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Hydrotalcite-catalyzed alkylation of 2,4-pentanedione
Cativiela,Figueras,Garcia,Mayoral,Zurbano
, p. 1745 - 1750 (1995)
A synthetic anionic clay, hydrotalcite (Mg/Al = 2.8), calcined under dry air at 450°C has proved to be an efficient catalyst for the selective C-monoalkylation of 2,4-pentanedione with reactive alylating reagents.
Extended reaction scope of thiamine diphosphate dependent cyclohexane-1,2-dione hydrolase: From C-C bond cleavage to C-C bond ligation
Loschonsky, Sabrina,Wacker, Tobias,Waltzer, Simon,Giovannini, Pier Paolo,McLeish, Michael J.,Andrade, Susana L. A.,Müller, Michael
supporting information, p. 14402 - 14406 (2015/02/19)
ThDP-dependent cyclohexane-1,2-dione hydrolase (CDH) catalyzes the CC bond cleavage of cyclohexane-1,2-dione to 6-oxohexanoate, and the asymmetric benzoin condensation between benzaldehyde and pyruvate. One of the two reactivities of CDH was selectively knocked down by mutation experiments. CDH-H28A is much less able to catalyze the CC bond formation, while the ability for CC bond cleavage is still intact. The double variant CDH-H28A/N484A shows the opposite behavior and catalyzes the addition of pyruvate to cyclohexane-1,2-dione, resulting in the formation of a tertiary alcohol. Several acyloins of tertiary alcohols are formed with 54-94% enantiomeric excess. In addition to pyruvate, methyl pyruvate and butane-2,3-dione are alternative donor substrates for CC bond formation. Thus, the very rare aldehyde-ketone cross-benzoin reaction has been solved by design of an enzyme variant.
Synthesis and biological evaluation of new curcumin derivatives as antioxidant and antitumor agents
Bayomi, Said M.,El-Kashef, Hassan A.,El-Ashmawy, Mahmoud B.,Nasr, Magda N. A.,El-Sherbeny, Magda A.,Badria, Farid A.,Abou-Zeid, Laila A.,Ghaly, Mariam A.,Abdel-Aziz, Naglaa I.
, p. 1147 - 1162 (2013/04/10)
Twenty-four new compounds were prepared, taking curcumin as a lead, in order to explore their antioxidant and antitumor properties. The capacities of these derivatives to scavenge the 2,2′-azinobis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6- sulfonic acid) radical cation (ABTS.+), and to protect human red blood cells (RBCs) from oxidative haemolysis were investigated. In addition, the percentage viability of different cell lines (Hep G2, WI38, VERO and MCF-7) was tested. The result of the antitumor testing was generally in accordance with those of the antioxidant assays. Compounds which bear o-methoxy substitution to the 4-hydroxy function in the phenyl ring (7g, 5g and 3g) exhibited significantly higher ABTS.+-scavenging, antihaemolysis, and antitumor activities than other derivatives. In addition, molecular modelling studies were carried out for biologically active and inactive compounds, to study the structure-activity relationship, with the aim to elucidate which portions of the molecules are critical for the antioxidant and antitumor activity.