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Structure-Activity Study of 5-Substituted 1-Carbobenzoxy-2-iminohydantoins as Potential Anticonvulsant Agents
Sun, Zhong-Yue,Kwon, Chul-Hoon,Wurpel, John N. D.
, p. 2841 - 2845 (1994)
On the basis of our previous findings, a series of 5-substituted 2-iminohydantoins has been synthesized and tested for anticonvulsant activity to better understand the SAR of 2-iminohydantoins.Among the compounds tested, (S)-(+)-1-carbobenzoxy-2-iminohydantoin analogs with ethyl (6)-, n-propyl (7a)-, isopropyl (8)-, allyl (9)-, and sec-butyl (11)-substituted groups at the C5 of the iminohydanotin ring provided the best activities against the MES test with ED50 values in the range of 52-74 mg/kg.All of the above compounds except 8 also showed activity against the scMET test with ED50 values in the range of 141-223 mg/kg.All significantly active compounds (1, 6, 7a, 8, 9, and 11) possesed aliphatic hydrocarbon side chains of two- to three-carbon lengths at the C5 position.All of the compounds with no or minimal activity had either shorter or longer side chains.The compounds substituted at the C5 position by aryl groups, arylalkyl groups, or alkyl and arylalkyl groups containing heteroatoms also showed no activity against the MES and scMET tests.The results suggested that the C5 side chain with the correct stereochemistry in 2-iminohydantoins provides optimal anticonvulsant activity when the side chains are aliphatic hydrocarbons with a lenght, ignoring branchingg, of two to three carbons.
Efficient access to enantiopure γ4-amino acids with proteinogenic side-chains and structural investigation of γ4- asn and γ4-ser in hybrid peptide helices
Jadhav, Sandip V.,Misra, Rajkumar,Singh, Sumeet K.,Gopi, Hosahudya N.
supporting information, p. 16256 - 16262 (2013/12/04)
Hybrid peptides composed of α- and β-amino acids have recently emerged as new class of peptide foldamers. Comparatively, γ- and hybrid γ-peptides composed of γ4-amino acids are less studied than their β-counterparts. However, recent investigations reveal that γ4-amino acids have a higher propensity to fold into ordered helical structures. As amino acid side-chain functional groups play a crucial role in the biological context, the objective of this study was to investigate efficient synthesis of γ4-residues with functional proteinogenic side-chains and their structural analysis in hybrid-peptide sequences. Here, the efficient and enantiopure synthesis of various N- and C-terminal free-γ4-residues, starting from the benzyl esters (COOBzl) of N-Cbz-protected (E)-α,β-unsaturated γ-amino acids through multiple hydrogenolysis and double-bond reduction in a single-pot catalytic hydrogenation is reported. The crystal conformations of eight unprotected γ4-amino acids (γ4-Val, γ4-Leu, γ4-Ile, γ4-Thr(OtBu), γ4-Tyr, γ4-Asp(OtBu), γ4- Glu(OtBu), and γ-Aib) reveals that these amino acids adopted a helix favoring gauche conformations along the central Cγi￡ Cβ bond. To study the behavior of γ4- residues with functional side chains in peptide sequences, two short hybrid γ-peptides P1 (Ac-Aib-γ4-Asn-Aib-γ4-Leu- Aib-γ4-Leu-CONH2) and P2 (Ac-Aib- γ4-Ser-Aib-γ4-Val-Aib-γ4-Val- CONH2) were designed, synthesized on solid phase, and their 12-helical conformation in single crystals were studied. Remarkably, the γ4-Asn residue in P1 facilitates the tetrameric helical aggregations through interhelical H bonding between the side-chain amide groups. Furthermore, the hydroxyl side-chain of γ4-Ser in P2 is involved in the interhelical H bonding with the backbone amide group. In addition, the analysis of 87 γ4-residues in peptide single-crystals reveal that the γ4-residues in 12-helices are more ordered as compared with the 10/12- and 12/14-helices. Copyright
