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Electrophilic Chlorine from Chlorosulfonium Salts: A Highly Chemoselective Reduction of Sulfoxides
Acosta-Guzmán, Paola,Mahecha-Mahecha, Camilo,Gamba-Sánchez, Diego
supporting information, p. 10348 - 10354 (2020/07/13)
Herein, we describe a selective late-stage deoxygenation of sulfoxides based on a novel application of chlorosulfonium salts and demonstrate a new process using these species generated in situ from sulfoxides as the source of electrophilic chlorine. The use of highly nucleophilic 1,3,5-trimethoxybenzene (TMB) as the reducing agent is described for the first time and applied in the deoxygenation of simple and functionalized sulfoxides. The method is easy to handle, economic, suitable for gram-scale operations, and readily applied for poly-functionalized molecules, as demonstrated with more than 45 examples, including commercial medicines and analogues. We also report the results of competition experiments that define the more reactive sulfoxide and we present a mechanistic proposal based on substrate and product observations.
Aerial dioxygen activation: Vs. thiol-ene click reaction within a system
Choudhuri, Khokan,Mandal, Arkalekha,Mal, Prasenjit
supporting information, p. 3759 - 3762 (2018/04/16)
Markovnikov or anti-Markovnikov selective thiol-ene click (TEC) reactions and the synthesis of β-hydroxysulfides via aerial dioxygen activation are prevalent C-S bond forming reactions of styrenes and thiophenols. Herein, by choosing appropriate environme
Design, synthesis, and activity evaluation of broad-spectrum small-molecule inhibitors of anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family proteins: Characteristics of broad-spectrum protein binding and its effects on anti-tumor activity
Zheng, Can-Hui,Yang, Hui,Zhang, Meng,Lu, Shi-Hai,Shi, Duo,Wang, Juan,Chen, Xiu-Hua,Ren, Xiao-Hui,Liu, Jia,Lv, Jia-Guo,Zhu, Ju,Zhou, You-Jun
, p. 39 - 44 (2012/02/16)
On the basis of the comparison of the structure of the Bim BH3: Bcl-x L complex and that of the ABT-737: Bcl-xL complex, a series of class A compounds were designed. These compounds had the basic skeleton of ABT-737 and the h2 residues of Bim BH3. These residues had shown themselves to be relevant to Bim BH3's broad-spectrum binding properties in saturation mutagenesis assays. Unlike ABT-737, which is a selective inhibitor of anti-apoptotic members of the Bcl-2 protein family, the class A compounds showed broad-spectrum binding activity to target proteins similar to those of Bim BH3 peptide. Then class B compounds were synthesized by modifying the structure of the most effective class A compound, A-4. Most of these class B compounds showed better binding affinity to the target proteins than the class A compounds had. They also showed themselves more effective than ABT-737 at inhibiting growth in multiple tumor cell lines known to express Bcl-x L, Bcl-2, and Mcl-1 proteins at high levels. Compounds B-11 and B-12 had the strongest anti-tumor activity of any compounds we produced. This study suggests that it is feasible to design small-molecule inhibitors based on the structure of Bim BH3, which shows broad-spectrum binding to Bcl-xL, Bcl-2, and Mcl-1 proteins. Our results also suggest that the broad-spectrum properties of small-molecule inhibitors binding to target proteins play a critical role in inhibiting the growth of many tumor cells. Finally, our study provides a series of lead compounds that merit further research into anti-cancer therapeutics.
