Mawgan U Main, Dominic Taylor, Leonardo Amicosante, John M Tobin, Callum M S Jones, Jose Marques-Hueso, Laura J McCormick McPherson, Simon J Teat, David Ellis, Martin J Paterson, Filipe Vilela, Scott J Dalgarno
{"title":"Host Cavities Enhance the Photocatalytic Conversion of α-Terpinene to Ascaridole Under Visible-Light Irradiation.","authors":"Mawgan U Main, Dominic Taylor, Leonardo Amicosante, John M Tobin, Callum M S Jones, Jose Marques-Hueso, Laura J McCormick McPherson, Simon J Teat, David Ellis, Martin J Paterson, Filipe Vilela, Scott J Dalgarno","doi":"10.1002/chem.202502113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202502113","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>BODIPY-functionalized host molecules have been used as effective visible-light photosensitizers in the conversion of α-terpinene to ascaridole in the presence of molecular oxygen. Host-guest interactions enhance the effective local concentration of the substrate and singlet oxygen generated by the photosensitizing host. This results in up to a 28-fold increase in the rate of conversion depending on the host employed. A tetramethyl BODIPY analogue, in which guest access to the host cavity is blocked, was also employed to confirm that the cavities do indeed enhance substrate turnover. Whilst the latter photocatalyst is more efficient due to the suppression of nonradiative relaxation pathways associated with rotation of the meso-phenyl substituent, the rate enhancement induced by host-guest binding is not present. Combined, this provides insight for the future design of enhanced systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":144,"journal":{"name":"Chemistry - A European Journal","volume":" ","pages":"e02113"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144937064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Corinna Girschik, Saskia Rathjen, Lina Möllmann, Gülsera Eruçar, Marc Schmidtmann, Thomas Müller
{"title":"Rational Design of Cationic Silyl Lewis Acids.","authors":"Corinna Girschik, Saskia Rathjen, Lina Möllmann, Gülsera Eruçar, Marc Schmidtmann, Thomas Müller","doi":"10.1002/chem.202502431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202502431","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The synthesis of a series of selanyl-stabilized cationic silyl Lewis acids with naphthalene or acenaphthalene scaffolds is described. The influence of scaffold modifications, substitution variations at the selanyl donor and at the silicon atom on the strengths of the silyl Lewis acid is evaluated using the p-fluorobenzonitrile (FBN) method. These simple variations of the principal structure allow to adjust the Lewis acidity of the cationic silyl Lewis acids from weak ones to examples that are significantly stronger than tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane (BCF). The solid-state structure of the cationic FBN complex [11(FBN)]<sup>+</sup> with an acenaphthene backbone and a pentafluorophenylselanyl donor provides evidence for the penta-coordination of the silicon atom in this complex, in agreement with the results of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies in solution. Finally, this study suggests that the FBN method is well suited to assess even very subtle differences in the strength of Lewis acids.</p>","PeriodicalId":144,"journal":{"name":"Chemistry - A European Journal","volume":" ","pages":"e02431"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144937060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Unusual Activity of Conformationally Restricted Naphthalene Peri-Dichalcogenides in the Reduction of Nitro and Azide Groups.","authors":"Debasish Giri, Ekta Chauhan, Sourav Das, Govindasamy Mugesh","doi":"10.1002/chem.202502017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202502017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rigid and conformationally restricted dichalcogenides based on 1,8-naphthyl system have attracted significant interest as electron donors in charge transfer complexes and organic electrode materials. Recently, naphthalene-1,8-peri-diselenides have been shown to mimic the function of two major selenoenzymes - iodothyronine deiodinase (Dio) and glutathione peroxidase (GPx) - mainly through two-electron redox processes involving deiodination of thyroid hormones and thiol-mediated reduction of hydrogen peroxide, respectively. Herein, we report that naphthalene-1,8-peri-dichalcogenides can mediate a six-electron reduction of organic nitro compounds to produce the corresponding primary amines at physiologically relevant temperature (37 °C) using water as the solvent. The stepwise reduction process is highly dependent on the nature of the chalcogen atom present at the peri-positions of the naphthyl ring. While no reduction was observed with the disulfide, the selenenyl sulfide mediated a four-electron reduction of the nitro group to the corresponding hydroxylamine. The diselenide and ditelluride reduced the nitro groups all the way to amines through six-electron transfer. The diselenides also mediated the reduction of various aromatic azides to the corresponding primary amines.