Pharmacology and structure-activity relationships of bioactive polycyclic cage compounds: a focus on pentacycloundecane derivatives.

The chemistry of organic polycyclic cage compounds has intrigued medicinal chemists for over 50 years, yet little is published about their pharmacological profiles. Polycyclic cage compounds have important pharmaceutical applications, ranging from the symptomatic and proposed curative treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease (e.g.

Complexation of silver and co-recovered metals with novel aza-crown ether macrocycles by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry.

Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) is used to evaluate the metal binding selectivities of an array of novel caged macrocycles for silver, gold, copper, nickel, zinc, iron, lead, manganese and alkali metal ions. It is found that five of the new compounds display silver selectivity, and their relative affinities for various metals depend on the type, number, and arrangement of heteroatoms (N, O), the cavity size, and the presence of aromatic substituents. Alkali metal cation binding studies are used to evaluate the size-selectivities of the cavities of the macrocycles.

Metal complexation of thiacrown ether macrocycles by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry.

In the present study, electrospray ionization mass spectrometry is used to evaluate the metal-binding selectivities of an array of novel caged macrocycles for mercury(II), lead(II), cadmium(II), and zinc(II) ions. In homogeneous methanol/chloroform solutions as well as extractions of metals from aqueous solution by macrocycles in chloroform, it is found that the type of heteroatom (S, O, N), cavity size, and presence of other substituents influence the metal selectivities. Several of the macrocycles in this study bind mercury ion very selectively and efficiently in the presence of many other metal ions and have an avidity toward mercury that was tunable by the size and combination of heteroatoms in the macrocycle ring and the number of cage groups attached.

On the origins of diastereofacial selectivity of [4 + 2] cycloadditions in cage- annulated and polycarbocyclic diene/dienophile systems.

pi-Facial diastereoselectivities in Diels-Alder reactions that involve pi-facially differentiated cyclohexa-1,3-dienes, i.e., 3-substituted or 3-10-disubstituted hexacyclo-[10.

Reactions of N-(Ethoxycarbonyl)-3-halo-3-(halomethyl)azetidines with DBU. The Halogen Dance.

Reaction of N-(ethoxycarbonyl)-3-(bromomethyl)-3-chloroazetidine (3) with DBU results in the formation of two haloalkenes, i.e., N-(ethoxycarbonyl)-3-(bromomethylene)azetidine and N-(ethoxycarbonyl)-3-(chloromethylene)azetidine (4a and 4b, respectively).