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Organocatalytic Desymmetrisation of Fittig's Lactones: Deuterium as a Reporter Tag for Hidden Racemisation
Spránitz, Péter,Soregi, Petra,Botlik, Bence Béla,Berta, Máté,Soós, Tibor
, p. 1263 - 1272 (2019/02/26)
Highly enantioselective desymmetrisation of Fittig's lactones with alcohols is promoted by bifunctional cinchona squaramides. The reactions were carried out with monodeuterated methanol to detect possible hidden racemisation of the stereogenic centre. Current evidence suggests that racemisation was not a relevant process for most substrates; partial erosion of enantioselectivity was only detected with ortho -substituted aryl derivates. The resultant glutaric acid derivatives possess a scaffold that is common in natural products and the compounds are also useful chiral building blocks for further synthetic endeavours.
PPh3/Selectfluor-Mediated Transformation of Carboxylic Acids into Acid Anhydrides and Acyl Fluorides and Its Application in Amide and Ester Synthesis
Yang, Zhen,Chen, Siwei,Yang, Fang,Zhang, Chenxi,Dou, You,Zhou, Qiuju,Yan, Yizhe,Tang, Lin
, p. 5998 - 6002 (2019/08/21)
By taking the advantage of PPh3/Selectfluor system, carboxylic acids are efficiently converted into the pivotal intermediates acyloxyphosphonium ions that can selectively react with a second carboxylic acid or fluoride to in situ yield the corresponding acid anhydrides or acyl fluorides. The developed protocol features commercially availabile reagents, no involvement of base, room temperature conditions, and simple experimental procedure. Additionally, various amides or esters are readily achieved, respectively, with the addition of amines or alcohols.
Substrate activity screening: A fragment-based method for the rapid identification of nonpeptidic protease inhibitors
Wood, Warren J. L.,Patterson, Andrew W.,Tsuruoka, Hiroyuki,Jain, Rishi K.,Ellman, Jonathan A.
, p. 15521 - 15527 (2007/10/03)
A new fragment-based method for the rapid development of novel and distinct classes of nonpeptidic protease inhibitors, Substrate Activity Screening (SAS), is described. This method consists of three steps: (1) a library of N-acyl aminocoumarins with diverse, low molecular weight N-acyl groups is screened to identify protease substrates using a simple fluorescence-based assay, (2) the identified N-acyl aminocoumarin substrates are optimized by rapid analogue synthesis and evaluation, and (3) the optimized substrates are converted to inhibitors by direct replacement of the aminocoumarin with known mechanism-based pharmacophores. The SAS method was successfully applied to the cysteine protease cathepsin S, which is implicated in autoimmune diseases. Multiple distinct classes of nonpeptidic substrates were identified upon screening an N-acyl aminocoumarin library. Two of the nonpeptidic substrate classes were optimized to substrates with >8000-fold improvements in cleavage efficiency for each class. Select nonpeptidic substrates were then directly converted to low molecular weight, novel aldehyde inhibitors with nanomolar affinity to cathepsin S. This study demonstrates the unique characteristics and merits of this first substrate-based method for the rapid identification and optimization of weak fragments and provides the framework for the development of completely nonpeptidic inhibitors to many different proteases.
