Synthesis of imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine-containing peptidomimetics by tandem of Groebke–Blackburn–Bienaymé and Ugi reactions

• Oleksandr V. Kolomiiets,
• Alexander V. Tsygankov,
• Maryna N. Kornet,
• Aleksander A. Brazhko,
• Vladimir I. Musatov and
• Valentyn A. Chebanov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 727–735, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.53

• ]pyridine and peptidomimetic moieties as pharmacophores with four diversity points introduced from readily available starting materials, including scaffold diversity. A small focused compound library of 20 Ugi products was prepared and screened for antibacterial activity. Keywords: Groebke–Blackburn

• target compounds, which contained two pharmacophores – [1,2-a]pyridine (1H-imidazo[1,2-b][1,2,4]triazole) and peptidomimetic moieties – were evaluated for their antibacterial activity and exhibited a weak effect. Drugs possessing imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine unit. Drugs possessing peptide unit. Diversity of

An efficient metal-free and catalyst-free C–S/C–O bond-formation strategy: synthesis of pyrazole-conjugated thioamides and amides

• Shubham Sharma,
• Dharmender Singh,
• Sunit Kumar,
• Vaishali,
• Rahul Jamra,
• Naveen Banyal,
• Deepika,
• Chandi C. Malakar and
• Virender Singh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 231–244, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.22

• synthesized with frequently occurring pharmacophores originating from drug components comes to the conclusion that the thioamide linkage establishes an intriguing class of biologically significant compounds amenable to combinatorial chemistry [43]. This organic functional group is found in vital biological

Revisiting the bromination of 3β-hydroxycholest-5-ene with CBr₄/PPh₃ and the subsequent azidolysis of the resulting bromide, disparity in stereochemical behavior

• Christian Schumacher,
• Jas S. Ward,
• Kari Rissanen,
• Carsten Bolm and
• Mohamed Ramadan El Sayed Aly

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 91–99, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.9

• studies, one of us (M. R. E. A.) felt intrigued by the potential of chemical hybridization of cholesterol through simple connections of pharmacophores including sugars, chalcones, quinolone, theophylline, and ferrocene using click chemistry [9][10][11]. Following this strategy, cholesterol was

A novel bis-triazole scaffold accessed via two tandem [3 + 2] cycloaddition events including an uncatalyzed, room temperature azide–alkyne click reaction

• Ksenia Malkova,
• Andrey Bubyrev,
• Vasilisa Krivovicheva,
• Dmitry Dar’in,
• Alexander Bunev and
• Mikhail Krasavin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1636–1641, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.175

• ; Introduction 1,2,3-Triazoles are well-established heterocycles in drug discovery [1] and are even considered pharmacophores (i.e., structural motifs defining the compound’s biological activity profile) on their own [2]. Therefore, synthetic methods allowing to construct a 1,2,3-triazole heterocycle are a

Chemistry of polyhalogenated nitrobutadienes, 17: Efficient synthesis of persubstituted chloroquinolinyl-1H-pyrazoles and evaluation of their antimalarial, anti-SARS-CoV-2, antibacterial, and cytotoxic activities

• Viktor A. Zapol’skii,
• Isabell Berneburg,
• Ursula Bilitewski,
• Melissa Dillenberger,
• Katja Becker,
• Stefan Jungwirth,
• Aditya Shekhar,
• Bastian Krueger and
• Dieter E. Kaufmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 524–532, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.54

• ]. Therefore, we hypothesize that the (NO2)C–C(CHCl2) and similar subunits could be valuable pharmacophores. Further investigations are on the way. The persubstituted pyrazoles 3a–c, 5a–o, 7, 9a–e, and 10d (total 25 examples) own unique substitution patterns. In total more than four million persubstituted

Ligand-dependent stereoselective Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reactions of β-enamido triflates

• Tomáš Chvojka,
• Athanasios Markos,
• Svatava Voltrová,
• Radek Pohl and
• Petr Beier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2657–2662, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.179

• [1][2]. Their multifacial reactivity has been explored in asymmetric alkylations [3], hydroalkynylations [4], trifluoromethylcyanations [5], heterocycle synthesis [6], asymmetric acylations [7], hydroborations [8], hydrogenations [9], etc. They are also important pharmacophores, which display a range

