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

Diastereoselective synthesis of highly substituted cyclohexanones and tetrahydrochromene-4-ones via conjugate addition of curcumins to arylidenemalonates

• Deepa Nair,
• Abhishek Tiwari,
• Banamali Laha and
• Irishi N. N. Namboothiri

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2016–2023, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.177

• . Reaction optimisation using phase-transfer catalysts.a Scope of alkylidenemalonates and curcumins.a Supporting Information Supporting Information File 38: Experimental procedures and characterization data. Supporting Information File 39: Copies of NMR spectra of all new compounds. Supporting Information

Allostreptopyrroles A–E, β-alkylpyrrole derivatives from an actinomycete Allostreptomyces sp. RD068384

• Marwa Elsbaey,
• Naoya Oku,
• Mohamed S. A. Abdel-Mottaleb and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1981–1987, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.174

• HRESITOFMS and NMR analytical data (Table 2), inferring that compounds 2 and 3 were isomers of 1. In fact, their NMR spectra were closely similar to those for 1 except a little difference in the alkyl side chain terminus. In a COSY spectrum of 2, the terminal doublet methyl proton was correlated with an

• -configurations were proposed for compounds 2 and 3. However, this prediction was not confirmed by chemical derivatization due to their limited availability. 1H and 13C NMR spectra of compounds 4 and 5 were superimposable to those of 1 except for methylene resonances, supporting that both 4 and 5 possess the same

Development of a flow photochemical process for a π-Lewis acidic metal-catalyzed cyclization/radical addition sequence: in situ-generated 2-benzopyrylium as photoredox catalyst and reactive intermediate

• Masahiro Terada,
• Zen Iwasaki,
• Ryohei Yazaki,
• Shigenobu Umemiya and
• Jun Kikuchi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1973–1980, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.173

• , experimental procedures, and characterization data. Supporting Information File 30: Copies of NMR spectra. Funding This work was partially supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Hybrid Catalysis for Enabling Molecular Synthesis on Demand” (JP17H06447) and a Grant-in-Aid for

1,2-Difluoroethylene (HFO-1132): synthesis and chemistry

• Liubov V. Sokolenko,
• Taras M. Sokolenko and
• Yurii L. Yagupolskii

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1955–1966, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.171

• ]. Additionally, when the reaction was performed using DMSO-d6 (or CD3CN) and CH3ONa, H/D exchange occurred already at ambient temperature (25 °C, 20 h) [78]. The formation of CDF=CDF was confirmed by NMR spectroscopy, namely by the change of signal multiplicity in the 19F NMR spectra of E- and Z-isomers of 1,2

• -difluoroethylene and the disappearance of vinyl protons resonances in the 1H NMR spectra [78]. Addition to the C=C bond Halogen addition: 1,2-Difluoroethylene was reported to react with chlorine [46][79] and bromine [51] under irradiation, yielding 1,2-difluoro-1,2-dihaloethanes in moderate to high yield (Scheme 9

Regioselective alkylation of a versatile indazole: Electrophile scope and mechanistic insights from density functional theory calculations

• Pengcheng Lu,
• Luis Juarez,
• Paul A. Wiget,
• Weihe Zhang,
• Krishnan Raman and
• Pravin L. Kotian

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1940–1954, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.170

• moisture-sensitive reagents were performed under a nitrogen or argon atmosphere. Silica gel chromatography was performed using prepacked silica gel columns (RediSep® Rf, Teledyne ISCO). An aluminum block atop a hotplate with a thermocouple was used to heat reactions to the specified temperatures. NMR

• spectra were acquired on Bruker 300 MHz spectrometers equipped with 5 mm BBFO probes. HRMS data were acquired using an Agilent 6530 LC/Q-TOF using a Dual AJS/ESI ion source, and the isotope 79 was used for HRMS analysis for any bromine-containing compounds. Synthesis All procedures and spectra can be

A new platform for the synthesis of diketopyrrolopyrrole derivatives via nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions

• Vitor A. S. Almodovar and
• Augusto C. Tomé

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1933–1939, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.169

• than the oxygen due to the preferential existence of 4-hydroxypyridine in the pyridin-4-one tautomeric form [37][38][39]. The structures of dyes 3a–f, 4a, 4d and 4f were unambiguously established through their 1H, 13C and 19F NMR and mass spectra. The 1H NMR spectra of the symmetrical compounds

• the protons of the N–CH2C6F5 and N–CH2C6F4XR groups, respectively. All 19F NMR spectra confirmed the selective substitution of the 4-fluorine atoms (in one or in two rings) by the disappearance of the signal corresponding to the resonance of those atoms. Mass spectra of compounds 3a–f, 4a, 4d and 4f

