Research progress on the pharmacological activity, biosynthetic pathways, and biosynthesis of crocins

• Zhongwei Hua,
• Nan Liu and
• Xiaohui Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 741–752, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.68

• ), and interleukin-6 (IL-6) [56][57][58]. The combination of crocins with doxorubicin and curcumin also showed a good anti-inflammation effect [56][59]. Antidepression Alsanie et al. found that the therapeutic effect of C. sativus extract on mild and moderate depressive disorder is comparable to

Effects of the aldehyde-derived ring substituent on the properties of two new bioinspired trimethoxybenzoylhydrazones: methyl vs nitro groups

• Dayanne Martins,
• Roberta Lamosa,
• Talis Uelisson da Silva,
• Carolina B. P. Ligiero,
• Sérgio de Paula Machado,
• Daphne S. Cukierman and
• Nicolás A. Rey

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1713–1727, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.125

• corresponded to the aldehyde-derived ring, containing the –CH3 (or –NO2) substituents, an effect which is more explicit in hdz-NO2, probably due to the intrinsic disorder observed in its structure. The comparison between theoretical and experimental selected geometric parameters can be seen in Tables S1 and S2

Benzoimidazolium-derived dimeric and hydride n-dopants for organic electron-transport materials: impact of substitution on structures, electrochemistry, and reactivity

• Swagat K. Mohapatra,
• Khaled Al Kurdi,
• Samik Jhulki,
• Georgii Bogdanov,
• John Bacsa,
• Maxwell Conte,
• Tatiana V. Timofeeva,
• Seth R. Marder and
• Stephen Barlow

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1651–1663, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.121

• disorder in 1h2 and hydrogen atoms for clarity. Molecular structures from the single crystal structures of 1bH (upper left), 1gH (upper right), 1hH (lower left), and 1iH (lower right), shown with 50% thermal ellipsoids and excluding hydrogen atoms for clarity, except for the hydridic 2-hydrogen atoms

CO₂ complexation with cyclodextrins

• Cecilie Høgfeldt Jessen,
• Jesper Bendix,
• Theis Brock Nannestad,
• Heloisa Bordallo,
• Martin Jæger Pedersen,
• Christian Marcus Pedersen and
• Mikael Bols

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1021–1027, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.78

• solved in Olex2 using SHELXT and refined using SHELXL (Table 3) [19]. There is some disorder in one water molecule, which was modelled over two positions and some disorder in at least two of the primary alcohol groups, which was modelled. The latter disorder is not uncommon in α-cyclodextrin structures

Strategies in the synthesis of dibenzo[b,f]heteropines

• David I. H. Maier,
• Barend C. B. Bezuidenhoudt and
• Charlene Marais

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 700–718, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.51

• ) [8][9][10]. Commercial pharmaceutical agents based on dibenzo[b,f]azepine (1a), or the 10,11-dihydro derivative thereof (2a), include imipramine (3) and clomipramine (4) (tricyclic antidepressants) [11][12][13][14], opipramol (5) (generalized anxiety disorder) [15] and carbamazepine (6) (seizure

Inclusion complexes of the steroid hormones 17β-estradiol and progesterone with β- and γ-cyclodextrin hosts: syntheses, X-ray structures, thermal analyses and API solubility enhancements

• Alexios I. Vicatos,
• Zakiena Hoossen and
• Mino R. Caira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1749–1762, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.184

• the hormones BES and PRO, while the complex γ-CD·BES was readily shown to be isostructural with γ-CD·PRO by PXRD. Severe disorder of the encapsulated steroid molecules in the respective channels of the CD molecular assemblies was evident, however, preventing their modelling, but combination of the

• innovative study of their crystal isostructurality within the series and with published complexes. SCXRD was employed to deduce structural features of the complexes at the molecular level, while the occurrence of severe guest disorder prompted the non-routine application of a method for yielding complex

• and γ-CD·PRO and location and refinement of water oxygen atoms, difference electron density (Δρ) peaks with very low magnitudes (generally ≤ 1 e·Å−3) appeared within the respective host cavities, indicating severe disorder of the included steroidal guest molecules. This is a common situation for β-CD

Synthesis of C6-modified mannose 1-phosphates and evaluation of derived sugar nucleotides against GDP-mannose dehydrogenase

• Sanaz Ahmadipour,
• Alice J. C. Wahart,
• Jonathan P. Dolan,
• Laura Beswick,
• Chris S. Hawes,
• Robert A. Field and
• Gavin J. Miller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1379–1384, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.142

