Strategies for developing μ opioid receptor agonists with reduced adverse effects

Y Yuan, T Xu, Y Huang, J Shi - Bioorganic Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Opioids are currently the most effective and widely used painkillers in the world.
Unfortunately, the clinical use of opioid analgesics is limited by serious adverse effects …

Historical perspectives and recent advances in small molecule ligands of selective/biased/multi-targeted μ/δ/κ opioid receptor (2019–2022)

Y He, Q Su, L Zhao, L Zhang, L Yu, J Shi - Bioorganic Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
The opioids have been used for more than a thousand years and are not only the most
widely prescribed drugs for moderate to severe pain and acute pain, but also the preferred …

Recent Applications of Multicomponent Reactions toward Heterocyclic Drug Discovery

N Bedard, A Fistrovich, K Schofield… - Multicomponent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Multicomponent reactions (MCRs) date back to the mid‐1800s and are widely used today as
they offer increased atom efficiency, high molecular diversity, and often heterocycle …

Multicomponent Reactions: A Promising Approach to Isotope Labeling

S Xiao, A Conte, B Cornelissen, A Dömling… - Synlett, 2024 - thieme-connect.com
Isotopic labeling is an attractive modality that has been widely used in many aspects of
chemistry, the life sciences, and medical research; especially deuterated drugs and …

Enantioselective Synthesis of α-Hydroxyamino Ketones by a Chiral Phosphine–Silver Complex Catalyzed N-Nitroso Aldol Reaction

A Yanagisawa, S Kasahara, A Takeishi, T Marui - Synlett, 2022 - thieme-connect.com
A catalytic asymmetric N-nitroso aldol reaction of alkenyl trifluoroacetates with nitrosoarenes
was achieved using a DTBM-SEGPHOS· AgOTf complex as the chiral precatalyst and …

New small-molecule analgesics

SS Laev, NF Salakhutdinov - Current Medicinal Chemistry, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
Pain is a symptom of ninety percent of human diseases, and pain management is a very
important medicinal problem. Various modulators of the pain response have been detected …

Palladium‐Catalyzed C‐N Bond Formation: A Straightforward Alkoxymethylation Process for the Synthesis of the C1 and C3‐Dialkoxy Indoles

J He, Y Yu, P Guo, X Liu, B Zhu, H Cao - ChemistrySelect, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A novel approach for the synthesis of the C1 and C3‐dialkoxy indoles has been developed
for using 2‐(phenylethynyl) aniline with formaldehyde and alcohols under the catalysis of …

Synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of novel selective MOR agonist 6β-pyridinyl amidomorphines exhibiting long-lasting antinociception

Á Urai, A Váradi, L Szőcs, B Komjáti, V Le Rouzic… - …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
It was previously reported that 6β-aminomorphinan derivatives show high affinity for opiate
receptors. Novel 6β-heteroarylamidomorphinanes were designed based on the MOR …

Mitragynine analogs and uses thereof

G Pasternak, S Majumdar, R Karimov… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
2017-12-19 Assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH), US DEPT. OF HEALTH
AND HUMAN SERVICES (DHHS), US GOVERNMENT reassignment NATIONAL …

Accessible method for the development of novel sterol analogues with dipeptide-like side chains that act as neuroinflammation inhibitors

H Chen, C Han, J Wu, X Liu, Y Zhan… - ACS Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
A number of novel sterol derivatives with dipeptide-like side chains were synthesized using
an Ugi four-component condensation method and assayed to test their anti-inflammatory …