35150-06-2Relevant articles and documents
Synthesis and structure-activity relationship of nitrile-based cruzain inhibitors incorporating a trifluoroethylamine-based P2 amide replacement
Gomes, Juliana C.,Cianni, Lorenzo,Ribeiro, Jean,dos Reis Rocho, Fernanda,da Costa Martins Silva, Samelyn,Batista, Pedro Henrique Jatai,Moraes, Carolina Borsoi,Franco, Caio Haddad,Freitas-Junior, Lucio H.G.,Kenny, Peter W.,Leit?o, Andrei,Burtoloso, Antonio C.B.,de Vita, Daniela,Montanari, Carlos A.
, (2019)
The structure-activity relationship for nitrile-based cruzain inhibitors incorporating a P2 amide replacement based on trifluoroethylamine was explored by deconstruction of a published series of inhibitors. It was demonstrated that the P3 biphenyl substituent present in the published inhibitor structures could be truncated to phenyl with only a small loss of affinity. The effects of inverting the configuration of the P2 amide replacement and linking a benzyl substituent at P1 were observed to be strongly nonadditive. We show that plotting affinity against molecular size provides a means to visualize both the molecular size efficiency of structural transformations and the nonadditivity in the structure-activity relationship. We also show how the relationship between affinity and lipophilicity, measured by high-performance liquid chromatography with an immobilized artificial membrane stationary phase, may be used to normalize affinity with respect to lipophilicity.
Chiral perylene diimides: Building blocks for ionic self-assembly
Echue, Geraldine,Lloyd-Jones, Guy C.,Faul, Charl F. J.
, p. 5118 - 5128 (2015/03/30)
A chiral perylene diimide building block has been prepared based on an amine derivative of the amino acid L-phenylalanine. Detailed studies were carried out into the self-assembly behaviour of the material in solution and the solid state using UV/Vis, circular dichroism (CD) and fluorescence spectroscopy. For the charged building block BTPPP, the molecular chirality of the side chains is translated into the chiral supramolecular structure in the form of right-handed helical aggregates in aqueous solution. Temperature-dependent UV/Vis studies of BTPPP in aqueous solution showed that the self-assembly behaviour of this dye can be well described by an isodesmic model in which aggregation occurs to generate short stacks in a reversible manner. Wide-angle X-ray diffraction studies (WXRD) revealed that this material self-organises into aggregates with π-π stacking distances typical for π-conjugated materials. TEM investigations revealed the formation of self-assembled structures of low order and with no expression of chirality evident. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and polarised optical microscopy (POM) were used to investigate the mesophase properties. Optical textures representative of columnar liquid-crystalline phases were observed for solvent-annealed samples of BTPPP. The high solubility, tunable self-assembly and chiral ordering of these materials demonstrate their potential as new molecular building blocks for use in the construction of chiro-optical structures and devices.
