1754-67-2Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Structure-Guided Optimization of Dipeptidyl Inhibitors of Norovirus 3CL Protease
Rathnayake, Athri D.,Kim, Yunjeong,Dampalla, Chamandi S.,Nguyen, Harry Nhat,Jesri, Abdul-Rahman M.,Kashipathy, Maithri M.,Lushington, Gerald H.,Battaile, Kevin P.,Lovell, Scott,Chang, Kyeong-Ok,Groutas, William C.
, p. 11945 - 11963 (2020/11/26)
Acute gastroenteritis caused by noroviruses has a major impact on public health worldwide in terms of morbidity, mortality, and economic burden. The disease impacts most severely immunocompromised patients, the elderly, and children. The current lack of approved vaccines and small-molecule therapeutics for the treatment and prophylaxis of norovirus infections underscores the need for the development of norovirus-specific drugs. The studies described herein entail the use of the gem-dimethyl moiety as a means of improving the pharmacological activity and physicochemical properties of a dipeptidyl series of transition state inhibitors of norovirus 3CL protease, an enzyme essential for viral replication. Several compounds were found to be potent inhibitors of the enzyme in biochemical and cell-based assays. The pharmacological activity and cellular permeability of the inhibitors were found to be sensitive to the location of the gem-dimethyl group.
Synergistic Catalysis for the Umpolung Trifluoromethylthiolation of Tertiary Ethers
Xu, Wentao,Ma, Junyang,Yuan, Xiang-Ai,Dai, Jie,Xie, Jin,Zhu, Chengjian
, p. 10357 - 10361 (2018/08/06)
The first transition-metal-free, site-specific umpolung trifluoromethylthiolation of tertiary alkyl ethers has been developed, achieving the challenging tertiary C(sp3)–SCF3 coupling under redox-neutral conditions. The synergism of organophotocatalyst 4CzIPN and BINOL-based phosphorothiols can site-selectively cleave tertiary sp3 C(sp3)–O ether bonds in complex molecules initiated by a polarity-matching hydrogen-atom-transfer (HAT) event. The incorporation of several competing benzylic and methine C(sp3)?H bonds in alkyl ethers has little influence on the regioselectivity. Selective difluoromethylthiolation of C?O bonds has also been achieved. This represents not only an important step forward in trifluoromethylthiolation but also a promising means for site-selective C?O bond functionalization of unsymmetrical tertiary alkyl ethers.
Structure-based design of novel dihydroisoquinoline BACE-1 inhibitors that do not engage the catalytic aspartates
Bowers, Simeon,Xu, Ying-Zi,Yuan, Shendong,Probst, Gary D.,Hom, Roy K.,Chan, Wayman,Konradi, Andrei W.,Sham, Hing L.,Zhu, Yong L.,Beroza, Paul,Pan, Hu,Brecht, Eric,Yao, Nanhua,Lougheed, Julie,Tam, Danny,Ren, Zhao,Ruslim, Lany,Bova, Michael P.,Artis, Dean R.
, p. 2181 - 2186 (2013/04/23)
The structure-activity relationship of a series of dihydroisoquinoline BACE-1 inhibitors is described. Application of structure-based design to screening hit 1 yielded sub-micromolar inhibitors. Replacement of the carboxylic acid of 1 was guided by X-ray
Effects of Substituents and Generation Methods on Insertion-Addition Selectivities of ''Arylcarbene'' in Alcohol-Olefin Binary Mixtures. Intervention of Reaction of Diazo Compounds Masquerading as Carbenes
Tomioka, Hideo,Suzuki, Shinji,Izawa, Yasuji
, p. 1047 - 1050 (2007/10/02)
A Hammett study of the insertion-addition selectivity (Ki/ka) and cyclopropanation stereoselectivity (kc/kt) of "arylcarbene" generated either photolytically or thermally in 2-propanol-ethyl vinyl ether binary mixtures showed that ρ values are highly sensitive to the generation method.Thus, plots of ki/ka and kc/kt vs. ? (?+) in the photolytic run gave ρ values of -0.96 (r = -0.96) and -0.15 (r = -0.95), respectively, whereas similar values are +1.4 (r = 0.93) and -1.1 (r = -0.96) in the thermal run.The results along with the effects of precursor, temperature, and sensitizer on the product distributions are interpreted as indicating that, while free carbene is involved in the photolytic run, the ground-state diazo compound is masquerading as carbene in its thermal reaction with the olefin.
