Menadione: a platform and a target to valuable compounds synthesis

• Acácio S. de Souza,
• Ruan Carlos B. Ribeiro,
• Dora C. S. Costa,
• Fernanda P. Pauli,
• David R. Pinho,
• Matheus G. de Moraes,
• Fernando de C. da Silva,
• Luana da S. M. Forezi and
• Vitor F. Ferreira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 381–419, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.43

• electrolysis (Scheme 10). For this approach, two smooth platinum foil electrodes placed 1 cm apart in the upper aqueous phase were electrolyzed galvanostatically (30 mA/cm2). Additionally, a NaBr solution acidified with H2SO4 was used as electrolyte. The voltage during electrolysis was 2.1 V and when the

Synthesis of piperidine and pyrrolidine derivatives by electroreductive cyclization of imine with terminal dihaloalkanes in a flow microreactor

• Yuki Naito,
• Naoki Shida and
• Mahito Atobe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 350–359, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.39

• of the cathode material on the yield of 3a using three different cathode materials: platinum (Pt), glassy carbon (GC), and silver (Ag). As shown in Table 1, the yield of 3a was higher using GC than that of the other cathode materials. The yield of the hydromonomeric product 4 was also highest when GC

• microreactor was constructed with a platinum plate (3 × 3 cm) and cathode plate (3 × 3 cm) (Supporting Information File 1, Figure S1). A spacer (double faced adhesive type with thicknesses of 20, 40, or 80 μm) was used to leave a rectangular channel exposed (1 × 3 cm), and the two electrodes were simply

Photophysical, photostability, and ROS generation properties of new trifluoromethylated quinoline-phenol Schiff bases

• Inaiá O. Rocha,
• Yuri G. Kappenberg,
• Wilian C. Rosa,
• Clarissa P. Frizzo,
• Nilo Zanatta,
• Marcos A. P. Martins,
• Isadora Tisoco,
• Bernardo A. Iglesias and
• Helio G. Bonacorso

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2799–2811, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.191

• VERTEX 70 spectrophotometer with Platinum ATR accessory (diamond crystal) in the 4000–400 cm−1 region. High-resolution mass spectra (HRMS) were obtained for all compounds on a hybrid high-resolution and high-accuracy (5 μL/L) micro Q-TOF mass spectrometer (Bruker Scientific®, Billerica, MA, USA) at the

Synthesis and investigation on optical and electrochemical properties of 2,4-diaryl-9-chloro-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroacridines

• Najeh Tka,
• Mohamed Adnene Hadj Ayed,
• Mourad Ben Braiek,
• Mahjoub Jabli and
• Peter Langer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2450–2461, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.162

• electrolyte by using a three-electrode cell with a glassy carbon electrode as the working electrode, a platinum wire as the counter electrode, and an Ag/AgCl electrode as the reference electrode. All the measurements were scanned in negative and positive directions at a scan rate of 50 mV/s, as controlled by

Recent advances in the syntheses of anthracene derivatives

• Giovanni S. Baviera and
• Paulo M. Donate

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2028–2050, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.131

• step, a platinum-catalyzed intramolecular cycloaromatization of 119 provided dibenzo[a,h]anthracenes 120 bearing methyl and alkoxy groups in low to moderate yields (26–51%) [61]. Metal-catalyzed intramolecular double-cyclization In 2012, Nishiyama’s research group synthesized dibenzo[a,h]anthracenes by

Recent advances in the application of isoindigo derivatives in materials chemistry

• Andrei V. Bogdanov and
• Vladimir F. Mironov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1533–1564, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.111

• composite with platinum nanoparticles stabilized with poly(acrylic acid) [113]. Such a catalytic system, obtained by layer-by-layer self-assembly with the addition of poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) on the indium tin oxide surface, provided hydrogen formation in photoelectrolytic cycles with a

A comprehensive review of flow chemistry techniques tailored to the flavours and fragrances industries

• Guido Gambacorta,
• James S. Sharley and
• Ian R. Baxendale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1181–1312, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.90

Amino- and polyaminophthalazin-1(2H)-ones: synthesis, coordination properties, and biological activity

• Zbigniew Malinowski,
• Emilia Fornal,
• Agata Sumara,
• Renata Kontek,
• Karol Bukowski,
• Beata Pasternak,
• Dariusz Sroczyński,
• Joachim Kusz,
• Magdalena Małecka and
• Monika Nowak

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 558–568, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.50

• platinum disc electrode suggested that the [(L3)Cu(II)Cl2]/[(L3)Cu(I)Cl2] redox couple was formed. For more details, see Supporting Information File 2. Bioactivity Cytotoxicity analysis – MTT assay We used the MTT assay to evaluate compounds 5c, 5d, 5f, 5g, 6b, and 6d for their potential activity on

