title: α-Geminal dihydroxymethyl piperidine and pyrrolidine iminosugars: synthesis, conformational analysis, glycosidase inhibitory activity, and molecular docking studies.
abstract: The Jocic-Reeve and Corey-Link type reaction of dichloromethyllithium with suitably protected 5-keto-hexofuranoses followed by treatment with sodium azide and sodium borohydride reduction gave 5-azido-5-hydroxylmethyl substituted hexofuranoses 7a-c with required geminal dihydroxymethyl group. Removal of protecting groups and converting the C-1 anomeric carbon into free hemiacetal followed by intramolecular reductive aminocyclization with in situ generated C5-amino functionality afforded corresponding 5C-dihydroxymethyl piperidine iminosugars 2a-c. Alternatively, removal of protecting groups in 7b and 7c and chopping of C1-anomeric carbon gave C2-aldehyde that on intramolecular reductive aminocyclization with C5-amino gave 4C-dihydroxymethyl pyrrolidine iminosugars 1b and 1c, respectively. On the basis of the (1)H NMR studies, the conformations of 2a/2b were assigned as (4)C(1) and that of 2c as (1)C(4). The glycosidase inhibitory activities of all five iminosugars were studied with various glycosidase enzymes and compared with natural d-gluco-1-deoxynojirimycin (DNJ). All the five compounds were found to be potent inhibitors of rice α-glucosidase with K(i) and IC(50) values in the nanomolar concentration range. Iminosugars 2b and 1b were found to be more potent inhibitors than their parent iminosugar. These results were substantiated by in silico molecular docking studies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Garware Research Centre, University of Pune, Pune, 411 007, India.
authors.forename: Nitin J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Pawar
authors.forename: Vijay Singh
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Parihar
authors.forename: Sanjay T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Chavan
authors.forename: Rakesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Joshi
authors.forename: Pranaya V
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Joshi
authors.forename: Sushma G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Sabharwal
authors.forename: Vedavati G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Puranik
authors.forename: Dilip D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Dhavale
mesh_terms: D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D050111:Imino Sugars / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D015394:Molecular Structure; D010880:Piperidines / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011759:Pyrrolidines / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D050111:Imino Sugars; D010880:Piperidines; D011759:Pyrrolidines; C032727:piperidine; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases; C032519:pyrrolidine