3804-16-8Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Stereoselective Synthesis of Cyclohepta[b]indoles by Visible-Light-Induced [2+2]-Cycloaddition/retro-Mannich-type Reactions
Mu, Xin-Peng,Li, Yuan-He,Zheng, Nan,Long, Jian-Yu,Chen, Si-Jia,Liu, Bing-Yan,Zhao, Chun-Bo,Yang, Zhen
, p. 11211 - 11216 (2021)
A novel method for the concise synthesis of cyclohepta[b]indoles in high yields was developed. The method involves a visible-light-induced, photocatalyzed [2+2]-cycloaddition/ retro-Mannich-type reaction of enaminones. Experimental and computational studies suggested that the reaction is a photoredox process initiated by single-electron oxidation of an enaminone moiety, which undergoes subsequent cyclobutane formation and rapidly fragmentation in a radical-cation state to form cyclohepta[b]indoles.
N-skatyltryptamines-dual 5-ht6r/d2r ligands with antipsychotic and procognitive potential
Bojarski, Andrzej J.,Bugno, Ryszard,Cie?lik, Paulina,Duszyńska, Beata,Handzlik, Jadwiga,Hogendorf, Adam S.,Hogendorf, Agata,Kaczorowska, Katarzyna,Kurczab, Rafa?,Latacz, Gniewomir,Lenda, Tomasz,Sata?a, Grzegorz,Staroń, Jakub,Szewczyk, Bernadeta
, (2021/08/17)
A series of N-skatyltryptamines was synthesized and their affinities for serotonin and dopamine receptors were determined. Compounds exhibited activity toward 5-HT1A, 5-HT2A, 5-HT6, and D2 receptors. Substitution patterns resulting in affinity/activity switches were identified and studied using homology modeling. Chosen hits were screened to determine their metabolism, permeability, hepatotoxicity, and CYP inhibition. Several D2 receptor antagonists with additional 5-HT6R antagonist and agonist properties were identified. The former combination resembled known antipsychotic agents, while the latter was particularly interesting due to the fact that it has not been studied before. Selective 5-HT6R antagonists have been shown previously to produce procognitive and promnesic effects in several rodent models. Administration of 5-HT6R agonists was more ambiguous-in naive animals, it did not alter memory or produce slight amnesic effects, while in rodent models of memory impairment, they ameliorated the condition just like antagonists. Using the identified hit compounds 15 and 18, we tried to sort out the difference between ligands exhibiting the D2R antagonist function combined with 5-HT6R agonism, and mixed D2/5-HT6R antagonists in murine models of psychosis.
Metal-Free Dearomatization: Direct Access to Spiroindol(en)ines in Batch and Continuous-Flow
Ranjan, Prabhat,Ojeda, Gerardo M.,Sharma, Upendra K.,Van der Eycken, Erik V.
, p. 2442 - 2446 (2019/01/29)
A metal-free, phosphine-catalyzed intramolecular “umpolung Michael addition” on alkynes to form spiroindol(en)ines is reported. This nucleophilic catalysis enables the formation of a wide scope of five- and six-membered spiroindol(en)ines in moderate to excellent yields in batch as well as under continuous-flow conditions. Triphenylphosphine-catalyzed nucleophilic activation of alkynes allows the exclusive formation of exo-product under mild reaction conditions.
Facile in Vitro Biocatalytic Production of Diverse Tryptamines
McDonald, Allwin D.,Perkins, Lydia J.,Buller, Andrew R.
