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Anti-influenza activity of phenethylphenylphthalimide analogs derived from thalidomide
Iwai, Yuma,Takahashi, Hitoshi,Hatakeyama, Dai,Motoshima, Kazunori,Ishikawa, Minoru,Sugita, Kazuyuki,Hashimoto, Yuichi,Harada, Yuichi,Itamura, Shigeyuki,Odagiri, Takato,Tashiro, Masato,Sei, Yoshihisa,Yamaguchi, Kentaro,Kuzuhara, Takashi
scheme or table, p. 5379 - 5390 (2010/09/05)
Swine-origin influenza A virus has caused pandemics throughout the world and influenza A is regarded as a serious global health issue. Hence, novel drugs that will target these viruses are very desirable. Influenza A expresses an RNA polymerase essential for its transcription and replication which comprises PA, PB1, and PB2 subunits. We identified potential novel anti-influenza agents from a screen of 34 synthesized phenethylphenylphthalimide analogs derived from thalidomide (PPT analogs). For this screen we used a PA endonuclease inhibition assay, a PB2 pathogenicity-determinant domain-binding assay, and an anti-influenza A virus assay. Three PPT analogs, PPT-65, PPT-66, and PPT-67, were found to both inhibit PA endonuclease activity and retard the growth of influenza A, suggesting a correlation between their activities. PPT-28 was also found to inhibit the growth of influenza A. These four analogs have a 3,4-dihydroxyphenethyl group in common. We also discuss the possibility that 3,4-dihydroxyphenethyl group flexibility may play an important functional role in PA endonuclease inhibition. Another analog harboring a dimethoxyphenethyl group, PPT-62, showed PB2 pathogenicity-determinant domain-binding activity, but did not inhibit the growth of the virus. Our present results indicate the utility of the PA endonuclease assay in the screening of anti-influenza drugs and are therefore useful for future strategies to develop novel anti-influenza A drugs and for mapping the function of the influenza A RNA polymerase subunits.
Functional group tolerant Kumada-Corriu-Tamao coupling of nonactivated alkyl halides with aryl and heteroaryl nucleophiles: Catalysis by a nickel pincer complex permits the coupling of functionalized Grignard reagents
Vechorkin, Oleg,Proust, Valerie,Hu, Xile
, p. 9756 - 9766 (2011/03/19)
A nickel(II) pincer complex [(MeNN2)NiCl] (1) catalyzes Kumada-Corriu-Tamao cross coupling of nonactivated alkyl halides with aryl and heteroaryl Grignard reagents. The coupling of octyl bromide with phenylmagnesium chloride was used as a test reaction. Using 3 mol % of 1 as the precatalyst and THF as the solvent, and in the presence of a catalytic amount of TMEDA, the coupling product was obtained in a high yield. The reaction conditions could be applied to cross coupling of other primary and secondary alkyl bromides and iodides. The coupling is tolerant to a wide range of functional groups. Therefore, alkyl halides containing ester, amide, ether, thioether, alcohol, pyrrole, indole, furan, nitrile, conjugated enone, and aryl halide moieties were coupled to give high isolated yields of products in which these units stay intact. For the coupling of ester-containing substrates, O-TMEDA is a better additive than TMEDA. The reaction protocol proves to be efficient for the coupling of Knochel-type functionalized Grignard reagents. Thus aryl Grignard reagents containing electron-deficient and/or sensitive ester, nitrile, amide, and CF3 substituents could be successfully coupled to nonactivated and functionalized alkyl iodides. The catalysis is also efficient for the coupling of alkyl iodides with functionalized heteroaryl Grignard reagents, giving rise to pyridine-, thiophene-, pyrazole-, furan-containing molecules with additional functionalities. Concerning the mechanism of the catalysis, [(MeNN2)Ni-(hetero)Ar] was identified as an intermediate, and the activation of alkyl halides was found to take place through a radical-rebound process.
