{"title":"Supramolecular hydrogelation triggered by a gold catalyst","authors":"Tomoya Yamamoto , Akiko Nakamura , Akari Mukaimine , Katsunori Tanaka","doi":"10.1016/j.tchem.2023.100058","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tchem.2023.100058","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Supramolecular gels formed by self-assembly of low-molecular-weight gelators have been attracting attention as biomaterials. In particular, various triggers for supramolecular hydrogelation, such as enzymatic reactions, have been developed to selectively induce the formation of gels at targeted sites <em>in vivo</em>. However, there are still limitations to the methods for triggering self-assembly, such as the selectivity of hydrogelation at targeted sites. Here, we report the first example of a low-molecular-weight hydrogelator whose gelation is triggered by catalytic amount of transition-metal complexes. This gelator consists of a substrate structure for a ring-closing reaction catalyzed by gold, and this reaction transforms the morphology of fibrils to induce hydrogelation in the presence of peptide additives. This novel trigger for hydrogelation will expand the applicability of a low-molecular-weight gelator <em>in vivo</em> when used with biocompatible metal catalysts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74918,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron chem","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100058"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666951X23000244/pdfft?md5=6872d804de8e5cf9bc4845ce5bf65596&pid=1-s2.0-S2666951X23000244-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139015358","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}
Tetrahedron chemPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100067
Guizhou Yue , Bo Liu
{"title":"The photoinduced electron transfer (PET) reactions of silyl ethers and their application","authors":"Guizhou Yue , Bo Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100067","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Photocatalyzed organic reaction has been greatly developed and applied at the last 20 years, because photochemical synthesis is an efficiently green synthetic strategy, featuring simple operation, high chemical selectivity and low price <em>etc</em>. Meanwhile, organosilicon reagents have been widely used and developed in the field of organic synthesis since they were discovered. Photocatalyzed reactions of organosilicon compounds, especially silyl ethers, have taken advantages of mild condition, good selectivity and atom economy and been performed in synthesizing silicon-containing molecules and carbon skeleton molecules which were difficultly acquired by the traditional approaches. This review mainly introduced the reaction of silyl enol ethers, cyclopropyl silyl ethers, silyl acetals, silyl ethers and ketene silyl acetals via PET triggered by sensitizers/co-sensitizers, photocatalysts, electron donor-acceptor (EDA) complex, no photocatalysts and sensitizers and so on.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74918,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron chem","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100067"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666951X24000068/pdfft?md5=128202f5a0a2eab6a3bfa5ac519f3464&pid=1-s2.0-S2666951X24000068-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139993019","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}
Tetrahedron chemPub Date : 2024-02-22DOI: 10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100064
Luis R. Domingo , Patricia Pérez , Mar Ríos-Gutiérrez , M. José Aurell
{"title":"A molecular electron density theory study of hydrogen bond catalysed polar Diels–Alder reactions of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds","authors":"Luis R. Domingo , Patricia Pérez , Mar Ríos-Gutiérrez , M. José Aurell","doi":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100064","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The hydrogen bond (HB) catalysed Diels-Alder (DA) reactions of acrolein with cyclopentadiene have been investigated within the Molecular Electron Density Theory (MEDT) at the <em>ω</em>B97X-D/6-311G(d,p) computational level. The formation of HBs increases the electrophilicity of these species, suggesting an acceleration of these polar Diels-Alder (P-DA) reactions with forward electron density flux. Formation of one or two HBs with acrolein decreases the activation energies of the HB-catalysed P-DA reactions by 1.7 (methanol) and 4.0 (squaramide) kcal·mol<sup>−1</sup>, with the corresponding DA reactions exhibiting low <em>endo</em> stereoselectivity. These HB-catalysed DA reactions proceed through non-concerted one-step mechanisms via asynchronous transition state structures (TSs). An Interacting Quantum Atoms (IQA) energy partitioning analysis of the TSs indicates that the intra-atomic stabilization of the acrolein framework, coupled with the increase of the global electron density transfer, plays a crucial role in reducing the activation energies of these HB-catalysed DA reactions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74918,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron chem","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100064"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666951X24000032/pdfft?md5=3c45e65bcb0a8c68ae6311981e65b963&pid=1-s2.0-S2666951X24000032-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140290639","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}
Tetrahedron chemPub Date : 2024-02-18DOI: 10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100065
Ibrahim-Ethem Celik , Fabia Mittendorf , Adrián Gómez-Suárez, Stefan F. Kirsch
