Synthesis of imidazo[4,5-e][1,3]thiazino[2,3-c][1,2,4]triazines via a base-induced rearrangement of functionalized imidazo[4,5-e]thiazolo[2,3-c][1,2,4]triazines

• Dmitry B. Vinogradov,
• Alexei N. Izmest’ev,
• Angelina N. Kravchenko,
• Yuri A. Strelenko and
• Galina A. Gazieva

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1047–1054, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.80

• NMR reaction monitoring showed that compound 1d under conditions of excess of KOH in methanol undergoes alkaline hydrolysis along with transesterification of the ester group to give the ring-opened form 6d (Scheme 4), the maximum concentration of which was observed approximately 30 minutes after the

Heterogeneous metallaphotoredox catalysis in a continuous-flow packed-bed reactor

• Wei-Hsin Hsu,
• Susanne Reischauer,
• Peter H. Seeberger,
• Bartholomäus Pieber and
• Dario Cambié

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1123–1130, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.115

• uniformity and activity, while partially homogeneous systems would need downstream separations. We used in-line reaction monitoring to study several process parameters, such as time, temperature and the photon flux, to maximize the throughput and evaluate the long-term stability of this catalytic approach

• enabled straightforward reaction monitoring via 19F NMR. To this end, a 1 T benchtop NMR equipped with a flow cell was connected to the reactor outlet and used to acquire a series of spectra. In particular, a series of 128 repetitions with a 90° pulse width and a relatively long repetition time of 5.2 s

• , because of the low flow rate some delay is also due to dead volume between the reactor and the NMR spectrometer used for reaction monitoring. For example, the NMR flow cell volume, about 1 mL, is alone responsible for 100 minutes of delay. (b) Time conversion plot, almost full conversion is observed after

Multi-faceted reactivity of N-fluorobenzenesulfonimide (NFSI) under mechanochemical conditions: fluorination, fluorodemethylation, sulfonylation, and amidation reactions

• José G. Hernández,
• Karen J. Ardila-Fierro,
• Dajana Barišić and
• Hervé Geneste

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 182–189, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.20

• performed in situ reaction monitoring of the milling process by Raman spectroscopy [32][33]. In an experiment milling 1c with NFSI (1 equiv) we observed the consumption of NFSI after ca. 30 min of milling as evidenced by a reduction in the intensity of the band at 1197 cm−1 of NFSI (Figure S3 in Supporting

Tenacibactins K–M, cytotoxic siderophores from a coral-associated gliding bacterium of the genus Tenacibaculum

• Yasuhiro Igarashi,
• Yiwei Ge,
• Tao Zhou,
• Amit Raj Sharma,
• Enjuro Harunari,
• Naoya Oku and
• Agus Trianto

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 110–119, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.12

• reaction monitoring (MRM) mode with the parameter setting “isCID = 0” and “Collision = 45”. An Agilent HP1200 HPLC system equipped with a diode array detector was used for analysis and purification. The absorbance of microtitre plate wells was read on a Thermo Scientific Multiskan Sky microplate reader

A comprehensive review of flow chemistry techniques tailored to the flavours and fragrances industries

• Guido Gambacorta,
• James S. Sharley and
• Ian R. Baxendale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1181–1312, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.90

One-pot multicomponent green Hantzsch synthesis of 1,2-dihydropyridine derivatives with antiproliferative activity

• Giovanna Bosica,
• Kaylie Demanuele,
• José M. Padrón and
• Adrián Puerta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2862–2869, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.235

• particularly positive effect. Since the presence of water was shown to be detrimental, the ammonium acetate (3) used was left to dry in a desiccator before use. Reaction monitoring was mostly done using thin-layer chromatography (TLC) and at times also GC. These techniques showed the occurrence of at least

Accelerating fragment-based library generation by coupling high-performance photoreactors with benchtop analysis

• Quentin Lefebvre,
• Christophe Salomé and
• Thomas C. Fessard

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 982–988, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.87

• conditions compared to a single vial reactor. Active water cooling protects the LEDs from overheating, while additional air cooling with bespoke fans prevents the vessels to heat over 50 °C. Each vessel is placed at equal distance of a 35 W high power blue LED (Figure 1). Reaction monitoring by TLC–MS

Cation-induced ring-opening and oxidation reaction of photoreluctant spirooxazine–quinolizinium conjugates

• Phil M. Pithan,
• Sören Steup and
• Heiko Ihmels

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 904–916, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.82

• “adjacent-averaging“ (factor of 10). For the reaction monitoring by absorption spectroscopy, an aliquot of the solutions of Cu(BF4)2, Fe(ClO4)3 or Hg(ClO4)2 was added to a solution of 3a (c = 20 µM) in MeCN to achieve a final concentration of the metal ions of c = 20–60 µM. The solutions were mixed

• vigorously, and absorption spectra were recorded every 5 s. For the reaction monitoring by NMR spectroscopy, six samples were prepared with a fixed concentration of 3a (c = 2.0 mM). In five of the samples, different amounts of Cu(BF4)2 were added to obtain Cu2+ concentrations of c = 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and

