Synthesis of new representatives of A₃B-type carboranylporphyrins based on meso-tetra(pentafluorophenyl)porphyrin transformations

• Victoria M. Alpatova,
• Evgeny G. Rys,
• Elena G. Kononova and
• Valentina A. Ol'shevskaya

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 767–776, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.70

• compounds allowing for the preparation of porphyrins with different reactive groups such as hydroxy and amino derivatives capable for further functionalization and conjugation of these porphyrins to other substrates. In addition, conjugates containing maleimide or biotin entities in the structure of

• has become one of the most popular route for the site-selective modification of cysteine residues in bioconjugation technology. We suppose that the maleimide group in porphyrin 11 is a useful target for thiol conjugation via Michael addition reactions [44]. This also concerns biotin-conjugated organic

• functionality was supported by the design of conjugates containing maleimide and biotin substituents. The structures of prepared carboranylporphyrins were determined by UV–vis, IR, 1H 19F, 11B NMR spectroscopic data and MALDI mass spectrometry. Synthesis of porphyrins 2 and 3. Synthesis of carborane

Switchable molecular tweezers: design and applications

• Pablo Msellem,
• Maksym Dekthiarenko,
• Nihal Hadj Seyd and
• Guillaume Vives

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 504–539, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.45

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

• preferred to maximize orbital overlap (Figure 4) [63]. For π-acidic surfaces, the exo transition state VII is more completely accessible (Figure 4). The 3-hydroxy-2-pyrone (24) was selected as representative diene for the anionic [4 + 2] cycloaddition with maleimide 25 as standard dienophile to afford endo

A novel spirocyclic scaffold accessed via tandem Claisen rearrangement/intramolecular oxa-Michael addition

• Anastasia Vepreva,
• Alexander Yanovich,
• Dmitry Dar’in,
• Grigory Kantin,
• Alexander Bunev and
• Mikhail Krasavin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1649–1655, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.177

• 50 °C for 12 h, underwent the Claisen rearrangement to give diastereomerically pure maleimide 4a in 4% yield [15]. While for our study at the time the formation of 3 and 4 were viewed as a minor side-reaction, later be started pondering the possibility of giving the observed transformation a stronger

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

• it was not observed in sonication experiments. These observations inspired the synthesis and activation of mechanophores (maleimide–anthracene cycloadducts) in dendronized polymer-based materials such as 4 upon ball milling (Scheme 2). The differences observed in the activation of polymers such as 4

Syntheses of novel pyridine-based low-molecular-weight luminogens possessing aggregation-induced emission enhancement (AIEE) properties

• Masayori Hagimori,
• Tatsusada Yoshida,
• Yasuhisa Nishimura,
• Yukiko Ogawa and
• Keitaro Tanaka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 580–587, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.60

• . pyrido[1,2-a]pyrrolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines 3a,b and N-methyl-4-((pyridin-2-yl)amino)maleimides 4a–e, were selectively prepared by a one-pot reaction between a functionalized maleimide and 2-aminopyridines with electron-donating or electron-withdrawing groups at position 5 and were investigated

• photophysically and computationally. The photophysical studies revealed that all the synthesized compounds exhibited fluorescence in organic solvents, while N-methyl-4-((pyridin-2-yl)amino)-substituted maleimide derivatives 4a–e, which are based on an acceptor–donor–acceptor (A–D–A) system, exhibited aggregation

• the electronic nature of the compounds with and without AIEE properties. Keywords: acceptor–donor–acceptor; AIEE; low molecular weight; one-pot reaction; ((pyridin-2-yl)amino)maleimide; TD-DFT calculation; Introduction Fluorescent compounds have attracted considerable attention as functional

Iron-catalyzed domino coupling reactions of π-systems

• Austin Pounder and
• William Tam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2848–2893, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.196

• . In the case of activated alkenes, the species will undergo a 7-exo-trig cyclization. On the other hand, it is energetically more favorable for the maleimide species to sequentially undergo a 1,4-HAT, 1,4-HAT, 1,6-HAT and intramolecular cyclization to form the 6-membered ring. Further, by applying

Visible-light-mediated copper photocatalysis for organic syntheses

• Yajing Zhang,
• Qian Wang,
• Zongsheng Yan,
• Donglai Ma and
• Yuguang Zheng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2520–2542, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.169

• . In this work, N,N-dialkylanilines or N-aryltetrahydroisoquinolines 48 reacted with N-substituted maleimide 49 via annulation to provide a range of tetrahydroquinolines or tetrahydroisoquinolines 50, respectively, with good yield. The mechanistic investigation revealed that an α-amino radical

