31005-02-4Relevant articles and documents
N-Methylimidazole-mediated synthesis of aryl alkyl ethers under microwave irradiation and solvent free conditions
Djahaniani, Hoorieh,Aghadadashi-Abhari, Laila,Mohtat, Bita
, p. 459 - 464 (2015)
A microwave-assisted three-component reaction was established for the synthesis of aryl alkyl ethers. The reaction was performed under solvent-free conditions in the presence of N-methylimidazole and dialkyl acetylene-dicarboxylate to furnish a novel approach to O-alkylation of phenol derivatives in high yield.
Combined molecular modeling and cholinesterase inhibition studies on some natural and semisynthetic O-alkylcoumarin derivatives
Orhan, Ilkay Erdogan,Senol Deniz, F. Sezer,Salmas, Ramin Ekhteiari,Durdagi, Serdar,Epifano, Francesco,Genovese, Salvatore,Fiorito, Serena
, p. 355 - 362 (2018/12/13)
Coumarins of synthetic or natural origins are an important chemical class exerting diverse pharmacological activities. In the present study, 26 novel O-alkylcoumarin derivatives were synthesized and have been tested at 100 μM for their in vitro inhibitory potential against acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrlcholinesterase (BChE) targets which are the key enzymes playing role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. Among the tested coumarins, none of them could inhibit AChE, whereas 12 of them exerted a marked and selective inhibition against BChE as compared to the reference (galanthamine, IC50 = 46.58 ± 0.91 μM). In fact, 10 of the active coumarins showed higher inhibition (IC50 = 7.01 ± 0.28 μM – 43.31 ± 3.63 μM) than that of galanthamine. The most active ones were revealed to be 7-styryloxycoumarin (IC50 = 7.01 ± 0.28 μM) and 7-isopentenyloxy-4-methylcoumarin (IC50 = 8.18 ± 0.74 μM). In addition to the in vitro tests, MetaCore/MetaDrug binary QSAR models and docking simulations were applied to evaluate the active compounds by ligand-based and target-driven approaches. The predicted pharmacokinetic profiles of the compounds suggested that the compounds reveal lipophilic character and permeate blood brain barrier (BBB) and the ADME models predict higher human serum protein binding percentages (>50%) for the compounds. The calculated docking scores indicated that the coumarins showing remarkable BChE inhibition possessed favorable free binding energies in interacting with the ligand-binding domain of the target. Therefore, our results disclose that O-alkylcoumarins are promising selective inhibitors of cholinesterase enzymes, particularly BChE in our case, which definitely deserve further studies.
Peroxy mediated Csp2-Csp3 dehydrogenative coupling: Regioselective functionalization of coumarins and coumarin-3-carboxylic acids
Jafarpour, Farnaz,Darvishmolla, Masoumeh
supporting information, p. 3396 - 3401 (2018/05/23)
A regioselective direct alkylation of coumarins at C-3 via cross-dehydrogenative coupling of unactivated Csp2-Csp3 bonds is developed. This protocol employs tert-butyl hydroperoxide as the sole reagent of the reaction to combine coumarins and ethers in reasonable yields under metal- and solvent-free reaction conditions. This protocol also worked well with coumarin-3-carboxylic acids to unveil a rare instance of a catalyst-free tandem alkylation/decarboxylation reaction with conservation of the double bond.
