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Strategies toward Organic Carbon Monoxide Prodrugs.
Accounts of Chemical Research 2018 June 20
Carbon monoxide is widely acknowledged as an important gasotransmitter in the mammalian system with importance on par with that of nitric oxide. It has also been firmly established as a potential therapeutic agent with a wide range of indications including organ transplantation, cancer, bacterial infection, and inflammation-related conditions such as colitis and sepsis. One major issue in developing CO based therapeutics is its delivery in a pharmaceutically acceptable form. Currently, there are generally five forms of deliveries: inhaled CO, photosensitive CO-releasing molecules, encapsulated CO, CO dissolved in drinks, and molecules that would release CO under physiological conditions without the need for light. For over a decade, the last category only included metal-based CO releasing molecules. What had been missing were organic CO prodrugs, which release CO under physiological conditions with tunable rates and in response to various exogenous and endogenous triggers such as water, chemical reagents, esterase, ROS, and changes in pH. This Account describes our work in this area as well as the demonstration for these organic prodrugs to recapitulate CO's pharmacological effects both in vitro and in vivo. Generally, two categories of CO prodrugs have been developed in our lab. Both can be considered as precursors of norbornadien-7-ones, which readily undergo cheletropic reaction under very mild conditions to extrude CO. The first category of CO prodrugs capitalizes on the inter- and intramolecular inverse electron demand Diels-Alder (DAinv ) reaction to trigger CO release under physiological conditions. As for the bimolecular CO prodrugs, we proposed a new concept of "enrichment triggered CO release" by conjugating both components with a mitochondria-targeting moiety to achieve targeted CO delivery with improved biological outcomes in vitro and in vivo. As for the unimolecular CO prodrugs, the release half-lives can be readily tuned from minutes to days by varying the substituents on the dienone ring, the tethering linker, and the alkyne. Some significant structure-release rates relationships (SRRs) have been unveiled. An esterase-activated CO prodrug and a cascade prodrug system for co-delivery of CO and another payload have also been devised using such an intramolecular click and release strategy. The second category of CO prodrugs leverage on an elimination reaction to generate norbornadien-7-ones for CO release from norborn-2-en-7-ones. In the case of pH-sensitive ones, the CO release is triggered by β-elimination, and the release rate can be quantitatively predicted using the Hammett constant of the substituents on the leaving group. The ROS-activated ones take advantage of ROS-induced selenoxide elimination to achieve targeted CO delivery to disease sites with elevated ROS level. We strongly believe that these CO prodrugs could serve as powerful tools for CO-associated biological studies and are promising candidates for ultimate clinical applications.
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