Annulation of a 1,3-dithiole ring to a sterically hindered o-quinone core. Novel ditopic redox-active ligands

• Sergey V. Norkov,
• Anton V. Cherkasov,
• Andrey S. Shavyrin,
• Maxim V. Arsenyev,
• Viacheslav A. Kuropatov and
• Vladimir K. Cherkasov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 273–282, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.26

• electrode (2 mm diameter), platinum wire counter electrode and Ag/AgCl/KCl reference electrode. X-ray crystallography The X-ray data for 6a–d and 7–9 were collected on Rigaku OD Xcalibur (6b–d, 7, 9) and Bruker D8 Quest (6a, 8) diffractometers (Mo Kα radiation, ω-scans technique, λ = 0.71073 Å) using APEX3

Recent progress in the synthesis of homotropane alkaloids adaline, euphococcinine and N-methyleuphococcinine

• Dimas J. P. Lima,
• Antonio E. G. Santana,
• Michael A. Birkett and
• Ricardo S. Porto

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 28–41, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.4

• intermediate thioiminium salt, which was heated under the reflux of triethylamine and trimethyl phosphite, providing compound 28 in 69% yield. The catalytic hydrogenation of 28 occurred in platinum (H2, Pt/C) under a pressure of 60 psi of hydrogen (about 4 atm), resulting in amide 29 in 96% yield. This

All-carbon [3 + 2] cycloaddition in natural product synthesis

• Zhuo Wang and
• Junyang Liu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 3015–3031, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.251

• as the phosphine-catalyzed [3 + 2] cycloaddition [17], platinum-catalyzed [3 + 2] cycloaddition [18], and Rhodium-catalyzed [3 + 2] cycloaddition [12], were invented and have been extensively used in natural product synthesis in the last decade. Many reviews focusing the method development of the all

• 64% yield over three steps. The conversion of 138 to sinensilactam A (20) was achieved in two steps. Platinum-catalyzed [3 + 2] cycloaddition The platinum-catalyzed intermolecular [3 + 2] cycloaddition of propargyl ether derivatives and vinyl ether producing polycyclic indoles was disclosed by

• Iwasawa and co-workers in 2011 [18][66] (Scheme 10A). Treatment of Boc-protected aniline 139 and n-butyl vinyl ether (140) with a platinum(II) catalyst afforded tricyclic indole 141 in 83% yield. The authors suggested that this catalytic [3 + 2] cycloaddition reaction may involve an α,β-unsaturated

Controlled decomposition of SF₆ by electrochemical reduction

• Sébastien Bouvet,
• Bruce Pégot,
• Stéphane Sengmany,
• Erwan Le Gall,
• Eric Léonel,
• Anne-Marie Goncalves and
• Emmanuel Magnier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2948–2953, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.244

• , CNRS, ICMPE, UMR 7182, 2 rue Henri Dunant, 94320 Thiais, France 10.3762/bjoc.16.244 Abstract The electroreduction of SF6 is shown at ambient temperature in acetonitrile using an array of platinum microelectrodes to improve the electrical detection. Its half reduction potential occurs at −2.17 V vs Fc

• reduction potential of SF6. To allow its electroreduction feasibility in acetonitrile, an electrochemical analytical approach was required [24]. This crucial step was supported by sensors which are based on a micro-disc-array of platinum ultramicroelectrodes (20 µm diameter) acting as multi-probe channels

• reactions were carried out in a single compartment with a conventional three-electrode arrangement: two platinum electrodes and one silver reference electrode, SRE (Figure 3). The electrolysis is performed at constant potential (−2.3 V vs Fc+/Fc) with a continuous supply of SF6 placed in a rubber balloon

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

• (acetylide)platinum(II) complex [Pt(L1)2(PBu3)2] as a linear metalloligand. The reaction of this metalloligand with iron(II) cations and pyridine-2-carbaldehyde according to the subcomponent self-assembly approach yielded decanuclear heterobimetallic tetrahedron [Fe4Pt6(L2)12](OTf)8. Thus, combination of

• platinum(II) ions to be especially suitable to prepare a linear metalloligand due to their highly predictable square-planar coordination environment that can easily be employed to access tetravalent planar or divalent V-shaped cis- or linear trans-configurated complexes [43][44][45]. In this context

• platinum(II)-bis(acetylide) complexes [46][47] proved useful as building blocks for the construction of polymers [48], rings [49][50] and cages [36][42][51]. These neutral compounds are usually easy-to-access, rather stable and the cis- and trans-isomers can be separated efficiently. In this work we

