalysts to only compare potentials measured in conditions as close to the photocatalytic conditions as possible. For instance, quinones have 2 one-electron reductions in aprotic media and one two-electron reduction at a

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

• negative electrostatic potential (VS,min) of the acceptor [46][48][51][52], but also by other factors [53][54][55][56][57] including hydrogen bonding [31][48], solvent polarity [47][58], the Lewis basicity of the acceptor [46][50] and by sterics [46]. As with any interatomic interaction, the energy of a

The effect of dark states on the intersystem crossing and thermally activated delayed fluorescence of naphthalimide-phenothiazine dyads

• Liyuan Cao,
• Xi Liu,
• Xue Zhang,
• Jianzhang Zhao,
• Fabiao Yu and
• Yan Wan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1028–1046, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.79

• that affects the fluorescence of these two dyads. Indeed, the highly solvent polarity dependent fluorescence emission intensity, and wavelength are different from the 4-amino NI derivatives, which are much less solvent polarity-dependent [59][61]. Since a TADF molecule is characterized by a stronger

• process is thermodynamically allowed in these solvents and the CS state energy of the dyads calculated by the redox potentials are slightly higher than the experimental values in HEX (the fluorescence, Figure 2). For the unoxidized molecules, with increasing solvent polarity, the CS state energy decreases

• 1CS/3CS states should be small, on a <0.1 eV scale [39][58]. For the dyads with oxidized PTZ moieties, the CS state energy is higher than that of the unoxidized molecules, and it is also decreased with increasing solvent polarity. The T1 state of NI was determined as 2.25 eV (phosphorescence method

Naphthalimide-phenothiazine dyads: effect of conformational flexibility and matching of the energy of the charge-transfer state and the localized triplet excited state on the thermally activated delayed fluorescence

• Kaiyue Ye,
• Liyuan Cao,
• Davita M. E. van Raamsdonk,
• Zhijia Wang,
• Jianzhang Zhao,
• Daniel Escudero and
• Denis Jacquemin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1435–1453, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.149

• quenching in polar solvents is less significant than that of NI-PTZ (Figure 2b), and the CT emission band is blue-shifted as compared to that of NI-N-PTZ [20], a likely consequence of the reduced electron-donating ability of the PTZ moiety. For NI-PTZ2, a solvent polarity-dependent fluorescence band was

• (approximated from the low temperature phosphorescence). Therefore, it is evident that the 3LE state is the lowest-lying triplet state in both NI-Ph-PTZ and NI-PhMe2-PTZ. It is known that the CT state energy decreases substantially when increasing the solvent polarity. For instance, in NI-PTZ, the CT state lies

Synthesis of 3,4,5-trisubstituted isoxazoles in water via a [3 + 2]-cycloaddition of nitrile oxides and 1,3-diketones, β-ketoesters, or β-ketoamides

• Md Imran Hossain,
• Md Imdadul H. Khan,
• Seong Jong Kim and
• Hoang V. Le

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 446–458, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.47

• enol tautomer of the 1,3-diketone was predominant in CDCl3, while the keto tautomer was predominant in methanol-d4, which is a more polar solvent than CDCl3 (Figure 7). Our observations thus reinforce Meyer’s rule [34][35], which states that the keto tautomer is favored as the solvent polarity

• thermodynamical product. The solvent polarity also affects the keto–enol equilibrium of the intermediate II-D. In polar solvents, the keto tautomer is predominant as an electrophilic group for the intramolecular cyclization, while in nonpolar solvents, the enol tautomer could not accept a nucleophilic attack for

• -withdrawing substituents present in the 1,3-diketones would increase the degree of enolization of the 1,3-diketones [30][33], and the polarity of the solvent would have only a little effect on the keto–enol tautomerization of such 1,3-diketones [30]. During our studies, we also observed the effect of solvent

Photophysical, photostability, and ROS generation properties of new trifluoromethylated quinoline-phenol Schiff bases

