ChemistryEuropePub Date : 2024-10-10DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202400038
Dr. Hye-Eun Lee, Dr. Michael Russell, Prof. Ryuhei Nakamura
{"title":"Water Chemistry at the Nanoscale: Clues for Resolving the “Water Paradox” Underlying the Emergence of Life","authors":"Dr. Hye-Eun Lee, Dr. Michael Russell, Prof. Ryuhei Nakamura","doi":"10.1002/ceur.202400038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.202400038","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Water is the most common, yet highly peculiar, liquid on Earth. Biological systems manipulate the properties of water to perform reactions that are extremely difficult in synthetic chemistry. One such example is polymerization, which is essential for life and requires the removal of water; however, the removal of water adversely affects the redox reactions that harness the free energy to sustain life. This dichotomy in the water chemistry of life is referred to as the “water paradox”, which remains an unsolved puzzle in the origins of life research. In the present concept paper, we propose that the water paradox may be resolved if anomalous water behavior, including the extremely low dielectric constant and modulation of the enthalpy-entropy compensation relationship arising from nanoscale confinement, are considered. The unique properties of confined water allow for polymerization reactions to proceed even in water-rich hydrothermal vent (HV) environments due to the structurally aligned nanopores within HV walls. Studies of how structural changes in water networks in nano-spaces affect catalysis and free energy exchange represent the next frontier in the field of origins of life research and synthetic chemistry.</p>","PeriodicalId":100234,"journal":{"name":"ChemistryEurope","volume":"2 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ceur.202400038","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemistryEuropePub Date : 2024-10-10DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202400064
Anne Zimmer, Prof. Alois Fürstner
{"title":"Total Synthesis of the Humulene-Derived Sesquiterpenoid (-)-Integrifolian-1,5-dione","authors":"Anne Zimmer, Prof. Alois Fürstner","doi":"10.1002/ceur.202400064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.202400064","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The oxygenated sesquiterpenoid (-)-integrifolian-1,5-dione, which originates from a plant that finds widespread use in South American traditional medicine, is distinguished by a rigid bicyclic framework consisting of a cyclopropane that is <i>cis</i>-annulated to a cyclodecane ring. The first total synthesis of this demanding target is described, which relies on a highly selective cyclopropanation reaction of an α-stannylated-α-diazoester catalyzed by a heteroleptic dirhodium paddlewheel complex, followed by an unprecedented Stille-type cross coupling of the resulting stannylated cyclopropane with methyl iodide as the electrophilic partner to form the all-carbon quaternary stereocenter at one of the bridgehead positions. Equally decisive was the bicyclization strategy based on lactonization/ring expansion that ultimately allowed the strained ten-membered carbocycle to be forged.</p>","PeriodicalId":100234,"journal":{"name":"ChemistryEurope","volume":"2 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ceur.202400064","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemistryEuropePub Date : 2024-10-10DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202300084
Benedikt Bagemihl, Prof. Carolin Müller, Dr. Georgina E. Shillito, Marco Hartkorn, Dr. Alexander K. Mengele, Dr. Stephan Kupfer, Prof. Benjamin Dietzek-Ivanšić, Prof. Sven Rau
{"title":"Steering Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Intramolecular Photocatalysts by Peripheral Ligand Control","authors":"Benedikt Bagemihl, Prof. Carolin Müller, Dr. Georgina E. Shillito, Marco Hartkorn, Dr. Alexander K. Mengele, Dr. Stephan Kupfer, Prof. Benjamin Dietzek-Ivanšić, Prof. Sven Rau","doi":"10.1002/ceur.202300084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.202300084","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Bridged photosensitizer-catalyst systems are promising models to study photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. However, the systems in the literature structurally diverse and therefore hard to compare. Many systems show highly complex photophysics including several accepting orbitals for the excited state, as a result catalytic activity is hard to predict. Here