Building photoswitchable 3,4'-AMPB peptides: Probing chemical ligation methods with reducible azobenzene thioesters

• Gehad Zeyat and
• Karola Rück-Braun

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 890–896, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.101

• ; molecular switches; peptides; redox chemistry; Introduction Optical switches not only offer the advantage to elucidate, but also to control biological processes with high spatial and temporal resolution by using light, either in vitro or in vivo [1]. In this context, azobenzenes remain a privileged class

• -terminal thioester peptide and either an N-terminal cysteine peptide or Nα-auxiliary-capped peptides. However, for elucidating the complex redox chemistry of the two azobenzene building blocks under the reducing conditions of ligation methods, we solely applied the Boc-protected azobenzene ω-amino acid

When gold can do what iodine cannot do: A critical comparison

• Sara Hummel and
• Stefan F. Kirsch

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 847–859, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.97

• led to numerous elegant contributions in both heterocycle and carbocycle syntheses [14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. In general, these processes are easy to perform under simple reaction conditions: Significant redox chemistry is not involved. Since gold complexes show outstanding functional group

Structure and reactivity in neutral organic electron donors derived from 4-dimethylaminopyridine

• Jean Garnier,
• Alan R. Kennedy,
• Leonard E. A. Berlouis,
• Andrew T. Turner and
• John A. Murphy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 73, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.73

• the disalts. All of the cyclic voltammograms showed reversible redox chemistry, featuring the transfer of two electrons, as indicated by calibration with ferrocene/ferrocenium (Fc/Fc+). Restricting the bridge length to two carbons made donor 14 a less effective reducing agent (Figure 3) compared to 8

Synthesis and redox behavior of new ferrocene- π-extended- dithiafulvalenes: An approach for anticipated organic conductors

• Abdelwareth A. O. Sarhan,
• Omar F. Mohammed and
• Taeko Izumi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 6, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.6

• multicomponent electron donor systems by the Wittig–Horner reaction of the respective phosphonate ester 6 with different ferreocenylketones using the modifications introduced onto the reaction. The redox chemistry of the ferreocenylketones and these new π-conjugated hybrids 8, 10 and 11 has been studied using