Synthesis and anticancer activity of bis(2-arylimidazo[1,2-a]pyridin-3-yl) selenides and diselenides: the copper-catalyzed tandem C–H selenation of 2-arylimidazo[1,2-a]pyridine with selenium

• Mio Matsumura,
• Tsutomu Takahashi,
• Hikari Yamauchi,
• Shunsuke Sakuma,
• Yukako Hayashi,
• Tadashi Hyodo,
• Tohru Obata,
• Kentaro Yamaguchi,
• Yasuyuki Fujiwara and
• Shuji Yasuike

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1075–1083, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.94

• anticancer activity are described. The double C–H selenation of imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine with Se powder was catalyzed by CuI (10 mol %) ligated with 1,10-phenanthroline (10 mol %) at 130 °C under aerobic conditions. The selenides or diselenides were prepared almost selectively using selenium powder in an

• ]pyridin-3-yl] diselenide showed an excellent anticancer activity and low cytotoxicity toward noncancer cells, suggesting that this diselenide is a potential lead compound for anticancer therapy. Keywords: anticancer activity; copper catalyst; diselenide; imidazopyridine; selenide; selenium; Introduction

• presented herein. This reaction was used to selectively synthesize selenides and diselenides bearing two imidazopyridine rings by simply controlling the amount of selenium added. Furthermore, we also report the anticancer activity of the prepared compounds. Results and Discussion We previously reported that

p-Pyridinyl oxime carbamates: synthesis, DNA binding, DNA photocleaving activity and theoretical photodegradation studies

• Panagiotis S. Gritzapis,
• Panayiotis C. Varras,
• Nikolaos-Panagiotis Andreou,
• Katerina R. Katsani,
• Konstantinos Dafnopoulos,
• George Psomas,
• Zisis V. Peitsinis,
• Alexandros E. Koumbis and
• Konstantina C. Fylaktakidou

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 337–350, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.33

• anticancer activity due to alteration of the structure and function of the genetic material. Amongst a plethora of such binders [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8], various oxime derivatives were found to show affinity towards DNA [9][10][11][12], whereas others were found to cleave DNA as metal-free artificial

Diversity-oriented synthesis of spirothiazolidinediones and their biological evaluation

• Sambasivarao Kotha,
• Gaddamedi Sreevani,
• Lilya U. Dzhemileva,
• Milyausha M. Yunusbaeva,
• Usein M. Dzhemilev and
• Vladimir A. D’yakonov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2774–2781, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.269

• strategy with propargyl halides. We have also shown the synthesis of linearly fused spirocyclic alcohol derivatives of thiazolidinedione using Wilkinson’s catalyst and these compounds were tested for their anticancer activity. We have shown for the first time that the new benzyl alcohol derivatives of

Fluorinated maleimide-substituted porphyrins and chlorins: synthesis and characterization

• Valentina A. Ol’shevskaya,
• Elena G. Kononova and
• Andrei V. Zaitsev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2704–2709, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.263

• . Maleimides are considered as a biologically important scaffold that possess almost all types of biological activities including antibacterial and antifungal activity [24], anticancer activity [25], cox-2 inhibitor and anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic activity [26] and photodynamic activity [27]. Attaching of

α,ß-Didehydrosuberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (DDSAHA) as precursor and possible analogue of the anticancer drug SAHA

• Shital K. Chattopadhyay,
• Subhankar Ghosh,
• Sarita Sarkar and
• Kakali Bhadra

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2524–2533, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.245

• preliminarily evaluated for anticancer activity towards HeLa cells. The administration of the analogues caused a significant decrease in the proliferation of HeLa cells. Furthermore, one of the analogues showed a maximum cytotoxicity with a minimum GI50 value of 2.5 µg/mL and the generation of reactive oxygen

• refractory cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) [3]. Moreover, it also shows anticancer activity against a large number of hematological and solid malignancies [4][5]. Its anticancer activity is related to inhibition of histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi) at nanomolar concentrations (IC50 < 86 nM). Although

• three steps. Biological studies Although approved for the treatment of CTCL, SAHA has been shown to display anticancer activity over a large range of other hematological and solid malignancies such as leukemia [24], lung cancer [25], cervical cancer (HeLa), breast cancer (MCF-7) [26], mesothelioma [27

Harnessing enzyme plasticity for the synthesis of oxygenated sesquiterpenoids

• Melodi Demiray,
• David J. Miller and
• Rudolf K. Allemann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2184–2190, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.215