• unknown; b) previously disclosed C6–Me and C6–amido structure-to-function tools for GMD; c) C6-modified GDP-Mans of type 8 and 9, targeted in this work. Structure of 16 with ADPs rendered at the 50% probability level. Acetyl group disorder is omitted for clarity. Atom colour scheme: carbon = black, oxygen

Substituent effect on TADF properties of 2-modified 4,6-bis(3,6-di-tert-butyl-9-carbazolyl)-5-methylpyrimidines

• Irina Fiodorova,
• Tomas Serevičius,
• Rokas Skaisgiris,
• Saulius Juršėnas and
• Sigitas Tumkevicius

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 497–507, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.52

• were observed, aggravating its analysis. DF decay transients were perturbed by conformational disorder, typical for D–A TADF compounds in solid films [41][45][46][47]. The presence of conformational disorder made exponential fitting of DF transients hardly possible due to the multiexponential temporal

Constrained thermoresponsive polymers – new insights into fundamentals and applications

• Patricia Flemming,
• Alexander S. Münch,
• Andreas Fery and
• Petra Uhlmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2123–2163, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.138

• obtain for the entropy of mixing: Thus, the driving force of the mixing process is the increase in disorder due to the mixing of the particles of both species. ∆mG is therefore always negative for ideal mixtures of any composition with a minimum at a certain ratio A–B and is always smaller than the Gibbs

A systems-based framework to computationally describe putative transcription factors and signaling pathways regulating glycan biosynthesis

• Theodore Groth,
• Rudiyanto Gunawan and
• Sriram Neelamegham

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1712–1724, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.119

• processes and specific glycosylation pathways. TF–pathway relationships in breast cancer We provide a more detailed description of our findings in breast cancer as an example. This disorder appears in 5 unique molecular subtypes based on the PAM50 classification [17]. These include the following: i) normal

Chemical approaches to discover the full potential of peptide nucleic acids in biomedical applications

• Nikita Brodyagin,
• Martins Katkevics,
• Venubabu Kotikam,
• Christopher A. Ryan and
• Eriks Rozners

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1641–1688, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.116

Co-crystallization of an organic solid and a tetraaryladamantane at room temperature

• Fabian Rami,
• Jan Nowak,
• Felix Krupp,
• Wolfgang Frey and
• Clemens Richert

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1476–1480, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.103

• monoclinic. The TEO/phenol asymmetric unit consists of three TEO and three phenol molecules, resulting in a molar ratio TEO/phenol of 1:1 (Figure 2b/d). In the crystals, the ethoxy group of one of the TAA molecules is disordered, and one phenol molecule exhibits a 120°-rotational disorder for its hydroxy

Structural effects of meso-halogenation on porphyrins

• Keith J. Flanagan,
• Maximilian Paradiz Dominguez,
• Zoi Melissari,
• Hans-Georg Eckhardt,
• René M. Williams,
• Dáire Gibbons,
• Caroline Prior,
• Gemma M. Locke,
• Alina Meindl,
• Aoife A. Ryan and
• Mathias O. Senge

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1149–1170, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.88

• the effect of the di-bromination is evident. The addition of a phenyl ring to the 15-position (compound 5) increases the disorder observed. However, when this is changed to a bromine atom, an alleviation of ring strain is observed resulting in a structure that is more planar than compound 1

• that the fluorine atom is too small to overly impact the overall packing. This structure has a planar conformation similar to that of 2,3,7,8,12,13,17,18-octaethylporphyrin [41]. Due to the high disorder in the crystal structure (the fluorine atom is disordered over the four meso positions) an accurate

Molecular basis for protein–protein interactions

• Brandon Charles Seychell and
• Tobias Beck

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1–10, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.1

• conserved than in non-isologous interfaces [66]. Furthermore, homooligomeric complexes have more disorder regions than heterooligomeric complexes, and thereby an increasing allosteric regulation [67]. Jayashree et al. [68] analysed datasets of 45 transient protein–protein complex structures and analysed the

How and why plants and human N-glycans are different: Insight from molecular dynamics into the “glycoblocks” architecture of complex carbohydrates

• Carl A. Fogarty,
• Aoife M. Harbison,
• Amy R. Dugdale and
• Elisa Fadda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2046–2056, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.171

