55478-08-5Relevant articles and documents
Structure-Guided Development of Potent Benzoylurea Inhibitors of BCL-XLand BCL-2
Roy, Michael J.,Vom, Amelia,Okamoto, Toru,Smith, Brian J.,Birkinshaw, Richard W.,Yang, Hong,Abdo, Houda,White, Christine. A.,Segal, David,Huang, David C. S.,Baell, Jonathan B.,Colman, Peter M.,Czabotar, Peter E.,Lessene, Guillaume
, p. 5447 - 5469 (2021/05/31)
The BCL-2 family of proteins (including the prosurvival proteins BCL-2, BCL-XL, and MCL-1) is an important target for the development of novel anticancer therapeutics. Despite the challenges of targeting protein-protein interaction (PPI) interfaces with small molecules, a number of inhibitors (called BH3 mimetics) have entered the clinic and the BCL-2 inhibitor, ABT-199/venetoclax, is already proving transformative. For BCL-XL, new validated chemical series are desirable. Here, we outline the crystallography-guided development of a structurally distinct series of BCL-XL/BCL-2 inhibitors based on a benzoylurea scaffold, originally proposed as α-helix mimetics. We describe structure-guided exploration of a cryptic "p5"pocket identified in BCL-XL. This work yields novel inhibitors with submicromolar binding, with marked selectivity toward BCL-XL. Extension into the hydrophobic p2 pocket yielded the most potent inhibitor in the series, binding strongly to BCL-XL and BCL-2 (nanomolar-range half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50)) and displaying mechanism-based killing in cells engineered to depend on BCL-XL for survival.
Photochemical Functionalization of Heterocycles with EBX Reagents: C?H Alkynylation versus Deconstructive Ring Cleavage**
Voutyritsa, Errika,Garreau, Marion,Kokotou, Maroula G.,Triandafillidi, Ierasia,Waser, Jér?me,Kokotos, Christoforos G.
supporting information, p. 14453 - 14460 (2020/10/12)
The development of novel methodologies for the functionalization of saturated heterocycles is highly desirable. Herein, we report a cheap and efficient photochemical method for the C?H functionalization of saturated O-heterocycles, as well as the deconstructive ring-cleavage of S-heterocycles, employing hypervalent iodine alkynylation reagents (ethynylbenziodoxolones, EBX). This photochemical alkynylation is performed utilizing phenylglyoxylic acid as the photoinitiator, leading to the corresponding products in good to high yields, under household fluorescent light bulb irradiation. When O-heterocycles were employed, the expected α-C?H alkynylation took place. In contrast, oxidative ring-opening to form a thioalkyne and an aldehyde was observed with S-heterocycles. Preliminary mechanistic experiments are presented to give first insights into this puzzling divergent reactivity.
Synthesis of thioesters by simultaneous activation of carboxylic acids and alcohols using PPh3/NBS with benzyltriethylammonium tetrathiomolybdate as the sulfur transfer reagent
Gopinath, Purushothaman,Vidyarini, Ravindran Sasitha,Chandrasekaran, Srinivasan
experimental part, p. 6043 - 6047 (2010/03/25)
A new and simple route for the synthesis of thioesters starting from carboxylic acids and alcohols is reported by using tetrathiomolybdate as the key sulfur transfer reagent, Triphenylphosphane and N-bromosuccinimide were used for the activation of the ca
