19887-30-0Relevant articles and documents
Design and synthesis of novel symmetric fluorene-2,7-diamine derivatives as potent hepatitis C virus inhibitors
Mousa, Mai H. A.,Ahmed, Nermin S.,Schwedtmann, Kai,Frakolaki, Efseveia,Vassilaki, Niki,Zoidis, Grigoris,Weigand, Jan J.,Abadi, Ashraf H.
, (2021/04/16)
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an international challenge. Since the discovery of NS5A direct-acting antivirals, researchers turned their attention to pursue novel NS5A inhibitors with optimized design and structure. Herein we explore highly potent hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS5A inhibitors; the novel analogs share a common symmetrical prolinamide 2,7-diaminofluorene scaffold. Modification of the 2,7-diaminofluorene backbone included the use of (S)-prolinamide or its isostere (S,R)-piperidine-3-caboxamide, both bearing different amino acid residues with terminal carbamate groups. Compound 26 exhibited potent inhibitory activity against HCV genotype (GT) 1b (effective concentration (EC50) = 36 pM and a selectivity index of >2.78 × 106). Compound 26 showed high selectivity on GT 1b versus GT 4a. Interestingly, it showed a significant antiviral effect against GT 3a (EC50 = 1.2 nM). The structure-activity relationship (SAR) analysis revealed that picomolar inhibitory activity was attained with the use of S-prolinamide capped with R- isoleucine or R-phenylglycine residues bearing a terminal alkyl carbamate group.
Expanding the chemical space of anti-HCV NS5A inhibitors by stereochemical exchange and peptidomimetic approaches
Ramsis, Triveena M.,Abdel Karim, Shereen E.,Vassilaki, Niki,Frakolaki, Efseveia,Kamal, Ahmed A. M.,Zoidis, Grigoris,Ahmed, Nermin S.,Abadi, Ashraf H.
, (2018/05/30)
Here we report a series of potent anti-HCV agents bearing a symmetrical benzidine l-prolinamide backbone with different capping groups including alkyl/aryl carbamates of natural and unnatural valine and leucine amino acids. All compounds were investigated for their inhibitory activity in an HCV replicon assay on genotype 1b. The novel compounds share some chemical and clinical attributes of commercially available NS5A inhibitors. Compounds 5 and 6 with unnatural capping residue and ethyl and isobutyl carbamates showed EC50 values in the picomolar range with a low toxicity profile and selectivity indices of several orders of magnitude. These findings enlarge the chemical space from which NS5A inhibitors may be discovered by adopting unnatural amino acids, amino acids other than valine and carbamates other than methyl as the capping groups.
Flash vacuum pyrolysis of stabilised phosphorus ylides. Part 17. Preparation of aliphatic amino acid derived γ-alkoxycarbonyl-amino-β-oxo ylides and pyrolysis to give α,β-acetylenic γ-amino acid and GABA analogues
Aitken, R. Alan,Karodia, Nazira,Massil, Tracy,Young, Robert J.
, p. 533 - 541 (2007/10/03)
A series of eleven α-aminoacyl stabilised phosphorus ylides 9-19 have been prepared by condensation of N-alkoxycarbonyl protected amino acids with Ph3P = CHCO2Et using a carbodiimide peptide coupling reagent. Upon flash vacuum pyrolysis at 600 °C, these undergo extrusion of Ph3PO to give the corresponding α,β-acetylenic γ-amino esters 21-29, 33 and 34 in moderate yield. In two cases the terminal alkynes 30 and 31 are also formed. The β-aminoacyl ylide 20 from β-alanine similarly gives the α,β-acetylenic δ-amino ester 35 upon pyrolysis. Regioselective addition of HBr to the triple bond of one acetylenic ester 25 was observed giving a mixture of E and Z α-bromoacrylates 36. Hydrogenation of the N-Cbz acetylenic esters 21-23 and 33 results in N-deprotection and hydrogenation of the triple bond to afford the chiral GABA analogues 37-40 in 70 ->95% ee as determined by 19F NMR of their Mosher amides. Fully assigned 13C NMR spectra of all the ylides and acetylenic ester derivatives are presented.
