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Castellino NJ, Montgomery AP, Danon JJ, Kassiou M. Late-stage Functionalization for Improving Drug-like Molecular Properties. Chem Rev 2023. [PMID: 37285604 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The development of late-stage functionalization (LSF) methodologies, particularly C-H functionalization, has revolutionized the field of organic synthesis. Over the past decade, medicinal chemists have begun to implement LSF strategies into their drug discovery programs, allowing for the drug discovery process to become more efficient. Most reported applications of late-stage C-H functionalization of drugs and drug-like molecules have been to rapidly diversify screening libraries to explore structure-activity relationships. However, there has been a growing trend toward the use of LSF methodologies as an efficient tool for improving drug-like molecular properties of promising drug candidates. In this review, we have comprehensively reviewed recent progress in this emerging area. Particular emphasis is placed on case studies where multiple LSF techniques were implemented to generate a library of novel analogues with improved drug-like properties. We have critically analyzed the current scope of LSF strategies to improve drug-like properties and commented on how we believe LSF can transform drug discovery in the future. Overall, we aim to provide a comprehensive survey of LSF techniques as tools for efficiently improving drug-like molecular properties, anticipating its continued uptake in drug discovery programs.
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- School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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John SE, Bora D, Shankaraiah N. Ru(II)-Catalyzed regioselective carbene insertion into β-carbolines and isoquinolines. Org Biomol Chem 2022; 20:5852-5860. [PMID: 35848450 DOI: 10.1039/d2ob00946c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A protocol for carbene insertion into the inert C(sp2)-H bond has been established wherein β-carbolines and isoquinolines are explored as intrinsic directing groups. The Ru(II)-catalyzed strategy employing sulfoxonium ylides as the carbene precursor offers an effective and atom-economical functionalization of substrates of biological interest with only DMSO as the sole by-product. The strategy is scalable to gram scale, and it also showcases a wide range of functional group tolerance. ESI-MS studies assisted in the identification of intermediates and consolidation of a probable mechanistic pathway. Furthermore, investigations revealed that the functionalized molecules not only displayed selective inhibition against cancer cell lines, but also demonstrated promising photophysical properties.
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- Stephy Elza John
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Hyderabad 500037, India.
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Hyderabad 500037, India.
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Hyderabad 500037, India.
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Huang KH, Ghosh J, Xu S, Cooks RG. Late-Stage Functionalization and Characterization of Drugs by High-Throughput Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry. Chempluschem 2022; 87:e202100449. [PMID: 34985208 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.202100449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2021] [Revised: 11/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Late-stage functionalization (LSF) of drug molecules is an approach to generate modified molecules that retain functional groups present in the active drugs. Here, we report a study that seeks to characterize the potential value of high-throughput desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (HT DESI-MS) for small-scale rapid LSF. In conventional route screening, HT-based DESI-MS provides contactless, rapid analysis, reliable and reproducible data, minimal sample requirement, and exceptional tolerance to high salt concentrations. Ezetimibe (E), an established hypertension drug, is targeted for modification by LSF. C-H alkenylation and azo-click reactions are utilized to explore this approach to synthesis and analytical characterization. The effect of choice of reactant, stoichiometry, catalyst, and solvent are studied for both reactions using high throughput DESI-MS experiments. Optimum conditions for the formation of LSF products are established with identification by tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS).
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- Kai-Hung Huang
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, 580 Ross Street, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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Tortorella S, Carosati E, Sorbi G, Bocci G, Cross S, Cruciani G, Storchi L. Combining machine learning and quantum mechanics yields more chemically aware molecular descriptors for medicinal chemistry applications. J Comput Chem 2021; 42:2068-2078. [PMID: 34410004 PMCID: PMC9291213 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2021] [Revised: 07/22/2021] [Accepted: 07/31/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Molecular interaction fields (MIFs), describing molecules in terms of their ability to interact with any chemical entity, are one of the most established and versatile concepts in drug discovery. Improvement of this molecular description is highly desirable for in silico drug discovery and medicinal chemistry applications. In this work, we revised a well‐established molecular mechanics' force field and applied a hybrid quantum mechanics and machine learning approach to parametrize the hydrogen‐bonding (HB) potentials of small molecules, improving this aspect of the molecular description. Approximately 66,000 molecules were chosen from available drug databases and subjected to density functional theory calculations (DFT). For each atom, the molecular electrostatic potential (EP) was extracted and used to derive new HB energy contributions; this was subsequently combined with a fingerprint‐based description of the structural environment via partial least squares modeling, enabling the new potentials to be used for molecules outside of the training set. We demonstrate that parameter prediction for molecules outside of the training set correlates with their DFT‐derived EP, and that there is correlation of the new potentials with hydrogen‐bond acidity and basicity scales. We show the newly derived MIFs vary in strength for various ring substitution in accordance with chemical intuition. Finally, we report that this derived parameter, when extended to non‐HB atoms, can also be used to estimate sites of reaction.
