167612-65-9

Upstream product

• 75-11-6 diiodomethane 
• 167612-64-8 1,2-O-Isopropylidene-3-O-benzyl-4,5-O-<(1'R)-cis-3'-phenyl-2'-propen-1'-yl>-β-D-fructopyranose 
• 936-98-1 rac-((1S,2R)-2-phenylcyclopropyl)methanol 
• 73566-21-9 1-phenyl-2-((tetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-yl)oxy)ethan-1-one 
• 582-24-1 1-phenyl-2-hydroxyethanone 
• 139492-31-2 (1R,2S)-cis-1-(Hydroxymethyl)-2-phenylcyclopropane 

Downstream Products

• 22467-91-0 ethyl (E)-3-(cis-(1R,2R)-2-phenylcyclopropyl)propenoate 

Relevant academic research and scientific papers

Asymmetric Reductive Carbocyclization Using Engineered Ene Reductases

Ene reductases from the Old Yellow Enzyme (OYE) family reduce the C=C double bond in α,β-unsaturated compounds bearing an electron-withdrawing group, for example, a carbonyl group. This asymmetric reduction has been exploited for biocatalysis. Going beyond its canonical function, we show that members of this enzyme family can also catalyze the formation of C?C bonds. α,β-Unsaturated aldehydes and ketones containing an additional electrophilic group undergo reductive cyclization. Mechanistically, the two-electron-reduced enzyme cofactor FMN delivers a hydride to generate an enolate intermediate, which reacts with the internal electrophile. Single-site replacement of a crucial Tyr residue with a non-protic Phe or Trp favored the cyclization over the natural reduction reaction. The new transformation enabled the enantioselective synthesis of chiral cyclopropanes in up to >99 % ee.

Conformational restriction approach to β-Secretase (BACE1) inhibitors: Effect of a cyclopropane ring to induce an alternative binding mode

Improvement of a drugs binding activity using the conformational restriction approach with sp3 hybridized carbon is becoming a key strategy in drug discovery. We applied this approach to BACE1 inhibitors and designed four stereoisomeric cyclopropane compounds in which the ethylene linker of a known amidine-type inhibitor 2 was replaced with chiral cyclopropane rings. The synthesis and biologic evaluation of these compounds revealed that the cis-(1S,2R) isomer 6 exhibited the most potent BACE1 inhibitory activity among them. X-ray structure analysis of the complex of 6 and BACE1 revealed that its unique binding mode is due to the apparent CH-π interaction between the rigid cyclopropane ring and the Tyr71 side chain. A derivatization study using 6 as a lead molecule led to the development of highly potent inhibitors in which the structure-activity relationship as well as the binding mode of the compounds clearly differ from those of known amidine-type inhibitors.

Studies on the diastereoselective preparation of bis-cyclopropanes

The identification of two natural products, FR-900848 and U-106305, has stimulated interest concerning the relationship between configurational isomerism, conformational isomerism, and biological activity of polycyclopropanes. Efforts to investigate the relationship between configurational and conformational isomerism through molecular modeling suggest that significantly different three-dimensional structures will result from unique primary structures. Any effort to address these issues demands that stereoselective methods for the preparation of polycyclopropanes be developed. We have investigated the application of zinc-carbenoid cyclopropanation in the presence of chiral dioxaboralanes to the preparation of eight stereochemically unique bicyclopropanes. The frans-vinylcyclopropane starting materials demonstrated very little substrate-induced stereoselectivity, while the cis-vinylcyclopropane demonstrates modest to excellent stereocontrol. A model for the substrate-based stereocontrol is proposed. We also used the spectroscopic data gathered in this investigation to probe the substrate-mediated stereocontrol in the rhodium(II)-catalyzed cyclopropanation of vinylcyclopropanes with ethyl diazoacetate.

Asymmetric Cyclopropanation Using New Chiral Auxiliaries Derived from D-Fructose

Acetals of α,β-unsaturated aldehydes with 3-O-alkylated derivatives of 1,2-O-isopropylidene-β-D-fructopyranose and 1,2-O-isopropylidene-β-D-psicopyranose, which are readily available from D-fructose, were cyclopropanated with Et2Zn and CH2I2 with good diastereoselectivity.The effects of structure of the acetals on enantioselectivity were examined.