The design of 8-hydroxyquinoline tetracyclic lactams as HIV-1 integrase strand transfer inhibitors.

A novel series of HIV-1 integrase strand transfer inhibitors were designed using the venerable two-metal binding pharmacophore model and incorporating structural elements from two different literature scaffolds. This manuscript describes a number of 8-hydroxyquinoline tetracyclic lactams with exceptional antiviral activity against HIV-1 and little loss of potency against the IN signature resistance mutations Q148K and G140S/Q148H.

Pyridopyrimidinone inhibitors of HIV-1 RNase H.

Using a structure based pharmacophore design, a weak inhibitor of RNase H, identified from a small library of two metal binding HIV-1 integrase inhibitors, was optimized for potency and physicochemical properties. This manuscript describes the SAR and in vivo DMPK for the pyridopyrimidinone class of inhibitors.

Synthesis and pharmacokinetic profile of highly deuterated brecanavir analogs.

Several highly deuterated analogs of the HIV-1 protease inhibitor brecanavir have been prepared to study the effect of deuterium upon metabolic stability. The sites for deuterium incorporation were initially chosen to maximize the potential for a kinetic isotope effect; locations where C-H bond breaking is the rate limiting step. The analogs have been profiled in both in vitro and in vivo pharmacokinetic studies and the result will be described herein.

Scope and facial selectivity of the Prins-pinacol synthesis of attached rings.

Using a B-alkyl Suzuki cross-coupling as a key step, a concise and stereocontrolled synthesis of five- to eight-membered triisopropylsiloxy ethers having (2Z)-(6,6-dimethoxyhexylidene) or (2Z)-(5,5-dimethoxypentylidene) side chains was developed. Prins-pinacol reactions of these precursors promoted by SnCl4 provide bicyclic products in which 5-, 6-, or 7-membered rings are joined by a C-C single bond. Synthetically challenging attached ring systems in which both rings are chiral can be prepared in this fashion with high stereo- and enantioselectivity.

Stereocontrolled construction of either stereoisomer of 12-oxatricyclo[6.3.1.0(2,7)]dodecanes using Prins-pinacol reactions.

[reaction: see text] 12-Oxatricyclo[6.3.1.