15560-52-8Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Improvement of pharmacological properties of irreversible thyroid receptor coactivator binding inhibitors
Jong, Yeon Hwang,Arnold, Leggy A.,Zhu, Fangyi,Kosinski, Aaron,Mangano, Thomas J.,Setola, Vincent,Roth, Bryan L.,Guy, R. Kiplin
supporting information; experimental part, p. 3892 - 3901 (2010/02/17)
We have previously reported the discovery and preliminary structure activity relationships of a series of β-aminoketones that disrupt the binding of coactivators to TR. However, the most active compounds had moderate inhibitory potency and relatively high cytotoxicity, resulting in narrow therapeutic index. Additionally, preliminary evaluation of in vivo toxicology revealed a significant dose related cardiotoxicity. Here we describe the improvement of pharmacological properties of thyroid hormone receptor coactivator binding inhibitors. A comprehensive survey of the effects of substitutents in key areas of the molecule was carried out based on mechanistic insight from the earlier report. This study revealed that both electron withdrawing and hydrophobic substituents on the aromatic ring led to higher potency. On the other hand, moving from an alkyl to a sulfonyl alkyl side chain led to reduced cytotoxicity. Finally, utilization of amine moieties having low pKa's resulted in lowered ion channel activity without any loss of pharmacological activity.
An improved Cu-based catalyst system for the reactions of alcohols with aryl halides
Altman, Ryan A.,Shafir, Alexandr,Choi, Alice,Lichtor, Phillip A.,Buchwald, Stephen L.
, p. 284 - 286 (2008/09/17)
(Chemical Equation Presented) The use of 3,4,7,8-tetramethyl-1,10- phenanthroline (Me4Phen) as a ligand improves the Cu-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of aryl iodides and bromides with primary and secondary aliphatic, benzylic, allylic, and propargylic alcohols. Most importantly, by employing this catalyst system, the need to use an excessive quantity of the alcohol coupling partner is alleviated. The relatively mild conditions, short reaction times, and moderately low catalyst loading allow for a wide array of functional groups to be tolerated on both the electrophilic and nucleophilic coupling partners.
