On Reuben G. Jones synthesis of 2-hydroxypyrazines

• Pierre Legrand and
• Yves L. Janin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 935–943, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.93

• , plausibly because of a degree of water solubility of the ammonium salts of compound 3{1,1} and 4{1,1}. The effect of using triethylamine instead of sodium hydroxide as a base was remarkable. At room temperature, after an 18 hours-long reaction, hydroxypyrazine 4{1,1} was the sole isomer detected and, out of

• the one obtained at −78 °C (Table 2, entry 19). Concerning the structural attribution of the hydroxypyrazines isolated in Table 1 and Table 2, the use of our unambiguous synthetic route to prepare compounds 3{1,1} [34] or 3{1,2} [29] secured these issues. However, since a real lack of solubility for

Post-synthesis from Lewis acid–base interaction: an alternative way to generate light and harvest triplet excitons

• Hengjia Liu and
• Guohua Xie

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 825–836, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.83

• acceptors Some Lewis acids have good solubility in common organic solvents, which makes it easy to fabricate films for optoelectronic applications [24]. Because of their strong electrophilicity [25], Lewis acids may dominate charge distributions of the fluorescent materials featured with electron-rich

• acids B(C6F5)3 and B(C6H5)3 as electron acceptors, respectively [29]. B(C6F5)3 displays high chemical stability and Lewis acidity [30]. Moreover, its good solubility endows the possibility to form Lewis acid–base adducts in films by solution processing. The strong electron attraction of the fluorine

• –base treatment, the polymer film can achieve reversible color changing. Due to the poor solubility, the doped polymer film was simply prepared by BF3 vapor treatment. The schematic diagram is shown in Figure 4. It is clear that the film achieved a gradient of colors from top to bottom under 365 nm UV

Synthesis of α-(perfluoroalkylsulfonyl)propiophenones: a new set of reagents for the light-mediated perfluoroalkylation of aromatics

• Durbis J. Castillo-Pazos,
• Juan D. Lasso and
• Chao-Jun Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 788–795, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.79

• solubility of this class of molecules, perfluoroalkyl iodides have a tendency to be weakly soluble in common organic solvents (i.e., ethyl acetate and methanol) rendering their application troublesome [9]. Moreover, the homolysis of the perfluoroalkyl iodide produces iodine radicals that can result in stray

An isoxazole strategy for the synthesis of 4-oxo-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylates

• Timur O. Zanakhov,
• Ekaterina E. Galenko,
• Mikhail S. Novikov and
• Alexander F. Khlebnikov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 738–745, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.74

• due to their specific characteristics such as basicity, hydrogen bond forming ability, water solubility, and especially because of pyridine rings are bioisosteres of amines, amides, N-heterocyclic rings and benzene rings [1][2][3][4][5]. A special type of pyridine, the 4-pyridones, is also fairly well

Identification of the new prenyltransferase Ubi-297 from marine bacteria and elucidation of its substrate specificity

• Jamshid Amiri Moghaddam,
• Huijuan Guo,
• Karsten Willing,
• Thomas Wichard and
• Christine Beemelmanns

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 722–731, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.72

• prenyltransferase; Introduction Marine bacteria harbor an enormous potential to produce structurally diverse natural products, including prenylated aromatic metabolites [1][2]. Prenylation of metabolites most often confers increased biological activities due to enhanced lipophilicity, solubility, and improved

Inductive heating and flow chemistry – a perfect synergy of emerging enabling technologies

• Conrad Kuhwald,
• Sibel Türkhan and
• Andreas Kirschning

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 688–706, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.70

• materials to inductively heat up glass reactors. For the Biginelli reaction solubility of the starting urea (22) as well as the products 24a and 24b were an issue being overcome by using a solvent mixture of PEG/DMF 1:1. Also the proline-catalyzed asymmetric Mannich reaction was achieved with cyclohexanone

Mechanochemical halogenation of unsymmetrically substituted azobenzenes

• Dajana Barišić,
• Mario Pajić,
• Ivan Halasz,
• Darko Babić and
• Manda Ćurić

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 680–687, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.69