• undergoes radical addition with the N-substituted maleimide (Scheme 25). In 2017, Wu and co-workers [94] reported the α-amino C−H functionalization of aromatic amines 51 with nucleophiles, including arynes or aromatic olefins 52, indoles, acyclic β-ketoester 53, and β-diketone 54 (Scheme 26). Mechanistic

Efficient synthesis of polyfunctionalized carbazoles and pyrrolo[3,4-c]carbazoles via domino Diels–Alder reaction

• Ren-Jie Fang,
• Chen Yan,
• Jing Sun,
• Ying Han and
• Chao-Guo Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2425–2432, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.159

• reaction and sequential aromatization process. Keywords: carbazole; chalcone; Diels–Alder reaction; maleimide; pyrrolo[3,4-c]carbazole; 3-vinylindole; Introduction Carbazole is one of the most well-known privileged nitrogen-containing heterocycles. The carbazole skeleton is widely occurring in natural

• convenient synthesis of polyfunctionalized carbazole derivatives. Results and Discussion According to our previously established reaction conditions for the preparation of spiro[indoline-3,5'-pyrrolo[3,4-c]carbazoles] [48], an equivalent amount of 3-(indol-3-yl)maleimide with chalcone was stirred in toluene

• ]carbazoles 4a–l in satisfactory yields. Indole itself and N-methylindole could also be successfully employed in the reaction. The N–Me, N–Ph, and N–Bn substitution in the maleimide moiety showed only a marginal effect on the reaction outcome. Various chalcones with electron-donating methyl and methoxy groups

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

A comprehensive review of flow chemistry techniques tailored to the flavours and fragrances industries

• Guido Gambacorta,
• James S. Sharley and
• Ian R. Baxendale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1181–1312, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.90

Enhanced target cell specificity and uptake of lipid nanoparticles using RNA aptamers and peptides

• Roslyn M. Ray,
• Anders Højgaard Hansen,
• Maria Taskova,
• Bernhard Jandl,
• Jonas Hansen,
• Citra Soemardy,
• Kevin V. Morris and
• Kira Astakhova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 891–907, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.75

• –maleimide–PEG into their LNPs to target epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-positive cancer cells. The authors showed an increased delivery of siRNAs and fluorescent quantum dot nanocrystals both in vitro and in EGFR-positive tumor xenografts in mice [48]. In 2020, Chandra et al. used a maleimide–PEG in

Synthetic reactions driven by electron-donor–acceptor (EDA) complexes

• Zhonglie Yang,
• Yutong Liu,
• Kun Cao,
• Xiaobin Zhang,
• Hezhong Jiang and
• Jiahong Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 771–799, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.67

• for the synthesis of perfluoroalkyl-substituted phenanthridines. In 2018, Sundén and Hsu [31] proposed a method of adding an α-aminoalkyl radical to maleimide via an EDA complex based on previous work (Scheme 10). The corresponding products can be given in good yield by modifying substituents on the N

Ring-closing metathesis of prochiral oxaenediynes to racemic 4-alkenyl-2-alkynyl-3,6-dihydro-2H-pyrans

• Viola Kolaříková,
• Markéta Rybáčková,
• Martin Svoboda and
• Jaroslav Kvíčala

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2757–2768, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.226

• and 13 Hexahydropyranoisoindole 14 contains four stereogenic centers and hence can form 8 possible diastereoisomers. Due to fixed configuration of maleimide 13, four possible diastereoisomers come into account (Figure 4). With the aim to disclose the most probable candidates for the experimentally

• obtained two diastereoisomers, we decided to perform a short DFT study of the Diels–Alder reaction between dihydropyran 12b and maleimide 13. We started the study with the optimization of the starting compound. While the optimization of the rigid maleimide 13 was straightforward, 18 conformations had to be

• . Conformations of dihydropyran 12b. The two most stable s-trans (left) and s-cis (right) conformations of dihydropyran 12b. The two most stable transition states endo-trans 15B and exo-cis 15C (hydrogens are omitted for clarity). PES of the Diels–Alder reaction of dihydropyran 12b and maleimide 13. RCEYM with Ru

Selective and reversible 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of 6-aryl-1,5-diazabicyclo[3.1.0]hexanes with 1,3-diphenylprop-2-en-1-ones under microwave irradiation

• Alexander P. Molchanov,
• Mariia M. Efremova,
• Mariya A. Kryukova and
• Mikhail A. Kuznetsov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2679–2686, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.218

