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Styryl- N -phenyl- N′ -(2-chloroethyl)ureas and styrylphenylimidazolidin-2-ones as new potent microtubule-disrupting agents using combretastatin A-4 as model
Gagné-Boulet, Mathieu,Fortin, Sébastien,Lacroix, Jacques,Lefebvre, Carole-Anne,C?té, Marie-France,C.-Gaudreault, René
, p. 34 - 43 (2015/06/22)
Combretastatin A-4 (CA-4) is a well-studied and attractive molecular template to develop new antimitotics. Several thousand of modifications were performed on the ring B and the ethenyl bridge of CA-4 but only a few involved the trimethoxyphenyl moiety (TMP, ring A) often considered essential to the antiproliferative and antimicrotubule activities. In this study, we described the design, the preparation, the characterization and the biological evaluation of three new series of CA-4 analogs namely styryl-Nphenyl- N'-ethylureas (SEUs), styryl-N-phenyl-N'-(2-chloroethyl)ureas (SCEUs) and styrylphenylimidazolidin-2-ones (SIMZs) bearing a 3-Cl (series a), 3,5-Me (series b) and TMP (series c) substituents, respectively. All SCEU and SIMZ Z-isomers were active in the high and the low nanomolar range, respectively. Conversely to SEUs and their E-isomers that were significantly less active or inactive. Interestingly, the TMP moiety is giving rise to derivatives exhibiting the lowest antiproliferative activity in the SCEU series (10c) and the most active compound in the SIMZ series (12c). Moreover, SIMZ Zisomers bearing either a 3-Cl (12a) or a 3,5-Me (12b) exhibited antiproliferative activities that are also in the same order of magnitude as 12c. All SCEU and SIMZ Z-isomers also arrested the cell cycle progression in G2/M phase, bound to the colchicine-binding site and disrupted the cytoskeleton of cancer cells. In addition to the promising and innovative microtubule-disrupting properties of SCEUs and SIMZs, these results show that the TMP moiety is not essential for the cytocidal activity of these new CA-4 analogs.
Mizoroki-Heck reactions catalyzed by dichloro{bis[1- (dicyclohexylphosphanyl)piperidine]}palladium: Palladium nanoparticle formation promoted by (water-induced) ligand degradation
Oberholzer, Miriam,Gerber, Roman,Frech, Christian M.
supporting information; experimental part, p. 627 - 641 (2012/04/23)
The palladium-based dichlorobis[1-(dicyclohexylphosphanyl)piperidine] complex - [(P{(NC5H10)(C6H11) 2})2Pd(Cl)2] is readily prepared in quantitative yield from the reaction of [Pd(cod)(Cl)2] (cod=cycloocta-1,5-diene) with two equivalents of 1-(dicyclohexylphosphanyl) piperidine in toluene under N2 within only a few minutes at room temperature. This complex is a highly active Heck catalyst with excellent functional group tolerance, which reliably operates at low catalyst loadings. Various activated, non-activated, deactivated, functionalized, sterically hindered, and heterocyclic aryl bromides, which may contain nitro, chloro or trifluoromethane groups, nitriles, acetales, ketones, aldehydes, ethers, esters, lactones, amides, anilines, phenols, alcohols, carboxylic acids, and heterocyclic aryl bromides, such as pyridines and derivatives, as well as thiophenes and aryl bromides containing methylsulfanyl groups have been successfully coupled with various (also functionalized) alkenes in excellent yields and selectivities (the E-isomers are typically exclusively formed) at 140 °C in the presence of 0.05 mol % of the catalyst in DMF. Even though lower catalyst loadings could be used for many electronically activated, non-activated and some electronically deactivated aryl bromides without noticeable loss of activity, the great advantage of the reaction protocol presented here lies in its reliability and general applicability, which allows its direct adoption to other aryl bromides without the neccessity of its modification. Experimental observations indicated that palladium nanoparticles are the catalytically active form. Consequently, whereas comparable levels of activity were observed for dichloro-bis(aminophosphine) complexes of palladium, a dramatic drop in activity was found for their phosphine-based analogue [(P(C6H 11)3)2Pd(Cl)2]. Copyright
Inhibition of monoamine oxidase by (E)-styrylisatin analogues
Van der Walt, Elizna M.,Milczek, Erika M.,Malan, Sarel F.,Edmondson, Dale E.,Castagnoli Jr., Neal,Bergh, Jacobus J.,Petzer, Jacobus P.
scheme or table, p. 2509 - 2513 (2009/12/31)
Previous studies have shown that (E)-8-(3-chlorostyryl)caffeine (CSC) is a specific reversible inhibitor of human monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B) and does not bind to human MAO-A. Since the small molecule isatin is a natural reversible inhibitor of both MAO-B
