Synfacts 2014; 10(1): 0010
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1340327
Synthesis of Natural Products and Potential Drugs
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Synthesis of Epigenetic Regulator I-BET762 (GSK525762)

Contributor(s):
Philip Kocienski
Mirguet O, * Parr N. * et al. GlaxoSmithKline R&D, Villebon-sur-Yvette, France and Stevenage, UK
Discovery of Epigenetic Regulator I-BET762: Lead Optimization to Afford a Clinical Candidate Inhibitor of the BET Bromodomains.

J. Med. Chem. 2013;
56: 7501-7515
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Publication History

Publication Date:
13 December 2013 (online)

 

Significance

I-BET762 (GSK525762) has entered phase I/II clinical trials for the treatment of the aggressive NUT midline carcinoma and other cancers. It disrupts the function of the bromo­domain and extra-terminal domain (BET) family of proteins. The synthesis depicted features the construction of the 1,4-benzodiazepine skeleton with incorporation of an (S)-aspartic acid moiety.


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Comment

For a synthesis of benzophenone A, see: C.-w. Chung et al. J. Med. Chem. 2011, 54, 3827. The easy epimerization of the stereogenic center that occurs in the thionation reaction (BC) was suppressed by conducting the reaction in the presence of sodium carbonate. The (R)-enantiomer is biologically inactive as a BET inhibitor.


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