Isolation and structure determination of a new analog of polycavernosides from marine Okeania sp. cyanobacterium

• Kairi Umeda,
• Naoaki Kurisawa,
• Ghulam Jeelani,
• Tomoyoshi Nozaki,
• Kiyotake Suenaga and
• Arihiro Iwasaki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 645–652, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.57

• in 100 mL phosphate-buffered saline) was added to each well. The plates were incubated for an additional 3 h. The plates were read in a SpectraMax Gemini XS microplate fluorescence scanner (Molecular Devices) using an excitation wavelength of 536 nm and an emission wavelength of 588 nm. WI-38 cells

A new analog of dihydroxybenzoic acid from Saccharopolyspora sp. KR21-0001

• Rattiya Janthanom,
• Yuta Kikuchi,
• Hiroki Kanto,
• Tomoyasu Hirose,
• Arisu Tahara,
• Takahiro Ishii,
• Arinthip Thamchaipenet and
• Yuki Inahashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 497–503, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.44

• ppm) in the 13C NMR spectra. Infrared (IR) spectroscopy was carried out using an FT-4600 Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (JASCO P-2200 Polarimeter, Japan). The UV spectra were measured using a SpectraMax QuickDrop micro-volume spectrophotometer (Molecular Devices, LLC., San Jose, USA) at

Identification of the p-coumaric acid biosynthetic gene cluster in Kutzneria albida: insights into the diazotization-dependent deamination pathway

• Seiji Kawai,
• Akito Yamada,
• Yohei Katsuyama and
• Yasuo Ohnishi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 1–11, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.1

• decrease in absorbance at 435 nm for 3-DAA using a SpectraMax M2 microplate reader (Molecular Devices, San Jose, CA, USA). The kinetic parameters (Vmax, kcat, and Km) were calculated by fitting the substrate concentration [S]–initial velocity (v) plot using the equation v = Vmax × [S] / (Km + [S]). To

Synthesis of meso-pyrrole-substituted corroles by condensation of 1,9-diformyldipyrromethanes with pyrrole

• Baris Temelli and
• Pinar Kapci

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1403–1409, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.145

• studies on porphyrins, which have many application areas such as photodynamic therapy and photovoltaic systems, have focused on oligomeric and polymeric structures in the last two decades [5][6][7][8][9]. Although such porphyrin structures have been used successfully in the development of molecular

• devices and functional materials, the synthesis of corrole-based analogues has been rather limited due to very few synthetic methods developed to produce corroles with polymerizable substituents at the meso- or beta positions [10][11][12][13]. To date, meso-substituted corroles have been synthesized by

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

• important fields in modern chemistry [13][14][15]. It is based on a wide range of noncovalent interactions between molecules [16][17][18] and has been applied to a variety of research areas including molecular recognition, molecular devices, nanochemistry, catalysis, etc. [13][14][15][16][17][18]. By

Phenolic constituents from twigs of Aleurites fordii and their biological activities

• Kyoung Jin Park,
• Won Se Suh,
• Da Hye Yoon,
• Chung Sub Kim,
• Sun Yeou Kim and
• Kang Ro Lee

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2329–2339, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.151

• was harvested and mixed with an equal volume of Griess reagent. After 10 min, the absorbance was measured at 570 nm with a microplate reader (Emax, Molecular Devices, Sunnyvale, CA, USA). Graded sodium nitrite solution was used as a standard to gauge NO2 concentration. Cell viability was assessed by

(Phenylamino)pyrimidine-1,2,3-triazole derivatives as analogs of imatinib: searching for novel compounds against chronic myeloid leukemia

• Luiz Claudio Ferreira Pimentel,
• Lucas Villas Boas Hoelz,
• Henayle Fernandes Canzian,
• Frederico Silva Castelo Branco,
• Andressa Paula de Oliveira,
• Vinicius Rangel Campos,
• Floriano Paes Silva Júnior,
• Rafael Ferreira Dantas,
• Jackson Antônio Lamounier Camargos Resende,
• Anna Claudia Cunha,
• Nubia Boechat and
• Mônica Macedo Bastos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2260–2269, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.144