• apparatus. NMR spectra were recorded on a Bruker DRX 300 Avance operating at 300.13 MHz (for 1H NMR), at 75.47 MHz (for 13C NMR) and 282 MHz (for 19F NMR). Deuterated chloroform (CDCl3) was used as the solvent and tetramethylsilane (TMS) as the internal reference. The chemical shifts (δ) are expressed in

Negishi-coupling-enabled synthesis of α-heteroaryl-α-amino acid building blocks for DNA-encoded chemical library applications

• Matteo Gasparetto,
• Balázs Fődi and
• Gellért Sipos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1922–1932, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.168

• each reaction (Supporting Information File 1). Supporting Information Supporting Information File 14: Experimental part and NMR spectra. Acknowledgements The authors thank Dr. Attila Sveiczer and Dr. Mounir Raji for the consultations and technical support during the practical work of the project, and

Electrochemical radical cation aza-Wacker cyclizations

• Sota Adachi and
• Yohei Okada

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1900–1905, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.165

• cyclization.a Supporting Information Supporting Information File 6: General remarks and characterization data, including copies of 1H and 13C NMR spectra. Funding This work was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI Grant No. 22K05450 (to Y. O.), and TEPCO Memorial Foundation (to Y. O.).

Access to 2-oxoazetidine-3-carboxylic acid derivatives via thermal microwave-assisted Wolff rearrangement of 3-diazotetramic acids in the presence of nucleophiles

• Ivan Lyutin,
• Vasilisa Krivovicheva,
• Grigory Kantin and
• Dmitry Dar’in

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1894–1899, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.164

• information, X-ray crystallographic data, synthetic procedures, analytical data and NMR spectra for the reported compounds. Acknowledgements We thank the Research Center for Magnetic Resonance, the Center for Chemical Analysis and Materials Research, and the Center for X-ray Diffraction Methods of Saint

A facile three-component route to powerful 5-aryldeazaalloxazine photocatalysts

• Ivana Weisheitelová,
• Radek Cibulka,
• Marek Sikorski and
• Tetiana Pavlovska

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1831–1838, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.161

• -aryldeazaalloxazines in any case. Finally, the unsubstituted derivative 2x was formed with a yield of only 15% using DMF/AlCl3. The isolated products 2a–x were characterized by 1H, 13C NMR and mass-spectral methods. The 1H NMR spectra of 5-aryldeazaalloxazines 2a–x, along with protons of aryl substituents of aldehyde

• moiety and pyrimido[4,5-b]quinoline core, contained singlets with 3H intensity of the N(1)–CH3 and N(3)–CH3 groups of the barbituric acid fragment at 3.20–3.56 ppm. The 13C NMR spectra of 5-aryldeazaalloxazines 2a–x were represented by groups of singlets at 27.9–57.2 and 100.0–160.5 ppm. The

• named using ChemDraw. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra were recorded on an Agilent 400-MR DDR2 (399.94 MHz for 1H, 100.58 MHz for 13C, 376.50 MHz for 19F) or on a JNM-ECZ500R NMR spectrometer, JEOL Resonance, (500.16 MHz for 1H, 125.77 MHz for 13C, 470.60 MHz for 19F) at 298 K unless otherwise

Chiral bifunctional sulfide-catalyzed enantioselective bromolactonizations of α- and β-substituted 5-hexenoic acids

• Sao Sumida,
• Ken Okuno,
• Taiki Mori,
• Yasuaki Furuya and
• Seiji Shirakawa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1794–1799, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.158

• and solvents. Substrate scope. Larger-scale synthesis and transformations of bromolactonization product 3a. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 20: Experimental procedures, characterization data, copies of NMR spectra, and copies of HPLC charts. Funding K.O. thanks the JSPS for a

Oxidative fluorination with Selectfluor: A convenient procedure for preparing hypervalent iodine(V) fluorides

• Samuel M. G. Dearman,
• Xiang Li,
• Yang Li,
• Kuldip Singh and
• Alison M. Stuart

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1785–1793, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.157

• deposition numbers CCDC: 2351949 and 2351950. Supporting Information File 18: Experimental procedures, characterisation data, DFT calculations and 1H, 13C and 19F NMR spectra and crystallographic data. Funding SMGD and AMS thank the School of Chemistry, University of Leicester, for their generous support

Ugi bisamides based on pyrrolyl-β-chlorovinylaldehyde and their unusual transformations

• Alexander V. Tsygankov,
• Vladyslav O. Vereshchak,
• Tetiana O. Savluk,
• Serhiy M. Desenko,
• Valeriia V. Ananieva,
• Oleksandr V. Buravov,
• Yana I. Sakhno,
• Svitlana V. Shishkina and
• Valentyn A. Chebanov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1773–1784, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.156

