Tryptophan and thiosemicarbazide derivatives: design, synthesis, and biological evaluation as potential β-d-galactosidase and β-d-glucosidase inhibitors
摘要:
Glycosidases, including beta-d-galactosidase and beta-d-glucosidase, are involved in a range of metabolic disorders, such as cancer, viral or bacterial infections, and diabetes. Previously, we scanned the pharmacophoric space of these enzymes and had a self-consistent and predictive quantitative structure-activity relationship that was used to identify several beta-d-galactosidase and beta-d-glucosidase inhibitors via in silico search of structural databases. Guided by the preceding modeling efforts, synthesis of a series of tryptophan and thiosemicarbazide derivatives as beta-d-galactosidase and beta-d-glucosidase inhibitors that match the generated pharmacophores followed by in vitro bioassay was carried out. Synthesized compounds 3c (37 % inhibition at 100 A mu M) and 4d (49 % inhibition at 100 A mu M) exhibited the best inhibitory bioactivities against beta-d-galactosidase and beta-d-glucosidase, respectively. They can serve as a promising lead compounds for the development of potential glycosidase inhibitors.
A Photoactivated Precipiton for Reagent Sequestration in Solution-Phase Synthesis
摘要:
Precipitons are molecular phase tags for chemical separations. They can be switched from a high-solubility to a low-solubility state to facilitate product, reagent, or catalyst isolation. This paper presents the first photoactivated precipiton and demonstrates that this precipiton is an efficient amine scavenging agent in solution-phase syntheses of amides, ureas, and imines. This approach to amine scavenging offers advantages over solid-phase scavenging methods. The amine is captured in a homogeneous medium, so the capture is much faster than seen with isocyanate resins, and only a small excess of the scavenger is required.