20637-08-5Relevant articles and documents
Discovery of novel modulators for the PPARα (peroxisome proliferator activated receptor α): Potential therapies for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Yu, Donna D.,Van Citters, Gregg,Li, Hongzhi,Stoltz, Brian M.,Forman, Barry M.
, (2021)
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a severe liver disease causing serious liver complications, including nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Nuclear receptor PPARα (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α) has drawn special attention recently as a potential developmental drug target to treat type-2 diabetes and related diseases due to its unique functions in regulating lipid metabolism, promoting triglyceride oxidation, and suppressing hepatic inflammation, raising interest in PPARα agonists as potential therapies for NAFLD. However, how PPARα coordinates potential treatment of NAFLD and NASH between various metabolic pathways is still obscure. Here, we show that the DY series of novel selective PPARα modulators activate PPARα by up-regulating PPARα target genes directly involved in NAFLD and NASH. The design, synthesis, docking studies, and in vitro and in vivo evaluation of the novel DY series of PPARα agonists are described.
Copper-Catalyzed Conjugate Addition of Carbonyls as Carbanion Equivalent via Hydrazones
Luo, Siyi,Peng, Marie,Querard, Pierre,Li, Chen-Chen,Li, Chao-Jun
, p. 13111 - 13117 (2021/09/18)
Copper-catalyzed conjugate addition is a classic method for forming new carbon-carbon bonds. However, copper has never showed catalytic activity for umpolung carbanions in hydrazone chemistry. Herein, we report a facile conjugate addition of hydrazone catalyzed by readily available copper complexes at room temperature. The employment of mesitylcopper(I) and electron-rich phosphine bidentate ligand is a key factor affecting reactivity. The reaction allows various aromatic hydrazones to react with diverse conjugated compounds to produce 1,4-adducts in yields of about 20 to 99%.
An Iron-Mesoionic Carbene Complex for Catalytic Intramolecular C-H Amination Utilizing Organic Azides
Albrecht, Martin,Keilwerth, Martin,Meyer, Karsten,Pividori, Daniel M.,Stroek, Wowa
supporting information, p. 20157 - 20165 (2021/12/09)
The synthesis of N-heterocycles is of paramount importance for the pharmaceutical industry. They are often synthesized through atom economic and environmentally unfriendly methods, generating significant waste. A less explored, but greener, alternative is
Two-way homologation of aliphatic aldehydes: Both one-carbon shortening and lengthening via the same intermediate
Yoo, Jae Won,Seo, Youngran,Park, Jong Beom,Kim, Young Gyu
, (2020/01/13)
Aliphatic aldehydes can be homologated to both one-carbon shorter and one-carbon longer homologous carbonyl compounds through the 2–4 steps of reactions via the same intermediates, β,γ-unsaturated α-nitrosulfones, prepared from the proline-catalyzed sequential reactions of several aliphatic aldehydes with phenylsulfonylnitromethane. While the oxidative cleavage of the key intermediates gave one-carbon less homologous carbonyl compounds, the reduction of the same key intermediates followed by an oxidation produced one-carbon more homologous carbonyl compounds.
Palladium catalyzed hydroesterification of substituted alkenes under microwave conditions
Du Plessis, Maretha,Marais, Charlene,Bezuidenhoudt, Barend C. B.
supporting information, p. 40 - 48 (2020/09/16)
While several catalyst systems have been utilized in the hydroesterification or methoxycarbonylation of alkenes or equivalent substrates, these reactions are conventionally performed in autoclave reactor systems under high CO pressure (20-70 bar) and thermal heating (70 - 110 oC). In this paper, the first methoxycarbonylation reactions performed in a microwave reactor fitted with a gas-Addition accessory system are reported on and compared to the same reactions performed under conventional heating in an autoclave reactor. Thus 1-octene, styrene, allylbenzene, o-and p-methoxyallylbenzene and β-methylstyrene were subjected to methoxycarbonylation over a palladium acetate-aluminum triflate catalyst system at 12 bar and 95 oC. Results obtained indicated the methoxycarbonylation of these alkenes to be much faster under microwave conditions when compared to conventional heating and improvements in conversion ranged between 3 and 5% for the more reactive substrates (1-octene and styrene) and 6 - 20% for the allylbenzenes and β-methylstyrene.
Efficient C-H Amination Catalysis Using Nickel-Dipyrrin Complexes
Betley, Theodore A.,Clarke, Ryan M.,Dong, Yuyang,Porter, Gerard J.
