Staron, Jakub; Pietrus, Wojciech; Bugno, Ryszard; Kurczab, Rafal; Satala, Grzegorz; Warszycki, Dawid; Lenda, Tomasz; Wantuch, Anna; Hogendorf, Adam S.; Hogendorf, Agata; Duszynska, Beata; Bojarski, Andrzej J. published an article in 2021. The article was titled 《Tuning the activity of known drugs via the introduction of halogen atoms, a case study of SERT ligands – Fluoxetine and fluvoxamine》, and you may find the article in European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.Electric Literature of C7H3BrFN The information in the text is summarized as follows:
To elucidate the role of halogen atoms in the binding of SSRIs to SERT, a series of 22 fluoxetine and fluvoxamine analogs substituted with fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine atoms, differently arranged on the Ph ring was designed. The obtained biol. activity data, supported by a thorough in silico binding mode anal., allowed the identification of two partners for halogen bond interactions: the backbone carbonyl oxygen atoms of E493 and T497. Addnl., compounds with heavier halogen atoms were found to bind with the SERT via a distinctly different binding mode, a result not presented elsewhere. The subsequent anal. of the prepared XSAR sets showed that E493 and T497 participated in the largest number of formed halogen bonds. The XSAR library anal. led to the synthesis of two of the most active compounds (3,4-diCl-fluoxetine, SERT Ki = 5 nM and 3,4-diCl-fluvoxamine, SERT Ki = 9 nM, fluoxetine SERT Ki = 31 nM, fluvoxamine SERT Ki = 458 nM). An example of the successful use of a rational methodol. was presented to analyze binding and design more active compounds by halogen atom introduction. ‘XSAR library anal.’, a new tool in medicinal chem., was instrumental in identifying optimal halogen atom substitution. The results came from multiple reactions, including the reaction of 4-Bromo-2-fluorobenzonitrile(cas: 105942-08-3Electric Literature of C7H3BrFN)
4-Bromo-2-fluorobenzonitrile(cas:105942-08-3) is used as a reagent in the synthesis of picolinamide derivatives as a novel class of 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11β-HSD1) inhibitors.Electric Literature of C7H3BrFN 4-Bromo-2-fluorobenzonitrile is also used in the preparation of fluorinated CB2 receptor agonists for PET imaging.
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