Thiol-free chemoenzymatic synthesis of β-ketosulfides

• Adrián A. Heredia,
• Martín G. López-Vidal,
• Marcela Kurina-Sanz,
• Fabricio R. Bisogno and
• Alicia B. Peñéñory

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 378–387, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.34

• thiols (Scheme 1) [17][18][19][20][21], other methodologies employing different sulfur sources such as disulfides or silylsulfides have been described, which most of them involves metals, e.g., indium [22], copper [23], mercury [24], or organocatalysts [25]. β-Ketosulfides, in addition, play an important

Carbonylonium ions: the onium ions of the carbonyl group

• Daniel Blanco-Ania and
• Floris P. J. T. Rutjes

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2568–2571, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.233

• group with mercury to a double bond. “Oxycarbenium ion” can also be found in the literature with this meaning that it correctly describes the same intermediate, although not the more realistic representation of it [30]. Carboxonium ions Other research groups, e.g., Olah’s and Prakash’s, have used the

Diazirine-functionalized mannosides for photoaffinity labeling: trouble with FimH

• Femke Beiroth,
• Tomas Koudelka,
• Thorsten Overath,
• Stefan D. Knight,
• Andreas Tholey and
• Thisbe K. Lindhorst

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1890–1900, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.163

• . Subsequently, the solution was irradiated under ice cooling with a medium pressure mercury vapor lamp for 10 min. Afterwards, 50 µL double distilled water were added and 2 µL of this solution given to 20 µL of a 0.1% trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) solution, desalted with a C18 µZipTip and spotted on a MALDI-plate

• in ACN or DMSO. The ratio ligand to protein was 70:1. The total volume of the reaction was 11 µL either with 50% ACN or 10% DMSO. Ligand and protein were combined and incubated for 10 min at 37 °C and 100 rpm. Afterwards the solution was irradiated under ice cooling with a medium pressure mercury

Water-soluble SNS cationic palladium(II) complexes and their Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reactions in aqueous medium

• Alphonse Fiebor,
• Richard Tia,
• Banothile C. E. Makhubela and
• Henok H. Kinfe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1859–1870, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.160

• mixture turned black in the presence of TBAB, we were under the impression that the reaction could have proceeded via formation of palladium nanoparticles as it is common with most palladium catalysed coupling reactions. However, mercury drop experiments provided comparable yields (Table 2, entry 29 and

• 30) under the same reaction conditions ruling out the possibility of a coupling reaction catalysed by palladium nanoparticles [37]. The fact that the reaction mixture remained yellowish in the absence of TBAB and the mercury drop experiments did not lead to an appreciable decrease in yield, the

• ), alkylphosphine (PCP) and aminophosphine (PCP) pincer complexes, and in each of these cases, catalysis was unaffected by metallic mercury during the cross-coupling reactions [41][42][43]. In addition, stable Pd(IV) complexes have been widely prepared and characterised, thus for the catalysis of the pincer

Anomeric modification of carbohydrates using the Mitsunobu reaction

• Julia Hain,
• Patrick Rollin,
• Werner Klaffke and
• Thisbe K. Lindhorst

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1619–1636, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.138

• ]. Stereoselective β-D-mannoside synthesis [60]. TIPS-assisted synthesis of 1,2-cis arabinofuranosides [63]. TIPS: triisopropylsilyl. The Mitsunobu reaction with glycals leads to interesting rearrangement products [69]. Synthesis of disaccharides using mercury(II) bromide as co-activator in the Mitsunobu reaction

Spectroelectrochemical studies on the effect of cations in the alkaline glycerol oxidation reaction over carbon nanotube-supported Pd nanoparticles

• Dennis Hiltrop,
• Steffen Cychy,
• Karina Elumeeva,
• Wolfgang Schuhmann and
• Martin Muhler

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1428–1435, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.120

