Water‐Promoted Ring‐Opening Reactions of N‐Substituted Saccharins and Phthalimides by Amines

The reactions of N‐substituted saccharins and phthalimides with amines were promoted by water. Various o‐sulfamoyl benzamides and N,N′‐disubstituted phthalamides were prepared in moderate to good yields. These reactions have prominent advantages, such as short reaction time, less by‐products and simple isolation of the products. Water can probably stabilize the reaction intermediates and facilitate precipitation of the ring‐opening products. When steric hindrance arose, hydrolytic compounds, either free acid or salts of the acids, were obtained. Possible reason for the formation of amine salts of o‐sulfamoyl benzoic acids was proposed.     

Facile Synthesis of N‐Sulfonylcyclothioureas in Water

A sequential one‐pot synthesis of N‐sulfonylcyclothioureas from N‐monosulfonyl diamines, CS₂ and chloroacetic acid at room temperature in water is described. In the absence of highly toxic thiophosgene and organic solvents, this method is environmentally benign. Simple reaction conditions, easy purification of the products, good yields and thioglycolic acid as the useful byproduct are also important attributes of this methodology. The plausible mechanism including tandem reactions is proposed.     

Aqueous Oxidation of Sulfonamide Antibiotics: Aromatic Nucleophilic Substitution of an Aniline Radical Cation

Sulfonamide antibiotics are an important class of organic micropollutants in the aquatic environment. For several, sulfur dioxide extrusion products have been previously reported upon photochemical or dark oxidation. Using quantum chemical modeling calculations and transient absorption spectroscopy, it is shown that single‐electron oxidation from sulfadiazine produces the corresponding aniline radical cation. Density functional theory calculations indicate that this intermediate can exist in four protonation states. One species exhibits a low barrier for an intramolecular nucleophilic attack at the para position of the oxidized aniline ring, in which a pyrimidine nitrogen acts as a nucleophile. This attack can lead to a rearranged structure, which exhibits the same connectivity as the SO₂‐extruded oxidation product that was previously observed in the aquatic environment and characterized by NMR spectroscopy. We report a detailed reaction mechanism for this intramolecular aromatic nucleophilic substitution, and we discuss the possibility of this reaction pathway for other sulfonamide drugs.     

Highly efficient Pd‐PEPPSI‐IPr catalyst for N‐(4‐pyridazinyl)‐bridged bicyclic sulfonamides via Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reaction

A protocol for the Suzuki–Miyaura coupling of novel 2‐(6‐chloropyridazin‐3‐yl)‐5‐(aryl/heteroarylsulfonyl)‐2,5‐diazabicyclo[2.2.1]heptanes and heteroarylboronic acids to afford variety of coupled products was realized. Pd‐PEPPSI‐IPr catalyst was found to be a powerful and reusable catalyst under relatively mild reaction conditions.     

超高效液相色谱-串联质谱法同时测定牛奶中38种抗生素残留

建立了超高效液相色谱-串联质谱(UPLC-MS/MS)同时测定牛奶中5类(磺胺类、喹诺酮类、四环素类、氯霉素类和大环内酯类)38种抗生素的分析方法。牛奶样品以0.5%(体积分数)甲酸乙腈提取,利用Oasis PRiME HLB固相萃取小柱进行净化,经Acquity UPLC HSS T3柱(100 mm×2.1 mm i.d.,1.8μm)分离,采用电喷雾离子源,多反应监测模式(MRM)进行定性定量分析。结果表明,38种抗生素在各自线性范围内呈良好的线性关系,相关系数(r~2)均大于0.99,定量下限为0.10～1.0μg/kg;在1.0、5.0、10.0μg/kg加标水平下,平均回收率为70.7%～94.9%,相对标准偏差(RSD,n=6)为4.0%～9.4%。该方法操作简单、灵敏度高、重现性好,适用于牛奶中多种抗生素残留的监测要求。     

Metal‐based sulfonamides: synthesis,characterization, antibacterial,antifungal and cytotoxic properties of pyrrolyl‐ and thienyl‐derived compounds

Pyrrolyl and thienyl derived sulfonamides and their metal [cobalt(II), copper(II), nickel(II) and zinc(II)] complexes were synthesized and characterized by elemental analyses, molar conductances, magnetic moments, IR, ¹H NMR, ¹³C NMR and electronic spectral data. These compounds were screened for in‐vitro antibacterial activity against four Gram‐negative (Escherichia coli, Shigella flexeneri, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Salmonella typhi) and two Gram‐positive (Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus) bacterial strains, and for in‐vitro antifungal activity against Trichophyton longifusus, Candida albicans, Aspergillus flavus, Microsporum canis, Fusarium solani and Candida glaberata. The results of these studies revealed that all compounds showed significant to moderate antibacterial activity; however, the zinc complexes were shown to be the most active against various species. The brine shrimp bioassay was also carried out to study their in vitro cytotoxic properties of all the synthesized ligands and their metal complexes. Only two compounds ( 14 and 19 ) displayed potent cytotoxic activity as LD₅₀ = 5.5637 × 10^?4 and 4.4023 × 10^?4 M ml^?1 respectively, against Artemia salina. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Switching the Inhibitor-Enzyme Recognition Profile via Chimeric Carbonic Anhydrase XII

A key part of the optimization of small molecules in pharmaceutical inhibitor development is to vary the molecular design to enhance complementarity of chemical features of the compound with the positioning of amino acids in the active site of a target enzyme. Typically this involves iterations of synthesis, to modify the compound, and biophysical assay, to assess the outcomes. Selective targeting of the anti-cancer carbonic anhydrase isoform XII (CA XII), this process is challenging because the overall fold is very similar across the twelve CA isoforms. To enhance drug development for CA XII we used a reverse engineering approach where mutation of the key six amino acids in the active site of human CA XII into the CA II isoform was performed to provide a protein chimera (chCA XII) which is amenable to structure-based compound optimization. Through determination of structural detail and affinity measurement of the interaction with over 60 compounds we observed that the compounds that bound CA XII more strongly than CA II, switched their preference and bound more strongly to the engineered chimera, chCA XII, based on CA II, but containing the 6 key amino acids from CA XII, behaved as CA XII in its compound recognition profile. The structures of the compounds in the chimeric active site also resembled those determined for complexes with CA XII, hence validating this protein engineering approach in the development of new inhibitors.