申请人:Sarkar Fazlul H.
公开号:US20140303109A1
公开(公告)日:2014-10-09
Water-soluble fluorinated analogs of natural curcumin, and particularly difluoro Knoevenagel condensates and Schiff bases, along with their corresponding copper (H) complexes have improved bioavailablity over curcumin. The fluorine-substituted analogs of curcumin are useful as chemopreventive and/or therapeutic agents against cancers and/or against the development of drug-resistant cancer. A preferred compound is (IE,6E)-1,7-bis(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)hepta-1,6-diene4(3,4 difluorobenzaldehyde)}-3,5-dione.