Triptolide, a principal bioactive ingredient of Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F, has attracted extensive exploration due to its unique structure of a diterpenoid triepoxide and multiple biological activities. This review will focus on the structural modifications, structure-activity relationships, pharmacology, and clinical development of triptolide in the last forty years.
p300
and CREB-binding protein (CBP) are ubiquitously expressed
pleiotropic lysine acetyltransferases and play a key role as transcriptional
co-activators that are essential for a multitude of cellular processes.
Despite great importance, there is a lack of highly selective, potent,
druglike p300/CBP inhibitors. Through the artificial-intelligence-assisted
drug discovery pipeline and further optimization, we reported the
discovery of novel, highly selective, potent small-molecule inhibitors
of p300/CBP histone acetyltransferases (HAT) with desired druglike
properties, exemplified by B026. Our data demonstrated
that B026, with half maximal inhibitory concentration
(IC50) values of 1.8 nM to p300 and 9.5 nM to CBP enzyme
inhibitory activity, is the most potent, selective p300/CBP HAT inhibitor.
Moreover, B026 achieves significant and dose-dependent
tumor growth inhibition in an animal model of human cancer, suggesting
that B026 is a highly promising p300/CBP HAT inhibitor
and warrants extensive preclinical investigation as a potential clinical
development candidate.
The rhodium-catalyzed intermolecular direct C-H thiolation of arenes with aryl and alkyl disulfides was developed for the first time to provide a convenient route to aryl thioethers. This strategy is compatible with many different directing groups and exhibits excellent functional group tolerance. More significantly, mono- or dithiolation can be selectively achieved, thus providing a straightforward way for selective preparation of aryl thioethers and dithioethers.
An unprecedented rhodium(III)-catalyzed regioselective redox-neutral annulation reaction of 1-naphthylamine N-oxides with diazo compounds was developed to afford various biologically important 1H-benzo[g]indolines. This coupling reaction proceeds under mild reaction conditions and does not require external oxidants. The only by-products are dinitrogen and water. More significantly, this reaction represents the first example of dual functiaonalization of unactivated a primary C(sp(3) )H bond and C(sp(2) )H bond with diazocarbonyl compounds. DFT calculations revealed that an intermediate iminium is most likely involved in the catalytic cycle. Moreover, a rhodium(III)-catalyzed coupling of readily available tertiary aniline N-oxides with α-diazomalonates was also developed under external oxidant-free conditions to access various aminomandelic acid derivatives by an O-atom-transfer reaction.
A rhodium-catalyzed oxidative C2-acylation of indoles with aryl and alkyl aldehydes via C-H bond activation is described. The reaction is highly atom-economic and provides easy access to a wide variety of 2-aroylindoles.
Rhenium-catalyzed oxyalkylation of alkenes is described, where hypervalent iodine(III) reagents derived from widely occurring aliphatic carboxylic acids were used as, for the first time, not only an oxygenation source but also an alkylation source via decarboxylation. The reaction also features a wide substrate scope, totally regiospecific difunctionalization, mild reaction conditions, and ready availability of both substrates. Mechanistic studies revealed a decarboxylation/radical-addition/cation-trapping cascade operating in the reaction.
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