we present a bimetallic Ru−Pt photocatalyst bearing peripheral spectator ligands at the ruthenium(II) photocenter as a member of the Ru-tpphz-Pt family. Consequently, it features a single acceptor tpphz ligand and so-called unidirectional electron transfer, <i>i. e</i>., electron transfer without co-occurring transfer to peripheral ligands, from the excited state. Thus – and in contrast to recently used peripheral ligands – the new spectator ligands do not disrupt electron transfer towards the catalytic center. By comparison to known systems, this facilitates unprecedented insight into the importance of electron transfer from the bridge to the catalytic center moving towards more rational design of oligonuclear photocatalysts.</p>","PeriodicalId":100234,"journal":{"name":"ChemistryEurope","volume":"2 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ceur.202300084","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemistryEuropePub Date : 2024-10-10DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202400052
Mirai Komabayashi, Dr. Stefan Jopp
{"title":"Glucose-based Ionic Liquid Organocatalysts for Asymmetric aza-Diels-Alder Reactions","authors":"Mirai Komabayashi, Dr. Stefan Jopp","doi":"10.1002/ceur.202400052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.202400052","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Carbohydrate-based ionic liquids and salts (CHILS) have recently emerged as an uprising sub-class of ionic liquids. Their starting materials are available in abundant natural resources from plants and fauna. Carbohydrates are not only sustainable; they also exhibit natural chirality. To use this, novel glucosyl imidazolium NTf<sub>2</sub> ionic liquids were synthesized and applied as organocatalysts in aza-Diels-Alder reactions in this work, where we used aldimines and Danishefsky's diene as substrates. We investigated the structure-activity relationships of these glucosyl imidazolium NTf<sub>2</sub> organocatalysts through several functionalizations on the carbohydrate and the imidazole and compared them with common metal catalysts and ionic liquids. Our organocatalysts improved the yield of the model aza-Diels-Alder reaction highly and also had a positive effect on the overall diastereomeric excess.</p>","PeriodicalId":100234,"journal":{"name":"ChemistryEurope","volume":"2 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ceur.202400052","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemistryEuropePub Date : 2024-10-10DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202400053
Yue Liu, Dr. Takashi Okazoe, Dr. Tim Gatzenmeier, Prof. Dr. Kyoko Nozaki
{"title":"Pd-Catalyzed Thiotritylation Cross-Coupling of Aryl Bromides and Iodides to Access Sulfur Functional Groups","authors":"Yue Liu, Dr. Takashi Okazoe, Dr. Tim Gatzenmeier, Prof. Dr. Kyoko Nozaki","doi":"10.1002/ceur.202400053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.202400053","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Sulfur-containing functional groups (SFGs) are increasingly important for modern medicinal chemistry and their large structural diversity provides many opportunities for lead optimization. In an effort to simplify the access to the full set of SFGs, we report herein a versatile strategy utilizing (hetero)aryl trityl sulfides (ArSCPh<sub>3</sub>) as the common precursors. We developed a mild and high yielding Pd-catalyzed thiotritylation cross-coupling methodology to afford ArSCPh<sub>3</sub> compounds from (hetero)aryl bromides and iodides. Efficient chemoselective derivatizations provided access to eight different SFGs and sulfur(VI) fluorine exchange (SuFEx) hubs, which open up further downstream derivatizations towards the full set of SFGs. Thereby obtainable sulfur motifs include aryl sulfur pentafluorides (ArSF<sub>5</sub>), aryl tetrafluoro-λ<sup>6</sup>-sulfanyl chlorides (ArSF<sub>4</sub>Cl), aryl sulfonimidoyl fluorides (ArS(O)(NR)F), aryl sulfonyl fluorides (ArSO<sub>2</sub>F), aryl sulfonic acids (ArSO<sub>3</sub>H), and aryl sulfinyl fluorides (ArSOF), which are all valuable functional groups in modern drug discovery.</p>","PeriodicalId":100234,"journal":{"name":"ChemistryEurope","volume":"2 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ceur.202400053","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemistryEuropePub Date : 2024-10-08DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202400025
Ryo Morito, Takayuki Kataoka, Kunio Saito, Prof. Dr. Kohtaro Osakada, Dr. Tomohito Ide, Dr. Yoshitaka Tsuchido, Prof. Dr. Hidetoshi Kawai
