2-(Peptidamido)-cyclobutanones: A novel strategy for the inhibition of serine elastases

Autor: Lorne S. Reid, Henry W. Pauls, Bill Cheng
Rok vydání: 1992
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Zdroj: Bioorganic Chemistry. 20:124-134
ISSN: 0045-2068
DOI: 10.1016/0045-2068(92)90033-y
Popis: The synthesis of 2-peptidamidocyclobutanones is described as a novel class of competitive elastase inhibitors. Their inhibitory potency, although modest (i.e., micromolar range), is up to two orders of magnitude better than their acyclic analogues. The enhanced potency is explained, in part, by the tendency of an sp2 hybrdized cyclobutyl carbonyl to release internal ring strain by conversion to an sp3 hybridized center.
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