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DDQ-mediated oxidation of allylarenes: Expedient access to cinnamaldehyde-containing phenylpropanoids
Jiang, Tao-Shan,Zhang, Qingqing,Li, Guohui,Cheng, Xi,Cai, Yongping
, p. 4611 - 4616 (2019/02/01)
Phenylpropanoid natural products containing a cinnamaldehyde motif were easily synthesized from allylarenes mediated by 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-1,4-benzoquinone (DDQ) oxidation. Representative examples described herein are five types of 4-hydroxycinnamaldehyde derivatives from monolignols biosynthesis, Boropinal C, and 7-methoxywutaifuranal from plant extracts. Especially, simple synthesis of 7-methoxywutaifuranal was exploited through selective mono-oxidation and subsequent isomerization-ring-closing-metathesis strategy.
Eugenol derived immunomodulatory molecules against visceral leishmaniasis
Charan Raja, Mamilla R.,Velappan, Anand Babu,Chellappan, Davidraj,Debnath, Joy,Kar Mahapatra, Santanu
, p. 503 - 518 (2017/08/22)
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a life threatening infectious disease caused by Leishmania donovani. It leads to the severe immune suppression in the host defense system. Higher cytotoxicity, rigorous side effects and lower therapeutic indexes (TI) of current antileishmanial drugs have created a necessity to develop new molecules with better antileishmanial activity and high TI value. In this study, we have synthesized 36 derivatives of eugenol and screened them for their activity against promastigote and amastigote forms of L. donovani. Among the synthesized derivatives, comp.35 showed better antileishmanial activity against extra cellular promastigotes (IC50- 20.13 ± 0.91 μM) and intracellular amastigotes (EC50-4.25 ± 0.26 μM). The TI value (82.24 ± 3.77) was found to improve by 10–13 fold compared to Amphotericin B and Miltefosine respectively. Treatment with comp.35 (5 μg/ml) enhanced the nitric oxide (NO) generation, iNOS2 mRNA expression (～8 folds increase) and decreased the arginase-1 activity (～4 folds) in L. donovani infected peritoneal macrophages. Comp.35 had also increased the IL-12 (～6 folds) and decreased the IL-10 (～3 folds) mRNA expression and release in vitro. Results of in vivo studies revealed that comp.35 treatment at 25 mg/kg body weight efficiently cleared the hepatic and splenic parasite burden with enhanced Th1 response in L. donovani infected BALB/c mice. Hence, this study clearly represents comp.35, as an immunomodulatory molecule, can induce host protective immune response against visceral leishmaniasis through enhanced NO generation and Th1 response, which are essentials against this deadly disease.
