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 18,400 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 6,700 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:
Parameter |
Range |
Average Values | |
General | Subset | ||
MW | ≤ 300 | 246 | 219 |
ClogP | < 3 | 1.04 | 1.03 |
Fsp³ | > 0.45 | 0.62 | 0.66 |
TPSA | < 90 Å2 | 60 Å2 | 47 Å2 |
Rotatable bonds | ≤ 3 | 3.4 | 2.2 |
H-donors | ≤ 3 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
H-acceptors | ≤ 3 | 2.9 | 2.2 |
Benzene count | ≤ 1 | 0.7 | 0.5 |
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Figure 1. Representative compounds from the Fsp³-enriched Fragment Library
References
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- Troelsen NS et al. The 3F Library: Fluorinated Fsp3 -Rich Fragments for Expeditious 19 F NMR Based Screening. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2019