• alternative to conventional solvent-based protocols, offering unique advantages in terms of sustainability, reaction times, yields, reactant solubility, selectivity, and chemical reactivity. Although ball milling methods are widely used for the synthesis of various classes of compounds [26][27][28][29][30][31

Rapid gas–liquid reaction in flow. Continuous synthesis and production of cyclohexene oxide

• Kyoko Mandai,
• Tetsuya Yamamoto,
• Hiroki Mandai and
• Aiichiro Nagaki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 660–668, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.67

• from the lowered solubility of air in a solvent at a high temperature to produce peracid from the reaction of aldehyde and oxygen insufficiently, and the epoxidation was deaccelerated. The experimental results revealed that aerobic epoxidation of cyclohexene in a batch reactor required a longer

Heteroleptic metallosupramolecular aggregates/complexation for supramolecular catalysis

• Prodip Howlader and
• Michael Schmittel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 597–630, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.62

• transfer) that include organic materials and supramolecular assemblies. Recently, FRET phenomena have been successfully demonstrated in supramolecular architectures based on metal organic frameworks and covalent organic frameworks [62][63][64]. However, poor solubility of such polymeric systems in common

• solvents restricts their use in potential applications. In this aspect, coordination-driven discrete architectures provide a promising future due to their facile one-pot synthesis and high solubility in common solvents. Mukherjee and co-workers have developed supramolecular architectures containing

A study of the photochemical behavior of terarylenes containing allomaltol and pyrazole fragments

• Constantine V. Milyutin,
• Andrey N. Komogortsev,
• Boris V. Lichitsky and
• Valeriya G. Melekhina

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 588–596, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.61

• darkness at room temperature for 5 days resulted in complete decomposition. Despite the labile nature of α-hydroxy-1,2-diketone 14a we attempted to isolate this product in pure form. It should be noted that in contrast to the methylated derivative 16, pyrazole 12a has a low solubility in most organic

Synthesis of a new water-soluble hexacarboxylated tribenzotriquinacene derivative and its competitive host–guest interaction for drug delivery

• Man-Ping Li,
• Nan Yang and
• Wen-Rong Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 539–548, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.56

• cancer treatment [1][2]. Many types of chemotherapeutic drugs have been commonly used in clinical practice, including doxorubicin (DOX) [3], chlorambucil [4], oxaliplatin [5], etc. However, the use of most chemotherapeutic agents is often challenged by their poor water solubility and non-selective

• acidification with hydrochloric acid gave the precursor hexakis(carboxylic acid) compound 3 in 85% yield in two steps. Finally, the desired hexacarboxylated TBTQ derivative TBTQ-CB6 was successfully obtained by reaction with ammonium hydroxide in 97% yield and found to have good water solubility. All

Comparative study of thermally activated delayed fluorescent properties of donor–acceptor and donor–acceptor–donor architectures based on phenoxazine and dibenzo[a,j]phenazine

• Saika Izumi,
• Prasannamani Govindharaj,
• Anna Drewniak,
• Paola Zimmermann Crocomo,
• Satoshi Minakata,
• Leonardo Evaristo de Sousa,
• Piotr de Silva,
• Przemyslaw Data and
• Youhei Takeda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 459–468, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.48

• [17]. It is noted that the solubility of the D–A compound 1 in organic solvents is lower than that of the D–A–D compound, indicating a more aggregated state of the D–A molecules in the solid state, due to less steric hindrance on the acceptor plane arising from breaking the symmetry. The synthesized

• -state photoluminescence (PL) spectra were acquired (Figure 2, and the summary of the properties presented in Table 1). The solutions were prepared with a variety of organic solvents at concentrations of ca. 10−5 M. It is noted that the solubility of 1 in cyclohexane is quite low, and thereby the

• , the one-less number of donor units in the molecular scaffold led to lower solubility in organic solvents and thermal stability, presumably due to the less steric hindrance around the π-extended conjugated acceptor unit with the unsymmetric molecule structure. The OLEDs fabricated with the D–A emitter

Synthesis of 3,4,5-trisubstituted isoxazoles in water via a [3 + 2]-cycloaddition of nitrile oxides and 1,3-diketones, β-ketoesters, or β-ketoamides

