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A scalable and green one-minute synthesis of substituted phenols
Elumalai, Vijayaragavan,Hansen, J?rn H.
, p. 40582 - 40587 (2020/11/18)
A mild, green and highly efficient protocol was developed for the synthesis of substituted phenols via ipso-hydroxylation of arylboronic acids in ethanol. The method utilizes the combination of aqueous hydrogen peroxide as the oxidant and H2O2/HBr as the reagent under unprecedentedly simple and convenient conditions. A wide range of arylboronic acids were smoothly transformed into substituted phenols in very good to excellent yields without chromatographic purification. The reaction is scalable up to at least 5 grams at room temperature with one-minute reaction time and can be combined in a one-pot sequence with bromination and Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling to generate more diverse, highly substituted phenols.
A-ring dihalogenation increases the cellular activity of combretastatin-templated tetrazoles
Beale, Thomas M.,Allwood, Daniel M.,Bender, Andreas,Bond, Peter J.,Brenton, James D.,Charnock-Jones, D. Stephen,Ley, Steven V.,Myers, Rebecca M.,Shearman, James W.,Temple, Jill,Unger, Jessica,Watts, Ciorsdaidh A.,Xian, Jian
supporting information; experimental part, p. 177 - 181 (2012/05/05)
The combretastatins have been investigated for their antimitotic and antivascular properties, and it is widely postulated that a 3,4,5-trimethoxyaryl A-ring is essential to maintain potent activity. We have synthesized new tetrazole analogues (32a€"34), demonstrating that 3,5-dihalogenation can consistently increase potency by up to 5-fold when compared to the equivalent trimethoxy compound on human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) and a range of cancer cells. Moreover, this increased potency offsets that lost by installing the tetrazole bridge into combretastatin A-4 (1), giving crystalline, soluble compounds that have low nanomolar activity, arrest cells in G2/M phase, and retain microtubule inhibitory activity. Molecular modeling has shown that optimized packing within the binding site resulting in increased Coulombic interaction may be responsible for this improved activity.