Separation of α-glucosidase-inhibitory and liver X receptor-antagonistic activities of phenethylphenyl phthalimide analogs and generation of LXRα-selective antagonists
Motoshima, Kazunori,Noguchi-Yachide, Tomomi,Sugita, Kazuyuki,Hashimoto, Yuichi,Ishikawa, Minoru
experimental part, p. 5001 - 5014 (2009/12/24)
Liver X receptor (LXR) α/β dual agonists are candidate medicaments for the treatment of metabolic syndrome, because their biological actions include increasing cholesterol efflux mediated by LXRβ. However, their clinical application is currently limited by their enhancing effect on triglyceride (TG) synthesis mediated by LXRα. Combination of an LXRα-selective antagonist with an LXRα/β dual agonist may overcome this disadvantage. In the present work, structural development studies of phenethylphenyl phthalimide 9, which possesses LXRα/β dual-antagonistic activity and α-glucosidase-inhibitory activity, led to the LXRα-selective antagonist 23f. Specific α-glucosidase inhibitors were also obtained.
Design, synthesis and structure-activity relationships of (1H-pyridin-4-ylidene)amines as potential antimalarials
Rodrigues, Tiago,Guedes, Rita C.,dos Santos, Daniel J.V.A.,Carrasco, Marta,Gut, Jiri,Rosenthal, Philip J.,Moreira, Rui,Lopes, Francisca
scheme or table, p. 3476 - 3480 (2010/03/24)
(1H-Pyridin-4-ylidene)amines containing lipophilic side chains at the imine nitrogen atom were prepared as potential clopidol isosteres in the development of antimalarials. Their antiplasmodial activity was evaluated in vitro against the Plasmodium falciparum W2 (chloroquine-resistant) and FCR3 (atovaquone-resistant) strains. The most active of these derivatives, 4m, had an IC50 of 1 μM against W2 and 3 μM against FCR3. Molecular modeling studies suggest that (1H-pyridin-4-ylidene)amines may bind to the ubiquinol oxidation Qo site of cytochrome bc1.
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The present invention provides a compound useful as an agent for the prevention or treatment of a sex hormone-dependent disease or the like. That is, the present invention provides a fused heterocyclic derivative represented by the following general formula (I), a pharmaceutical composition containing the same, a medicinal use thereof and the like. In the formula (I), ring A represents 5-membered cyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon or 5-membered heteroaryl; RA represents halogen, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, carboxy, alkoxy, carbamoyl, alkylcarbamoyl or the like; ring B represents aryl or heteroaryl; RB represents halogen, alkyl, carboxy, alkoxy, carbamoyl, alkylcarbamoyl or the like; E1 and E2 represent an oxygen atom or the like; U represents a single bond or alkylene; X represents a group represented by Y, -SO2-Y, -O-(alkylene)-Y, -O-Z in which Y represents Z, amino or the like; Z represents cycloalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, aryl, heteroaryl or the like; or the like.
Synthesis and in vitro pharmacology of substituted quinoline-2,4-dicarboxylic acids as inhibitors of vesicular glutamate transport
Carrigan, Christina N.,Bartlett, Richard D.,Esslinger, C. Sean,Cybulski, Kimberly A.,Tongcharoensirikul, Pakamas,Bridges, Richard J.,Thompson, Charles M.
