Construction of a polyheterocyclic benzopyran library with diverse core skeletons through diversity-oriented synthesis pathway.

In this study, a divergent and practical solid-phase parallel diversity-oriented synthesis (DOS) strategy was successfully applied for the construction of five discrete core skeletons embedded with privileged benzopyranyl substructure. The diversity of these core skeletons was expanded through the introduction of various substituents at the R, R(1), and R(2) positions from a single key intermediate in five different pathways. More importantly, we efficiently maximized the molecular diversity through the transformation of the core skeleton itself by using the library-to-library concept and created a distinctively different collection of small molecules with the same building blocks.

Concise and diversity-oriented synthesis of novel scaffolds embedded with privileged benzopyran motif.

A branching DOS strategy for an unbiased natural product-like library with embedded privileged benzopyran motif was established to provide complexity and diversity of resulting heterocycles with desired drug-likeness. The importance of skeletal diversity conducted on a privileged substructure was demonstrated through the biological evaluation of a small molecule library representing 22 unique core skeletons via in vitro cytotoxicity assay.