Case Study 2 - Benzodiazepines and Combinatorial Chemistry Flashcards
Ring A and drawing
Ring A involved in pie-pie stacking in the receptor protein
Exchanging ring A for a heterocyclic ring leads to lower anxiolytic activity
Ring B drawing
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Ring C and drawing
• Ring C may contribute to steric or hydrophobic interactions
What Is Combinatorial Chemistry?
- A process where groups of starting materials are reacted together to make every available product
- Mixtures of products are obtained – a library
- Useful for making very diverse mixtures of compounds with drug-like properties for screening
- One set of starting materials may be fixed on a solid support – solid-phase synthesis
- Can be totally automated, increase productivity
- Introduces diversity in lead compound structure
- Rational versus Irrational drug design
What Is A Compound Library?
- A collection of compounds prepared for testing
- A library contains very little of each compound
- Several types of library can be prepared:
- Virtual: in silico
- General: no bias for a target
- Discovery: a library with drug-like features
- Focused: designed to inhibit a target family
- Targeted: designed to inhibit a specific target
Orthodox synthesis:
A+B –> AB
Making a Simple Library
- Parallel synthesis, spatially addressable
* 96- or 384-well plates, ready for HTS
‘Mix And Split’ Library Synthesis
- Substrates are attached to a solid support
- Reactions are driven to completion by using excess reagent
- Screening issues
- Positive results must be deconvoluted
Solid Phase Organic Chemistry 1 - methodology
- The development of automated solid-supported peptide synthesis revolutionised peptide research
- The automated methodology has been adapted to make many peptides in parallel
- All of the chemistry required has been worked out so combinatorial synthesis of peptides is easy
- The methodology can also be applied to the synthesis of any small-molecule library using combinatorial chemistry on a solid support
Solid Phase Organic Chemistry
• Wang linker
- Suitable for a base-labile protecting group strategy
- Requires 1% - 95% TFA for cleavage
- Reveals CO2H
Screening Compound Libraries
- Screen the library in solution
- Must cleave all compounds from the support
- Possibility of false or misleading hits
- Must resynthesize all compounds in an active library
- Screen individual compounds in solution
- Separate the beads manually
- Requires a method for identifying active structures
- Screen compounds still attached to the support
- Colorimetric/ fluorimetric assay
- Support can restrict the conformation of the product
Hit Structure Determination
- The active hit must be prepared on a larger scale once activity has been found
- Structure determination can be the rate-limiting step
- Ideally, the structure of the hit would be determined whilst the compound is still anchored to the solid support
- Nanomolar quantities of the hit can not be characterised easily using spectroscopy so some other methodology, chemical or otherwise, is required to trace the hit structure
Matrix Metalloproteinase (MMP) Enzymes
- A family of zinc-dependant enzymes
- Degradation and remodeling of the extracellular matrix
- Important therapeutic targets with indications in cancer, arthritis, autoimmunity, and cardiovascular disease
- Selectivity is important for therapy
- Diketopiperazine (DKP) enzyme inhibitors chosen as lead compounds following de novo drug design
- Solid-phase combinatorial synthesis chosen as a route to develop a diverse array of analogues for screening
Benzodiazepines
Class A
Class B
Benzodiazepines Class A
Clonazepam Diazepam
Lorazepam
Oxazepam Temazepam
Benzodiazepines Class B
Alprazolam
Estazolam
Midazolam
Triazolam
Clonazepam
Class A R1 - H R3 - H R7 - NO2 X - Cl
Diazepam
Class A R1 - CH3 R3 - H R7 - Cl X - H
Lorazepam
Class A R1 - H R3 - OH R7 - Cl X - Cl
Oxazepam
Class A R1 - H R3 - OH R7 - Cl X - H
Temazepam
Class A R1 - CH3 R3 - OH R7 - Cl X - H
Alprazolam
Class B
R - CH3
X - H
Y - N
Estazolam
Class B
R - H
X - H
Y - N
Midazolam
Class B
R - CH3
X - F
Y - CH