Spirocyclic scaffolds in medicinal chemistry

K Hiesinger, D Dar'in, E Proschak… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Spirocyclic scaffolds are incorporated in various approved drugs and drug candidates. The
increasing interest in less planar bioactive compounds has given rise to the development of …

Emerging and re-emerging warheads for targeted covalent inhibitors: applications in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology

M Gehringer, SA Laufer - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Targeted covalent inhibitors (TCIs) are designed to bind poorly conserved amino acids by
means of reactive groups, the so-called warheads. Currently, targeting noncatalytic cysteine …

Recent advances in activity-based probes (ABPs) and affinity-based probes (A f BPs) for profiling of enzymes

H Fang, B Peng, SY Ong, Q Wu, L Li, SQ Yao - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) is a technique that uses highly selective active-site
targeted chemical probes to label and monitor the state of proteins. ABPP integrates the …

Development of tunable mechanism-based carbasugar ligands that stabilize glycoside hydrolases through the formation of transient covalent intermediates

S Bhosale, S Kandalkar, PA Gilormini, O Akintola… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Mutations in many members of the set of human lysosomal glycoside hydrolases cause a
wide range of lysosomal storage diseases. As a result, much effort has been directed toward …

Detection of active mammalian GH31 α-glucosidases in health and disease using in-class, broad-spectrum activity-based probes

J Jiang, CL Kuo, L Wu, C Franke… - ACS central …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The development of small molecule activity-based probes (ABPs) is an evolving and
powerful area of chemistry. There is a major need for synthetically accessible and specific …

Hypoxia-activated and indomethacin-mediated theranostic prodrug releasing drug on-demand for tumor imaging and therapy

X Peng, J Gao, Y Yuan, H Liu, W Lei, S Li… - Bioconjugate …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A smart theranostic prodrug IMC-FDU-TZBC-NO2, releasing active drug on-demand based
on hypoxia-activated and indomethacin-mediated, for solid tumor imaging and efficient …

Synthesis and biological evaluation of cyanoaziridine phosphine oxides and phosphonates with antiproliferative activity

V Carramiñana, AMO de Retana, AV Del Burgo… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
This work reports an efficient diastereoselective synthetic methodology for the preparation of
phosphorus substituted cyanoaziridines through the nucleophilic addition of TMSCN, as …

A self-immolative and DT-diaphorase-activatable prodrug for drug-release tracking and therapy

B Li, P Liu, D Yan, F Zeng, S Wu - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
DT-diaphorase, which catalyzes the reduction of various biological substances like
quinones, is overexpressed in some malignant tumors. However, exploiting this attractive …

A Divergent Synthesis of larabino‐ and dxylo‐Configured Cyclophellitol Epoxides and Aziridines

SP Schröder, R Petracca, H Minnee… - European Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A divergent synthesis to eight d‐xylo‐and l‐arabino‐cyclophellitol and cyclophellitol
aziridine derivatives is described. The syntheses start from d‐xylose and feature asymmetric …

Accessing Rare α‐Heterocyclic Aziridines via Brønsted Acid‐catalyzed Michael Addition/Annulation: Scope, Limitations, and Mechanism

TA Hilton, AG Leach, AP McKay… - Chemistry–A European …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We report an approach to the diastereoselective synthesis of 1, 2‐disubstituted heterocyclic
aziridines. A Brønsted acid‐catalyzed conjugate addition of anilines to trisubstituted …