100715-98-8Relevant academic research and scientific papers
New Indole Tubulin Assembly Inhibitors Cause Stable Arrest of Mitotic Progression, Enhanced Stimulation of Natural Killer Cell Cytotoxic Activity, and Repression of Hedgehog-Dependent Cancer
La Regina, Giuseppe,Bai, Ruoli,Coluccia, Antonio,Famiglini, Valeria,Pelliccia, Sveva,Passacantilli, Sara,Mazzoccoli, Carmela,Ruggieri, Vitalba,Verrico, Annalisa,Miele, Andrea,Monti, Ludovica,Nalli, Marianna,Alfonsi, Romina,Di Marcotullio, Lucia,Gulino, Alberto,Ricci, Biancamaria,Soriani, Alessandra,Santoni, Angela,Caraglia, Michele,Porto, Stefania,Da Pozzo, Eleonora,Martini, Claudia,Brancale, Andrea,Marinelli, Luciana,Novellino, Ettore,Vultaggio, Stefania,Varasi, Mario,Mercurio, Ciro,Bigogno, Chiara,Dondio, Giulio,Hamel, Ernest,Lavia, Patrizia,Silvestri, Romano
, p. 5789 - 5807 (2015)
We designed 39 new 2-phenylindole derivatives as potential anticancer agents bearing the 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl moiety with a sulfur, ketone, or methylene bridging group at position 3 of the indole and with halogen or methoxy substituent(s) at positions 4-7. Compounds 33 and 44 strongly inhibited the growth of the P-glycoprotein-overexpressing multi-drug-resistant cell lines NCI/ADR-RES and Messa/Dx5. At 10 nM, 33 and 44 stimulated the cytotoxic activity of NK cells. At 20-50 nM, 33 and 44 arrested >80% of HeLa cells in the G2/M phase of the cell cycle, with stable arrest of mitotic progression. Cell cycle arrest was followed by cell death. Indoles 33, 44, and 81 showed strong inhibition of the SAG-induced Hedgehog signaling activation in NIH3T3 Shh-Light II cells with IC50 values of 19, 72, and 38 nM, respectively. Compounds of this class potently inhibited tubulin polymerization and cancer cell growth, including stimulation of natural killer cell cytotoxic activity and repression of Hedgehog-dependent cancer.
On the way to biodegradable poly(hydroxy butyrate) from propylene oxide and carbon monoxide via β-butyrolactone: Multisite catalysis with newly designed chiral indole-imino chromium(III) complexes
W?lfle, Heimo,Kopacka, Holger,Wurst, Klaus,Preishuber-Pflügl, Peter,Bildstein, Benno
experimental part, p. 2493 - 2512 (2009/12/01)
Enantioenriched poly(hydroxy butyrate) (PHB) is a biodegradable polyester of significant commercial interest as an environmentally benign substitute of commodity polyolefines. We report on the design and development of new chiral indole-based ligand families and on their chromium(III) complexes as enantioselective catalysts for the conversion of propylene oxide and carbon monoxide to enantioenriched β-butyrolactone, the key monomer for the production of PHB by ring-opening polymerization. The enantioselective carbonylation catalysts are based on new chiral tri- and tetradentate [N2O] and [N4] chromium(III) complexes containing chiral indolaldimine ligand scaffolds. The conceptual design of these ligands is inspired by Jacobsen's salicylaldimine lead structure; the key difference is an exchange of the salicyl-O-donor against an indole-N-donor, allowing additional structural diversity and stereoelectronic tuning by the indole substitution pattern. Synthetically, chiral indolealdimines are easily accessible from 7-formylindoles by standard Schiff base condensation with chiral amine building blocks; the 7-formylindoles in turn are synthesized from the corresponding 7-bromoindoles by the Rapoport synthesis, and the starting 7-bromoindoles are accessible from 2-bromoaniline by the classical Fischer indole synthesis. Three generations of chiral [N2O] and [N4] chromium(III) catalysts have been developed and evaluated in the enantioselective carbonylation of racemic propylene oxide with carbon monoxide using tetracarbonylcobaltate as the nucleophilic reagent for the insertion of carbon monoxide into the activated propylene oxide/chiral Lewis acid complex. The best catalyst out of 10 candidates showed at a temperature of 80 °C an activity of 37% conversion, 100% chemoselectivity, and 19% stereoselectivity.
