Fsp³-enriched Fragment Library

In response to new trends in drug discovery, involving comprehensive structural analysis of approved drugs and determination of relationships between molecular complexity and pharmacological promiscuity of drug-like compounds [1–5], Life Chemicals has extrapolated the results of investigations described here to its Fragment Library design.

Recently it was found that the mean saturation degree Fsp³ value goes up from 0.36 for 2.2 million molecules in the drug discovery phase to 0.47 for 1,179 approved drugs. Applying the Fsp³ cut-off at 0.45 to the Life Chemicals General Fragment Library resulted in our Fsp³-enriched Fragment Library of around 17,800 compounds.

Superposition of sets of the compounds with a relatively high Fsp³ value and filtering them by strict Rule of Three criteria along with TPSA 90 Å2 cut-off gives rise to our Advanced Fsp³-enriched Fragment Subset comprising more than 8,500 sp³-rich compounds. To ensure discarding “ugly” compounds, PAINS and our in-house developed toxicophore and undesired functionalities filtering were applied as well.

Physicochemical parameters of the Advanced Fsp³-enriched Fragment Library Subset are summarized in the table below:

Figure 1. Representative compounds from the Fsp³-enriched Fragment Library

 References

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2. Ritchie T. J. et al. Drug Discov. Today 2011, 16 (3-4), 164-171.
3. Clemons P. A. et al. PNAS 2010, 107 (44), 18787–18792.
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6. Troelsen NS et al. The 3F Library: Fluorinated Fsp³ -Rich Fragments for Expeditious ¹⁹ F NMR Based Screening. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2019