30318-30-0

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• 30318-28-6 N-(chloro-diphenyl-acetyl)-alanine 
• 195601-04-8 Ethyl 2-(2,2-dichloro-3,3-diphenylaziridin-1-yl)propanoate 
• 2902-98-9 2-chloro-2,2-diphenylacetyl chloride 

Relevant academic research and scientific papers

Synthesis of pseudoxazolones and their inhibition of the 3C cysteine proteinases from hepatitis A virus and human rhinovirus-14

The hepatitis A virus (HAV) and human rhinovirus (HRV) are important pathogens that belong to the picornavirus family. All picornaviruses have a 3C proteinase that processes an initially biosynthesised precursor protein and is crucial for viral maturation and replication. Monophenyl and diphenyl pseudoxazolones were prepared by cyclisation-elimination of N-α-chloroacyl amino acids or by condensation of p-substituted benzamides with glyoxylic acid followed by dehydrative cyclisation. Such pseudoxazolones are good time-dependent inhibitors of the HAV and HRV 3C proteinases with IC50 values in the micromolar range. Mechanistic insights into the mode of inhibition of the pseudoxazolones were obtained from mass spectrometry and gHMQC NMR spectroscopy of the HAV 3C enzyme-inhibitor complex using a pseudoxazolone labelled at the α-carbon with 13C, 13b(α-13C). The results indicate that HAV 3C proteinase was inactivated via the formation of a thioether bond by nucleophilic attack of the enzyme thiolate at the imine position of the pseudoxazolone 13b(α-13C).

Pseudoxazolones, a new class of inhibitors for cysteine proteinases: Inhibition of hepatitis A virus and human rhinovirus 3C proteinases

Monophenyl and diphenyl pseudoxazolone derivatives of glycine and alanine were prepared and found to be time-dependent inhibitors of hepatitis A virus (HAV) 3C and human rhinovirus (HRV) 3C proteinases with IC50 values in the micromolar range.

Cascade Transformations of (2,2-Diaryl-3,3-dichloroaziridin-1-yl)acetates

Esters of (2,2-diaryl-3,3-dichloroaziridin-1-yl)acetic acid prepared from glycine derivatives under alkylation conditions afford esters of 2-[N-alkyl-N-(2,2-diaryl-1-cyanovinyl)amino]-3,3-diarylacrylic acid in 20-40% yield. The reaction resulting in these compounds proceeds through a cascade of 3-chloro-2-azadiene and ylide intermediates. 3-Chloro-2-azadienes originating from (2,2-diaryl-3,3-dichloroaziridin-1-yl)-acetates react with primary and secondary amines at the carbon atom of imine group providing ketenimines which undergo ketenimine-nitrile rearrangement or fragmentation. The other bases (KOH, MeONa, DBU) effect dehydrochlorination of the mentioned 3-chloro-2-azadienes giving nitrile-ylides which are trapped by nucleophilic reagents. The 3-chloro-2-azadiene obtained from methyl (2,2-diaryl-3,3-dichloroaziridin-1-yl)- acetate and DBU was relatively stable and was isolated as an individual compound. (2,2-diaryl-3,3-dichloroaziridin-1-yl)propionates behave as nonfunctionalized dichloroaziridines.