20358-02-5Relevant articles and documents
Straightforward convergent access to 2-arylated polysubstituted benzothiazoles
Gras, Emmanuel,Perrin, David M.,Sadek, Omar
, (2020)
A modular access to 2,4 disubstituted benzothiazoles has been achieved though the intermediacy of 4-bromo-2-iodobenzothiazole. The difference in reactivity of both halogens was advantageously exploited to achieve sequential Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling g
Optimization of Benzothiazole and Thiazole Hydrazones as Inhibitors of Schistosome BCL-2
Nguyen, William,Lee, Erinna F.,Evangelista, Marco,Lee, Mihwa,Harris, Tiffany J.,Colman, Peter M.,Smith, Nicholas A.,Williams, Luke B.,Jarman, Kate E.,Lowes, Kym N.,Haeberli, Cécile,Keiser, Jennifer,Smith, Brian J.,Fairlie, W. Douglas,Sleebs, Brad E.
, p. 1143 - 1163 (2021/02/22)
Limited therapeutic options are available for the treatment of human schistosomiasis caused by the parasitic Schistosoma flatworm. The B cell lymphoma-2 (BCL-2)-regulated apoptotic cell death pathway in schistosomes was recently characterized and shown to share similarities with the intrinsic apoptosis pathway in humans. Here, we exploit structural differences in the human and schistosome BCL-2 (sBCL-2) pro-survival proteins toward a novel treatment strategy for schistosomiasis. The benzothiazole hydrazone scaffold previously employed to target human BCL-XL was repurposed as a starting point to target sBCL-2. We utilized X-ray structural data to inform optimization and then applied a scaffold-hop strategy to identify the 5-carboxamide thiazole hydrazone scaffold (43) with potent sBCL-2 activity (IC50 30 nM). Human BCL-XL potency (IC50 13 nM) was inadvertently preserved during the optimization process. The lead analogues from this study exhibit on-target activity in model fibroblast cell lines dependent on either sBCL-2 or human BCL-XL for survival. Further optimization of the thiazole hydrazone class is required to exhibit activity in schistosomes and enhance the potential of this strategy for treating schistosomiasis.
SN-Donor methylthioanilines and copper(II) complexes: Synthesis, spectral properties, and in vitro antimicrobial activity
Olalekan, Temitope E.,Ogunlaja, Adeniyi S.,Watkins, Gareth M.
, (2019/04/25)
Methylthioanilines, a series of sulfur-nitrogen donor ligands substituted with OCH3, CH3, Cl, and Br, and their copper(II) complexes have been synthesized and characterized by 1H and 13C NMR, elemental analysis, FTIR, UV-Vis and EPR spectra, molar conductance, and magnetic susceptibility measurements. The NMR spectra of the ligands revealed that the para/ortho protons and para carbon were sensitive to the electronic effect of substituents. The CHNS analysis presented CuLCl2 (L = OCH3, CH3, Cl) and CuL2Cl2 (L = Br) stoichiometries for the copper complexes. FTIR spectra showed that the bidentate ligands were coordinated to the copper ion through their nitrogen and sulfur atoms. The electronic spectra have suggested square planar and octahedral geometries for these complexes. The EPR spectra demonstrated that the solid state copper(II) complexes possess dx2-y2 orbital ground state and g= > g > 2.0023 in a tetragonal environment. The compounds were evaluated for in vitro antimicrobial activity against S. aureus, B. subtilis, E. coli, and C. albicans. The copper complexes showed higher activity than the parent ligands against S. aureus and B. subtilis; the electron-donating OCH3 and CH3 derivatives were more active than the withdrawing Br- A nd Cl-substituted compounds.