• hours. This assay was performed in triplicate and measured using resazurin (Sigma-Aldrich) at a concentration of 0.1 mg/mL using a FlexStation 3 microplate reader (Molecular Devices). K562 cells assay After plating (2 × 104 cell/mL), the K562 cells were incubated for one hour, and then the compounds

• (Molecular Devices). After the first reading, the plate was returned to the incubator, and after one hour, the second reading was performed, completing the 48 hours of incubation with the compounds. The reference inhibitor used was IMT at fixed concentrations of 1 μM and 10 μM. Molecular docking The Molegro

Annulation of a 1,3-dithiole ring to a sterically hindered o-quinone core. Novel ditopic redox-active ligands

• Sergey V. Norkov,
• Anton V. Cherkasov,
• Andrey S. Shavyrin,
• Maxim V. Arsenyev,
• Viacheslav A. Kuropatov and
• Vladimir K. Cherkasov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 273–282, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.26

• molecular devices, since according to the EPR data for its monoreduced derivatives, there is a channel for the intraligand electron exchange interaction between the coordination sites of the molecule. Experimental All chemicals and solvents were purchased from commercial sources. Solvents were purified in

Design and synthesis of a bis-macrocyclic host and guests as building blocks for small molecular knots

• Elizabeth A. Margolis,
• Rebecca J. Keyes,
• Stephen D. Lockey IV and
• Edward E. Fenlon

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2314–2321, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.192

• . Keywords: alkynes; azides; host–guest; macrocycles; molecular knots; Introduction Macrocycles have played a central role in the development of molecular recognition, self-assembled molecular devices, and molecular topology [1][2][3][4][5][6]. For example, early work by Pedersen on crown ethers [1], Lehn

Synthetic approaches to bowl-shaped π-conjugated sumanene and its congeners

• Shakeel Alvi and
• Rashid Ali

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2212–2259, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.186

• can not only be useful for enantioselective synthesis of π-bowls but also to produce novel building blocks for molecular switches, chemical machines, molecular motor, ferroelectric memories, molecular devices, and sensory materials etc. Interestingly, electronic switching, thermal transport and

4-Hydroxy-3-methyl-2(1H)-quinolone, originally discovered from a Brassicaceae plant, produced by a soil bacterium of the genus Burkholderia sp.: determination of a preferred tautomer and antioxidant activity

• Dandan Li,
• Naoya Oku,
• Yukiko Shinozaki,
• Yoichi Kurokawa and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1489–1494, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.124

• spectrometer. Chemiluminescence was measured on a Molecular Devices SpectraMax M2 microplate reader. Microorganism Burkholderia sp. 3Y-MMP was isolated from a soil sample collected in Toyama, central Japan, in June 2015 by a procedure similar to that described in [46]. One mM of ZnCl2, instead of CoCl2, was

Small anion-assisted electrochemical potential splitting in a new series of bistriarylamine derivatives: organic mixed valency across a urea bridge and zwitterionization

• Keishiro Tahara,
• Tetsufumi Nakakita,
• Alyona A. Starikova,
• Takashi Ikeda,
• Masaaki Abe and
• Jun-ichi Kikuchi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2277–2286, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.220

• intramolecular electron transfer phenomena and application in molecular devices [1][2][3][4][5]. The radical cations of bistriarylamine derivatives bis(NAr3) are well-known MV compounds having π-conjugated bridges (where NAr3 = triarylamine) [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. These studies focused

• (Figure 1) [44]. The electrochemically control of H-bonding would have a dramatic impact on the field of mixed valency, which is striving to utilize charge delocalization for molecular devices. However, there is a lack of basic knowledge about the influence of an excess of supporting electrolytes on the

