Modular Click Chemistry Library:Searching for Better Functions

High throughput screening towards chemical libraries is the primary way to discover lead compounds in developing innovative drugs,especially new molecular entities.Accordingly,the preparation of chemical libraries is the key step for drug development.Now,con-ventional small molecule chemical libraries and DNA-encoded chemical libraries are the main models of chemical libraries for high-throughput screening.Recently,a new model of chemical library,calledmodular click chemistry library,was proposed,which gives us an alternative choice to construct chemical libraries for high throughput screening and exhibits broad prospects to accelerate drug development.Herein,this article mainly focuses on the strategy to prepare the modular click chemistry library.

Antimony salt-promoted cyclization facilitating on-DNA syntheses of dihydroquinazolinone derivatives and its applications

DNA-encoded chemical libraries technology has become a novel approach to finding hit compounds in early drug discovery.The chemical space in a DEL would be expanded to realize its full potential,especially when integrating privileged scaffold dihydroquinazoline that has demonstrated a variety of diverse bioactivities.Driven by the requirement of parallel combinatorial synthesis,we here report a facile synthesis of on-DNA dihydroquinazolinone from aldehyde and anthranilamide.This DNA-compatible reaction was promoted by antimony trichloride,which has been proven to accelerate the reaction and improve conversions.Notably,the broad substrate scope of aldehydes and anthranilamides was explored under the mild reaction condition to achieve moderate-to-excellent conversion yields.We further applied the reaction into on-DNA macrocyclization,obtaining macrocycles embedded dihydroquinazolinone scaffold in synthetically useful conversion yields.