- Diradicals Photogeneration from Chloroaryl-Substituted Carboxylic Acids
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With the aim of generating new, thermally inaccessible diradicals, potentially able to induce a double-strand DNA cleavage, the photochemistry of a set of chloroaryl-substituted carboxylic acids in polar media was investigated. The photoheterolytic cleavage of the Ar?Cl bond occurred in each case to form the corresponding triplet phenyl cations. Under basic conditions, the photorelease of the chloride anion was accompanied by an intramolecular electron-transfer from the carboxylate group to the aromatic radical cationic site to give a diradical species. This latter intermediate could then undergo CO2 loss in a structure-dependent fashion, according to the stability of the resulting diradical, or abstract a hydrogen atom from the medium. In aqueous environment at physiological pH (pH=7.3), both a phenyl cation and a diradical chemistry was observed. The mechanistic scenario and the role of the various intermediates (aryl cations and diradicals) involved in the process was supported by computational analysis.
- Di Terlizzi, Lorenzo,Protti, Stefano,Ravelli, Davide,Fagnoni, Maurizio
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- Design, synthesis, molecular docking and 3D-QSAR studies of potent inhibitors of enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase as potential antimycobacterial agents
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In order to develop a lead antimycobacterium tuberculosis compound, a series of 52, novel pyrrole hydrazine derivatives have been synthesized and screened which target the essential enoyl-ACP reductase. The binding mode of the compounds at the active site of enoyl-ACP reductase was explored using surflex-docking method. The binding model suggests one or two hydrogen bonding interactions between pyrrole hydrazones and InhA enzyme. Highly active compound 5r (MIC 0.2 μg/mL) showed hydrogen bonding interactions with Tyr158 and NAD+ in the same manner as those of ligands PT70 and triclosan. The CoMFA and CoMSIA models generated with database alignment were the best in terms of overall statistics. The predictive ability of the CoMFA and CoMSIA models was determined using a test set of 13 compounds, which gave predictive correlation coefficients (rpred2) of 0.896 and 0.930, respectively.
- More, Uttam A.,Joshi, Shrinivas D.,Aminabhavi, Tejraj M.,Gadad, Andanappa K.,Nadagouda, Mallikarjuna N.,Kulkarni, Venkatrao H.
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p. 199 - 218
(2014/01/06)
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- Antimalarial activity enhancement in hydroxymethylcarbonyl (HMC) isostere-based dipeptidomimetics targeting malarial aspartic protease plasmepsin
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Plasmepsin (Plm) is a potential target for new antimalarial drugs, but most reported Plm inhibitors have relatively low antimalarial activities. We synthesized a series of dipeptide-type HIV protease inhibitors, which contain an allophenylnorstatine-dimethylthioproline scaffold to exhibit potent inhibitory activities against Plm II. Their activities against Plasmodium falciparum in the infected erythrocyte assay were largely different from those against the target enzyme. To improve the antimalarial activity of peptidomimetic Plm inhibitors, we attached substituents on a structure of the highly potent Plm inhibitor KNI-10006. Among the derivatives, we identified alkylamino compounds such as 44 (KNI-10283) and 47 (KNI-10538) with more than 15-fold enhanced antimalarial activity, to the sub-micromolar level, maintaining their potent Plm II inhibitory activity and low cytotoxicity. These results suggest that auxiliary substituents on a specific basic group contribute to deliver the inhibitors to the target Plm.
- Hidaka, Koushi,Kimura, Tooru,Ruben, Adam J.,Uemura, Tsuyoshi,Kamiya, Mami,Kiso, Aiko,Okamoto, Tetsuya,Tsuchiya, Yumi,Hayashi, Yoshio,Freire, Ernesto,Kiso, Yoshiaki
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p. 10049 - 10060
(2009/04/07)
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- FUNCTIONALIZED DIPHENOLICS AND ABSORBABLE POLYMERS THEREFROM
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The present invention relates to dephenolic compounds, an example of which is shown below, which are functionalized, and polymers formed from the same. Polymers formed from the functionalized diphenolics are expected to have controllable degradation profiles, enabling them to release an active component over a desired time range. The polymers are also expected to be useful in a variety of medical applications.
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- Design, synthesis, and evaluation of postulated transient intermediate and substrate analogues as inhibitors of 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase
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An epoxybenzoquinone, 4-hydroxyphenoxypropionic acid, and 2-hydroxy-3-phenyl-3-butenoic acid derivatives have been designed, synthesized, and evaluated for in vitro inhibition activity against 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (4-HPPD) from pig liver by the spectrophotometric enol-borate method. The biological data demonstrated that neither epoxybenzoquinone ester nor 2-hydroxy-3-phenyl-3-butenoic acid is an inhibitor of 4-HPPD. The most potent 4-HPPD inhibitor tested was 3-hydroxy-4-phenyl-2(5H)-furanone with an IC50 value of 0.5 μM, which may serve as a lead compound for further design of more potent 4-HPPD inhibitors.
- Lin, Yun-Loung,Huang, Jian-Lin,Wu, Chung-Shieh,Liu, Hung-Ge,Yang, Ding-Yah
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p. 1709 - 1713
(2007/10/03)
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