• characteristics and fabricating sophisticated molecular devices through supramolecular methods. Experimental Materials and general measurements All solvents and chemicals of reagent grade were used without purification except tetra-n-butylammonium phosphate (n-Bu4NPF6), which was recrystallized from methanol. 4

Isolation of fungi using the diffusion chamber device FIND technology

• Benjamin Libor,
• Henrik Harms,
• Stefan Kehraus,
• Ekaterina Egereva,
• Max Crüsemann and
• Gabriele M. König

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2191–2203, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.216

• detected using FlexStation 3 (Molecular Devices). FIND procedure For experiment 1, 5 mL of soil (Falcon tube) was diluted in 45 mL of sterile-filtered NaCl 0.85% solution (Ringer solution). This solution underwent manual agitation for 10 minutes and ultrasonication using a Bandelin Sonorex at 100

1,2,3-Triazolium macrocycles in supramolecular chemistry

• Mastaneh Safarnejad Shad,
• Pulikkal Veettil Santhini and
• Wim Dehaen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2142–2155, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.211

• as components of functional molecular devices, such as switches [42][43], unidirectional motors [44], electronic displays [45] as well as in anion recognition [46]. Interestingly, Beer et al. have attempted the synthesis of tetratriazolium hetero-catenane, but the purification and isolation was felt

Identification of optimal fluorescent probes for G-quadruplex nucleic acids through systematic exploration of mono- and distyryl dye libraries

• Xiao Xie,
• Michela Zuffo,
• Marie-Paule Teulade-Fichou and
• Anton Granzhan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1872–1889, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.183

• for in vitro detection of G4 structures and their differentiation from other DNA or RNA forms [6][7][8][9][10], topological characterization of G4 structures [11][12][13][14], real-time detection of G4 formation [15], and implementation of G4-based molecular devices [16][17] and biosensors [18][19][20

Precious metal-free molecular machines for solar thermal energy storage

• Meglena I. Kandinska,
• Snejana M. Kitova,
• Vladimira S. Videva,
• Stanimir S. Stoyanov,
• Stanislava B. Yordanova,
• Stanislav B. Baluschev,
• Silvia E. Angelova and
• Aleksey A. Vasilev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1096–1106, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.106

• ., metal-in/metal-out from the crown ligand) [20]. Further, it was found that the azacrown benzothiazolium styryl dyes 4a and 4c exhibit ion-sensitivity in the thermal cis–trans photoisomerization [18][21], a feature, which may be used in the development of thermoreversible photoionic molecular devices [19

Diaminoterephthalate–α-lipoic acid conjugates with fluorinated residues

• Leon Buschbeck,
• Aleksandra Markovic,
• Gunther Wittstock and
• Jens Christoffers

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 981–991, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.96

• the study of electron transfer [26][27] or for building surface molecular devices for different purposes, commonly called integrated molecular systems [19]. These molecular systems are mainly used for pH sensing [28][29][30], inorganic- [31][32][33], organic- and biosensors [34][35]. Self-assembled

Tetrathiafulvalene – a redox-switchable building block to control motion in mechanically interlocked molecules

• Hendrik V. Schröder and
• Christoph A. Schalley

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2163–2185, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.190

• -yielding statistical synthesis to efficient template-controlled synthesis, rotaxanes have become the workhorse of MIMs in the last three decades. Regarding their use as molecular devices, three types of motions can be potentially controlled in rotaxanes: pirouetting of the wheel around the axle

• organosulfur compound TTF developed from a molecular switch with multiple electronic and material applications to one of the most widely used building blocks for the construction of stimuli-responsive MIMs and functional molecular devices. The development of straightforward organic reactions to implement TTFs

Supramolecular chemistry: from aromatic foldamers to solution-phase supramolecular organic frameworks

• Zhan-Ting Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2057–2071, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.222

