Deuterium in drug discovery: progress, opportunities and challenges

RMC Di Martino, BD Maxwell, T Pirali - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Substitution of a hydrogen atom with its heavy isotope deuterium entails the addition of one
neutron to a molecule. Despite being a subtle change, this structural modification, known as …

Oral GS-441524 derivatives: Next-generation inhibitors of SARS‐CoV‐2 RNA‐dependent RNA polymerase

Z Wang, L Yang, X Song - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
GS-441524, an RNA‐dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) inhibitor, is a 1′-CN-substituted
adenine C-nucleoside analog with broad-spectrum antiviral activity. However, the low oral …

[HTML][HTML] Retinal pigment epithelium 65 kDa protein (RPE65): An update

PD Kiser - Progress in retinal and eye research, 2022 - Elsevier
Vertebrate vision critically depends on an 11-cis-retinoid renewal system known as the
visual cycle. At the heart of this metabolic pathway is an enzyme known as retinal pigment …

Fluorinated cycloalkyl building blocks for drug discovery

OO Grygorenko, KP Melnykov, S Holovach… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The review covers various aspects of fluorinated cycloalkyl (C3− C7) building blocks for drug
discovery, including their synthesis, key physicochemical properties, and biological and …

The pursuit of accurate predictive models of the bioactivity of small molecules

K Martinez-Mayorga, JG Rosas-Jiménez… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Property prediction is a key interest in chemistry. For several decades there has been a
continued and incremental development of mathematical models to predict properties. As …

Inherited retinal dystrophies: role of oxidative stress and inflammation in their physiopathology and therapeutic implications

I Pinilla, V Maneu, L Campello, L Fernández-Sánchez… - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Inherited retinal dystrophies (IRDs) are a large group of genetically and clinically
heterogeneous diseases characterized by the progressive degeneration of the retina …

From mouse to human: Accessing the biochemistry of vision in vivo by two-photon excitation

G Palczewska, M Wojtkowski, K Palczewski - Progress in retinal and eye …, 2023 - Elsevier
The eye is an ideal organ for imaging by a multi-photon excitation approach, because ocular
tissues such as the sclera, cornea, lens and neurosensory retina, are highly transparent to …

Recent progress in the chemistry of β-aminoketones

MM Hammouda, KM Elattar - RSC advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The β-aminoketone moiety has been found to be the basic skeleton of several drugs such as
the amine salts “tolperisone (vasodilation)” and “oxyfedrine (therapeutic coronary disease)” …

Visible Light-Promoted Radical Relay Cyclization/C–C Bond Formation of N-Allylbromodifluoroacetamides with Quinoxalin-2(1H)-ones

ZP Ye, F Liu, XY Duan, J Gao, JP Guan… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A visible light-promoted radical relay of N-allylbromodifluoroacetamide with quinoxalin-2 (1
H)-ones was developed in which 5-exo-trig cyclization and C–C bond formation were …

Pore engineering of porous framework materials for efficient SF6 capture

X Sun, J Chen, Z Jia, Z Zhao, L Zhou… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is an artificial inert gas widely used in the power and
semiconductor industries and is known to be a significant contributor to the greenhouse …