Substituent-controlled construction of A₄B₂-hexaphyrins and A₃B-porphyrins: a mechanistic evaluation

• Seda Cinar,
• Dilek Isik Tasgin and
• Canan Unaleroglu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1832–1840, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.135

• reaction mechanism of the presented method was studied on model reactions by electrospray-ionization time-of-flight (HRESI–TOF) mass spectral analysis in a timely manner. The analytical results indicated that the observed azafulvene-ended di- and tripyrrolic intermediates are responsible for the formation

• product formation, mass spectral analyses of model reactions were investigated by time-dependent electrospray-ionization time-of-flight (HRESI–TOF) technique. Results and Discussion Reactions of meso-pentafluorophenyl-substituted A2-tripyrrane 1 and N-tosylimines 2 were performed in the presence of Cu(OTf

• certain time intervals within 2 hours and examined by ESI LC–MS. Throughout the high-resolution electrospray-ionization time-of-flight (HRESI–TOF) mass analysis of the reaction mixture at 0 °C, the following peaks were observed: m/z = 246.0366 ([M + H]+ calcd for C11H5F5N, 246.0337), m/z = 857.1468 ([M

A novel recyclable organocatalyst for the gram-scale enantioselective synthesis of (S)-baclofen

• Gyula Dargó,
• Dóra Erdélyi,
• Balázs Molnár,
• Péter Kisszékelyi,
• Zsófia Garádi and
• József Kupai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1811–1824, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.133

• on a Bruker 300 Avance spectrometer (at 300 and 75.5 MHz for the 1H and 13C spectra, respectively) or on a Bruker Avance III HD (at 600 MHz for 1H and at 150 MHz for 13C spectra) at specified temperatures. High-resolution MS was measured on a Bruker MicroTOF II instrument using positive electrospray

Active-metal template clipping synthesis of novel [2]rotaxanes

• Cătălin C. Anghel,
• Teodor A. Cucuiet,
• Niculina D. Hădade and
• Ion Grosu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1776–1784, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.130

• ) relative to the residual solvent peak. High-resolution mass spectra were recorded on a ThermoScientific (LTQ XL, Orbitrap) spectrometer, in positive ion mode, using Electrospray or APCI techniques. Experimental procedures and characterization of compounds Compound 2: In a round-bottom flask compound 1

Sulfur-containing spiroketals from Breynia disticha and evaluations of their anti-inflammatory effect

• Ken-ichi Nakashima,
• Naohito Abe,
• Masayoshi Oyama,
• Hiroko Murata and
• Makoto Inoue

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1604–1614, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.117

• electrospray ionization HRESIMS analysis, and quantum chemical electronic CD calculations. Furthermore, the absolute configurations of sugar residues were determined by derivatization of the hydrolysates with ʟ-cysteine methyl ester and o-tolyl isothiocyanate followed by HPLC analysis. The anti-inflammatory

Digyalipopeptide A, an antiparasitic cyclic peptide from the Ghanaian Bacillus sp. strain DE2B

• Adwoa P. Nartey,
• Aboagye K. Dofuor,
• Kofi B. A. Owusu,
• Anil S. Camas,
• Hai Deng,
• Marcel Jaspars and
• Kwaku Kyeremeh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1763–1771, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.185

• to be C51H89N7O13 based on the high resolution electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (HRESIMSMS) at m/z 1008.6610 for [M + H]+ similar to the calculated value of m/z 1008.6591 with Δ = −1.9 ppm. The molecular formula indicated 11 degrees of unsaturation and the analyses of the 13C NMR spectrum

• and NOESY correlations for compound 1. Liquid chromatography high resolution electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (LC–HRESIMS) sequence tags for compound 1. The absolute stereochemistry of compound 1. Global natural products social molecular networking (GNPS). 1H NMR and 13C NMR spectroscopic

Preparation of β-cyclodextrin-based dimers with selectively methylated rims and their use for solubilization of tetracene

• Konstantin Lebedinskiy,
• Volodymyr Lobaz and
• Jindřich Jindřich

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1596–1606, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.170

• /methanol mixture. The purity of the prepared products was considered enough for use in UV experiments without additional purification. Methods. Low-resolution mass spectra were measured with a Shimadzu LCMS-2020 spectrometer. Samples were ionized by electrospray technique (ESI) and detected by quadrupole

• or TOF. The drying and nebulizer gas was nitrogen. High-resolution mass spectra were measured with an Agilent Technologies 6530 Accurate-Mass Q-TOF LC/MS spectrometer. Samples were ionized by electrospray technique (ESI) and detected by quadrupole or TOF. UV–vis spectroscopy spectra were measured

Synthesis of the biologically important dideuterium-labelled adenosine triphosphate analogue ApppI(d₂)

• Petri A. Turhanen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1466–1470, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.153

• for the purification of ApppI(d2) [21]. HRMS spectra were recorded on a qTOF mass spectrometer using electrospray ionization (ESI) in negative mode. The purity of the products was determined from the 1H and 31P NMR spectra to be ≥95%, unless stated otherwise. ApppI(d2)⋅3.25 and ⋅5.25 TBA salts: ATP

