Mateusz Klarek, Tim Schäfer, Aleksander Gorski, Natalia Dutkiewicz, Paweł Hikisz, Magdalena Gapińska, Damian Trzybiński, Krzysztof Woźniak, Jens Müller, Konrad M. Kowalski
{"title":"Luminescent click‐pyrenyl nucleosides as novel building blocks for nucleic acids: synthesis, photophysics, confocal microscopy studies and oligonucleotide conjugation","authors":"Mateusz Klarek, Tim Schäfer, Aleksander Gorski, Natalia Dutkiewicz, Paweł Hikisz, Magdalena Gapińska, Damian Trzybiński, Krzysztof Woźniak, Jens Müller, Konrad M. Kowalski","doi":"10.1002/ejoc.202500559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202500559","url":null,"abstract":"We report the synthesis of dinucleoside analogues with a “pyrenyl‐triazole‐N‐(triazole)2” linker substituting the natural phosphodiester linkage. The compounds were obtained stepwise with the copper‐catalyzed Huisgen (3+2) azide alkyne cycloaddition reaction of azidopyrene tripropargylamine, and the respective nucleoside azide. Due to the presence of the pyrenyl entity, compounds show unimolecular (in diluted solutions) or excimer (at higher concentrations and in the solid state) emission. Luminescence allowed to track their spatial distribution inside living MCF‐7 cells by using confocal microscopy. The compounds showed am affinity to lipid membranes and localize in a form of granules or larger aggregates in the area of the cytosol including, in particular, the perinuclear region. Representative nucleoside was appended to the 5’‐terminus of the deoxyribonucleotide 5’‐d(TTT CTT TCC CTC)‐3’. The resulting conjugate forms stable B‐type DNA duplex with complementary oligonucleotide.","PeriodicalId":167,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Organic Chemistry","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144268589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Timo A. Zschau, Kathin Bensberg, Cedric Meysing, Nofisa Lamuadni, Adrián Gómez Suárez, Stefan F Kirsch
{"title":"Upcycling Food Waste: Ursolic Acid as Sustainable Feedstock","authors":"Timo A. Zschau, Kathin Bensberg, Cedric Meysing, Nofisa Lamuadni, Adrián Gómez Suárez, Stefan F Kirsch","doi":"10.1002/ejoc.202500422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202500422","url":null,"abstract":"Herein, we present a sustainable strategy to access the ursane class of natural products. Our complexity-controlling synthesis (CCS) approach employs ursolic acid – readily obtained from apple pomace, a waste product of apple juice production – as sustainable feedstock to access 24 natural products of the ursane family in short synthetic sequences (1–12 steps) and good yields (up to 98%).","PeriodicalId":167,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Organic Chemistry","volume":"257 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144260782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jin-Kui Liu, Jiayu Niu, Bo Zhang, Xiuge Hao, Mao-Ping Song, Hui Jiang, Jun-Fang Gong
{"title":"Catalytic Behavior of Cobalt Complexes Bearing Imine‐Pyridine‐Oxazoline Ligands in Isoprene Polymerization","authors":"Jin-Kui Liu, Jiayu Niu, Bo Zhang, Xiuge Hao, Mao-Ping Song, Hui Jiang, Jun-Fang Gong","doi":"10.1002/ejoc.202500471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202500471","url":null,"abstract":"A series of cobalt complexes bearing imine‐pyridine‐oxazoline ligands were successfully synthesized and characterized. Upon activation with diethylaluminum chloride (AlEt2Cl), these cobalt complexes exhibited high catalytic activity in isoprene polymerization and provided cis‐1,4‐co‐3,4 polyisoprene (cis‐1,4/3,4 ≈ 2:1). Among them, a complex featuring a diphenylmethyl substituent, demonstrated the highest thermal stability, maintaining a catalytic activity of up to 1.06×105 g·mol‐1·h‐1 at 70 °C. Single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction analysis showed that this complex adopted a trigonal bipyramidal configuration via N,N,N‐tridentate coordination to cobalt center. Both the ligand architecture and the polymerization temperature were found to play critical roles in determining the catalytic performance and the structural properties of the resulting polymers. Furthermore, the influence of various polymerization parameters on catalytic activity and selectivity was systematically investigated.","PeriodicalId":167,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Organic Chemistry","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144260159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Safomuddin Abduahadi, Emmanuel Mintah Bonku, Fuqiang Zhu, Feipu Yang, Samuel Desta Guma, Zayniddin Nuriddinov, Hongjian Qin, Jingshan Shen
