Unravelling a trichloroacetic acid-catalyzed cascade access to benzo[f]chromeno[2,3-h]quinoxalinoporphyrins

• Chandra Sekhar Tekuri,
• Pargat Singh and
• Mahendra Nath

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1216–1224, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.89

• microbial strains [16][17]. Thorough literature search revealed that the fused heterocycles such as benzo[a]pyrano[2,3-c]phenazines and benzo[a]chromeno[2,3-c]phenazines have been prepared as fluorescent materials [18][19]. On the other hand, xanthenes exhibited a number of biological and pharmaceutical

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

• fluorescent materials containing Lewis basic nitrogen heterocycles are more likely to provide the feasible band gap modulation. The essence of such phenomenon originates from Lewis acid–base coordination and adducts, which highly depends on the electron-accepting property of the Lewis acids. This

• of nitrogen-containing heterocycles in the fluorescent materials, the addition of a Lewis acid tended to induce red-shifted absorption and emission, shedding light on the fact that the Lewis acid interacts easily with the nitrogen-containing fluorescent materials. This interaction mechanism is the

• 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

Syntheses of novel pyridine-based low-molecular-weight luminogens possessing aggregation-induced emission enhancement (AIEE) properties

• Masayori Hagimori,
• Tatsusada Yoshida,
• Yasuhisa Nishimura,
• Yukiko Ogawa and
• Keitaro Tanaka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 580–587, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.60

• introduction of pyridine rings has not been examined. Our simple one-pot method easily enables the introduction of a pyridine group to maleimide under mild conditions, affording the A–D–A-type molecules that are expected to be novel low-molecular-weight fluorescent materials in moderately good yields. The UV

Transition-metal-free intramolecular Friedel–Crafts reaction by alkene activation: A method for the synthesis of some novel xanthene derivatives

• Tülay Yıldız,
• İrem Baştaş and
• Hatice Başpınar Küçük

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2203–2208, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.142

• used in pH-sensitive fluorescent materials [10] and laser technologies [11][12][13][14]. Moreover, xanthenes are present in some natural sources, such as santalin pigments found in many varieties of plants [15][16]. There have been many studies on the synthesis of xanthene derivatives to date because

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

• and applied in practice [4][5][6]. Among them, the fluorescent materials emitting circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) have attracted intensive interest owing to their wide applications in various researching fields including 3D displays, chiroptical materials, and so on [7][8][9][10]. Circular

• 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

Regioselectively α- and β-alkynylated BODIPY dyes via gold(I)-catalyzed direct C–H functionalization and their photophysical properties

• Takahide Shimada,
• Shigeki Mori,
• Masatoshi Ishida and
• Hiroyuki Furuta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 587–595, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.53

• novel functional fluorescent materials. (a) Chemical structures of BODIPY (1) and dipyrromethane (2). (b) C–C bond forming alkynylations of pyrrole and its derivatives by Sonogashira coupling and electrophilic alkynylation. (c) Peripheral alkynylated BODIPY derivatives (3–6) prepared in this work. TIPS

Reactions of 2-carbonyl- and 2-hydroxy(or methoxy)alkyl-substituted benzimidazoles with arenes in the superacid CF₃SO₃H. NMR and DFT studies of dicationic electrophilic species

• Dmitry S. Ryabukhin,
• Alexey N. Turdakov,
• Natalia S. Soldatova,
• Mikhail O. Kompanets,
• Alexander Yu. Ivanov,
• Irina A. Boyarskaya and
• Aleksander V. Vasilyev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1962–1973, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.191

• –Crafts reaction; triflic acid; Introduction Imidazoles and benzimidazoles are important heterocyclic scaffolds in pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. They also have applications in the fields of dyes, chemo-sensing, and fluorescent materials [3]. (Benz)imidazoles are a

Synthesis of acylglycerol derivatives by mechanochemistry

• Karen J. Ardila-Fierro,
• Andrij Pich,
• Marc Spehr,
• José G. Hernández and
• Carsten Bolm

