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Enantiomerically Pure Dibenzyl Esters of l -Aspartic and l -Glutamic Acid
Bolchi, Cristiano,Valoti, Ermanno,Fumagalli, Laura,Straniero, Valentina,Ruggeri, Paola,Pallavicini, Marco
, p. 878 - 883 (2015/07/27)
(S)-Dibenzyl aspartate p-toluenesulfonate [(S)-1·TsOH] and (S)-dibenzyl glutamate p-toluenesulfonate [(S)-2·TsOH] were efficiently prepared from the respective l-amino acids and benzyl alcohol with very high yields by using cyclohexane as a water azeotroping solvent instead of benzene, carbon tetrachloride, toluene, or benzyl alcohol itself, as reported in literature methods. Preventively, chiral HPLC methods were developed to determine the enantiomeric excess of the two diesters and DSC analyses were performed on the respective p-toluenesulfonates. With the aid of such investigation tools, we demonstrated that (S)-1·TsOH and (S)-2·TsOH were formed enatiomerically pure in cyclohexane, whereas more or less pronounced racemization occurred both in toluene and in benzyl alcohol. The two one-pot procedures, which did not require crystallization of the product or any other purification step, were accomplished on multigram scale.
Tryptophan-containing dipeptide derivatives as potent PPARγ antagonists: Design, synthesis, biological evaluation, and molecular modeling
Deng, Guanghui,Liu, Zhiguo,Ye, Fei,Luo, Xiaomin,Zhu, Weiliang,Shen, Xu,Liu, Hong,Jiang, Hualiang
experimental part, p. 2699 - 2716 (2009/04/11)
The discovery of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) antagonists (also termed "selective PPARγ modulators, SPPARγM") is now of a great interest in the treatment of diabetes and obesity. The structure of compound 1a (G3335, Fig. 1), a novel class of PPARγ antagonist, is entirely different from that of other reported PPARγ antagonists. A series of 35 novel analogues (1b-l, 9a-d, 13a-t) were designed, synthesized and evaluated against the agonistic effects exerted by rosiglitazone. These results indicated that most functional groups of 1a were conserved, and six new compounds (1b, 1c, and 9a-d) exhibited strong PPARγ antagonistic activities (IC50 values of 5.2-25.8 μM) against 10 μM rosiglitazone in the promotion of the PPARγ-LBD-CBP (ligand-binding domain and cAMP-response-element binding protein) interaction as investigated by yeast two-hybrid technology based assay. Molecular modeling studies for compounds 1a-d, 1h, 9c-d, and 13a were also presented.