Characterization of a new fusicoccane-type diterpene synthase and an associated P450 enzyme

• Jia-Hua Huang,
• Jian-Ming Lv,
• Liang-Yan Xiao,
• Qian Xu,
• Fu-Long Lin,
• Gao-Qian Wang,
• Guo-Dong Chen,
• Sheng-Ying Qin,
• Dan Hu and
• Hao Gao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1396–1402, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.144

• , production of 1 was increased by five-fold (Figure 3A, line iii). Finally, we isolated 1 and 2 through large-scale fermentation. On the basis of the quasi-molecular ion at m/z 273.2599 [M + H]+ (calcd. for C20H33, 273.2582) (Supporting Information File 1, Figure S2) detected by high-resolution electrospray

Cyclodextrin-based Schiff base pro-fragrances: Synthesis and release studies

• Attila Palágyi,
• Jindřich Jindřich,
• Juraj Dian and
• Sophie Fourmentin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1346–1354, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.140

• 5-methylfurfural (2j) and 3.1 min for heptanal (2h). The mass spectra were measured by the Bruker ESQUIRE 3000 ES-ion trap and the samples were ionized using an electrospray technique (ESI). The samples were dissolved in methanol. Specific optical rotation was measured by the Rudolph Research

Experimental and theoretical studies on the synthesis of 1,4,5-trisubstituted pyrrolidine-2,3-diones

• Nguyen Tran Nguyen,
• Vo Viet Dai,
• Nguyen Ngoc Tri,
• Luc Van Meervelt,
• Nguyen Tien Trung and
• Wim Dehaen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1140–1153, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.118

• electrospray ionization (ESI) source in a positive mode. The temperatures of the source were set at 300 °C. Curtain gas (25 psi) chambers were filled with high-purity nitrogen. The capillary voltage was constantly kept at 5500 V. Collision energies was set at 10 V and zero collision energy spread. IDA mode was

Synthesis of N-phenyl- and N-thiazolyl-1H-indazoles by copper-catalyzed intramolecular N-arylation of ortho-chlorinated arylhydrazones

• Yara Cristina Marchioro Barbosa,
• Guilherme Caneppele Paveglio,
• Claudio Martin Pereira de Pereira,
• Sidnei Moura,
• Cristiane Storck Schwalm,
• Gleison Antonio Casagrande and
• Lucas Pizzuti

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1079–1087, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.110

• electrospray ionization (ESI) source (MicrOTOF-QII, Bruker Scientific) in positive mode. The compounds were individually dissolved in a solution of 50% chromatographic grade MeCN and 50% deionized H2O + 0.1% formic acid. General experimental procedure for the synthesis of hydrazones 1a–i In a 100 mL round

On Reuben G. Jones synthesis of 2-hydroxypyrazines

• Pierre Legrand and
• Yves L. Janin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 935–943, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.93

• description of the experimental set up is provided in Supporting Information File 1. The low-resolution mass spectra were obtained on an Agilent 1200 series LC/MSD system using an Agilent Jet-Stream atmospheric electrospray ionization system and the high-resolution mass spectra (HRMS) were obtained using a

Identification of the new prenyltransferase Ubi-297 from marine bacteria and elucidation of its substrate specificity

• Jamshid Amiri Moghaddam,
• Huijuan Guo,
• Karsten Willing,
• Thomas Wichard and
• Christine Beemelmanns

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 722–731, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.72

• of the enzymatic products: UHPLC-HESI-HRMS measurement was performed on a Dionex Ultimate3000 system combined with a Q-Exactive Plus mass spectrometer (Thermo Scientific) with a heated electrospray ion source (HESI). Metabolite separation was carried out by reversed-phase liquid chromatography at 40

Synthesis of a new water-soluble hexacarboxylated tribenzotriquinacene derivative and its competitive host–guest interaction for drug delivery

• Man-Ping Li,
• Nan Yang and
• Wen-Rong Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 539–548, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.56

• recorded using either the ultrafleXtreme MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer (Bruker) with α-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid (HCCA) as a matrix, or by electrospray ionization (ESI) on a Waters G2-XS QTOF instrument connected to a Waters H-class UPLC equipped with a Waters BEH C18 column using an eluent consisting of

Anomeric 1,2,3-triazole-linked sialic acid derivatives show selective inhibition towards a bacterial neuraminidase over a trypanosome trans-sialidase

• Peterson de Andrade,
• Sanaz Ahmadipour and
• Robert A. Field

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 208–216, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.24

• and 4.79 ppm in 1H NMR, respectively. High-resolution mass spectra were acquired using electrospray ionisation in a Waters Vion spectrometer with Waters Acquity LC–MS (positive mode). Fluorescence measurements were performed on a FLUOstar Omega Multi-Mode Microplate Reader. Expression and purification

Bifunctional thiourea-catalyzed asymmetric [3 + 2] annulation reactions of 2-isothiocyanato-1-indanones with barbiturate-based olefins

• Jiang-Song Zhai and
• Da-Ming Du

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 25–36, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.3