Architecture and synthesis of P,N-heterocyclic phosphine ligands

• Wisdom A. Munzeiwa,
• Bernard Omondi and
• Vincent O. Nyamori

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 362–383, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.35

• phosphorous atom, and the ease of optimizing steric and electronic properties. Additionally, properties like chirality can be conferred to the backbone of the ligands to generate C-stereogenic [1] and P-chirogenic [2] compounds. Furthermore, the 31P-nucleus abundance allows the use of NMR for reaction

• monitoring and in situ speciation. In addition, phosphine ligands have found various applications as auxiliary ligands in organometallic transition-metal complexes. A great number have exhibited potential application in organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) [3], medicine [4][5][6] and catalysis [1][7][8

Indium-mediated C-allylation of melibiose

• Christian Denner,
• Manuel Gintner,
• Hanspeter Kählig and
• Walther Schmid

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2458–2464, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.238

• with NaOMe (pH 9) until a pH around 9 was reached. The solution was stirred at rt for 2 h, until reaction monitoring via TLC analysis (1-butanol/acetone/H2O 5:4:1, v/v/v) showed complete conversion of the starting material. The reaction mixture was diluted with dichloromethane (dichloromethane/MeOH, 1

Azologization and repurposing of a hetero-stilbene-based kinase inhibitor: towards the design of photoswitchable sirtuin inhibitors

• Christoph W. Grathwol,
• Nathalie Wössner,
• Sören Swyter,
• Adam C. Smith,
• Enrico Tapavicza,
• Robert K. Hofstetter,
• Anja Bodtke,
• Manfred Jung and
• Andreas Link

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2170–2183, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.214

• -30ADSF for liquid CO2 and two LC-20ADXR for modifier and make-up delivery), an on-line supercritical fluid extraction module (SFE-30A auto extractor equipped with 0.2 mL extraction vessels) for reaction monitoring, an autosampler (SIL-30AC) for purified compounds, a column thermostat (CTO-20AC) equipped

Tautomerism as primary signaling mechanism in metal sensing: the case of amide group

• Vera Deneva,
• Georgi Dobrikov,
• Aurelien Crochet,
• Daniela Nedeltcheva,
• Katharina M. Fromm and
• Liudmil Antonov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1898–1906, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.185

• dimethylamine in dry THF (6.0 mL, 12.07 mmol). The reaction mixture was stirred for 7 days at rt (reaction monitoring by TLC – dichloromethane/petroleum ether 5:2). The reaction mixture was washed successively with aq citric acid and water, dried over Na2SO4, filtered and evaporated under vacuum. The crude

Efficiency Eff_syn of complex syntheses as multicomponent reactions, its algorithm and calculations based on concrete criteria

• Heiner Eckert

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1425–1433, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.142

• , deriving from direct costs such as fixed employee and laboratory costs, laboratory rental and maintenance costs, operating costs, i.e., power, water, (gas), inert gas and disposal costs. Standard laboratory activities that are repetitive, such as reactor configuration, filling, reaction monitoring

Unexpected loss of stereoselectivity in glycosylation reactions during the synthesis of chondroitin sulfate oligosaccharides

• Teresa Mena-Barragán,
• José L. de Paz and
• Pedro M. Nieto

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 137–144, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.14

• -phase synthesis, such as easy reaction monitoring by standard techniques and low consumption of donor building blocks to complete glycosylations. During the course of this investigation, unexpected stereochemical outcomes were observed in glycosylations involving glycosyl donors containing an N

Mild and selective reduction of aldehydes utilising sodium dithionite under flow conditions

• Nicole C. Neyt and
• Darren L. Riley

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1529–1536, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.129

• laboratories because of its ease of use, safety and control [3][4][5][6]. Continuous flow technologies are generally more effective than traditional batch processes with key advantages including intensified heat and mass transfer, inline reaction monitoring, higher mass throughput, safer control of hazardous

Investigating radical cation chain processes in the electrocatalytic Diels–Alder reaction

• Yasushi Imada,
• Yohei Okada and
• Kazuhiro Chiba

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 642–647, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.51

• efficiency of up to 8000%. The reaction monitoring profiles showed sigmoidal curves with induction periods, suggesting the involvement of intermediate(s) in the rate determining step. Keywords: chain process; Diels–Alder reaction; electrocatalytic; radical cation; single electron transfer; Introduction

A Brønsted base-promoted diastereoselective dimerization of azlactones

• Danielle L. J. Pinheiro,
• Gabriel M. F. Batista,
• Pedro P. de Castro,
• Leonã S. Flores,
• Gustavo F. S. Andrade and
• Giovanni W. Amarante

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2663–2670, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.264

• dimer was assigned as being trans, by X-ray crystallographic analysis. The kinetic reaction profile was determined by using 1H NMR reaction monitoring and revealed a second order overall kinetic profile. Furthermore, by employing this methodology, a diastereoselective total synthesis of a functionalized

• , initial azlactone 1a concentration, and initial base species 3 concentration; k1 and k−1 are the direct and reverse reaction rate constants for the formation of an azlactone enolate derivative 1’ and the azlactone 1a, respectively. In situ reaction monitoring by NMR spectroscopy allowed us to follow the

