Predicting and Tuning Physicochemical Properties in Lead Optimization: Amine Basicities
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- 31 July 2007
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in ChemMedChem
- Vol. 2 (8), 1100-1115
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cmdc.200700059
Abstract
This review describes simple and useful concepts for predicting and tuning the pKa values of basic amine centers, a crucial step in the optimization of physical and ADME properties of many lead structures in drug‐discovery research. The article starts with a case study of tricyclic thrombin inhibitors featuring a tertiary amine center with pKa values that can be tuned over a wide range, from the usual value of around 10 to below 2 by (remote) neighboring functionalities commonly encountered in medicinal chemistry. Next, the changes in pKa of acyclic and cyclic amines upon substitution by fluorine, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur functionalities, as well as carbonyl and carboxyl derivatives are systematically analyzed, leading to the derivation of simple rules for pKa prediction. Electronic and stereoelectronic effects in cyclic amines are discussed, and the emerging computational methods for pKa predictions are briefly surveyed. The rules for tuning amine basicities should not only be of interest in drug‐discovery research, but also to the development of new crop‐protection agents, new amine ligands for organometallic complexes, and in particular, to the growing field of amine‐based organocatalysis.Keywords
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