Fluorine in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology

Abstract

Introduction Chapter 1 "Unique Properties of Fluorine and Their Relevance to Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology" by Takashi Yamazaki, Takeo Taguchi and Iwao Ojima Medicinal Chemistry Chapter 2 "Fluorinated Prostanoids: Development of Tafluprost, a New Anti-glaucoma Agent" by Yasushi Matsumura Chapter 3 "Fluorinated conformationally restricted glutamate analogs for CNS drug discovery and development" by Atsuro Nakazato Chapter 4 "Fluorinated Inhibitors of Matrix Metalloproteinases" by Roberta Sinisi, Monika Jagodzinska, Gabriele Candiani, Florent Huguenot, Monica Sani, Alessandro Volonterio, Raffaella Maffezzoni and Matteo Zanda Chapter 5 "Fluoro-Taxoid Anticancer Agents" by Antonella Pepe, Larisa Kuznetsova, Liang Sun and Iwao Ojima Chapter 6 "Antimalarial Fluoroartemisinins: Increased Metabolic and Chemical Stability"by Jean-Pierre Begue, Daniele Bonnet-Delpon Chapter 7 "Synthesis and Biological Activity of Fluorinated Nucleosides" by Tokumi Maruyama, Masahiro Ikejiri, Kunisuke Izawa and Tomoyuki Onishi Synthetic methods for medicinal chemistry and chemical biology Chapter 8 "Synthesis of gem -Difluoromethylenated Nucleosides via gem -Difluoromethylene-Containing Building Blocks" by Wei-Dong Meng and Feng-Ling Qing Chapter 9 "Recent Advances in the Syntheses of Fluorinated Amino Acids" by Kenji Uneyama Chapter 10 "Fluorinated Moieties for Replacement of Amide and Peptide Bonds" by Takeo Taguchi and Hikaru Yanai Chapter 11 "Perfluorinated Heteroaromatic Systems as Scaffolds for Drug Discovery" by David Armstrong, Matthew W. Cartwright, Emma L. Parks, Graham Pattison, Graham Sandford, Rachel Slater, John A. Christopher, David D. Miller, Paul W. Smith and Antonio Vong Chapter 12 " gem -Difluorocyclopropanes as key building blocks for novel biologically active molecules" by Toshiyuki Itoh Chapter 13 "Fluorous Mixture Synthesis (FMS) of Drug-Like Molecules and Enantiomers, Stereoisomers, and Analogs of Natural Products" by Wei Zhang Chapter 14 "Fluorine-18 Radiopharmaceuticals" by Michael R. Kilbourn and Xia Shao Applications of fluorinated amino acids and peptides to chemical biology and pharmacology Chapter 15 "Application of Artificial Model Systems to Study the Interactions of Fluorinated Amino Acids within the Native Environment of Coiled Coil Proteins" by Mario Salwiczek, Toni Vagt and Beate Koksch Chapter 16 "Fluorinated Amino Acids and Biomolecules in Protein Design and Chemical Biology" by He Meng, Ginevra A. Clark , and Krishna Kumar Chapter 17 "Effects of Fluorination on the Bioorganic Properties of Methionine" by John F. Honek Chapter 18 "Structure analysis of membrane-active peptides using 19 F-labeled amino acids and solid state NMR" by Parvesh Wadhwani and Erik Strandberg Chapter 19 "Metabolism of Fluorine-containing Drugs using in vivo Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy" by Erika Schneider Appendix "FDA-Approved Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Containing Fluorine" by Elizabeth Pollina-Cormier, Manisha Das, and Iwao Ojima