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René Csuk1, Sabrina Albert, Ralph Kluge
1Bereich Organische Chemie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany. rene.csuk@chemie.uni-halle.de
Abstract:
Novel polyhydroxylated (E)-stilbenes were synthesized by Mizoroki-Heck reactions and tested for their ability to inhibit the enzymes acetyl- and butyrylcholinesterase. Several of them are good inhibitors of butyrylcholinesterase; one of them carrying an extra fluorine substituent is a 94-fold stronger inhibitor of butyrylcholinesterase than of acetylcholinesterase.
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