58960-03-5Relevant articles and documents
Discovery of tetrahydroquinolines and benzomorpholines as novel potent RORγt agonists
Xia, Yuehan,Yu, Mingcheng,Zhao, Yunpeng,Xia, Li,Huang, Yafei,Sun, Nannan,Song, Meiqi,Guo, Huimin,Zhang, Yunyi,Zhu, Di,Xie, Qiong,Wang, Yonghui
, (2020/12/04)
The retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptor γt (RORγt) is an important nuclear receptor that regulates the differentiation of Th17 cells and production of interleukin 17(IL-17). RORγt agonists increase basal activity of RORγt and could provide a potential approach to cancer immunotherapy. Herein, hit compound 1 was identified as a weak RORγt agonist during in-house library screening. Changes in LHS core of 1 led to the identification of tetrahydroquinoline compound 6 as a partial RORγt agonist (max. act. = 39.3%). Detailed structure-activity relationship on substituent of the LHS core, amide linker and RHS arylsulfonyl moiety was explored and a novel series of tetrahydroquinolines and benzomorpholines was discovered as potent RORγt agonists. Tetrahydroquinoline compound 8g (EC50 = 8.9 ± 0.4 nM, max. act. = 104.5%) and benzomorpholine compound 9g (EC50 = 7.5 ± 0.6 nM, max. act. = 105.8%) were representative compounds with high RORγt agonistic activity in dual FRET assay, and they showed good activity in cell-based Gal4 reporter gene assay and Th17 cell differentiation assay (104.5% activation at 300 nM of 8g; 59.4% activation at 300 nM of 9g). The binding modes of 8g and 9g as well as the two RORγt inverse agonists accidentally discovered were also discussed.
Homogeneous pressure hydrogenation of quinolines effected by a bench-stable tungsten-based pre-catalyst
Heizinger, Christian,Topf, Christoph,Vielhaber, Thomas
, p. 451 - 461 (2021/11/11)
We report on an operationally simple catalytic method for the tungsten-catalyzed hydrogenation of quinolines through the use of the easily handled and self-contained precursor [WCl(η5-Cp)(CO)3]. This half sandwich complex is indefinitely storable on the bench in simple screw-capped bottles or stoppered flasks and can, if required, be prepared on a multi-gram scale while the actual catalytic transformations were performed in the presence of a Lewis acid in order to achieve both decent substrate conversions and product yields. The described method represents a facile and atom-efficient access to a variety of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinolines that circumvents the use of cost-intensive and oxygen-sensitive phosphine ligands as well as auxiliary hydride reagents.
Cu-Catalyzed Chemoselective Reduction of N-Heteroaromatics with NH3·BH3 in Aqueous Solution
Gao, Chao,Xuan, Qingqing,Song, Qiuling
supporting information, p. 2504 - 2508 (2021/07/31)
An efficient catalytic system was successfully developed on reduction of N-heteroaromatics with H3N?BH3 as hydrogen source in CuSO4 solution, featuring excellent chemoselectivity as well as very broad functional group tolerance. Various challenging substrates, such as OH-, NH2-, Cl-, Br-, etc., contained quinolines, quinoxalines, 1,5-naphthyridines and quinazolines were all reduced smoothly. Mechanistic studies suggested that [Cu-H] intermediate might be generated from NH3?BH3, which was believed to form with H3N?BH3 in CuSO4 solution.
