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Further studies on anti-invasive chemotypes: An excursion from chalcones to curcuminoids
Roman, Bart I.,De Ryck, Tine,Verhasselt, Sigrid,Bracke, Marc E.,Stevens, Christian V.
, p. 1027 - 1031 (2015/02/19)
In our ongoing search for new anti-invasive chemotypes, we have made an excursion from previously reported potent 1,3-diarylpropenones (chalcones) to congeners bearing longer linkers between the aromatic moieties. Nine 1,ω-diarylalkenones, including curcumin and bisdemethoxycurcumin, were evaluated in the chick heart invasion assay. Unfortunately, these compounds proved less potent and more toxic than earlier evaluated chemotypes. In the 1,3-diarylpenta-2,4-dien-1-one series, fluoro and/or trimethoxy substitution caused an increase in potency. This agrees with observations made earlier for the chalcone class.
Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of spirocyclic azlactones by a double Michael-addition approach
Weber, Manuel,Frey, Wolfgang,Peters, René
supporting information, p. 8342 - 8351 (2013/07/27)
Spirocyclic azlactones are shown to be useful precursors of cyclic quaternary amino acids, such as the constrained cyclohexane analogues of phenylalanine. These compounds are of interest as building blocks for the synthesis of artificial peptide analogues with controlled folds in the peptide backbone. They were prepared in the present study by a step- and atom-economic catalytic asymmetric tandem approach, requiring two steps starting from N-benzoyl glycine and divinylketones. The key of this protocol is the enantioselective formation of the azlactone spirocycles, which involves a PdII-catalyzed double 1,4-addition of an in situ generated azlactone intermediate to the dienone (a formal [5+1] cycloaddition). As the catalyst, a planar chiral ferrocene bispalladacycle was used. Mechanistic studies suggest a monometallic reaction pathway. Although the diastereoselectivity was found to be moderate, the enantioselectivity is usually high for the formation of the azlactone spirocycles, which contain up to three contiguous stereocenters. Spectroscopic studies have shown that the spirocycles often prefer a twist over a chair conformation of the cyclohexanone moiety. A formal [5+1] cycloaddition of divinylketones and an in situ-generated glycine-derived azlactone was catalyzed by a chiral bis-palladacycle and provided highly enantioenriched, spirocyclic, masked amino acid products. The latter were used to synthesize biologically interesting constrained cyclohexane analogues of phenylalanine in just two steps (see scheme). Copyright
Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of hybrid molecules containing conjugated styryl ketone and α-bromoacryloyl moieties
Romagnoli, Romeo,Baraldi, Pier Giovanni,Cruz-Lopez, Olga,Salvador, Maria Kimatrai,Preti, Delia,Tabrizi, Mojgan Aghazadeh,Balzarini, Jan,Canella, Alessandro,Fabbri, Enrica,Gambari, Roberto
experimental part, p. 140 - 152 (2012/07/17)
There was a major interest in the last years in the design of anticancer agents containing the 1,5-diaryl-3-oxo-1,4-pentadienyl system. The modification of this pharmacophore by the introduction of an additional Michael acceptor represents a strategy to obtain novel potential antiproliferative agents. In a continuing study of hybrid compounds containing the α-bromoacryloyl moiety as potential anticancer drugs, we synthesized two novel series of hybrids 3a-i and 4a-i, in which this moiety was linked to the 1,5-diaryl-1,4-pentadien-3-one system. Many of the conjugates prepared (3b, 3c and 3g) demonstrated pronounced antiproliferative activity against five cancer cell lines, being more active than the reference compound Melphalan. Compounds 3e and 4b were also examined for their effects on the cell cycle progression of K562 cells. The detection of a sub-G1 peak upon incubation with these compounds suggested that 3e and 4b also exert their growth inhibiting effects by induction of apoptosis.
