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Synthesis and herbicidal evaluation of novel 3-[(α-hydroxy- substituted)benzylidene]pyrrolidine-2,4-diones
Zhu, Youquan,Zou, Xiaomao,Hu, Fangzhong,Yao, Changsheng,Liu, Bin,Yang, Huazheng
, p. 9566 - 9570 (2007/10/03)
A series of 3-[(α-hydroxy-substituted) benzylidene]pyrrolidine-2,4- dione derivatives were synthesized as candidate herbicides by reacting different aroyl acetates with N-substituted glycine esters. The new compounds were identified by 1H NMR spectroscopy and elemental analyses. Their herbicidal activities were evaluated. Some compounds exhibited excellent herbicidal activities at a dose of 187.5 g/ha. A suitable electron-donating substituent at the 2- and/or 4-position of the phenyl ring was essential for high herbicidal activity, a result that has not been reported before. It was also found that the title compound's structure-activity relationships were different from those of other similar kinds of earlier compounds, a result that may depend on the enol structure difference.
Discovery of a series of pyrrolidine-based endothelin receptor antagonists with enhanced ET(A) receptor selectivity
Boyd, Steven A.,Mantei, Robert A.,Tasker, Andrew S.,Liu, Gang,Sorensen, Bryan K.,Henry Jr., Kenneth J.,Von Geldern, Thomas W.,Winn, Martin,Wu-Wong, Jinshyun R.,Chiou, William J.,Dixon, Douglas B.,Hutchins, Charles W.,Marsh, Kennan C.,Nguyen, Bach,Opgenorth, Terry J.
, p. 991 - 1002 (2007/10/03)
Endothelins, ET-1, ET-2, and ET-3 are potent vasoconstricting and mitogenic 21-amino acid bicyclic peptides, which exert their effects upon binding to the ET(A) and ET(B) receptors. The ET(A) receptor mediates vasoconstriction and smooth muscle cell proliferation, and the ET(B) receptor mediates different effects in different tissues, including nitric oxide release from endothelial cells, and vasoconstriction in certain vascular cell types. Selective antagonists of endothelin receptor subtypes may prove useful in determining the role of endothelin in various tissue types and disease states, and hence as therapeutic agents for such diseases. The pyrrolidine carboxylic acid A-127722 has been disclosed as a potent and ET(A)-selective antagonist, and is currently undergoing clinical trials. In our efforts to find antagonists with altered selectivity (ET(A)-selective, ET(B)-selective, or nonselective), we investigated the SAR of the 2-substituent on the pyrrolidine. Compounds with alkyl groups at the 2-position possessed ET(A) selectivity improved over A-127722 (1400-fold selective), with the best of these compounds showing nearly 19,000-fold selectivity. Copyright (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd.
