Inhibition of human leukocyte elastase by functionalized N-aryl azetidin-2-ones: substituent effects at C-3 and benzylic positions
作者:I Vergely、N Boggetto、V Okochi、S Golpayegani、M Reboud-Ravaux、R Kobaiter、R Joyeau、M Wakselman
DOI:10.1016/0223-5234(96)88226-2
日期:1995.1
A series of functionalized N-aryl azetidin-2-ones with a latent alkylating group was prepared by a flexible four-step synthesis. They met criteria expected for a suicide-type inactivation of human leukocyte elastase (HLE) and porcine pancreatic elastase (PPE), with no inactivation of trypsin- and chymotrypsin-like proteases. The inhibition potency was dependent on the halogen substituents at C-3 (F, F; Cl, Cl; Br, Br) and the nature and the position relative to nitrogen of the latent benzylic leaving group (F, Cl, Br). Better inactivations of HLE compared with PPE were observed with azetidinones gem-disubstituted by Cl and Br rather than by F. Their protio analogs, which are devoid of the latent quinoniminium methide electrophile, behave as simple substrates of elastases.