Positional chemoselectivity in the Zn(II)-mediated removal of phenol protecting groups
摘要:
A protocol was developed for the chemoselective ortho-deprotection of polyphenolic substrates using readily available (ZnX2)-X-II salts. This procedure provides exceptional positional selectivity for the deprotection of phenols that reside adjacent to directing carbonyl functionality in the presence of similar protecting groups at the meta and para positions. Good to excellent yields of the desired free phenols were obtained (<= 96%), and a wide assortment of protecting groups was readily removed under the reaction conditions. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Inhibitors of DNA polymerase β: Activity and mechanism
作者:Zhijie Gao、David J. Maloney、Larisa M. Dedkova、Sidney M. Hecht
DOI:10.1016/j.bmc.2008.02.071
日期:2008.4
Bioassay-guided fractionation of extracts prepared from Couepia polyandra and Edgeworthia gardneri resulted in the isolation of the DNA polymerase beta (pol beta) inhibitors oleanolic acid (1), edgeworin (2), betulinic acid (3), and stigmasterol (4). Study of these pol b inhibitors revealed that three of them inhibited both the lyase and polymerase activities of DNA polymerase beta, while stigmasterol inhibited only the lyase activity. Further investigation indicated that the four inhibitors had substantially different effects on the DNA-pol beta binary complex that is believed to be an obligatory intermediate in the lyase reaction. It was found that the inhibitors potentiated the inhibitory action of the anticancer drug bleomycin in cultured A549 cells, without any influence on the expression of pol beta in the cells. The results of the unscheduled DNA synthesis assay support the thesis that the potentiation of bleomycin cytotoxicity by DNA pol beta inhibitors was a result of an inhibition of DNA repair synthesis. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Benzofuran-Derived Cyclic β-Amino Acid Scaffold for Building a Diverse Set of Flavonoid-Like Probes and the Discovery of a Cell Motility Inhibitor
作者:Jyoti P. Nandy、Bojana Rakic、Bugga V. N. B. Sarma、Nallareddy Babu、Marc Lefrance、Gary D. Enright、Donald M. Leek、Kate Daniel、Luc A. Sabourin、Prabhat Arya
DOI:10.1021/ol800050g
日期:2008.3.1
We report here a practical, enantioselective synthesis of benzofuran-derived, cyclic trans-beta-amino acid scaffold. In two cases, tricyclic derivatives having six- and eight-membered unsaturated lactams were obtained from this versatile scaffold. To explore the biological applications, these compounds were subjected to cell-based assays, using NIH3T3 mouse cells to examine their potency as cell motility inhibitors and identified 18 as a potent cell motility inhibitor (IC(50) approximate to 40 mu M in chamber cell migration assay).