• undetected because of their intrinsic structural disorder. In this work we use molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to provide insight into N-glycans’ 3D structure by analysing the effects of a set of very specific modifications found in plants and invertebrate N-glycans, which are immunogenic in humans. We

• glycoblocks. Unlike a description based on the monosaccharide sequence and linkages as two separate features, the transition to well-defined and self-contained units, integrating information on both monosaccharides and linkages, can help us rationalize and deconvolute the glycans structural disorder and

Heterogeneous photocatalysis in flow chemical reactors

• Christopher G. Thomson,
• Ai-Lan Lee and
• Filipe Vilela

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1495–1549, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.125

• molecular layers [107]. The complex models used to describe charge transport in organic materials with differing degrees of disorder is well described by Liu, Noh, and co-workers [108]. The relative permittivity or dielectric constant (εr(ω)), which influences the screening of the charge carriers within the

• dependent on the temperature and electronic disorder as each hop requires the reorganisation of the molecules in the chain [115]. A particularly popular organic semiconductor photocatalyst in the recent literature is graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) [23]. g-C3N4 was one of the first synthetic polymers

Efficient synthesis of piperazinyl amides of 18β-glycyrrhetinic acid

• Dong Cai,
• ZhiHua Zhang,
• Yufan Meng,
• KaiLi Zhu,
• LiYi Chen,
• ChangXiang Yu,
• ChangWei Yu,
• ZiYi Fu,
• DianShen Yang and
• YiXia Gong

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 798–808, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.73

• -glycyrrhetinic acid derivative 18. The molecular structure of compound 18 in the crystalline state is shown in Figure 3. In this crystal structure, there is an orientational disorder of the m-fluorophenyl moiety due to the rotation of a single bond. Details for the crystal structure determinations are given in

Towards triptycene functionalization and triptycene-linked porphyrin arrays

• Gemma M. Locke,
• Keith J. Flanagan and
• Mathias O. Senge

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 763–777, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.70

• charge from The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre via http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/data_request/cif. Triptycene as a scaffold and selected porphyrin and BODIPY arrays. Single crystal X-ray structure of triptycene 5. (a) Molecular structure of 5 in the crystal with hydrogen atoms and minor disorder

• (iii) of another triptycene molecule. Hydrogen atoms and minor disorder omitted for clarity (thermal displacement 50%). Single crystal X-ray structure of triptycene-linked zinc-nickel porphyrin dimer 16 showing the conformation within the crystal structure; (a) top-view of zinc porphyrin; (b) top-view

• of nickel porphyrin. Hydrogen atoms and minor disorder are omitted for clarity (thermal displacement 50%). Views of the single crystal X-ray structure of triptycene-linked zinc-nickel porphyrin dimer 16 showing the π-stacking homo-metallic interactions between Ni(II)-porphyrin···Ni(II)-porphyrin (a

Halogen-bonding-induced diverse aggregation of 4,5-diiodo-1,2,3-triazolium salts with different anions

• Xingyu Xu,
• Shiqing Huang,
• Zengyu Zhang,
• Lei Cao and
• Xiaoyu Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 78–87, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.10

• have been omitted for clarity. Packing structure of 2-OAc. Hydrogen atoms and solvent molecules have been omitted for clarity. Packing structure of 2-TFA. Hydrogen atoms and disorder of fluorine atoms have been omitted for clarity. Side view (left) and top view (right). Packing structure of 2-I.1.5I2

Formation of alkyne-bridged ferrocenophanes using ring-closing alkyne metathesis on 1,1’-diacetylenic ferrocenes

• Celine Bittner,
• Dirk Bockfeld and
• Matthias Tamm

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2534–2543, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.246

• ethyne [94]. Interestingly, a disorder of the iron position in the butynylferrocene 1a can be observed, obviously being responsible for the slightly longer Fe–Ct distances as compared to 1b. The main position Fe has an occupation of 74%. The disordered position Fe’ with an occupation of 26% is located

• between the centroid of C11 and the centroid of C1’ of the following ferrocene unit connected through the main position Fe resulting in a chain like structure of ferrocenes. An ORTEP drawing of this structure can be found in the Supporting Information File 1 (Figure S15). Because of this disorder the

• disorder on the iron position. Unfortunately, no single crystals for X-ray diffraction analysis could be obtained with such disorder being absent. For the catalytic RCAM (Scheme 1), the substrates 1a and 1b were dissolved in toluene at high dilution (4.5 mM), and the catalyst MoF6 (2 mol %) was added as a

