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Asymmetric organocatalytic synthesis of chiral homoallylic amines

  • Nikolay S. Kondratyev and
  • Andrei V. Malkov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2349–2377, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.201

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  • -1,3-diamine 132 in 57% yield. The ring-closing metathesis of 121 (R1 = allyl, from Scheme 25) provided pure N-cyclohexenyl imine 135 in 98% yield. Asymmetric alkylation of imine-carbanion In 2023, a team of Huang and Yan [44] presented a novel approach towards synthetically important homoallylic α
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Published 16 Sep 2024

Selective hydrolysis of α-oxo ketene N,S-acetals in water: switchable aqueous synthesis of β-keto thioesters and β-keto amides

  • Haifeng Yu,
  • Wanting Zhang,
  • Xuejing Cui,
  • Zida Liu,
  • Xifu Zhang and
  • Xiaobo Zhao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2225–2233, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.190

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  • ][62][63][64], we conducted research on their organic reactions in water and reported some good results, such as thioacetalization using ketene dithioacetals as odorless thiol equivalent [65], Friedel–Crafts alkylation of cyclic ketene dithioacetals with alcohols [66], the hydrolysis of chain α-oxo
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Published 03 Sep 2024

Natural resorcylic lactones derived from alternariol

  • Joachim Podlech

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2171–2207, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.187

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Multicomponent syntheses of pyrazoles via (3 + 2)-cyclocondensation and (3 + 2)-cycloaddition key steps

  • Ignaz Betcke,
  • Alissa C. Götzinger,
  • Maryna M. Kornet and
  • Thomas J. J. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2024–2077, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.178

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  • heteroaryls other than thiophene under standard conditions. Schreiner et al. established a further protocol for the one-pot synthesis of pyrazoles, where the alkynoyl moiety is generated by copper-catalyzed carboxylation of terminal alkynes followed by alkylation with methyl iodide, forming propiolic acid
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Published 16 Aug 2024

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

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  • treatment of renal cell carcinoma, and Takeda’s MCHR1 antagonist 4 further exemplify indazole’s biological importance. Generally, direct alkylation of 1H-indazoles leads to a mixture of N1- and N2-substituted products [17][18][19][20]. Procedures that selectively produce either N1- or N2-substituted
  • indazoles would provide greater synthetic utility for this valuable heterocycle. These examples suggest a common intermediate such as methyl 5-bromo-1H-indazole-3-carboxylate (6) could be used to generate such compounds. An alkylation strategy that uses the vast array of commercially available alcohols as
  • potassium carbonate, isopropyl bromide and cesium carbonate, and bromocyclohexane with potassium carbonate, and only afforded yields not higher than 52% in various solvents [41][42][43]. Recently, Alam and Keeting [37] explored the regioselectivity in the alkylation of variously substituted indazoles
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Published 09 Aug 2024

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

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  • or novel properties can be prepared by conventional chemical modifications of simple DPP derivatives [3][18]. The most frequently used transformations include: i) N-alkylation with adequately functionalized alkyl groups [19][20][21][22], ii) N-arylation [23][24][25], and functionalization at the 3,6
  • -di(het)aryl groups via Suzuki–Miyaura [26][27][28] or Sonogashira [29][30][31] reactions. In this study, we report a straightforward method to obtain a diverse array of N-substituted DPP derivatives through a two-step process. Firstly, the N-alkylation of Pigment Red 254 (DPP 1) is achieved using
  • conducted under remarkably mild conditions. Results and Discussion The initial step of our method involved the N-alkylation of DPP 1 with pentafluorobenzyl bromide (Scheme 1). Although a similar reaction had been previously reported for other DPP derivatives, the experimental conditions used (DMF, K2CO3
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Published 08 Aug 2024

The Groebke–Blackburn–Bienaymé reaction in its maturity: innovation and improvements since its 21st birthday (2019–2023)

  • Cristina Martini,
  • Muhammad Idham Darussalam Mardjan and
  • Andrea Basso

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1839–1879, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.162

