Over fifty structurally diverse, novel fluorinated heteroarenes, have been successfully synthesised by SNAr reaction of a range of fluorinated arenes including pentafluoropyridine, hexafluorobenzene, and methyl pentafluorobenzoate by introduction of a range of groups such as imidazole, triazole, benzimidazole, benzotriazole, and carbazole. Different water solubilising side chains were introduced to some of the successfully synthesised fluorinated heteroarenes to improve water solubility and potential biological activity. X-ray crystal structures of over 10 compounds were obtained including those of two macrocyclic compounds containing 21- and 24-membered rings. The synthesised compounds have been characterized by elemental analysis, IR, 1H and 19F spectroscopy and high resolution mass spectrometry. These compounds have been screened for their biological activities and possible interaction with DNA by methods including UV-visible spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, co-crystallization for X-ray diffraction analysis, and antimicrobial activity. A number of the fluoroaryl benzimidazole derivatives have been tested against K-562 and MCF-7 cell lines and G361 and HOS cell lines. From the all tested compounds three tethered fluoroaryl benzimidazole derivatives demonstrated micromolar inhibition against K-562 and MCF-7 cell lines. These compounds, in addition to 1-tetrafluoropyrid-4-yl-2-tetrafluoropyrid-4-ylsulfanyl-1H-benzimidazole, also demonstrated micromolar inhibition against G361 and HOS cell lines. Two of the compounds were found to activate caspases leading to apoptosis.

Au cours de cette thèse, nous nous sommes intéressés à la synthèse de photo-interrupteurs organiques [DAE, di(hétéro)arylethenes] via activation de liaisons sp² C-H d'hétéroaromatiques catalysées par le palladium. Le système catalytique pour l'arylation directe précédemment établi, Pd(OAc)₂/KOAc/DMAc, s'est montré adapté aux nouvelles transformations souhaitées. Cette méthode permet l'accès direct à une grande variété de molécules photo-commutable en peu d'étapes. En outre, concernant le développement de nouvelles procédures de fonctionnalisation de liaisons C-H d'hétéroaromatiques, nous avons constaté que le système catalytique Pd(CH₃CN)₂Cl2/Li₂CO₃/dioxane, pour le couplage de thiophènes avec des chlorures d'arylsulfonyle conduit à des thiophènes β-arylés. Ce nouveau système catalytique peut également être utilisé dans une réaction d'addition conjuguée, en utilisant des énones et des chlorures d'arylsulfonyle en tant que partenaires de couplage. Enfin, nous avons décrit la formation de 4-aryl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinolines via Heck/sp² C-H activation co-catalysée par PdCl₂/CuBr. / During this thesis, we were interested in the synthesis of organic photo-switches [DAE, di(hetero)arylethenes] via palladium catalyzed sp2 C-H bond activation of heteroaromatics. The previously established catalysts system for direct arylation, Pd(OAc)₂/KOAc/DMA, was found to be suitable for the new desired transformations. This method allows the straightforward access to a wide variety of useful photo-switchable molecules in a few steps. Moreover, during the course of further developments of C-H bond functionalization of heteroaromatics, we found that a phosphine free catalytic system, Pd(CH₃CN)₂Cl2/Li ₂CO₃/dioxane, promotes the coupling of thiophenes and arylsulfonyl chlorides to afford unexpected β-arylated products. This new catalytic system can also be utilized in conjugate addition reaction by using enones and arylsulfonyl chlorides as coupling partners. Finally, we describe PdCl2/CuBr co-catalyzed formation of 4-aryl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinolines via cascade desulfitative Heck/sp² C-H activation sequence.

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