Structure and thermal stability of phosphorus-iodonium ylids

• Andrew Greener,
• Stephen P. Argent,
• Coby J. Clarke and
• Miriam L. O’Duill

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2931–2939, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.245

•  2) and two highly unstable compounds (1d: 88 °C, 671 J/g; 1k: 74 °C, 70.2 J/g; Table 2). We were interested to investigate whether we could identify structural features that could explain these outliers. We observed a quantifiable anion (X) effect, with acyclic tetrafluoroborate 1a showing greater

The charge transport properties of dicyanomethylene-functionalised violanthrone derivatives

• Sondos A. J. Almahmoud,
• Joseph Cameron,
• Dylan Wilkinson,
• Michele Cariello,
• Claire Wilson,
• Alan A. Wiles,
• Peter J. Skabara and
• Graeme Cooke

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2921–2930, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.244

• structural features of violanthrones suggest that these materials may possess similar charge transport, optical and electrochemical properties to those of PDIs. However, the larger π-conjugated system of violanthrone, along with the two carbonyl groups, increases the possibility of stronger π–π

Applications of microscopy and small angle scattering techniques for the characterisation of supramolecular gels

• Connor R. M. MacDonald and
• Emily R. Draper

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2608–2634, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.220

• number of structural features, but the sample preparation required can lead to significant changes in the materials morphology. EM requires many preparative steps to allow structures to be imaged including the application of an ultrathin coating of carbon, gold, or platinum. These are applied to conduct

• the quantification of structural features of the larger network by changing the morphology resulting in statistics which are not representative of the structures in situ [31]. Mears et al. have shown that when the fibres are hydrophobic and not heavily charged, microscopy techniques which require

Natural resorcylic lactones derived from alternariol

• Joachim Podlech

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2171–2207, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.187

Computational toolbox for the analysis of protein–glycan interactions

• Ferran Nieto-Fabregat,
• Maria Pia Lenza,
• Angela Marseglia,
• Cristina Di Carluccio,
• Antonio Molinaro,
• Alba Silipo and
• Roberta Marchetti

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2084–2107, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.180

• crucial for comprehending their roles and biological activities and for correlating their structural features with their activity [3][13]. Given the plethora of remarkable biological roles played by complex glycans, this knowledge is essential for their potential applications in promoting health benefits

• docking algorithms. Unlike other docking programs such as AutoDock, AutoDock Vina, DOCK, FlexX, Glide, and GOLD, which are primarily designed for small, rigid ligands, GlycanDock is specifically optimized to address the flexibility and complex structural features of glycans. The carbohydrate chains are

Cage-like microstructures via sequential Ugi reactions in aqueous emulsions

• Rita S. Alqubelat,
• Yaroslava A. Menzorova and
• Maxim A. Mironov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2078–2083, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.179

• approached low-molecular-weight substances. We used AFM to identify the structural features of the original colloidal particles. For this, colloidal particles were adsorbed on the substrate surface and then analyzed without complete drying, which made it possible to reveal the initial microgel structure

2-Heteroarylethylamines in medicinal chemistry: a review of 2-phenethylamine satellite chemical space

• Carlos Nieto,
• Alejandro Manchado,
• Ángel García-González,
• David Díez and
• Narciso M. Garrido

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1880–1893, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.163

• from furanyl derivatives to thienyl-substituted compounds 17–23 in the search to elucidate structural features for accessing this receptor (Scheme 4). The chloride- and bromide-substituted thienyl derivatives encompassed micromolar to submicromolar activities in radioligand binding assays based on (R

• envisaged by Heffernan et al. [40], including human TAAR1 agonist activity and structural evaluation via homology model development followed by molecular docking and molecular dynamics studies (Scheme 6). Structural features like sulfur location and ring opening of the aminoethyl section were investigated

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

• cyclophanyl-imidazole-based library of ligands. The synthesis of ligands based on the [2.2]paracyclophane (PCP) moiety, thanks to its structural features and inherent planar chirality upon selective substitution, has been recently reviewed by the same author [46]. Starting from 4-formylcyclophane 37, a GBB

Hetero-polycyclic aromatic systems: A data-driven investigation of structure–property relationships

• Sabyasachi Chakraborty,
• Eduardo Mayo Yanes and
• Renana Gershoni-Poranne

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1817–1830, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.160

• analyze the structure–property relationships of the cc-hPASs. Results and Discussion At first glance, the chemical space of PASs may appear to be quite homogenous. After all, the molecules share certain structural features, such as their multi-ring structures, rigidity, and π-conjugation. Nevertheless

