(2010) Microwave-assisted synthesis of a pyrazolyl ketone library for evaluation as p38 MAPK inhibitors in Werner syndrome cells. Future Medicinal Chemistry, 2 (2). pp. 203-213. ISSN 1756-8927 This version is available from Sussex Research Online: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/40893/ This document is made available in accordance with publisher policies and may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the URL above for details on accessing the published version.
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203Given the poor kinase selectivity proile of the prototypical inhibitor SB203580, as well as reported toxicity issues, we set out to prepare a number of other p38a inhibitor chemotypes (FiguRe 1) for study in WS cells. Our recent reports on successful routes to BIRB 796 [13], VX-745 [14,15], UR-13756 [16] and RO3201195 [17] have all utilized microwave dielectric heating to accelerate access to compounds for study and have resulted in dramatic improvements in both the facility and eficiency of synthetic routes. The use of microwave irradiation has received increasing attention in recent years as a valuable alternative to the use of conductive heating for accelerating transformations in synthetic c...