CF₃-substituted carbocations: underexploited intermediates with great potential in modern synthetic chemistry

• Anthony J. Fernandes,
• Armen Panossian,
• Bastien Michelet,
• Agnès Martin-Mingot,
• Frédéric R. Leroux and
• Sébastien Thibaudeau

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 343–378, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.32

An atom-economical addition of methyl azaarenes with aromatic aldehydes via benzylic C(sp³)–H bond functionalization under solvent- and catalyst-free conditions

• Divya Rohini Yennamaneni,
• Vasu Amrutham,
• Krishna Sai Gajula,
• Rammurthy Banothu,
• Murali Boosa and
• Narender Nama

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 3093–3103, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.259

• , variations in the absorption, an inadequate penetrating ability of the radiation into the reaction medium, and further reflection of the microwaves. Nevertheless, the solvent was water, which required long extraction processes compared to solvent-free conditions. Castro and co-workers have also reported the

Chemical constituents of Chaenomeles sinensis twigs and their biological activity

• Joon Min Cha,
• Dong Hyun Kim,
• Lalita Subedi,
• Zahra Khan,
• Sang Un Choi,
• Sun Yeou Kim and
• Chung Sub Kim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 3078–3085, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.257

• , Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea. Extraction and isolation. Extraction and solvent partitions were performed in the same manner as described in [13]. The hexanes-soluble fraction (3 g) was separated over a silica gel column (hexanes/EtOAc 3:1) to yield seven fractions (H1–H7). Fraction H3 (0.4

Secondary metabolites of Bacillus subtilis impact the assembly of soil-derived semisynthetic bacterial communities

• Heiko T. Kiesewalter,
• Carlos N. Lozano-Andrade,
• Mikael L. Strube and
• Ákos T. Kovács

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2983–2998, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.248

• -treated or untreated mock communities cocultivated for 48 h. DNA extraction Environmental- and semisynthetic-community genomic DNA was extracted from either 250 mg soil or 250 µL bacterial culture, respectively, by using the DNeasy PowerSoil Pro Kit (QIAGEN) and following the manufacturer’s instructions

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

• , Japan). The pH value of the medium was adjusted to 7.0 before sterilization. The inoculated flasks were incubated at 30 °C for 5 days, with rotational shaking at 200 rpm. Extraction and isolation In a similar manner as described in [22], after fermentation, 100 mL of 1-butanol was added to each flask

Leveraging glycomics data in glycoprotein 3D structure validation with Privateer

• Haroldas Bagdonas,
• Daniel Ungar and
• Jon Agirre

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2523–2533, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.204

• definitions match dictionary standards as well as output multiple helper tools to aid the processes of refinement and model building [24]. Most importantly, Privateer already contains methods that allow the extraction of carbohydrate atomistic definitions to create abstract definitions of glycans in memory

A proposed sustainability index for synthesis plans based on input provenance and output fate: application to academic and industrial synthesis plans for vanillin as a case study

• John Andraos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2346–2362, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.196

• from biofermentation, chemical synthesis, and solvent extraction processes. In addition, these plans are compared and ranked according to Borda count and poset (partially ordered set) pairwise dominance analyses using the following attributes: process mass intensity (PMI), sacrificial reagent (SR

• vanillin since this high commodity flavour chemical is ideally suited to the present investigation owing to its varied methods of synthesis spanning classical chemical synthesis, biofermentation, and solvent extraction procedures from the natural source vanilla beans. We chose these particular examples

• , and 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde) [38][39][40][41][42][43]; and five plans involved solvent extraction procedures either by percolation, Soxhlet, or supercritical fluid methods using cured vanilla beans that were either whole or were cut up as starting material [44][45][46]. Results and Discussion

Tools for generating and analyzing glycan microarray data

• Akul Y. Mehta,
• Jamie Heimburg-Molinaro and
• Richard D. Cummings

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2260–2271, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.187

• aglycone (for example, a glycolipid obtained directly by extraction from a natural origin), an appropriate surface needs to be selected which is compatible with the glycoconjugate. Printing methods Once the decision about the surface to which they are to be attached is made, the glycans are dissolved in

Muyocopronones A and B: azaphilones from the endophytic fungus Muyocopron laterale

• Ken-ichi Nakashima,
• Junko Tomida,
• Tomoe Tsuboi,
• Yoshiaki Kawamura and
• Makoto Inoue

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2100–2107, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.177

• , Aichi Gakuin University (ECN-279). Fermentation, extraction, and isolation The fungus Muyocopron laterale ECN279 was inoculated onto 50 malt extract agar plates. After incubation at 27 °C for 30 d, the fermented materials were extracted with MeOH (1 L × 3 times, each 48 h) at room temperature (ca. 25 °C

Three new O-isocrotonyl-3-hydroxybutyric acid congeners produced by a sea anemone-derived marine bacterium of the genus Vibrio

• Dandan Li,
• Enjuro Harunari,
• Tao Zhou,
• Naoya Oku and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1869–1874, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.154

• being shake-cultured at 30 °C at 200 rpm for 5 days, each production culture received 100 mL n-butanol, and the flasks were shaken for an additional 1 h for extraction. The emulsified broth was centrifuged at 6000 rpm for 10 min, and the resulting butanol layers were collected and concentrated in vacuo

One-pot synthesis of isosorbide from cellulose or lignocellulosic biomass: a challenge?

