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Synthesis and biological evaluation of 4-arylcoumarins as potential anti-Alzheimer's disease agents
Miao, Yuhang,Sun, Jie,Wang, Xiaojing,Yang, Jie,Yun, Yinling
, (2020/01/03)
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurological degenerative disease that has complex pathogenesis. A variety of studies in humans indicate that several enzymes inhibitors can be useful in the treatment of AD, including acetylcholinesterase (AchE), butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) and monoamine oxidase (MAO). Various substituted 4-arylcoumarin derivatives were synthesised, and their activity in vitro were investigated, including AChE/BuChE inhibitory activity, MAO inhibitory activity, and antioxidant activity. Most of the compounds were found to exhibit high inhibitory activity, and individual compounds have extremely excellent activities. Therefore 4-arylcoumarins provides an idea for drugs design for the development of therapeutic or preventive agents for AD.
Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel neoflavonoid derivatives as potential antidiabetic agents
Wang, Bing,Li, Na,Liu, Teng,Sun, Jie,Wang, Xiaojing
, p. 34448 - 34460 (2017/07/22)
Various substituted neoflavonoid derivatives were synthesized using sulfated montmorillonite K-10 as a catalyst. This method is environmental friendly, sustainable and economical, convenient in isolation and purification processes, with little byproducts, using earth-abundant catalysts and has relatively high yield. Those neoflavonoid derivatives were screened for antioxidant, a-glucosidase inhibitory, aldose reductase 2 (ALR2) inhibitory and advanced glycation end-product formation inhibitory effects. Most compounds exhibited significant antioxidant and advanced glycation end-product (AGE) formation inhibitory activities. It was interesting to note that out of thirty compounds, 8k and 8l were found to have greater ALR2 inhibitory activity than the standard drug quercetin. The pharmacological studies suggested neoflavonoid with adjacent 7,8-dihydroxy groups were more effective in inhibiting ALR2. Antidiabetic activity studies had shown that compounds 8l and 8m were equipotent to the standard drug glibenclamide in vivo. In summary, the target compound 8l provided a potential drug design concept for the development of therapeutic or prophylactic agents of diabetes and diabetes complications.
Studies on the Constituents of the Seeds of Hernandia ovigera L. VII. Syntheses of (+/-)-Hernolactone and (+/-)-Hernandin
Tanoguchi, Mariko,Kashima, Tatsuhiko,Saika, Hideyuki,Inoue, Taishi,Arimoto, Masao,Yamaguchi, Hideo
, p. 68 - 72 (2007/10/02)
Two new lignans, hernolactone (1) and hernandin (2), isolated from the seeds of Hernandia ovigera L. were synthesized in racemic forms.Firstly, (+/-)-1 was obtained by utilizing the conjugate addition reaction of 4 with butenolide followed by alkylation with trimethoxybenzyl bromide and subsequent removal of the protecting groups.Synthesis of 2 was pursued using the corresponding 4-phenyl-1,2-dihydronaphthalene lactone (18).The cleavage of the lactone moiety of 18 afforded an unsaturated hydroxy acid (22).Subsequent hydrogenation of 22 followed by acidification with concentrated hydrochloric acid gave isopicrohernandin (21), leaving the 2,3-trans, 3,4-cis hydroxy acid (23), which was lactonized by means of N,N-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide to afford (+/-)-2.Keywords: Hernandia ovigera; hernolactone; hernandin; lignan; dibenzylbutyrolactone lignan; phenyltetralin lignan; isopicrohernandin; Diels-Alder reaction