supporting information, p. 10996 - 11005 (2020/07/08)
A dipyrrin-supported nickel catalyst (AdFL)Ni(py) (AdFL: 1,9-di(1-adamantyl)-5-perfluorophenyldipyrrin; py: pyridine) displays productive intramolecular C-H bond amination to afford N-heterocyclic products using aliphatic azide substrates. The catalytic amination conditions are mild, requiring 0.1-2 mol% catalyst loading and operational at room temperature. The scope of C-H bond substrates was explored and benzylic, tertiary, secondary, and primary C-H bonds are successfully aminated. The amination chemoselectivity was examined using substrates featuring multiple activatable C-H bonds. Uniformly, the catalyst showcases high chemoselectivity favoring C-H bonds with lower bond dissociation energy as well as a wide range of functional group tolerance (e.g., ethers, halides, thioetheres, esters, etc.). Sequential cyclization of substrates with ester groups could be achieved, providing facile preparation of an indolizidine framework commonly found in a variety of alkaloids. The amination cyclization reaction mechanism was examined employing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to determine the reaction kinetic profile. A large, primary intermolecular kinetic isotope effect (KIE = 31.9 ± 1.0) suggests H-atom abstraction (HAA) is the rate-determining step, indicative of H-atom tunneling being operative. The reaction rate has first order dependence in the catalyst and zeroth order in substrate, consistent with the resting state of the catalyst as the corresponding nickel iminyl radical. The presence of the nickel iminyl was determined by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy observed during catalysis. The activation parameters (ΔH? = 13.4 ± 0.5 kcal/mol; ΔS?= -24.3 ± 1.7 cal/mol·K) were measured using Eyring analysis, implying a highly ordered transition state during the HAA step. The proposed mechanism of rapid iminyl formation, rate-determining HAA, and subsequent radical recombination was corroborated by intramolecular isotope labeling experiments and theoretical calculations.
A metal-free desulfurizing radical reductive C-C coupling of thiols and alkenes
Qin, Qixue,Wang, Weijing,Zhang, Cheng,Song, Song,Jiao, Ning
supporting information, p. 10583 - 10586 (2019/09/06)
An intermolecular reductive C-C coupling of electrophilic alkyl radicals and alkenes has been developed. Thiols were used as both hydrogen-donating reagents and alkyl radical precursors in the presence of triethyl phosphite and radical initiator. A wide range of alkenes, including styrenes, and aliphatic olefins were well tolerated in this transformation. Mechanistic studies indicated that a phosphite promoted radical desulfurization of thiols to access electrophilic alkyl radicals and a radical chain propagation process may be involved in this transformation.
Reductive C-C Coupling by Desulfurizing Gold-Catalyzed Photoreactions
Zhang, Lumin,Si, Xiaojia,Yang, Yangyang,Witzel, Sina,Sekine, Kohei,Rudolph, Matthias,Rominger, Frank,Hashmi, A. Stephen K.
, p. 6118 - 6123 (2019/07/03)
[Au2(μ-dppm)2]Cl2-mediated photocatalysis reactions are usually initiated by ultraviolet A (UVA) light; herein, an unreported system using blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as excitation light source was found. The red shift of the absorption wavelength originates from the combination of [Au2(μ-dppm)2]Cl2 and ligand (Ph3P or mercaptan). On the basis of this finding, a gold-catalyzed reductive desulfurizing C-C coupling of electrophilic radicals and styrenes mediated by blue LEDs is presented, a coupling which cannot be efficiently accessed by previously reported methods. This mild and highly efficient C-C bond formation strategy uses mercaptans both as electron-deficient alkyl radical precursor as well as the hydrogen source. Two examples of amino acids have also been modified by using this strategy. Moreover, this methodology could be applied in polymer synthesis. Gram-scale synthesis and mechanistic insights into this transformation are also presented.
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Catalytic C-H Amination Mediated by Dipyrrin Cobalt Imidos
Baek, Yunjung,Betley, Theodore A.
supporting information, p. 7797 - 7806 (2019/05/22)
Reduction of (ArL)CoIIBr (ArL = 5-mesityl-1,9-(2,4,6-Ph3C6H2)dipyrrin) with potassium graphite afforded the novel CoI synthon (ArL)CoI. Treatment of (ArL)CoI with a stoichiometric amount of various alkyl azides (N3R) furnished three-coordinate CoIII alkyl imidos (ArL)Co(NR), as confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction (R: CMe2Bu, CMe2(CH2)2CHMe2). The exclusive formation of four-coordinate cobalt tetrazido complexes (ArL)Co(κ2-N4R2) was observed upon addition of excess azide, inhibiting any subsequent C-H amination. However, when a weak C-H bond is appended to the imido moiety, as in the case of (4-azido-4-methylpentyl)benzene, intramolecular C-H amination kinetically outcompetes formation of the corresponding tetrazene species to generate 2,2-dimethyl-5-phenylpyrrolidine in a catalytic fashion without requiring product sequestration. The imido (ArL)Co(NAd) exists in equilibrium in the presence of pyridine with a four-coordinate cobalt imido (ArL)Co(NAd)(py) (Ka = 8.04 M-1), as determined by 1H NMR titration experiments. Kinetic studies revealed that pyridine binding slows down the formation of the tetrazido complex by blocking azide coordination to the CoIII imido. Further, (ArL)Co(NR)(py) displays enhanced C-H amination reactivity compared to that of the pyridine-free complex, enabling higher catalytic turnover numbers under milder conditions. The mechanism of C-H amination was probed via kinetic isotope effect experiments [kH/kD = 10.2(9)] and initial rate analysis with para-substituted azides, suggesting a two-step radical pathway. Lastly, the enhanced reactivity of (ArL)Co(NR)(py) can be correlated to a higher spin-state population, resulting in a decreased crystal field due to a geometry change upon pyridine coordination.