• Isaline Bonnin,
• Raphaël Mereau,
• Thierry Tassaing and
• Karine De Oliveira Vigier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1713–1721, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.143

• 1.5 h in an ethanol/water (50:50) mixture at 210 °C, and ii) CIMV (Compagnie Industrielle de la Matière Végétale) technology, where wheat straw was treated during 3.5 h of acetic acid/formic acid/water (50:30:15 m/m/m) extraction at 105 °C and then in the presence of H2O2 and organic acids (peracetic

Synthesis of new dihydroberberine and tetrahydroberberine analogues and evaluation of their antiproliferative activity on NCI-H1975 cells

• Giacomo Mari,
• Lucia De Crescentini,
• Serena Benedetti,
• Francesco Palma,
• Stefania Santeusanio and
• Fabio Mantellini

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1606–1616, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.133

• inexpensive starting materials. The purification of the hydrazono-dihydroberberines by sole filtration, avoiding any solvent-consuming steps, such as chromatography, extraction or recrystallization, determines a very simple workup. This aspect, together with the total efficiency in atom economy observed

Antibacterial scalarane from Doriprismatica stellata nudibranchs (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia), egg ribbons, and their dietary sponge Spongia cf. agaricina (Demospongiae, Dictyoceratida)

• Cora Hertzer,
• Stefan Kehraus,
• Nils Böhringer,
• Fontje Kaligis,
• Robert Bara,
• Dirk Erpenbeck,
• Gert Wörheide,
• Till F. Schäberle,
• Heike Wägele and
• Gabriele M. König

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1596–1605, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.132

• Ackers et al. in 2007 [86], see also Erpenbeck et al. from 2020 [87] (Supporting Information File 1). Specimens were stored in ethanol (96%) at −20 °C until further extraction and processing in the laboratories at the University of Bonn. A part of the collected sea slug and substrate materials will be

• finally stored at the Sam Ratulangi University, Manado, Indonesia, in the Reference Collection under the numbers SRU2015/01 and SRU2016/02. A fraction of the sponge material is stored in the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology under collection number SNSB-BSPG.GW41291. Extraction and

Mechanochemical green synthesis of hyper-crosslinked cyclodextrin polymers

• Alberto Rubin Pedrazzo,
• Fabrizio Caldera,
• Marco Zanetti,
• Silvia Lucia Appleton,
• Nilesh Kumar Dhakar and
• Francesco Trotta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1554–1563, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.127

• often toxic solvents. The presence of these solvents affected the whole synthesis as the final material required rigorous purification extraction procedures with excess of water or volatile solvents to remove residual solvent inside the material’s structure. The removal of any synthetic contamination is

• ζ-potential detected. The elemental analyses showed the presence of nitrogen even after pressurized solvent extraction (PSE) and this was attributed to the presence of reactive imidazolyl carbonyl groups (IM). In an ideal reaction, the carbonyl diimidazole should react completely with two hydroxy

• the organic dye, a covalent bond formation with the still reactive NS was achieved. As shown by elemental analysis, after PS extraction, the amount of nitrogen and therefore of reactive IM was very low. The experiment was conducted on nanosponges having 1:2, 1:4, 1:8 βCD/CDI ratios, and good results

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

• still trapped in the resins after the extraction, which led to a dramatic loss in photosensitisation efficiency over multiple recycles as it was progressively washed out. The flow-purified resins displayed no loss of efficiency over the recycles, indicating the flow purification had effectively removed

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

• mixture, which was then extracted with EtOAc. After removing the solvent, the residue was purified on a silica gel thin-layer plate (Kieselgel 60F254; Merck Co.) developed by a mixture of CHCl3/MeOH 1:1. Extraction of the collected fraction with MeOH and evaporation gave (R)-PGME amide 5a (0.6 mg): 1H NMR

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

• extraction by linearly increasing voltage (CELIV) [31][32]. TOF photocurrent transients with well-visible transit times were recorded for holes in layers of compound 4 (Figure 5a). Using the values of transit times, hole-drift mobilities at different electric fields were calculated and plotted in Figure 5

• studied compounds were performed by two methods, i.e., time-of-flight (TOF) and charge extraction by linearly increasing voltage (CELIV) in the photo regime [38]. OLEDs were fabricated by vacuum deposition of inorganic and organic layers onto cleaned ITO-coated glass, applying vacuum of 10−6 Torr. The

