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From Quinoline to Quinazoline-Based S. aureus NorA Efflux Pump Inhibitors by Coupling a Focused Scaffold Hopping Approach and a Pharmacophore Search
Cedraro, Nicholas,Cannalire, Rolando,Astolfi, Andrea,Mangiaterra, Gianmarco,Felicetti, Tommaso,Vaiasicca, Salvatore,Cernicchi, Giada,Massari, Serena,Manfroni, Giuseppe,Tabarrini, Oriana,Cecchetti, Violetta,Barreca, Maria Letizia,Biavasco, Francesca,Sabatini, Stefano
, p. 3044 - 3059 (2021)
Antibiotic resistance breakers, such as efflux pump inhibitors (EPIs), represent a powerful alternative to the development of new antimicrobials. Recently, by using previously described EPIs, we developed pharmacophore models able to identify inhibitors of NorA, the most studied efflux pump of Staphylococcus aureus. Herein we report the pharmacophore-based virtual screening of a library of new potential NorA EPIs generated by an in-silico scaffold hopping approach of the quinoline core. After chemical synthesis and biological evaluation of the best virtual hits, we found the quinazoline core as the best performing scaffold. Accordingly, we designed and synthesized a series of functionalized 2-arylquinazolines, which were further evaluated as NorA EPIs. Four of them exhibited a strong synergism with ciprofloxacin and a good inhibition of ethidium bromide efflux on resistant S. aureus strains coupled with low cytotoxicity against human cell lines, thus highlighting a promising safety profile.
Visible light-mediated synthesis of amides from carboxylic acids and amine-boranes
Chen, Xuenian,Kang, Jia-Xin,Ma, Yan-Na,Miao, Yu-Qi
supporting information, p. 3595 - 3599 (2021/06/06)
Here, a photocatalytic deoxygenative amidation protocol using readily available amine-boranes and carboxylic acids is described. This approach features mild conditions, moderate-to-good yields, easy scale-up, and up to 62 examples of functionalized amides with diverse substituents. The synthetic robustness of this method was also demonstrated by its application in the late-stage functionalization of several pharmaceutical molecules.
Transamidation for the Synthesis of Primary Amides at Room Temperature
Chen, Jiajia,Lee, Sunwoo,Xia, Yuanzhi
supporting information, (2020/05/05)
Various primary amides have been synthesized using the transamidation of various tertiary amides under metal-free and mild reaction conditions. When (NH4)2CO3 reacts with a tertiary amide bearing an N-electron-withdrawing substituent, such as sulfonyl and diacyl, in DMSO at 25 °C, the desired primary amide product is formed in good yield with good funcctional group tolerance. In addition, N-tosylated lactam derivatives afforded their corresponding N-tosylamido alkyl amide products via a ring opening reaction.