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 811–817, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.78

• of solvent-free ester formation between monoacylglycerols and fatty acids to afford DAGs. Moreover, the synthesis of conjugated DAGs 10 represents a step forward towards the establishment of mechanochemical conjugation reactions for linking fluorescent materials to lipids at the proof-of-concept

Synthesis and fluorescent properties of N(9)-alkylated 2-amino-6-triazolylpurines and 7-deazapurines

• Andrejs Šišuļins,
• Jonas Bucevičius,
• Yu-Ting Tseng,
• Irina Novosjolova,
• Kaspars Traskovskis,
• Ērika Bizdēna,
• Huan-Tsung Chang,
• Sigitas Tumkevičius and
• Māris Turks

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 474–489, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.41

• -carboxylate and the corresponding 2,6-bis(dialkylamino) derivatives as fluorescent materials for preparation of organic light-emitting diodes [12][36][37][38]. In light of the aforementioned facts, we proceeded to design novel and structurally related classes of 2-amino-6-(1,2,3-triazol-1-yl)purines and 7

Organometallic vs organic photoredox catalysts for photocuring reactions in the visible region

• Aude-Héloise Bonardi,
• Frédéric Dumur,
• Guillaume Noirbent,
• Jacques Lalevée and
• Didier Gigmes

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 3025–3046, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.282

• phosphorescent molecules, e.g., in the microsecond time scale [69]. Due to these really interesting properties, metal-based and metal-free TADF fluorescent materials have been extensively studied over the past few years, improving the photophysics of this new class of materials by molecular design [72][73][74

D–A–D-type orange-light emitting thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials based on a fluorenone unit: simulation, photoluminescence and electroluminescence studies

• Lin Gan,
• Xianglong Li,
• Xinyi Cai,
• Kunkun Liu,
• Wei Li and
• Shi-Jian Su

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 672–681, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.55

• exciton utilization of TADF materials. Importantly, OLEDs based on 2 exhibited a maximum external quantum efficiency of 8.9%, which is higher than the theoretical efficiency of the OLEDs based on conventional fluorescent materials. Keywords: fluorenone acceptor; orange light emission; organic light

• previously limited by the statistic rule of spin multiplicity. For conventional fluorescent materials, only singlet excitons are involved in electroluminescence, leading to a theoretical maximal internal quantum efficiency (IQEmax) of 25% and a theoretical maximal external quantum efficiency (EQEmax) of 5

• reported in comparison with blue and green TADF materials [10][11]. It is difficult to achieve TADF in orange and red fluorescent materials not only because red TADF materials require a strong ICT state, which strongly facilitates nonradiative transition processes, but also because the energy gap law

Recent advances on organic blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)

• Thanh-Tuân Bui,
• Fabrice Goubard,
• Malika Ibrahim-Ouali,
• Didier Gigmes and
• Frédéric Dumur

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 282–308, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.18

• the light-emitting ability of the emitter, which is directly related to the nature, and the photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) of the emitter. Based on spin statistics, upon electrical excitation, singlet and triplet excitons are formed in a 1:3 ratio [4]. In the case of fluorescent materials

• ). TADF materials can also be metal-free, addressing the fabrication cost and environmental issues. Therefore, TADF emitters retain the high efficiency of the second generation of emitters (triplet emitters), the stability of the first generation of fluorescent materials while eliminating the different

• related to the ability of the light-emitting materials to convert a maximum of injected charges into photons. To optimize this, the TADF process is the most promising strategy as it allows converting the generated and lost triplet excitons of the classical fluorescent materials into emissive singlets. By

Synthesis of tetrasubstituted pyrazoles containing pyridinyl substituents

• Josef Jansa,
• Ramona Schmidt,
• Ashenafi Damtew Mamuye,
• Laura Castoldi,
• Alexander Roller,
• Vittorio Pace and
• Wolfgang Holzer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 895–902, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.90

