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Effect of chirality and redox potentials on the cytotoxicity of new ferrocene functionalized chiral tertiary amines
Roy, Hetal,Savani, Chirag J.,Singh, Vinay K.,Vennapu, Dushyanth R.
, (2021/08/03)
Optically pure enantiomeric pair viz. ferrocene functionalized chiral tertiary amines S,S-(-)-1 and R,R-(+)-2 have been synthesized from ferrocenylmethylamine to probe the influence of chirality and the redox potential on their anti-proliferative activity. Compounds were characterized by microanalysis, HPLC, 1H, 13C NMR, UV-visible, fluorescence, FTIR, thermogravimetric and crystallographic techniques. The single crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD) study revealed that the molecules of 1 holding S,S-chirality at benzylic carbons forms a fascinating M-helix while 2 holding R,R-chirality at benzylic carbons forms P-helix by involving intra- and intermolecular H-bonding interactions as verified by Hirshfeld surface analysis. Chirality-related influence was observed on the antiproliferative activity of enantiomeric pair and at the supramolecular level. For instance, enantiomer R,R-(+)-2 is found to be highly active against all the investigated human carcinoma cell lines MCF 7, IMR 32, HepG2, and immortal L132 cell lines. In particular, R,R-(+)-2 exhibited more than 10 folds better antiproliferation (IC 50: 6.35±0.19 μM) than other enantiomer S,S-(-)-1 (IC50: 65.96 ± 0.12 μM) and four folds better activity than highly successful anticancer drug, cisplatin (IC50: 24.3 ± 1.7 μM) against Hep G2 cell line. The electrochemical, DFT calculations and molecular docking study have been performed to justify the experimental outcomes.
Using chiral ionic liquid additives to enhance asymmetric induction in a Diels-Alder reaction
Goodrich,Nimal Gunaratne,Hall,Wang,Jin,Muldoon,Ribeiro,Pombeiro,Parvulescu,Davey,Hardacre
supporting information, p. 1704 - 1713 (2017/02/10)
A bis-oxazoline ligand has been complexed using Cu(ii) and Zn(ii) trifluoromethanesulfonate and a range of chiral ionic liquid (CIL) additives based on natural products were used as a co-catalyst for a Diels-Alder reaction. The catalytic performance of th
Discovery of novel inhibitors of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) signaling pathway by virtual screening
Zhang, Mingming,Zhu, Weiliang,Li, Yingxia
, p. 301 - 310 (2013/05/22)
Inhibition of the signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) signaling pathway has been considered a novel therapeutic strategy to treat human cancers that harbor aberrantly-active STAT3. In this study, nearly 204,000 compounds in Specs database were screened by virtual screening, and samples of top 100 compounds identified as candidate small-molecule inhibitors of STAT3 were evaluated by STAT3-dependent luciferase reporter assay as well as other cell-based assays. A benzothiazole core scaffold containing compound, 9, was identified as an inhibitor of IL-6/STAT3 signaling with an IC50 of 3.567 μM. It is the first time to discover benzothiazole scaffold as a potent STAT3 signaling inhibitor. We further investigated the (structure-activity relationship) SAR of the benzothiazole analogues, and discovered compound 16w as a better small-molecule inhibitor. Both compounds inhibited the phosphorylation of STAT3 and had no obvious effect on upstream JAK2 kinase.