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NATURE
卷 580, 期 7801, 页码 71-+出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2142-y
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- University of Michigan College of Pharmacy
Chemical transformations determine the structure of a product, and therefore its properties, which in turn affect complex macroscopic functions such as the metabolic stability of pharmaceuticals or the volatility of perfumes. Therefore, reaction selection can influence the success or failure of a candidate molecule to meet a functional objective. The coupling of an amine with a carboxylic acid to form an amide bond is the most popular chemical reaction used for drug discovery(1). However, there are many other ways to connect these two common functional groups together. Here we show computationally that amines and acids can couple via hundreds of hypothetical yet plausible transformations, and we demonstrate experimentally the application of a dozen such reactions. To investigate the contribution of chemical transformations to properties, we developed a string-based notation and used an enumerative combinatorics approach to produce a map of conceivable amine-acid coupling transformations, which can be charted using chemoinformatic techniques. We find that critical physicochemical parameters of the products, such as partition coefficient and polar surface area, vary considerably depending on the transformation chosen. Data mining the amine-acid coupling system produced here should enable reaction discovery, which we demonstrate by developing an esterification reaction found within the mapped space. Complex molecules with distinct property profiles can also be discovered within the amine-acid coupling system, as we show here via the late-stage diversification of drugs and natural products.
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