28903-30-2Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Toward establishing structure-activity relationships for oxygenated coumarins as differentiation inducers of promonocytic leukemic cells
Riveiro, Maria E.,Maes, Dominick,Vazquez, Ramiro,Vermeulen, Monica,Mangelinckx, Sven,Jacobs, Jan,Debenedetti, Silvia,Shayo, Carina,De Kimpe, Norbert,Davio, Carlos
scheme or table, p. 6547 - 6559 (2009/12/09)
The presumption that some coumarins might be lead compounds in the search for new differentiation agents against leukemia is based on the fact that natural coumarins, 5-(3-methyl-2-butenyloxy)-6,7-methylenedioxycoumarin (C-2) and 5-methoxy-6,7-methylenedioxycoumarin (C-1) inhibit proliferation and induce differentiation in U-937 cells [Riveiro, M. E.; Shayo, C.; Monczor, F.; Fernandez, N.; Baldi, A.; De Kimpe, N.; Rossi, J.; Debenedetti, S.; Davio, C. Cancer Lett. 2004, 210, 179-188]. These promising findings prompted us to investigate the anti-leukemia activity of a broader range of related polyoxygenated coumarins. Twenty related natural or synthetically prepared coumarins, including a range of 5-substituted ayapin derivatives which have become easy accessible via newly developed synthesis methods, were evaluated, where treatments with 5-(2,3-dihydroxy-3-methylbutoxy)-6,7-methylenedioxycoumarin (D-3) and 5-(2-hydroxy-3-methoxy-3-methylbutoxy)-6,7-methylenedioxycoumarin (D-2) were able to inhibit the cell growth and induce the differentiation of U-937 cells after 48 h treatment. These results provide insight into the correlation between some structural properties of polyoxygenated coumarins and their in vitro leukemic differentiation activity.
Synthesis and structural revision of naturally occurring ayapin derivatives
Maes, Dominick,Vervisch, Stijn,Debenedetti, Silvia,Davio, Carlos,Mangelinckx, Sven,Giubellina, Nicola,De Kimpe, Norbert
, p. 2505 - 2511 (2007/10/03)
The synthesis of three highly oxygenated naturally occurring coumarins, 8-methoxy-6,7-methylenedioxycoumarin, 5-methoxy-6,7-methylenedioxycoumarin and 5,8-dimethoxy-6,7-methylenedioxycoumarin is described for the first time, together with a new method for the preparation of ayapin (6,7- methylenedioxycoumarin). Comparison of the spectroscopic data of the synthetic tetraoxygenated coumarin 5,8-dimethoxy-6,7-methylenedioxycoumarin with literature reports resulted in the structural revision of several natural coumarins. Two coumarins, both identified as 5,8-dimethoxy-6,7- methylenedioxycoumarin must have other structures, while the structure of another coumarin, described as the isomeric 7,8-dimethoxy-5,6- methylenedioxycoumarin has to be revised to 5,8-dimethoxy-6,7- methylenedioxycoumarin.