{"title":"A Water-Soluble Cycloparaphenylene: Supramolecular Receptor with Visible Fluorescence","authors":"Ryo Morito, Takayuki Kataoka, Kunio Saito, Prof. Dr. Kohtaro Osakada, Dr. Tomohito Ide, Dr. Yoshitaka Tsuchido, Prof. Dr. Hidetoshi Kawai","doi":"10.1002/ceur.202400025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.202400025","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We report the first synthesis of a water-soluble [9]cycloparaphenylene derivative containing three hydrindacene (1,2,3,5,6,7-hexahydro-<i>s</i>-indacene) units with four carboxylates at the 2,6-positions via a macrocyclic gold complex. This crown-shaped macrocyclic compound exhibits remarkable water solubility, of up to 16 mmol L<sup>−1</sup> (2.6 g/100 mL), as well as strong visible fluorescence in water (λ<sub>em</sub>=447 nm, ϕ<sub>F</sub>=0.64, brightness (ϵ×ϕ<sub>F</sub>)=5.1×10<sup>4</sup>). This molecule effectively encapsulates cationic guest compounds, such as methyl viologen dichloride, as indicated by a change in visible fluorescence.</p>","PeriodicalId":100234,"journal":{"name":"ChemistryEurope","volume":"2 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ceur.202400025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemistryEuropePub Date : 2024-09-26DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202480501
Dr. Yikun Zhu, Dr. Zheng Zhou, Dr. Zheng Wei, Dr. Alexandra Tsybizova, Prof. Dr. Renana Gershoni-Poranne, Prof. Dr. Marina A. Petrukhina
{"title":"Front Cover: What a Difference an Electron Makes: Structural Response of Saddle-Shaped Tetraphenylene to One and Two Electron Uptake (ChemistryEurope 5/2024)","authors":"Dr. Yikun Zhu, Dr. Zheng Zhou, Dr. Zheng Wei, Dr. Alexandra Tsybizova, Prof. Dr. Renana Gershoni-Poranne, Prof. Dr. Marina A. Petrukhina","doi":"10.1002/ceur.202480501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.202480501","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>The Front Cover</b> highlights the core transformation that occurs in a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon with a central eight-membered ring (tetrabenzocyclooctatetraene) upon chemical reduction. The dial at the bottom illustrates the controlled addition of charge to the system. In the charge states—neutral, anionic, and dianionic—the eight-membered ring core is highlighted in red, yellow, or green, respectively. These “stoplight” colors emphasize the experimental observations described in the paper, whereby going from the neutral to the monoanionic form results in only a small structural perturbation of the carbon framework, whereas the addition of the second electron triggers the formation of an energetically favorable “butterfly” dianion with a new C−C bond. Thus, the central eight-membered ring is transformed into two fused five-membered rings. More information can be found in the Research Article by R. Gershoni-Poranne, M. A. Petrukhina and co-workers (DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202400055).\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":100234,"journal":{"name":"ChemistryEurope","volume":"2 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ceur.202480501","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142324722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemistryEuropePub Date : 2024-09-19DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202400055
Dr. Yikun Zhu, Dr. Zheng Zhou, Dr. Zheng Wei, Dr. Alexandra Tsybizova, Prof. Dr. Renana Gershoni-Poranne, Prof. Dr. Marina A. Petrukhina
{"title":"What a Difference an Electron Makes: Structural Response of Saddle-Shaped Tetraphenylene to One and Two Electron Uptake","authors":"Dr. Yikun Zhu, Dr. Zheng Zhou, Dr. Zheng Wei, Dr. Alexandra Tsybizova, Prof. Dr. Renana Gershoni-Poranne, Prof. Dr. Marina A. Petrukhina","doi":"10.1002/ceur.202400055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.202400055","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Cyclooctatetraene (COT) and COT<sup>2−</sup> dianion are well-known as archetypical non-aromatic and aromatic systems, respectively. However, despite a wealth of studies the effect of one electron addition to the eight-membered ring remains equivocal. Herein, we report the first stepwise electron addition to tetrabenzo[<i>a</i>,<i>c</i>,<i>e</i>,<i>g</i>]cyclooctatetraene (TBCOT or tetraphenylene), accompanied by isolation and structural characterization of the mono- and doubly-reduced anions. The X-ray crystallographic study reveals only a small asymmetric distortion of the saddle-shaped core upon one electron uptake. In contrast, the doubly-reduced product exhibits a severely twisted conformation, with a new C−C bond separating the COT ring into two fused 5-membered rings. The reversibility of the two-fold reduction and bond rearrangement is demonstrated by NMR spectroscopy. In agreement with experimental results, computational analysis confirms that the reduction-induced core rearrangement requires the addition of the second electron.