70109-25-0Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Design, synthesis, and anticancer evaluation of benzophenone derivatives bearing naphthalene moiety as novel tubulin polymerization inhibitors
Wang, Guangcheng,Liu, Wenjing,Tang, Juan,Ma, Xue,Gong, Zipeng,Huang, Yong,Li, Yongjun,Peng, Zhiyun
, (2020/09/15)
A series of benzophenone derivatives bearing naphthalene moiety were designed, synthesized, characterized by 1H NMR, 13C NMR, and HRMS and evaluated for their antiproliferative activity against human breast cancer cell line (MCF-7). Most of the tested derivatives showed good to moderate cytotoxicity against MCF-7 cell line. Among them, compound 4u (IC50 = 1.47 ± 0.14 μM) was found to be the most active compound, which is more active than the standard drug cisplatin (IC50 = 15.24 ± 1.27 μM). In vitro tubulin polymerization inhibition assay, EBI competition assay, cell cycle analysis, and cell apoptosis assay identified that compound 4u was a new tubulin polymerization inhibitor by targeting the colchicine binding site. Besides, molecular docking study showed that compound 4u has high binding affinities with the colchicine binding site of tubulin through hydrogen bond, cation-π, and hydrophobic interaction.
Iodine-catalyzed disproportionation of aryl-substituted ethers under solvent-free reaction conditions
Jereb, Marjan,Vrazic, Dejan
, p. 1978 - 1999 (2013/05/22)
Iodine was demonstrated to be an efficient catalyst for disproportionation of aryl-substituted ethers under solvent-free reaction conditions. Variously substituted 1,1,1′,1′-tetraaryldimethyl ethers were transformed into the corresponding diarylketone and diarylmethane derivatives. I 2-catalyzed transformation of 4-methoxyphenyl substituted ethers yielded mono- and dialkylated Friedel-Crafts products as well. Treatment of trityl alkyl and trityl benzyl ethers with a catalytic amount of iodine produced triphenylmethane and the corresponding aldehydes and ketones. The electron-donating substituents facilitated the reaction, while the electron-withdrawing groups retarded it; the difference in reactivity is not very high. Such an observation may be in favour of hydride transfer, predominantly from the less electron rich side of the ether with more stable carbocation formation. With the isotopic studies it was established that a substantial portion of the C-H bond scission took place in the rate-determining step, while the carbonyl oxygen atom originated from the starting ether, and not from the air. The transformation took place under air and under argon, and HI was not a functioning catalyst.
