Propargylamines are a versatile class of compounds which find broad application in many fields of chemistry. This review aims to describe the different strategies developed so far for the synthesis of propargylamines and their derivatives as well as to highlight their reactivity and use as building blocks in the synthesis of chemically relevant organic compounds. In the first part of the review, the different synthetic approaches to synthesize propargylamines, such as A couplings and C-H functionalization of alkynes, have been described and organized on the basis of the catalysts employed in the syntheses. Both racemic and enantioselective approaches have been reported. In the second part, an overview of the transformations of propargylamines into heterocyclic compounds such as pyrroles, pyridines, thiazoles, and oxazoles, as well as other relevant organic derivatives, is presented.
-As a continuation of our previous work turned toward the identification of antimycobaterial compounds with innovative structure, two series of pyrazole derivatives were synthesized by parallel solution-phase synthesis and assayed as inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), the causative agent of tuberculosis. One of these compounds showed high activity against MTB (MIC = 4 μg/mL). The newly synthesized pyrazoles were also computationally investigated to analyse their fit properties to the pharmacophoric model for antitubercular compounds previously built by us and to refine structure-activity relationship analysis.
Over
the past 2000 years, tuberculosis (TB) has claimed more lives
than any other infectious disease. In 2020 alone, TB was responsible
for 1.5 million deaths worldwide, comparable to the 1.8 million deaths
caused by COVID-19. The World Health Organization has stated that
new TB drugs must be developed to end this pandemic. After decades
of neglect in this field, a renaissance era of TB drug discovery has
arrived, in which many novel candidates have entered clinical trials.
However, while hundreds of molecules are reported annually as promising
anti-TB agents, very few successfully progress to clinical development.
In this Perspective, we critically review those anti-TB compounds
published in the last 6 years that demonstrate good in vivo efficacy against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Additionally,
we highlight the main challenges and strategies for developing new
TB drugs and the current global pipeline of drug candidates in clinical
studies to foment fresh research perspectives.
A chemoenzymatic
cascade process for the sustainable production
of pyrroles has been developed. Pyrroles were synthesized by exploiting
the previously unexplored aromatizing activity of monoamine oxidase
enzymes (MAO-N and 6-HDNO). MAO-N/6-HDNO whole cell biocatalysts are
able to convert 3-pyrrolines into pyrroles under mild conditions and
in high yields. Moreover, MAO-N can work in combination with the ruthenium
Grubbs catalyst, leading to the synthesis of pyrroles from diallylamines/-anilines
in a one-pot cascade metathesis–aromatization sequence.
This study describes the discovery of novel dengue virus inhibitors targeting both a crucial viral protein-protein interaction and an essential host cell factor as a strategy to reduce the emergence of drug resistance. Starting from known c-Src inhibitors, a virtual screening was performed to identify molecules able to interact with a recently discovered allosteric pocket on the dengue virus NS5 polymerase. The selection of cheap-to-produce scaffolds and the exploration of the biologically relevant chemical space around them suggested promising candidates for chemical synthesis. A series of purines emerged as the most interesting candidates able to inhibit virus replication at low micromolar concentrations with no significant toxicity to the host cell. Among the identified antivirals, compound 16i proved to be 10 times more potent than ribavirin, showed a better selectivity index and represents the first-in-class DENV-NS5 allosteric inhibitor able to target both the virus NS5-NS3 interaction and the host kinases c-Src/Fyn.
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