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The dragonbloodins are a pair of complex flavonoid trimers that have been isolated from the palm tree Daemonorops draco, one of the sources of the ancient resin known as “dragon's blood”. We present a short synthesis that clarifies their relative configur

Compounds are described with the general formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, and n are defined as anywhere herein, which are useful for the treatment of cancer and other dysproliferative diseases.

The present invention relates to a novel compound and a composition for prevention, improvement, or treatment of fibrosis or nonalcoholic steatohepatitis comprising the same as an active ingredient. More specifically, the present invention relates to a novel compound of chemical formula 1 which has an excellent effect for prevention, improvement, or treatment of fibrosis and a composition for prevention, improvement, or treatment of fibrosis or nonalcoholic steatohepatitis comprising the same as an active ingredient. A novel compound of the present invention effectively controls expression of snail and vimentin which are a controlling element of Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) and controls activation of EMT, and thus effectively prevents, improves, or treats fibrosis accordingly. Additionally, a novel compound of the present invention has a very excellent pharmacokinetic characteristic, and thus can perform fast drug delivery to the body through oral administration, stably displays an effect in the body, and is secure to use without a big side effect. Moreover, since a novel compound of the present invention can effectively block fibrosis of a hepatic cell, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis can effectively improved or treated.(AA) Chemical formula 1COPYRIGHT KIPO 2018

A pharmaceutical composition contains the chromone derivative of Chemical Formula 1 and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt as an active ingredient, thus effectively inhibiting the activation of EMT to thereby enable the effective suppression of a disease caused by fibrosis of an organ or tissue in vivo due to the activation of EMT.

Misregulation of protein translation plays a critical role in human cancer pathogenesis at many levels. Silvestrol, a cyclopenta[b]benzofuran natural product, blocks translation at the initiation step by interfering with assembly of the eIF4F translation complex. Silvestrol has a complex chemical structure whose functional group requirements have not been systematically investigated. Moreover, silvestrol has limited development potential due to poor druglike properties. Herein, we sought to develop a practical synthesis of key intermediates of silvestrol and explore structure-activity relationships around the C6 position. The ability of silvestrol and analogues to selectively inhibit the translation of proteins with high requirement on the translation-initiation machinery (i.e., complex 5′-untranslated region UTR) relative to simple 5′UTR was determined by a cellular reporter assay. Simplified analogues of silvestrol such as compounds 74 and 76 were shown to have similar cytotoxic potency and better ADME characteristics relative to those of silvestrol.

Total synthesis of the anticancer 1,4-dioxane containing natural products silvestrol (1) and episilvestrol (2) is described by an approach basedon the proposed biosynthesis of these novel compounds. The key steps in cluded an oxidative rearrangement of the protected D-glucose derivative 11 to afford the 1,4-dioxane 12, which could be elaborated to the coupling partner 5 and a photochemical [3 + 2] cycloadditon between the 3-hydroxyflavone 27 and methyl cinnamate followed by base-induced α-ketol rearrangement and reduction to give the cyclopentabenzofuran core 33. The core (-)-6 and 1,4-dioxane fragment 5 were united by a highly stereoselective Mitsunobu coupling with the modified azodicarboxylate DMEAD toafford the axial coupled product 36. Deprotection then gave episilvestr ol (2). Silvestrol (1) was synthesized by a coupling between core (-)-6 and the dioxane 44 followed by deprotection. Compound 1 was also synthesized from episilvestrol (2) by a Mitsunobu inversion. In addition, the analogue 4-desmethoxyepisilvestrol (46) was synthesized via the same route. It was found that 46 and episilvestrol 2 displayed an unexpected concentration-dependent chemical shift variation for the nonexchangeable dioxane protons. Synthetic compounds 1, 2, 38, 46, and 54 were tested against cancer cells lines, and it was found that the stereochemistry of the core was critical for activity. Synthetic analogue 4-desmethoxyepisilvestrol (46) was also active against lung and colon cancer cell lines.