Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of aryl-substituted sialyl lewis x mimetics prepared via cross-metathesis of c-fucopeptides

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publication date

  • May 1999

abstract

  • Several aryl substituted C-fucopeptides have been developed as sialyl Lewis X mimetics. Although the compounds have a much simpler structure compared to SLe(x), up to 3-times higher binding affinity toward E-selectin and > 1000 times toward P-selectin was observed. Furthermore, a convenient strategy for generating a number of analogues from a SLe(x) mimetic template at a very late stage of the synthesis was introduced, using a ruthenium catalyzed cross olefin metathesis under benchtop conditions.