Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
65(1), P. 201 - 213
Published: Jan. 2, 2025
The
design
of
drugs
and
nutraceutics
that
mimic
microbial
metabolites
is
an
emerging
drug
modality
in
medicinal
chemistry
attempts
to
modulate
the
myriad
interactions
these
molecules
establish
with
host
proteins.
Understanding
how
interact
their
target
proteins
key
perform
a
rational
metabolite
mimetic
for
therapeutic
usage.
In
present
work,
we
address
this
question
by
analyzing
functional
groups
they
display
set
more
than
71K
protein–metabolite
from
PDB.
Significant
differences
group
distributions,
chemical
features,
co-occurrences
are
observed
distinct
subsets
molecules.
same
true
distributions
interaction
types.
By
correlating
both
data
sets,
able
explain
patterns
terms
patterns.
These
results
will
shed
light
on
novel
purposes.
Chemical Reviews,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
122(21), P. 16110 - 16293
Published: Sept. 16, 2022
In
the
present
review,
we
discuss
recent
progress
in
field
of
C–Z
bond
formation
reactions
(Z
=
S,
Se,
Te)
catalyzed
by
transition
metals.
Two
complementary
methodologies
are
considered─catalytic
cross-coupling
and
catalytic
addition
reactions.
The
development
advanced
systems
is
aimed
at
improved
catalyst
efficiency,
reduced
loading,
better
cost
environmental
concerns,
higher
selectivity
yields.
important
rise
research
efforts
sustainability
green
chemistry
areas
critically
assessed.
paramount
role
mechanistic
studies
a
new
generation
addressed,
key
achievements,
problems,
challenges
summarized
for
this
field.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
60(31), P. 16824 - 16855
Published: Jan. 16, 2021
Enzyme
catalysis
is
gaining
increasing
importance
in
synthetic
chemistry.
Nowadays,
the
growing
number
of
biocatalysts
accessible
by
means
bioinformatics
and
enzyme
engineering
opens
up
an
immense
variety
selective
reactions.
Biocatalysis
especially
provides
excellent
opportunities
for
late-stage
modification
often
superior
to
conventional
de
novo
synthesis.
Enzymes
have
proven
be
useful
direct
introduction
functional
groups
into
complex
scaffolds,
as
well
rapid
diversification
compound
libraries.
Particularly
important
highly
topical
are
enzyme-catalysed
oxyfunctionalisations,
halogenations,
methylations,
reductions,
amide
bond
formations
due
high
prevalence
these
motifs
pharmaceuticals.
This
Review
gives
overview
strengths
limitations
enzymatic
modifications
using
native
engineered
enzymes
synthesis
while
focusing
on
examples
drug
development.
Chemical Reviews,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
122(6), P. 6749 - 6794
Published: Feb. 24, 2022
Dipolar
aprotic
and
ethereal
solvents
comprise
just
over
40%
of
all
organic
utilized
in
synthetic
organic,
medicinal,
process
chemistry.
Unfortunately,
many
the
common
"go-to"
are
considered
to
be
"less-preferable"
for
a
number
environmental,
health,
safety
(EHS)
reasons
such
as
toxicity,
mutagenicity,
carcinogenicity,
or
practical
handling
flammability
volatility.
Recent
legislative
changes
have
initiated
implementation
restrictions
on
use
commonly
employed
dipolar
dimethylformamide
(DMF)
N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone
(NMP),
ethers
1,4-dioxane.
Thus,
with
growing
legislative,
EHS,
societal
pressures,
need
identify
implement
alternative
that
greener,
safer,
more
sustainable
has
never
been
greater.
Within
this
review,
ubiquitous
nature
is
discussed
respect
physicochemical
properties
made
them
so
appealing
chemists.
An
overview
current
being
imposed
discussed.
A
variety
alternative,
garnered
attention
past
decade
then
examined,
case
studies
examples
where
less-preferable
successfully
replaced
safer
highlighted.
Finally,
general
guidance
solvent
selection
replacement
included
Supporting
Information
review.
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
66(8), P. 5305 - 5331
Published: April 4, 2023
Chlorine
is
one
of
the
most
common
atoms
present
in
small-molecule
drugs
beyond
carbon,
hydrogen,
nitrogen,
and
oxygen.
There
are
currently
more
than
250
FDA-approved
chlorine-containing
drugs,
yet
beneficial
effect
chloro
substituent
has
not
been
reviewed.
The
seemingly
simple
substitution
a
hydrogen
atom
(R
=
H)
with
chlorine
Cl)
can
result
remarkable
improvements
potency
up
to
100,000-fold
lead
profound
effects
on
pharmacokinetic
parameters
including
clearance,
half-life,
drug
exposure
vivo.
Following
literature
terminology
"magic
methyl
effect"
term
coined
herein.
Although
reports
500-fold
or
1000-fold
often
serendipitous
discoveries
that
be
considered
"magical"
rather
planned,
hypotheses
made
explain
magic
lessons
accelerate
cycle
discovery.
Chemical Society Reviews,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
52(19), P. 6680 - 6714
Published: Jan. 1, 2023
The
quantitative
assessment
of
the
greenness
mechanochemical
processes
for
green
metrics
were
calculated
is
herein
reported.
A
general
introduction
to
topic,
variables
influencing
reaction
outcome
and,
an
outlook
are
also
provided.
Nature Machine Intelligence,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
5(5), P. 542 - 553
Published: May 4, 2023
Abstract
Deep
learning
models
can
accurately
predict
molecular
properties
and
help
making
the
search
for
potential
drug
candidates
faster
more
efficient.
Many
existing
methods
are
purely
data
driven,
focusing
on
exploiting
intrinsic
topology
construction
rules
of
molecules
without
any
chemical
prior
information.
The
high
dependency
makes
them
difficult
to
generalize
a
wider
space
leads
lack
interpretability
predictions.
Here,
address
this
issue,
we
introduce
element-oriented
knowledge
graph
summarize
basic
elements
their
closely
related
functional
groups.
We
further
propose
method
graph-enhanced
contrastive
with
prompt
(KANO),
external
fundamental
domain
in
both
pre-training
fine-tuning.
Specifically,
as
prior,
first
design
an
element-guided
augmentation
contrastive-based
explore
microscopic
atomic
associations
violating
semantics.
Then,
learn
prompts
fine-tuning
evoke
downstream
task-related
acquired
by
pre-trained
model.
Extensive
experiments
show
that
KANO
outperforms
state-of-the-art
baselines
14
property
prediction
datasets
provides
chemically
sound
explanations
its
This
work
contributes
efficient
offering
high-quality
interpretable
representation
superior
performance.
Journal of Materials Chemistry B,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Luminescent
NiMOF
demonstrated
remarkable
capabilities
in
efficient,
sensitive
and
intelligent
detection
of
3-NT
biomarker
6-PTU
thyroid
drug
urine
through
luminescence
quenching
effects.