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Jonas Van De Velde1, Ariadna Calderón Rodríguez1, Zhong Wang2
1Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium. Bruno.linclau@ugent.be.
Abstract:
The excessive hydrophilicity of carbohydrates hampers their application in drug discovery. Deoxyfluorination is one of the strategies to increase sugar lipophilicity. However, lipophilicities of dideoxy-difluorinated monosaccharides are still well below the desired range for oral drug candidates. Here we investigate the power of deoxychlorination to increase sugar lipophilicities. A series of dideoxygenated chloro-fluorosugars was synthesized and for these substrates it was shown that deoxychlorination increased the log P by an average of 1.37 log P units, compared to 0.83 log P units for analogous deoxyfluorination. This shows the potential of deoxychlorination of carbohydrates to increase lipophilicity while limiting the number of potentially important hydrogen bond donating groups to be sacrificed, and will be of interest for glycomimetic development.
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