Higher-Affinity Agonists of 5-HT1AR Discovered through Tuning the Binding-Site Flexibility
摘要:
Discovery of high-affinity and high-selectivity agonists of 5-HT1AR. has become very attractive due to their potential therapeutic effects on multiple 5-HT1AR-related psychological and neurological problems. On the basis of our previously designed lead compound FW01 (K-i = 51.9 nM, denoted as 9a in the present study), we performed large-scale molecular dynamics simulations and molecular docking operations on 5-HT1AR-9a binding. We found the flip-packing events for the headgroup of 9a, and we also found that its tail group could bind flexibly at the agornst-binding site of 5-HT1AR. By finely tuning the flip-packing phenomenon of the 9a headgroup and tuning the binding flexibility of 9a tail group, we virtually designed a series of new 9a derivatives through molecular docking operations and first-principles calculations and predicted that these newly designed 9a derivatives should be higher-affinity agonists of 5-HT1AR. The computational predictions on the new 9a derivatives have been confirmed by our wet-experimental studies as chemical synthesis, binding affinity assays, and agonistic-function assays. The consistency between our computational design and wet-experimental measurements has led to our discovery of higher-affinity agonists of 5-HT1AR, with,similar to 50-fold increase in receptor-binding affinity and similar to 25-fold improvements in agonistic function. In addition, our newly designed 5-HT1AR agonists showed very high selectivity of 5-HT1AR over subtype 5-HT2AR and also over three subtypes of dopamine receptors (D-1, D-2, and D-3).
Scalable synthesis of secondary and tertiary amines by heterogeneous Pt-Sn/γ-Al2O3 catalyzed N-alkylation of amines with alcohols
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DOI:10.1016/j.tet.2016.11.029
日期:2016.12
Synthesis of secondary and tertiaryamines has been efficiently realized from the N-alkylation of amines with alcohols by means of heterogeneous bimetallic Pt-Sn/γ-Al2O3 catalyst (0.5 wt % Pt, molar ratio Pt:Sn = 1:3) through a borrowing hydrogen strategy. The Pt-Sn/γ-Al2O3 catalyst has exhibited very high catalytic activity towards a wide range of amines and alcohols, and can be conveniently recycled
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作者:Nianhua Luo、Yuhong Zhong、Hongling Shui、Renshi Luo
DOI:10.1021/acs.joc.1c01930
日期:2021.11.5
Amination of allylic alcohols is an effective approach in the facile synthesis of N-allylic alkylation or N-alkylationamines. Recently, a series of catalysts were devised to push forward this transformation. However, current synthetic methods are typically limited to achieve either N-allylic alkylation or N-alkylation products via a certain catalyst. In this article, a pH-mediated selective synthesis of N-allylic
Diastereo- and enantioselective reductive amination of cycloaliphatic ketones by preformed chiral palladium complexes
作者:Armando Cabrera、Pankaj Sharma、F. Javier Pérez-Flores、Luis Velasco、J. Luis Arias、Laura Rubio-Pérez
DOI:10.1039/c4cy00058g
日期:——
An efficient preformed chiral palladium catalyzed direct diastereo- and enantioselectivereductive amination of un- and substituted cycloaliphatic ketones with primary aryl amines has been developed.
General Synthesis of <i>N</i>-Alkylation of Amines with Secondary Alcohols via Hydrogen Autotransfer
作者:Murugan Subaramanian、Siba P. Midya、Palmurukan M. Ramar、Ekambaram Balaraman
DOI:10.1021/acs.orglett.9b02990
日期:2019.11.15
Direct catalytic N-alkylation of amines with secondary alcohols via hydrogen autotransfer (HA) strategy is very challenging and has been scarcely reported, even under precious metal catalysis. Herein, an efficient N-alkylation of amines, including benzylamines using secondary alcohols as alkylating agents, is reported. This reaction is catalyzed by a molecularly defined NNN-Ni(II) pincercomplex, and
N-Alkylation of Aniline and Its Derivatives by Alcohols in the Presence of Copper Compounds
作者:A. R. Bayguzina、Ch. F. Musina、R. I. Khusnutdinov
DOI:10.1134/s1070428018110052
日期:2018.11
N-Alkyl- and N,N-dialkyl-substituted anilines were obtained in the reaction of aniline and itsderivatives with primary and secondary alcohols in the presence of catalysts CuCl2·2H2O, CuBr2 and halomethanes as promoters.