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- Sara Tortorella
- Molecular Horizon srl, via Montelino 30, Bettona (Perugia), 06084, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Molecular Horizon srl, via Montelino 30, Bettona (Perugia), 06084, Italy
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- Translational Informatics Division, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università G. D'Annunzio, Chieti, Italy.,Molecular Discovery Ltd, Hertfordshire, UK
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Evans KJ, Morton PA, Luz C, Miller C, Raine O, Lynam JM, Mansell SM. Rhodium Indenyl NHC and Fluorenyl-Tethered NHC Half-Sandwich Complexes: Synthesis, Structures and Applications in the Catalytic C-H Borylation of Arenes and Alkanes. Chemistry 2021; 27:17824-17833. [PMID: 34653269 PMCID: PMC9299238 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202102961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2021] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Indenyl (Ind) rhodium N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes [Rh(η5 -Ind)(NHC)(L)] were synthesised for 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-4,5-dihydroimidazol-2-ylidene (SIPr) with L=C2 H4 (1), CO (2 a) and cyclooctene (COE; 3), for 1,3-bis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-4,5-dihydroimidazol-2-ylidene (SIMes) with L=CO (2 b) and COE (4), and 1,3-bis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene (IMes) with L=CO (2 c) and COE (5). Reaction of SIPr with [Rh(Cp*)(C2 H4 )2 ] did not give the desired SIPr complex, thus demonstrating the "indenyl effect" in the synthesis of 1. Oxidative addition of HSi(OEt)3 to 3 proceeded under mild conditions to give the Rh silyl hydride complex [Rh(Ind){Si(OEt)3 }(H)(SIPr)] (6) with loss of COE. Tethered-fluorenyl NHC rhodium complexes [Rh{(η5 -C13 H8 )C2 H4 N(C)C2 Hx NR}(L)] (x=4, R=Dipp, L=C2 H4 : 11; L=COE: 12; L=CO: 13; R=Mes, L=COE: 14; L=CO: 15; x=2, R=Me, L=COE: 16; L=CO: 17) were synthesised in low yields (5-31 %) in comparison to good yields for the monodentate complexes (49-79 %). Compounds 3 and 1, which contain labile alkene ligands, were successful catalysts for the catalytic borylation of benzene with B2 pin2 (Bpin=pinacolboronate, 97 and 93 % PhBpin respectively with 5 mol % catalyst, 24 h, 80 °C), with SIPr giving a more active catalyst than SIMes or IMes. Fluorenyl-tethered NHC complexes were much less active as borylation catalysts, and the carbonyl complexes were inactive. The borylation of toluene, biphenyl, anisole and diphenyl ether proceeded to give meta substitutions as the major product, with smaller amounts of para substitution and almost no ortho product. The borylation of octane and decane with B2 pin2 at 120 and 140 °C, respectively, was monitored by 11 B NMR spectroscopy, which showed high conversions into octyl and decylBpin over 4-7 days, thus demonstrating catalysed sp3 C-H borylation with new piano stool rhodium indenyl complexes. Irradiation of the monodentate complexes with 400 or 420 nm light confirmed the ready dissociation of C2 H4 and COE ligands, whereas CO complexes were inert. Evidence for C-H bond activation in the alkyl groups of the NHC ligands was obtained.
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- Kieren J Evans
- Institute of Chemical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK
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Besson T, Fruit C. Recent Advances in Transition-Metal-Free Late-Stage C-H and N-H Arylation of Heteroarenes Using Diaryliodonium Salts. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2021; 14:661. [PMID: 34358087 PMCID: PMC8308686 DOI: 10.3390/ph14070661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2021] [Revised: 07/07/2021] [Accepted: 07/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Transition-metal-free direct arylation of C-H or N-H bonds is one of the key emerging methodologies that is currently attracting tremendous attention. Diaryliodonium salts serve as a stepping stone on the way to alternative environmentally friendly and straightforward pathways for the construction of C-C and C-heteroatom bonds. In this review, we emphasize the recent synthetic advances of late-stage C(sp2)-N and C(sp2)-C(sp2) bond-forming reactions under metal-free conditions using diaryliodonium salts as arylating reagent and its applications to the synthesis of new arylated bioactive heterocyclic compounds.