• layer configuration, where the thickness of the thin layer is tunable in the micrometer range by an implemented micrometer screw. The Bruker Tensor 27 FTIR spectrometer was equipped with an A530/P reflection unit, a liquid nitrogen mercury cadmium telluride detector and was constantly purged with dried

One hundred years of benzotropone chemistry

• Arif Dastan,
• Haydar Kilic and
• Nurullah Saracoglu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1120–1180, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.98

• of catalytic mercury iodide; it is a critical step for the formation of the compound 72. Hydrolysis of intermediate 68 led to ketone 69 in high yield containing an acetic acid residue β to the carbonyl group. A sequence of the one-carbon homologation of ketone 69 is followed by isomerization into the

Selective carboxylation of reactive benzylic C–H bonds by a hypervalent iodine(III)/inorganic bromide oxidation system

• Toshifumi Dohi,
• Shohei Ueda,
• Kosuke Iwasaki,
• Yusuke Tsunoda,
• Koji Morimoto and
• Yasuyuki Kita

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1087–1094, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.94

• replacement for certain heavy-metal oxidizers, such as lead, mercury, and thallium-based salts, due to their low toxicities, high stabilities, operational simplicities, and many other user-friendly characteristics [31][32]. By virtue of their wide array of reactivity patterns, the controllable radical and

2-Iodo-N-isopropyl-5-methoxybenzamide as a highly reactive and environmentally benign catalyst for alcohol oxidation

• Takayuki Yakura,
• Tomoya Fujiwara,
• Akihiro Yamada and
• Hisanori Nambu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 971–978, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.82

• fundamental and frequently used transformation in organic synthesis. Heavy metal-based oxidants such as chromium(VI), lead(IV), and mercury(II) have been extensively used for this purpose for a long time. However, these oxidants are highly toxic and produce hazardous waste. Recently, hypervalent iodine

Crystal structure of the inclusion complex of cholesterol in β-cyclodextrin and molecular dynamics studies

• Elias Christoforides,
• Andreas Papaioannou and
• Kostas Bethanis

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 838–848, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.69

• the host molecules. The graphic programs used to illustrate the crystal structures are Mercury 3.9 [43] and Olex2 [44]. Selected details of structure refinement along with important statistics are given in Table 1. The data can be obtained from The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre under the

• cholesterol molecule; (b) the β-cyclodextrin molecule. (a) Crystal structure of the inclusion compound of cholesterol in β-CD dimer. Water molecules are omitted for clarity. (b) The inclusion complex colored by atomic displacement parameters (U’s) using Mercury 3.9. The values of U increase from blue to red

Synthesis of fluoro-functionalized diaryl-λ³-iodonium salts and their cytotoxicity against human lymphoma U937 cells

• Prajwalita Das,
• Etsuko Tokunaga,
• Hidehiko Akiyama,
• Hiroki Doi,
• Norimichi Saito and
• Norio Shibata

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 364–372, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.24

• neutral size 63–210 μm). The 1H NMR (300 MHz), 19F NMR (282 MHz), and 13C NMR (125 MHz) spectra for solution in CDCl3 or (CD3)2CO were recorded on Varian Mercury 300 and Bruker Avance 500 spectrometers. Chemical shifts (δ) are expressed in ppm downfield from TMS (δ = 0.00) or C6F6 [δ = −162.2 (CDCl3) or

Halogen-containing thiazole orange analogues – new fluorogenic DNA stains

• Aleksey A. Vasilev,
• Meglena I. Kandinska,
• Stanimir S. Stoyanov,
• Stanislava B. Yordanova,
• David Sucunza,
• Juan J. Vaquero,
• Obis D. Castaño,
• Stanislav Baluschev and
• Silvia E. Angelova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2902–2914, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.283

• spectra and is in contrast to the by Armitage et al. observed influence of the replacement of hydrogen with fluorine atom in the benzothiazole ring [43]. Photostability The photostability of all dyes in the series was evaluated in acetonitrile with irradiation at 254 nm with a mercury lamp in equal

Pyrene–nucleobase conjugates: synthesis, oligonucleotide binding and confocal bioimaging studies