Catalyzed and uncatalyzed procedures for the syntheses of isomeric covalent multi-indolyl hetero non-metallides: an account

• Ranadeep Talukdar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2102–2122, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.137

• engaging but also constitute a class of important pharmacophores. Although the body of such multi-indolyl non-metallide molecules are largely shared to the anticancer agent bis(indolyl)methane, other heteroatomic analogs also possess similar medicinal properties. This concise review will discuss various

Copper-mediated oxidative C−H/N−H activations with alkynes by removable hydrazides

• Feng Xiong,
• Bo Li,
• Chenrui Yang,
• Liang Zou,
• Wenbo Ma,
• Linghui Gu,
• Ruhuai Mei and
• Lutz Ackermann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1591–1599, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.113

• , cyanations, aminations, nitrations, oxygenations, thiolations, halogenations, and phosphorylations, among others, were accomplished [14][15][16][17][18][19]. The 3-methyleneisoindolin-1-one moiety represents a key structure motif in natural products [20][21][22][23] or important pharmacophores [24]. In this

Microwave-assisted multicomponent reactions in heterocyclic chemistry and mechanistic aspects

• Shivani Gulati,
• Stephy Elza John and
• Nagula Shankaraiah

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 819–865, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.71

• , researchers have focused on developing greener synthetic strategies for the construction of various pharmacophores which can prove to be vital in a drug discovery process [24][25][26][27][28]. These efforts have not gone unnoticed and have been shaped into reviews in 2010, 2011 by Jiang and Orru respectively

• medicinally significant molecules. The review has been classified on the basis of the pharmacophores constructed by adopting the MWA-MCRs strategy. Review 1 Acridine Acridine is a polycyclic heteroarene with structural basis as anthracene in which one of the central carbon atoms is replaced by a nitrogen atom

• advantage of the synergistic action of the two pharmacophores fused (Figure 7). 6.2.1 Pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidines: Bhuyan and co-workers [80] reported an efficient MWA three-component reaction between N,N-disubstituted-6-aminouracil 86, arylglyoxal monohydrate 33, and amines 32 in AcOH resulting in the

Synthesis of trifluoromethyl ketones by nucleophilic trifluoromethylation of esters under a fluoroform/KHMDS/triglyme system

• Yamato Fujihira,
• Yumeng Liang,
• Makoto Ono,
• Kazuki Hirano,
• Takumi Kagawa and
• Norio Shibata

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 431–438, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.39

• the trifluoromethylation procedure was explored for aromatic, aliphatic, and conjugated methyl esters. This study presents a straightforward trifluoromethylation process of various methyl esters that convert well to the corresponding trifluoromethyl ketones. The tolerance of various pharmacophores

• various pharmacophores under the reaction conditions was also explored. Results and Discussion We first examined the trifluoromethylation reaction of methyl 2-naphthoate (1a) as a model substrate for HCF3 to optimize the reaction conditions (Table 1). Following our glymes strategy, we initially used t

• disappeared completely after purification by silica gel column chromatography [73]. Given the relevance of this trifluoromethylation reaction system for drug discovery, we conducted a robustness screening experiment to gain further information on its tolerance to various pharmacophores (Table 2). A range of

Reactions of 3-aryl-1-(trifluoromethyl)prop-2-yn-1-iminium salts with 1,3-dienes and styrenes

• Thomas Schneider,
• Michael Keim,
• Bianca Seitz and
• Gerhard Maas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2064–2072, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.173

• variety of nucleophiles to afford products containing a C(CF3)NR2 moiety. In particular C(CF3)NHR and C(CF3)NH2 groups are of interest as pharmacophores in the design of bioactive compounds [10][11][12][13]. Simple α-(trifluoromethyl)iminium salts (RCH(CF3)=N+Me2 X−, R= H, CF3) with weakly nucleophilic or

Et₃N/DMSO-supported one-pot synthesis of highly fluorescent β-carboline-linked benzothiophenones via sulfur insertion and estimation of the photophysical properties

