Stellane at the Forefront: Derivatization and Reactivity Studies of a Promising Saturated Bioisostere of -Substituted Benzenes.

This work highlights stellane's cage stability and derivatization opportunities. A diverse range of building blocks were synthesized using modern synthesis protocols to demonstrate stellane's reactivity and chemical tolerance across different reaction systems, proving its promise as a bioisosteric scaffold. It can be utilized in scaffold-based molecular design and is superior in terms of topological precision compared to existing isosteres, as well as monosubstituted benzene mimetics, holding the potential to become a robust platform for future medicinal chemistry studies.

Multigram Synthesis of Dimethyl Stellane-1,5-Dicarboxylate as a Key Precursor for ortho-Benzene Mimics.

Herein, we present previously unavailable C(sp )-rich polycyclic hydrocarbon scaffolds that have the potential to become valuable tools in medicinal chemistry and crop science as saturated bioisosteres of benzenoids. We have developed a scalable protocol (up to 50 g from a single synthetic run) for the synthesis of tricyclo[3.3.

Mono- and Difluorinated Saturated Heterocyclic Amines for Drug Discovery: Systematic Study of Their Physicochemical Properties.

A comprehensive study of physicochemical properties (pK , LogP, and intrinsic microsomal clearance) within the series of mono- and difluorinated azetidine, pyrrolidine, and piperidine derivatives was performed. While the number of fluorine atoms and their distance to the protonation center were the major factors defining the compound's basicity, both pK and LogP values were affected considerably by the conformational preferences of the corresponding derivatives. For example, features of "Janus face" (facially polarized) cyclic compounds (i.