Synthesis and neuroprotective activity of bergenin derivatives with antioxidant activity
摘要:
Norbergenin, which is the O-demethyl derivative of bergenin, the main component of Mallotus japonicus, has been found to show moderate antioxidant activity (IC50 13 muM in DPPH radical scavenging; 32 muM in superoxide anion scavenging). Modification of sugar part on norbergenin by coupling with a variety of fatty acids was employed for increasing its antioxidant activity. Selective esterification of hydroxyl groups on the sugar part enhanced greatly antioxidant activity. The most potent one is norbergenin 11-caproate, which not only exhibits stronger antioxidant activity than that of catechin but also prevents neuronal death at 10 muM on the primary culture of rat cortical neurons in DM EM supplemented with N2. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Both lambda(3)- and lambda(5)-iodanes have proven to be useful reagents in the oxygenative dearomatization of phenols, and exploitations of their chemistry in the conception of both substrate- and reagent-controlled asymmetric variants of such a transformation of great value for natural product synthesis have shown evident signs of success. Moreover, the use of stabilized IBX (i.e., SIBX) in our methodology for O-demethylation of 2-methoxyphenols, which relies on the same key oxygenating dearomatization event, is reported here to be much more efficacious than that of 1BX itself in the chemoselective one-step conversion of homovanillyl alcohol into hydroxytyrosol, and bergenin into norbergenin. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.