• Dharmender Singh,
• Vipin Kumar and
• Virender Singh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1740–1753, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.146

• presence of two important pharmacophores along with the exocyclic double bond with Michael acceptor properties in the title compounds offers the opportunity to explore their biological potential. Moreover, these β-carboline-linked benzothiophenones displayed excellent fluorescence properties with quantum

Regio- and stereoselective synthesis of new ensembles of diversely functionalized 1,3-thiaselenol-2-ylmethyl selenides by a double rearrangement reaction

• Svetlana V. Amosova,
• Andrey A. Filippov,
• Nataliya A. Makhaeva,
• Alexander I. Albanov and
• Vladimir A. Potapov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 515–523, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.47

• with organyl halides. Various substrates were involved in the reaction, providing the introduction of alkyl, benzyl, allyl, and 2-propynyl moieties as well as pharmacophores as 2-pyridylmethyl and 4-fluorobenzyl. A possibility for the synthesis of compounds containing two 1,3-thiaselenol-2

Synthesis and herbicidal activities of aryloxyacetic acid derivatives as HPPD inhibitors

• Man-Man Wang,
• Hao Huang,
• Lei Shu,
• Jian-Min Liu,
• Jian-Qiu Zhang,
• Yi-Le Yan and
• Da-Yong Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 233–247, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.25

• -dicarbonyl bidentate chelation with the active center metal, and 2) through favorable sandwich π–π stacking interactions between aromatic rings and the Phe360, Phe403 residues of the active site. Thus, 1,3-dicarbonyl and aromatic moieties are indispensable pharmacophores for potent HPPD-inhibiting compounds

Potent hemithioindigo-based antimitotics photocontrol the microtubule cytoskeleton in cellulo

• Alexander Sailer,
• Franziska Ermer,
• Yvonne Kraus,
• Rebekkah Bingham,
• Ferdinand H. Lutter,
• Julia Ahlfeld and
• Oliver Thorn-Seshold

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 125–134, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.14

• bioactive one, without the possibility of sign inversion by substituent shifts. To overcome this conceptual limitation, we recently reported on the first use of hemithioindigos (HTIs) as photoswitchable pharmacophores for optical control of tubulin dynamics in vitro (cell-free) and MT-dependent processes in

• cellulo [18]. We showed for the first time that the pseudosymmetry of hemithioindigos can be used to enable a priori design of HTI-based pharmacophores for a single binding site, with higher bioactivity as either the lit-form E- or the dark-form Z-isomer, just by changing substituent patterns, and

Fluorinated maleimide-substituted porphyrins and chlorins: synthesis and characterization

• Valentina A. Ol’shevskaya,
• Elena G. Kononova and
• Andrei V. Zaitsev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2704–2709, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.263

• 1,2,3-triazole heterocycles via the copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition reaction (CuAAC) between alkynes and azides, developed independently by Sharpless [41] and Meldal [42]. In addition to the applications of triazoles as pharmacophores in the potential biologically active molecules, these

Recent advances on the transition-metal-catalyzed synthesis of imidazopyridines: an updated coverage

• Gagandeep Kour Reen,
• Ashok Kumar and
• Pratibha Sharma

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1612–1704, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.165

Doebner-type pyrazolopyridine carboxylic acids in an Ugi four-component reaction

• Maryna V. Murlykina,
• Oleksandr V. Kolomiets,
• Maryna M. Kornet,
• Yana I. Sakhno,
• Sergey M. Desenko,
• Victoriya V. Dyakonenko,
• Svetlana V. Shishkina,
• Oleksandr A. Brazhko,
• Vladimir I. Musatov,
• Alexander V. Tsygankov,
• Erik V. Van der Eycken and
• Valentyn A. Chebanov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1281–1288, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.126

• convergent and versatile manner using diversity generation strategies: combination of two multicomponent reactions and conditions-based divergence strategy. The target products contain as pharmacophores pyrazolopyridine and peptidomimetic moieties with four points of diversity introduced from readily

Catalyst-free assembly of giant tris(heteroaryl)methanes: synthesis of novel pharmacophoric triads and model sterically crowded tris(heteroaryl/aryl)methyl cation salts

