199189-87-2Relevant articles and documents
Design, Synthesis, Structure-Activity Relationship and Docking Studies of Novel Functionalized Arylvinyl-1,2,4-Trioxanes as Potent Antiplasmodial as well as Anticancer Agents
Agrawal, Prakhar,Chaudhary, Sandeep,Coghi, Paolo,Jun Yang, Li,Kam Wai Wong, Vincent,Peng, Yuzhong,Sahal, Dinkar,Sharma, Richa,Shyamlal, Bharti Rajesh K.,Tiwari, Mohit K.,Yadav, Dharmendra K.,Yadav, Lalit
, (2020)
A novel series of synthetic functionalized arylvinyl-1,2,4-trioxanes (8 a–p) has been prepared and assessed for their in vitro antiplasmodial activity against the chloroquine-resistant Pf INDO strain of Plasmodium falciparum by using a SYBR green-I fluorescence assay. Compounds 8 g (IC50=0.051 μM; SI=589.41) and 8 m (IC50=0.059 μM; SI=55.93) showed 11-fold and >9-fold more potent antiplasmodial activity, respectively, as compared to chloroquine (IC50=0.546 μM; SI=36.63). Different in silico docking studies performed on many target proteins revealed that the most active arylvinyl-1,2,4-trioxanes (8 g and 8 m) showed dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) binding affinities on a par with those of chloroquine and artesunate. The in vitro cytotoxic potentials of 8 a–p were also evaluated against human lung (A549) and liver (HepG2) cancer cell lines along with immortalized normal lung (BEAS-2B) and liver (LO2) cell lines. Following screening, five derivatives viz. 8 a, 8 h, 8 l, 8 m and 8 o (IC50=1.65–31.7 μM; SI=1.08–10.96) were found to show potent cytotoxic activity against (A549) lung cancer cell lines, with selectivity superior to that of the reference compounds artemisinin (IC50=100 μM), chloroquine (IC50=100 μM) and artesunic acid (IC50=9.85 μM; SI=0.76). In fact, the most active 4-naphthyl-substituted analogue 8 l (IC50=1.65 μM; SI >10) exhibited >60 times more cytotoxicity than the standard reference, artemisinin, against A549 lung cancer cell lines. In silico docking studies of the most active anticancer compounds, 8 l and 8 m, against EGFR were found to validate the wet lab results. In summary, a new series of functionalized aryl-vinyl-1,2,4-trioxanes (8 a–p) has been shown to display dual potency as promising antiplasmodial and anticancer agents.
A succinct synthesis of the vaulted biaryl ligand vanol via a dienone-phenol rearrangement
Ding, Zhensheng,Xue, Song,Wulff, William D.
scheme or table, p. 2130 - 2146 (2011/10/18)
Vanol is a member of the vaulted biaryl family of ligands and it has been proven to be very effective in a number of asymmetric catalytic reactions. The previous synthesis of vanol, while effective, is limited by the cost of reagents involved. The present work evaluates three different approaches to the synthesis of 3-phenyl-1-naphthol, a key intermediate in the synthesis of vanol. The first approach has its key step as the Michael addition of a benzyl Grignard to methyl cinnamate. In the second approach the key step is the first step, a Reformatsky reaction of ethyl bromoacetate and deoxybenzoin. The final and most-efficient approach involves a dienone-phenol rearrangement of a 4-aryl-1-tetralenone generated in-situ from the reaction of 4-chloro-1-naphthol with AlCl3 and benzene, and preliminary results are reported on the extension of this method to substituted vanol derivatives.