• Md Imran Hossain,
• Md Imdadul H. Khan,
• Seong Jong Kim and
• Hoang V. Le

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 446–458, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.47

• . Meanwhile, some of the starting material 2l remained unreacted and we suspected the lower solubility of compound 2l in water was responsible for the low yield of the reaction. Since trifluoromethyl-substituted isoxazoles are an important and prevalent scaffold in biomedical research and drug discovery

• method. The results are collected in Table 2. First, we varied the proportion of methanol in the solvent mixture with water to increase the solubility of 4,4,4-trifluoro-1-phenyl-1,3-butanedione (2l). As the percentage of methanol in the solvent mixture increased from 5% to 50%, 75%, and 95%, with DIPEA

Tetraphenylethylene-embedded pillar[5]arene-based orthogonal self-assembly for efficient photocatalysis in water

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

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 429–437, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.45

• [31][32] and their detailed synthetic routes and characterization data are provided in Supporting Information File 1 (Figure S1). Since m-TPEWP5 and G have good solubility in water, therefore, the m-TPEWP5G and m-TPEWP5G-EsY supramolecular assemblies could be potentially fabricated in an aqueous

Cs₂CO₃-Promoted reaction of tertiary bromopropargylic alcohols and phenols in DMF: a novel approach to α-phenoxyketones

• Ol'ga G. Volostnykh,
• Olesya A. Shemyakina,
• Anton V. Stepanov and
• Igor' A. Ushakov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 420–428, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.44

• after Cs2CO3 convertion to CsBr (because of the very poor solubility of CsBr in DMF) has an influence on the rate of diphenoxyketone formation. In addition, the suppression of the di(nitrophenoxy)ketone formation can be due to the lower basicity of a reaction mixture since nitrophenols 2d,e are more

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

• a quantitative yield. Still about reduction reactions, Niemczyk and Van Arnum described a green methodology for reduction of menadione (10), during the pegylation of 14 to improving the solubility of the studied compounds [118]. The authors reduced 10 with sodium dithionite under ultrasound

Site-selective reactions mediated by molecular containers

• Rui Wang and
• Yang Yu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 309–324, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.35

• water solubility, and, on the other hand, these kinds of water-soluble moieties could also be introduced into the structures of other hosts to help them gain some extent of water solubility. In aqueous solution, the molecular containers provide hydrophobic pockets capable of binding a wide range of

• anthracene and phthalimide guests with unusual and controllable site-selectivity mediated by organopalladium-coordinated hosts in water (Figure 1) [34]. The water-solubility of the coordinated host traced from its ionic form, and the aqueous reaction conformed with the concept of green chemistry. In previous

• reported the cyclodextrin-mediated site-selective ring-opening reductive reaction of epoxide 16 by sodium borohydride in aqueous solution (Figure 4b) [58]. The sugar-based hosts show good water solubility and can be used for driving organic reactions in water. In this case, the cyclodextrin host and the

Flow synthesis of oxadiazoles coupled with sequential in-line extraction and chromatography

• Kian Donnelly and
• Marcus Baumann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 232–239, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.27

• in a slight decrease in yield, and an increase in decomposition was observed with an increase in temperature despite the short residence times (entries 6 and 7, Table 2). The lack of solubility of the hydrazone substrates limited options with regards to variation in reaction solvent, with adequate

• solubility only being observed in DMF and DMSO. Despite the slightly lower yield observed using DMF (entry 8, Table 2), it provided the option of a co-solvent system in situations where solubility in DMSO is insufficient. A variety of acyl hydrazones were subsequently synthesised from the corresponding

Trichloroacetic acid fueled practical amine purifications

• Aleena Thomas,
• Baptiste Gasch,
• Enzo Olivieri and
• Adrien Quintard

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 225–231, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.26

• this mixture dissolved in EtOAc, precipitation of the amine salt enabled the removal of naphthalene in the solvent. Beside the choice of the solvent for the crystallization which strongly depends on the solubility of the protonated amine salts involved, we first focused on the optimization of the