• Rodrigo Abonia,
• Luisa F. Gutiérrez,
• Braulio Insuasty,
• Jairo Quiroga,
• Kenneth K. Laali,
• Chunqing Zhao,
• Gabriela L. Borosky,
• Samantha M. Horwitz and
• Scott D. Bunge

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 642–654, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.60

• such pharmacophores in one molecule, using both catalytic and non-catalytic reactions [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48]. However, a remaining challenge is to discover methods to construct asymmetric triads consisting of three different pharmacophores (i.e., heterodimeric entities) via a

Synthesis of nonracemic hydroxyglutamic acids

• Dorota G. Piotrowska,
• Iwona E. Głowacka,
• Andrzej E. Wróblewski and
• Liwia Lubowiecka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 236–255, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.22

• their orthogonally protected derivatives could be considered as extremely valuable chirons in syntheses of various natural products. Their 1,2- and 1,3-aminohydroxy fragments can serve as pharmacophores of interest in medicinal chemistry. In this paper we wish to review chemical syntheses of non-racemic

Pathoblockers or antivirulence drugs as a new option for the treatment of bacterial infections

• Matthew B. Calvert,
• Varsha R. Jumde and
• Alexander Titz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2607–2617, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.239

• the aryl substitution resulted in a flat SAR with only little variation in potency among the substituents analyzed [30][36][37][38][39]. Just recently, in an attempt to search for new pharmacophores, Titz et al. have reported the synthesis of the epoxyheptose derivative 11 targeting a cysteine residue

One-pot three-component route for the synthesis of S-trifluoromethyl dithiocarbamates using Togni’s reagent

• Azim Ziyaei Halimehjani,
• Martin Dračínský and
• Petr Beier

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2502–2508, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.247

• intermediates in synthetic organic chemistry [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12], radical chain transfer agents in RAFT polymerization [13], sulfur vulcanization agents in rubber manufacturing [14] and valuable pharmacophores in medicine [15][16][17]. Beside traditional methods, a recent synthesis of

Synthesis of benzannelated sultams by intramolecular Pd-catalyzed arylation of tertiary sulfonamides

• Valentin A. Rassadin,
• Mirko Scholz,
• Anastasiia A. Klochkova,
• Armin de Meijere and
• Victor V. Sokolov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1932–1939, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.187

• formation of a 2,3-diarylindole was observed under the same conditions. Keywords: arylation; fused-ring systems; indole formation; palladium catalysis; sultams; Introduction The sulfonamide functional group stands out as one of the most important pharmacophores. At the same time, cyclic sulfonamides

A strategic approach to [6,6]-bicyclic lactones: application towards the CD fragment of DHβE

• Tue Heesgaard Jepsen,
• Emil Glibstrup,
• François Crestey,
• Anders A. Jensen and
• Jesper Langgaard Kristensen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 988–994, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.98

• pharmacological evaluations support the notion that the key pharmacophores of DHβE are located in the A and B rings. Keywords: DhβE; Mizoroki–Heck cross-coupling reaction; 6π-electrocyclization; [6,6]-bicyclic lactone; vinyl halide; Introduction The neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) have been

• from our previous deconstruction approach [3] and a few degradation studies [6][7]. Balle and co-workers recently published an X-ray structure of the acetylcholine binding protein (AChBP) in complex with DHβE [8] and based on this structure, two key pharmacophores of DHβE were proposed as shown in

• Figure 1a: the methoxy group in the A ring which interacts via hydrogen bonding with a tightly bound water molecule in the protein and the protonated amine which forms hydrogen bonds directly with the backbone of the protein. Thus, this structure indicates that the key pharmacophores are located in the A

Biosynthetic origin of butyrolactol A, an antifungal polyketide produced by a marine-derived Streptomyces

• Enjuro Harunari,
• Hisayuki Komaki and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 441–450, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.47

• templates for new pharmacophores [3]. While the frequency of discovering new skeletons from actinomycetes seems declining, biosynthetic analysis of structurally unique known compounds and the following bioengineering of biosynthetic genes are currently becoming an essential part of the creation of new drug