A new method for the synthesis of diamantane by hydroisomerization of binor-S on treatment with sulfuric acid

• Rishat I. Aminov and
• Ravil I. Khusnutdinov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2534–2539, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.205

• compounds for the preparation of diamantane are three isomeric polycyclic hydrocarbons C14H20 3а–с, which are obtained by hydrogenation of the norbornadiene dimer, heptacyclo[8.4.0.02,12.03,8.04,6.05,9.011,13]tetradecane (binor-S, 2). Binor-S is hydrogenated in the presence of a platinum catalyst (Н2PtCl6

Heterogeneous photocatalysis in flow chemical reactors

• Christopher G. Thomson,
• Ai-Lan Lee and
• Filipe Vilela

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1495–1549, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.125

• treatment [146]. Dip-coating has also been commonly applied to coat other inorganic substrates, such as glass spheres, carbon nanotubes, and diatomite with TiO2 thin films for photocatalysis applications [147][148][149][150]. Scaiano and co-workers deposited platinum nanoparticles on TiO2(P25) powder as a

• recombination [154][155]. Suárez and co-workers used the photodeposition of platinum onto tungsten oxide (WO3) powder, before immobilising within a zeolite framework to produce visible light-active HPCats for the degradation of pollutants in air [156]. Scaiano and co-workers have also utilised photodeposition

Activated carbon as catalyst support: precursors, preparation, modification and characterization

• Melanie Iwanow,
• Tobias Gärtner,
• Volker Sieber and
• Burkhard König

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1188–1202, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.104

• the aqueous metal solution during the impregnation process and results in a better platinum dispersion. Nevertheless, less acidic and more thermally stable surface groups avoid the sintering of the metal particles by enhanced metal–carbon interaction [109]. Figueiredo et al. observed different types

Synthesis and properties of quinazoline-based versatile exciplex-forming compounds

• Rasa Keruckiene,
• Simona Vekteryte,
• Ervinas Urbonas,
• Matas Guzauskas,
• Eigirdas Skuodis,
• Dmytro Volyniuk and
• Juozas V. Grazulevicius

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1142–1153, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.101

• carried out for the solutions in dry dichloromethane containing 0.1 M tetrabutylammonium hexafluorophosphate at 25 °C; the scan rate was 50 mV/s while the sample concentration was 10−3 M. The potentials were measured against silver as a reference electrode. A platinum wire was used as a counter electrode

Synthesis of novel multifunctional carbazole-based molecules and their thermal, electrochemical and optical properties

• Nuray Altinolcek,
• Ahmet Battal,
• Mustafa Tavasli,
• William J. Peveler,
• Holly A. Yu and
• Peter J. Skabara

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1066–1074, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.93

• tetrabutylammonium hexafluorophosphate as the electrolyte (Figure 2). A platinum disk was used as a working electrode, silver wire as the reference electrode and platinum wire as the counter electrode. The ferrocene-ferrocenium redox couple was used as an internal reference. At positive potentials, compounds 7a and

Aryl-substituted acridanes as hosts for TADF-based OLEDs

• Naveen Masimukku,
• Dalius Gudeika,
• Oleksandr Bezvikonnyi,
• Ihor Syvorotka,
• Rasa Keruckiene,
• Dmytro Volyniuk and
• Juozas V. Grazulevicius

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 989–1000, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.88

• -electrode cell consisting of a platinum coil as counter electrode, a glassy carbon working electrode, and a silver wire as reference electrode was used; sweep rate – 100 mV/s, 0.1 M solution of tetrabutylammonium hexafluorophosphate (n-Bu4NPF6)) and b) photoelectron emission spectra of the layers of

A review of asymmetric synthetic organic electrochemistry and electrocatalysis: concepts, applications, recent developments and future directions

• Munmun Ghosh,
• Valmik S. Shinde and
• Magnus Rueping

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2710–2746, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.264

• -induced asymmetric electrochemical hydrogenation of 2,2,2-trifluoroacetophenone 32 nanoparticles was also developed (Scheme 13). These NPs with low Pt loading were further obtained by reducing platinum precursors on Cu NPs [41]. Yadav’s group, in 2013, described preparative scale enantioselective cathodic

• aryl sulfides 40 to their corresponding sulfoxides 41 using poly(amino acid)-coated platinum electrodes with moderate yield and good to excellent enantiomeric excess (Scheme 17) [47][48]. Osa and co-workers, in 1994, made an important contribution in the area by developing an enantioselective method

Experimental and computational electrochemistry of quinazolinespirohexadienone molecular switches – differential electrochromic vs photochromic behavior

