Modern advances in heterocyclic chemistry in drug discovery

AP Taylor, RP Robinson, YM Fobian… - Organic & …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
New advances in synthetic methodologies that allow rapid access to a wide variety of
functionalized heterocyclic compounds are of critical importance to the medicinal chemist as …

Transition Metal Promoted Cascade Heterocycle Synthesis through C− H Functionalization

A Baccalini, G Faita, G Zanoni… - Chemistry–A European …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Sequential, domino and tandem reactions could be defined as a sequence of synthetic
transformations that occur one after the other, in the same reaction flask. This Review …

Analysis of past and present synthetic methodologies on medicinal chemistry: where have all the new reactions gone? Miniperspective

DG Brown, J Bostrom - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
An analysis of chemical reactions used in current medicinal chemistry (2014), three decades
ago (1984), and in natural product total synthesis has been conducted. The analysis …

Asymmetric Three-Component Reaction of Enynal with Alcohol and Imine as An Expeditious Track to Afford Chiral α-Furyl-β-amino Carboxylate Derivatives

K Hong, J Shu, S Dong, Z Zhang, Y He, M Liu… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Herein, we report an achiral dirhodium complex and chiral phosphoric acid cooperatively
catalyzed asymmetric three-component reaction of enynal with alcohol and imine, affording …

Synthesis of Polysubstituted Furans through Electrochemical Selenocyclization of Homopropargylic Alcohols

D Maiti, A Halder, A Sasidharan Pillai… - The Journal of Organic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The current method represents an electrochemically driven synthetic route to access
polysubstituted selenofuran derivatives through the diselenide-promoted cyclization of …

A systematic review on the kappa opioid receptor and its ligands: New directions for the treatment of pain, anxiety, depression, and drug abuse

MIH Khan, BJ Sawyer, NS Akins, HV Le - European Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Kappa opioid receptor (KOR) is a member of the opioid receptor system, the G protein-
coupled receptors that are expressed throughout the peripheral and central nervous …

Natural products for the treatment of pain: chemistry and pharmacology of salvinorin A, mitragynine, and collybolide

S Chakraborty, S Majumdar - Biochemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
Pain remains a very pervasive problem throughout medicine. Classical pain management is
achieved through the use of opiates belonging to the mu opioid receptor (MOR) class, which …

Biosynthesis of bioactive diterpenoids in the medicinal plant Vitex agnus‐castus

AM Heskes, TCM Sundram, BA Boughton… - The Plant …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Vitex agnus‐castus L.(Lamiaceae) is a medicinal plant historically used throughout the
Mediterranean region to treat menstrual cycle disorders, and is still used today as a clinically …

Endogenous opiates and behavior: 2014

RJ Bodnar - Peptides, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper is the thirty-seventh consecutive installment of the annual review of research
concerning the endogenous opioid system. It summarizes papers published during 2014 …

Discovery of a potent highly biased MOR partial agonist among diastereomeric C9-hydroxyalkyl-5-phenylmorphans

JA Lutz, A Sulima, ES Gutman, EW Bow, D Luo… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
All possible diastereomeric C9-hydroxymethyl-, hydroxyethyl-, and hydroxypropyl-
substituted 5-phenylmorphans were synthesized to explore the three-dimensional space …