</p>","PeriodicalId":144,"journal":{"name":"Chemistry - A European Journal","volume":" ","pages":"e02017"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144937128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anton Hlavin, Vadym Dudko, Andrii Malashchuk, Ihor Komarov, Vasyl Pivovarenko
{"title":"New ESIPT-Dyes of Record Capacity to Fluorescence Detection of H-Bond Donor and Acceptor Molecules, Including Local Water Concentration.","authors":"Anton Hlavin, Vadym Dudko, Andrii Malashchuk, Ihor Komarov, Vasyl Pivovarenko","doi":"10.1002/chem.202502388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202502388","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>5-Substituted 3-hydroxychromones (3-HCs) are challenging to synthesize but are of significant interest as fluorescent labels. This is primarily due to the pronounced modulation of their fluorescence by surrounding molecules, a consequence of the 5-substituent's proximity to the negative pole of the molecular dipole. The newly synthesized derivatives of 3-hydroxy-2-(4-methoxyphenyl)-4-oxo-4H-chromene-5-carboxylic acid exhibit unique fluorescence behaviors. Their color of emission is highly sensitive to the solvation environment and is strongly influenced by the nature of the functional group introduced at position 5. Notably, the fluorescence of acid demonstrates inhibition of ESIPT (excited-state intramolecular proton transfer) in both neutral and H-bond donor solvents, a phenomenon not previously observed in 3-HCs. Furthermore, investigated dye stands out as the first 3-HC compound whose fluorescence responds to the H-bond acceptor capacity of the environment, particularly in mildly acidic conditions (below pH 6). In contrast, methyl ester and glycine amide of key acid are responsive to the H-bond donor properties of their surroundings-a feature especially relevant in biological systems, where local water concentration plays a critical role. Thus, the derivatives such as N-terminal or lysine-labeled peptides incorporating these dyes can serve as valuable tools for investigating peptide-DNA, peptide-lipid, and other biomolecular interactions for the selected location of peptide.</p>","PeriodicalId":144,"journal":{"name":"Chemistry - A European Journal","volume":" ","pages":"e02388"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144937030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Strategic Advance from Pincer Complexes to Hexadentate-Co(III) Catalyst for Metal-Ligand Cooperative Activation of Primary Alcohols to Access Highly Functionalized Pyrimidines.","authors":"Prashant Kukreti, Yutaka Hitomi, Kaushik Ghosh","doi":"10.1002/chem.202502258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202502258","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this report, we present a sustainable, eco-friendly, practical, and cost-effective one-pot three-component reaction for the synthesis of a diverse library of highly substituted pyrimidines from amidines, primary alcohols, and aromatic ketones, catalyzed by a cobalt(III) complex. The well-defined cobalt(III) complex [Co(III)BPMAP-O]ClO<sub>4</sub> is derived from a redox-active phosphine-free, pentadentate mono-carboxamide ligand (BPMAP-H), and is formed in situ from various cobalt(II) sources, including CoCl<sub>2</sub>·6H<sub>2</sub>O, CoBr<sub>2</sub>, Co(NO<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>·6H<sub>2</sub>O, Co(OAc)<sub>2</sub>·4H<sub>2</sub>O via oxygen activation. Using aromatic ketones and benzyl alcohols, a wide range of 2,4,6-trisubstituted pyrimidines (TriPym) and 2,4,5,6-tetrasubstituted pyrimidines (TetraPym) were synthesized (119 examples) in isolated yields of up to 93%. The catalytic system is also applicable to aliphatic ketones and aliphatic primary alcohols, affording 31 additional examples with yields of up to 92%. Control experiments and DFT calculations support a plausible mechanism involving dehydrogenation of the alcohols through a metal-ligand cooperative pathway.</p>","PeriodicalId":144,"journal":{"name":"Chemistry - A European Journal","volume":" ","pages":"e02258"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144937120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lars Vogelsang, Muhammad Irfan Haider, Kai Vogelsang, Tobias Seewald, Azhar Fakharuddin, Niklas Bauch, Gabriel Maier, Katharina L Deuter, Tobias Birk, Mikhail Fonin, Lukas Schmidt-Mende, Rainer F Winter
