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The prevalence and clinical implications, of mechanism-based CYP450 inhibition has placed greater emphasis on the early detection of compounds with this potential. We have developed and validated a high throughput reversible CYP450 inhibition assay using human liver microsomes and industry recommended probe substrates.

With the increasing application of high-throughput assays for the determination of the in vitro ADME properties of compounds in lead identification and optimization, there is a growing need for efficient and cost-effective methods for interpreting theresulting data to enable well-informed selection to be made for compound progression.

In recent work we have reported the generation of a diverse library of DHPMs, employing an automated, sequential microwave-assisted solution phase strategy. We now present the high-speed microwave scaffold decoration around the DHPM heterocyclic core exploiting the diversity on at least six positions.

Microwave-assisted organic synthesis in near-critical water (NCW) in the 270-300 °C temperature range has been investigated in a dedicated multimode microwave reactor utilizing heavy-walled quartz reaction vessels. Several different known transformations such as the hydrolysis of esters or amides, the hydration of alkynes, Diels-Alder cycloadditions, pinacol rearrangements, and the Fischer indole synthesis were successfully performed in microwave-generated NCW without the addition of an acid

The readily available and broadly functionalized 2-azadiene system of the 2(1H)-pyrazinones easily undergo inter- and intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions with a wide range of dienophiles providing convenient routes to specifically substituted heterocycles. The reactions in this series are known to be rather sluggish, requiring long reaction times, high temperatures and even sometimes high pressures. Since speed is generally recognized as an important factor in high-throughput synthesis, we have

Speeding-up of organic reactions using microwave dielectric heating has attracted increasing importance in recent years. This poster presents applications towards a number of various synthetic protocols including a microwave-enhanced protocol for a one-pot three-component coupling reaction.

This poster presents a variation of the Biginelli condensation using methyl 4-chloroacetoacetate as the building block both in solution and in solid phase. This modification allows the rapid entry into a variety of bicyclic heterocyclic ring scaffolds.

Three pharmacophore searching methods were applied to finding potential ATP-competitive inhibitors of the Tyrosine Kinase family: i) manual pharmacophore modeling (MOE), ii) “fuzzy” pharmacophore models (SQUID), and iii) similarity searching based on correlation-vector representations of potential pharmacophore-points (CATS3D).

Here, we report our preliminary results that pyridopyrimidines 6 can be obtained in a single step as a result of a one-pot three component reaction using controlled microwave-assisted synthesis (Emrys Synthesizer).

Recent work has reported the automated generation of a diverse library of multifunctional dihydropyrimidines (DHPMs) utilizing a microwave-mediated solution phase Biginelli three component condensation. Since most of the pharmacologically attractive DHPM derivatives are N3-acylated analogs, we became interested in developing a rapid method for accessing libraries containing this structure motif in high-throughput format.