• complex precipitation. For such purpose, EtOAc, pentane, CH3CN or Et2O have been used in this table depending on the solubility observed (see Supporting Information File 1 for details). Depending on the TCA–amine salt solubility in the solvent used, the purified primary amines could be isolated in 40–94

Synthesis and late stage modifications of Cyl derivatives

• Phil Servatius and
• Uli Kazmaier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 174–181, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.19

• solubility. Additionally, providing sophisticated NMR spectra of 12 turned out to be a non-trivial issue. All commercially available deuterated solvents were tested as solvents and finally, recording the spectra in tetrachloroethane-d2 at elevated temperatures (100 °C) led to a clear solution and hence clean

• NMR spectra. The solubility issues forced us to investigate also other modification protocols. Thus, macrocycle 11 was subjected to an ozonolysis with subsequent Wittig reaction in a one-pot manner (Scheme 4). Performing the ozonolysis in presence of pyridine led to immediate reduction of the primary

• modifications, mainly for solubility reasons. Therefore, we decided to have a closer look into modifications of the longer side chain present in 11 and subjected it to thiol-ene click reactions. Since masked thiols are often found as zinc-coordinating functionalities in HDAC inhibitors, e.g., in the largazoles

Asymmetric organocatalytic Michael addition of cyclopentane-1,2-dione to alkylidene oxindole

• Estelle Silm,
• Ivar Järving and
• Tõnis Kanger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 167–173, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.18

• not occur when starting compound 2p was tried. This was probably because of the very poor solubility of the starting material. Generally, the diastereoselectivities of the reactions were moderate (dr 2.1:1–3.6:1) throughout the scope. The diastereoselectivity was missing or was very low for the

Ready access to 7,8-dihydroindolo[2,3-d][1]benzazepine-6(5H)-one scaffold and analogues via early-stage Fischer ring-closure reaction

• Irina Kuznetcova,
• Felix Bacher,
• Daniel Vegh,
• Hsiang-Yu Chuang and
• Vladimir B. Arion

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 143–151, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.15

• enzyme active sites and/or improved selectivity [7]. One of the main drawbacks of paullones is their poor aqueous solubility. Therefore, in an attempt to overcome this shortcoming, the paullone backbone A was decorated with functional groups and coordinated to metal ions. Ruthenium(II), osmium(II), and

• copper(II) complexes prepared revealed an enhanced aqueous solubility and bioavailability indeed, along with very high cytotoxicity [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. Moreover, the metal-free ligands and copper(II) complexes derived from backbone D revealed cytotoxicity in the

Chemical and chemoenzymatic routes to bridged homoarabinofuranosylpyrimidines: Bicyclic AZT analogues

• Sandeep Kumar,
• Jyotirmoy Maity,
• Banty Kumar,
• Sumit Kumar and
• Ashok K. Prasad

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 95–101, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.10

• , trihydroxy nucleoside 14b was protected with TBDPS to carry out the synthesis of the target nucleoside monomer 9b through a chemical pathway. However, the poor yield of this reaction compelled us to abandon the route as high solubility of the TBDPS-protected dihydroxy nucleoside in aqueous phase withstood

Efficient synthesis of ethyl 2-(oxazolin-2-yl)alkanoates via ethoxycarbonylketene-induced electrophilic ring expansion of aziridines

• Yelong Lei and
• Jiaxi Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 70–76, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.6

• solubility to all substrates than toluene, the optimal reaction conditions were selected as: diazo ester 1a (0.36 mmol) and 2a (0.3 mmol) in DCE (1 mL) were heated at 130 °C for 20 min with microwave heating. With the optimal reaction conditions in hand, we evaluated the scopes and generalities of both diazo

Bifunctional thiourea-catalyzed asymmetric [3 + 2] annulation reactions of 2-isothiocyanato-1-indanones with barbiturate-based olefins

• Jiang-Song Zhai and
• Da-Ming Du

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 25–36, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.3

• solubility of this substrate. The absolute configuration of the chiral product 3ae was unambiguously identified on the basis of single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis as (2S,3'S) (Figure 4) [33]. The configurations of the other products were assigned by analogy to 3ae. In order to further prove the