• as an attractant of aphids [10]. β-Sesquiphellandrene and α-curcumene are both found in turmeric (Curcuma longa) and have been shown to have anticancer activity [25][26]. The oxygenated α-curcumene and β-sesquiphellandrene derivatives α- and β-turmerone are reported to possess anticonvulsant

• -derived sesquiterpenes β-sesquiphellandrene [38][39][40] and zingiberene [40], a hydrocarbon with antifertility, antiviral and anticancer activity [41], suggested that the major compound was 12-methoxy-β-sesquiphellandrene (26), while the minor product was identified as 12-methoxyzingiberene (27). The two

N-(1-Phenylethyl)aziridine-2-carboxylate esters in the synthesis of biologically relevant compounds

• Iwona E. Głowacka,
• Aleksandra Trocha,
• Andrzej E. Wróblewski and
• Dorota G. Piotrowska

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1722–1757, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.168

• formation of (1S,2S)-49 and provided a basis for the inversion of configuration at C2 by O-mesylation and intramolecular displacement to yield the 2-oxazoline (4S,5R)-54 readily hydrolyzed to florfenicol ((1R,2S)-49). Naturally occurring tyroscherin ((2S,3R,6E,8R,10R)-55) was recognized for its anticancer

• activity [56]. Alkylation of Weinreb amide (2S,1'S)-18 and stereoselective reduction of the corresponding ketone (2S,1'S)-56 with the NaBH4/ZnCl2 mixture gave the aziridine alcohol (2S,1'R,1''S)-57 already containing exact absolute configurations (2S and 3R) of the final product (Scheme 16) [57]. A two

Microwave-assisted synthesis of N,N-bis(phosphinoylmethyl)amines and N,N,N-tris(phosphinoylmethyl)amines bearing different substituents on the phosphorus atoms

• Erika Bálint,
• Anna Tripolszky,
• László Hegedűs and
• György Keglevich

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 469–473, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.40

• ][3][4]. In addition, a few Pt, Ru and Au complexes incorporating phosphine ligands show significant anticancer activity [5][6]. One of the most common synthetic routes to α-aminophosphine oxides is the Kabachnik–Fields (phospha-Mannich) reaction, where an amine, an oxo compound (aldehyde or ketone

Study on the regioselectivity of the N-ethylation reaction of N-benzyl-4-oxo-1,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxamide

• Pedro N. Batalha,
• Luana da S. M. Forezi,
• Maria Clara R. Freitas,
• Nathalia M. de C. Tolentino,
• Ednilsom Orestes,
• José Walkimar de M. Carneiro,
• Fernanda da C. S. Boechat and
• Maria Cecília B. V. de Souza

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 388–400, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.35

• work we described the synthesis and antiviral activity of some 4-oxoquinoline acyclonucleosides 3a and 3b [15] and studies on their anticancer activity are also underway. It is also worth mentioning that derivative 4 presented an excellent inhibitory profile for the enzyme hystone deacetylase (HDAC

• ), and anticancer activity for three cancer cell lines (Figure 1) [16]. Although it is not a general rule for achieving a bioactive profile, any groups attached to C-3 of the 4-oxoquinoline moiety, especially those containing a hydrogen bond donor group, such as a carboxyl, an acyl hydrazide or a

Mn-mediated sequential three-component domino Knoevenagel/cyclization/Michael addition/oxidative cyclization reaction towards annulated imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines

• Olga A. Storozhenko,
• Alexey A. Festa,
• Delphine R. Bella Ndoutoume,
• Alexander V. Aksenov,
• Alexey V. Varlamov and
• Leonid G. Voskressensky

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 3078–3087, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.287

• promising anticancer activity [34], thereby showing the importance of this merged heterocyclic skeleton (Figure 1). The formation of the chromene and imidazole rings in a single-step procedure was independently discovered by us [35][36] and Proença et al. [37][38], who identified 2-iminochromene 3 to be the

Cross metathesis-mediated synthesis of hydroxamic acid derivatives

• Shital Kumar Chattopadhyay,
• Subhankar Ghosh and
• Suman Sil

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 3070–3075, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.285

• ] and the didehydrohydroxamate TSA (2) [24], display useful anticancer properties through inhibition of histone deacetylase enzymes (HDAc) and are used as FDA-approved drugs. Similarly, the cyclic peptide Chap-31 (3) [25] with a terminal hydroxamic acid residue has shown promising anticancer activity