{"title":"An Efficient Asymmetric Synthesis of Finerenone via Evans' Chiral Auxiliary","authors":"Safomuddin Abduahadi, Emmanuel Mintah Bonku, Fuqiang Zhu, Feipu Yang, Samuel Desta Guma, Zayniddin Nuriddinov, Hongjian Qin, Jingshan Shen","doi":"10.1002/ejoc.202500538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202500538","url":null,"abstract":"This article reports a new application of Evans' chiral auxiliary for an efficient asymmetric synthesis of finerenone. This new application successfully achieves the key step of stereoselective construction of the naphthyridine core of finerenone, with a high diastereomeric ratio (dr 86:14) and an 80% yield of the desired product via Evans’ chiral (R)-4-benzyl-2-oxazolidinone. The downstream transamidation of ethyl ester, with ammonia, leads to the formation of finerenone.","PeriodicalId":167,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Organic Chemistry","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144260784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chengyang Tian, Yu Xing, Jiajian Guo, Ningyi Lu, Lei Cui, Chunju Li, Jian Li
{"title":"Selective Synthesis of Furan-3(2H)-one Fused Seven, Eight, or Nine-Membered Ring from the Reaction of Diynone and Cyclic β-Keto Ester","authors":"Chengyang Tian, Yu Xing, Jiajian Guo, Ningyi Lu, Lei Cui, Chunju Li, Jian Li","doi":"10.1002/ejoc.202500534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202500534","url":null,"abstract":"A domino reaction of diynone and cyclic β-keto ester has been disclosed. This reaction provides a new strategy for the synthesis of a series of furan-3(2H)one fused seven-, eight-, or nine-membered ring with good stereoselectivity and atom economy.","PeriodicalId":167,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Organic Chemistry","volume":"170 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144260833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Antonia Iazzetti, Marco Chiarini, Giancarlo Fabrizi, Yuri Gazzilli, Antonella Goggiamani, Federico Marrone, Andrea Serafini, Karim Ullah
{"title":"Assembly of 1,2,3‐Triazole‐Fused Polycyclic Compounds by Palladium‐Catalyzed C–H Bond Activation","authors":"Antonia Iazzetti, Marco Chiarini, Giancarlo Fabrizi, Yuri Gazzilli, Antonella Goggiamani, Federico Marrone, Andrea Serafini, Karim Ullah","doi":"10.1002/ejoc.202500459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202500459","url":null,"abstract":"A palladium‐catalyzed protocol for the synthesis of 1,2,3‐triazole‐fused heterocycles, such as 1,4,5,6‐tetrahydrobenzo[c][1,2,3]triazolo[4,5‐e]azepines and 4,6‐dihydro‐1H‐benzo[5,6]oxepino[3,4‐d][1,2,3]triazoles, is reported. The method was found to be versatile, high‐yielding, and even suitable for domino and one‐pot sequential protocols combining the copper‐catalyzed reaction of alkynes and organic azides (CuAAC) with palladium‐catalyzed C–H bond activation. A plausible reaction mechanism is proposed.","PeriodicalId":167,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Organic Chemistry","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144237109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Haotian Lv, Yinuo Zhu, Feng Han, Li Guo, Nan Lu, Yuanhong Zhang, Chengxia Miao
{"title":"Metal‐Free Catalytic Access to Indanes via Intermolecular Cyclization from Internal Olefins/Ethers and Mechanism Study","authors":"Haotian Lv, Yinuo Zhu, Feng Han, Li Guo, Nan Lu, Yuanhong Zhang, Chengxia Miao","doi":"10.1002/ejoc.202500063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202500063","url":null,"abstract":"A green and sustainable protocol has been developed for metal‐free synthesis of substituted indanes through Brønsted acid‐catalyzed intermolecular cyclization. Employing the acidic ionic liquid [BsPy][OTf] as a catalyst, this methodology achieved good selectivities to synthesize substituted indanes through intermolecular cyclization of benzyl ethers and internal olefins while eliminating metallic reagents, halogens, and post‐reaction neutralization steps. Moreover, the acidity of ionic liquids was one of the significant factors affecting the yield and the selectivity. [BsPy][OTf] exhibited good selectivity and activity, and also had excellent recyclability. Controlling experiments revealed a carbocation‐mediated pathway. DFT calculation indicated that the selectivity of indane as cyclization product is supported by both thermodynamics and kinetics catalyzed by [BsPy][OTf], and the product is determined to be substituted olefin controlled by kinetics using [MeBs(dio)TMP][OTf] as the catalyst. Moreover, the distance of C1⋯C5 to construct the indane ring is shorter and more readily to occur via cyclization path in [BsPy][OTf]‐catalyzed system compared with that of [MeBs(dio)TMP][OTf].","PeriodicalId":167,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Organic Chemistry","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144237110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amol B. Kirwale, Rajesh T. Bhawale, Umesh A. Kshirsagar
