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CO2-Catalyzed oxidation of benzylic and allylic alcohols with DMSO

CO2-catalyzed transition-metal-free oxidation of alcohols has been achieved. Earlier, several methodologies have been explored for alcohol oxidations based on transition-metal catalysts. However, owing to the cheaper price, easy separation and nontoxicity, transition-metal-free systems are in high demand to the pharmaceutical industries. For this reason, various primary and secondary alcohols have been selectively oxidized to the corresponding carbonyl compounds using CO2 as a catalyst in the presence of different functional groups such as nitrile, nitro, aldehyde, ester, halogen, ether, and so on. At the end, transition-metal-free syntheses of pharmaceuticals have also been achieved. Finally, the role of CO2 has been investigated in detail, and the mechanism is proposed on the basis of experiments and DFT calculations.

Synthesis and tyrosinase inhibition activity of trans-stilbene derivatives

Synthesis of a focussed library of trans-stilbene compounds through Wittig and other base catalysed condensation reactions is presented. The synthesized stilbenes were screened for their inhibitory potential against murine tyrosinase activity to explore the structure activity relationship (SAR). Presence of electron withdrawing group (-CN) at the double bond and hydroxyl group or halogen atom especially at para-position on the aromatic rings was found to significantly elevate the inhibitory activity. Among all the compounds screened, compounds 2, 6, 8, 10, 11, 15 and 21 were found to exhibit appreciable inhibitory activity. Compound 21 ((E)-2,3-bis(4-Hydroxyphenyl)acryonitrile) was found to be the most active with an IC50 value of 5.06 μM which is less than half of the value 10.78 μM observed for resveratrol (common standard used in murine tyrosinase activity studies) under similar conditions. The results obtained from the present study reveal structural/functional group sensitivity for the tyrosinase inhibitory activity of stilbenoid moieties and are expected to be very helpful for the design and synthesis of novel, selective and effective tyrosinase inhibitors.