, p. 1939 - 1944 (2019/07/08)
Tryptamines are a medicinally important class of small molecules that serve as precursors to more complex, clinically used indole alkaloid natural products. Typically, tryptamine analogues are prepared from indoles through multistep synthetic routes. In the natural world, the desirable tryptamine synthon is produced in a single step by l-tryptophan decarboxylases (TDCs). However, no TDCs are known to combine high activity and substrate promiscuity, which might enable a practical biocatalytic route to tryptamine analogues. We have now identified the TDC from Ruminococcus gnavus as the first highly active and promiscuous member of this enzyme family. RgnTDC performs up to 96 000 turnovers and readily accommodates tryptophan analogues with substituents at the 4, 5, 6, and 7 positions, as well as alternative heterocycles, thus enabling the facile biocatalytic synthesis of >20 tryptamine analogues. We demonstrate the utility of this enzyme in a two-step biocatalytic sequence with an engineered tryptophan synthase to afford an efficient, cost-effective route to tryptamines from commercially available indole starting materials.
Directed evolution of RebH for catalyst-controlled halogenation of indole C-H bonds
Andorfer, Mary C.,Park, Hyun June,Vergara-Coll, Jaylie,Lewis, Jared C.
, p. 3720 - 3729 (2016/06/09)
RebH variants capable of chlorinating substituted indoles ortho-, meta-, and para-to the indole nitrogen were evolved by directly screening for altered selectivity on deuterium-substituted probe substrates using mass spectrometry. This systematic approach allowed for rapid accumulation of beneficial mutations using simple adaptive walks and should prove generally useful for altering and optimizing the selectivity of C-H functionalization catalysts. Analysis of the beneficial mutations showed that structure-guided selection of active site residues for targeted mutagenesis can be complicated either by activity/selectivity tradeoffs that reduce the possibility of detecting such mutations or by epistatic effects that actually eliminate the benefits of a mutation in certain contexts. As a corollary to this finding, the precise manner in which the beneficial mutations identified led to the observed changes in RebH selectivity is not clear. Docking simulations suggest that tryptamine binds to these variants as tryptophan does to native halogenases, but structural studies will be required to confirm these models and shed light on how particular mutations impact tryptamine binding. Similar directed evolution efforts on other enzymes or artificial metalloenzymes could enable a wide range of C-H functionalization reactions.
Alpha-ethyltryptamines as dual dopamine-serotonin releasers
Blough, Bruce E.,Landavazo, Antonio,Partilla, John S.,Decker, Ann M.,Page, Kevin M.,Baumann, Michael H.,Rothman, Richard B.
, p. 4754 - 4758 (2015/01/09)
The dopamine (DA), serotonin (5-HT), and norepinephrine (NE) transporter releasing activity and serotonin-2A (5-HT2A) receptor agonist activity of a series of substituted tryptamines are reported. Three compounds, 7b, (+)-7d and 7f, were found to be potent dual DA/5-HT releasers and were >10-fold less potent as NE releasers. Additionally, these compounds had different activity profiles at the 5-HT2Areceptor. The unique combination of dual DA/5-HT releasing activity and 5-HT2Areceptor activity suggests that these compounds could represent a new class of neurotransmitter releasers with therapeutic potential.
Synthesis and structureactivity relationship of novel conformationally restricted analogues of serotonin as 5-HT6 receptor ligands
Nirogi, Ramakrishna V.S.,Kambhampati, Ramasastri,Kothmirkar, Prabhakar,Konda, Jagadishbabu,Bandyala, Thrinath Reddy,Gudla, Parandhama,Arepalli, Sobhanadri,Gangadasari, Narasimhareddy P.,Shinde, Anil K.,Deshpande, Amol D.,Dwarampudi, Adireddy,Chindhe, Anil K.,Dubey, Pramod Kumar
, p. 443 - 450 (2012/08/28)
5-Hydroxytryptamine 6 receptors (5-HT6R) are being perceived as the possible target for treatment of cognitive disorders as well as obesity. The present article deals with the design, synthesis, in vitro binding and structureactivity relationship of a novel series of tetracyclic tryptamines with the rigidized N-arylsulphonyl, N-arylcarbonyl and N-benzyl substituents as 5-HT6 receptor ligands. The chiral sulphonyl derivatives 15a and 17a showed high affinity at 5-HT6R with the Ki of 23.4 and 20.5nM, respectively. The lead compound from the series 15a has acceptable ADME properties, adequate brain penetration and is active in animal models of cognition like Novel Object Recognition Task (NORT) and water maze.
