Monitoring carbohydrate 3D structure quality with the Privateer database

• Jordan S. Dialpuri,
• Haroldas Bagdonas,
• Lucy C. Schofield,
• Phuong Thao Pham,
• Lou Holland and
• Jon Agirre

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 931–939, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.83

• scientists. The Privateer software is a validation and analysis tool that provides access to a number of metrics and links to external experimental resources, allowing users to evaluate structures using carbohydrate-specific methods. Here, we present the Privateer database, a free resource that aims to

• in the past has been plagued with software related problems from incorrect libraries to incomplete support [4]. Carbohydrates are mobile, highly branched additions to the comparatively rigid protein framework; in macromolecular crystallography, this causes heterogeneity throughout the crystal lattice

• new resources, including services and databases [9][10][11][12][13], and standalone software [14][15][16][17][18]. Among these, the Privateer software package has been a key tool for glycoprotein and protein–carbohydrate complex validation: Privateer analyses the conformational plausibility of each

Activity assays of NnlA homologs suggest the natural product N-nitroglycine is degraded by diverse bacteria

• Kara A. Strickland,
• Brenda Martinez Rodriguez,
• Ashley A. Holland,
• Shelby Wagner,
• Michelle Luna-Alva,
• David E. Graham and
• Jonathan D. Caranto

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 830–840, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.75

• nnlA gene, including those described here, were identified by sequence similarity searches and their predicted amino acid sequences were used to infer phylogenetic relationships. An alignment of 11 amino acid sequences with 28 to 87% identity was prepared using MUSCLE software (ver. 5.1) [48] and

New variochelins from soil-isolated Variovorax sp. H002

• Jabal Rahmat Haedar,
• Aya Yoshimura and
• Toshiyuki Wakimoto

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 692–700, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.63

• library preparation with a Ligation Sequencing Kit (SQK-LSK 109), following the 1D genomic DNA by ligation protocol. The library was applied to a MinION flowcell (FLO MIN106 R9.41revD) operated by the MinKNOW (20.06.9) software, and then processed by Guppy basecaller (4.0.11) in the high accuracy mode. As

A laterally-fused N-heterocyclic carbene framework from polysubstituted aminoimidazo[5,1-b]oxazol-6-ium salts

• Andrew D. Gillie,
• Matthew G. Wakeling,
• Bethan L. Greene,
• Louise Male and
• Paul W. Davies

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 621–627, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.54

• method and Sambvca V.2.0 software (Scheme 2) [29]. Although a similar value to that reported for IPrAuCl (%Vbur = 45.4%) [30] the steric map shows a very different steric environment on either side of the ligand. The AImOxIr(CO)2Cl complex 15 was targeted in order to assess the electronic effects of the

Introduction of a human- and keyboard-friendly N-glycan nomenclature

• Friedrich Altmann,
• Johannes Helm,
• Martin Pabst and
• Johannes Stadlmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 607–620, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.53

• definition of positional isomers. The combination with elements of the condensed IUPAC code allows to describe even rather complex structural elements. Thus, this “proglycan” coding could be the missing link between drawn structures and software-oriented representations of N-glycan structures. On top, it may

• depictions and related software has lately been portrayed in a quite enjoyable review [15]. A number of computer-readable formats has been developed of which GlycoCT [16] and WURCS [17] are currently the options of choice. None of these software friendly options is even remotely suitable for labeling of

• software thus often essentially neglects the overinterpretation problem and suggests a particular structure, where actually a range of isomers is possible as recently elaborated for the H5N4F1 composition [26]. A few more prominent alphanumerical codes were developed and shall be described and compared in

Chemical and biosynthetic potential of Penicillium shentong XL-F41

• Ran Zou,
• Xin Li,
• Xiaochen Chen,
• Yue-Wei Guo and
• Baofu Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 597–606, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.52

• version of antiSMASH 7.0 [25] software for the analysis of the Penicillium shentong XL-F41 genome, we identified 46 BGCs. These include 13 NRPS-like fragments, 6 NRPS, 13 type I PKS, 2 PKS/NRPS hybrids, 1 NI-siderophore, 2 NRP-metallophore/NRPS hybrids, 1 fungal RiPP with POP or UstH peptidase types, 1

A myo-inositol dehydrogenase involved in aminocyclitol biosynthesis of hygromycin A

• Michael O. Akintubosun and
• Melanie A. Higgins

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 589–596, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.51

• . In addition, NAD+ and NADP cofactors were also tested in reactions with myo-inositol. NAD+ and NADP were purchased from Research Products International. Results were analyzed using GraphPad Prism version 9.5.1 for Windows, GraphPad Software, Boston, Massachusetts USA, https://www.graphpad.com