, p. 2260 - 2276 (2007/10/03)
The vesicular glutamate transport (VGLUT) system selectively mediates the uptake of L-glutamate into synaptic vesicles. Uptake is linked to an H+-ATPase that provides coupling among ATP hydrolysis, an electrochemical proton gradient, and glutamate transport. Substituted quinoline-2,4-dicarboxylic acids (QDCs), prepared by condensation of dimethyl ketoglutaconate (DKG) with substituted anilines and subsequent hydrolysis, were investigated as potential VGLUT inhibitors in synaptic vesicles. A brief panel of substituted QDCs was previously reported (Carrigan et al. Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 1999, 9, 2607-2612)1 and showed that certain substituents led to more potent competitive inhibitors of VGLUT. Using these compounds as leads, an expanded series of QDC analogues were prepared either by condensation of DKG with novel anilines or via aryl-coupling (Suzuki or Heck) to dimethyl 6-bromoquinolinedicarboxylate. From the panel of almost 50 substituted QDCs tested as inhibitors of the VGLUT system, the 6-PhCH=CH-QDC (Ki = 167 μM), 6-PhCH2CH2-QDC (Ki = 143 μM), 6-(4′-phenylstyryl)-QDC (Ki = 64 μM), and 6-biphenyl-4-yl-QDC (Ki=41 μM) were found to be the most potent blockers. A preliminary assessment of the key elements needed for binding to the VGLUT protein based on the structure-activity relationships for the panel of substituted QDCs is discussed herein. The substituted QDCs represent the first synthetically derived VGLUT inhibitors and are promising templates for the development of selective transporter inhibitors.
Thermolysis of 1-(N-Acetyl-N-aryl)amino-2,4,6-triphenylpyridinium Tetrafluoroborates: A New Source of Arylnitrenium Ions
Abramovitch, Rudolph A.,Evertz, Kaspar,Huttner, Gottfried,Gibson, Harry H. Jr.,Weems, Harold G.
, p. 325 - 327 (2007/10/02)
Thermolysis of 1-(N-acetyl-N-ary)amino-2,4,6-triphenylpyridinium tetrafluoroborates a new and synthetically useful source of arylnitrenium ions under non-acidic conditions; a p-semidine-type byproduct is obtained from the phenylamino conpound.
Acid-promoted Decomposition of Benzenesulphenanilides and N-Aryl Bis(benzenesulphen)amides
Benati, Luisa,Montevecchi, P. Carlo,Spagnolo, Piero
, p. 2261 - 2266 (2007/10/02)
The decomposition of 4'-substituted benzenesulphanilides (1a-d) in the presence of trifluoroacetic acid (0.6 equiv.) leads to N-arylbis(benzenesulphen)amides (6a-d) in variable yields, depending on the 4'-substituent, in addition to disulphide (4) and anilines (3a-d), whereas products arising from sulphenylation of the N-aryl ring result from 3'-methoxybenzenesulphenanilide (1g).The 4'-nitro- and 3'-nitro-benzenesulphenanilides (1e,f) react with a slight excess of trifluoroacetic acid to give only (4), the thiosulphonate (5), and aniline (3e,f).The findings are interpreted in terms of possible nucleophilic attack at the S-N bond of a protonated sulphenanilide by the nitrogen or the N-aryl ring of another sulphenanilide unit, according to the nature of the substituent and its position, with displacement of aniline (3).The reaction of (1a-d) with 1.5 equiv. of trifluoroacetic acid leads to complete disappearance of the initially formed amides (6a-d) with concomitant formation of phenazines (9) and/or p-quinone di-imines (8).Similar results are obtained by using boron trifluoride-diethyl ether.Di-imines (8) and phenazines (9) are explained on the basis of a mechanism initially involving nucleophilic attack by (1) and/or (6) and/or (3) at the ortho and para positions of an intermediate cation, possibly (18A) or (18B), and loss of the disulphide (4).
Intramolecular Cyclization of Arylnitrenium Ions. Formation of Carbon-Carbon Bonds and of Lactones
Abramovitch, Rudolph A.,Cooper, Melanie,Iyer, Suresh,Jeyaraman, Ramasubbu,Rodriguez, J. Augusto Rosario
, p. 4819 - 4820 (2007/10/02)
Arylnitrenium ions bearing a meta side chain heaving a suitable nucleophilic center are generated by the acid-catalyzed decomposition of the appropriate azide; they undergo intramolecular cyclization leading to new carbon-carbon bonds or to lactones in pr