• , simply by changing the combination of the individual building blocks (i.e., rings), we obtain molecules with varying sizes, geometries, atomic compositions, and aromatic character. In such multi-faceted data, it can be difficult to ascertain which structural features determine the different molecular

• of building block affects the properties, and whether these effects are due solely to the presence of the heteroatoms or to the aromatic nature of heterocycles are among the questions we aim to answer in the subsequent sections. Influence of global structural features In this section, we investigate

Discovery of antimicrobial peptides clostrisin and cellulosin from Clostridium: insights into their structures, co-localized biosynthetic gene clusters, and antibiotic activity

• Moisés Alejandro Alejo Hernandez,
• Katia Pamela Villavicencio Sánchez,
• Rosendo Sánchez Morales,
• Karla Georgina Hernández-Magro Gil,
• David Silverio Moreno-Gutiérrez,
• Eddie Guillermo Sanchez-Rueda,
• Yanet Teresa-Cruz,
• Brian Choi,
• Armando Hernández Garcia,
• Alba Romero-Rodríguez,
• Oscar Juárez,
• Siseth Martínez-Caballero,
• Mario Figueroa and
• Corina-Diana Ceapă

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1800–1816, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.159

• resulting peptides exhibit unique structural features due to thioether bridges between dehydrated serine or threonine (Dha/Dhb) and cysteine (Cys). These thioether bridges lead to cyclic peptides with the modified amino acid lanthionine (Dha-Cys) or methyllanthionine (Dhb-Cys). The strong antimicrobial

Introduction of peripheral nitrogen atoms to cyclo-meta-phenylenes

• Koki Ikemoto and
• Hiroyuki Isobe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1207–1212, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.103

• structural features of nitrogen-doped [n]CMPs. The crystal molecular structures of 3a and 3b are shown in Figure 3. The hexagonal macrocyclic structure of 3a showed a chair-like conformation with alternating biaryl dihedral angles showing +/– values. The octagonal structure of 3b exhibited a saddle-like

Structure–property relationships in dicyanopyrazinoquinoxalines and their hydrogen-bonding-capable dihydropyrazinoquinoxalinedione derivatives

• Tural N. Akhmedov,
• Ajeet Kumar,
• Daken J. Starkenburg,
• Kyle J. Chesney,
• Khalil A. Abboud,
• Novruz G. Akhmedov,
• Jiangeng Xue and
• Ronald K. Castellano

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1037–1052, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.92

• derivative 2b further revealed that it adopts a favorable herringbone motif characterized by short π–π distances and extensive intermolecular hydrogen bonding. These structural features are anticipated to promote efficient charge transport. Future work will involve device fabrication and comparison 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

• greatly facilitate keyboard-based mining for glycan substructures in glycan repositories. Keywords: N-glycans; nomenclature; structural features; Introduction Virtually any article on protein glycosylation starts with imposing assurances about the biological significance of the various structures. This

• -vertebrates contain numerous “unusual” and remarkable structural features such as methylation, sulfation, and zwitterionic non-sugar substituents, again glucuronic acid and often unusual architectures such as substituted core-fucose just as an example [44][52]. While the methylated moss glycans are accessible

Possible bi-stable structures of pyrenebutanoic acid-linked protein molecules adsorbed on graphene: theoretical study

• Yasuhiro Oishi,
• Motoharu Kitatani and
• Koichi Kusakabe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 570–577, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.49

• , where conformation 1 corresponds to a 0 rotation, conformation 2 a 2π/3 rotation, and the conformation at the activation barrier top a π/3 rotation, respectively. To confirm the origin of the activation barrier that appears between conformation 1 and 2, we discuss the structural features of the

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

• showed strong efficacy against commercially important weeds, in particular resistant ryegrass (LOLSS_R), combined with promising crop safety. In our view, these results underline that chemical innovation using isostere concepts and addressing unusual structural features is a useful tool to broaden the

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

• rapid and comparatively easy deduction of structural features with the only requirement being the molecule's solubility in deuterated solvents. Therefore, NMR spectroscopy is of ubiquitous presence in many disciplines today. At the same time, with the high throughput analysis of samples that has been a

Studying specificity in protein–glycosaminoglycan recognition with umbrella sampling

• Mateusz Marcisz,
• Sebastian Anila,
• Margrethe Gaardløs,
• Martin Zacharias and
• Sergey A. Samsonov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1933–1946, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.144

• functions results principally from their unique physicochemical and structural features, including high negative charge, high viscosity and lubrication propensities, unbranched polysaccharide structures, low compressibility as well as the ability to attract and imbibe large amounts of water [17]. Unlike

