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Polkaehn J, Thom R, Ehlers P, Villinger A, Langer P. π-Expanded azaullazines: synthesis of quinolino-azaullazines by Povarov reaction and cycloisomerisation. Org Biomol Chem 2024; 22:2027-2042. [PMID: 38353980 DOI: 10.1039/d4ob00091a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/07/2024]
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Doping and extension of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) by simple and efficient synthetic methods is of increased demand for the development of novel and improved organic electronics. Diarylindolizino[6,5,4,3-ija]quinolino[2,3-c][1,6]naphthyridines (quinolino-azaullazines) were prepared by combination of Pd catalyzed cross-coupling with Povarov and cycloisomerisation reactions. The products contain an electron-rich ullazine and an electron-poor quinoline moiety and show intramolecular charge transfer properties that can be tuned by the substitution pattern. The optical properties were studied experimentally and further elaborated by (TD)DFT calculations.
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- Jonas Polkaehn
- Institute of Chemistry, University Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3a, 18059 Rostock, Germany.
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- Institute of Chemistry, University Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3a, 18059 Rostock, Germany.
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- Institute of Chemistry, University Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3a, 18059 Rostock, Germany.
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- Institute of Chemistry, University Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3a, 18059 Rostock, Germany.
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- Institute of Chemistry, University Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3a, 18059 Rostock, Germany.
- Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT) at the University Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 29a, 18059 Rostock, Germany
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Furusho D, Shida N, Hifumi R, Tomita I, Inagi S. Synthesis, Structures, and Aggregation-Induced Emission Properties of Distyrylbenzene Derivatives Containing Fluorine Groups. J Org Chem 2023; 88:14820-14825. [PMID: 37812078 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.3c01718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
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Distyrylbenzene derivatives with substituents on the vinylene moieties have been studied due to interest in their optoelectronic properties. In this study, we focused on distyrylbenzene derivatives with monofluoroolefin structures, expecting intermolecular H-F interactions in the solid state. UV-vis and fluorescence spectra of the obtained compounds were measured and compared with those of unsubstituted distyrylbenzene. The crystal structures of each compound were determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction and Hirshfeld surface analysis to understand the intermolecular contacts.
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- Daisuke Furusho
- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8502, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Life Science, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8502, Japan
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8502, Japan
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8502, Japan
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Kumar GJ, Bogoslavsky B, Debnath S, Bedi A. Effect of Chalcogenophenes on Chiroptical Activity of Twisted Tetracenes: Computational Analysis, Synthesis and Crystal Structure Thereof. Molecules 2023; 28:5074. [PMID: 37446736 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28135074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2023] [Revised: 06/21/2023] [Accepted: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023] Open
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The synthesis of multiply substituted acenes is still a relevant research problem, considering their applications and future potential. Here we present an elegant synthetic protocol to afford tetra-peri-substituted naphthalene and tetracene from their tetrahalo derivatives by a Pd(0)-catalyzed C-C cross-coupling method in a single step. The newly synthesized tetracenes were characterized by NMR, HRMS, UV-vis spectrophotometry, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD). In addition, the first systematic computational study of the effect of chalcogenophenyl substitutions on the chiroptical properties of twistacenes was reported here. The gas phase computational studies using density functional theory (DFT) on a series of chalcogenophene-substituted tetracenes revealed that their chiroptical activity could be systematically increased via the atomistic tuning of peripheral substituents.
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- Gayathri Jothish Kumar
- Department of Chemistry, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai 603203, India
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- Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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- Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai 603203, India
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Dreher M, Dombrowski PM, Tripp MW, Münster N, Koert U, Witte G. Shape control in 2D molecular nanosheets by tuning anisotropic intermolecular interactions and assembly kinetics. Nat Commun 2023; 14:1554. [PMID: 36944658 PMCID: PMC10030871 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37203-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2022] [Accepted: 03/07/2023] [Indexed: 03/23/2023] Open
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Since molecular materials often decompose upon exposure to radiation, lithographic patterning techniques established for inorganic materials are usually not applicable for the fabrication of organic nanostructures. Instead, molecular self-organisation must be utilised to achieve bottom-up growth of desired structures. Here, we demonstrate control over the mesoscopic shape of 2D molecular nanosheets without affecting their nanoscopic molecular packing motif, using molecules that do not form lateral covalent bonds. We show that anisotropic attractive Coulomb forces between partially fluorinated pentacenes lead to the growth of distinctly elongated nanosheets and that the direction of elongation differs between nanosheets that were grown and ones that were fabricated by partial desorption of a complete molecular monolayer. Using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations, we show that lateral intermolecular interactions alone are sufficient to rationalise the different kinetics of structure formation during nanosheet growth and desorption, without inclusion of interactions between the molecules and the supporting MoS2 substrate. By comparison of the behaviour of differently fluorinated molecules, experimentally and computationally, we can identify properties of molecules with regard to interactions and molecular packing motifs that are required for an effective utilisation of the observed effect.
