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Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of 2-methyl-(1,1'-biphenyl)-pyrimidine conjugates

  • Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2020 Aug 15;30(16):127328. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2020.127328.
An Chen 1 Dong-Liang Wu 1 Jia Shi 2 Suresh Narva 1 Xiao-Yin Zhao 1 Yan-Ling Wu 3 Wen Zhang 4
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Lab of Chemical Biology and Molecular Drug Design, College of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China; Institute of Drug Development & Chemical Biology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China.
  • 2 Lab of Chemical Biology and Molecular Drug Design, College of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China.
  • 3 Lab of Molecular Immunology, Virus Inspection Department, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou 310051, China. Electronic address: ylwu@cdc.zj.cn.
  • 4 Lab of Chemical Biology and Molecular Drug Design, College of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China; Institute of Drug Development & Chemical Biology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China. Electronic address: wzhang63@zjut.edu.cn.
Abstract

Small molecule inhibitors of biphenyl structure as core backbone have shown a significant effect on PD-1/PD-L1 axis, and 2-amino-pyrimidine structure is a promising privileged scaffold in medicinal chemistry and drug discovery. We designed by combination principles and synthesized 27 novel compounds with N-((2-methyl-[1,1'-biphenyl]-3-yl)methyl)pyrimidin-2-amine as a basic skeletal structure, and their anti-cancer activity was evaluated. Among compounds, 15a-d and 16b displayed strong anti-cancer effects on 9 tested Cancer cell lines, in particular, the 16b did the highest inhibitive activity, but against HepG2 cells, and possessed the lowest IC50 value of 2.08 μΜ towards HT-29 cells.

Keywords

2-Amino-pyrimidine; Anti-cancer activity; Biphenyl.

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