Jonathan Cubitt, Mari Davies, Ross Riseley, Gabrielle Evans, Sian E Gardiner, Benson M Kariuki, Simon E Ward, Emyr Lloyd-Evans, Helen Waller-Evans, D Heulyn Jones
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Abstract
Following a High-Throughput Screening campaign to discover inhibitors of acid ceramidase, we report the novel and extremely potent covalent inhibitor, 1. Following resynthesis and stability monitoring, we discovered that 1 is chemically unstable and reacts with DMSO at room temperature. This mode of decomposition is likely general for this class of compound, and we urge caution for their use in drug discovery research.
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Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049, CODEN: MOLEFW) is an open access journal of synthetic organic chemistry and natural product chemistry. All articles are peer-reviewed and published continously upon acceptance. Molecules is published by MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Our aim is to encourage chemists to publish as much as possible their experimental detail, particularly synthetic procedures and characterization information. There is no restriction on the length of the experimental section. In addition, availability of compound samples is published and considered as important information. Authors are encouraged to register or deposit their chemical samples through the non-profit international organization Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI). Molecules has been launched in 1996 to preserve and exploit molecular diversity of both, chemical information and chemical substances.