314240-85-2Relevant articles and documents
Discovery of Novel TRPM8 Blockers Suitable for the Treatment of Somatic and Ocular Painful Conditions: A Journey through p Kaand LogD Modulation
Bianchini, Gianluca,Tomassetti, Mara,Lillini, Samuele,Sirico, Anna,Bovolenta, Silvia,Za, Lorena,Liberati, Chiara,Novelli, Rubina,Aramini, Andrea
supporting information, p. 16820 - 16837 (2021/11/24)
Transient receptor potential melastatin 8 (TRPM8) is crucially involved in pain modulation and perception, and TRPM8 antagonists have been proposed as potential therapeutic approaches for pain treatment. Previously, we developed two TRPM8 antagonists and proposed them as drug candidates for topical and systemic pain treatment. Here, we describe the design and synthesis of these two TRPM8 antagonists (27 and 45) and the rational approach of modulation/replacement of bioisosteric chemical groups, which allowed us to identify a combination of narrow ranges of pKa and LogD values that were crucial to ultimately optimize their potency and metabolic stability. Following the same approach, we then pursued the development of new TRPM8 antagonists suitable for the topical treatment of ocular painful conditions and identified two new compounds (51 and 59), N-alkoxy amide derivatives, that can permeate across ocular tissue and reduce the behavioral responses induced by the topical ocular menthol challenge in vivo.
Pd-catalyzed sp2 C-H hydroxylation with TFA/TFAA via weak coordinations
Rao, Yu
, p. 2472 - 2476 (2013/12/04)
An efficient sp2 C-H hydroxylation has been developed for the synthesis of a wide range of functionalized phenols with aryl ketones, benzoates, benzamides, acetanilides and sulfonamides through palladium(II) catalysis. A trifluoroacetic acid (TFA)/trifluoroacetic anhydride (TFAA) co-solvent system serves as the oxygen source and is the critical factor for weak coordination promoted C-H activation. Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart New York.
Ruthenium(II)-catalyzed synthesis of hydroxylated arenes with ester as an effective directing group
Yang, Yiqing,Lin, Yun,Rao, Yu
supporting information; experimental part, p. 2874 - 2877 (2012/07/28)
An unprecedented Ru(II) catalyzed ortho-hydroxylation has been developed for the facile synthesis of a variety of multifunctionalized arenes from easily accessible ethyl benzoates with ester as an efficient directing group. Both the TFA/TFAA cosolvent system and oxidants serve as the critical success factors in this transformation. The reaction demonstrates excellent reactivity, good functional group tolerance, and high yields.
Pd-catalyzed C-H oxygenation with TFA/TFAA: Expedient access to oxygen-containing heterocycles and late-stage drug modification
Shan, Gang,Yang, Xinglin,Ma, Linlin,Rao, Yu
supporting information, p. 13070 - 13074 (2013/02/26)
Functionalized phenols are valuable industrial chemicals related to pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and polymers. Therefore, the direct catalytic hydroxylation of arenes to produce phenols has attracted much attention. Although tremendous progress has been made in this field, there are still difficult substrates which remain unmet challenges for direct hydroxylation in terms of regio- and chemoselectivity, as well as the practicality of current methods (Scheme 1). For example, 2-hydroxy aromatic ketones are useful synthetic intermediates for the preparation of various oxygen-containing heterocycles such as benzofuranone, chromanone, benzoxazole, and dibenzooxazepine; they also serve as key building blocks for drugs such as celiprolol, acebutolol, and propafenone. Traditional strategies for accessing 2-hydroxy aromatic ketones have mainly involved the oxidation of benzylic alcohols, the hydrolysis of aromatic halides, Fries rearrangement of esters or the demethylation of methyl phenyl ether. These methods generally suffer from one limitation or another, such as tedious reaction procedures, harsh reaction conditions, low yields, or the formation of side products. Hence, direct transformation of readily available aromatic ketones into valuable 2-hydroxylated products by transition metal-catalyzed C-H functionalization is arguably a highly efficient and atom-economic method to access these compounds. Moreover, developing a more general strategy for the regio- and chemoselective C-H oxygenation of a variety of challenging arenes would be especially desirable for phenol synthesis (Scheme 1).
Use of conformationally restricted benzamidines as arginine surrogates in the design of platelet GPIIb-IIIa receptor antagonists
Sall, Daniel J.,Arfsten, Ann E.,Bastian, Jolie A.,Denney, Michael L.,Harms, Cathy S.,McCowan, Jefferson R.,Morin Jr., John M.,Rose, Jack W.,Scarborough, Robert M.,Smyth, Mark S.,Um, Suzane L.,Utterback, Barbara G.,Vasileff, Robert T.,Wikel, James H.,Wyss, Virginia L.,Jakubowski, Joseph A.
, p. 2843 - 2857 (2007/10/03)
The use of 5,6-bicyclic amidines as arginine surrogates in the design of a novel class of potent platelet glycoprotein IIb-IIIa receptor (GPIIb-IIIa) antagonists is described. The additional conformational restriction offered by the bicyclic nucleus results in 20-400-fold increases in potency compared to the freely flexible, acyclic benzamidine counterpart. The design, synthesis, structure-activity relationships (SAR), and in vitro activity of this novel class of GPIIb-IIIa antagonists are presented.