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Discovery of antimicrobial peptides clostrisin and cellulosin from Clostridium: insights into their structures, co-localized biosynthetic gene clusters, and antibiotic activity

  • Moisés Alejandro Alejo Hernandez,
  • Katia Pamela Villavicencio Sánchez,
  • Rosendo Sánchez Morales,
  • Karla Georgina Hernández-Magro Gil,
  • David Silverio Moreno-Gutiérrez,
  • Eddie Guillermo Sanchez-Rueda,
  • Yanet Teresa-Cruz,
  • Brian Choi,
  • Armando Hernández Garcia,
  • Alba Romero-Rodríguez,
  • Oscar Juárez,
  • Siseth Martínez-Caballero,
  • Mario Figueroa and
  • Corina-Diana Ceapă

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1800–1816, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.159

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  • of 57u due to cysteine alkylation (Figure 4C and Table S8 in Supporting Information File 1). These analyses confirm the activity of the CloM2 enzyme, with the dehydratase domain activity forming a mixture of six and five times dehydrated lantipeptides, and the cyclase domain activity demonstrated by
  • C42 fragment with one alkylation was acquired following an iodoacetamide derivatization reaction and subsequent trypsin digestion. These experimental approaches provide insights into the potential structure of cellulosin. Antimicrobial activity of clostrisin and cellulosin Antimicrobial activity
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Published 30 Jul 2024

Syntheses and medicinal chemistry of spiro heterocyclic steroids

  • Laura L. Romero-Hernández,
  • Ana Isabel Ahuja-Casarín,
  • Penélope Merino-Montiel,
  • Sara Montiel-Smith,
  • José Luis Vega-Báez and
  • Jesús Sandoval-Ramírez

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1713–1745, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.152

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  • promoted by the action of sodium hydride, alkylation of the morpholine nitrogen atom on 129 provided a diverse range of compounds (Scheme 36). In 2013, the same reaction sequence was reported by Poirier’s group, resulting in a spiromorpholinone at C-3 position derived from epi-ADT that exhibited activity
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Published 24 Jul 2024

Chemo-enzymatic total synthesis: current approaches toward the integration of chemical and enzymatic transformations

  • Ryo Tanifuji and
  • Hiroki Oguri

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1693–1712, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.151

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  • -half segment 72 was prepared from mixed anhydride 68 (Scheme 8A). Condensation with chiral auxiliary 69 and subsequent diastereoselective alkylation, followed by reductive removal of the auxiliary and iodination of the resulting primary alcohol provided alkyl iodide 70 [78]. Subsequent six-step
  • transformations including diastereoselective alkylation of (+)-pseudoephedrine derivative 71 [79] with the iodide 70, sequential functional group manipulations, and installation of the β-ketophosphonate, provided the left-half segment 72 [80]. The right-half segment 75 was synthesized in six steps via
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Published 23 Jul 2024

Methyltransferases from RiPP pathways: shaping the landscape of natural product chemistry

  • Maria-Paula Schröder,
  • Isabel P.-M. Pfeiffer and
  • Silja Mordhorst

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1652–1670, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.147

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  • ]. Furthermore, alternative alkyl groups such as ethyl, propargyl, allyl, benzyl, and nitrobenzyl groups can be transferred [31][138][139][140][141][142]. Such alkylation strategies have been successfully applied to small molecules such as coumarin [141], anthranilate [21], and pyrazole [24], as well as larger
  • range of products. RiPP MTs exhibit excellent specificity in the late-stage alkylation of peptide natural products. Conclusion RiPP pathways are a valuable source of novel MTs that enable methylations at various positions of peptide substrates. MTs from RiPP pathways can supplement the MTs currently
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Published 18 Jul 2024

Supramolecular assemblies of amphiphilic donor–acceptor Stenhouse adducts as macroscopic soft scaffolds

