Structural Modification of the Designer Stimulant α-Pyrrolidinovalerophenone (α-PVP) Influences Potency at Dopamine Transporters
摘要:
alpha-Pyrrolidinovalerophenone (alpha-PVP, 7) is an illegal synthetic stimulant that is being sold on the clandestine market as "flakka" and "gravel". The potent pharmacological effects of alpha-PVP are presumably mediated by inhibition of dopamine uptake at the dopamine transporter (DAT). However, little is known about how structural modification of alpha-PVP influences activity at DAT. Eleven analogs of alpha-PVP were synthesized and examined for their ability to inhibit uptake of [H-3]clopamine and [H-3]serotonin in rat brain synaptosomes. None of the analogs significantly inhibited [H-3]serotonin uptake when tested at 10 mu M at the serotonin transporter (SERT). All of the analogs behaved as DAT reuptake inhibitors, but potencies varied over a >1500-fold range. Potency was primarily associated with the nature of the alpha-substituent, with the more bulky substituents imparting the highest potency. Expansion of the pyrrolidine ring to a piperidine reduced potency up to 10-fold, whereas conformational constraint in the form of an aminotetralone resulted in the least potent compound. Our study provides the first systematic and comparative structure activity investigation on the ability of alpha-PVP analogs to act as inhibitors of DAT.
Radical alkylations of activated alkyl iodides and bromides were achieved usingvinyltriflates in the presence of hexadimethyltin, whereas those of unactivated C-H bonds usingvinyltriflates proceeded cleanly under tin-free conditions.
Tandem Intramolecular Carbolithiation-Lithium/Zinc Transmetallation and Applications to Carbon−Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions
作者:Miguel Yus、Rosa Ortiz
DOI:10.1002/ejoc.200400349
日期:2004.9
Lithium/zinc transmetallation with the cyclic organolithium intermediate 3 (prepared by intramolecular carbolithiation of the initially formed organolithium 2) gives the corresponding organozinc intermediate 5. Copper- or palladium-promoted SN2′ reactions between compound 5 and allylic or propargylic halides, as well as arylation, vinylation, benzylation, acylation, and conjugate addition to α,β-unsaturated
Using the Thiyl Radical for Aliphatic Hydrogen‐Atom Transfer: Thiolation of Unactivated C−H Bonds
作者:Liubov I. Panferova、Mikhail O. Zubkov、Vladimir A. Kokorekin、Vitalij V. Levin、Alexander D. Dilman
DOI:10.1002/anie.202011400
日期:2021.2.8
A metal‐ and catalyst‐free thiyl‐radical‐mediated activation of alkanes is described. Tetrafluoropyridinyl disulfide is used to perform thiolation of the C−H bonds under irradiation with 400 nm light‐emitting diodes. The key C−H activation step is believed to proceed via hydrogen‐atom abstraction effected by the fluorinated thiylradical. Secondary, tertiary, and heteroatom‐substituted C−H bonds can
4-Hydroxy-5,6-dihydropyrones. 2. Potent Non-Peptide Inhibitors of HIV Protease
作者:Bradley D. Tait、Susan Hagen、John Domagala、Edmund L. Ellsworth、Christopher Gajda、Harriet W. Hamilton、J. V. N. Vara Prasad、Donna Ferguson、Neil Graham、Donald Hupe、Carolyn Nouhan、Peter J. Tummino、Christine Humblet、Elizabeth A. Lunney、Alexander Pavlovsky、John Rubin、Stephen J. Gracheck、Eric T. Baldwin、T. N. Bhat、John W. Erickson、Sergei V. Gulnik、Beishan Liu
DOI:10.1021/jm970615f
日期:1997.11.1
The 4-hydroxy-5,6-dihydropyrone template was utilized as a flexible scaffolding from which to build potent active site inhibitors of HIVprotease. Dihydropyrone 1c (5,6-dihydro-4-hydroxy-6-phenyl-3-[(2-phenylethyl)thio]-2H-pyran-2-one) was modeled in the active site of HIVprotease utilizing a similar binding mode found for the previously reported 4-hydroxybenzopyran-2-ones. Our model led us to pursue
Catalytic Cross-Coupling of Alkylzinc Halides with α-Chloroketones
作者:Chrysa F. Malosh、Joseph M. Ready
DOI:10.1021/ja0467768
日期:2004.8.1
this method, primary and secondary alkyl groups are introduced adjacent to a ketone carbonyl under mild reaction conditions and in good yield. Cyclic, acyclic, aromatic, and aliphatic α-chloroketones are suitable substrates. Opticallyactive α-chloroketones are converted to opticallyactive products. The reaction was found to proceed stereospecifically with inversion of stereochemistry. The reaction