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A variety of solid tumor cancers contain significant regions of hypoxia, which provide unique challenges for targeting by potent anticancer agents. Bioreductively activatable prodrug conjugates (BAPCs) represent a promising strategy for therapeutic intervention. BAPCs are designed to be biologically inert until they come into contact with low oxygen tension, at which point reductase enzyme mediated cleavage releases the parent anticancer agent in a tumor-specific manner. Phenstatin is a potent inhibitor of tubulin polymerization, mimicking the chemical structure and biological activity of the natural product combretastatin A-4. Synthetic approaches have been established for nitrobenzyl, nitroimidazole, nitrofuranyl, and nitrothienyl prodrugs of phenstatin incorporating nor-methyl, mono-methyl, and gem-dimethyl variants of the attached nitro compounds. A series of BAPCs based on phenstatin have been prepared by chemical synthesis and evaluated against the tubulin-microtubule protein system. In a preliminary study using anaerobic conditions, the gem-dimethyl nitrothiophene and gem-dimethyl nitrofuran analogues were shown to undergo efficient enzymatic cleavage in the presence of NADPH cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase. Each of the eleven BAPCs evaluated in this study demonstrated significantly reduced inhibitory activity against tubulin in comparison to the parent anti-cancer agent phenstatin (IC50?=?1.0?μM). In fact, the majority of the BAPCs (seven of the eleven analogues) were not inhibitors of tubulin polymerization (IC50?>?20?μM), which represents an anticipated (and desirable) attribute for these prodrugs, since they are intended to be biologically inactive prior to enzyme-mediated cleavage to release phenstatin.

Several potent oxazolidinone antibacterial agents were obtained by systematic modification of the linker between the five-membered heterocycle and the piperazinyl ring of RBx 7644 (Ranbezolid, 1) and its thienyl analogue 2, leading to the identification of an expanded spectrum compound RBx 8700 (6b).

The conversion of classical carbanions such as RMgX, RLi, or deprotonated nitriles, sulfones, and carboxylic esters into titanium analogs results in reagents which add chemoselectively to carbonyl compounds in the presence of other functional groups.The standard titanating agent is chlorotriisopropoxytitanium (1).Grignard-type reactions and aldol additions are aldehyde-selective in the presence of ketones.Other functional groups such as alkyl and aryl halides, esters, amides as well as nitro and cyano moieties are tolerated.Discrimination between two aldehydes or two ketones is also possible.Replacing alkoxy ligands by methyl groups at titanium increases reactivity dramatically, relative rates increasing in the series CH3Ti(OCHMe2)3 (CH3)2Ti(OCHMe2)2 (CH3)4Ti.The latter reagent and its zirconium analog methylate sterically hindered and/or enolizable ketones which normally fail to undergo Grignard reactions.The ate complex H2C=CHCH2Ti(OCHMe2)4MgCl (63) is aldehyde-selective, while the amino analog H2C=CHCH2Ti(NMe2)4MgCl (64) adds selectively to ketones in the presence of aldehydes.