The Groebke–Blackburn–Bienaymé reaction in its maturity: innovation and improvements since its 21st birthday (2019–2023)

• Cristina Martini,
• Muhammad Idham Darussalam Mardjan and
• Andrea Basso

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1839–1879, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.162

Methyltransferases from RiPP pathways: shaping the landscape of natural product chemistry

• Maria-Paula Schröder,
• Isabel P.-M. Pfeiffer and
• Silja Mordhorst

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1652–1670, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.147

• resulting natural products with a spectrum of chemical complexity, contributing to the broad range of biological activities exhibited by RiPPs. Bioactivities attributed to RiPPs include a wide range of effects, such as antibiotic, antifungal, antiviral, antiparasitic, antitumour, analgesic, anti

Polymer degrading marine Microbulbifer bacteria: an un(der)utilized source of chemical and biocatalytic novelty

• Weimao Zhong and
• Vinayak Agarwal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1635–1651, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.146

• -, and λ-carrageenans (Figure 5) [28]. Carrageenans find utility in drug and food industries because of their antioxidant and antiviral activities [119][120][121]. In the sequenced genome of a marine-derived Microbulbifer thermotolerans JAMB-A94T was detected an ι-carrageenase encoded by gene cgiA [28

New triazinephosphonate dopants for Nafion proton exchange membranes (PEM)

• Fátima C. Teixeira,
• António P. S. Teixeira and
• C. M. Rangel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1623–1634, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.145

• -triazine isomers [30]. There have been reported several and diverse applications to a large number of compounds with a triazine moiety, ranging from biological applications [31][32][33][34], such as fungicide, herbicide, antiviral, antimicrobial, antitumor, to their use in organic synthesis, including

Synthesis of 4-functionalized pyrazoles via oxidative thio- or selenocyanation mediated by PhICl₂ and NH₄SCN/KSeCN

• Jialiang Wu,
• Haofeng Shi,
• Xuemin Li,
• Jiaxin He,
• Chen Zhang,
• Fengxia Sun and
• Yunfei Du

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1453–1461, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.128

• -inflammatory [6], antiviral [7], antibacterial [8], antifungal [9], cytotoxic [10], antioxidant [11], and analgesic [12] activities. For instance, celecoxib (I, Figure 1) (for treating rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis), tepoxalin (II, Figure 1) (a veterinary painkiller used to relieve pain from muscle

Stability trends in carbocation intermediates stemming from germacrene A and hedycaryol

• Naziha Tarannam,
• Prashant Kumar Gupta,
• Shani Zev and
• Dan Thomas Major

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1189–1197, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.101

• anticancer, antimalarial, antibacterial, and antiviral activity [8][9]. For instance, the well-known artemisinin family of drugs, which is currently the first line of treatment against malaria, is a sesquiterpene lactone [10]. Sesquiterpenes produced by plants [10] also have plant growth regulating and

Bismuth(III) triflate: an economical and environmentally friendly catalyst for the Nazarov reaction

• Manoel T. Rodrigues Jr.,
• Aline S. B. de Oliveira,
• Ralph C. Gomes,
• Amanda Soares Hirata,
• Lucas A. Zeoly,
• Hugo Santos,
• João Arantes,
• Catarina Sofia Mateus Reis-Silva,
• João Agostinho Machado-Neto,
• Leticia Veras Costa-Lotufo and
• Fernando Coelho

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1167–1178, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.99

• , in addition to having antiviral activity, indacrinone (5), which is related to ethacrynic acid and usually stimulates the reversible short-circuit current and the influx of sodium when applied to the epithelial surface of amphibian skin, and donepezil (6), a drug used to treat Alzheimer's disease [7

Novel analogues of a nonnucleoside SARS-CoV-2 RdRp inhibitor as potential antivirotics

• Luca Julianna Tóth,
• Kateřina Krejčová,
• Milan Dejmek,
• Eva Žilecká,
• Blanka Klepetářová,
• Lenka Poštová Slavětínská,
• Evžen Bouřa and
• Radim Nencka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1029–1036, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.91

• . One of the most targeted RNA viruses of the last years is, without doubt, SARS-CoV-2, the cause of the recent COVID-19 pandemic. HeE1-2Tyr, a known inhibitor of flaviviral RdRp, has been discovered to also have antiviral potency against this coronavirus. In this study, we report three distinct

• is able to stop the acute phase of the pandemic. However, antiviral therapy for COVID-19 is indispensable in case of vaccine failure, virus mutation or suppressed immunity of some patients [2]. SARS-CoV-2 is part of the Coronaviridae family, a group of enveloped +ssRNA viruses. The genome can

