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Modular synthesis and biological investigation of 5-hydroxymethyl dibenzyl butyrolactones and related lignans
Davidson, Samuel J.,Pilkington, Lisa I.,Dempsey-Hibbert, Nina C.,El-Mohtadi, Mohamed,Tang, Shiying,Wainwright, Thomas,Whitehead, Kathryn A.,Barker, David
, (2018/11/30)
Dibenzyl butyrolactone lignans are well known for their excellent biological properties, particularly for their notable anti-proliferative activities. Herein we report a novel, efficient, convergent synthesis of dibenzyl butyrolactone lignans utilizing the acyl-Claisen rearrangement to stereoselectively prepare a key intermediate. The reported synthetic route enables the modification of these lignans to give rise to 5-hydroxymethyl derivatives of these lignans. The biological activities of these analogues were assessed, with derivatives showing an excellent cytotoxic profile which resulted in programmed cell death of Jurkat T-leukemia cells with less than 2% of the incubated cells entering a necrotic cell death pathway.
A SIMPLE PREPARATION OF (R)-(+)-β-(3,4,5-TRIMETHOXYBENZYL)-BUTANOLIDE, AND ITS USE IN THE TOTAL SYNTHESES OF NATURALLY OCCURRING DIBENZYLBUTANOLIDE LIGNANS
Lalami, Khalid,Dhal, Robert,Brown, Eric
, p. 1131 - 1134 (2007/10/02)
Resolution of methyl α-(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzyl)hemisuccinate by means of (-)-ephedrine, followed by calcium borohydride reduction, afforded (R)-(+)-β-(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzyl)butanolide.This lactone was used as a starting material for the optically active