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Design and synthesis of 4-aryl-4-oxobutanoic acid amides as calpain inhibitors
Zhang, Yong,Jung, Seo Yoon,Jin, Changbae,Kim, Nam Doo,Gong, Ping,Lee, Yong Sup
scheme or table, p. 502 - 507 (2011/02/28)
The involvement of μ-calpain in neurological disorders, such as stroke and Alzheimer's disease has attracted considerable interest in the use of calpain inhibitors as therapeutic agents. 4-Aryl-4-oxobutanoic acid amide derivatives 4 were designed as acyclic variants of μ-calpain inhibitory chromone and quinolinone derivatives. Of the compounds synthesized, 4c-2, which possesses a 2-methoxymethoxy group at the phenyl ring and a primary amide at the warhead region most potently inhibited μ-calpain (IC50 = 0.34 μM). Our findings suggest that the 4-aryl-4-oxobutanoic acid amide derivatives should be considered as a new family of μ-calpain inhibitors.
Stereoselective Reduction of γ-Oxobutanoic Acids Using DIBAL-H and ZnCl2
Frenette, R.,Monette, M.,Bernstein, M. A.,Young, R. N.,Verhoeven, T. R.
, p. 3083 - 3089 (2007/10/02)
A variety of γ-aromatic γ-ketobutanoic acids can be reduced selectively, under optimized conditions, by the use of DIBAL-H and ZnCl2 to provide the (RS,SR)-γ-aryl-γ-hydroxy-β-methylbutanoic acids.Further evidence has been gathered to support the hypothesis that the reaction proceeds by formation of a seven-membered ring complex with the aluminium or zinc atom bridging the ketone and carboxyl groups which preceeds the reduction step and that this templated reduction accounts for observed high diastereoselectivity.Also we have shown that some γ-aryl-γ-butyrolactones can be easily transformed via an oxidative cleavage of the aromatic ring to provide selective synthesis of either cis- or trans-tetrahydro-3-methyl-5-oxo-2-furancarboxylic acid derivatives.