Fine-tuning alkyne cycloadditions: Insights into photochemistry responsible for the double-strand DNA cleavage via structural perturbations in diaryl alkyne conjugates

• Wang-Yong Yang,
• Samantha A. Marrone,
• Nalisha Minors,
• Diego A. R. Zorio and
• Igor V. Alabugin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 813–823, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.93

• upon the addition of a drop of water suggest that benzoxazines are also the intermediate products in our case but are rapidly hydrolyzed during work-up and purification. Although one can suggest the intermediacy of the triplet diradical in the photocyclization of o-amido acetylene 6, this

Heavy atom effects in the Paternò–Büchi reaction of pyrimidine derivatives with 4,4’-disubstituted benzophenones

• Feng-Feng Kong,
• Jian-Bo Wang and
• Qin-Hua Song

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 113–118, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.16

• 1c) is enthalpy–entropy controlled. A heavy atom effect is suggested to be responsible for these unusual phenomena based on the triplet-diradical mechanism of the Paternò–Büchi reaction. Keywords: benzophenone; heavy atom effect; Paternò–Büchi reaction; regioselectivity; triplet diradical

• regioselectivity by changing the populations of two regioisomeric diradicals as a result of differences in the potential energies of two stable conformers, the productive conformation of the triplet diradical and the unproductive conformation of the triplet diradical, for each regioisomeric diradical [9][11]. To

En route to photoaffinity labeling of the bacterial lectin FimH

• Thisbe K. Lindhorst,
• Michaela Märten,
• Andreas Fuchs and
• Stefan D. Knight

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, 810–822, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.91

• of the benzophenone 3, on the other hand, delivers a reactive triplet diradical. In addition, in order to combine a photoactive functional group with an affinity label within the same mannoside, the orthogonally protected glycoamino acid scaffold 4 was synthesized and used for the preparation of the