• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제31권12호
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• pp.3583-3587
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• 2010

Furoxanthiols PFT and BPFT possessing thiomethyl or thiobenzyl groups in the furoxan ring were designed and synthesized as potential light-sensitive alkyne precursors on a gold surface. The synthesis of thiofuroxans PFT and BPFT was performed from the corresponding halofuroxans 1b and 2c, respectively, by the substitution with potassium thioacetate in ethyl acetate/ethanol or DMF, followed by basic hydrolysis as the key reactions. Electron-beammediated fragmentation of furoxans 1c and 2d in a mass spectrometer afforded the corresponding aryl alkyne fragments, with the evolution of NO in high preference. In the cases of thiofuroxans PFT and BPFT, carbon-sulfur bond cleavage was observed as a representative fragmentation, producing M-SH and M-SAc peaks, which competed with the release of NO. In the fragmentation of mono-aryl furoxan 1c, the release of molecule of NO was predominately observed to produce an M-NO fragment as a base peak by the formation of trimembered thiiranium or azirine intermediate.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.459-463
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• 2009

Furoxanaldehydes possessing phenyl or alkenyl groups at the 3- or 4-position of the furoxan ring were designed for alkyne formation on a solid surface. Furoxans 2 and 3 were prepared from the corresponding alkenes 2a and 3a by the reaction with NaN$O_2$ in acetic acid. Furoxan 4, in which the furoxan ring is conjugated with a double bond, was prepared from bis(bromomethyl)benzene 4a in 5 steps using the Wittig reaction of aldehyde 1 as the key step. The electron beam-mediated fragmentation of furoxanaldehydes 1-4 in a mass spectrometer was exploited by focusing on alkyne formation on the solid surface. The fragmentation of furoxan 3 possessing diaryl groups afforded diarylacetylene at high efficiency, suggesting that the aryl group conjugated with the furoxan ring could facilitate alkyne formation with the evolution of NO.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.435-442
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• 2012

The cytochrome P-450 enzymes (CYP 2A6) regulate many endogenous signaling molecules and drugs. Aryl alkynes such as 2-ethynylnaphthalene are important P450 inhibitors which have been extensively studied as medicines or as an effective chemical probes for profiling mouse liver microsomal P-450. Here we have synthesized indole-based novel P450 inhibitor, 5-ethynyl indole 3, and showed that it has successfully inhibited CYP 2A6 by chemical inhibition reaction. By using HPLC equipped with a photo diode array(PDA) detector, all of the peaks derived from the enzymatic reaction have been characterized.