Inline purification in continuous flow synthesis – opportunities and challenges

• Jorge García-Lacuna and
• Marcus Baumann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1720–1740, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.182

• exploited to achieve effective and reliable flow processes. This perspective article summarizes recent applications of different inline purification techniques such as chromatography, extractions, and crystallization from academic and industrial laboratories. A discussion of the advantages and drawbacks of

• stationary phases is simulated by periodically shifting the two inlet and outlet ports in the direction of the mobile phase flow after a certain time. This technique was also applied to isolate artemisinin from a continuously produced reaction mixture. However, an offline crystallization had to be added to

• , this strategy is attractive for rapid small-scale syntheses of such scaffolds and the optimization of the used solvents can broaden the uptake of this strategy. Inline precipitation and crystallization One of the most widely acknowledged challenges within the field of flow chemistry is the necessity to

Design, synthesis, and evaluation of chiral thiophosphorus acids as organocatalysts

• Karen R. Winters and
• Jean-Luc Montchamp

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1471–1478, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.154

• intermediates 13a and 13b, respectively. Next, conversion of ethyl phosphinate 13 into phosphinamide 14 was accomplished uneventfully [38] with inexpensive (S)-1-phenylethylamine (15 $/mol) as the chiral element. A single diastereoisomer of phosphinamide 14b was easily obtained by crystallization in 20% yield

• obtained in moderate yield. Crystallization gave a single diastereoisomer in 20% yield. Stec reaction [38][39][40] finally gave the desired CPA 4. Although the entire sequence proceeded in only 6% overall yield, it was conducted on a multigram-scale so that more than 0.4 g of 4 was obtained. Evaluation of

• accomplished easily, either by chromatography over silica gel or crystallization. Subsequent Stec reaction proved to be a reliable method to convert the resolved amide into the chiral thiophosphorus acids. The CPAs synthesized clearly failed to induce any significant asymmetry. It is interesting to note

Derivatives of benzo-1,4-thiazine-3-carboxylic acid and the corresponding amino acid conjugates

• Péter Kisszékelyi,
• Tibor Peňaška,
• Klára Stankovianska,
• Mária Mečiarová and
• Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1195–1202, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.124

• decomposed in solution. During the preparation of 10ac, dimers 11a and 11b were also detected in most experiments (TLC analysis), and they could be isolated by crystallization from MeOH or hexane. Performing the reaction in the dark with freshly degassed ethanol at lower temperature did bring about somewhat

Facile and diastereoselective arylation of the privileged 1,4-dihydroisoquinolin-3(2H)-one scaffold

• Dmitry Dar’in,
• Grigory Kantin,
• Alexander Bunev and
• Mikhail Krasavin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1070–1078, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.109

• anticancer cytotoxic agents. Diverse bioactive compounds based on the privileged 1,4-DHIQ scaffold. Strategy investigated in this work. Preparation of 3(2H)-isoquinolones 11. aObtained as a 10:1 mixture of regioisomers; purified by crystallization. bEmployed in the next step without purification (not

On Reuben G. Jones synthesis of 2-hydroxypyrazines

• Pierre Legrand and
• Yves L. Janin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 935–943, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.93

• set up to run chromatography at 60 °C, a description of the crystallization, data collection, for the structural determination of compound 4{1,2} as well as copies of the 1H and 13C NMR spectra of all compounds described. Acknowledgements We thank Dr. Ahmed Haouz of the PF6 core facility of the

Inductive heating and flow chemistry – a perfect synergy of emerging enabling technologies

• Conrad Kuhwald,
• Sibel Türkhan and
• Andreas Kirschning

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 688–706, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.70

• was then mixed with a 1 M HCl solution in iPrOH that initiated crystallization of the hydrochloride salt of amitryptiline (84) (Scheme 15). Iso E Super® (88) [89] is one of the most successful synthetic fragrances ever developed [90]. It is a component of a variety of perfumes with varying ratios and

The asymmetric Henry reaction as synthetic tool for the preparation of the drugs linezolid and rivaroxaban

• Martin Vrbický,
• Karel Macek,
• Jaroslav Pochobradský,
• Jan Svoboda,
• Miloš Sedlák and
• Pavel Drabina

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 438–445, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.46

• /waxy solid material, what made the attempts of recrystallization impossible. On the other hand, the corresponding amides 27 and 28 were obtained as fine crystalline solids. Their crystallization was successfully performed from several solvents. However, the de values of the isolated recrystallized

Trichloroacetic acid fueled practical amine purifications

• Aleena Thomas,
• Baptiste Gasch,
• Enzo Olivieri and
• Adrien Quintard

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 225–231, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.26