• stirring for three hours (Scheme 3, conditions A). However, the results of this attempted post-Ugi transformation were quite unexpected: Instead of acid 11, we isolated the amide of the unsaturated derivative of pyruvic acid 10a according to the 1H and 13C NMR spectra and mass spectrometry data. In order

• conventional thermal heating, amide 10a was isolated, albeit in a lower yield and accompanied with tar formation. In addition to the 1H, 13C NMR spectra and mass spectrometry data, the structure of compound 10d was established by X-ray diffraction analysis (Figure 3). It was also found that the substituents at

• of p-CF3-substituted aniline when synthesizing bisamide 6d. The yield of the amide 10c was about 8% and it was also the first to precipitate. In addition, it is worth mentioning that the corresponding amides 10 were observed in 1H NMR spectra and LC–MS analysis in many mother liquors after filtration

Harnessing unprotected deactivated amines and arylglyoxals in the Ugi reaction for the synthesis of fused complex nitrogen heterocycles

• Javier Gómez-Ayuso,
• Pablo Pertejo,
• Tomás Hermosilla,
• Israel Carreira-Barral,
• Roberto Quesada and
• María García-Valverde

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1758–1766, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.154

• explained by the intramolecular hydrogen bond formed between the hydroxy group and the carbamide substituent, which explains the high deshielding observed in the 1H NMR spectra for the signal of the OH group (around 8.5 ppm). As before, we also explored the stereochemical outcome in the synthesis of

Oxidation of benzylic alcohols to carbonyls using N-heterocyclic stabilized λ³-iodanes

• Thomas J. Kuczmera,
• Pim Puylaert and
• Boris J. Nachtsheim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1677–1683, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.149

• coordination of the triflate to two positions of the iodane. Thermal ellipsoids are displayed with 50% probability. Selected bond lengths and angles: I1–N1: 2.44(4) Å; I1–O1: 1.94(9) Å; I1–O2: 3.04(1) Å; C1–I1–N1: 73.5(8)°; O1–I1–N1: 166.6(5)°; N1–I1–C1–O1: 177.8(3)°. 1H NMR spectra of the time-dependent

• NHI 1c (10.0 µmol) and alcohol (2 or 3a, 10.0 µmol) were dissolved in CD3CN (600 µL) and 1H NMR spectra were recorded. Oxidation of 3a to 4a using different iodine(III) reagents with AlCl3 as an additive. Conditions: The turnover of an equimolar mixture of 3a, iodine(III), and AlCl3 (10.0 µmol

Ring opening of photogenerated azetidinols as a strategy for the synthesis of aminodioxolanes

• Henning Maag,
• Daniel J. Lemcke and
• Johannes M. Wahl

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1671–1676, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.148

• acids. Comparison of the effect of structural variations on the photoreaction. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 2: Experimental procedures, characterization data and copies of NMR spectra. Acknowledgements Generous support from the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz is acknowledged

New triazinephosphonate dopants for Nafion proton exchange membranes (PEM)

• Fátima C. Teixeira,
• António P. S. Teixeira and
• C. M. Rangel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1623–1634, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.145

• for 35Cl and 37Cl isotopes, respectively, with an approximately 3/4 and 1/4 proportion. The symmetry of the obtained compound TP1 gives simple NMR spectra, with the 31P NMR spectrum showing a singlet signal (Figure 2) and the signal at 169.5 ppm, on the 13C NMR spectrum, confirming the presence of a

• %). No isotope peaks were observed at the MS of the compound, in agreement with the full displacement of the chlorine atoms. The NMR spectra (Figure 3) presented a similar pattern of the corresponding 4-amino derivative TP1. The 31P NMR spectrum shows only one singlet in accordance with the symmetry of

• triazinephosphonate compounds. Partial view of 1H and 31P NMR spectra of 4-aminophenyltriazinephosphonate derivatives TP1–TP3. Partial view of 1H and 31P NMR spectra of (4-hydroxyphenyl)triazinephosphonate derivatives TP4–TP6. Preparation of the new doped membranes. Comparison of in-plane proton conductivity vs RH of

Generation of multimillion chemical space based on the parallel Groebke–Blackburn–Bienaymé reaction

• Evgen V. Govor,
• Vasyl Naumchyk,
• Ihor Nestorak,
• Dmytro S. Radchenko,
• Dmytro Dudenko,
• Yurii S. Moroz,
• Olexiy D. Kachkovsky and
• Oleksandr O. Grygorenko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1604–1613, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.143

