Unified Mechanistic Framework for the Fe(II)-Induced Cleavage of Qinghaosu and Derivatives/Analogues. The First Spin-Trapping Evidence for the Previously Postulated Secondary C-4 Radical
Qinghaosu and derivatives were easily reduced by ferrous sulfate in aqueous acetonitrile to give results different from those reported for other reducing systems. The unstable epoxide 7, a compound that was postulated earlier as a species responsible for the antimalarial activity, now has been isolated and characterized. The earlier speculative secondary C-4 radical has also been trapped with 2-me
Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Group Transfer Reactions for Selective C−H Bond Functionalization of Artemisinin
作者:Yungen Liu、Wenbo Xiao、Man-Kin Wong、Chi-Ming Che
DOI:10.1021/ol071269r
日期:2007.10.1
carbenoid and nitrenoid C-H bond insertion reactions. With rhodium complexes as catalysts, lactone 11 was synthesized via carbene insertion reaction at the C16 position in 90% yield; oxazolidinone 13 was synthesized via nitrene insertion reaction at the C10 position in 87% yield based on 77% conversion; and sulfamidate 14 was synthesized via nitrene insertion reaction at the C8 position in 87% yield.
The antimalarial action of 1,2,4-trioxanes such as qinghaosu (QHS) may take place through the mechanism shown schematically: In the presence of cysteine traces of non-hemeiron (FeSO(4)) may cleave the peroxy bond of QHS rapidly, and the transient carbon-centered radical can attack the sulfur ligand to form a covalent bond.
Chemical and electro-chemical reduction of qinghaosu (artemisinin)
作者:Wen-Min Wu、Yu-Lin Wu
DOI:10.1039/b007056o
日期:——
1,2,4-Trioxane is the essential segment of the new antimalarial agent qinghaosu 1, and hence its reduction is an important plausible process related to the bio-activity mode. An overview of its reduction and a careful examination of some reducing systems are presented herewith. Electrochemical reduction is a two-electron reduction, which is confirmed by the isolation of product deoxyqinghaosu. However, in the presence of a catalytic amount of FeII/III electrochemical reduction yields mainly the single-electron-reduction products, which are identified with the products from reduction of qinghaosu with one equivalent ferrous sulfate or a catalytical amount of FeII/III and excess of other reducing agents, such as ascorbic acid, or cysteine. These results mean that qinghaosu is reduced by ferrous ion and the resulting ferric ion is then reduced on the electrode to regenerate ferrous ion. In addition, qinghaosu could be reduced to deoxyqinghao by iodide, but not by bromide, and also could be reduced by the ascorbic acid–CuSO4 system to give free-radical reaction products.
A possible antimalarial action mode of qinghaosu (artemisinin) series compounds. Alkylation of reduced glutathione by C-centered primary radicals produced from antimalarial compound qinghaosu and 12-(2,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-12-deoxoqinghaosu
作者:Dong-Ye Wang、Yu-Lin Wu
DOI:10.1039/b006906j
日期:——
Antimalarial compound qinghaosu (1) and its phenyl derivative 2 were reacted with reduced glutathione (GSH) and Fe(II/III) to give, besides other known degradationproducts, an interesting adduct from a primary C-centered free radical and GSH. Because GSH plays a very important role in the cell cycle, this finding may eventually lead to a new understading of its mode of action.