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Truncated phosphonated C-1′-branched N,O-nucleosides: A new class of antiviral agents

TL;DR: Preliminary biological assays show that β-anomers are able to inhibit HIV in vitro infection at concentrations in the micromolar range and higher SI values with respect to AZT indicated that the compounds were endowed with low cytotoxicity.
About: This article is published in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry.The article was published on 2012-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 25 citations till now.

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Introduction

  • Preliminary biological assays show that b-anomers are able to inhibit HIV in vitro infection at concentrations in the micromolar range.
  • 18,19 Several strategies to overcome the initial selective phosphorylation step have been designed;23 in particular, phosphonate analogues,20 by miming the nucleoside monophosphates, overcome the instability of nucleotides towards phosphodiesterase and enhance the cellular uptake by bypassing the initial phosphorylation step.
  • In connection with their work addressed to the search of new and potent antiviral agents, the authors have extended their interest to the synthesis of the new generation of truncated phosphonated C-10branched N,O-nucleosides.
  • The authors report in this paper the synthetic approach towards these derivatives and their preliminary biological evaluation.

2.1. Chemistry

  • According to the retrosynthetic analysis shown in Scheme 1, the key step of the synthetic route involves the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of the N-methyl-C-nitrone 7 with the acrylate 8.
  • The authors have designed an alternative methodology towards 7 (route b), which is based on the conversion of the phosphonated alcohol 13 into the corresponding mesylate 15; the subsequent reaction with N-methyl hydroxylamine afforded the derivative 16 which, by oxidation with MnO2, gave the target nitrone 7 in a 60% yield (Scheme 2).
  • The anomeric configuration of obtained modified nucleosides was assigned on the basis of 1H NMR and NOE experiments.

2.2. Biological results

  • For testing the potential activity of the new truncated phosphonated C-10-branched N,O-nucleosides against human retroviruses, the authors assessed their ability to inhibit both HIV and HTLV-1 in vitro infections.
  • The results reported in Table 1 showed that compounds 11a and 11d were not active, while 11b and 11c inhibited HIV infection at an inhibitory concentration 50 (IC50) of 220 and 132 lM respectively.
  • Actually this is summarized by the values of the selectivity index (SI) calculated on the basis of the ratio between the CC50 and IC50 values.
  • Thus, the low cytotoxic effect of the compounds could balance their higher IC50 with respect to the positive control.

3. Conclusion

  • Truncated phosphonated C-10-branched N,O-nucleosides have been synthesized in good yields by the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition methodology, starting from the nitrone 7.
  • Preliminary biological assays show that the b-anomers are able to inhibit infection of HIV at concentrations in the micromolar range.
  • They are certainly less cytotoxic than AZT, as deduced from the calculated SI values.
  • In addition, they seem to be rather specific in inhibiting HIV infection, while they were unable to exert the same effect on HTLV-1 infection.
  • Truncated phosphonated represent a new template of cyclic nucleoside analogs which deserve further investigations as lead compounds for extending the current spectrum of antiviral activity of modified nucleosides, avoiding some unwanted side effects.

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Abstract: Isoxazoles, isoxazolines and isoxazolidines are a class of heterocyclic compounds having a remarkable number of applications and are very versatile building blocks in organic synthesis. The developments concerning the synthesis of the above monocyclic systems reported in the literature from 2007 to 2019 are reviewed. Some data related to theoretical methods, experimental structural methods, and thermodynamic aspects for this class of heterocycles are also reported.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the Fluro arylazo pyridine glucosides were synthesized via green protocol, microwave scheme 3, and the compounds were investigated on the basis of spectroscopic data (FT-IR, 1D, 13C), and antibacterial and antifungal studies had been applied.
Abstract: Pyridine derivatives played important roles in the last decade in to approach many and different functionalities, especially as antitumor, antibacterial, anti-fungal, and many of pharmacological activities. Novel compounds of 5-Arylazo-2- [(substituted)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl) tetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-yloxy]-4,6dimethyl nicotine nitrile, (3a-e), generally called (Fluro arylazo pyridine glucosides) were synthesised via green protocol, microwave scheme 3, and the compounds were investigated on the basis of spectroscopic data (FT-IR, 1D, 13C), and antibacterial and antifungal studies had been applied. Graphical Abstract

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