A catalytic diastereoselective sulfonium ylide epoxidation of aldehydes furnished original vinyl epoxides, having an MBH backbone. These highly functionalised building blocks were used for a formal synthesis of the antibiotic conocandin, and opened up a stereodivergent route towards β-hydroxy-α-methylene lactones, core units of naturally occurring compounds. Under acidic conditions, the oxiranes were mainly transformed, with moderate to good yields, into transβ-hydroxy-α-methylene lactones. On the other hand, a user-friendly palladium-catalysed CO2insertion and cyclisation sequence gave the cisβ-hydroxy-α-methylene lactone counterparts along with an interesting cisâtrans equilibration of the Ï-allyl intermediates.
Described herein in part are silanol based therapeutic payloads comprising a silanol terminus, a divalent spacer moiety, and a drug moiety capable of effecting a target cell or tissue.
Synthesis, in vitro, and in vivo evaluation of novel functionalized quaternary ammonium curcuminoids as potential anti-cancer agents
作者:Lucas N. Solano、Grady L. Nelson、Conor T. Ronayne、Erica A. Lueth、Melissa A. Foxley、Sravan K. Jonnalagadda、Shirisha Gurrapu、Venkatram R. Mereddy
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2015.10.061
日期:2015.12
Novel functionalized quaternary ammonium curcuminoids have been synthesized from piperazinyl curcuminoids and Baylis-Hillman reaction derived allyl bromides. These molecules are found to be highly water soluble with increased cytotoxicity compared to native curcumin against three cancer cell lines MIAPaCa-2, MDA-MB-231, and 4T1. Preliminary in vivo toxicity evaluation of a representative curcuminoid 5a in healthy mice indicates that this molecule is well tolerated based on normal body weight gains compared to control group. Furthermore, the efficacy of 5a has been tested in a pancreatic cancer xenograft model of MIAPaCa-2 and has been found to exhibit good tumor growth inhibition as a single agent and also in combination with clinical pancreatic cancer drug gemcitabine. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A diastereoselective and concise synthesis of functionalised vinyl epoxides with a Morita–Baylis–Hillman backbone
A highly diastereoselective organocatalytic synthesis of unique functionalised vinyl epoxides, displaying a MoritaâBaylisâHillman backbone, has been developed by means of an user friendly sulfonium ylide epoxidation of aldehydes from a readily available α-(bromomethyl)acrylamide derivative. The first result in the asymmetric version is discussed.
Intermolecular Aminoallylation of Alkenes Using Allyl-Oxyphthalimide Derivatives: A Case Study in Radical Polarity Effects
作者:Samuel W. Lardy、Valerie A. Schmidt
DOI:10.1002/ejoc.201901071
日期:2019.10.31
This work describes the essential radicalpolarityeffects manifested in pursuit of a group transfer radical addition to achieve alkeneaminoallylation. Each open shell intermediate along the proposed mechanistic pathway is steered to preferentially react with only one reagent.