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Preparation of a Corannulene-functionalized Hexahelicene by CopperI-catalyzed Alkyne-azide Cycloaddition of Nonplanar Polyaromatic Units
Published on: September 18, 2016
Synthetic modification of hydroxychavicol by Mannich reaction and alkyne-azide cycloaddition derivatives depicting
Sunil Kumar1, Anoop S Pathania2, Naresh K Satti1
1Natural Product Chemistry Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu 180001, India.
Abstract:
Here we report the design, synthesis and lead optimization of hydroxychavicol (1) a high yielding metabolite ubiquitously present in the Piper betel leaves with the significant cytotoxic activity. This is the first report to describe the synthetic strategies of two distinct series of hydroxychavicol by Mannich reaction (2-10) and alkyne-azide cycloaddition (11-20). Furthermore, all the synthesized derivatives along with parent compound were evaluated for their in-vitro cytotoxic and antiproliferative potential in several distinct cancers cell lines. Among all, the Mannich reaction derived molecules 6, 8 and 10 displayed more potent cytotoxic activities with IC50 value in a range from 3 to 9 μM, which were 7-10 fold more potent than 1 against five human cancer cell lines viz. HL-60, Mia PaCa-2, MCF-7, HEP G2 and SK-N-SH. Our results describe an efficient synthetic approach used to evaluate the structure activity relationship of 1 and its derivative in search of potential new anticancer agents.
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