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Structure?Activity Relationships of Cinnamate Ester Analogues as Potent Antiprotozoal Agents
Bernal, Freddy A.,Kaiser, Marcel,Wünsch, Bernhard,Schmidt, Thomas J.
, p. 68 - 78 (2020)
Protozoal infections are still a global health problem, threatening the lives of millions of people around the world, mainly in impoverished tropical and sub-tropical regions. Thus, in view of the lack of efficient therapies and increasing resistances against existing drugs, this study describes the antiprotozoal potential of synthetic cinnamate ester analogues and their structure-activity relationships. In general, Leishmania donovani and Trypanosoma brucei were quite susceptible to the compounds in a structure-dependent manner. Detailed analysis revealed a key role of the substitution pattern on the aromatic ring and a marked effect of the side chain on the activity against these two parasites. The high antileishmanial potency and remarkable selectivity of the nitro-aromatic derivatives suggested them as promising candidates for further studies. On the other hand, the high in vitro potency of catechol-type compounds against T. brucei could not be extrapolated to an in vivo mouse model.
One-pot preparation of phenylpropanoid esters co-catalyzed by boric acid and piperidine
Wang, Huan,Wei, Qing-Yi,Jiang, Hong,Jiang, Zhen-Hua
experimental part, p. 207 - 213 (2012/05/20)
Phenylpropanoid esters, especially those with hydroxyl and/or methoxy groups on the benzene ring, are important medicinal chemicals or intermediates. They are usually prepared by esterification of their corresponding substituted cinnamic acids with various alcohols. However, the esterification procedures often suffer from environmentally hazardous problems when sulfuric acid is used as a catalyst or suffer from unsatisfactory yields and expensive raw material when enzyme is applied as a catalyst. In this paper, a convenient one-pot process for preparing various phenylpropanoid esters from substituted benzaldehydes bearing hydroxyl and/or methoxyl groups has been developed. The alcohols react first with malonic acid catalyzed by boric acid to form monomalonate, then without separation, let the resultant mixture immediately react with the injected various substituted benzaldehydes in the presence of piperidine to afford the desired esters with moderate to good yields. Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011.