• determining the slope of the reaction from 0 to 5 min. Results were analyzed using Microsoft Excel and GraphPad Prism version 9.5.1 for Windows, GraphPad Software, Boston, Massachusetts USA, https://www.graphpad.com. SSN network generation and genome mining The sequence similarity network was generated using

Synthesis of photo- and ionochromic N-acylated 2-(aminomethylene)benzo[b]thiophene-3(2Н)-ones with a terminal phenanthroline group

• Vladimir P. Rybalkin,
• Sofiya Yu. Zmeeva,
• Lidiya L. Popova,
• Irina V. Dubonosova,
• Olga Yu. Karlutova,
• Oleg P. Demidov,
• Alexander D. Dubonosov and
• Vladimir A. Bren

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 552–560, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.47

• dedicated CrysAlisPro software suite [34]. The structure was solved with the ShelXT program [35] and refined with the ShelXL program [36], and the graphics were rendered using the Olex2 software suite [37]. The complete X-ray structural dataset for compound 2a was deposited with the Cambridge

Synthesis and biological profile of 2,3-dihydro[1,3]thiazolo[4,5-b]pyridines, a novel class of acyl-ACP thioesterase inhibitors

• Jens Frackenpohl,
• David M. Barber,
• Guido Bojack,
• Birgit Bollenbach-Wahl,
• Ralf Braun,
• Rahel Getachew,
• Sabine Hohmann,
• Kwang-Yoon Ko,
• Karoline Kurowski,
• Bernd Laber,
• Rebecca L. Mattison,
• Thomas Müller,
• Anna M. Reingruber,
• Dirk Schmutzler and
• Andrea Svejda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 540–551, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.46

• pI50 values were calculated from plots of inhibition values vs test compound concentration using Model 205 of the ID Business Solutions Ltd Xlfit software suite. The FAT A binding fluorescent tracer was synthesized from (2S,4S)-4-[(2,6-difluorophenyl)methoxymethyl]-4-ethyl-2-methyl-N-(prop-2

Pseudallenes A and B, new sulfur-containing ovalicin sesquiterpenoid derivatives with antimicrobial activity from the deep-sea cold seep sediment-derived fungus Pseudallescheria boydii CS-793

• Zhen Ying,
• Xiao-Ming Li,
• Sui-Qun Yang,
• Hong-Lei Li,
• Xin Li,
• Bin-Gui Wang and
• Ling-Hong Meng

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 470–478, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.42

• by Chromeleon software (version 6.80). LC–MS were obtained with a Bruker maXis plus Q-TOF. Column chromatography was carried out using commercially available silica gel (200–300 mesh, Qingdao Haiyang Chemical Co.), Lobar LiChroprep RP-18 (40–63 μm, Merck), and Sephadex LH-20 (Pharmacia). Thin-layer

• structures were solved by direct methods using the SHELXTL software package [18][19]. All non-hydrogen atoms were refined anisotropically. The H atoms were located by geometrical calculations, and their positions and thermal parameters were fixed during the structure refinement. The absolute structures were

Facile approach to N,O,S-heteropentacycles via condensation of sterically crowded 3H-phenoxazin-3-one with ortho-substituted anilines

• Eugeny Ivakhnenko,
• Vasily Malay,
• Pavel Knyazev,
• Nikita Merezhko,
• Nadezhda Makarova,
• Oleg Demidov,
• Gennady Borodkin,
• Andrey Starikov and
• Vladimir Minkin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 336–345, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.34

• reflexes as well as the determination and refinement of unit cell parameters were performed by using the specialized CrysAlisPro 1.171.38.41 software suite [28]. The structures were solved by using the SHELXT program [29]. Structural refinement was performed with the SHELXL program [30]. Molecular graphics

• were rendered and prepared for publication with the Olex2 version 1.3.0 software suite [31]. The complete X-ray diffraction datasets were deposited in the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center (CCDC numbers 2292841, 2292840, 2292847, 2308520, and 2292848, Tables S2–S9, Supporting Information File 1

Discovery of unguisin J, a new cyclic peptide from Aspergillus heteromorphus CBS 117.55, and phylogeny-based bioinformatic analysis of UngA NRPS domains

• Sharmila Neupane,
• Marcelo Rodrigues de Amorim and
• Elizabeth Skellam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 321–330, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.32

• TF 1.8.1 software. Fungal growth and extraction A. heteromorphus CBS 117.55 was cultivated in 2 Erlenmeyer flasks (500 mL), each containing 90 g of rice and 150 mL of H2O [16]. The medium was autoclaved at 121 °C for 20 min. After sterilization, the medium was inoculated with the spore solution of A

