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Towards the discovery of drug-like epigallocatechin gallate analogs as Hsp90 inhibitors
Bhat, Rohit,Adam, Amna T.,Lee, Jungeun Jasmine,Gasiewicz, Thomas A.,Henry, Ellen C.,Rotella, David P.
, p. 2263 - 2266 (2014/05/20)
(-)-Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) is the major flavonoid of green tea and has been widely explored for a range of biological activities including anti-infective, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, and neuroprotection. Existing structure-activity data for EGCG has been largely limited to exploration of simple ethers and hydroxyl deletion. EGCG has poor drug-like properties because of multiple phenolic hydroxyl moieties and a metabolically labile ester. This work reports a substantial expansion of structure-activity understanding by exploring a range of semi-synthetic and synthetic derivatives with ester replacements and variously substituted aromatic and alicyclic groups containing more drug-like substituents. Structure-activity relationships for these molecules were obtained for Hsp90 inhibition. The results indicate that amide and sulfonamide linkers are suitable ester replacements. Hydroxylated aromatic rings and the cis-stereochemistry in EGCG are not essential for Hsp90 inhibition. Selected analogs in this series are more potent than EGCG in a luciferase refolding assay for Hsp90 activity.
Reactions of Flav-2-enes and Flav-2-en-4-ones (Flavones)
Bird, T. Geoffrey C.,Brown, Ben R.,Stuart, Ian A.,Tyrrell, William R.
, p. 1831 - 1846 (2007/10/02)
Flav-2-enes, flavones, and 3-alkyl ethers of flavonols add alcohols and carboxylic acids in the presence of N-bromosuccinimide to give 2-alkoxy- and 2-acyloxy-3-bromoflavans which provide routes to cis-3-bromoflavans by reduction and to 3,4-diols by elimination and reaction with osmium tetraoxide.The 2-acyloxyflavans react with alcohols yielding 2-alkoxyflavans.Flavonols react with N-bromosuccinimide and alcohols to give bromine-free hemiacetals, the known 2,3-dialkoxy-3-hydroxyflavanones.