Lewis acid-assisted olefin cross-metathesis reaction: an efficient approach for the synthesis of glycosidic-pyrroloquinolinone based novel building blocks of camptothecin and evaluation of their antitumor activity
摘要:
A series of glycosidic-pyrroloquinolinone based novel building blocks of camptothecin (2a-g) were synthesized via Lewis acid-assisted olefin cross-metathesis reaction using Ti((OPr)-Pr-i)(4) 30 mol % and 10 mol % of Grubb's second generation catalyst with good to excellent yields. Most of these compounds exhibited significant growth inhibitory effects on all the tested cancer cell lines and three compounds (2c, 2d and ze) showed potent cytotoxic activity. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.