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- Maximilian Dreher
- Department of Physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 35037, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 35037, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 35037, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 35037, Marburg, Germany.
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Bischof D, Radiev Y, Tripp MW, Hofmann PE, Geiger T, Bettinger HF, Koert U, Witte G. Chemical Doping by Fluorination and Its Impact on All Energy Levels of π-Conjugated Systems. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:2551-2557. [PMID: 36877682 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Halogenation of organic molecules causes chemical shifts of C1s core-level binding energies that are commonly used as fingerprints to identify chemical species. Here, we use synchrotron-based X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations to unravel such chemical shifts by examining different partially fluorinated pentacene derivatives. Core-level shifts occur even for carbon atoms distant from the fluorination positions, yielding a continuous shift of about 1.8 eV with increasing degree of fluorination for pentacenes. Since also their LUMO energies shift markedly with the degree of fluorination of the acenes, core-level shifts result in a nearly constant excitation energy of the leading π* resonance as obtained in complementary recorded K-edge X-ray absorption spectra, hence demonstrating that local fluorination affects the entire π-system, including valence and core levels. Our results thus challenge the common picture of characteristic chemical core-level energies as fingerprint signatures of fluorinated π-conjugated molecules.
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- Daniel Bischof
- Fachbereich Physik, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Renthof 7, 35032 Marburg, Germany
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- Fachbereich Physik, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Renthof 7, 35032 Marburg, Germany
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- Fachbereich Chemie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Hans-Meerwein Straße 4, 35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Fachbereich Chemie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Hans-Meerwein Straße 4, 35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Institut für Organische Chemie, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 18, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Institut für Organische Chemie, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 18, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Fachbereich Chemie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Hans-Meerwein Straße 4, 35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Fachbereich Physik, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Renthof 7, 35032 Marburg, Germany
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Berger A, Knak T, Kiffe-Delf AL, Mudrovcic K, Singh V, Njoroge M, Burckhardt BB, Gopalswamy M, Lungerich B, Ackermann L, Gohlke H, Chibale K, Kalscheuer R, Kurz T. Total Synthesis of the Antimycobacterial Natural Product Chlorflavonin and Analogs via a Late-Stage Ruthenium(II)-Catalyzed ortho-C(sp2)-H-Hydroxylation. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2022; 15:ph15080984. [PMID: 36015133 PMCID: PMC9415896 DOI: 10.3390/ph15080984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2022] [Revised: 08/01/2022] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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The continuous, worldwide spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) endanger the World Health Organization’s (WHO) goal to end the global TB pandemic by the year 2035. During the past 50 years, very few new drugs have been approved by medical agencies to treat drug-resistant TB. Therefore, the development of novel antimycobacterial drug candidates to combat the threat of drug-resistant TB is urgent. In this work, we developed and optimized a total synthesis of the antimycobacterial natural flavonoid chlorflavonin by selective ruthenium(II)-catalyzed ortho-C(sp2)-H-hydroxylation of a substituted 3′-methoxyflavonoid skeleton. We extended our methodology to synthesize a small compound library of 14 structural analogs. The new analogs were tested for their antimycobacterial in vitro activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and their cytotoxicity against various human cell lines. The most promising new analog bromflavonin exhibited improved antimycobacterial in vitro activity against the virulent H37Rv strain of Mtb (Minimal Inhibitory Concentrations (MIC90) = 0.78 μm). In addition, we determined the chemical and metabolic stability as well as the pKa values of chlorflavonin and bromflavonin. Furthermore, we established a quantitative structure–activity relationship model using a thermodynamic integration approach. Our computations may be used for suggesting further structural changes to develop improved derivatives.
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- Alexander Berger
- Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany or
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany or
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany or
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- South African Medical Research Council Drug Discovery and Development Research Unit, Department of Chemistry and Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
- Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D), University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
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- Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D), University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
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- Institute of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacotherapy, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany or
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany or
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- Institut für Organische und Biomolekulare Chemie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Tammannstraße 2, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany or
- John-von-Neumann-Institute for Computing (NIC), Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Institute of Biological Information Processing (IBI-7: Structural Biochemistry), and Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-4: Bioinformatics), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52428 Jülich, Germany
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- South African Medical Research Council Drug Discovery and Development Research Unit, Department of Chemistry and Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
- Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D), University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany or
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