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An usual rearrangement of Zofenopril, a new ACE inhibitor drug: Mass spectrometric and conformational studies
Cartoni, Antonella,Altamura, Maria,Animati, Fabio,Balacco, Giuseppe,Cosi, Riccardo,Ettorre, Alessandro,Madami, Andrea,Triolo, Antonio
, p. 1258 - 1265 (2002)
Zofenopril (1) is a new ACE inhibitor, used in therapy for hypertension and post-myocardial infarction. The protonated quasi-molecular ion (m/z 430) of 1, obtained under positive electrospray ionization conditions, loses a benzoic acid molecule (m/z 308), which in turn decomposes via loss of CO (m/z 280) when low-energy collisional-induced dissociation (CID) and in-source experiments are performed. This rearrangement is the main fragmentation process and can be observed both in-source and in the product ion tandem mass spectra, using either an ion trap or a triple quadrupole instrument. Other known diastereoisomers of 1, an impurity with an acetyl in the place of the benzoyl group (2) and an impurity with two propanoyl chains in series (3), give the same rearrangement. On the other hand, the mass spectra of the methyl ester (4) and an impurity with two proline moieties (5) do not show this unusual fragmentation. Time-resolved CID spectra of 1 show that the rearrangement occurs after about 2 ms, a time scale comparable to those of the other non-rearrangement cleavages. These experiments suggest a conformation in the gas phase for 1 in which the benzoyl group is close to the hydroxyl of the carboxylic acid group, from which the rearrangement could readily occur. Since compounds 4 and 5 do not show the same behaviour, the presence of a carboxylic acid in the proline ring seems to play a crucial role in the rearrangement, probably due to an intramolecular hydrogen bond. To confirm this hypothesis, deuterium exchanges in mass spectrometric experiments and a conformational analysis via computational methods were performed. Copyright
11C-Radiosynthesis and preliminary human evaluation of the disposition of the ACE inhibitor [11C]zofenoprilat
Matarrese, Mario,Salimbeni, Aldo,Turolla, Elia Anna,Turozzi, Damiano,Moresco, Rosa Maria,Poma, Davide,Magni, Fulvio,Todde, Sergio,Rossetti, Claudio,Sciarrone, Maria Teresa,Bianchi, Giuseppe,Kienle, Marzia Galli,Fazio, Ferruccio
, p. 603 - 611 (2007/10/03)
(4S)-1-[(S)-3-Mercapto-2-methylpropanoyl]-4-phenylthio-L-proline (Zofenoprilat, 2), the active metabolite of the potent ACE inhibitor Zofenopril Calcium (1), was labelled with carbon-11 (t1/2=20.4 min) to evaluate its pharmacokinetics behaviour in human body using Positron Emission Tomography (PET). [11C]2 labelling procedures were based on the use of immobilized Grignard reagent and the acylation of (S)-4-phenylthio-L-proline methyl ester (5) with 11C-labelled methacryloyl chloride, followed by a Michael addition with thiobenzoic acid. The radiochemical yield was 5-10% (EOB, decay corrected) and specific radioactivity ranged from 0.5 to 1.5 Ci/μmol (18.5-55.5 GBq/μmol). Preliminary in vivo human evaluation of [11C]2 showed that the drug accumulates in organs which express high levels of ACE, like lungs and kidneys, and in organs involved in drug metabolism such as the liver and gall bladder. Results of the distribution of [11C]2 showed a measurable concentration of the drug in the target tissues such as the kidney and to a minor extent, the heart, where it can afford organ protection.
Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors. Mercaptan, carboxyalkyl dipeptide, and phosphinic acid inhibitors incorporating 4-substituted prolines
Krapcho,Turk,Cushman,Powell,DeForrest,Spitzmiller,Karanewsky,Duggan,Rovnvak,Schwartz,Natarajan,Godfrey,Ryono,Neubeck,Atwa,Petrillo Jr.
, p. 1148 - 1160 (2007/10/02)
Analogues of captopril, enalaprilat, and the phosphinic acid [[hydroxy(4-phenylbutyl)phosphinyl]acetyl)-L-proline incorporating 4-substituted proline derivatives have been synthesized and evaluated as inhibitors of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) in vitro and in vivo. The 4-substituted prolines, incorporating alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkylthio, and arylthio substituents were prepared from derivatives of 4-hydroxy- and 4-ketoproline. In general, analogues of all three classes of inhibitors with hydrophobic substituents on proline were more potent in vitro than the corresponding unsubstituted proline compounds. 4-Substituted analogues of captopril showed greater potency and duration of action than the parent compound as inhibitors of the angiotensin I induced pressor response in normotensive rats. The S-benzoyl derivative of cis-4-(phenylthio)captopril, zofenopril, was found to be one of the most potent compounds of this class and is now being evaluated clinically as an antihypertensive agent. In the phosphinic acid series, the 4-ethylenethioketal and trans-4-cyclohexyl derivatives were found to be the most potent compounds in vitro and in vivo. A prodrug of the latter compound, fosinopril, is also being evaluated in clinical trials.