  • Ka-Lung Hung,
  • Leong-Hung Cheung,
  • Yikun Ren,
  • Ming-Hin Chau,
  • Yan-Yi Lam,
  • Takashi Kajitani and
  • Franco King-Chi Leung

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1590–1603, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.142

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  • ., number of methylene groups in the alkyl linker (n) = 11 (in DA11), 7 (in DA7), and 6 (in DA6). The effect of the alkyl linker length in DA11, DA7, and DA6 is discussed and compared to our previously reported DA10 [37]. The donor part of DAn was synthesized by alkylation in the presence of K2CO3 in a
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Published 15 Jul 2024

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

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  • commercially available p,p’-dihydroxyazobenzene (6), by using our recently developed DMC (2-chloro-1,3-dimethylimidazolinium chloride)-mediated one-pot glycosylation method in water [28], followed by O-alkylation of the remaining hydroxy group with BrCH2CH2NHBoc and acidic deprotection (Scheme 1). Three
  • β-O-galactoside [36]. The same strategy was applied for the m,m’-substituted derivative 2, starting from the glycosylation of m,m’-dihydroxyazobenzene (9) [37], followed by O-alkylation and Boc deprotection to afford the galacoside 2 in 19% total yield. Unfortunately, all our attempts to synthesize
  • enthalpy (ΔH), and stoichiometry (n). Values for free energy change (ΔG) and entropy contributions (TΔS) were derived from the equation ΔG = ΔH − TΔS = − RT ln Kd (with T = 298.15 K and R = 8.314 J mol−1K−1). General procedure I for the O-alkylation with BrCH2CH2NHBoc: A solution of glycosyl azobenzene
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Generation of alkyl and acyl radicals by visible-light photoredox catalysis: direct activation of C–O bonds in organic transformations

  • Mithu Roy,
  • Bitan Sardar,
  • Itu Mallick and
  • Dipankar Srimani

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1348–1375, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.119

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  • electrophilic alkene and forms the target product. N-Alkoxyphthalimides: In 2019, Tang and co-workers [53] utilized N-alkoxyphthalimides for the generation of alkyl radicals by reacting photogenerated alkoxyl radicals with P(OMe)3 (Scheme 17). This strategy provided the alkylation of allyl and alkenyl sulfones
  • with aryl halides via dual photoredox and nickel catalysis. Deoxygenative borylation of secondary alcohol. Deoxygenative alkyl radical generation from alcohols under visible-light photoredox conditions. Deoxygenative alkylation via alkoxy radicals against hydrogenation or β-fragmentation. Direct C–O
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Published 14 Jun 2024

Synthesis of 1,2,3-triazoles containing an allomaltol moiety from substituted pyrano[2,3-d]isoxazolones via base-promoted Boulton–Katritzky rearrangement

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

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1334–1340, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.117

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  • cyclization with participation of hydrazine and carbonyl functions leads to pyrazolylisoxazole D. Finally, condensation with second equivalent of hydrazine results in the target hydrazone 6. The synthetic utility of obtained 1,2,3-triazoles is demonstrated by its further derivatization. So, alkylation by MeI
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Published 11 Jun 2024

Manganese-catalyzed C–C and C–N bond formation with alcohols via borrowing hydrogen or hydrogen auto-transfer

  • Mohd Farhan Ansari,
  • Atul Kumar Maurya,
  • Abhishek Kumar and
  • Saravanakumar Elangovan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1111–1166, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.98

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  • reactions via hydrogen auto-transfer, emphasizing the importance of this methodology and manganese catalysts in sustainable synthesis strategies. Keywords: alcohols; alkylation; amines; borrowing hydrogen; hydrogen auto-transfer; manganese; Introduction The construction of C–C and C–N bonds is of utmost
  • been developed for the N-alkylation of amines with alcohols, including methanol (Figure 1). Beller and co-workers introduced the first intriguing manganese-catalyzed BH for the N-alkylation of amines with alcohols in 2016 [34]. The potential Mn(I)-pincer complex Mn1 (3 mol %) catalyzed the coupling of
  • condenses with hydrazine followed by reduction and condensation with another aldehyde to afford the N-substituted hydrazones (Scheme 8). Balaraman and co-workers established a phosphine-free manganese catalyst generated in situ from a manganese precursor and a ligand for the N-alkylation of anilines with
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Synthesis of 1,4-azaphosphinine nucleosides and evaluation as inhibitors of human cytidine deaminase and APOBEC3A