• synthesis of compound library 4, experimental section including compound characterization data, and copies of NMR spectra. Supporting Information File 13: Structures of reactants 1, 2, and 3. Supporting Information File 14: Parallel synthesis of compound library 4. Supporting Information File 15

• : Experimental part. Supporting Information File 16: Copies of NMR spectra. Acknowledgements Dedicated to the memory of Kyrylo Burmagin and Yaroslav Mayboroda, students of Chemical Faculty at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, trainees at Enamine, and volunteer soldiers who died defending their

Mining raw plant transcriptomic data for new cyclopeptide alkaloids

• Draco Kriger,
• Michael A. Pasquale,
• Brigitte G. Ampolini and
• Jonathan R. Chekan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1548–1559, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.138

• products from A. bettizickiana observed by LC–MS/MS. Supporting Information The sequencing data used in this study is openly available in the NCBI SRA. Supporting Information File 9: Additional details and figures including NMR spectra and MS/MS fragmentation. Supporting Information File 10: Specific

Primary amine-catalyzed enantioselective 1,4-Michael addition reaction of pyrazolin-5-ones to α,β-unsaturated ketones

• Pooja Goyal,
• Akhil K. Dubey,
• Raghunath Chowdhury and
• Amey Wadawale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1518–1526, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.136

• ent-3aa-ent-3na, 1H, 13C NMR spectra of 3aa–na, 1H NMR of ent-3aa–ent-3na and their HPLC traces and single crystal data of ent-3ba. Acknowledgements The authors are thankful to Ms. Ketki Lele for her help in some preliminary experiments. Funding The authors thank the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE

Tetrabutylammonium iodide-catalyzed oxidative α-azidation of β-ketocarbonyl compounds using sodium azide

• Christopher Mairhofer,
• David Naderer and
• Mario Waser

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1510–1517, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.135

• pronucleophile, followed by a phase-transfer-catalyzed nucleophilic substitution by the azide. Furthermore, we also obtained a first proof-of-concept for the conceptually analogous α-nitration by using NaNO2 under otherwise identical conditions. Experimental General details 1H, 13C and 19F NMR spectra were

• Research Center “RERI uasb”. All NMR spectra were referenced on the solvent residual peak (CDCl3: δ = 7.26 ppm for 1H NMR, δ = 77.16 ppm for 13C NMR,19F NMR unreferenced). IR spectra were recorded on a Bruker Alpha II FTIR spectrometer with diamond ATR-module using the OPUS software package. HRMS spectra

• details and copies of NMR spectra. Acknowledgements We are grateful to Prof. Dr. Himmelsbach (Institute of Analytical Chemistry, JKU Linz) for support with HRMS analysis and Anna-Malin Draxler (Institute of Org. Chemistry, JKU Linz) for experimental support. Funding The used NMR spectrometers were

Towards an asymmetric β-selective addition of azlactones to allenoates

• Behzad Nasiri,
• Ghaffar Pasdar,
• Paul Zebrowski,
• Katharina Röser,
• David Naderer and
• Mario Waser

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1504–1509, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.134

• giving access to the acyclic α-amino acid-based amides 6 straightforwardly. Experimental General details 1H and 13C NMR spectra were recorded on a Bruker Avance III 300 MHz spectrometer with a broad band observe probe. All NMR spectra were referenced on the solvent residual peak (CDCl3: δ 7.26 ppm for 1H

• to allenoate 3aa. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 20: Full experimental and analytical details and copies of NMR spectra and HPLC traces. Acknowledgements We are grateful to Prof. Dr. Himmelsbach (Institute of Analytical Chemistry, JKU Linz) for support with HRMS analysis

Electrophotochemical metal-catalyzed synthesis of alkylnitriles from simple aliphatic carboxylic acids

• Yukang Wang,
• Yan Yao and
• Niankai Fu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1497–1503, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.133

• catalytic cycles. Reaction discovery and optimization.a Supporting Information Supporting Information File 18: Experimental procedures, mechanistic studies, analytical data and copies of NMR spectra. Funding We thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22071252) and the Chinese Academy

Photoswitchable glycoligands targeting Pseudomonas aeruginosa LecA

• Yu Fan,
• Ahmed El Rhaz,
• Stéphane Maisonneuve,
• Emilie Gillon,
• Maha Fatthalla,
• Franck Le Bideau,
• Guillaume Laurent,
• Samir Messaoudi,
• Anne Imberty and
• Juan Xie

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1486–1496, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.132

• silica gel (60 Å pore size, 40–63 µm). 1H and 13C NMR spectra were recorded on a JEOL ECS-400 spectrometer or on Bruker Avance 300 and 400 spectrometers. Structural assignments were made with additional information from gCOSY, HMBC, and gHMQC experiments. High-resolution mass spectra (HRMS) were