• an Agilent 6520 Accurate-Mass Q-TOF MS system equipped with an electrospray ionization (ESI) source. Optical rotations were measured with a Krüss P8000 polarimeter at the indicated concentration with the units of g/100 mL. Enantiomeric excesses were determined by chiral HPLC analysis using an Agilent

Synthesis of 1-indolyl-3,5,8-substituted γ-carbolines: one-pot solvent-free protocol and biological evaluation

• Premansh Dudhe,
• Mena Asha Krishnan,
• Kratika Yadav,
• Diptendu Roy,
• Krishnan Venkatasubbaiah,
• Biswarup Pathak and
• Venkatesh Chelvam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1453–1463, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.101

• -Performance LC-MS (electrospray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight) spectrometer. X-ray structure analysis was carried out at a Bruker KAPPA APEXII single crystal X-ray diffractometer. Melting points (mp) are uncorrected and were measured on a Veego melting point apparatus (capillary method). Analytical

A new glance at the chemosphere of macroalgal–bacterial interactions: In situ profiling of metabolites in symbiosis by mass spectrometry

• Marine Vallet,
• Filip Kaftan,
• Veit Grabe,
• Fatemeh Ghaderiardakani,
• Simona Fenizia,
• Aleš Svatoš,
• Georg Pohnert and
• Thomas Wichard

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1313–1322, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.91

• algal surfaces and their metabolic activities can be monitored in situ or using an imprinting method by desorption electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry [17][18]. In U. mutabilis gametophytes, matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI-MSI) was used to identify cell

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

• quadrupole time-of-flight (Q-TOF) mass spectrometer equipped with Z-spray electrospray ionization (ESI) and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) sources either in a positive or negative mode with DCTB (trans-2-[3-(4-tert-butylphenyl)-2-methyl-2-propenylidene]malononitrile) as the matrix. UV

DNA with zwitterionic and negatively charged phosphate modifications: Formation of DNA triplexes, duplexes and cell uptake studies

• Yongdong Su,
• Maitsetseg Bayarjargal,
• Tracy K. Hale and
• Vyacheslav V. Filichev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 749–761, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.65

• was confirmed by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESIMS) in the negative mode (Table 1). For clarity, we introduced the following nomenclature of the ONs synthesised. The prefix 5ʼ- or 3ʼ- with either N+ or Ts- means that the first phosphate at the 5ʼ- or 3ʼ-end was modified; m-N+ or m-Ts

¹⁹F NMR as a tool in chemical biology

• Diana Gimenez,
• Aoife Phelan,
• Cormac D. Murphy and
• Steven L. Cobb

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 293–318, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.28

• ). Each independent intermediate was characterized on the basis of its 19F NMR chemical shift and the kinetics by which each species formed or decayed were evaluated in real-time. By combining the 19F NMR data with that provided by complementary analytical techniques, mass spectrometry (electrospray

Control over size, shape, and photonics of self-assembled organic nanocrystals

• Chen Shahar,
• Yaron Tidhar,
• Yunmin Jung,
• Haim Weissman,
• Sidney R. Cohen,
• Ronit Bitton,
• Iddo Pinkas,
• Gilad Haran and
• Boris Rybtchinski

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 42–51, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.5

• applicability of organic nanocrystals. Experimental General information The 1H and 13C NMR spectra were recorded at 20 °C on a 300 MHz NMR spectrometer (Bruker). Electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry was performed using a Micromass Platform instrument. UV–vis absorption and fluorescence measurements

Naphthalonitriles featuring efficient emission in solution and in the solid state

• Sidharth Thulaseedharan Nair Sailaja,
• Iván Maisuls,
• Jutta Kösters,
• Alexander Hepp,
• Andreas Faust,
• Jens Voskuhl and
• Cristian A. Strassert

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2960–2970, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.246

• characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR, Supporting Information File 1, Figures S1–S24) as well as exact electrospray mass spectrometry (EM–ESIMS, Supporting Information File 1, Figures S25–S30) and appear as white to faint yellow solids. Only the dimethylamino-substituted product shows a

Synthesis of imidazo[1,5-a]pyridines via cyclocondensation of 2-(aminomethyl)pyridines with electrophilically activated nitroalkanes

• Dmitrii A. Aksenov,
• Nikolai A. Arutiunov,
• Vladimir V. Maliuga,
• Alexander V. Aksenov and
• Michael Rubin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2903–2910, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.239

• DMSO-d6, using TMS as an internal standard. High-resolution mass spectra were obtained using a Bruker Maxis spectrometer (electrospray ionization, MeCN solution, using HCO2Na/HCO2H for calibration). Melting points were measured with a Stuart smp30 apparatus. All reactions were performed in oven-dried

A heterobimetallic tetrahedron from a linear platinum(II)-bis(acetylide) metalloligand

• Matthias Hardy,
• Marianne Engeser and
• Arne Lützen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2701–2708, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.220

• , correlation of the proton. Low- and high-resolution electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESIMS) spectra were recorded on a Bruker Daltonic LTQ Orbitrap XL. The UV–vis spectrum was recorded on a Specord 200 spectrometer (Analytik Jena AG) at ambient temperature. 4-Ethynylaniline (1) [50], trans-[Pt(PBu3