  • Maksim V. Kvach,
  • Stefan Harjes,
  • Harikrishnan M. Kurup,
  • Geoffrey B. Jameson,
  • Elena Harjes and
  • Vyacheslav V. Filichev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1088–1098, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.96

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  • /Et3N, followed by silica gel column chromatography, led to the triethylammonium salt of 2-N-Boc-aminoethylphosphinic acid 5 in 50 % yield. Alkylation of acid 5 with methyl chloroacetate in the presence of TMSCl and Et3N took five days at room temperature, and compound 6 as triethylammonium salt was
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One-pot Ugi-azide and Heck reactions for the synthesis of heterocyclic systems containing tetrazole and 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline

  • Jiawei Niu,
  • Yuhui Wang,
  • Shenghu Yan,
  • Yue Zhang,
  • Xiaoming Ma,
  • Qiang Zhang and
  • Wei Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 912–920, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.81

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  • the Ugi reaction products 5 could affect the yield of the Heck reaction. To address the issue, compounds 5 were N-alkylated to afford intermediates 7 which were used in the subsequent Heck reaction step. Thus, an alternative one-pot Ugi-azide/N-alkylation/Heck reaction procedure was developed (Scheme
  • 1 equiv of benzyl bromide and 2 equiv of K2CO3 for the alkylation reaction at 80 °C for 3 h to give N-benzylated compound 7a. Finally, 10 mol % of Pd(OAc)2, 20 mol % of PPh3, 2 equiv of K2CO3 were added to the reaction mixture for the Heck reaction at 105 °C for 3 h under N2 atmosphere to afford
  • tetrazolyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline 8a in 74% isolated yield which is higher than the one-pot Ugi/Hecke reaction to give product 6b (58%). Under the alternative one-pot reaction conditions involving an N-alkylation step, the substrate scope was explored by the preparation of 10 derivatives 8a–j (Scheme
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(Bio)isosteres of ortho- and meta-substituted benzenes

  • H. Erik Diepers and
  • Johannes C. L. Walker

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 859–890, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.78

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  • 91 and 92 enabled the metallaphotoredox arylation (to 93) and alkylation (to 94) of the cubane core. Comparative physicochemical or biological data for the 1,2-cubanes was not reported. Isosteres of meta-substituted benzenes Many of the scaffolds previously discussed as potential bioisosteres for
  • alkylation (to 172) were all possible. An alternative pathway to 1,3-cubane 166 was reported by Coote and co-workers (Scheme 17C) [64]. Through their synthesis of enone 176, used in Ueda’s synthesis of cubane 166 and previously only obtained as a side product of the Diels–Alder reaction forming enone 173 [65
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Published 19 Apr 2024

Skeletal rearrangement of 6,8-dioxabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-4-ols promoted by thionyl chloride or Appel conditions

  • Martyn Jevric,
  • Julian Klepp,
  • Johannes Puschnig,
  • Oscar Lamb,
  • Christopher J. Sumby and
  • Ben W. Greatrex

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 823–829, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.74