• this mixture dissolved in EtOAc, precipitation of the amine salt enabled the removal of naphthalene in the solvent. Beside the choice of the solvent for the crystallization which strongly depends on the solubility of the protonated amine salts involved, we first focused on the optimization of the

• isolated in its pure form starting from model mixtures containing various aromatics, phenols, alkanes or alkenes in overall purification yields ranging from 53 to 98%. The lower yields are observed for coordinating phenol and catechol (Table 2, entries 3 and 4), probably impacting the crystallization

• importance, this technique is also efficient for the isolation of highly complex natural amines such as brucin, isolated in 57% yield using TCA (Table 3, entry 14). As mentioned, identification of a suitable solvent solubilizing the initial mixture and enabling precipitation/crystallization of the amine salt

Stepwise PEG synthesis featuring deprotection and coupling in one pot

• Logan Mikesell,
• Dhananjani N. A. M. Eriyagama,
• Yipeng Yin,
• Bao-Yuan Lu and
• Shiyue Fang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2976–2982, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.207

• reaction, which mainly include styrene and p-toluenesulfonic acid. As a result, when the reaction is performed at large scales, there is a high probability that the product can be purified by methods such as partition, precipitation and crystallization. The major advantage of using a base-labile protecting

Effect of a twin-emitter design strategy on a previously reported thermally activated delayed fluorescence organic light-emitting diode

• Ettore Crovini,
• Zhen Zhang,
• Yu Kusakabe,
• Yongxia Ren,
• Yoshimasa Wada,
• Bilal A. Naqvi,
• Prakhar Sahay,
• Tomas Matulaitis,
• Stefan Diesing,
• Ifor D. W. Samuel,
• Wolfgang Brütting,
• Katsuaki Suzuki,
• Hironori Kaji,
• Stefan Bräse and
• Eli Zysman-Colman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2894–2905, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.197

• with a low-Tg host like CBP, which is prone to crystallization, the obtained emitter orientation even turned vertical with the a factor approaching 0.40 [39]. Thus, measurements of the anisotropy factor were accordingly carried out for both ICzTRZ and DICzTRZ. Polarization and angle dependent

Highly stereocontrolled total synthesis of racemic codonopsinol B through isoxazolidine-4,5-diol vinylation

• Lukáš Ďurina,
• Anna Ďurinová,
• František Trejtnar,
• Ľuboš Janotka,
• Lucia Messingerová,
• Jana Doháňošová,
• Ján Moncol and
• Róbert Fischer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2781–2786, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.188

• -catalyzed hydrolysis of 10 with concentrated hydrochloric acid in acetone/water afforded diol 3 in excellent 93% yield. The crystallization of the crude product from a hexanes/CH2Cl2 mixture led to the preferential formation of the thermodynamically more stable 4,5-cis isomer (determined on the basis of a

Synthetic strategies toward 1,3-oxathiolane nucleoside analogues

• Umesh P. Aher,
• Dhananjai Srivastava,
• Girij P. Singh and
• Jayashree B. S

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2680–2715, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.182

• highly effective crystallization-induced DKR to achieve an efficient synthesis of enantiomerically pure oxathiolane-based lactol 56a from ʟ-menthyl glyoxylate (3h) monohydrate and 1,4-dithiane-2,5-diol (3q, Scheme 17). The investigation proved that the base TEA was capable of effecting the equilibration

• at C-2 but advantageous for the crystallization process. A number of bases was also evaluated by this research group: pyridine gave only a small amount of interconversion, whereas TEA caused rapid interconversion. Furthermore, it was discovered that instant interconversion and crystallization of 56a

• (1), as summarized in the next section. Access to crystalline 5-acetoxyoxathiolane 35a was accomplished either by selective crystallization in the presence of the remaining diastereoisomers, although in only 16% yield, or by a classical resolution method using the norephedrine salt 58 (Scheme 19

Adjusting the length of supramolecular polymer bottlebrushes by top-down approaches

• Tobias Klein,
• Franka V. Gruschwitz,
• Maren T. Kuchenbrod,
• Ivo Nischang,
• Stephanie Hoeppener and
• Johannes C. Brendel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2621–2628, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.175

• desired applications in nanomedicine [4][5]. A key factor in this regard are formulation strategies, which allow a straightforward implementation into established processes that are, e.g., in accordance with good manufacturing practice (GMP) [6]. Approaches such as the crystallization-driven self-assembly

