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Alpha-ethyltryptamines as dual dopamine-serotonin releasers
Blough, Bruce E.,Landavazo, Antonio,Partilla, John S.,Decker, Ann M.,Page, Kevin M.,Baumann, Michael H.,Rothman, Richard B.
, p. 4754 - 4758 (2015/01/09)
The dopamine (DA), serotonin (5-HT), and norepinephrine (NE) transporter releasing activity and serotonin-2A (5-HT2A) receptor agonist activity of a series of substituted tryptamines are reported. Three compounds, 7b, (+)-7d and 7f, were found to be potent dual DA/5-HT releasers and were >10-fold less potent as NE releasers. Additionally, these compounds had different activity profiles at the 5-HT2Areceptor. The unique combination of dual DA/5-HT releasing activity and 5-HT2Areceptor activity suggests that these compounds could represent a new class of neurotransmitter releasers with therapeutic potential.
Complete and remarkable reversal of chemoselectivity in [4 + 2] cycloadditions involving electron-poor indoles as dienophiles. Diels-Alder versus hetero-Diels-Alder processes
Chretien, Antony,Chataigner, Isabelle,L'Helias, Nathalie,Piettre, Serge R.
, p. 7990 - 8002 (2007/10/03)
The reaction between indole-3-carboxaldehyde 1a or indole-3-glyoxalate 1b and 2,3-dimethylbutadiene under thermal activation leads exclusively to the Diels-Alder cycloadducts resulting from the participation of the indole 2,3-carbon-carbon double bond. The concomitant use of zinc chloride and high pressure (16 kbar) induces the primary cycloadduct to react further, and biscycloadducts 11 and 12 are now isolated in high yields, the result of two consecutive [4 + 2] processes on, first, the indole 2,3 C=C bond and, second, the 3-carbonyl unit. The possibility of using two different dienes in a tandem, sequential process is demonstrated by the preparation of tetracycle 13. Interactions between the carbonyl dienophile and Danishefsky diene yield exclusively yet another type of product, namely the γ-dihydropyranones arising from the sequential [4 + 2] heterocycloaddition, hydrolysis of the silyl enol ether, and loss of methanol. Isolation of the Mukaiyama-type adduct 16 indicates that a stepwise mechanism may be involved, at least under zinc chloride catalysis. N,N-Disubstituted indole-3-glyoxamides undergo the expected, usual Diels-Alder process, with the 2,3 C=C bond acting as dienophile, and cycloadducts of the type 3 are obtained in high yields, regardless of the mode of activation. Remarkably, however, N-monosubstituted indole-3-glyoxamides react almost exclusively as heterodienophiles, the 3-carbonyl unit being now the preferred site of reactivity, and y-dihydropyranones of the type 6 are isolated in yields ranging from 72 to 92%. Conformational analysis of the Diels-Alder adducts based on both 1H NMR spectrometry and X-ray diffraction data indicates that the newly created cyclohexene and cyclohexanone rings adopt a pseudoboat conformation.
