Synthesis of New Triazolopyrazine Antimalarial Compounds

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Johnson, DJG
Jenkins, ID
Huxley, C
Coster, MJ
Lum, KY
White, JM
Avery, VM
Davis, RA
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2021
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A radical approach to late-stage functionalization using photoredox and Diversinate™ chemistry on the Open Source Malaria (OSM) triazolopyrazine scaffold (Series 4) resulted in the synthesis of 12 new analogues, which were characterized by NMR, UV, and MS data analysis. The structures of four triazolopyrazines were confirmed by X-ray crystal structure analysis. Several minor and unexpected side products were generated during these studies, including two resulting from a possible disproportionation reaction. All compounds were tested for their ability to inhibit the growth of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum (3D7 and Dd2 strains) and for cytotoxicity against a human embryonic kidney (HEK293) cell line. Moderate antimalarial activity was observed for some of the compounds, with IC50 values ranging from 0.3 to >20 µM; none of the compounds displayed any toxicity against HEK293 at 80 µM.

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Molecules

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26

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9

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© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Medicinal and biomolecular chemistry

Organic chemistry

Theoretical and computational chemistry

Diversinate™

Open Source Malaria

X-ray

antimalarial

difluoroethylation

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Johnson, DJG; Jenkins, ID; Huxley, C; Coster, MJ; Lum, KY; White, JM; Avery, VM; Davis, RA, Synthesis of New Triazolopyrazine Antimalarial Compounds, Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2021, 26 (9), pp. 2421

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