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Extended structural modulation of bio-inspired chiral lipidic alkynylcarbinols as antitumor pharmacophores
Listunov, Dymytrii,Billot, Chelmia,Joly, Etienne,Fabing, Isabelle,Volovenko, Yulian,Génisson, Yves,Maraval, Valérie,Chauvin, Remi
, p. 7920 - 7930 (2015)
The chiral alkynylcarbinol motif typically found in natural marine products, has been the subject of intense research activity for its pharmacophoric properties, in particular cytotoxicity against tumor cell lines. In a chemical synthesis-driven four-parameter structure-activity relationship (SAR) study from the (S,E)-eicos-4-en-1-yl-3-ol natural reference 1, the (S)-dialkynylcarbinol unit of the non-natural dehydro derivative 2 emerged as an unprecedented anti-tumoral pharmacophore. An extended study of lipidic alkynylcarbinol pharmacophores is presented, addressing additional structural parameters: Z→E isomerization of the alkenyl carbinol substituent of 1, variation of the lipidic chain length of 2 (C3n, n=3, 4, 6), oxidation or substitution of the carbinol unit of 2 (to ketone, tertiary methylcarbinol, or methylether), cyclomethylenation of the double bond of 1. The synthesis of these analogues is described, including the preparation of enantio-enriched chiral alkynylcarbinol derivatives using a modified Carreira procedure for Zn-mediated addition of (trialkylsilyl)acetylene substrates to ynals in the presence of (-)- or (+)-N-methylephedrine. Preliminary cytotoxicity evaluation of 12 new products against the HCT 116 tumor cell line are finally reported and the results compared with those obtained for 1 and 2. These observations support and refine the relevance of the pharmacophoric character of secondary DAC units.
