71772-18-4Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Pharmaceutical compositions comprising 8-substituted dibenzylbutyrolactone lignans
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Therapeutic compositions comprising at least one 8-substituted-dibenzylbutyrolactone lignan, preferably a lignan is selected from the group of nortrachelogenin, diasteromeric forms of nortrachelogenin, isomeric forms of nortrachelogenin and combinations thereof as well as 8-methylmatairesinol and 8-methyldimethylmatairesinol, for use in a method of treating cancer or a similar condition wherein the growth factor signaling pathway of a mammal is deregulated. The invention also provides therapeutic pharmaceutical combinations comprising a hydroxy-dibenzylbutyrolactone lignan and at least one TRAIL receptor agonist. The hydroxy-dibenzylbutyrolactone lignans and a TRAIL receptor agonist can be used as a combined preparation for administration to a patient simultaneously, separately or spaced out over a period of time in treating cancer.
Synthesis and structural analysis of sterically hindered chiral 1,4-diol ligands derived from the lignan hydroxymatairesinol
Brusentsev, Yury,Sandberg, Thomas,Hotokka, Matti,Sj?holm, Rainer,Eklund, Patrik
supporting information, p. 1112 - 1115 (2013/04/10)
The readily available natural lignan hydroxymatairesinol was transformed into sterically hindered and optically pure diphenyl, di-2-naphthyl, and tetramethyl 1,4-diol derivatives via arylation/alkylation of the aryltetralinbutyrolactone lignan (-)-conidendrin. In addition, the diastereoselective formation of stable hemiketals from the highly substituted butyrolactone was studied in detail. The conformations of the molecules prepared were studied computationally at molecular mechanics (MM), Hartree-Fock (HF)/6-31G*, and (DFT/B3LYP/TZVP) levels including entropy contributions and by NMR-spectroscopy. The conformations adopted showed that these novel chiral 1,4-diols may be suitable as chiral ligands for the development of new chiral transition metal and organo catalysts.
Cytotoxic responses to aromatic ring and configurational variations in α-conidendrin, podophyllotoxin, and sikkimotoxin derivatives
Dantzig,LaLonde,Ramdayal,Shepard,Yanai,Zhang
, p. 180 - 185 (2007/10/03)
Derivatives of α-conidendrin, podophyllotoxin, and sikkimotoxin were prepared to evaluate the cytotoxic contributions of C-4 configuration and pendant and fused arene substitutions. Dimethyl-α-conidendryl alcohol (5), 9-deoxypodophyllol (6), and 9-deoxysikkimol (17) were dehydrated to their respective oxolane derivatives 4, 3, and 9. Diols 5 and 6 were converted via oxabicyclo[3.2.1]octanols 10 and 14 to target oxolanes 8 and 7 where C-4 had been inverted relative to that in 3 and 4. Cytotoxicities of the five oxolanes were determined in two drug-sensitive human leukemia and two multidrug-resistant cell lines expressing P-glycoprotein or multidrug-resistance associated protein (MRP). Changing the pendant arene configuration or replacing a m-methoxy by hydrogen resulted in a 100-fold cytotoxicity loss. Replacing a methylenedioxy group in the fused arene by two methoxy substituents reduced cytotoxicity by 10-fold. Drug-resistant cell lines were equally resistant to compounds 3, 4, 8, and 9 indicating that these four compounds do not serve as substrates of the transport proteins P-glycoprotein and MRP.
