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ArticleACS medicinal chemistry letters2025

General Synthesis and Properties of Bridged, Fused, and Spirocyclic Azacycles via Intramolecular C-H Bond Amination.

Michaelyn C Lux, Justin Jurczyk, Donovon Adpressa, Yu-Hong Lam, Chao Ma, Zhiguo J Song, Nunzio Sciammetta, Richmond Sarpong, Charles S Yeung

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Michaelyn C LuxDiscovery Chemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., 33 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3001-2243
Justin JurczykDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
Donovon AdpressaAnalytical Research & Development, Merck & Co., Inc., 33 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.
Yu-Hong LamComputational and Structural Chemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., 90 E. Scott Avenue, Rahway, New Jersey 07065, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4946-1487
Chao MaWuXi Apptec Co., Ltd. 168 Nanhai Road, Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TDEA), Tianjin 330457 China.
Zhiguo J SongExternal Discovery Process Chemistry, Process Research & Development, Merck & Co., Inc., 126 E. Lincoln Avenue, Rahway, New Jersey 07065, United States.
Nunzio SciammettaDiscovery Chemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., 33 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.
Richmond SarpongDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0028-6323
Charles S YeungDiscovery Chemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., 33 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7320-7190

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Abstract

General methods to construct complex azacycles significantly enable the invention of new therapeutics. Herein, we describe a unified strategy to access bridged, fused, and spirocyclic bicyclic azacycles leveraging a Hofmann-Löffler-Freytag (HLF) approach. Our method yields value-added and complexity-enriched amines through an intramolecular C-H bond functionalization, converting monocyclic amines to bicyclic amines in a single step. Depending on the connectivity between the amine and the monocyclic ring, we are able to access bridged, fused, and spirocyclic architectures. Additionally, the physicochemical properties of these bicyclic amines were evaluated, and it was found that bridged amines tend to be less lipophilic in comparison to their monocyclic matched pairs.

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bicyclic amineC−H bond aminationHofmann-Löffler-Freytagsulfonamide

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PMID41089491
PMCPMC12516377

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