• binding and design of photo-active molecular devices [64][65][66]. We were interested in developing inherently folded structural patterns for aromatic oligotriazole backbones. In 2009, Yuanyuan Zhu established that 1,5-diphenyl-1,2,3-triazole formed an intramolecular six-membered C–H····OMe hydrogen bonds

Deproto-metallation of N-arylated pyrroles and indoles using a mixed lithium–zinc base and regioselectivity-computed CH acidity relationship

• Mohamed Yacine Ameur Messaoud,
• Ghenia Bentabed-Ababsa,
• Madani Hedidi,
• Aïcha Derdour,
• Floris Chevallier,
• Yury S. Halauko,
• Oleg A. Ivashkevich,
• Vadim E. Matulis,
• Laurent Picot,
• Valérie Thiéry,
• Thierry Roisnel,
• Vincent Dorcet and
• Florence Mongin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1475–1485, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.160

• at 37 °C for 5 min to solubilize formazan crystals and absorbance was read at 550 nm using a VERSAmax microplate reader (Molecular devices, France). The percentage of growth inhibition was calculated as GI (%) = 100 − ((A550nm sample − A550nm BG)/(A550nm control − A550nm BG))·100, with: A550 nm

Copper ion salts of arylthiotetrathiafulvalenes: synthesis, structure diversity and magnetic properties

• Longfei Ma,
• Jibin Sun,
• Xiaofeng Lu,
• Shangxi Zhang,
• Hui Qi,
• Lei Liu,
• Yongliang Shao and
• Xiangfeng Shao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 850–859, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.95

• supramolecular systems and/or molecular devices, which has been summarized in many reviews [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. However, the incorporation of aryl groups onto the TTF core through sulfur bridges, which resulted in arylthio-substituted TTFs (denoted as Ar-S-TTF), has been scarcely

Impact of multivalent charge presentation on peptide–nanoparticle aggregation

• Daniel Schöne,
• Boris Schade,
• Christoph Böttcher and
• Beate Koksch

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 792–803, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.89

• known about the effects of nanoparticles on whole organisms [8]. Furthermore, there is great interest in using biomolecules as components to build up self-assembled supramolecular organic–inorganic hybrid materials for engineering novel functional materials and molecular devices [9][10]. In spite of the

Molecular ordering at electrified interfaces: Template and potential effects

• Thanh Hai Phan and
• Klaus Wandelt

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2243–2254, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.233

• or dielectric substrates is regarded as one of the key factors in the successful design, characterization and fabrication of nanoscale molecular devices [1][2][3][4]. A big challenge for surface scientists is, thus, to find suitable model systems which enable to investigate the driving forces of

• molecular self-organization on surfaces and to simulate the working principles of the derived molecular devices. This so-called “bottom-up” strategy, i.e., the formation of supramolecular structures from vapor deposited simpler building blocks has become an important research direction in ultra-high vacuum

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

• thermal stabilities, various artificial porphyrins have been prepared as promising materials for organic photonic and electronic applications [6][7][8][9]. In addition, porphyrins fused with external aromatic systems exhibit a broad range of applications in diverse areas such as molecular devices [10][11

Synthesis and evaluation of cell-permeable biotinylated PU-H71 derivatives as tumor Hsp90 probes

• Tony Taldone,
• Anna Rodina,
• Erica M. DaGama Gomes,
• Matthew Riolo,
• Hardik J. Patel,
• Raul Alonso-Sabadell,
• Danuta Zatorska,
• Maulik R. Patel,
• Sarah Kishinevsky and
• Gabriela Chiosis

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 544–556, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.60

• [M + H]+; HPLC: tR = 8.82. Biological evaluation of probes Hsp90 competition assay. For the competition studies, fluorescence polarization (FP) assays were performed as previously reported [9][23]. Briefly, FP measurements were performed on an Analyst GT instrument (Molecular Devices, Sunnyvale, CA