Synthesis of new bile acid-fused tetrazoles using the Schmidt reaction

• Dušan Đ. Škorić,
• Olivera R. Klisurić,
• Dimitar S. Jakimov,
• Marija N. Sakač and
• János J. Csanádi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2611–2620, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.174

• of protected B-homotetrazoles were not obtained after repeated attempts of crystallization, while obtaining high-quality crystals of C-homotetrazoles was straightforward. In the final part of our synthetic work, all tetrazole compounds were converted to free bile acid-fused tetrazoles with ethanolic

Enantioselective PCCP Brønsted acid-catalyzed aminalization of aldehydes

• Martin Kamlar,
• Robert Reiberger,
• Martin Nigríni,
• Ivana Císařová and
• Jan Veselý

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2433–2440, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.160

• crystallization from ethyl acetate. This was demonstrated for products 3a and 3f, that were obtained in enantiomeric purities of 93% and 97% ee, respectively (Scheme 1). Next, we turned our attention to the substitution of anthranilamide (Scheme 2). First, the effect of bromine as a slightly electron-withdrawing

• enantiomeric excess of 66% ee. We also increased the enantiomeric purity of 3l from 70% to 80% ee after crystallization from ethyl acetate. When anthranilamide substituted with a chlorine in the “5” position was used, the enantioselectivity of the reaction reached a value of 76% ee, and the yield of the

• enantiocontrol of the process, and highly enantiomerically enriched dihydroquinazolinones can be achieved by crystallization (up to 97% ee). The developed methodology can also be used to form tetrahydrobenzodiazepinones; however, a significant drop in the yield and enantioselectivity was observed. Synthetic

(Phenylamino)pyrimidine-1,2,3-triazole derivatives as analogs of imatinib: searching for novel compounds against chronic myeloid leukemia

• Luiz Claudio Ferreira Pimentel,
• Lucas Villas Boas Hoelz,
• Henayle Fernandes Canzian,
• Frederico Silva Castelo Branco,
• Andressa Paula de Oliveira,
• Vinicius Rangel Campos,
• Floriano Paes Silva Júnior,
• Rafael Ferreira Dantas,
• Jackson Antônio Lamounier Camargos Resende,
• Anna Claudia Cunha,
• Nubia Boechat and
• Mônica Macedo Bastos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2260–2269, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.144

• crystallization and X-ray diffraction experiments for compound 2b were performed. All samples evaluated had low scattering patterns and germinated crystals. This resulted in poor quality data, which limited the quality of the refinement. Structure illustrations were generated using ORTEP-3 for Mercury [45], and

Transition-metal-free intramolecular Friedel–Crafts reaction by alkene activation: A method for the synthesis of some novel xanthene derivatives

• Tülay Yıldız,
• İrem Baştaş and
• Hatice Başpınar Küçük

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2203–2208, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.142

• synthesized by Grignard reaction of 1a–l and aryl(or alkyl)magnesium bromides. Then 3a–l were prepared by oxidation of 2a–l using PCC. The final alkene compounds 4a–l were obtained by Wittig reaction using Me(Ph)3PBr, t-BuOK, and NaH. All substrates were purified by crystallization or column chromatography

Co-crystallization of an organic solid and a tetraaryladamantane at room temperature

• Fabian Rami,
• Jan Nowak,
• Felix Krupp,
• Wolfgang Frey and
• Clemens Richert

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1476–1480, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.103

• Fabian Rami Jan Nowak Felix Krupp Wolfgang Frey Clemens Richert Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 55, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany 10.3762/bjoc.17.103 Abstract Tetraaryladamantanes have proven useful as chaperones for the co-crystallization of small molecules

• that do not readily crystallize by themselves. The co-crystals are often useful for structure elucidation. Usually, the small molecules are encapsulated in the crystal lattice of the aryladamantane that forms during rapid thermal crystallization. Thus far, co-crystallization has been limited to liquids

• evaporation or diffusion. The implications for generating other co-crystals of two solids are briefly discussed. Keywords: adamantanes; crystallization; organic solids; structure elucidation; X-ray crystallography; Introduction Obtaining a crystal suitable for X-ray crystallography can be a challenge for

Structural effects of meso-halogenation on porphyrins

• Keith J. Flanagan,
• Maximilian Paradiz Dominguez,
• Zoi Melissari,
• Hans-Georg Eckhardt,
• René M. Williams,
• Dáire Gibbons,
• Caroline Prior,
• Gemma M. Locke,
• Alina Meindl,
• Aoife A. Ryan and
• Mathias O. Senge

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1149–1170, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.88

• need of crystallization, using DFT calculations with a high degree of accuracy. Keywords: conformational analysis; crystal engineering; halogenation; macrocycles; porphyrins; Introduction Crystal engineering using porphyrins as a scaffolding unit has been a topic of increasing interest over the past

