- Polyhydroxybenzoic acid derivatives as potential new antimalarial agents
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With more than 200 million cases and 400,000 related deaths, malaria remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases of 2021. Unfortunately, despite the availability of efficient treatments, we have observed an increase in people infected with malaria since 2015 (from 211 million in 2015 to 229 million in 2019). This trend could partially be due to the development of resistance to all the current drugs. Therefore, there is an urgent need for new alternatives. We have, thus, selected common natural scaffolds, polyhydroxybenzoic acids, and synthesized a library of derivatives to better understand the structure–activity relationships explaining their antiplasmodial effect. Only gallic acid derivatives showed a noticeable potential for further developments. Indeed, they showed a selective inhibitory effect on Plasmodium (IC50 ~20 μM, SI > 5) often associated with interesting water solubility. Moreover, this has confirmed the critical importance of free phenolic functions (pyrogallol moiety) for the antimalarial effect. Methyl 4-benzoxy-3,5-dihydroxybenzoate (39) has, for the first time, been recognized as a potential lead for future research because of its marked inhibitory activity against Plasmodium falciparum and its significant hydrosolubility (3.72 mM).
- Degotte, Gilles,Francotte, Pierre,Pirotte, Bernard,Frédérich, Michel
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- Samarium trifluoromethanesulfonate: An efficient moisture tolerant acylation catalyst under solvent-free condition
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Samarium trifluoromethanesulfonate catalyzed the acylation of phenols, alcohols, thiols, free reducing sugars, and glycosides in excellent yields at ambient temperature under solvent-free condition using stoichiometric amounts of various anhydrides. (Chemical Equation Presented). Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
- Roy, Bimalendu,Dasgupta, Somnath,Kumar Rajput, Vishal,Mukhopadhyay, Balaram
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- Novel chemoselective de-esterification of esters of polyacetoxy aromatic acids by lipases
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Candida cylindracea lipase (CCL) and porcine pancreatic lipase (PPL) have been used for deacetylation of peracetates of methyl and ethyl esters of six different polyphenolic acids in organic solvents. Exclusive de-esterification of the ester groups derived from the phenolic hydroxy and aliphatic acid over the ester group of the aromatic acid and aliphatic alcohol has been achieved affording the corresponding esters of phenolic acids in as high yields as 90-97%. The results have been corroborated with the mechanism of lipase action.
- Parmar, Virinder S.,Kumar, Ajay,Bicht, Kirpal S.,Mukherjee, Shubhasish,Prasad, Ashok K.,Sharma, Sunil K.,Wengel, Jesper,Olsen, Carl E.
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