• Artur Jabłoński,
• Yannic Fritz,
• Hans-Achim Wagenknecht,
• Rafał Czerwieniec,
• Tytus Bernaś,
• Damian Trzybiński,
• Krzysztof Woźniak and
• Konrad Kowalski

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2521–2534, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.249

• Uiso(H) = xUeq(C), where x = 1.2 for the aromatic, methylene and methine H atoms, and x = 1.5 for the methyl H atoms. All presented molecular interactions were found using the PLATON program [44]. The figures for this publication were prepared using ORTEP-3 and Mercury programs [45][46]. The CCDC

Syntheses, structures, and stabilities of aliphatic and aromatic fluorous iodine(I) and iodine(III) compounds: the role of iodine Lewis basicity

• Tathagata Mukherjee,
• Soumik Biswas,
• Andreas Ehnbom,
• Subrata K. Ghosh,
• Ibrahim El-Zoghbi,
• Nattamai Bhuvanesh,
• Hassan S. Bazzi and
• John A. Gladysz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2486–2501, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.246

• the solvents, starting materials, and instrumentation employed, and additional spectroscopic, structural, and computational data, including a molecular structure file that can be read by the program Mercury [75] and contains the optimized geometries of all computed structures [76]. Supporting

Solvent-free copper-catalyzed click chemistry for the synthesis of N-heterocyclic hybrids based on quinoline and 1,2,3-triazole

• Martina Tireli,
• Silvija Maračić,
• Stipe Lukin,
• Marina Juribašić Kulcsár,
• Dijana Žilić,
• Mario Cetina,
• Ivan Halasz,
• Silvana Raić-Malić and
• Krunoslav Užarević

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2352–2363, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.232

• , 0.70/0.30 in 6, and 0.68/0.32 in 7. Geometric restraint on some of the C–F distances and restraint on anisotropic displacement parameters of some fluorine atoms in 5–8 were applied in the refinement. The PLATON [62] and Mercury [63] programs were used for structure analysis and molecular and crystal

Is the tungsten(IV) complex (NEt₄)₂[WO(mnt)₂] a functional analogue of acetylene hydratase?

• Matthias Schreyer and
• Lukas Hintermann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2332–2339, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.230

• reaction mechanism of acetylene hydratase [10][11][12]. c) Tungsten complex (NEt4)2[WO(mnt)2] (1), which was reported as acetylene hydration catalyst [13]. a) π-Activation pathway in Markovnikov selective alkyne hydration, e.g., with mercury catalysts. b) Ruthenium-catalyzed anti-Markovnikov hydration via

The effect of milling frequency on a mechanochemical organic reaction monitored by in situ Raman spectroscopy

• Patrick A. Julien,
• Ivani Malvestiti and
• Tomislav Friščić

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2160–2168, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.216

• on a 300 MHz Varian Mercury spectrometer. The ambient temperature was measured using a digital thermometer by VWR and the internal jar temperature was acquired immediately after milling finished using a Mastercraft Temperature Reader with Digital Display and Laser Pointer (accuracy ±2 °C). Time

Solid-state studies and antioxidant properties of the γ-cyclodextrin·fisetin inclusion compound

• Joana M. Pais,
• Maria João Barroca,
• Maria Paula M. Marques,
• Filipe A. Almeida Paz and
• Susana S. Braga

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2138–2145, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.212

• inclusion compound γ-CD–12-crown-4 ether [31] using the software Mercury 3.5.1 (copyright CCDC 2001–2014). The inset depicts the structure of γ-CD–12-crown-4 ether, as viewed from the top (crystallographic c-axis) and from the sides (crystallographic a-axis). 13C{1H} CP/MAS NMR spectra for (a) fisetin, (b

Enzymatic separation of epimeric 4-C-hydroxymethylated furanosugars: Synthesis of bicyclic nucleosides

• Neha Rana,
• Manish Kumar,
• Vinod Khatri,
• Jyotirmoy Maity and
• Ashok K. Prasad