• directly act as a viral messenger RNA and encodes essential enzymes for replication [3]. Inhibiting these nonstructural proteins that are part of the replication complex has already shown great success in antiviral therapy [4][5][6][7]. The viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) is encoded in all RNA

Innovative synthesis of drug-like molecules using tetrazole as core building blocks

• Jingyao Li,
• Ajay L. Chandgude,
• Qiang Zheng and
• Alexander Dömling

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 950–958, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.85

• as anticancer, antitubercular, antibacterial, antiviral, antimalarial, antiallergic, and antihypertensive (Figure 1a) [7][10]. In addition, tetrazoles constitute a diverse range of industrial applications and are extensively used in materials, agriculture, explosives and photography [11][12]. Due to

Synthesis and properties of 6-alkynyl-5-aryluracils

• Ruben Manuel Figueira de Abreu,
• Till Brockmann,
• Alexander Villinger,
• Peter Ehlers and
• Peter Langer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 898–911, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.80

• anticarcinogenic studies followed in 1953 [7][8]. Since then, uracil has played an important role in the development of antiviral and anticarcinogenic agents against various targets [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. 5-Fluorouracil is one of the best-known anticancer drugs and is used to treat a variety of cancers

• , including pancreatic, breast, and cervical cancers. Zidovudine is effective against retroviruses and is still used today for the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS infections. Brivudine is one of the most potent antiviral agents against herpes zoster virus infections (Figure 1) [17][18][19][20]. Given the

• a targeted enzyme [21][22][23]. One of these focus areas was the synthesis of alkyne-linked derivatives. The first alkyne-linked compound was already published in 1976, accompanied by new synthesis methods in the following years [24][25][26][27]. With the discovery of potential antiviral properties

Methodology for awakening the potential secondary metabolic capacity in actinomycetes

• Shun Saito and
• Midori A. Arai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 753–766, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.69

• was determined by total synthesis. The biological activities of these maniwamycins were also evaluated, and they showed antiviral activity against influenza (H1N1) virus and the causative agent of COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2. This was the first report of such activity for a natural product having an azoxy

Regioselective quinazoline C2 modifications through the azide–tetrazole tautomeric equilibrium

• Dāgs Dāvis Līpiņš,
• Andris Jeminejs,
• Una Ušacka,
• Anatoly Mishnev,
• Māris Turks and
• Irina Novosjolova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 675–683, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.61

• , finding use as anticancer, antimicrobial, antimalarial, and antiviral agents [1][2]. Furthermore, numerous 2-amino-6,7-dimethoxyquinazoline analogs are extensively employed as α1-adrenoceptor blockers [3][4]. In recent years quinazoline-based OLED materials have also gained attention showing great quantum

HPW-Catalyzed environmentally benign approach to imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines

• Luan A. Martinho and
• Carlos Kleber Z. Andrade

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 628–637, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.55

• activities, such as antiviral [1], anticonvulsant [2], antibacterial [3], antipyretic [4], antituberculosis [5], anticancer [6], anthelmintic [5], antifungal [7], analgesic [8], antiulcer [9], antiprotozoal [10], antitumor [11], and anti-inflammatory [12]. Examples of commercial drugs are depicted in Figure

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

• polyketides, alkaloids, sterol derivatives, terpenoids, and macrolides, with polyketides and alkaloids comprising 40% and 32% of the total, respectively. Alkaloids are a diverse group of compounds with multiple pharmacological activities, including anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antiviral, insecticidal

Green and sustainable approaches for the Friedel–Crafts reaction between aldehydes and indoles

• Periklis X. Kolagkis,
• Eirini M. Galathri and
• Christoforos G. Kokotos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 379–426, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.36

• antiviral properties. BIMs function as selective antibacterial agents against several virulent Escherichia coli (E. coli) strains, which can cause many gut and urinary tract infections. They act by damaging DNA molecules and inhibiting their replication in bacteria, while also targeting the proteins that

• to agriculture, since there is a need for the development of new greener fungicidal and antiviral agents that can combat the more common plant diseases [11]. One instance of their antiviral property being implemented in drug development involves the treatment of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), which

• infects a great number of agricultural plants, causing great harm to production by evolving to resist most of the existing drugs. Thus, BIMs have emerged as a new natural alternative class of antiviral agents, surpassing commonly used drugs such as ribavirin that has been observed to damage the DNA

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

• and its derivatives are widely distributed in nature in microorganisms and fungi, and they represent the key structural units of many important drugs with antibacterial, antifungal, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, and antiviral activities [1][2]. Due to the presence of several reactive centers in the