• Inaiá O. Rocha,
• Yuri G. Kappenberg,
• Wilian C. Rosa,
• Clarissa P. Frizzo,
• Nilo Zanatta,
• Marcos A. P. Martins,
• Isadora Tisoco,
• Bernardo A. Iglesias and
• Helio G. Bonacorso

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2799–2811, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.191

• the 400–550 nm region depending on the solvent polarity (CHCl3, DMSO, and MeOH). Therefore, it is possible to infer that the polarity of the solvents directly influences the electronic transitions in the excited state, with significant changes for the compound in more polar and protic solvents, by

• revealed significant differences, mainly according to the change in solvent polarity, being, for example, higher for compounds in DMSO and MeOH than in chloroform solution. Furthermore, the highest values were found in the presence of electron-donating groups, i.e., in compounds 3bb (R = Ph, R1 = 5-NEt2

Regioselective N-alkylation of the 1H-indazole scaffold; ring substituent and N-alkylating reagent effects on regioisomeric distribution

• Ryan M. Alam and
• John J. Keating

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1939–1951, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.127

• solubility of Cs2CO3 in toluene and 1,4-dioxane [24]. Using K2CO3 in MeCN, Longworth et al. have obtained 10 with a similar degree of N-1 regioselectivity (ratio N-1:N-2 = 2.8:1) [26]. However, altering solvent polarity when employing 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene (DBU) as a base (Table 1, entries 15–17

Synthesis of 1-indolyl-3,5,8-substituted γ-carbolines: one-pot solvent-free protocol and biological evaluation

• Premansh Dudhe,
• Mena Asha Krishnan,
• Kratika Yadav,
• Diptendu Roy,
• Krishnan Venkatasubbaiah,
• Biswarup Pathak and
• Venkatesh Chelvam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1453–1463, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.101

• absorption maximum (λmax) was observed at 230 nm for 3ac in DMSO (Figure 3, left side). The fluorescence studies carried out for 3ac in four different solvents revealed that the emission maxima shifted bathochromically by almost 40 nm upon changing the solvent polarity, for instance, from non-polar hexane to

CF₃-substituted carbocations: underexploited intermediates with great potential in modern synthetic chemistry

• Anthony J. Fernandes,
• Armen Panossian,
• Bastien Michelet,
• Agnès Martin-Mingot,
• Frédéric R. Leroux and
• Sébastien Thibaudeau

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 343–378, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.32

• solvolysis rate for derivatives 13f or 13g and the solvent polarity parameter YOTs [45]. The solvent participation in the solvolysis of these tertiary benzylic tosylates was thus defined as “unimportant” by the authors. Gassman and Harrington successfully measured the solvolysis kinetics of CF3-substituted

¹⁹F NMR as a tool in chemical biology

• Diana Gimenez,
• Aoife Phelan,
• Cormac D. Murphy and
• Steven L. Cobb

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 293–318, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.28

Naphthalonitriles featuring efficient emission in solution and in the solid state

• Sidharth Thulaseedharan Nair Sailaja,
• Iván Maisuls,
• Jutta Kösters,
• Alexander Hepp,
• Andreas Faust,
• Jens Voskuhl and
• Cristian A. Strassert

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2960–2970, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.246

• mixture (Table 2). All the compounds exhibited an up-down tendency in intensity upon increasing the water fraction. Compounds H, Me and t-Bu showed a progressive red-shift with growing water content, owing to the increased solvent polarity and dielectric constant favoring the CT character of the emissive

Selective recognition of ATP by multivalent nano-assemblies of bisimidazolium amphiphiles through “turn-on” fluorescence response

• Rakesh Biswas,
• Surya Ghosh,
• Shubhra Kanti Bhaumik and
• Supratim Banerjee

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2728–2738, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.223

• reported lifetimes for monomeric pyrenes [66][67]. In aqueous buffer, the lifetime of the 395 nm band decreased (≈15–35 ns, Supporting Information File 1, Table S3) probably owing to the increment in the solvent polarity [68]. The average lifetime values (τavg) of the excimeric bands of PBIm10, PBIm12 and