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2078–2086, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.205

• using the WinGX package of the crystallographic programs [21]. For the molecular graphics, the programs DIAMOND-2 [22] and Mercury [23][24] were used. Molecular structures have been drawn using ORTEP as software as given in Figure 2 and Figure 3. The selected bond lengths, bond angles, etc. are given in

Correlation of surface pressure and hue of planarizable push–pull chromophores at the air/water interface

• Frederik Neuhaus,
• Fabio Zobi,
• Gerald Brezesinski,
• Marta Dal Molin,
• Stefan Matile and
• Andreas Zumbuehl

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1099–1105, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.109

• ) equipped with a liquid nitrogen cooled MCT (mercury cadmium telluride) detector attached to an external air/water reflection unit (XA-511). The IR beam was conducted out of the spectrometer and focused onto the water surface of the thermostated Langmuir trough. The measurements were carried out with p- and

Exploring endoperoxides as a new entry for the synthesis of branched azasugars

• Svenja Domeyer,
• Mark Bjerregaard,
• Henrik Johansson and
• Daniel Sejer Pedersen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 644–647, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.63

• mercury lamp was replaced with three 100 W halogen bulbs. Dihydroxylation and protection of endoperoxides 18 and 19 to provide novel building blocks 20–23 for azasugar synthesis. Preliminary exploration of the chemistry of endoperoxides 18–23 was encouraging and gave access to a variety of derivatives

Derivatives of the triaminoguanidinium ion, 5. Acylation of triaminoguanidines leading to symmetrical tris(acylamino)guanidines and mesoionic 1,2,4-triazolium-3-aminides

• Jan Szabo,
• Julian Greiner and
• Gerhard Maas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 579–588, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.57

• ) 176(2)°; N4–H···Cl, N4···Cl 3.320(2) Å, NH···Cl 2.53(2) Å, <(N4–H···Cl) 148(2)°. Left: solid-state structure of 9b·H2O (ORTEP plot). Right: centrosymmetric hydrogen-bonded dimer of (CF3SO3)−·H2O (Mercury plot); the substituents at the triazole ring are not complete. Selected bond lengths (Å): C1–N1

Effect of the ortho-hydroxy group of salicylaldehyde in the A³ coupling reaction: A metal-catalyst-free synthesis of propargylamine

• Sujit Ghosh,
• Kinkar Biswas,
• Suchandra Bhattacharya,
• Pranab Ghosh and
• Basudeb Basu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 552–557, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.53

• ], mercury [26], cobalt [27], iridium [28], ruthenium [29], indium [30] etc. Other methods towards the synthesis of propargylamine include: alkynylation of imine [31][32][33], enamine [34], and Csp³–H bonds adjacent to N-atoms [35][36]. In the A3 coupling, the role of the metal catalyst is believed to

Synthesis of 1-indanones with a broad range of biological activity

• Marika Turek,
• Dorota Szczęsna,
• Marek Koprowski and
• Piotr Bałczewski

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 451–494, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.48

• in 98% yield for both THP and MOM ethers (Scheme 62). Irradiation of aromatic γ,δ-epoxy ketones 226 with a medium-pressure UV mercury lamp (450 W) led to the formation of 1-indanones 227 via a photochemical epoxy rearrangement and 1,5-biradical cyclization tandem reaction (Scheme 63) [92]. The best

Stabilization of nanosized titanium dioxide by cyclodextrin polymers and its photocatalytic effect on the degradation of wastewater pollutants

• Tamás Zoltán Agócs,
• István Puskás,
• Erzsébet Varga,
• Mónika Molnár and
• Éva Fenyvesi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2873–2882, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.286

• was studied using an optical bench with medium pressure mercury-vapor lamp of 200 W (Tunsgram, Hungary) emitting mainly in the UV-A range. The light was focused by an optical lens on the quartz cuvette containing the sample. The concentration of MB and IBR was measured by spectrophotometry and by HPLC