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Amudala Subramanyam1, Sumit1, Indrapal Singh Aidhen1
1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600036, India.
Abstract:
Structural modifications with natural phenylbutyl glucosides have revealed the importance of oxygenation pattern in the aryl residue and the spacer length towards the tyrosinase inhibition activity. The tetradecyl spaced O-glucoside resorcinol derivative being about 27 times more potent than kojic acid and exceeds the effectiveness of 4-hexylresorcinol as tyrosinase inhibitor. We have developed the first synthetic route for the C-analogue with tetradecyl alkyl spacer between the resorcinol aryl ring and d-glucosyl residue. The synthesis has been achieved using the Julia-Kocienski olefination reaction for C-C bond formation. The sulfone building blocks used herein would allow synthesis of various analogues with different chain lengths and functionalities.
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