{"title":"Formal synthesis of bastimolide A using a chiral Horner-Wittig reagent and a bifunctional aldehyde as key building blocks","authors":"Ibrahim-Ethem Celik , Fabia Mittendorf , Adrián Gómez-Suárez, Stefan F. Kirsch","doi":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100065","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100065","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The macrolide bastimolide A represents an attractive synthetic target due to its promising activity against resistant strains of the malaria pathogen plasmodium falciparum. We report a straightforward formal synthesis of bastimolide A using a Horner-Wittig reagent and an aldehyde derived from the same chiral-pool based intermediate as key building blocks.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74918,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron chem","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100065"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666951X24000044/pdfft?md5=1bfdfeaf3a5de169d18058869fa57347&pid=1-s2.0-S2666951X24000044-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139965564","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}
Tetrahedron chemPub Date : 2024-02-17DOI: 10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100066
Showkat Rashid , Waseem I. Lone , Auqib Rashid , Bilal A. Bhat
{"title":"Inverse electron demand Diels-Alder reaction in total synthesis of bioactive natural products","authors":"Showkat Rashid , Waseem I. Lone , Auqib Rashid , Bilal A. Bhat","doi":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100066","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Among the various chemical reactions implemented during the total syntheses, the Inverse Electron Demand Diels-Alder Reaction <strong>(</strong>IEDDAR<strong>)</strong> is one of the crucial transformations utilized in building the complexity of bioactive natural products and drug-like molecules. Keeping in view the growing interest in harnessing the potential of this reaction, an overview of natural products that have been assembled through IEDDAR in the last 13 years (2011–2023) is presented through a selection of around 30 natural product total syntheses. In each case, the synthesis is presented schematically and the crucial IEDDAR step is duly highlighted in color. Additionally, wherever necessary, key structural features, characterization, biogenesis and biological activity attributes of the bioactive natural products are also discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74918,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron chem","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100066"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666951X24000056/pdfft?md5=c0986ea237d2b130b8e461da9e14d2e0&pid=1-s2.0-S2666951X24000056-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139941680","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}
Tetrahedron chemPub Date : 2024-01-23DOI: 10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100063
Magdalena Piringer , Lotte Stockhammer , Lukas Vogl , David Weinzierl , Paul Zebrowski , Mario Waser
{"title":"Enantioselective α-heterofunctionalization reactions of catalytically generated C1-Lewis base enolates","authors":"Magdalena Piringer , Lotte Stockhammer , Lukas Vogl , David Weinzierl , Paul Zebrowski , Mario Waser","doi":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100063","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100063","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Chiral Lewis base (LB) organocatalysis has emerged as a powerful covalent catalysis concept which allows for highly selective asymmetric C–C and C-heteroatom bond formations. Considering significant recent progress in the development of strategies to access α-heterofunctionalized carboxylic acid derivatives under chiral LB catalysis, we wish to summarize the most significant concepts and advances in this field within this mini review now.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74918,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron chem","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100063"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666951X24000020/pdfft?md5=6ceeda1e31c0a2f2f20075a48cde9727&pid=1-s2.0-S2666951X24000020-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139631852","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}
Tetrahedron chemPub Date : 2024-01-19DOI: 10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100062
Sivappa Rasapalli , Yanchang Huang , Vamshikrishna Reddy Sammeta , Reem Alshehry , Fazmina Anver , James A. Golen , Shivasankar Krishnamoorthy , Subhash P. Chavan
{"title":"Diversity oriented total synthesis (DOTS) of pyridoquinazolinone alkaloids and their analogues","authors":"Sivappa Rasapalli , Yanchang Huang , Vamshikrishna Reddy Sammeta , Reem Alshehry , Fazmina Anver , James A. Golen , Shivasankar Krishnamoorthy , Subhash P. Chavan","doi":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100062","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100062","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A short diversity oriented total synthesis (DOTS) of substituted rutaecarpines, homo-luotonins, homo-vasicinone, homo-isaindigotones and homo-vasnetine has been achieved from the key tricyclic intermediate. The [<em>6,6,6</em>] tricyclic ketone, the mackinazolindione, was accessed from simple substrates <em>i.e.,</em> quinazolinone diester obtained from the disubstituted anthranilamide which in turn was prepared from the coupling of amino acid ester and ethyl oxalyl chloride with isatoic anhydride and Dieckmann condensation chemistry.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74918,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron chem","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100062"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666951X24000019/pdfft?md5=a0ccf58e7233d08b39ffd049bf4a7c87&pid=1-s2.0-S2666951X24000019-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139537504","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}