GlAIcomics: a deep neural network classifier for spectroscopy-augmented mass spectrometric glycans data

• Thomas Barillot,
• Baptiste Schindler,
• Baptiste Moge,
• Elisa Fadda,
• Franck Lépine and
• Isabelle Compagnon

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1825–1831, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.134

• proposed to identify the presence of structural features in oligosaccharides based on their gas-phase IR spectra [11]. To the best of our knowledge, machine learning classification studies have not been reported to identify saccharides using MS–IR carbohydrate analysis. Here, we report a study of a

Application of N-heterocyclic carbene–Cu(I) complexes as catalysts in organic synthesis: a review

• Nosheen Beig,
• Varsha Goyal and
• Raj K. Bansal

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1408–1442, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.102

• caused by its structural features. NHCs constitute a well-established class of new ligands in organometallic chemistry. Although initially NHCs were regarded as pure σ-donor ligands, later experimental and theoretical studies established the presence of a significant back donation from the d-orbital of

First synthesis of acylated nitrocyclopropanes

• Kento Iwai,
• Rikiya Kamidate,
• Khimiya Wada,
• Haruyasu Asahara and
• Nagatoshi Nishiwaki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 892–900, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.67

• ). These structural features enable the construction of a five-membered ring upon treatment with alkenes [9], diazo compounds (reaction g) [10], and nitriles [11]. Several approaches are available for the synthesis of cyclopropanedicarboxylates 1a, which consist of three steps: 1) conjugate addition, 2

Nucleophile-induced ring contraction in pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzothiazines: access to pyrrolo[2,1-b][1,3]benzothiazoles

• Ekaterina A. Lystsova,
• Maksim V. Dmitriev,
• Andrey N. Maslivets and
• Ekaterina E. Khramtsova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 646–657, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.46

• , recently, we have reported a new class of FPDs, aroylpyrrolobenzothiazinetriones (APBTTs) 1 (Figure 2) [37][38], whose structural features allowed us to assume a possibility of the development of a new approach to PBTAs via a nucleophile-induced ring contraction in the 1,4-benzothiazine moiety of compounds

Asymmetric synthesis of a stereopentade fragment toward latrunculins

• Benjamin Joyeux,
• Antoine Gamet,
• Nicolas Casaretto and
• Bastien Nay

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 428–433, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.32

• demonstrated thanks to the synthesis of analogues, which hardly superseded the natural product properties, highlighting the importance of the macrocycle and of the lactol ring for this biological activity (3 is inactive) [6][7]. Considering the structural features of these toxins and their valuable biological

Inclusion complexes of the steroid hormones 17β-estradiol and progesterone with β- and γ-cyclodextrin hosts: syntheses, X-ray structures, thermal analyses and API solubility enhancements

• Alexios I. Vicatos,
• Zakiena Hoossen and
• Mino R. Caira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1749–1762, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.184

• innovative study of their crystal isostructurality within the series and with published complexes. SCXRD was employed to deduce structural features of the complexes at the molecular level, while the occurrence of severe guest disorder prompted the non-routine application of a method for yielding complex

• are isostructural, all of the salient structural features illustrated above and below for the γ-CD·PRO crystal are common to the γ-CD·BES crystal, which was not amenable to single crystal X-ray analysis. Solubility analysis Solubility determinations for the four native CD inclusion complexes (β-CD·BES

Synthetic study toward the diterpenoid aberrarone

• Liang Shi,
• Zhiyu Gao,
• Yiqing Li,
• Yuanhao Dai,
• Yu Liu,
• Lili Shi and
• Hong-Dong Hao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1625–1628, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.173

• natural products have been popular synthetic targets mainly due to their intriguing structural features. For example, several total syntheses of 3–6 have been reported [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. Previously, two synthetic studies of aberrarone

• . Impressed by the structural features and biological profiles, our group embarked a project on the total synthesis of this natural product. Herein, we report our stereoselective synthesis of its 6-5-5 tricyclic skeleton. Our retrosynthetic analysis is shown in Scheme 1. For the formation of the D ring with

On drug discovery against infectious diseases and academic medicinal chemistry contributions

• Yves L. Janin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1355–1378, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.141

• , which somehow echoes with the last quote above, should be mentioned here: “There is a common misconception that “novel” compounds or concepts will lead to dramatically different structural features. It is unlikely that the drug of the future will be built from radically other structural classes than

• today’s drugs. […] the majority of the compounds will be built from the structural features known already today, yet they may occupy white areas on the map of chemical space”. The future will see if this statement is fully true but as explained above, active singletons in a chemical library appear to be