Integrating carbon-halogen bond formation into medicinal plant metabolism
Runguphan, Weerawat,Qu, Xudong,O'Connor, Sarah E.
experimental part, p. 461 - 467 (2012/06/01)
Halogenation, which was once considered a rare occurrence in nature, has now been observed in many natural product biosynthetic pathways. However, only a small fraction of halogenated compounds have been isolated from terrestrial plants. Given the impact that halogenation can have on the biological activity of natural products, we reasoned that the introduction of halides into medicinal plant metabolism would provide the opportunity to rationally bioengineer a broad variety of novel plant products with altered, and perhaps improved, pharmacological properties. Here we report that chlorination biosynthetic machinery from soil bacteria can be successfully introduced into the medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus (Madagascar periwinkle). These prokaryotic halogenases function within the context of the plant cell to generate chlorinated tryptophan, which is then shuttled into monoterpene indole alkaloid metabolism to yield chlorinated alkaloids. A new functional group-a halide-is thereby introduced into the complex metabolism of C. roseus, and is incorporated in a predictable and regioselective manner onto the plant alkaloid products. Medicinal plants, despite their genetic and developmental complexity, therefore seem to be a viable platform for synthetic biology efforts.
New synthetic technologies for the construction of heterocycles and tryptamines
Nicolaou, K. C.,Krasovskiy, Arkady,Majumder, Utpal,Trepanier, Vincent E.,Chen, David Y.-K.
supporting information; experimental part, p. 3690 - 3699 (2009/09/24)
New synthetic methods for the construction of novel heterocycles and tryptamines are described. Thus, N-Boc anilines (I) are sequentially converted to heterocycles II ((3-(2-aminophenyl)pyrrolidin-3-ol) derivatives),III (substituted 2-oxo-1,2-dihydrospirobenzo[d][1,3]oxazine-4,3'-pyrrol idines), and VI (2-(4,5-dihydro-1H-pyrrol-3-yl)aniline) derivatives through a route involving t-BuLi induced ortho-metalation/ LaCl3 2LiCl metalexchange, reaction with N-Boc pyrrolidin-3-one (5), and subsequent deca rboxylative fragmentation. Labile intermediates VI are effectively converted to tryptamines Xa and Xb under controlled proticacidconditions.Inadditiontoprovidingexpedientaccesstothe2-oxo- 1,2-dihydrospirobenzo[d][1,3]oxazine-4,3'-pyrrolidines (III), the method is applicable to the synthesis of the corresponding 2-oxo-1,2-dihydrospirobenzo[d] [1,3]oxazine-4,3'-piperidine series of spirocycles (e.g., 42) and their precursors (3-(2-aminophenyl)piperidin-3-ol derivatives, e.g., 43) by using N-Boc-protected piperidin-3-one (40). Applications of the developed synthetic technologies to the synthesis of regioisomeric spirocycles 87 and 90, tryptamines 88 and 91, Corey's aspidophytine tryptamine (97), and efavirenz (1) are also described.
A versatile linkage strategy for solid-phase synthesis of N,N-dimethyltryptamines and β-carbolines
Wu, Tom Y. H.,Schulte, Peter G.
, p. 4033 - 4035 (2007/10/03)
(matrix presented) Various tryptamines are captured by a vinylsulfonylmethyl polystyrene resin, generating a safety-catch linkage. β-Carbolines can be formed from 4 by a Pictet-Spengler reaction with the introduction of R1. Tryptamine 4 can also be derivatized by acylation or copper-mediated coupling to introduce R2. If X = Br, Suzuki coupling can be used to introduce R3. After derivatization, the indole derivatives are activated with methyl iodide and released under mild basic condition.
