Anthelmintic drug discovery: target identification, screening methods and the role of open science

• Frederick A. Partridge,
• Ruth Forman,
• Carole J. R. Bataille,
• Graham M. Wynne,
• Marina Nick,
• Angela J. Russell,
• Kathryn J. Else and
• David B. Sattelle

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1203–1224, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.105

• macrocyclic lactone is an effective microfilaricide but does not kill the adult nematodes. Ivermectin must therefore be administered annually or twice-annually for many years to eliminate the parasite in the population. Progress has been impressive: onchocerciasis has been largely controlled as a public

Structure and conformational analysis of spiroketals from 6-O-methyl-9(E)-hydroxyiminoerythronolide A

• Ana Čikoš,
• Irena Ćaleta,
• Dinko Žiher,
• Mark B. Vine,
• Ivaylo J. Elenkov,
• Marko Dukši,
• Dubravka Gembarovski,
• Marina Ilijaš,
• Snježana Dragojević,
• Ivica Malnar and
• Sulejman Alihodžić

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1447–1457, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.157

• ; spiroketal; Introduction Macrolide antibiotics are natural or semi-synthetic products of polyketide origin, containing one or more desoxy sugars attached to a macrocyclic lactone aglycon. This large and structurally diverse category of compounds has traditionally been divided into classes based on the

Formation of macrocyclic lactones in the Paternò–Büchi dimerization reaction

• Junya Arimura,
• Tsutomu Mizuta,
• Yoshikazu Hiraga and
• Manabu Abe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 265–269, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.35

• : furans; macrocyclic lactone; oxetane; Paternò–Büchi reaction; photochemical reaction; Findings Photochemical [2 + 2] cycloaddition reaction of alkenes with carbonyls, so-called Paternò–Büchi reaction [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13], is one of the most efficient methods for preparing

• irradiated in degassed benzene with a high-pressure Hg lamp with a Pyrex filter (Scheme 3). Interestingly, the Paternò–Büchi dimer product 2a (R = Ph), which possesses Ci symmetry, was obtained as the major product and contains the biologically important macrocyclic lactone structure [30][31][32][33]. The

• structure of 2a was unequivocally determined by the X-ray crystallographic analysis (Figure 1). The one-step preparation of the highly functionalized twelve-membered macrocyclic lactone is synthetically attractive. Intramolecular products, such as compounds A and B, were not detected in the photolysate