Our studies on creation of functional organic compounds and their applications, have focused on three areas, namely, (
A) organic chemical studies on VD (vitamin D) analogues, (
B) studies on solitary wasp venoms, and (
C) studies on functional building blocks for organic synthesis. In the first area, several novel and important vitamin D analogues were synthesized and biologically evaluated, and their high VDR (vitamin D receptor) binding affinities were discussed on the basis of conformational analysis and docking study by Molecular Mechanics Calculation to the LBD (ligand binding domain) of VDR: These compounds include 24,24-difluoro-1α,25-dihydroxy-VD
3 (
2) (an anti-metabolism agent, the first VD analogue having higher potency than the natural hormone (
1)), 2α-methyl-1α,25-dihydroxy-VD
3 (
42b) (the first A-ring-modified VD analogue exhibiting stronger VDR affinity than
1) and its 20-epimer (
43b) (a VD analogue having a highest HL-60 cell differentiation inducing activity with a relatively low calcemic effect), and 2α-(ω-hydroxypropyl)-1α,25-dihydroxy-VD
3 (exceptionally high calcemic effect). In the second area, we isolated and determined the structure of pompilidotoxins (
76,
77), novel peptide neurotoxins in solitary wasp venoms. In the third area, we created furan-fused 3-sulfolene, 4
H, 6
H-thieno[3,4-c]-furan 5,5-dioxide and pyrrole-fused 3-sulfolene (
96), 3,5-dihydro-1
H-thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole 2,2-dioxide (
125), and studied their inter- and intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions.
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