• assumption, we decided to study alternative methods for the generation of azomethine imines from adducts 3. For this purpose, pyrazolopyrazole 3g was heated in toluene at 110 °C for 3 hours under microwave irradiation in the presence of dipolarophiles such as maleimide 5, isocyanate 7, and isothiocyanate 9

Recent developments in enantioselective photocatalysis

• Callum Prentice,
• James Morrisson,
• Andrew D. Smith and
• Eli Zysman-Colman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2363–2441, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.197

• catalyst to an intermolecular photocycloaddition between quinolone 209 and maleimide 210 (Scheme 32b) [92]. After extensive mechanistic investigations, the proposed mechanism for this reaction is markedly different to the intramolecular example in Scheme 32a. Firstly, the hydrogen-bonded complex 211 that

• forms is proposed to involve the alkoxy group rather than the N–H bond that is usually invoked. Then, upon photoexcitation, Dexter energy transfer to the maleimide is dominant to generate 3maleimide rather than energy transfer to the quinolone. While some maleimide dimerisation is observed, which

• supports the presence of triplet maleimide, a rapid cycloaddition occurs with the now ground-state hydrogen-bonded quinolone–iridium complex within the solvent cage pair 212 to give complex 213. Subsequent displacement by another substrate molecule releases the desired products 214 in excellent yields and

Hierarchically assembled helicates as reaction platform – from stoichiometric Diels–Alder reactions to enamine catalysis

• David Van Craen,
• Jenny Begall,
• Johannes Großkurth,
• Leonard Himmel,
• Oliver Linnenberg,
• Elisabeth Isaak and
• Markus Albrecht

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2338–2345, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.195

• -Maleimides 8a and 8b with a methyl and an ethyl residue showed higher yields and a lower induction in comparison to the benzyl derivative 8e with 43% ee and 39% ee (Table 1). The poorest result was obtained by using dienophile 8c with a tert-butyl substituent (82% yield, 18% ee). This maleimide gave the

Highly selective Diels–Alder and Heck arylation reactions in a divergent synthesis of isoindolo- and pyrrolo-fused polycyclic indoles from 2-formylpyrrole

• Carlos H. Escalante,
• Eder I. Martínez-Mora,
• Carlos Espinoza-Hicks,
• Alejandro A. Camacho-Dávila,
• Fernando R. Ramos-Morales,
• Francisco Delgado and
• Joaquín Tamariz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1320–1334, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.113

• -vinylpyrroles 16a,b were chosen as the dienes to evaluate the reactivity with diverse dienophiles. The reaction of acrolein, methyl acrylate, maleic anhydride and maleimide (R3 = H, 7a) in xylene by heating up to 150 °C failed to provide the corresponding adducts. It was possible to recover the starting

• . Accordingly, the R2 substituent in the diene would play an important role in directing the endo/exo orientation of the approach to the maleimide at the transition state (TS). Therefore, the endo diastereoselectivity is apparently not controlled by the presence or the absence of the substituent bonded to the

• . Firstly, the geometry and energy of the TSs and the associated minima along the reaction coordinates of the N-substituted diene 8g with maleimide 7c were calculated at the M06-2X/6-31+G(d,p) level of theory [48][49][50][51] on the Gaussian 09 program [52]. For each stationary point of the Diels–Alder

Synthesis of pyrrolidinedione-fused hexahydropyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinolines via three-component [3 + 2] cycloaddition followed by one-pot N-allylation and intramolecular Heck reactions

• Xiaoming Ma,
• Suzhi Meng,
• Xiaofeng Zhang,
• Qiang Zhang,
• Shenghu Yan,
• Yue Zhang and
• Wei Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1225–1233, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.106

• hexahydropyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinoline compounds 9a–o in moderate to good yields as a single isomers which were confirmed by 1H NMR analysis of the crude reaction mixtures. The substitution groups R3 (Me, Et, Ph, Bn, c-C6H11) on maleimide have no significant influence on the product yields to afford 9a–f in 73–80

• ester 1 (1.2 mmol), 2-bromobenzaldehyde 3 (1 mmol) and maleimide 4 (1.1 mmol) in EtOH (3 mL) with Et3N (1.5 mmol) was heated at 110 °C for 6 h in a sealed vial. The concentrated reaction mixture was isolated by column chromatography on silica gel to afford adduct 5 in 85–90% yield. General procedure for

• the synthesis of pyrrolidine adducts 6 A solution of 2-aminoisobutyric acid (2, 1.2 mmol), 2-bromobenzaldehyde 3 (1 mmol) and maleimide 4 (1 mmol) in MeCN (3 mL) with AcOH (0.3 mmol) was heated at 110 °C for 6 h in a sealed vial. The concentrated reaction mixture was isolated by column chromatography