• ], agrochemicals [5], dyes [6], fluorescent materials [7][8] and ligands of complexing agents [9][10][11]. Multiaryl-substituted pyrazoles are of special interest, with some drug molecules such as the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agent Lonazolac [12] or the well-known COX-2 inhibitor Celecoxib [13] as prominent

Indenopyrans – synthesis and photoluminescence properties

• Andreea Petronela Diac,
• Ana-Maria Ţepeş,
• Albert Soran,
• Ion Grosu,
• Anamaria Terec,
• Jean Roncali and
• Elena Bogdan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 825–834, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.81

• groups have been found to exhibit good solvatochromism properties and high quantum yields in the solid state why they are considered as important precursors for the fabrication of fluorescent materials [20]. Owing to their exciting photophysical properties many dicyanomethylene pyran-containing

Indolizines and pyrrolo[1,2-c]pyrimidines decorated with a pyrimidine and a pyridine unit respectively

• Marcel Mirel Popa,
• Emilian Georgescu,
• Mino R. Caira,
• Florentina Georgescu,
• Constantin Draghici,
• Raluca Stan,
• Calin Deleanu and
• Florea Dumitrascu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1079–1088, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.121

• structural motifs for a broad range of compounds with applications as advanced fluorescent materials [2][3], ligands [4][5], bioactive compounds [6], and for the design of dynamic chemical devices [7][8][9][10]. The most accessible route to hybrid heteroarenes is the direct coupling [1][11][12]. However, in

• indolizines and azaindolizines are known as fluorescent materials [2][3][4][15] with applications as chemosensors [16] and as bioactive compounds [17][18][19][20]. For example, starting from bispyridyl derivatives such as 1 and 3, fluorescent compounds from the class of indolizines, as for example compounds 2

First synthesis of meso-substituted pyrrolo[1,2-a]quinoxalinoporphyrins

• Dileep Kumar Singh and
• Mahendra Nath

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 808–813, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.76

• useful as fluorescent materials for various applications [36][37]. In recent years, numerous covalent or non-covalent supra-porphyrin arrays, based on donor–acceptor architectures have been constructed for mimicking the natural photosynthetic light harvesting systems [38][39][40]. Additionally, a variety

Synthesis and characterization of new diiodocoumarin derivatives with promising antimicrobial activities

• Hany M. Mohamed,
• Ashraf H. F. Abd EL-Wahab,
• Ahmed M. EL-Agrody,
• Ahmed H. Bedair,
• Fathy A. Eid,
• Mostafa M. Khafagy and
• Kamal A. Abd-EL-Rehem

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1688–1696, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.199

• ]. Moreover, coumarin-based dyes and pigments are organic fluorescent materials exhibiting unique photochemical and photophysical properties, which render them useful in a variety of applications such as dye lasers, anion sensors, organic light-emitting diodes and solar cells [9][10]. Iodo-organic derivatives

Novel carbazole–pyridine copolymers by an economical method: synthesis, spectroscopic and thermochemical studies

• Aamer Saeed,
• Madiha Irfan and
• Shahid Ameen Samra

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 638–647, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.75

• . The weight average molecular masses (Mw) of the polymers were estimated by the laser light scattering (LLS) technique. Keywords: carbazole–pyridine copolymers; fluorescent materials; organic light emitting diode (OLED); photoluminescence spectra; UV spectra; Introduction An immense research effort

Surfactant catalyzed convenient and greener synthesis of tetrahydrobenzo[a]xanthene-11-ones at ambient temperature

• Pravin V. Shinde,
• Amol H. Kategaonkar,
• Bapurao B. Shingate and
• Murlidhar S. Shingare

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 53–58, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.9

• application as antagonists for inhibiting the action of zoxalamine and in photodynamic therapy [9][10]. In addition, their derivatives can be used as dyes [11][12], pH sensitive fluorescent materials for the visualization of biomolecular assemblies [13] and in laser technologies [14][15]. Among the xanthene