• increasing the library of simulated data and use this as a model to predict the most appealing structures for generating halogen bonded supramolecular networks followed by targeted synthesis and crystallization of such compounds. Experimental General information All commercial chemicals used were of

Synthesis of functionalized imidazo[4,5-e]thiazolo[3,2-b]triazines by condensation of imidazo[4,5-e]triazinethiones with DMAD or DEAD and rearrangement to imidazo[4,5-e]thiazolo[2,3-c]triazines

• Alexei N. Izmest’ev,
• Dmitry B. Vinogradov,
• Natalya G. Kolotyrkina,
• Angelina N. Kravchenko and
• Galina A. Gazieva

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1141–1148, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.87

• 4c–g,j–n bearing phenyl substituents contained no impurities of the corresponding isomers 5, while the structures 4a,b,h,i were isolated in individual form only during fractional crystallization from the reaction mixtures. It was previously shown [24][25][26] that the products of aldol condensation

A chromatography-free and aqueous waste-free process for thioamide preparation with Lawesson’s reagent

• Ke Wu,
• Yichen Ling,
• An Ding,
• Liqun Jin,
• Nan Sun,
• Baoxiang Hu,
• Zhenlu Shen and
• Xinquan Hu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 805–812, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.69

• , we herein reported an efficient work-up procedure of applying LR by utilizing ethylene glycol to decompose the compound A (Figure 2). With a combination of some usual operations, such as, phase separation, extraction and crystallization, the desired thioamide products were efficiently obtained in

Synthesis of (Z)-3-[amino(phenyl)methylidene]-1,3-dihydro-2H-indol-2-ones using an Eschenmoser coupling reaction

• Lukáš Marek,
• Lukáš Kolman,
• Jiří Váňa,
• Jan Svoboda and
• Jiří Hanusek

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 527–539, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.47

• /or crystallization. Aliphatic thioamides Although our concern was mainly dedicated to the synthesis of 3-[amino(aryl)methylidene]oxindoles many of which display a significant tyrosin kinase inhibiting activity, we also verified the versatility of our method for the analogous oxindoles 10a–c carrying

• chromatography (silica gel or alumina cartridge; mobile phase and gradient are specified in Supporting Information File 1). Analytically pure samples were obtained by crystallization from the appropriate solvent. Compounds 5ea and 5eb were isolated as follows: After the reaction of 1e with 2a,b (4 h) the

Biochemistry of fluoroprolines: the prospect of making fluorine a bioelement

• Vladimir Kubyshkin,
• Rebecca Davis and
• Nediljko Budisa

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 439–460, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.40

• crystallization. Finally, the study revealed a few polar interactions of the fluoropyrrolidine ring within the protein microenvironment. In a study on thioredoxin, four out of five proline residues were mutated to alanine, and the only remaining proline residue was the one adopting a cis-amide-bond conformation

Coupling biocatalysis with high-energy flow reactions for the synthesis of carbamates and β-amino acid derivatives

• Alexander Leslie,
• Thomas S. Moody,
• Megan Smyth,
• Scott Wharry and
• Marcus Baumann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 379–384, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.33

•  3. The telescoped approach provided the quantitative conversion of benzyl alcohol into benzyl butyrate which could be removed by crystallization (from heptanes) after evaporation of toluene and residual vinyl butyrate. The resulting telescoped flow approach thus enabled the facile generation and

Control over size, shape, and photonics of self-assembled organic nanocrystals

• Chen Shahar,
• Yaron Tidhar,
• Yunmin Jung,
• Haim Weissman,
• Sidney R. Cohen,
• Ronit Bitton,
• Iddo Pinkas,
• Gilad Haran and
• Boris Rybtchinski

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 42–51, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.5

• the assembly. In general, gaining control over the crystal formation represents a long-standing challenge [29][30][31][32]. In this respect, understanding and controlling the crystallization process is key to fabricating organic nanocrystals with a predesigned morphology and properties [33][34][35

• ][37][38]. Additionally, the aqueous self-assembly incorporating carboxylic acid groups in the covalent unit design has been shown to result in complex and tunable self-assembly modes [39][40][41][42]. Crystalline self-assembly We have found that the nonclassical crystallization of 1 in neutral aqueous

• solutions can be manipulated to result in different polymorphs [35], 3D crystals with dissimilar structures and morphologies. We envisaged that the crystallization of 1 in a basic aqueous medium can lead to 2D arrays (bilayers) due to the higher solubility of the assemblies as a result of the charged