Insight into functionalized-macrocycles-guided supramolecular photocatalysis

• Minzan Zuo,
• Krishnasamy Velmurugan,
• Kaiya Wang,
• Xueqi Tian and
• Xiao-Yu Hu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 139–155, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.15

• photochemical reactions, including photoisomerization, photocyclodimerization, and H2 evolution [7][23]. Chirality induction in a prochiral guest via photochemical reactions is a delightful approach. This can not only transfer the chirality of the host cavity to the molecular photoproduct via excited-state

Tuning the solid-state emission of liquid crystalline nitro-cyanostilbene by halogen bonding

• Subrata Nath,
• Alexander Kappelt,
• Matthias Spengler,
• Bibhisan Roy,
• Jens Voskuhl and
• Michael Giese

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 124–131, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.13

• with 4-alkoxystilbazoles [10]. Recently, Li and co-workers reported on a series of halogen-bonded assemblies to induce chirality in nematic liquid crystalline hosts and studied the light-induced manipulation of the photonic properties of these materials [11] In 2019, our group investigated the role of

Circularly polarized luminescent systems fabricated by Tröger's base derivatives through two different strategies

• Cheng Qian,
• Yuan Chen,
• Qian Zhao,
• Ming Cheng,
• Chen Lin,
• Juli Jiang and
• Leyong Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 52–57, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.6

• dichroism (CD) absorption spectra reflect the chirality of the fluorescent materials in the ground state, and circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) spectra reflect the chirality of fluorescent materials in the excited electronic state. Therefore, the CD and CPL spectrum are the two most important tools to

• test the chirality of luminescent materials [11][12]. As a useful building block in constructing functional materials [13][14], Tröger’s base (TB), first synthesized in 1887 [15], shows high controllability and obvious advantages. There are eleven sites in its framework that could be modified without

• the co-assembly strategy. The cogels show significant CPL emission and stoichiometry-controlled inversion of chirality due to the hydrogen bonding interactions and packing modes in the supramolecular co-assemblies. Owing to TB special V-shaped structure, rigid conformation, and nitrogen stereogenic

Synthesis, crystal structures and properties of carbazole-based [6]helicenes fused with an azine ring

• Daria I. Tonkoglazova,
• Anna V. Gulevskaya,
• Konstantin A. Chistyakov and
• Olga I. Askalepova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 11–21, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.2

• repulsion of the terminal aromatic nuclei. The steric strain releases by adopting either the P- or M-helix configuration. The helically extended π-conjugated system, axial chirality and associated with these structural peculiarities unique optical and electronic properties of helicenes have attracted

• have led to promising applications of helicenes. The latter have been studied with respect to conductivity [12][13][14][15], nonlinear optics [16][17], circularly polarized luminescence [18][19][20][21][22][23][24], organocatalysis [25][26][27][28][29], conformational analysis [30], chirality sensing

Nocarimidazoles C and D, antimicrobial alkanoylimidazoles from a coral-derived actinomycete Kocuria sp.: application of ¹J_C,H coupling constants for the unequivocal determination of substituted imidazoles and stereochemical diversity of anteisoalkyl chains in microbial metabolites

• Md. Rokon Ul Karim,
• Enjuro Harunari,
• Amit Raj Sharma,
• Naoya Oku,
• Kazuaki Akasaka,
• Daisuke Urabe,
• Mada Triandala Sibero and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2719–2727, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.222

• enantiomerically mixed anteiso chains in 1 and 5 but at the same time found purely S-configured 4 (Figure 5), demonstrating the varied enantiomerical purity and chirality of anteiso-branched bacterial metabolites. Intriguingly, the same chemistry is seen among related compounds from a single organism (e.g., 1, 4

• of 1 (a), 4 (b), and 5 (c) by the Ohrui–Akasaka method. Stereochemical diversity of the anteiso-chain chirality in microbial metabolites. Synthesis of the model compounds 8 and 9. 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopic data for nocarimidazoles C (1) and D (2) in DMSO-d6 with TFA. Antimicrobial activity of the

Recent developments in enantioselective photocatalysis

• Callum Prentice,
• James Morrisson,
• Andrew D. Smith and
• Eli Zysman-Colman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2363–2441, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.197

Hierarchically assembled helicates as reaction platform – from stoichiometric Diels–Alder reactions to enamine catalysis

• David Van Craen,
• Jenny Begall,
• Johannes Großkurth,
• Leonard Himmel,
• Oliver Linnenberg,
• Elisabeth Isaak and
• Markus Albrecht

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2338–2345, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.195

