Resistance in Gram-negative bacteria to β-lactam drugs is mediated primarily by the expression of β-lactamases, and co-dosing of β-lactams with a β-lactamase inhibitor (BLI) is a clinically proven strategy to address resistance. New β-lactamases that are not impacted by existing BLIs are spreading and creating the need for development of novel broader spectrum BLIs. IID572 is a novel broad spectrum BLI of the diazabicyclooctane (DBO) class that is able to restore the antibacterial activity of piperacillin against piperacillin/tazobactam-resistant clinical isolates. IID572 is differentiated from other DBOs by its broad inhibition of β-lactamases and the lack of intrinsic antibacterial activity.

Targeted antimitotic agents are a promising class of anticancer therapies. Herein, we describe the development of a potent and selective antimitotic Eg5 inhibitor based antibody–drug conjugate (ADC). Preliminary studies were performed using proprietary Eg5 inhibitors which were conjugated onto a HER2-targeting antibody using maleimido caproyl valine-citrulline para-amino benzocarbamate, or MC-VC-PABC cleavable linker. However, the resulting ADCs lacked antigen-specificity in vivo, probably from premature release of the payload. Second-generation ADCs were then developed, using noncleavable linkers, and the resulting conjugates (ADC-4 and ADC-10) led to in vivo efficacy in an HER-2 expressing (SK-OV-3ip) mouse xenograft model while ADC-11 led to in vivo efficacy in an anti-c-KIT (NCI-H526) mouse xenograft model in a target-dependent manner.

The new potentially best-in-class β-lactamase inhibitor IID572 was discovered by a late-stage functionalization approach. An alternative synthesis was developed to satisfy the short-term material need for toxicological studies in animals. The new synthetic strategy was built on two key features, an intramolecular azomethine ylide [3 + 2] cycloaddition that allowed the efficient formation of molecular complexity from readily available starting materials and an enzymatic resolution that resulted in high optical purity of a key intermediate.

2-Methyl-1-cyclohexanamine exists in four stereoisomeric forms. Although it is a simple compound, none of the stereoisomers is readily available in its pure form. We herein described a crystallization method identified by a salt screen (diastereomeric salt formation) allowing the isolation of a single trans enantiomer from a readily available commercial source consisting of a mixture of all four stereoisomers.