36650-51-8Relevant articles and documents
Identification of a novel toxicophore in anti-cancer chemotherapeutics that targets mitochondrial respiratory complex i
Allen, Timothy E. H.,Chung, Injae,Fischer, Peter,Hardy, Rachel,Harvey, Robert F.,Hirst, Judy,Kellam, Barrie,Macfarlane, Marion,Mistry, Sarah,Pryde, Kenneth R.,Serreli, Riccardo,Stephenson, Zo? A.,Stoneley, Mark,Willis, Anne E.
, (2020/06/10)
Disruption of mitochondrial function selectively targets tumour cells that are dependent on oxidative phosphorylation. However, due to their high energy demands, cardiac cells are disproportionately targeted by mitochondrial toxins resulting in a loss of cardiac function. An analysis of the effects of mubritinib on cardiac cells showed that this drug did not inhibit HER2 as reported, but directly inhibits mitochondrial respiratory complex I, reducing cardiac-cell beat rate, with prolonged exposure resulting in cell death. We used a library of chemical variants of mubritinib and showed that modifying the 1H-1,2,3-triazole altered complex I inhibition, identifying the heterocyclic 1,3-nitrogen motif as the toxicophore. The same toxicophore is present in a second anti-cancer therapeutic carboxyamidotriazole (CAI) and we demonstrate that CAI also functions through complex I inhibition, mediated by the toxicophore. Complex I inhibition is directly linked to anti-cancer cell activity, with toxicophore modification ablating the desired effects of these compounds on cancer cell proliferation and apoptosis.
Direct and facile synthesis of primary amides from carboxylic acids via acyl isocyanate intermediates using mukaiyama reagent
Azadi, Roya,Motamedpoor, Zahra
, p. 801 - 804 (2018/09/26)
A very simple and efficient procedure for the preparation of primary amides is described from carboxylic acids using Mukaiyama reagent/KNCO in aqueous acetonitrile. Availability of the reagents, simplicity, and easy workup of the reaction crude make this method attractive for organic chemists.
Development and Utilization of a Palladium-Catalyzed Dehydration of Primary Amides to Form Nitriles
Al-Huniti, Mohammed H.,Rivera-Chávez, José,Colón, Katsuya L.,Stanley, Jarrod L.,Burdette, Joanna E.,Pearce, Cedric J.,Oberlies, Nicholas H.,Croatt, Mitchell P.
supporting information, p. 6046 - 6050 (2018/09/27)
A palladium(II) catalyst, in the presence of Selectfluor, enables the efficient and chemoselective transformation of primary amides into nitriles. The amides can be attached to aromatic rings, heteroaromatic rings, or aliphatic side chains, and the reactions tolerate steric bulk and electronic modification. Dehydration of a peptaibol containing three glutamine groups afforded structure-activity relationships for each glutamine residue. Thus, this dehydration can act similarly to an alanine scan for glutamines via synthetic mutation.