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Synthesis of chemical libraries combined
with high-content screening has emerged as a valuable strategy for
the discovery and optimization of new agents capable of modulating
complex metabolic and signaling pathways. Our contribution to this
rapidly expanding field has been in developing new methods, strategies
and concepts for rapid assembly of chemical libraries featuring
unprecedented levels of skeletal diversity. We have completed the
synthesis of 1200-member library that incorporates 20 structurally
diverse scaffolds. The development of this strategy was enabled
by our recently disclosed siloxyalkyne-alkene metathesis. In addition,
we have developed a novel format for multiparallel synthesis, which
entails a three-dimensional delivery of reactants to an array of
interconnected reaction wells. Conceptually similar to the split-and-pool
synthesis, this method, however, eliminates the encoding-decoding
manipulations and offers improved throughput compared to the conventional
robotically driven parallel synthesis.
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