105294-80-2

Upstream product

• 79-30-1 isobutyryl chloride 
• 95-55-6 2-amino-phenol 

Downstream Products

• 132283-18-2 Naphthalene-1-carboxylic acid 2-isobutyrylamino-phenyl ester 

Relevant academic research and scientific papers

Discovery of new low-molecular-weight p53-Mdmx disruptors and their anti-cancer activities

Although several p53-Mdm2-binding disruptors have been identified to date, few studies have been published on p53-Mdmx-interaction inhibitors. In the present study, we demonstrated that o-aminothiophenol derivatives with molecular weights of 200-300 selectively inhibited the p53-Mdmx interaction. S-2-Isobutyramidophenyl 2-methylpropanethioate (K-178) (1c) activated p53, up-regulated the expression of its downstream genes such as p21 and Mdm2, and preferentially inhibited the growth of cancer cells with wild-type p53 over those with mutant p53. Furthermore, we found that the S-isobutyryl-deprotected forms 1b and 3b of 1c and S-2-benzamidophenyl 2-methylpropanethioate (K-181) (3c) preferentially inhibited the p53-Mdmx interaction over the p53-Mdm2 interaction, respectively, by using a Flag-p53 and glutathione S-transferase (GST)-fused protein complex (Mdm2, Mdmx, DAPK1, or PPID). In addition, the interaction of p53 with Mdmx was lost by replacing a sulfur atom with an oxygen atom in 1b and 1c. These results suggest that sulfides such as 1b, 3b, 4b, and 5b interfere with the binding of p53-Mdmx, resulting in the dissociation of the two proteins. Furthermore, the results of oral administration experiments using xenografts in nude mice indicated that 1c reduced the volume of tumor masses to 49.0% and 36.6% that of the control at 100 mg/kg and 150 mg/kg, respectively, in 40 days.

Tertiary Amine-Catalyzed Acyl Group Exchange Reaction of N,O-Diacyl-o-aminophenols. Its Mechanism and Factors Determining the Relative Stability of Acyl Exchanged Isomer Pairs

Acyl substituent effects on the equilibrium and rate constants for the acyl group exchange reactions of various N,O-diacyl-o-aminophenols have been investigated in solvents with different polarities.It was found that the relative stability of acyl exchanged isomer pairs is determined solely by the inductive effect of acyl groups, provided that the steric hindrance of acyl substituents bonded to amide nitrogen affects the stability to the same extent.The importance of steric hindrance exerted by a bulky acyl group in determining the relative stability was demonstrated by analyzing the correlation between the standard free energy change (ΔG0) and pKa, which were used as the measure of the relative stability of isomer pairs and of the electron-with drawing ability of acyl groups, respectively.On the other hand, the logarithms of catalytic rate constants for the acyl migration reactions were correlated well to the pKa values.In addition to this finding, a large negative value of activation entropy (ΔS=-160 J K-1 mol-1) and the Broensted coefficient β of 0.65 for the reaction of N,O-(acetyl)-(1-naphthoyl) pair of N,O-diacyl-o-aminophenol provide a definitive evidence for the rate-determining proton transfer from this derivative to amine catalyst in the transition state.