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  • biological ribosides. This prompted an investigation of the scope of the SOCl2-mediated rearrangement, with the aim of producing useful chiral materials for synthesis. Results and Discussion The set of bicyclic systems 10a–f with a C4 alcohol were prepared starting with cyrene (2) by alkylation and then
  • reduction using NaBH4 as per our previously published approach (Scheme 1) [9]. When α-alkylations are performed using 2, the second alkylation step is faster than the first, meaning that only the dialkylated products are formed [16], and the reduction is highly selective with approach of the reductant from
  • the exo-face. This process was used to prepare the known compounds 10a–c, and the novel materials 10d–f [9]. Thus, the reaction of o-dibromoxylene with cyrene gave the alcohol 10d in 71% yield over two-steps through the spirocyclic ketone 9d. Alkylation of 2 with methyl iodide gave an inseparable
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Synthesis of new representatives of A3B-type carboranylporphyrins based on meso-tetra(pentafluorophenyl)porphyrin transformations

  • Victoria M. Alpatova,
  • Evgeny G. Rys,
  • Elena G. Kononova and
  • Valentina A. Ol'shevskaya

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 767–776, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.70

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  • molecules which have been also used for selective delivery of the drug to cancer cells [45]. Here, biotin was conjugated to porphyrin 12 which was obtained by alkylation of the amino group in compound 5 with chloroacetyl chloride (10) to give porphyrin biotin conjugate 14 in 76% yield (Scheme 4). We also
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Published 12 Apr 2024

Chemoenzymatic synthesis of macrocyclic peptides and polyketides via thioesterase-catalyzed macrocyclization

  • Senze Qiao,
  • Zhongyu Cheng and
  • Fuzhuo Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 721–733, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.66

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  • , they established a preparative-scale approach toward the pikromycins family and their aglycones in 2013 [70]. The preparation of activated pentaketides (37) using asymmetric α-alkylation and cross metathesis as key reactions reduced the step counts from 14 to 11 steps. Replacing the extender unit from
  • and phosphonate 48, were synthesized, employing Evans’ vinylogous aldol and Myers’ auxiliary-mediated alkylation reactions as key steps. By utilizing these two fragments, a Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons olefination, followed by thioester formation and desilylation, produced several different activated
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Published 04 Apr 2024

A laterally-fused N-heterocyclic carbene framework from polysubstituted aminoimidazo[5,1-b]oxazol-6-ium salts

  • Andrew D. Gillie,
  • Matthew G. Wakeling,
  • Bethan L. Greene,
  • Louise Male and
  • Paul W. Davies

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 621–627, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.54

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  • good yield. The new nitrenoid reagent 7 is readily prepared from 2,6-diisopropylphenylamine in three steps. Alkylation with methyl bromoacetate is followed by formylation of 11 and then substitution [21] of 12 with N-aminopyridinium iodide to yield the bench-stable and crystalline N-acylpyridinium
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Published 18 Mar 2024

Synthesis and biological profile of 2,3-dihydro[1,3]thiazolo[4,5-b]pyridines, a novel class of acyl-ACP thioesterase inhibitors

  • Jens Frackenpohl,
  • David M. Barber,
  • Guido Bojack,
  • Birgit Bollenbach-Wahl,
  • Ralf Braun,
  • Rahel Getachew,
  • Sabine Hohmann,
  • Kwang-Yoon Ko,
  • Karoline Kurowski,
  • Bernd Laber,
  • Rebecca L. Mattison,
  • Thomas Müller,
  • Anna M. Reingruber,
  • Dirk Schmutzler and
  • Andrea Svejda

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 540–551, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.46

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  • to afford thiazolopyridines 12a–c in good yield. This allowed us to circumvent the previously employed alkylation–oxidation–reduction sequences (Scheme 2) [12]. Thereupon, we recognized that we could introduce two halogen atoms in the halogenation step and carry one through to the end of the
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Published 01 Mar 2024

Switchable molecular tweezers: design and applications

  • Pablo Msellem,
  • Maksym Dekthiarenko,
  • Nihal Hadj Seyd and
  • Guillaume Vives

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 504–539, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.45

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  • evidence was reported. Nevertheless, conformational changes were obtained from two other stimuli: (i) alkylation of phenolic OH groups [25] that leads to the disappearance of the hydrogen bonds and a more stable W-shaped conformation; (ii) addition of F− anion [26] as a competitive hydrogen-bond acceptor
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