Zhang, Lei; Chen, Xiaojie; Liu, Jun; Zhu, Qingzhang; Leng, Ying; Luo, Xiaomin; Jiang, Hualiang; Liu, Hong published their research in European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry on December 31 ,2012. The article was titled 《Discovery of novel dual-action antidiabetic agents that inhibit glycogen phosphorylase and activate glucokinase》.Synthetic Route of C8H4Cl4N2 The article contains the following contents:
Dual-target-directed agents simultaneously inhibiting glycogen phosphorylase (GP) and activating glucokinase (GK) could decelerate the inflow of glucose from glycogenolysis and accelerate the outflow of glucose in the liver, and therefore allow for better control over hyperglycemia in a synergetic manner. A series of hybrid compounds were designed by structure-assisted and ligand-based strategies. In vitro bioassays found two novel compounds I and II worthy of further optimization on balance of dual action to GP and GK. In addition, for single-target activity, two compounds exhibited more potent GP inhibitory activity and four compounds showed better GK activation than their corresponding references In the experiment, the researchers used many compounds, for example, 5-Chloro-2-(trichloromethyl)-1H-benzo[d]imidazole(cas: 3584-66-5Synthetic Route of C8H4Cl4N2)
5-Chloro-2-(trichloromethyl)-1H-benzo[d]imidazole(cas: 3584-66-5) belongs to imidazoles.Although other azole heterocycles are ubiquitous in a wide range of biologically active natural products, imidazole rings occur predominantly in the natural amino acid histidine. Synthetic Route of C8H4Cl4N2 In addition, imidazole rings are part of unnatural cyclic peptides and are used as ester isosteres in peptidomimetic studies.
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