• Eric W. Webb,
• Jonathan P. Moerdyk,
• Kyndra B. Sluiter,
• Benjamin J. Pollock,
• Amy L. Speelman,
• Eugene J. Lynch,
• William F. Polik and
• Jason G. Gillmore

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2473–2485, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.240

• platinum wire counter electrode, and a separately sparged Ag/AgNO3 (10 mM) nonaqueous reference electrode isolated from the working compartment with a Vycor frit. In some cases, a bare Ag wire was used as a pseudo-reference instead. The working, reference, and counter-electrodes were arranged in a triangle

• of a 19/22 septum was removed with a razor blade and used to cap the vial. The rubber had holes drilled for a reference and auxiliary electrode and a slit cut for a 7 × 70 mm platinum mesh working electrode so that the surface of the mesh faced the working and auxiliary electrodes. Teflon tubing was

• inserted through a pinhole in the septum for an argon purge and vent. The setup used a CHI112 nonaqueous Ag/AgNO3 reference electrode. The auxiliary electrode was formed by removing the silver wire from a CHI112 nonaqueous reference electrode and replacing it with a rolled 7 × 70 mm piece of platinum mesh

Photochromic diarylethene ligands featuring 2-(imidazol-2-yl)pyridine coordination site and their iron(II) complexes

• Andrey G. Lvov,
• Max Mörtel,
• Anton V. Yadykov,
• Frank W. Heinemann,
• Valerii Z. Shirinian and
• Marat M. Khusniyarov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2428–2437, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.235

• their complexes with rhodium(I) [18], platinum(II) [30], and iridium(III) [31] were reported. In contrast, in our work, the 2-(imidazol-2-yl)pyridine unit is used as a heterocyclic moiety of diarylethenes with cyclopentenone, cyclopentene, and cyclohexenone ethene bridges. The novel ligands have been

Small anion-assisted electrochemical potential splitting in a new series of bistriarylamine derivatives: organic mixed valency across a urea bridge and zwitterionization

• Keishiro Tahara,
• Tetsufumi Nakakita,
• Alyona A. Starikova,
• Takashi Ikeda,
• Masaaki Abe and
• Jun-ichi Kikuchi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2277–2286, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.220

• . Electrochemical investigations The electrochemical behavior was investigated using a BAS electrochemical analyzer (Bioanalytical Systems Inc, West Lafayette, IN, USA) with a three-electrode system composed of a platinum wire (1.6 mm diameter) counter electrode, a glassy carbon working electrode (3.0 mm diameter

2,3-Dibutoxynaphthalene-based tetralactam macrocycles for recognizing precious metal chloride complexes

• Li-Li Wang,
• Yi-Kuan Tu,
• Huan Yao and
• Wei Jiang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1460–1467, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.146

• sidewalls have been synthesized and characterized. The macrocycle containing isophthalamide bridges can bind square-planar chloride coordination complexes of gold(III), platinum(II), and palladium(II) in CDCl3, while the macrocycle with 2,6-pyridine dicarboxamide bridging units cannot. This may be due to

• a pair of new tetralactam macrocycles with 2,3-dibutoxynaphthalene as the sidewalls. The tetralactam macrocycle with 2,6-pyridine dicarboxamide cannot bind square-planar chloride coordination complexes of gold(III), platinum(II), and palladium(II) in CDCl3, while the macrocycle containing

• isophthalamide bridging units bind these complexes with decent binding affinities. This macrocycle shows similar binding affinity to chloride, weaker affinity to the chloride complex of gold(III), and much stronger affinities to the chloride complexes of platinum(II) and palladium(II), when compared to the

Selenophene-containing heterotriacenes by a C–Se coupling/cyclization reaction

• Pierre-Olivier Schwartz,
• Sebastian Förtsch,
• Astrid Vogt,
• Elena Mena-Osteritz and
• Peter Bäuerle

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1379–1393, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.138

• via spectroelectrochemistry using a previously described setup with a platinum working electrode and UV–vis–NIR spectra were recorded in reflectance mode [53]. At the beginning of the measurements a potential of −500 mV (vs Ag/AgCl) was applied in order to obtain the neutral polymer films without any

• Perkin Elmer UV/VIS/NIR Lambda 19 spectrometer. Cyclic voltammetry experiments were performed with a computer-controlled Autolab PGSTAT30 potentiostat in a three-electrode single compartment cell (3 mL). The platinum working electrode consisted of a platinum wire sealed in a soft glass tube with a

• surface of A = 0.785 mm2, which was polished down to 0.25 μm with Buehler polishing paste prior to use to guarantee reproducible surfaces. The counter electrode consisted of a platinum wire and the reference electrode was an Ag/AgCl reference electrode. All potentials were internally referenced to the