Stereodivergent approach in the protected glycal synthesis of L-vancosamine, L-saccharosamine, L-daunosamine and L-ristosamine involving a ring-closing metathesis step

• Pierre-Antoine Nocquet,
• Aurélie Macé,
• Frédéric Legros,
• Jacques Lebreton,
• Gilles Dujardin,
• Sylvain Collet,
• Arnaud Martel,
• Bertrand Carboni and
• François Carreaux

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2949–2955, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.274

• vinyl ethers as key step of reaction sequences developed. Keywords: 3-amino glycals; diastereoselective additions to aldehydes; pluramycins; ring-closing metathesis; vinyl ethers; Introduction Several classes of medicinally useful molecules with antibiotic and anticancer activity contain in their

Synthesis of a water-soluble 2,2′-biphen[4]arene and its efficient complexation and sensitive fluorescence enhancement towards palmatine and berberine

• Xiayang Huang,
• Xinghua Zhang,
• Tianxin Qian,
• Junwei Ma,
• Lei Cui and
• Chunju Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2236–2241, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.198

• the blood stream, but also be effectively dis-assembled in the acidic tumor environment, and thus improve the anticancer activity of oxaliplatin in vivo. In 2015, we introduced a new class of macrocyclic arenes, 4,4’-biphen[n]arenes (n = 3,4) with 4,4’-biphenol or 4,4’-biphenol ether monomers linked

Natural and redesigned wasp venom peptides with selective antitumoral activity

• Marcelo D. T. Torres,
• Gislaine P. Andrade,
• Roseli H. Sato,
• Cibele N. Pedron,
• Tania M. Manieri,
• Giselle Cerchiaro,
• Anderson O. Ribeiro,
• Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez and
• Vani X. Oliveira Jr.

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1693–1703, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.144

• show that both a natural antimicrobial peptide (AMP) derived from wasp venom (decoralin, Dec-NH2), and its synthetic variants generated via peptide design, display potent activity against cancer cells. We tested the derivatives at increasing doses and observed anticancer activity at concentrations as

• membranes increased significantly when treated with lead peptides compared to controls. Biophysical features such as helicity, hydrophobicity, and net positive charge were identified to play an important role in the anticancer activity of the peptides. Indeed, abrupt changes in peptide hydrophobicity and

• ][7][8], and fungi [1][9][10], they can kill cancer cells [11]. So far, >2,500 AMPs have been described in the literature and only ≈10% of those are known to exhibit anticancer activity, according to the Antimicrobial Peptide Database (http://aps.unmc.edu/AP/main.php). In total, there are around 600

Anomeric modification of carbohydrates using the Mitsunobu reaction

• Julia Hain,
• Patrick Rollin,
• Werner Klaffke and
• Thisbe K. Lindhorst

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1619–1636, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.138

• ]. In spite of the fact that parent indole is too weak an acid to undergo Mitsunobu conversions, a model maleimide–indole hybrid was investigated by Ohkubo and colleagues to pave the way for the synthesis of indolo[2,3-a]pyrrolo[3,4-c]carbazole compounds with anticancer activity [90][91]. N-Glycosides

One hundred years of benzotropone chemistry

• Arif Dastan,
• Haydar Kilic and
• Nurullah Saracoglu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1120–1180, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.98

• oxidation of black tea and have been found to have numerous biological activities such as antipathogenic and anticancer activity, and they prevent heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes (Figure 1) [39][43]. Because of the pharmacological relevance of benzotropone analogues, the development of new and

5-Aminopyrazole as precursor in design and synthesis of fused pyrazoloazines

• Ranjana Aggarwal and
• Suresh Kumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 203–242, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.15

• –hydroxybenzotriazole (Scheme 38). The compounds were found to possess good anticancer activity against human colon, leukemia, melanoma cancer cell lines. In another report, Kamal et al. [95] synthesized similar pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidinyl amide derivatives (piperazinyl derivatives, 136) by condensing piperazin-1-yl

Synthesis of 1-indanones with a broad range of biological activity

• Marika Turek,
• Dorota Szczęsna,
• Marek Koprowski and
• Piotr Bałczewski

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 451–494, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.48

• the synthesis of kinamycin 9 derivatives, which exhibited a strong cytotoxic and anticancer activity (Scheme 4) [15]. Propionic acid derivatives are also useful substrates in syntheses of 1-indanones and isocoumarins [16]. These latter are essential reagents for the synthesis of bioactive compounds