Efficient synthesis of dipeptide analogues of α-fluorinated β-aminophosphonates

• Marcin Kaźmierczak and
• Henryk Koroniak

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 756–762, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.69

• -dimethylaminopropyl)-N′-ethylcarbodiimide hydrochloride (EDCl) [41] significantly increased the reaction yield (86%). What is more, the reaction byproduct is water-soluble and easy to remove by extraction. Nevertheless, HOBt was still used as an additive. This reagent has recently been reported to exhibit explosive

Direct borylation of terrylene and quaterrylene

• Haruka Kano,
• Keiji Uehara,
• Kyohei Matsuo,
• Hironobu Hayashi,
• Hiroko Yamada and
• Naoki Aratani

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 621–627, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.58

• Discussion According to the literature [8], terrylene was prepared from a 3-(1-naphthyl)perylene by using 8 equivalents of AlCl3 in chlorobenzene at 80 °C for 4 h. The crude product was purified by Soxhlet extraction followed by recrystallization from toluene. After these simple manipulations, the pure

• ]. However, the crude product was not completely purified by Soxhlet extraction and by crystallization in our hands. The borylation reaction of hardly soluble crude quaterrylene gave a deep green suspension. MALDI mass spectrometry of the reaction mixture detected an ion peak at m/z = 1004.5018 (calcd for

Opening up connectivity between documents, structures and bioactivity

• Christopher Southan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 596–606, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.54

• . Although their expert-curated numbers are lower (i.e., ≈2 million compounds against ≈3700 human proteins), these open sources have the great advantage of being merged within PubChem. Parallel efforts have focused on the extraction of document-to-compound (D-C-only) connectivity. In the absence of molecular

• chemistry publishers. In addition, both the European and US PubMed Central portals now add chemistry look-ups from abstracts and full-text papers. However, the fully automated extraction of DARCLP has not yet been achieved. This stands in contrast to the ability of biocurators to discern these relationships

• journals e) they can be text-mined and d) consequently, over 30 million structures have entered PubChem via automated extraction [3]. Non-document sources: While this article has to be restricted to documents an increasing amount of drug discovery data is beginning to surface on the web that may never be

A systematic review on silica-, carbon-, and magnetic materials-supported copper species as efficient heterogeneous nanocatalysts in “click” reactions

• Pezhman Shiri and
• Jasem Aboonajmi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 551–586, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.52

• 2 days at 100 °C, a solid was obtained, which was then filtered off, washed with distilled water, and dried. In the next step, the surfactant pluronic P123 was removed by the Soxhlet extraction method to produce a white solid. Then, 58 was synthesized using 57 and copper(II) acetate in methanol at

• reflux conditions for one day. The resulting powder was filtered off, washed with methanol, and dried. Finally, excess copper was removed by the Soxhlet extraction method (Scheme 9). The 1,3-dipolar reaction of organic alkynes, organic bromides (or aryldiazonium salts or epoxides), and sodium azide

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

• , common extraction with dichloromethane was not applicable, hence solid–liquid extraction with diethylamine was used. Low yields were reported for the 3- and 4-pyridyl analogs due to the difficulty associated with their extraction compared to their 2-pyridyl counterparts [54][55]. Dai and co-workers [63

Oligomeric ricinoleic acid preparation promoted by an efficient and recoverable Brønsted acidic ionic liquid

• Fei You,
• Xing He,
• Song Gao,
• Hong-Ru Li and
• Liang-Nian He

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 351–361, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.34

• oligomerization degree was 4. The reaction has excellent selectivity and no other byproducts were detected except water. More remarkably, a simple stratifying at room temperature will cause the separation of catalyst and product, which means the additional solvent extraction or distillation separation employed in

Two antibacterial and PPARα/γ-agonistic unsaturated keto fatty acids from a coral-associated actinomycete of the genus Micrococcus

• Amit Raj Sharma,
• Enjuro Harunari,
• Naoya Oku,
• Nobuyasu Matsuura,
• Agus Trianto and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 297–304, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.29

• Chemical, Kanagawa, Japan) 1%, and natural seawater collected in Toyama Bay, Toyama, Japan. The pH value of the medium was adjusted to 7.0 before sterilization. The inoculated flasks were incubated at 30 °C for 5 days with rotational shaking using a rotary shaker at a speed of 200 rpm. Extraction and

Absolute configurations of talaromycones A and B, α-diversonolic ester, and aspergillusone B from endophytic Talaromyces sp. ECN211

• Ken-ichi Nakashima,
• Junko Tomida,
• Takao Hirai,
• Yoshiaki Kawamura and
• Makoto Inoue

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 290–296, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.28

• ) under accession numbers LC424445 (ITS) and LC424442 (26S rDNA). Fermentation, extraction, and isolation The methods of fermentation and extraction of the fungus Talaromyces sp. ECN211 were performed in a similar manner as described previously [9]. The fungus Talaromyces sp. ECN211 was inoculated onto