Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening - Volume 16, Issue 10, 2013

The magnitude of the challenges in preclinical drug discovery is evident in the large amount of capital invested in such efforts in pursuit of a small static number of eventually successful marketable therapeutics. An explosion in the availability of potentially drug-like compounds and chemical biology data on these molecules can provide us with the means to improve the eventual success rates for compounds being considered Read More

There is an immense interest among the researchers to identify new herbicides which are effective against the herbs without affecting the environment. In this work, photosynthetic pigments are used as the ligands to predict their herbicidal activity. The enzyme 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate (EPSP) synthase is a good target for the herbicides. Homology modeling of the target enzyme is done using Modeler 9.11 a Read More

In the present study, Cu(II) Schiff-base complex is introduced as a highly efficient and green solid catalyst for the unsymmetrical Hantzsch condensation through a four-component coupling of various aldehydes, dimedone, ethyl acetoacetate and ammonium acetate to form polyhydroquinoline derivatives in good to excellent yields. This reaction was carried out in the presence of 1 mol% of catalysts in water a Read More

A water-accelerated multicomponent synthesis of organic target molecules has been used as a key method for the preparation of novel imidazole derivatives. The three-component condensation reactions of primary amines with trichloroacetonitrile in the presence of ninhydrine in water are developed as efficient and clean green synthetic procedures for the high-yielding preparation of imidazoles.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small endogenous and conserved non-coding RNA molecules that regulate gene expression. Although the first miRNA was discovered well over sixteen years ago, little is known about their biogenesis and it is only recently that we have begun to understand their scope and diversity. For this purpose, we performed an RNAi screen aimed at identifying genes involved in their biogenesis pathway with a pot Read More

The composition of fatty acids and insecticidal effects was performed for the Turkish mosses Dicranum scoparium, Hypnum cupressiforme, Polytrichastrum formosum, Homalothecium lutescens and the Turkish liverwort Conocephalum conicum. All structures were determined by means of gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry techniques. The determination of fatty acids was done using a sim Read More

Modern small molecule drug design requires the optimization of not only the binding characteristics of the molecule but also its physicochemical properties for ADMET performance. A key physical property is lipophilicity and medicinal chemists need rapid access to high quality data in order to drive their decision making. Traditionally lipophilicity (log D) measurements are performed with a shake flask method and UV determinat Read More

The quorum sensing (QS) enhanced transcriptional regulator SdiA of S. typhimurium is the best known and potential target and responds to a broad range of AHLs and AHL analogs. On the other hand, in many gram-negative bacteria including S. typhimurium, brominated furanones were reported to have inhibitory activity against the QS phenotypes. Motivated by both, we designed an in silico group of halogenated AHLs b Read More

A simple and proficient method for the synthesis of 1,3-benzoxazine derivatives via three-component reaction of isocyanide and isoquinoline with 1-(6-hydroxy-2-isopropenyl-1-benzofuran-yl)-1-ethanone or 4-hydroxycumarine in water in the presence of piperidine at 70°C is reported.

An efficient protocol for the synthesis of dihydropyrano [2,3-c] chromenes derivatives by one-pot threecomponent reaction of aromatic aldehydes, malononitrile or methyl cyanoacetate, and 4-hydroxy coumarin has been developed using catalytic amount (10%) of three different catalysts piperidine, triethyl amine, and natrium carbonate in aqueous media. The present protocol has significant features such as easy set-up a Read More

A simple, clean and rapid one-pot three component, microwave-assisted synthesis of pyrrolo[1,2-c]pyrimidine derivatives starting from various substituted pyrimidines, 2-bromoacetophenones and nonsymmetrical, electron deficient alkynes in 1,2-epoxybutane which acts both as solvent and acid scavenger is reported. This one-pot three component synthesis implies short reaction times being at the same time highly cost-effe Read More

A Passerini-type condensation for the synthesis of α-acyloxycarboxamides starting from simple and readily available inputs, including an isocyanide, aldehydes and water in the presence of trimethylsilyl azide as a catalyst under reflux conditions in toluene in good yields, is described.