Principle and design of pseudo-natural products

G Karageorgis, DJ Foley, L Laraia, H Waldmann - Nature Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Natural products (NPs) are a significant source of inspiration towards the discovery of new
bioactive compounds based on novel molecular scaffolds. However, there are currently only …

Emergent synthetic methods for the modular advancement of sp 3-rich fragments

MJ Caplin, DJ Foley - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Fragment-based drug discovery is an important and increasingly reliable technology for the
delivery of clinical candidates. Notably, however, sp3-rich fragments are a largely untapped …

Cooperative Phosphine-Photoredox Catalysis Enables N–H Activation of Azoles for Intermolecular Olefin Hydroamination

K Sedillo, F Fan, RR Knowles… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Catalytic intermolecular olefin hydroamination is an enabling synthetic strategy that offers
direct and atom-economical access to a variety of nitrogen-containing compounds from …

A general N-alkylation platform via copper metallaphotoredox and silyl radical activation of alkyl halides

NW Dow, A Cabré, DWC MacMillan - Chem, 2021 - cell.com
The catalytic union of amides, sulfonamides, anilines, imines, or N-heterocycles with a broad
spectrum of electronically and sterically diverse alkyl bromides has been achieved via a …

Engaging Alkenes in Metallaphotoredox: A Triple Catalytic, Radical Sorting Approach to Olefin-Alcohol Cross-Coupling

Q Cai, IM McWhinnie, NW Dow, AY Chan… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Metallaphotoredox cross-coupling is a well-established strategy for generating clinically
privileged aliphatic scaffolds via single-electron reactivity. Correspondingly, expanding …

Pseudo-natural products and natural product-inspired methods in chemical biology and drug discovery

M Grigalunas, A Burhop, A Christoforow… - Current Opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Through evolution, nature has provided natural products (NPs) as a rich source of diverse
bioactive material. Many drug discovery programs have used nature as an inspiration for the …

Fragment libraries designed to be functionally diverse recover protein binding information more efficiently than standard structurally diverse libraries

A Carbery, R Skyner, F von Delft… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Current fragment-based drug design relies on the efficient exploration of chemical space by
using structurally diverse libraries of small fragments. However, structurally dissimilar …

Recent applications of diversity-oriented synthesis toward novel, 3-dimensional fragment collections

SL Kidd, TJ Osberger, N Mateu, HF Sore… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Fragment-based drug discovery (FBDD) is a well-established approach for the discovery of
novel medicines, illustrated by the approval of two FBBD-derived drugs. This methodology is …

Phenotyping reveals targets of a pseudo‐Natural‐product autophagy inhibitor

DJ Foley, S Zinken, D Corkery, L Laraia… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Pseudo‐natural‐product (NP) design combines natural product fragments to
provide unprecedented NP‐inspired compounds not accessible by biosynthesis, but …

Achieving efficient fragment screening at XChem facility at diamond light source

A Douangamath, A Powell, D Fearon… - JoVE (Journal of …, 2021 - jove.com
In fragment-based drug discovery, hundreds or often thousands of compounds smaller
than~ 300 Da are tested against the protein of interest to identify chemical entities that can …