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Functionalized Spirocyclic Heterocycle Synthesis and Cytotoxicity Assay
Published on: February 9, 2021
Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of 2-methyl-(1,1'-biphenyl)-pyrimidine conjugates
An Chen1, Dong-Liang Wu1, Jia Shi2
1Lab of Chemical Biology and Molecular Drug Design, College of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China; Institute of Drug Development & Chemical Biology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China.
Abstract:
Small molecule inhibitors of biphenyl structure as core backbone have shown a significant effect on PD-1/PD-L1 axis, and 2-amino-pyrimidine structure is a promising privileged scaffold in medicinal chemistry and drug discovery. We designed by combination principles and synthesized 27 novel compounds with N-((2-methyl-[1,1'-biphenyl]-3-yl)methyl)pyrimidin-2-amine as a basic skeletal structure, and their anti-cancer activity was evaluated. Among compounds, 15a-d and 16b displayed strong anti-cancer effects on 9 tested cancer cell lines, in particular, the 16b did the highest inhibitive activity, but against HepG2 cells, and possessed the lowest IC50 value of 2.08 μΜ towards HT-29 cells.
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