Design and synthesis of a new class of cryptophycins based tubulin inhibitors
摘要:
Tubulin binding compounds represent one of the most attractive targets for anticancer drug development. They broadly fall into two categories viz., tubulin polymerization inhibitors, which block microtubule growth and destabilize microtubules like vinca alkaloids and cryptophycins, and the others, which polymerize microtubules into hyperstable forms represented by family of taxanes. In this context, we aimed at design and synthesis of cryptophycins based macrocyclic depsipeptides, which are synthetically more accessible, however have the basic information to target tubulins and establish structure activity relationship (SAR). Thus, a new class of cryptophycins based marocyclic depsipeptides with a truncated epoxide chain were synthesized as potential tubulin inhibitors. The resultant lead analogues 15a and 16a exhibited good anti-cancer activity, induced apoptosis, caused block/delay in cell cycle as well as significantly reduced the expression of alpha- and beta-tubulins. Molecular modelling studies show that 15a and 16a bind in the same domain as that of cryptophycins. (C) 2015 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
Asymmetric synthesis of aldol products derived from unsymmetrical ketones: assignment of the absolute configuration of antibody aldol products
摘要:
Compounds 1-7 are the products formed by aldol condensation of p-nitrobenzaldehyde with a series of unsymmetrical ketones, the reaction occurring at the less substituted carbon. The asymmetric synthesis of 1-7 using the Evans's asymmetric aldol methodology is described in detail. These syntheses were completed to allow us to assign the absolute configuration of products 1-3, obtained in a single step in the presence of the aldolase I antibody 84G3. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Synthesis of α,β-Unsaturated δ-Lactones by Vinyl Acetate Mediated Asymmetric Cross-Aldol Reaction of Acetaldehyde: Mechanistic Insights
作者:Manjeet Kumar、Arvind Kumar、Masood Rizvi、Manoj Mane、Kumar Vanka、Subhash C. Taneja、Bhahwal Ali Shah
DOI:10.1002/ejoc.201402551
日期:2014.8
using this methodology we have accessed α,β-unstaurated δ-lactones as well as isochromenones with high enantioselectivities from both asymmetric β-hydroxy aldehydes and ketones. Systemic density functional theory (DFT) studies were also performed to gain mechanisticinsights into the role of hydrogen bonding in the asymmetric cross-aldol reaction of acetaldehyde and in the key cis/trans isomerisation