4073-52-3Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Reactions of 3-arylpropenenitriles with arenes under superelectrophilic activation conditions: Hydroarylation of the carbon-carbon double bond followed by cyclization into 3-arylindanones
Gorbunova, Yelizaveta,Zakusilo, Dmitriy N.,Boyarskaya, Irina A.,Vasilyev, Aleksander V.
, (2020/05/25)
Reactions of 3-arylpropenenitriles [ArCH[dbnd]CHCN] with arenes [Ar'H] under the superelectrophilic activation conditions with Br?nsted superacid TfOH (CF3SO3H) or strong Lewis acid AlBr3 result, first, in the formation of products of hydroarylation of the carbon-carbon double bond, 3,3-diarylpropanenitriles [Ar(Ar’)CHCH2CN]. Reactions may go further in TfOH leading to 3-arylindanones, as products of intramolecular aromatic acylation by the electrophilically activated nitrile group. Intermediate cationic species, derived at the protonation of the starting 3-arylpropenenitriles onto the carbon of C[dbnd]C bond and the nitrile nitrogen, have been studied by DFT calculation. A plausible reaction mechanism including the formation of highly reactive dications [(Ar)HC+–CH2C+ = NH] has been proposed. The obtained 3,3-diarylpropanenitriles have been transformed into pharmaceutically valuable 5-(2,2-diarylethyl)-1H-tetrazoles [Ar(Ar’)CHCH2Tetr] and 3-diarylpropylamines [Ar(Ar’)CH(CH2)2NH2] by the reactions with NaN3 and LiAlH4 correspondingly.
N-[4-(Methylsulfonylamino)benzyl]thiourea analogues as vanilloid receptor antagonists: Analysis of structure-activity relationships for the 'C-Region'
Lee, Jeewoo,Kang, Sang-Uk,Lim, Ju-Ok,Choi, Hyun-Kyung,Jin, Mi-Kyung,Toth, Attila,Pearce, Larry V.,Tran, Richard,Wang, Yun,Szabo, Tamas,Blumberg, Peter M.
, p. 371 - 385 (2007/10/03)
We recently reported that N-(4-t-butylbenzyl)-N′-[4- (methylsulfonylamino)benzyl] thiourea (2) was a high affinity antagonist of the vanilloid receptor with a binding affinity of Ki=63 nM and an antagonism of Ki=53.9 nM in rat VR1 heterologously expressed in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells (Mol. Pharmacol. 2002, 62, 947-956). In an effort to further improve binding affinity and antagonistic potency, we have modified the C-region of the lead 4-t-butylbenzyl group with diverse surrogates, such as araalkyl, alkyl, 4-alkynylbenzyl, indanyl, 3,3-diarylpropyl, 4-alkoxybenzyl, 4-substituted piperazine and piperidine. The lipophilic surrogates, arylalkyl and alkyl, conferred modest decreases in binding affinities and antagonistic potencies; the groups having heteroatoms resulted in dramatic decreases. Our findings indicate that 4-t-butylbenzyl is one of the most favorable groups for high receptor binding and potent antagonism to VR1 in this structural series.