</p>","PeriodicalId":100234,"journal":{"name":"ChemistryEurope","volume":"2 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ceur.202400055","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142324418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemistryEuropePub Date : 2024-08-30DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202400035
Qilu Zhu, Zhuoying Su, Xinyu Li, Jiaqi Ding, Longkai Zhang, Xin Xiao, Ronghua Zeng, Prof. Junming Nan, Prof. Xiaoxi Zuo
{"title":"Regulate the Uniform Deposition of Lithium Through MgF2/Hydroxypropyl Modified Polyethylene Separator Applied to Lithium Metal Batteries","authors":"Qilu Zhu, Zhuoying Su, Xinyu Li, Jiaqi Ding, Longkai Zhang, Xin Xiao, Ronghua Zeng, Prof. Junming Nan, Prof. Xiaoxi Zuo","doi":"10.1002/ceur.202400035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.202400035","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The uneven growth of lithium dendrites not only compromise the performance of lithium metal batteries, but also has security risks. In this sutudy, double coating with MgF<sub>2</sub> and hydroxypropyl methylcellulose was synthesized on the surface of polyethylene separator through a simple soaking and in-situ chemical precipitation method, achieve the purpose of protecting lithium metal anode. Utilizing the MgF<sub>2</sub>/HPMC@PE separator, the Li||Li symmetric cell was capable of cycling for over 1000 hours with a voltage hysteresis of only 11.4 mV, comparing the voltage hysteresis based on the cell use of PE separator increases rapidly after 200 h. Furthermore, the initial discharge capacity of Li||LiNi<sub>0.6</sub>Co<sub>0.2</sub>Mn<sub>0.2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>(NCM622) is 144.6 mAh g<sup>−1</sup> and the capacity retention is 87.2 % after 200 cycles at 1 C, which is higher than that of the PE separator (135.3 mAh g<sup>−1</sup>, with retention of 74.9 %). All improvements can be credited with the formation of stable solid electrolyte interphase(SEI) film induced by HPMC/MgF<sub>2</sub> double coating, which is reduced the Li nucleation overpotential and ultimately promoted uniform Li deposition. This study provides a simple and effective strategy for improving the cycling performance and safety of lithium metal batteries.</p>","PeriodicalId":100234,"journal":{"name":"ChemistryEurope","volume":"2 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ceur.202400035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142324682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemistryEuropePub Date : 2024-08-20DOI: 10.1002/ceur.202400037
Edward Damer, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Breit
{"title":"Rh-Catalyzed Hydroamination of Allenes: Asymmetric N-Allylation of Amino Acids and Peptides","authors":"Edward Damer, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Breit","doi":"10.1002/ceur.202400037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ceur.202400037","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the growing field of peptidomimetics, there is a constant need for new synthetic methods to generate new bioactive compounds. Herein, we present an atom-economic approach for the branched-selective allylation of aliphatic amine moieties of α-amino acids and small oligopeptides. This Rh-catalyzed hydroamination of allenes with a commercially available ligand forms a new stereocenter, often chemoselectively, in a catalyst-controlled manner, providing high yields and stereoselectivities without the need for an additive. The method is shown to be effective in gram scale without the need for column chromatography for purification, and ready-to-use allylated substrates for solid-phase peptide synthesis can be synthesized in two steps from the products of the catalysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":100234,"journal":{"name":"ChemistryEurope","volume":"2 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ceur.202400037","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142324420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}