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- Normandie University, UNIROUEN, INSA Rouen, CNRS, COBRA UMR 6014, F-76000 Rouen, France;
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Bonciarelli S, Desantis J, Goracci L, Siragusa L, Zamora I, Ortega-Carrasco E. Automatic Identification of Lansoprazole Degradants under Stress Conditions by LC-HRMS with MassChemSite and WebChembase. J Chem Inf Model 2021; 61:2706-2719. [PMID: 34061520 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.1c00226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Stress testing is one of the most important parts of the drug development process, helping to foresee stability problems and to identify degradation products. One of the processes involving stress testing is represented by forced degradation studies, which can predict the impact of certain conditions of pH, moisture, heat, or other negative effects due to transportation or packaging issues on drug potency and purity, ensuring patient safety. Regulatory agencies have been working on a standardization of laboratory procedures since the past two decades. One of the results of those years of intensive research is the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) guidelines, which clearly define which forced degradation studies should be performed on new drugs, which become a routine work in pharmaceutical laboratories. Since used techniques based on high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with high-resolution mass spectrometry have been developed years ago and are now mastered by pharmaceutical scientists, automation of data analysis, and thus data processing, is becoming a hot topic nowadays. In this work, we present MassChemSite and WebChembase as a tandem to automatize the routine analysis studies without missing information quality, using as a case study the degradation of lansoprazole under acidic, oxidative, basic, and neutral stress conditions.
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- Stefano Bonciarelli
- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Molecular Horizon SRL, Via Montelino 30, 06084 Bettona, Italy
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- Lead Molecular Design, SL, Rambla del Celler 113 local, 08173 Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain
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Gramage-Doria R. Steering Site-Selectivity in Transition Metal-Catalyzed C-H Bond Functionalization: the Challenge of Benzanilides. Chemistry 2020; 26:9688-9709. [PMID: 32237177 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202000672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2020] [Revised: 03/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Selective C-H bond functionalization catalyzed by metal complexes have completely revolutionized the way in which chemical synthesis is conceived nowadays. Typically, the reactivity of a transition metal catalyst is the key to control the site-, regio- and/or stereo-selectivity of a C-H bond functionalization. Of particular interests are molecules that contain multiple C-H bonds prone to undergo C-H bond activations with very similar bond dissociation energies at different positions. This is the case of benzanilides, relevant chemical motifs that are found in many useful fine chemicals, in which two C-H sites are present in chemically different aromatic fragments. In the last years, it has been found that depending on the metal catalyst and the reaction conditions, the amide motif might behave as a directing group towards the metal-catalyzed C-H bond activation in the benzamide site or in the anilide site. The impact and the consequences of such subtle control of site-selectivity are herein reviewed with important applications in carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond forming processes. The mechanisms unraveling these unique transformations are discussed in order to provide a better understanding for future developments in the field of site-selective C-H bond functionalization with transition metal catalysts.
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Struble TJ, Coley CW, Jensen KF. Multitask prediction of site selectivity in aromatic C–H functionalization reactions. REACT CHEM ENG 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/d0re00071j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Aromatic C–H functionalization reactions are an important part of the synthetic chemistry toolbox.
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- Thomas J. Struble
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- USA
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Richardson J, Sharman G, Martínez-Olid F, Cañellas S, Gomez JE. Unlocking the potential of late-stage functionalisation: an accurate and fully automated method for the rapid characterisation of multiple regioisomeric products. REACT CHEM ENG 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/c9re00431a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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An automated pipeline for structure determination is outlined that will help unlock the potential of late-stage functionalisation (LSF).
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- Discovery Research and Technologies
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Surrey
- UK
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- Discovery Research and Technologies
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Centro de Investigación Lilly
- 28108 Alcobendas-Madrid
- Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ)
- The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology
- E-43007 Tarragona
- Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ)
- The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology
- E-43007 Tarragona
- Spain
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Moir M, Danon JJ, Reekie TA, Kassiou M. An overview of late-stage functionalization in today’s drug discovery. Expert Opin Drug Discov 2019; 14:1137-1149. [DOI: 10.1080/17460441.2019.1653850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Michael Moir
- School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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Davies IW. The digitization of organic synthesis. Nature 2019; 570:175-181. [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1288-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2018] [Accepted: 04/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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dos Passos Gomes G, Wimmer A, Smith JM, König B, Alabugin IV. CO2 or SO2: Should It Stay, or Should It Go? J Org Chem 2019; 84:6232-6243. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b00503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- Gabriel dos Passos Gomes
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32309, United States
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- Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 31, Regensburg 93040, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32309, United States
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- Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 31, Regensburg 93040, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32309, United States
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Smith JM, Dixon JA, deGruyter JN, Baran PS. Alkyl Sulfinates: Radical Precursors Enabling Drug Discovery. J Med Chem 2018; 62:2256-2264. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b01303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Joel M. Smith
- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 93037, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 93037, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 93037, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 93037, United States
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