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Asymmetric total synthesis of four bioactive lignans using donor-acceptor cyclopropanes and bioassay of (?)- and (+)-niranthin against hepatitis B and influenza viruses
Karasawa, Daichi,Nishii, Yoshinori,Oshima, Mizuki,Ota, Ryotaro,Shimasaki, Noriko,Watashi, Koichi
, p. 4635 - 4639 (2022/02/19)
The asymmetric total synthesis of four lignans, dimethylmatairesinol, matairesinol, (?)-niranthin, and (+)-niranthin has been achieved using reductive ring-opening of cyclopropanes. Moreover, we performed bioassays of the synthesized (+)- and (?)-niranthins using hepatitis B and influenza viruses, which revealed the relationship between the enantiomeric structure and the anti-viral activity of niranthin.
A sterically encumbered photoredox catalyst enables the unified synthesis of the classical lignan family of natural products
Alfonzo, Edwin,Beeler, Aaron B.
, p. 7746 - 7754 (2019/08/30)
Herein, we detail a unified synthetic approach to the classical lignan family of natural products that hinges on divergence from a common intermediate that was strategically identified from nature's biosynthetic blueprints. Efforts toward accessing the common intermediate through a convergent and modular approach resulted in the discovery of a sterically encumbered photoredox catalyst that can selectively generate carbonyl ylides from electron-rich epoxides. These can undergo concerted [3 + 2] dipolar cycloadditions to afford tetrahydrofurans, which were advanced (2-4 steps) to at least one representative natural product or natural product scaffold within all six subtypes in classical lignans. The application of those synthetic blueprints to the synthesis of heterolignans bearing unnatural functionality was demonstrated, which establishes the potential of this strategy to accelerate structure-activity-relationship studies of these natural product frameworks and their rich biological activity.
Modular synthesis and biological investigation of 5-hydroxymethyl dibenzyl butyrolactones and related lignans
Davidson, Samuel J.,Pilkington, Lisa I.,Dempsey-Hibbert, Nina C.,El-Mohtadi, Mohamed,Tang, Shiying,Wainwright, Thomas,Whitehead, Kathryn A.,Barker, David
, (2018/11/30)
Dibenzyl butyrolactone lignans are well known for their excellent biological properties, particularly for their notable anti-proliferative activities. Herein we report a novel, efficient, convergent synthesis of dibenzyl butyrolactone lignans utilizing the acyl-Claisen rearrangement to stereoselectively prepare a key intermediate. The reported synthetic route enables the modification of these lignans to give rise to 5-hydroxymethyl derivatives of these lignans. The biological activities of these analogues were assessed, with derivatives showing an excellent cytotoxic profile which resulted in programmed cell death of Jurkat T-leukemia cells with less than 2% of the incubated cells entering a necrotic cell death pathway.