• reaction yielded the racemic product after purification. Scheme 3 is showing that the induction of stereochemistry of the Diels–Alder reaction depends on the chirality at the chiral ligand and not at the helix. This allows improvement of the stereoselectivity by using more appropriate sterically hindered

Design and synthesis of a bis-macrocyclic host and guests as building blocks for small molecular knots

• Elizabeth A. Margolis,
• Rebecca J. Keyes,
• Stephen D. Lockey IV and
• Edward E. Fenlon

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2314–2321, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.192

• were formed (see Scheme S1 in Supporting Information File 1). Repeated attempts to grow X-ray crystals of the product failed. To test for topological chirality, a europium chiral shift reagent was added, but the 1H NMR spectrum was too noisy to discern any peak doubling. Additional experiments, such as

Synthetic approaches to bowl-shaped π-conjugated sumanene and its congeners

• Shakeel Alvi and
• Rashid Ali

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2212–2259, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.186

• et al. [13], this field of research is continuously booming because of the developments of advanced synthetic organic tools [14][15][16]. Among the PAHs, the buckybowls are of significant importance not only because of the presence of unique inherent chirality (bowl-chirality) originating either from

• strategy via the transfer of sp3 chirality of 27 into the bowl chirality of 28 as a key conversion (Scheme 3) [17][31]. In this context, they began with the Pd-catalyzed hydrosilylation reaction using HSiCl3 at −3 °C in the presence of a chiral phosphine ligand to furnish the hydrosilylated product which

Naphthalene diimide–amino acid conjugates as novel fluorimetric and CD probes for differentiation between ds-DNA and ds-RNA

• Annike Weißenstein,
• Myroslav O. Vysotsky,
• Ivo Piantanida and
• Frank Würthner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2032–2045, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.170

• molecules [49][50]. Also achiral small molecules can eventually acquire induced CD (ICD) upon binding to chiral polynucleotides, which could give useful information about modes of interaction [49][50]. The NDIs 3a,b are chiral but the chirality of the amino acid residue is not transferred through the

• commonly attributed to nucleobase pairs. However, since it is not likely that the chirality of the double helix will strongly increase upon binding of a small molecule, the most prominent changes at 300 nm and above are most likely attributable to ICD bands of the NDI core bound to the polynucleotide in a

[3 + 2] Cycloaddition with photogenerated azomethine ylides in β-cyclodextrin

• Margareta Sohora,
• Leo Mandić and
• Nikola Basarić

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1296–1304, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.110

• the macrocyclic host affected the stereochemistry of the reaction. Moreover, we studied photodecarboxylation reactions initiated by the phthalimide chromophore [17][18][19] and applied them in cyclizations with memory of chirality [20] and diastereoselective peptide cyclizations [21

A cyclopeptide and three oligomycin-class polyketides produced by an underexplored actinomycete of the genus Pseudosporangium

• Shun Saito,
• Kota Atsumi,
• Tao Zhou,
• Keisuke Fukaya,
• Daisuke Urabe,
• Naoya Oku,
• Md. Rokon Ul Karim,
• Hisayuki Komaki and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1100–1110, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.97

• -acetyl-ʟ-Tyr-ʟ-Pro-ʟ-Trp, was determined by a combination of spectroscopic analyses, chemical derivatization, ECD calculation, and DFT-based theoretical chemical shift calculation, revealing the presence of an (Sa)-axial chirality around the biaryl bond. Compounds 2–4 lacked hydroxylation on the side

• Pro residues was not proven by HMBC, but confirmed by ROESY correlations between H-5' and H-2/H-3 to give a planar structure of 1. The chirality of the Pro residue was determined by the advanced Marfey’s method. Compound 1 was acid-hydrolyzed and the hydrolysate was derivatized with 1-fluoro-2,4

• C2''. As positive ΔδS−R values were obtained for 10''-NH and H-11'', and negative values for 2''-NH, H-2', H-3', H-4', H-5', and 2-NH (Figure 3), an (S)-configuration was assigned to C-2''. The chirality of the AcTyr residue was investigated by computer-assisted conformational analysis and NMR

Recent applications of porphyrins as photocatalysts in organic synthesis: batch and continuous flow approaches

• Rodrigo Costa e Silva,
• Luely Oliveira da Silva,
• Aloisio de Andrade Bartolomeu,
• Timothy John Brocksom and
• Kleber Thiago de Oliveira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 917–955, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.83

• amides (71–99% yields) and with 5–66% ee (Scheme 42). In 2018, Meng and co-workers developed a bifunctional photo-organocatalyst combining both the photosensitizer and the chirality inducer. Relevant enantiomeric excesses were observed (up to 86% ee) in the oxidation of both β-keto esters and β-keto