Ultrafast processes triggered by one- and two-photon excitation of a photochromic and luminescent hydrazone

• Alessandro Iagatti,
• Baihao Shao,
• Alberto Credi,
• Barbara Ventura,
• Ivan Aprahamian and
• Mariangela Di Donato

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2438–2446, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.236

• the competition between the intramolecular hydrogen bond between the N–H and C=O groups in the Z-form and hydrogen bonds formed by these functional groups with solvent molecules. The conformational distortion and the increased conformational disorder arising from hydrogen bonding with the solvent can

• transfer nature, so that it can be stabilized in polar media where its lifetime slightly increases. In the protic solvent, however, where the molecule can adopt a partially twisted conformation, the increased conformational disorder most probably activates different non-radiative decay channels, shortening

Halide metathesis in overdrive: mechanochemical synthesis of a heterometallic group 1 allyl complex

• Ross F. Koby,
• Nicholas R. Rightmire,
• Nathan D. Schley,
• Timothy P. Hanusa and
• William W. Brennessel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1856–1863, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.181

• ]∞ in low yield, which was crystallographically characterized as a coordination polymer that displays site disorder of the K+ and Cs+ ions. The entropic benefits of mixed Cs/K metal centers, but more importantly, the generation of multiple intermolecular K…CH3 and Cs…CH3 interactions in [CsKA'2

• depiction of a single chain is provided in Figure 1, and a partial packing diagram is given in Figure 2. The asymmetric unit contains three alkali metal cations and three substituted allyl anions, all in general positions. Each of the three metal sites is modeled as a site disorder of atoms types K and Cs

• . The structure suffers from twinning, disorder in the toluene, and weak diffraction, and therefore its structural details are degraded (a depiction of the coordination polymer is available in Supporting Information File 1). Fortunately, when [KA'] is dissolved in benzene and the solution evaporated, an

Selenophene-containing heterotriacenes by a C–Se coupling/cyclization reaction

• Pierre-Olivier Schwartz,
• Sebastian Förtsch,
• Astrid Vogt,
• Elena Mena-Osteritz and
• Peter Bäuerle

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1379–1393, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.138

• 2: a = 5.978(3), b = 29.005(11), c = 21.173(8) Å; α = 90°, β = 91.903(19)°, γ = 90°, V = 3669(3) Å3; DSS 4: a = 6.108(3), b = 29.049(17), c = 21.949(11) Å; α = 90°, β = 91.815 (12)°, γ = 90°, V = 3892(3) Å3). The molecules in both crystals evidenced some rotational disorder. Single crystals of

Halogen bonding and host–guest chemistry between N-alkylammonium resorcinarene halides, diiodoperfluorobutane and neutral guests

• Fangfang Pan,
• Mohadeseh Dashti,
• Michael R. Reynolds,
• Kari Rissanen,
• John F. Trant and
• Ngong Kodiah Beyeh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 947–954, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.91

• incredibly effective tool for observing privileged conformations and structures [15][16][17][18][19]. From the crystallographic information we can extract the polymorphism, high Z’-value, twining, and disorder that provide insight into the dynamics of prenucleation assembly, nucleation, and crystal growth

• the crystals form [26]. Twinning and disorder are generally seen as an undesirable complication in determining structures; however, the nature and extent of the disorder contains significant information regarding the dynamics and conformational sampling of the molecules [19][24][27]. Desiraju et al

• . employing substitutional disorder, achieved the co-crystallization of six components [28]. As for positional disorder, it generally indicates the same molecule or assembly can adopt more than one favourable conformation. From this perspective, disorder can be considered as a special case of a co-crystal or

Coordination chemistry and photoswitching of dinuclear macrocyclic cadmium-, nickel-, and zinc complexes containing azobenzene carboxylato co-ligands

• Jennifer Klose,
• Tobias Severin,
• Peter Hahn,
• Alexander Jeremies,
• Jens Bergmann,
• Daniel Fuhrmann,
• Jan Griebel,
• Bernd Abel and
• Berthold Kersting

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 840–851, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.81

• structures of 5 and 6 the co-ligands were found to be disordered over two positions. This disorder could be successfully modelled by using appropriate DFIX, DANG and AFIX instructions implemented in SHELXL. The site occupancy factors of the two orientations were initially refined, but were fixed at 0.65 and