Discovery and SAR study of 3-(tert-butyl)-4-hydroxyphenyl benzoate and benzamide derivatives as novel farnesoid X receptor (FXR) antagonists
摘要:
3-(tert-Butyl)-4-hydroxyphenyl 2,4-dichlorobenzoate (1) was discovered in our in-house high throughput screening as a moderate FXR antagonist. To improve the potency and the stability of the hit 1, forty derivatives were synthesized and SAR was systematically explored. The results turn out that replacing the 2,4-dichlorophenyl with 2,6-dichloro-4-amidophenyl shows great improvement in potency, replacing the benzoate with benzamide shows improvement in stability and slight declining of potency and 3-(tert-butyl)-4-hydroxyphenyl unit is essential in obtaining the FXR antagonistic activity. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A palladium-catalyzed dicarbonylation of p-benzoquinones with aryl triflates has been developed. Using Cr(CO)6 as the CO source, the reaction proceeds smoothly and efficiently to give a series of aryl esters in moderate to good yields (up to 90%).
已经开发了对苯醌与芳基三氟甲磺酸酯的钯催化二羰基化反应。使用 Cr(CO) 6作为 CO 源,该反应顺利且高效地进行,以中等至良好的收率(高达 90%)得到一系列芳基酯。