Elucidating the glycan-binding specificity and structure of Cucumis melo agglutinin, a new R-type lectin

• Jon Lundstrøm,
• Emilie Gillon,
• Valérie Chazalet,
• Nicole Kerekes,
• Antonio Di Maio,
• Ten Feizi,
• Yan Liu,
• Annabelle Varrot and
• Daniel Bojar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 306–320, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.31

• overlay of streptavidin-Alexa Fluor 647 (Molecular Probes) at 1 µg/mL. The microarray slides were scanned with GenePix 4300A scanner instrument (50% laser power at PMT 350), and the image analysis (quantitation) was performed with GenePix® Pro 7 software. The results can be found in Supporting Information

• reference (streptavidin only) and subtracting a blank injection (running buffer – zero analyte concentration). Data evaluation and curve fitting was performed using the provided BIACORE X100 evaluation software (version 2.0). Measurements were at least done in duplicate. Then, to perform competition

• using the free software “data entry”. The IC50 was calculated using https://www.aatbio.com/tools/ic50-calculator. X-ray crystallography All consumables for crystallization and crystal handling were purchased at Molecular Dimensions, Calibre Scientific, Rotherham, UK, unless stated otherwise. CMA1

Synthesis of the 3’-O-sulfated TF antigen with a TEG-N₃ linker for glycodendrimersomes preparation to study lectin binding

• Mark Reihill,
• Hanyue Ma,
• Dennis Bengtsson and
• Stefan Oscarson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 173–180, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.17

• reported to one decimal point unless an additional digit was required to distinguish overlapping peaks. Software for data processing: MestReNova, version 11.0.0–17609 (MestReLab Research S.L.). High-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) data were recorded on a Waters Micromass LCT LC–TOF instrument using

Photoinduced in situ generation of DNA-targeting ligands: DNA-binding and DNA-photodamaging properties of benzo[c]quinolizinium ions

• Julika Schlosser,
• Olga Fedorova,
• Yuri Fedorov and
• Heiko Ihmels

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 101–117, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.11

• , and gHMBC experiments. The spectra were processed with the MestreNova software. The mass spectra were recorded with a Finnigan LCQ Deca (driving current: 6 kV, collision gas: argon, capillary temperature: 200 °C, support gas: nitrogen) and an Orbitrap mass spectrometer Thermo Fisher Exactive (driving

• current: 3.5 kV, capillary temperature: 300 °C, capillary voltage: 45 V, injection rate: 5 μL/min, scanning range: 150−750 m/z, and resolution: ultra-high) and processed with the software Xcalibur. The CHNS analysis data were determined in-house with a HEKAtech EuroEA combustion analyzer. The melting

Optimizing reaction conditions for the light-driven hydrogen evolution in a loop photoreactor

• Pengcheng Li,
• Daniel Kowalczyk,
• Johannes Liessem,
• Mohamed M. Elnagar,
• Dariusz Mitoraj,
• Radim Beranek and
• Dirk Ziegenbalg

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 74–91, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.9

• -DHC s/n: LS-2001019) and an Avantes spectrometer (AvaSpec-Mini2048CL) was used to measure the absorbance with AvaSoft software. An example of the whole absorption measurement setup using 1cm light-path cuvette and the cuvette holder setup is shown in Supporting Information File 1, Figure S7

• variable (response). Design-Expert® software (10.0.5.0 Stat-Ease, Inc.) was used to perform the DOE analysis. To avoid random experimental values from a range of chosen values of the parameters when using the software, the values for the independent variables were chosen manually based on the technical

• variables, yi,pred is the predicted response, yi,exp is the experimental data, is the arithmetic mean of the experimental data, and e−i is a deletion residual computed by fitting a model without the ith run then predicting the ith observation with the resulting model used in the Design-Expert® software

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

• obtained using an Autolab PGSTAT12 instrument and Nova 1.11 software with a scan rate of 0.1 V/s for the CVs. A silver wire immersed in a 0.1 M Bu4NPF6 solution in CH2Cl2 separated from the analyte solution by a frit was used as the reference electrode, a Pt wire was used as the counter electrode, and a

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

• displayed in Scheme 1. All simulations were performed with COPASI, an open-source software [48]. The second-order rate constants were obtained by fitting the experimental time traces until a fully consistent data set, being valid for all experimental conditions, was established. For X-ray structure analyses

NMRium: Teaching nuclear magnetic resonance spectra interpretation in an online platform

• Luc Patiny,
• Hamed Musallam,
• Alejandro Bolaños,
• Michaël Zasso,
• Julien Wist,
• Metin Karayilan,
• Eva Ziegler,
• Johannes C. Liermann and
• Nils E. Schlörer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 25–31, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.4

• ), Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States, Department of Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany 10.3762/bjoc.20.4 Abstract NMRium is the first web-based software that allows displaying, processing, interpretation, and teaching of 1D and 2D NMR data in a user-friendly interface. It

• (oftentimes commercial) software, which imposes additional preconditions that cannot easily be overcome in many institutions [12][13]. Many tasks that required locally installed software before can now be easily performed using web applications (e.g., cloud office services), making the web browser a powerful

• platform for specialized data handling applications. This trend has not been withheld from science: With the advent of web tools for the online representation and manipulation of scientific data [14][15][16][17] and the development of software for spectroscopy visualization [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25

Thienothiophene-based organic light-emitting diode: synthesis, photophysical properties and application

• Recep Isci and
• Turan Ozturk

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1849–1857, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.137

• . The high thermal stability is profitable for the preparation of stable and durable OLED devices. Computational chemistry Ground-state geometry optimization of DMB-TT-TPA (8) was performed using density functional theory (DFT) calculations with the Gaussian 16 software at the B3LYP/6-31G (d,p) level

Charge carrier transport in perylene-based and pyrene-based columnar liquid crystals

• Alessandro L. Alves,
• Simone V. Bernardino,
• Carlos H. Stadtlober,
• Edivandro Girotto,
• Giliandro Farias,
• Rodney M. do Nascimento,
• Sergio F. Curcio,
• Thiago Cazati,
• Marta E. R. Dotto,
• Juliana Eccher,
• Leonardo N. Furini,
• Hugo Gallardo,
• Harald Bock and
• Ivan H. Bechtold

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1755–1765, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.128

• a monochromator and a multichannel bases photomultiplier (Hamamatsu R3809U-50). Lifetimes were obtained by fitting the fluorescence decay curves with exponential functions using FluoFit® software and the plots of weighted residuals and reduced chi-square were used to determine the best fits during

• , using the Orca 5.0.3 [40] software package within B3LYP/Def2-TZVP(-f) level of theory [41][42][43][44][45]. Dispersion effects were included using Grimme’s D3 correction with Becke-Johnson (BJ) damping [45][46]. The evaluation of the four-center integrals was accelerated with the RIJCOSX algorithm [47

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

• were used to calculate the percentage decrease in concentration of the compound with respect to the first reading and data were processed using the OriginPro 21 software. X-ray diffraction Single crystals of hdz-CH3 and hdz-NO2 suitable for X-ray diffraction were obtained from the slow evaporation of

• the syntheses’ mother liquors. They were analyzed in a D8-Venture Bruker diffractometer equipped with Mo Κα X-ray source at 293 K. Diffraction images were collected with a Photon III area detector and the frames were integrated with the Bruker SAINT software using a narrow-frame algorithm [51

• ]. Absorption correction was conducted with the multi-scan method in SADABAS software (APEX3 system) [52]. The structures were solved with directed methods in ShelxS [53] and refined with full-matrix least-square in ShelxL [53], implemented in WinGX [54] and ShelxLE [55] platforms. Non-hydrogen atoms were

Complexes of resorcin[4]arene with secondary amines: synthesis, solvent influence on “in-out” structure, and theoretical calculations of non-covalent interactions

• Waldemar Iwanek

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1525–1536, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.109

• procedure: Optimization of the R[4]A and sec-amine geometries was performed with the GFN2-xTB method using the ALPB solvent model with the “veryTight” accuracy using the xTB software package [29]. Complex assembly search (aISS) was performed using the “dock” function with “tight” optimization of the

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

• measurements were performed at ambient temperature under an inert N2 atmosphere in THF containing the complex under study (0.14 mM) and the supporting electrolyte [n-Bu4N][PF6] (0.13 mM). Data were recorded with Autolab NOVA software (v. 1.11). Thermogravimetric analysis was performed by the Microanalysis

• to ride on their parent atoms with C–H = 0.95–1.00 Å, and Uiso = 1.2–1.5 Ueq (parent atom). All calculations were performed using the SHELXL software and Olex2 graphical user interface [22][23]. 4BGIPN (monoclinic P21), CCDC number 2243340, C60H32N14, monoclinic, space group P21 (no. 4), a = 17.4217

Retraction: One-pot odourless synthesis of thioesters via in situ generation of thiobenzoic acids using benzoic anhydrides and thiourea

• Mohammad Abbasi and
• Reza Khalifeh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1170–1170, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.85

• ; thiourea; This article was retracted due to the improper manipulation of NMR spectra with the help of software to obscure peaks corresponding to impurities and solvent.