Synthesis of spiropyridazine-benzosultams by the [4 + 2] annulation reaction of 3-substituted benzoisothiazole 1,1-dioxides with 1,2-diaza-1,3-dienes

• Wenqing Hao,
• Long Wang,
• Jinlei Zhang,
• Dawei Teng and
• Guorui Cao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 280–286, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.29

• ] annulation reaction; 1,2-diaza-1,3-dienes; spiro-benzosultams; 3-substituted benzoisothiazole 1,1-dioxides; Introduction Spirobenzosultams have various biological activities [1][2][3] such as antiviral, anticancer, antimicrobial, antimalarial, and antileukemia, and are widely used in the pharmaceutical

Decarboxylative 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of amino acids for the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds

• Xiaofeng Zhang,
• Xiaoming Ma and
• Wei Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1677–1693, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.123

• Pd-catalyzed Heck reaction to give products 26 in 65–78% yields (Scheme 16) [75]. The pyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinoline core installed by this route can be found in some natural products and synthetic compounds with antitumor, antibacterial, antiviral, antioxidizing, and other biological activities (Figure

Synthesis of ether lipids: natural compounds and analogues

• Marco Antônio G. B. Gomes,
• Alicia Bauduin,
• Chloé Le Roux,
• Romain Fouinneteau,
• Wilfried Berthe,
• Mathieu Berchel,
• Hélène Couthon and
• Paul-Alain Jaffrès

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1299–1369, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.96

Non-noble metal-catalyzed cross-dehydrogenation coupling (CDC) involving ether α-C(sp³)–H to construct C–C bonds

• Hui Yu and
• Feng Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1259–1288, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.94

• , various dicarbonyl compounds could be coupled with 2,4-disubstituted 3,6-dihydro-2H-pyrans (DHPs). The DHP motif is a structural component of several bioactive natural products and synthetic drugs with antioxidant, antipsychotic, antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, and anticancer activities [106][107

Unravelling a trichloroacetic acid-catalyzed cascade access to benzo[f]chromeno[2,3-h]quinoxalinoporphyrins

• Chandra Sekhar Tekuri,
• Pargat Singh and
• Mahendra Nath

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1216–1224, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.89

• profiles such as antimicrobial [20][21], antiviral [22][23], anti-inflammatory [24], anticancer [25], antimalarial agents [26] and are also found to be useful in photodynamic therapy applications [27][28][29]. In view of above background and also our interest to device convenient protocols for the

New one-pot synthesis of 4-arylpyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridin-6-ones based on 5-aminopyrazoles and azlactones

• Vladislav Yu. Shuvalov,
• Ekaterina Yu. Vlasova,
• Tatyana Yu. Zheleznova and
• Alexander S. Fisyuk

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1155–1160, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.83

• -aryl-substituted derivatives should be distinguished, exhibiting antiviral [13] and anti-inflammatory properties [14], being modulators of estrogen-related receptor alpha [15], JAK1 kinase inhibitor [16], GSK3 [17] and GyrB [8] inhibitors (Figure 1). Despite the high demand, their synthesis methods are

Photoredox catalysis harvesting multiple photon or electrochemical energies

• Mattia Lepori,
• Simon Schmid and
• Joshua P. Barham

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1055–1145, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.81

Synthesis of imidazo[4,5-e][1,3]thiazino[2,3-c][1,2,4]triazines via a base-induced rearrangement of functionalized imidazo[4,5-e]thiazolo[2,3-c][1,2,4]triazines

• Dmitry B. Vinogradov,
• Alexei N. Izmest’ev,
• Angelina N. Kravchenko,
• Yuri A. Strelenko and
• Galina A. Gazieva

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1047–1054, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.80

• rearrangement; 1,3-thiazines; thiazolidine-4-ones; Introduction Nitrogen- and sulfur-containing heterocyclic compounds are widely represented in nature and used for the synthesis of biologically active substances. Among the 1,3-thiazine derivatives, promising compounds as antimicrobial and antiviral drugs

Clauson–Kaas pyrrole synthesis using diverse catalysts: a transition from conventional to greener approach

• Dileep Kumar Singh and
• Rajesh Kumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 928–955, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.71

• ], antiviral [11][12], antibacterial [13][14][15], antimalarial [16][17], anti-inflammatory [18][19], anti-oxidant [20][21][22], antifungal [23][24] and antibiotic [25][26] and as enzyme inhibitors [27][28]. Several pharmaceuticals, polymers and naturally occurring compounds, including heme, chlorophyll