Tetrahedron chemPub Date : 2024-01-14DOI: 10.1016/j.tchem.2023.100055
Richard J.K. Taylor, William P. Unsworth
{"title":"Ynones in dearomative spirocyclisation processes; a review","authors":"Richard J.K. Taylor, William P. Unsworth","doi":"10.1016/j.tchem.2023.100055","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tchem.2023.100055","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This review concentrates on our research into the discovery of novel ynone-based dearomative spirocyclisation processes, whilst placing the new chemistry into the context of existing knowledge. The genesis of the research programme, the development of efficient synthetic routes to prepare the novel natural products spirobacillene A (<strong>1</strong>) and spirobacillene B (<strong>2</strong>), utilised the dearomative spirocyclisation of indole ynones. This stimulated a much wider study to explore the reactivity of ynones in dearomative spirocyclisation processes more generally. Routes to generate a wide range of spirocycles were subsequently developed, with dearomative reactions of ynones tethered to indoles, benzofurans, benzisoxazoles, pyrroles, pyridines, isoquinolines, pyrazines, cyclic ketimines, and anisoles all discussed herein, with these reactions initiated by catalytic Ag(I), Cu(II), Pd(0), visible light and many other reagents. Asymmetric variants of some of the reactions are also discussed, as is further elaboration of the spirocyclic products to give carbazoles, quinolones, polycycles and other useful synthetic building blocks. Finally, applications of the new methodology in natural product synthesis (<em>e.g</em>. spirobacillene A, lasubine II and indolizidine 209D) are described.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74918,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron chem","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100055"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666951X23000219/pdfft?md5=b00a306f15e6e5497d6dca88968ed40d&pid=1-s2.0-S2666951X23000219-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139538358","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}
Tetrahedron chemPub Date : 2023-12-25DOI: 10.1016/j.tchem.2023.100061
F. Medici , V. Chiroli, L. Raimondi , M. Benaglia
{"title":"Latest updates in ElectroPhotoChemical reactions","authors":"F. Medici , V. Chiroli, L. Raimondi , M. Benaglia","doi":"10.1016/j.tchem.2023.100061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tchem.2023.100061","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the last twenty years, electrochemistry and photochemistry have attracted a renewed and still uprising interest in organic synthesis. Two of the most simple and abundant reagents, electrons and photons, became the key players in synthetic chemistry as cornerstones of developing greener and sustainable chemical processes. An interesting strategy that recently emerged is the possibility of merging the two worlds in what is called ElectroPhotoChemistry (EPC). In particular, this review will focus on the most recent contributions in the field. The basic principles of EPC will be presented along with a discussion of the published works of the last few years. Electrophotochemical oxidation/reduction reactions will be discussed, including in this section the transformations of a C–H bond to a C-X (X: heteroatom). In the C–H activation chapter the formation of C–C bond, starting from a C–H bond, will be considered. Finally, the miscellaneous chapter includes examples which do not clearly belong to the previous categories.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74918,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron chem","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100061"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666951X2300027X/pdfft?md5=39901c65a1a77116384777ef9d4b7040&pid=1-s2.0-S2666951X2300027X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139099781","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}
{"title":"Strategic use of crude H2 for the catalytic reduction of carbonyl compounds","authors":"Mahiro Sakuraba , Sensuke Ogoshi , Yoichi Hoshimoto","doi":"10.1016/j.tchem.2023.100059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tchem.2023.100059","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Toward a more efficient use of crude H<sub>2</sub> without its energy-consuming purification and/or composition regulation processes, this study employs gaseous mixtures of H<sub>2</sub>, CO, CO<sub>2</sub>, and CH<sub>4</sub> for the catalytic hydrogenation of aldehydes and ketones in the presence of strategically designed triarylboranes and 4-methyltetrahydropyrane as a greener ethereal solvent. The present results emphasize the unexplored utility of less-toxic main-group catalysis for the catalytic hydrogenation using CO- and CO<sub>2</sub>-rich crude H<sub>2</sub>. This stands in contrast to the well-established transition-metal catalysis that generally requires purified H<sub>2</sub>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74918,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron chem","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100059"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666951X23000256/pdfft?md5=9291e0e755b223e09343781949b74ab3&pid=1-s2.0-S2666951X23000256-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139099782","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}