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

• poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) optically transparent milling jar, using a Retsch® MM400 mixer mill. For all real-time reaction monitoring, reactions were monitored using a RamanRxn1™ analyzer by Kaiser Optical Systems Inc. every 5 seconds using a 785 nm laser. Spectra were dark and intensity

Solvent-free and room temperature synthesis of 3-arylquinolines from different anilines and styrene oxide in the presence of Al₂O₃/MeSO₃H

• Hashem Sharghi,
• Mahdi Aberi,
• Mohsen Khataminejad and
• Pezhman Shiri

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1977–1981, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.193

• methanesulfonic acid 98% and acidic alumina (Al2O3) type 540 C were purchased from Fluka. The elemental analyses were performed with a Thermo Finnigan CHNS-O analyzer, 1112 series. The purity determination of the substrates and reaction monitoring were accomplished by TLC on silica gel PolyGram SILG/UV 254 plates

NMR reaction monitoring in flow synthesis

• M. Victoria Gomez and
• Antonio de la Hoz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 285–300, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.31

• reviewed. Some recent selected applications have been collected, including synthetic applications, the determination of the kinetic and thermodynamic parameters and reaction optimization, even in single experiments and on the μL scale. Finally, software that allows automatic reaction monitoring and

• Kentgens et al. [22]. Applications of flow NMR in reaction monitoring Keifer defined flow-NMR [28] as any NMR technique in which the sample flows through a tube into the NMR probe at some time during the measurement process. The first reported use of a flow-NMR technique was in 1951 [29], when the 1H

• will discuss some recent selected examples of the application of NMR reaction monitoring in flow chemistry. These examples include the design of flow systems, the use of standard NMR instruments and flow probes, the use of microcoils and finally the use of flow-NMR for kinetic and mechanistic studies

3D printed fluidics with embedded analytic functionality for automated reaction optimisation

• Andrew J. Capel,
• Andrew Wright,
• Matthew J. Harding,
• George W. Weaver,
• Yuqi Li,
• Russell A. Harris,
• Steve Edmondson,
• Ruth D. Goodridge and
• Steven D. R. Christie

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 111–119, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.14

• , to create multifunctional fluidic devices with embedded reaction monitoring capability. The selectively laser melted parts are the first published examples of multifunctional 3D printed metal fluidic devices. These devices allow high temperature and pressure chemistry to be performed in solvent

Application of heterocyclic aldehydes as components in Ugi–Smiles couplings

• Katelynn M. Mason,
• Michael S. Meyers,
• Abbie M. Fox and
• Sarah B. Luesse

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2032–2037, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.191

• used in reaction monitoring). After six hours, the reaction mixture contained ≈15% Ugi–Smiles adduct 2i and ≈17% cyclized US-IMDA diastereomers 1b (as determined by 1H NMR integration), with the remainder of the material present as unreacted starting material or imine, generated from 2-furaldehyde and

• volatiles gave the crude material, which was purified via flash column chromatography on silica gel. For full details, see Supporting Information File 1. N-Arylepoxyisoindolines via tandem Ugi–Smiles/IMDA reaction. Reaction monitoring by 1H NMR for production of 1b. Use of a thienyl-substituted aldehyde for

Copper-mediated synthesis of N-alkenyl-α,β-unsaturated nitrones and their conversion to tri- and tetrasubstituted pyridines

• Dimitra Kontokosta,
• Daniel S. Mueller,
• Dong-Liang Mo,
• Wiktoria H. Pace,
• Rachel A. Simpson and
• Laura L. Anderson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2097–2104, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.226

• variety of chalcone- and dba-derived oxime substrates as well as both mono- and disubstituted alkenylboronic acids. Initial reaction monitoring experiments suggest that the cyclization of the N-alkenyl-α,β-unsaturated nitrone to the pyridine occurs through an oxygen transfer from the nitrone functionality

A new charge-tagged proline-based organocatalyst for mechanistic studies using electrospray mass spectrometry

• J. Alexander Willms,
• Rita Beel,
• Martin L. Schmidt,
• Christian Mundt and
• Marianne Engeser

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2027–2037, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.211

• not observed. Further, it is important to note that the substrates do not show any reaction when no catalyst, be it charge-tagged or not, is present in the solution. The easiest way of ESI reaction monitoring – mixing the reagents and measuring ESI spectra after various time intervals – is restricted

Less reactive dipoles of diazodicarbonyl compounds in reaction with cycloaliphatic thioketones – First evidence for the 1,3-oxathiole–thiocarbonyl ylide interconversion

• Valerij A. Nikolaev,
• Alexey V. Ivanov,
• Ludmila L. Rodina and
• Grzegorz Mlostoń

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2751–2761, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.309

• for column chromatography. Reaction monitoring and Rf measurements were performed at Silufol UV-254 (Kavalier, ČSSR) plates. Single crystal X-ray data were collected with a Bruker SMART CCD diffractometer (MoKα radiation, λ = 0.71073 Å, graphite monochromator). Diazodicarbonyl compounds 2a–c were