Design, Synthesis, and Structure−Activity Relationships of Haloenol Lactones: Site-Directed and Isozyme-Selective Glutathione S-Transferase Inhibitors
摘要:
Overexpression of glutathione S-transferase (GST), particularly the GST-pi isozyme, has been proposed to be one of the biochemical mechanisms responsible for drug resistance in cancer chemotherapy, and inhibition of overexpressed GST has been suggested as an approach to combat GST-induced drug resistance. 3-Cinnamyl-5(E)-bromomethylidenetetrahydro-2-furanone (1a), a lead compound of site-directed GST-pi inactivator, has been shown to potentiate the cytotoxic effect of cisplatin on tumor cells. As an initial step to develop more potent and more selective haloenol lactone inactivators of GST-pi, we examined the relationship between the chemical structures of haloenol lactone derivatives and their GST inhibitory activity. A total of 16 haloenol lactone derivatives were synthesized to probe the effects of (1) halogen electronegativity, (2) electron density of aromatic rings, (3) molecular size and rigidity, (4) lipophilicity, and (5) aromaticity on the potency of GST-pi inactivation. The inhibitory potency of each compound was determined by time-dependent inhibition tests, and recombinant human GST-pi was used to determine their inhibitory activity. Our structure-activity relationship studies demonstrated that (1) reactivity of the halide leaving group plays a weak role in GST inactivation by the haloenol lactones, (2) aromatic electron density may have some influence on the potency of GST inactivation, (3) high rigidity likely disfavors enzyme inhibition, (4) lipophilicity is inversely proportional to enzyme inactivation, and (5) an unsaturated system may be important for enzyme inhibition. This work facilitated understanding of the interaction of GST-pi with haloenol lactone derivatives as site-directed and isozyme-selective inactivators, possibly potentiating cancer chemotherapy.
Palladium(II) catalyzed cyclization of alkynoic acids
作者:Claude Lambert、Kiitiro Utimoto、Hitosi Nozaki
DOI:10.1016/s0040-4039(01)81594-x
日期:——
Under the catalytic action of palladium(II) in the presence of triethylamine, 3-, 4-, and 5-alkynoic acids afford 3-buten-4-olides, 4-penten-4-olides, and 5-hexen-5-olide, respectively, in good to excellent yields.
Improvement process for debrominative rearrangements
申请人:MERRELL DOW PHARMACEUTICALS INC.
公开号:EP0370153A1
公开(公告)日:1990-05-30
This invention relates to an improvement in the standard procedures involving a debrominative rearrangement reaction of a terminal dibromoolefin with activated magnesium in tetrahydrofuran.
Remarkable Electronic and Steric Effects in the Nitrile Biotransformations for the Preparation of Enantiopure Functionalized Carboxylic Acids and Amides: Implication for an Unsaturated Carbon−Carbon Bond Binding Domain of the Amidase
作者:Ming Gao、De-Xian Wang、Qi-Yu Zheng、Zhi-Tang Huang、Mei-Xiang Wang
DOI:10.1021/jo070581b
日期:2007.8.1
various functionalized racemic nitriles catalyzed by Rhodococcus erythropolis AJ270, a nitrile hydratase/amidase-containing microbial whole-cell catalyst, were studied. While the nitrile hydratase exhibits high catalytic efficiency but very low enantioselectivity against almost all nitrile substrates examined, the amidase is very sensitive toward the structure of the amides. The release of the steric crowdedness
2,2-Dimethyl- and 2-benzyl-2-methyl-1-(2,4,6-tri-tert-butylphenyl)-1-phosphaethenes were employed as ligand of mononuclear chlorogold(I) complexes, which catalyzed cycloisomerization of 1,6-enyne affording vinylcyclopentene exclusively in the absence of silver co-catalyst. The reaction mechanisms are discussed based on DFT calculations. In addition to the cycloisomerization, the phosphaalkene-chlorogold(I) complexes catalyzed cyclization of pent-4-ynoic acids providing gamma-methylene-gamma-lactones under basic conditions. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Iodobenzene-catalysed iodolactonisation using sodium perborate monohydrate as oxidant
作者:Hongjun Liu、Choon-Hong Tan
DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2007.09.078
日期:2007.11
A convenient approach has been developed for iodolactonisation using iodobenzene as catalyst. The active reagent was generated in situ with tetra-n-butylammonium iodide (TBAI) and hypervalent iodine reagent, diacetoxyiodobenzene (PIDA). PIDA, in turn, was generated in situ using a catalytic amount of iodobenzene with sodium perborate monohydrate as the stoichiometric oxidant. A variety of olefinic acids including delta-pentenoic acids, delta-pentynoic acids and delta-hexynoic acid gave high yields of lactones using this methodology. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.