Recent applications of porphyrins as photocatalysts in organic synthesis: batch and continuous flow approaches

• Rodrigo Costa e Silva,
• Luely Oliveira da Silva,
• Aloisio de Andrade Bartolomeu,
• Timothy John Brocksom and
• Kleber Thiago de Oliveira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 917–955, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.83

• (NiTPP) as an efficient photocatalyst in both oxidative and reductive quenching [22]. The ability of NiTPP as both photooxidant and photoreductant was observed in maleimide annulation and chalcogenylation reactions, respectively (Scheme 7). For both processes, nickel(II) was determinant for the success

Recent advances in photocatalyzed reactions using well-defined copper(I) complexes

• Mingbing Zhong,
• Xavier Pannecoucke,
• Philippe Jubault and
• Thomas Poisson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 451–481, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.42

• -a]pyrrolo[3,4-c]quinoline derivatives were obtained for the first time. This transformation starts with the oxidation of the excited photocatalyst with O2. The aniline is then oxidized into an N-centered radical cation, which further gives the α-amino radical. The latter reacts with the maleimide to

Chemical tuning of photoswitchable azobenzenes: a photopharmacological case study using nicotinic transmission

• Lorenzo Sansalone,
• Jun Zhao,
• Matthew T. Richers and
• Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2812–2821, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.274

• activation with cycles of violet and green light. Due to the very long-lived metastable cis configuration, 4FAB in vivo use could be of great promise for long term biological studies. Further chemical functionalization of this 4FAB probe with a maleimide functionality allowed clean cross-linking with

• temperature. The maleimide-substituted compound 1 reacted with the cysteine of glutathione, however, we found that this "4FAB version" of MAHoCh (Scheme 1) did not enable significant perturbation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor currents used with MAHoCh [16]. However, when 4FABTA analog 2 was tested as a

• maintains the near-ideal chemical properties of Hecht’s 4FAB chromophores [12][13] (see below). The final synthetic challenge was the installation of a maleimide onto chromophore 2. The original AB photoswitchable probes which were cross-linked to cysteine mutants had amides with a reverse orientation [19

Fluorinated maleimide-substituted porphyrins and chlorins: synthesis and characterization

• Valentina A. Ol’shevskaya,
• Elena G. Kononova and
• Andrei V. Zaitsev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2704–2709, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.263

• Valentina A. Ol'shevskaya Elena G. Kononova Andrei V. Zaitsev A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds of Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991, Vavilova St. 28, Moscow, Russian Federation 10.3762/bjoc.15.263 Abstract Maleimide-containing fluorinated porphyrins and chlorins were

• prepared based on the reaction of Zn(II) or Ni(II) complexes of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-amino-2,3,5,6-tetrafluorophenyl)porphyrin and chlorin with maleic anhydride. Porphyrin maleimide derivatives were also prepared by the reaction of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-azido-2,3,5,6-tetrafluorophenyl)porphyrinato Zn(II

• ) or Ni(II) with N-propargylmaleimide via the CuAAC click reaction to afford fluorinated porphyrin–triazole–maleimide conjugates. New maleimide derivatives were isolated in reasonable yields and identified by UV–vis, 1H NMR, 19F NMR spectroscopy and mass-spectrometry. Keywords: chlorin; maleimide

An overview of the cycloaddition chemistry of fulvenes and emerging applications

• Ellen Swan,
• Kirsten Platts and
• Anton Blencowe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2113–2132, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.209

• (i) maleimide derivatives, (ii) dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (DMAD) and (iii) p-benzoquinones. Generic schemes showing pentafulvenes participating as dienophiles in Diels–Alder cycloadditions with (i) o-benzoquinones and (ii) polyhalogenated cyclopentadienes. Reaction of 8,8-dicyanoheptafulvene

Mechanochemical Friedel–Crafts acylations

• Mateja Đud,
• Anamarija Briš,
• Iva Jušinski,
• Davor Gracin and
• Davor Margetić

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1313–1320, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.130

• mixture of 19 and 18 (3:2 ratio), accompanied with a small amount of 22. As a substitute for dianthracene 19, thermally more stable substrate, anthracene-N-methyl maleimide adduct 25 [54] was prepared by Diels–Alder reaction under high pressure conditions as well as by microwave-assisted reaction and

• mechanochemically (Scheme 5). In this molecule, N-methylmaleimide could be used as protection of the 9,10-positions of anthracene and then removed by FVP. We thought that the maleimide moiety will not be affected in the FC acylation, since the precedencies exist in the literature on imide moiety withstanding the FC