Free energy perturbation (FEP)-guided scaffold hopping was written by Wu, Deyan;Zheng, Xuehua;Liu, Runduo;Li, Zhe;Jiang, Zan;Zhou, Qian;Huang, Yue;Wu, Xu-Nian;Zhang, Chen;Huang, Yi-You;Luo, Hai-Bin. And the article was included in Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B in 2022.SDS of cas: 4457-67-4 This article mentions the following:
Scaffold hopping refers to computer-aided screening for active compounds with different structures against the same receptor to enrich privileged scaffolds, which is a topic of high interest in organic and medicinal chem. However, most approaches cannot efficiently predict the potency level of candidates after scaffold hopping. Herein, we identified potent PDE5 inhibitors with a novel scaffold via a free energy perturbation (FEP)-guided scaffold-hopping strategy, and FEP shows great advantages to precisely predict the theor. binding potencies ΔGFEP between ligands and their target, which were more consistent with the exptl. binding potencies ΔGEXP (the mean absolute deviations |ΔGFEP – ΔGEXP| < 2 kcal/mol) than those ΔGMM-PBSA or ΔGMM-GBSA predicted by the MM-PBSA or MM-GBSA method. Lead L12 had an IC50 of 8.7 nmol/L and exhibited a different binding pattern in its crystal structure with PDE5 from the famous starting drug tadalafil. Our work provides the first report via the FEP-guided scaffold hopping strategy for potent inhibitor discovery with a novel scaffold, implying that it will have a variety of future applications in rational mol. design and drug discovery. In the experiment, the researchers used many compounds, for example, 1-Bromo-4-methoxybutane (cas: 4457-67-4SDS of cas: 4457-67-4).
1-Bromo-4-methoxybutane (cas: 4457-67-4) belongs to organobromine compounds. Many of the organo bromine compounds are relatively nonpolar. Bromine is more electronegative than carbon (2.8 vs 2.5) and hence the carbon in a carbonbromine bond is electrophilic in nature. The reactivity of organobromine compounds resembles but is intermediate between the reactivity of organochlorine and organoiodine compounds. For many applications, organobromides represent a compromise of reactivity and cost.SDS of cas: 4457-67-4
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