Bipyrrole boomerangs via Pd-mediated tandem cyclization–oxygenation. Controlling reaction selectivity and electronic properties

• Liliia Moshniaha,
• Marika Żyła-Karwowska,
• Joanna Cybińska,
• Piotr J. Chmielewski,
• Ludovic Favereau and
• Marcin Stępień

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 895–903, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.81

• each produced a single broadened signal, indicating that the helix inversion occurs in the fast exchange regime. This apparently faster inversion in cNMI2H than in the cNMI2O and cNDA2O lactams correlates with the higher bond order of the α–α linkage in the latter two systems. The chirality of cNMI3H

Copper catalysis with redox-active ligands

• Agnideep Das,
• Yufeng Ren,
• Cheriehan Hessin and
• Marine Desage-El Murr

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 858–870, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.77

• iminosemiquinone redox-active ligand which was oxidized to iminobenzoquinone. The Canary group [30] reported a redox-reconfigurable copper catalyst that exhibits reversal of its helical chirality through redox stimuli (Scheme 8). Combining ʟ-methionine and catalytic urea groups with two different copper salts as

• precursors affords both enantiomers Δ-10 (from CuClO4) and Λ-10 from (Cu(CH3CN)4PF6). UV–vis and circular dichroism spectroscopic studies evidence that the helical chirality exhibited by these two catalysts could be reversed by redox stimuli. These complexes could perform enantioselective Michael addition

• trifluoromethylation of heteroaromatics with redox-active iminosemiquinone ligands. Reversal of helical chirality upon redox stimuli and enantioselective Michael addition with a redox-reconfigurable copper catalyst. Interaction of guanidine-copper catalyst with oxygen and representative coupling products. a4 mol

Recent advances in Cu-catalyzed C(sp³)–Si and C(sp³)–B bond formation

• Balaram S. Takale,
• Ruchita R. Thakore,
• Elham Etemadi-Davan and
• Bruce H. Lipshutz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 691–737, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.67

• ]. Following this report, Oestreich and co-workers examined asymmetric additions of silicon to unsaturated ketones 113 using P–N-type ligand L13. However, the background reaction of the silyl–zinc reagent was predominant leading to poor chirality transfer from the phosphine ligand L13, giving essentially the

Synthesis of C₇₀-fragment buckybowls bearing alkoxy substituents

• Yumi Yakiyama,
• Shota Hishikawa and
• Hidehiro Sakurai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 681–690, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.66

• vapour diffusion method using CHCl3/hexane conditions. Figure 2 shows the crystal structure of 5a. The crystal was obtained as a racemic compound containing a pair of two enantiomers defined by bowl chirality [26], as a result of the rapid bowl inversion under the crystallization conditions. 5a formed a

Architecture and synthesis of P,N-heterocyclic phosphine ligands

• Wisdom A. Munzeiwa,
• Bernard Omondi and
• Vincent O. Nyamori

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 362–383, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.35

• phosphorous atom, and the ease of optimizing steric and electronic properties. Additionally, properties like chirality can be conferred to the backbone of the ligands to generate C-stereogenic [1] and P-chirogenic [2] compounds. Furthermore, the 31P-nucleus abundance allows the use of NMR for reaction

• -oxazaphosphorine ligands with a P-center and backbone chirality (Scheme 24). Spiro-1,3-amino alcohol compounds 124 were synthesized according to a literature procedure [107]. For the synthesis of the mono-N-methylated amino alcohol ligands a cooled solution of dichlorophenylphosphine was treated with triethylamine

[1,3]/[1,4]-Sulfur atom migration in β-hydroxyalkylphosphine sulfides

• Katarzyna Włodarczyk,
• Piotr Borowski and
• Marek Stankevič

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 88–105, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.11

• at the γ-carbon atom, suggesting that the reaction followed a more complex mechanism. All reactions tested proceeded with the formation of an additional chirality center at the γ-carbon atom in the alkyl substituent, and therefore, almost all products were obtained as mixtures of epimers

• ]-rearrangement proceeded with additional partial enrichment of one enantiomer. The latter may have occurred through the preferential acylation of one of two diastereoisomers under the reaction conditions where the second chirality center at the phosphorus atom influenced the ratio of the acylation reaction. With

• . The nature of this difference is currently a subject of further research in our laboratory. Nevertheless, the above results opened a new pathway for the synthesis of bicyclic organophosphorus compounds possessing a chirality center at phosphorus. Moreover, the formation of the bicyclic compounds

Pigmentosins from Gibellula sp. as antibiofilm agents and a new glycosylated asperfuran from Cordyceps javanica

