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Metal-free, air-promoted, radical-mediated arylation of benzoquinone with phenylhydrazines
Sayahi, Mohammad Hosein,Ansari, Samira,Saghanezhad, Seyyed Jafar,Mahdavi, Mohammad
, p. 703 - 706 (2018)
An efficient, economic, and air-promoted metal-free method for direct arylation of benzoquinone with phenylhydrazines was developed. This approach leads to the formation of corresponding [1,1′-biphenyl]-2,5-dione derivatives as biological and pharmaceutic
Chemoproteomics of an indole-based quinone epoxide identifies druggable vulnerabilities in vancomycin-resistant staphylococcus aureus
Kulkarni, Amogh,Soni, Isha,Kelkar, Dhanashree S.,Dharmaraja, Allimuthu T.,Sankar, Rathinam K.,Beniwal, Gaurav,Rajendran, Abinaya,Tamhankar, Sharvari,Chopra, Sidharth,Kamat, Siddhesh S.,Chakrapani, Harinath
supporting information, p. 6785 - 6795 (2019/08/20)
The alarming global rise in fatalities from multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) infections has underscored a need to develop new therapies to address this epidemic. Chemoproteomics is valuable in identifying targets for new drugs in different human diseases including bacterial infections. Targeting functional cysteines is particularly attractive, as they serve critical catalytic functions that enable bacterial survival. Here, we report an indole-based quinone epoxide scaffold with a unique boat-like conformation that allows steric control in modulating thiol reactivity. We extensively characterize a lead compound (4a), which potently inhibits clinically derived vancomycin-resistant S. aureus. Leveraging diverse chemoproteomic platforms, we identify and biochemically validate important transcriptional factors as potent targets of 4a. Interestingly, each identified transcriptional factor has a conserved catalytic cysteine residue that confers antibiotic tolerance to these bacteria. Thus, the chemical tools and biological targets that we describe here prospect new therapeutic paradigms in combatting S. aureus infections.
Hydroquinone-Based Biarylic Polyphenols as Redox Organocatalysts for Dioxygen Reduction: Dramatic Effect of Orcinol Substituent on the Catalytic Activity
Lebeuf, Rapha?l,Nardello-Rataj, Véronique,Aubry, Jean-Marie
, p. 268 - 278 (2017/02/05)
A series of 18 new biaryls has been synthesized and investigated with regard to their organocatalytic efficiency. They consist of a hydroquinone core linked to a phenol or a resorcinol moiety. It is shown that the resorcinol moiety substituted on its meta position has a strong impact on the catalytic activities of these compounds towards the reduction of dioxygen by diethylhydroxylamine (DEHA) in aqueous medium. While the derivative consisting of the two cores spaced by three methylene units is completely inactive, substitution on the hydroquinone part leads to tremendously active catalysts, especially the biaryl consisting of methoxyhydroquinone-orcinol. Two mechanisms are proposed to explain the dramatic efficiency of the novel hydroquinone-based biarylic polyphenols for the catalytic reduction of dioxygen, both considering the influence of the orcinol moiety on the semiquinone anion intermediate. As a first hypothesis, this substituent could promote its direct reduction by DEHA to regenerate the hydroquinone, which will react again to regenerate the semiquinone. On the other hand, an intramolecular hydrogen bond could enhance the reactivity of the semiquinone anion toward dioxygen by an addition–elimination mechanism. In this case, the elimination would provide the corresponding quinone but, since the reduction of the quinones by DEHA is much slower than the observed kinetics, a reduction by DEHA prior to the elimination has to be considered to generate the semiquinone anion instead of the quinone. (Figure presented.).
