1620486-52-3Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Hit-to-Lead Studies for the Antimalarial Tetrahydroisoquinolone Carboxanilides
Floyd, David M.,Stein, Philip,Wang, Zheng,Liu, Jian,Castro, Steve,Clark, Julie A.,Connelly, Michele,Zhu, Fangyi,Holbrook, Gloria,Matheny, Amy,Sigal, Martina S.,Min, Jaeki,Dhinakaran, Rajkumar,Krishnan, Senthil,Bashyum, Sridevi,Knapp, Spencer,Guy, R. Kiplin
, p. 7950 - 7962 (2016/09/23)
Phenotypic whole-cell screening in erythrocytic cocultures of Plasmodium falciparum identified a series of dihydroisoquinolones that possessed potent antimalarial activity against multiple resistant strains of P. falciparum in vitro and show no cytotoxicity to mammalian cells. Systematic structure-activity studies revealed relationships between potency and modifications at N-2, C-3, and C-4. Careful structure-property relationship studies, coupled with studies of metabolism, addressed the poor aqueous solubility and metabolic vulnerability, as well as potential toxicological effects, inherent in the more potent primary screening hits such as 10b. Analogues 13h and 13i, with structural modifications at each site, were shown to possess excellent antimalarial activity in vivo. The (+)-(3S,4S) enantiomer of 13i and similar analogues were identified as the more potent. On the basis of these studies, we have selected (+)-13i for further study as a preclinical candidate.
N-methylimidazole promotes the reaction of homophthalic anhydride with imines
Liu, Jian,Wang, Zheng,Levin, Aaron,Emge, Thomas J.,Rablen, Paul R.,Floyd, David M.,Knapp, Spencer
supporting information, p. 7593 - 7599 (2014/09/16)
The addition of N-methylimidazole (NMI) to the reaction of homophthalic anhydride with imines such as pyridine-3-carboxaldehyde-N-trifluoroethylimine (9) reduces the amount of elimination byproduct and improves the yield of the formal cycloadduct, tetrahydroisoquinolonic carboxylate 10. Carboxanilides of such compounds are of interest as potential antimalarial agents. A mechanism that rationalizes the role of NMI is proposed, and a gram-scale procedure for the synthesis and resolution of 10 is also described.
