Discovery of 4-aryl-2-oxo-2H-chromenes as a new series of apoptosis inducers using a cell- and caspase-based high-throughput screening assay
作者:William Kemnitzer、Songchun Jiang、Hong Zhang、Shailaja Kasibhatla、Candace Crogan-Grundy、Charles Blais、Giorgio Attardo、Real Denis、Serge Lamothe、Henriette Gourdeau、Ben Tseng、John Drewe、Sui Xiong Cai
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2008.09.011
日期:2008.10
As a continuation of our efforts to discover and develop the apoptosis inducing 4-aryl-4H-chromenes as potential anticancer agents, we explored the removal of the chiral center at the 4-position and prepared a series of 4-aryl-2-oxo-2H-chromenes. It was found that, in general, removal of the chiral center and replacement of the 2-amino group with a 2-oxo group were tolerated and 4-aryl-2-oxo-2H-chromenes exhibited SAR similar to 4-aryl-2-amino-4H-chromenes. The 4-aryl-2-oxo-2H-chromenes with a N-methyl pyrrole fused at the 7,8-positions were highly active with compound 2a having an EC(50) value of 13 nM in T47D cells. It was found that an OMe group was preferred at the 7-positon. 7-NMe(2), 7-NH(2), 7-Cl and 7,8 fused pyrido analogs all had low potency. These 4-aryl-2-oxo-2H-chromenes are a series of potent apoptosis inducers with potential advantage over the 4-aryl-2-amino-4H-chromenes series via elimination of the chiral center at the 4-position. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.