Hydrolytic and aminolytic kinetic resolution of terminal bis-epoxides.

Hydrolytic and aminolytic kinetic resolution of terminal bis-epoxides catalyzed by (salen)Co(III) complexes affords epoxy-diols and N-protected epoxy-amino alcohols with excellent enantio- and diastereoselectivity and good yields. An operationally simple procedure gives instant access to valuable building blocks containing two remote stereocenters in highly enantioenriched form.

Conjugates of 5-isoquinolinesulfonylamides and oligo-D-arginine possess high affinity and selectivity towards Rho kinase (ROCK).

In the present work, conjugates of 5-isoquinolinesulfonylamides and D-arginine-rich peptides were developed into highly potent inhibitors for basophilic protein kinases. Based on Hidaka's inhibitor H9, a generic fluorescent probe ARC-1083 was constructed possessing subnanomolar dissociation constant towards several kinases of the AGC-group. Thereafter, Hidaka's inhibitor HA1077 or Fasudil was conjugated with oligo-D-arginine resulting in the compound ARC-3002 revealing high affinity towards ROCK-II (K(d)=20 pM) and over 160-fold selectivity compared to PKAc.