{"title":"Visible‐light‐Mediated Dual Catalytic Spiro Annulation of 2‐Aryl Quinazolin‐4(3H)‐ones with N‐Substituted Maleimides","authors":"Amol B. Kirwale, Rajesh T. Bhawale, Umesh A. Kshirsagar","doi":"10.1002/ejoc.202500462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202500462","url":null,"abstract":"Visible light‐induced, dehydrogenative spiro annulation of 2‐aryl quinazolin‐4(3H)‐ones with maleimides has been achieved at ambient condition by merging Rh(III)‐catalysis with photo‐redox catalysis. Various spiro‐cyclized quinazolinone derivatives were synthesised with a broad substrate scope in up to 92% yields at room temperature. A further mechanistic study involving control experiments, UV spectroscopy, light on‐off experiments, kinetic isotope effect (KIE) study, H/D labelling study, and hydrogen peroxide detection tests has been explored. The present methodology was demonstrated to be effective for scale‐up synthesis, enabling the efficient generation of the spirocyclic product.","PeriodicalId":167,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Organic Chemistry","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144228674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Homogeneous Catalyst for the Synthesis of 3,3′‐bis(indolyl)methanes (BIMs): Collective Synthesis of Arundine, Turbomycin B, Arsindoline A and Tris(1H‐indol‐3‐yl)methane*","authors":"Chibisree Elanchezhian, Diksha Bansal, Ghanashyam Sivaprasad, Mrinal Kanti Das, Saikat Chaudhuri","doi":"10.1002/ejoc.202500396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202500396","url":null,"abstract":"An environmentally friendly, cost‐effective, and efficient method for synthesizing 3,3′‐bis(indolyl)methanes (BIMs) and their derivatives was developed through an electrophilic substitution reaction of indole with various aldehydes. This reaction was catalyzed by DABCO(TfOH)₂ a homogeneous catalyst with HFIP serving as solvent. The process, performed exclusively in DABCO(TfOH)₂, demonstrated excellent catalytic activity, yielding high product amounts (84‐98%) and showing broad functional group compatibility, which enabled the efficient synthesis of both natural alkaloids and BIM derivatives. Interstingly, we successfully synthesized the natural alkaloids to enhance the diversity of the compound library. mechanistic studies highlight a delicate balance between fluorinated solvent, catalyst and sunstrate as essential for achieving nature’s approach to selective cyclization in organic synthesis.","PeriodicalId":167,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Organic Chemistry","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144237114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visible‐Light‐Induced Singlet‐Oxygen‐Mediated Synthesis of Substituted Benzo[c]chromeno[4,3,2‐gh]phenanthridines","authors":"Mukesh Kumar, Sabina Yashmin, Diptajit Kumar Das, Kalishankar Bhattacharyya, Abu Taleb Khan","doi":"10.1002/ejoc.202500473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202500473","url":null,"abstract":"Visible‐light‐promoted environmentally benign synthesis of various 9‐alkylbenzo[c]chromeno[4,3,2‐gh]phenanthridine derivatives in the presence of 5 mol % disodium salt of eosin Y (EY) as photocatalyst is reported from 2‐(7,8,9,10‐tetrahydrobenzo[c]phe‐nanthridin‐6‐yl) phenol derivatives, which were prepared through a three‐component reaction. In the present protocol, EY photosensitized singlet oxygen (¹O₂) promotes intramolecular cyclization through an oxidative hetero cross‐coupling reaction, followed by aromatization to provide the final product in a single step, which has not been reported earlier. The mechanism of the reaction was established through DFT calculation and by trapping of the oxygen radical intermediate A with BHT, which was confirmed through 1H, 13C NMR spectra and HRMS. This process forms the highly fused hexacyclic heteroaromatics without requiring any metal catalyst or dehydrogenating agent. This intramolecular photocyclization, through the triplet energy transfer (EnT) process, is a fascinating example of the oxidative coupling reaction via distal sp3‐C‐H.","PeriodicalId":167,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Organic Chemistry","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144237108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}