• Soleiman E. Helaly,
• Wilawan Kuephadungphan,
• Patima Phainuphong,
• Mahmoud A. A. Ibrahim,
• Kanoksri Tasanathai,
• Suchada Mongkolsamrit,
• Janet Jennifer Luangsa-ard,
• Souwalak Phongpaichit,
• Vatcharin Rukachaisirikul and
• Marc Stadler

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2968–2981, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.293

• with pigmentosin A, a 3,4-dihydro-α-naphthopyrone dimer with a 7,7′-dimethoxy pattern, by comparing its spectroscopic data with the published data for pigmentosin A [12]. Nevertheless, the chirality of the stereogenic centers C-3/C-3′ as well as the atropisomerism at the 6,6′ axis of pigmentosin A (1

• effects: a first negative at 274 nm (Δε −196) and a positive second one at 252 nm (Δε +203), indicating the helicity of the 6-6′ axis as aR, according to the exciton chirality method [13]. Furthermore, the TDDFT-ECD calculations were performed on three isomers, namely (3R,3′R,6R)-1, (3S,3′S,6S)-1, and (3S

• -13′, H-3′, and H2-4′ (+0.06, +0.24, and +0.10, respectively). Thus, the absolute configuration at C-12′ was assigned as R (Figure 3). The atropisomerism at the 6,6′ axis of pigmentosin B (2) was assigned, similarly to pigmentosin A (1), by the exciton chirality method. A strong negative first Cotton

Influence of the cis/trans configuration on the supramolecular aggregation of aryltriazoles

• Sara Tejera,
• Giada Caniglia,
• Rosa L. Dorta,
• Andrea Favero,
• Javier González-Platas and
• Jesús T. Vázquez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2881–2888, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.282

• ECD exciton chirality method [22][23][24]. ECD of compound 10 in a DMSO/H2O (1:2, v/v) solution and in gel form were successfully measured (Figure 6). ECD of the solution exhibited negative first/positive second exciton Cotton effects at 262 (Δε = −8.6) and 242 nm (Δε = +3.3), respectively (Figure 6

A chiral self-sorting photoresponsive coordination cage based on overcrowded alkenes

• Constantin Stuckhardt,
• Diederik Roke,
• Wojciech Danowski,
• Edwin Otten,
• Sander J. Wezenberg and
• Ben L. Feringa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2767–2773, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.268

• switches have not been reported in the literature. In chiral self-sorting SCCs, either homo- or heterochiral complexes are formed exclusively through high fidelity recognition of the components within the complex [31][32][33]. The formation of such complexes with high selectivity and well-defined chirality

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

• exploiting electroorganic reactions to their fullest extent [15]. Asymmetric electrochemical synthesis refers to electroorganic reactions resulting in the introduction of one or more new elements of chirality into a target compound. The induction of asymmetry into achiral substrates through electrochemical

• asymmetric electrocatalytic reactions. Review Classification and systematic description of chiral inductors Transformations of achiral organic substrates into chiral products by electrochemical synthetic methods require the active participation of an external source of chirality. Organic chemists working in

• summarized the background and recent advances and arranged this article to provide a systematic description of electrochemical reactions in which chirality has been induced using these three sources (Figure 1). Chemically modified chiral electrodes Electrochemical asymmetric reductions using chiral

α-Photooxygenation of chiral aldehydes with singlet oxygen

• Dominika J. Walaszek,
• Magdalena Jawiczuk,
• Jakub Durka,
• Olga Drapała and
• Dorota Gryko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2076–2084, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.205

• compounds transparent in the UV–vis region. In solution, chirality of diols is transfered to the newly in situ-formed complexes. The signs of Cotton effects (CEs) observed in their spectra undergo the helicity rule linking the positive/negative sign of CE at about 300–400 nm with positive/negative sign of O

Attempted synthesis of a meta-metalated calix[4]arene

• Christopher D. Jurisch and
• Gareth E. Arnott

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1996–2002, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.195

• yielding transformations to azide and 1,2,3-triazole derivatives which may have application in other areas of research. Keywords: calixarene; inherent chirality; mesoionic carbene; mononitration; ruthenacycle; Introduction Calix[4]arenes are a class of diverse macrocyclic compounds which have been the

• whose chiral nature is a result of selective substitution on the calix[4]arene by various functional groups [9]. In particular, we have focused on the less-studied meta-substituted derivatives [10] whose inherent chirality is more commonly introduced by a suitable directing group [11][12][13][14][15

• potential implications for asymmetric catalysis, due to the inherent chirality of the calix[4]arene, coupled with the point chirality from, for example, a tetrahedral ruthenium center. We therefore decided to apply the methods reported by Albrecht to a calix[4]arene system in order to prove this theory