{"title":"A Bichromophoric Triazatruxene Tetrad as a Highly Tunable Multicolor Emitter and Its Application in OLEDs.","authors":"Lars Vogelsang, Muhammad Irfan Haider, Kai Vogelsang, Tobias Seewald, Azhar Fakharuddin, Niklas Bauch, Gabriel Maier, Katharina L Deuter, Tobias Birk, Mikhail Fonin, Lukas Schmidt-Mende, Rainer F Winter","doi":"10.1002/chem.202501992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202501992","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We report on the new star-shaped triazatruxene (TAT) tetrad 1, where three peripheral TAT moieties connect to a central TAT through propargylic spacers. The insulating nature of the linkers results in separate, partially overlapping blue and yellow-orange emissions from the peripheral and central TATs. This renders 1 a multicolor emitter, whose emission color can be tuned by the choice of the excitation wavelength and the solvent. In frozen solution, dual fluorescence emission from the two different types of TATs is complemented by dual phosphorescence with radiative lifetimes in the range of seconds. Organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) constructed with 1 as the emissive layer achieved a peak irradiance of 5.87 µW/nm/m<sup>2</sup> at 580 nm at an operation voltage of 6.7 V. Remarkably, the emission color of the electroluminescence can be varied from yellow over different hues of orange to red or even to near infrared (NIR) emission, depending on the applied voltage. Tetrad 1 is also redox-active, indicating that 1 may simultaneously serve as a hole conductor and emitter. Its oxidized forms are panchromatic absorbers from the near UV to the NIR due to intra- and inter-TAT charge-transfer (CT) absorptions.</p>","PeriodicalId":144,"journal":{"name":"Chemistry - A European Journal","volume":" ","pages":"e01992"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144937090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zuzanna Bieńkowska, Ijaz Khan, Magdalena Skompska, Katarzyna Rybicka-Jasińska
{"title":"Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Transformations of Thioamides.","authors":"Zuzanna Bieńkowska, Ijaz Khan, Magdalena Skompska, Katarzyna Rybicka-Jasińska","doi":"10.1002/chem.202502278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202502278","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pursuing innovative and environmentally friendly synthetic strategies is always a desirable goal in organic synthesis, and thus, we have developed green and sustainable electrochemical (EC) and photoelectrochemical (iPEC) transformations of thioamides into amides. The established EC protocol is inexpensive, mild, and metal- and catalyst-free. iPEC cells are extensively studied for solar energy conversion, but their application in synthesizing high-value organic molecules has been limited. Here, we describe a strategy to use BiVO<sub>4</sub>, an abundant and robust photoanode, for the desulfurization of thioamides. Under light irradiation, the photogenerated holes in BiVO<sub>4</sub> oxidize thioamides to radical cations, which further react with the oxygen radical anion to produce amides. The proposed iPEC strategy presents a high promise for green organic chemical transformations with the goal of maximizing not only the atom economy but also the energy efficiency.</p>","PeriodicalId":144,"journal":{"name":"Chemistry - A European Journal","volume":" ","pages":"e02278"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144937167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Villads R M Nielsen, Charlie H Simms, Daniel Kovacs, Matthew F Allen, Matthew J Langton, Stephen Faulkner, Thomas Just Sørensen
{"title":"Speciation and Luminescence of a Binuclear Lanthanide Complex Bearing an Aminophenolate Chromophore.","authors":"Villads R M Nielsen, Charlie H Simms, Daniel Kovacs, Matthew F Allen, Matthew J Langton, Stephen Faulkner, Thomas Just Sørensen","doi":"10.1002/chem.202502305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202502305","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lanthanide(III) complexes show diverse speciation in solution. Here, the photophysical properties and speciation in solution of binuclear lanthanide complexes bearing an aminophenolate chromophore that reversibly bind to both metal centers were determined. The aminophenolate can reversibly bind to both lanthanide ions in a pH dependent manner. Above pH 3 the phenolate moiety remains deprotonated and the lanthanide complexes exhibit very high kinetic stability, however, protonation of the amino group modulates the luminescence intensity without changing the luminescence lifetime of the lanthanide. Below pH 3, protonation of the phenol results in a flexible, open structure, leading to reversible demetallation of the lanthanide complex as the system comes under thermodynamic control. This study highlights the importance of a detailed understanding of both the speciation and pH responsive behavior of highly luminescent binuclear lanthanide complexes for their development as responsive probes. These results confirm the promise of phenolate derived binuclear complexes as highly luminescent responsive probes, modulated by changes in pH.