Revisiting AI-2 Quorum Sensing Inhibitors: Direct Comparison of Alkyl-DPD Analogues and a Natural Product Fimbrolide
摘要:
Quorum sensing (QS) systems have been discovered in a wide variety of bacteria, and mediate both intra- and interspecies communication. The AI-2-based QS system represents the most studied of these proposed interspecies systems and has been shown to regulate diverse functions such as bioluminescence, expression of virulence factors, and biofilm formation. As such, the development of modulatory compounds, both agonists and antagonists, is of great interest for the study of unknown AI-2-based QS systems and the potential treatment of bacterial infections. The fimbrolide class of natural products has exhibited excellent inhibitory activity against AI-2-based QS and as such may be considered the "gold standard" of AI-2 inhibitors. Thus, we sought to include a fimbrolide as a control compound for our recently developed alkyl-DPD panel of AI-2 modulators. Herein, we present a revised synthesis of a commonly studied fimbrolide as well as a direct comparison between the fimbrolide and alkyl-DPD analogues. We demonstrate that our alkyl-DPD analogues are more potent inhibitors of QS in both Vibrio harveyi and Salmonella typhimurium, the two organisms with defined AI-2 QS systems, and in doing so call into question the widely accepted use of fimbrolide-derived compounds as the "gold standard" of AI-2 inhibition.
allo-Threonine-derived oxazaborolidinone (OXB) catalyzes the Friedel-Craftsalkylation of furans and indoles with simple acyclic α,β-unsaturated ketones to give the products in high yields and with high enantioselectivities. With 5-10 mol% of the OXB catalyst, enantioselectivities of up to 94% ee could be achieved for a variety of substrates. The use of N,N-dimethylaniline (2.5-10 mol%) as an additive
METHOD TO PRODUCE AND RECOVER LEVULINIC ACID AND/OR GAMMA-VALEROLACTONE FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS USING ALKYLPHENOLS
申请人:Dumesic James
公开号:US20120302764A1
公开(公告)日:2012-11-29
A method to produce levulinic acid (LA) and γ-valerolactone (GVL) from biomass-derived cellulose by selective extraction of LA by alkylphenol (AP) and hydrogenation of LA, in which mineral acid used in the method is recycled and the final concentration of GVL is increased by successive extraction/hydrogenation steps to allow for effective separation by distillation.
METHOD TO PRODUCE, RECOVER AND CONVERT FURAN DERIVATIVES FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS USING ALKYLPHENOL EXTRACTION
申请人:Dumesic James
公开号:US20120302765A1
公开(公告)日:2012-11-29
Described is a catalytic process for converting biomass to furan derivatives (e.g., furfural, furfuryl alcohol, etc.) using a biphasic reactor containing a reactive aqueous phase and an organic extracting phase containing an alkylphenol. The process provides a cost-effective route for producing furfural, furfuryl alcohol, levulinic acid hydroxymethylfurfural, γ-valerolactone, and the like. The products formed are useful as value-added intermediates to produce polymers, as precursors to diesel fuel, and as fuel additives.
Reinvestigation of the sulfuric acid-catalysed cyclisation of brominated 2-alkyllevulinic acids to 3-alkyl-5-methylene-2(5H)-furanones
作者:Anthony J. Manny、Staffan Kjelleberg、Naresh Kumar、Rocky de Nys、Roger W. Read、Peter Steinberg
DOI:10.1016/s0040-4020(97)10034-5
日期:1997.11
through bromination and acid promoted lactonisation is described. The underlying reactions have been investigated using levulinic acid as a model, and the effects of varying the bromination conditions and changing acid concentration on product distribution are discussed. Dibromination proceeds best in CHCl3 and proceeds in EtOH-free CHCl3 without the complication of ester formation. Cyclisation occurs
描述了由烷基取代的乙酰丙酸衍生物通过溴化和酸促进的内酯化合成乙基,丁基,己基和十二烷基取代的溴化物。使用乙酰丙酸作为模型,研究了潜在的反应,并讨论了改变溴化条件和改变酸浓度对产物分布的影响。二溴化在CHCl 3中进行得最好,在无EtOH的CHCl 3中进行,而不会形成酯。在98–100%H 2 SO 4中伴随氧化发生环化反应,但在100%H 2 SO 4中产生环戊内酯的产率最高。还描述了相关的贝克雷利物质的形成。
NEW SYNTHESIS OF γ-KETO ACIDS FROM NITROOLEFINS AND CARBOXYLIC ACID DIANIONS
As a convenient synthetic method of γ-keto acids, oxoalkylation of carboxylic acids with nitroolefins was examined. Carboxylic acid dianions reacted with conjugated nitroolefins at low temperature (−100°C) and a variety of γ-keto acids were obtained on acidic workup in moderate to good yields.