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Concise synthesis and biological evaluation of 2-Aryl-3-Anilinobenzo[b]thiophene derivatives as potent apoptosis-inducing agents
Romagnoli, Romeo,Preti, Delia,Hamel, Ernest,Bortolozzi, Roberta,Viola, Giampietro,Brancale, Andrea,Ferla, Salvatore,Morciano, Giampaolo,Pinton, Paolo
, (2021)
Many clinically used agents active in cancer chemotherapy exert their activity through the induction of cell death (apoptosis) by targeting microtubules, altering protein function or inhibiting DNA synthesis. The benzo[b]thiophene scaffold holds a pivotal place as a pharmacophore for the development of anticancer agents, and, in addition, this scaffold has many pharmacological activities. We have developed a flexible method for the construction of a new series of 2-aryl-3-(3,4,5-trimethoxyanilino)-6-methoxybenzo[b]thiophenes as potent antiproliferative agents, giving access to a wide range of substitution patterns at the 2-position of the 6-methoxybenzo[b]thiophene common intermediate. In the present study, all the synthesized compounds retained the 3-(3,4,5-trimethoxyanilino)-6-methoxybenzo[b]thiophene moiety, and the structure–activity relationship was examined by modification of the aryl group at its 2-position with electron-withdrawing (F) or electron-releasing (alkyl and alkoxy) groups. We found that small substituents, such as fluorine or methyl, could be placed in the para-position of the 2-phenyl ring, and these modifications only slightly reduced antiproliferative activity relative to the unsubstituted 2-phenyl analogue. Compounds 3a and 3b, bearing the phenyl and para-fluorophenyl at the 2-position of the 6-methoxybenzo[b]thiophene nucleus, respectively, exhibited the greatest antiproliferative activity among the tested compounds. The treatment of both Caco2 (not metastatic) and HCT-116 (metastatic) colon carcinoma cells with 3a or 3b triggered a significant induction of apoptosis as demonstrated by the increased expression of cleaved-poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP), receptor-interacting protein (RIP) and caspase-3 proteins. The same effect was not observed with non-transformed colon 841 CoN cells. A potential additional effect during mitosis for 3a in metastatic cells and for 3b in non-metastatic cells was also observed.
2,3-Disubstituted benzo[b]thiophenes from diarylalkynes via electrophilic addition-cyclization and palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling
Lamanna, Giuseppe,Menichetti, Stefano
, p. 2188 - 2194 (2008/09/19)
Diarylalkynes are readily transformed in 3-chlorobenzo[b]thiophenes in a two-step electrophilic addition-cyclization procedure that runs highly efficiently in solution or in the solid phase. The heteroaromatic carbon-chlorine bond participates in palladium-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura or Buchwald-Hartwig cross-couplings to give, in a single step, 2,3-disubstituted derivatives of pharmacological relevance.