</p>","PeriodicalId":144,"journal":{"name":"Chemistry - A European Journal","volume":" ","pages":"e02305"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144937033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Important Role of the Polarization Effect in Cationic Hypervalent Chalcogen Bonds Catalysis.","authors":"Yanjiang Wang, Wen-Kai Chen, Yanli Zeng","doi":"10.1002/chem.202502391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202502391","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Chalcogen bond (ChB) catalysts have recently garnered considerable attention in the field of organocatalysis owing to their advantages of nontoxicity, environmental sustainability, extensive applicability, affordability, and remarkable reactivity. In this work, the Se- and Te-based cationic hypervalent ChB catalysis on the bromolactonization reaction of N-Bromosuccinimide (NBS) with 4-pentenoic acid is investigated by high-level density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The ChB-catalyzed bromolactonization reaction has an intricate process involving bromine transfer, cyclization, and proton transfer. Moreover, the bromine transfer process is identified as the rate-determining step with the highest Gibbs free energy barrier. The increase in the size of the central atom in the ChB catalysts and the enhancement of electron-withdrawing capabilities with greater dipole moments of substitutions on the catalysts provide larger σ-holes with stronger polarization effects, resulting in stronger ChB interactions with the reactant, thus lowering the reaction barrier. From a kinetic perspective, different electron-withdrawing groups on the catalyst can be used to regulate the reaction rate, leading to better experimental outcomes. These findings demonstrate the important roles of polarization effects in cationic hypervalent chalcogen bonds catalysis and provide a theoretical foundation for the development of novel environmentally friendly and efficient hypervalent ChB catalysts.</p>","PeriodicalId":144,"journal":{"name":"Chemistry - A European Journal","volume":" ","pages":"e02391"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144937116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
János T Csenki, Dóra F Englert, Dániel Steinsits, Péter P Fehér, András Stirling, Zoltán Novák
{"title":"Acidity Controlled Formal Nucleophilic Substitution of Hydrofluoroolefin-based Iodonium Salt with O-nucleophiles: Synthetic Application and Mechanistic Study.","authors":"János T Csenki, Dóra F Englert, Dániel Steinsits, Péter P Fehér, András Stirling, Zoltán Novák","doi":"10.1002/chem.202502254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202502254","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The development and mechanistic investigation of a novel O-fluoroalkylation of phenol derivatives using a hypervalent fluoroalkyliodonium salt, derived from hydrofluoroolefin gas (HFO-1234yf) as bulk fluorous feedstock, is reported. Optimization of the reaction conditions enabled versatile and efficient synthetic applications, and the synthetic study revealed phenol acidity-dependent selectivity of the O-fluoroalkylation process. The mechanistic behavior of phenols was supported by both experimental studies and DFT calculations. As a result, we showed that more acidic phenols (pKa < 5) undergo direct O-alkylation, while reactions of the fluoroalkyliodonium salt involving less acidic phenol substrates proceed via a base-assisted chloride elimination and substitution pathway. Deuterium-labeling and halide competition experiments further validated the proposed mechanism. This practical and scalable method provides access to structurally diverse fluoroalkyl ethers and holds significant potential for applications in medicinal and materials chemistry.</p>","PeriodicalId":144,"journal":{"name":"Chemistry - A European Journal","volume":" ","pages":"e02254"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144937111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}