41109-05-1Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Synthesis and antitumor evaluation of some 1,3,4-oxadiazole-2(3H)-thione and 1,2,4-triazole-5(1H)-thione derivatives
Feng, Cheng Tao,Wang, Ling Dong,Yan, Yu Gang,Liu, Jian,Li, Shao Hua
experimental part, p. 315 - 320 (2012/09/07)
A series of 1,3,4-oxadiazole-2-thione and 1,2,4-triazole-5-thione derivatives have been successfully synthesized and studied for their antitumor activity. These compounds were prepared from carboxylic acids and chiral aminoacid esters. The prepared compounds were evaluated for their cytotoxicity against cancer in vitro using hydroxyurea (HU) as positive control. A fair number of compounds were found to have significant antitumor activity. To study the molecular basis of interaction and affinity of binding of the target molecules, all the compounds were docked into the ATPase domain of TP-II and tubulin using Schroedinger. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010.
Structure-Activity Relationships in the Esterase-catalysed Hydrolysis and Transesterification of Esters and Lactones
Barton, Patrick,Laws, Andrew P.,Page, Michael I.
, p. 2021 - 2030 (2007/10/02)
The Broensted exponents for the alkaline hydrolysis of alkyl esters are 1.3 and 0.4 for substitution in the acyl and alcohol portions, respectively, which is indicative of a transition state which resembles the anionic tetrahedral intermediate with a localised negative charge.By contrast, the rate of the pig liver esterase (PLE)-catalysed hydrolysis shows little dependence upon the electron-withdrawing power of substituents.The values of kcat are independent of the pKa of the leaving group alcohol suggesting rate-limiting deacylation.There is a small steric effect of α-substitution in both the alcohol and carboxylic acid residues for the enzyme-catalysed reactions but the enzyme rate enhancement factor remains high for most esters.There is no substantial ee observed for the hydrolysis of racemic esters although the kinetic data can be used for determining the regioselective hydrolysis of diesters.Unsubstituted lactones are poor substrates for PLE but derivatives with hydrophobic substituents show kcat/Km values similar to those for acyclic esters.Dihydrocoumarin undergoes transesterification catalysed by PLE, kcat increases with increasing alcohol concentration indicative of rate-limiting deacylation.There is enantioselectivity in the PLE-catalysed hydrolysis of some racemic lactones but little or none in the transesterification of racemic alcohols with dihydrocoumarin.
