Structure--Activity Relationships for Unsaturated Dialdehydes. 10. The Generation of Bioactive Products by Autoxidation of Isovelleral and Merulidial.
摘要:
The autoxidation of the two mutagenic and antimicrobial sesquiterpenes merulidial (1a) and isovelleral (5) generates a number of bioactive products that are suggested to be partly responsible for the mutagenic and antimicrobial activities of the two compounds. The biological activities of the autoxidation products are, as far as has been possible to assay, of the same order as the parent compounds, and it is shown that they are formed in normal bioassay media. Merulidial (1a) is especially interesting, as its rate of autoxidation is considerably higher compared with non-mutagenic derivatives of 1a. In addition, natural isovelleral [(+)-5] was found to be twice as mutagenic as synthetic isovelleral [(+/-)-5], indicating that (-)-isovelleral is only weakly active or inactive, and supporting the suggestion that the interaction of isovelleral (5) and its derivatives with DNA depends on the absolute stereochemistry of the unsaturated dialdehyde moiety.
The thermal isomerization of the sesquiterpenes isovelleral and merulidial. A reversible ring opening of the cis-methylcyclopropanecarboxaldehyde group via an intramolecular ene reaction.
Fungal sesquiterpene dialdehydes of marasmane and isolactarane types, such as isovelleral (1) and merulidial (7), undergo a reversible thermal rearrangement to products (e.g., 2 and 8) with inverted orientations of the cyclopropane rings. The process is shown to involve an intramolecular ene reaction with a bicyclic enol intermediate 13 which was trapped as an E-silyl ether 17. In the presence of D2O, deuterium is incorporated quantitatively into the C-12 methyl groups of 1 and 2. A high kinetic isotope effect is observed for the rearrangement of 1 and its deuterated analogue 24, and the reaction parameters are comparable to those reported for the thermal ring-opening reactions of cis-alkylvinylcyclopropanes and cis-alkyl cyclopropyl ketones. In the presence of weak acid or base, an equilibrium is established between 1, 2, and the hydroazulenic dialdehydes 14 and 15. Dialdehyde 7 reacts less cleanly and incorporates deuterium not only at C-13 but also at C-1 (26). The latter process presumably involves enolization via a [1,5] sigmatropic hydrogen shift.
Structure-activity relationships for unsaturated dialdehydes 12. The reactivity of unsaturated dialdehydes towards triacetic acid lactone
作者:Mikaei Jonassohn、Olov Sterner、Heidrun Anke
DOI:10.1016/0040-4020(95)00973-6
日期:1996.1
triketide triaceticacidlactone (5), forming pentacyclic pyranone adducts. In buffered water solutions, the reaction rates of merulidial (1) and its less active isomer 2 are strongly correlated with the antibiotic activity of the two, suggesting that their electrophilicity as Michael acceptors is important for this activity. The adduct 7, formed between merulidial and triaceticacidlactone, is identical
The autoxidation of the two mutagenic and antimicrobial sesquiterpenes merulidial (1a) and isovelleral (5) generates a number of bioactive products that are suggested to be partly responsible for the mutagenic and antimicrobial activities of the two compounds. The biological activities of the autoxidation products are, as far as has been possible to assay, of the same order as the parent compounds, and it is shown that they are formed in normal bioassay media. Merulidial (1a) is especially interesting, as its rate of autoxidation is considerably higher compared with non-mutagenic derivatives of 1a. In addition, natural isovelleral [(+)-5] was found to be twice as mutagenic as synthetic isovelleral [(+/-)-5], indicating that (-)-isovelleral is only weakly active or inactive, and supporting the suggestion that the interaction of isovelleral (5) and its derivatives with DNA depends on the absolute stereochemistry of the unsaturated dialdehyde moiety.