136131-58-3Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Synthesis of plasmodione metabolites and 13C-enriched plasmodione as chemical tools for drug metabolism investigation
Feng, Liwen,Lanfranchi, Don Antoine,Cotos, Leandro,Cesar-Rodo, Elena,Ehrhardt, Katharina,Goetz, Alice-Anne,Zimmermann, Herbert,Fenaille, Fran?ois,Blandin, Stephanie A.,Davioud-Charvet, Elisabeth
, p. 2647 - 2665 (2018/04/27)
Malaria is a tropical parasitic disease threatening populations in tropical and sub-tropical areas. Resistance to antimalarial drugs has spread all over the world in the past 50 years, thus new drugs are urgently needed. Plasmodione (benzylmenadione series) has been identified as a potent antimalarial early lead drug, acting through a redox bioactivation on asexual and young sexual blood stages. To investigate its metabolism, a series of plasmodione-based tools, including a fully 13C-labelled lead drug and putative metabolites, have been designed and synthesized for drug metabolism investigation. Furthermore, with the help of UHPLC-MS/MS, two of the drug metabolites have been identified from urine of drug-treated mice.
A Platform of Regioselective Methodologies to Access Polysubstituted 2-Methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone Derivatives: Scope and Limitations
Rodo, Elena Cesar,Feng, Liwen,Jida, Mouhamad,Ehrhardt, Katharina,Bielitza, Max,Boilevin, Jérémy,Lanzer, Michael,Williams, David Lee,Lanfranchi, Don Antoine,Davioud-Charvet, Elisabeth
supporting information, p. 1982 - 1993 (2016/04/26)
A platform of synthetic methodologies has been established to access a focused library of polysubstituted 3-benzylmenadione derivatives functionalized on the aromatic ring of the naphthoquinone core. Two main routes were explored: 1) The naphthol route, starting from either an α-tetralone or a propiophenone, and 2) the regioselective Diels-Alder reaction, starting from various dienes and two 2-bromo-5(or 6)-methyl-1,4-benzoquinones. 6-Substituted 2-methylnaphthols were synthesized by using a xanthate-mediated free-radical addition/cyclization sequence for the construction of the 6-substituted menadione subunit. Furthermore, an efficient and simple new pathway that allows the formation of 6- or 7-substituted 3-(substituted-benzyl)menadione regioisomers from a common commercial scaffold has also been developed by the naphthol route, advantageous with regard to step economy. Our synthetic methodologies exemplified by 34 compounds have allowed structure-activity relationships to be deduced for use as the basis for the development of new antimalarial redox-active polysubstituted benzylmenadione derivatives.