• -aryl-2-phosphoryl-1-indanones 147 which exhibited anticancer activity against HeLa and K562 cell lines at the µM level [73]. Both groups of products have been obtained from the corresponding phosphorylated chalcones (Z)-145 or nonphosphorylated chalcones (E)-146, in selective Horner–Wittig or

Synthesis and evaluation of anti-oxidant and cytotoxic activities of novel 10-undecenoic acid methyl ester based lipoconjugates of phenolic acids

• Naganna Narra,
• Shiva Shanker Kaki,
• Rachapudi Badari Narayana Prasad,
• Sunil Misra,
• Koude Dhevendar,
• Venkateshwarlu Kontham and
• Padmaja V. Korlipara

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 26–32, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.4

• compounds for their anticancer activity [18]. The anticancer activity of compounds 3a–e was tested against five cell lines along with doxorubicin as positive control and all of them showed moderate to good anticancer effects. The results are collected in Table 3. The compounds whose IC50 values are observed

• to be lower and closer to the reference drug are considered as having good anticancer potential. Specifically compounds 3c, 3b and 3e were found to show promising anticancer activity according to their IC50 values, whereas 3d and 3a exhibited only moderate activity. Among all tested derivatives

• , compound 3c was found to exhibit best anticancer activity against MCF7, DU145 and MDA-MB-231 cell lines with IC50 values of 10.55, 13.0 and 12.0 µM, respectively. It was found that the anticancer activity against some cell lines was much better compared to our previous reports on phenolic lipids [19

Synthesis of a deuterated probe for the confocal Raman microscopy imaging of squalenoyl nanomedicines

• Eric Buchy,
• Branko Vukosavljevic,
• Maike Windbergs,
• Dunja Sobot,
• Camille Dejean,
• Simona Mura,
• Patrick Couvreur and
• Didier Desmaële

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1127–1135, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.109

• greater anticancer activity than free gemcitabine against different experimental tumor models [7][8][9][10][11] overcoming the main drawbacks of the parent drug such as its short biological half-life and its low intracellular diffusion [12][13]. Following these initial results, the squalenoylation method

Natural products from microbes associated with insects

• Christine Beemelmanns,
• Huijuan Guo,
• Maja Rischer and
• Michael Poulsen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 314–327, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.34

• macrocyclic 26-membered lactam precursor. Although compound 24 lacks any significant antimicrobial and anticancer activity, it was shown to act as a Na+/K+ ATPase inhibitor. Subsequent studies by the same group lead to the isolation of phenylpyridines (e.g., coprismycin A (25)), dipyridines (e.g., collismycin

Versatile synthesis and biological evaluation of novel 3’-fluorinated purine nucleosides

• Hang Ren,
• Haoyun An,
• Paul J. Hatala,
• William C. Stevens Jr,
• Jingchao Tao and
• Baicheng He

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2509–2520, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.272

• 16–20 and 2-amino-6-substituted purine 3’-deoxy-3’-fluororiboses 21–23 (Figure 2). In addition, their anticancer activity was evaluated. Results and Discussion Current strategies to the synthesis of 3’-fluorine and 6-substituted purine require harsh conditions and laborious protecting group

Recent applications of ring-rearrangement metathesis in organic synthesis

• Sambasivarao Kotha,
• Milind Meshram,
• Priti Khedkar,
• Shaibal Banerjee and
• Deepak Deodhar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1833–1864, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.199

• product 330 (79%). Further, the building block 330 was used in the stereoselective total synthesis of lepadin B (Scheme 72). Bicyco[3.2.1]octene derivatives Norhalichondrin B is a marine polyether belonging to the halichondrin family and its macrolactone analog has displayed anticancer activity. Phillips

Pd(OAc)₂-catalyzed dehydrogenative C–H activation: An expedient synthesis of uracil-annulated β-carbolinones

• Biplab Mondal,
• Somjit Hazra,
• Tarun K. Panda and
• Brindaban Roy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1360–1366, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.146

• Alstonia venenata, and substituted 1-oxo-13-carbolines were also shown to have serotonin-receptor-binding activity (5-HT receptor) [14]. Moreover the natural and synthetic β-carbolines are also known to show anticancer activity against colon and lung cancers, and some β-carbolinones act as biological

Further exploration of the heterocyclic diversity accessible from the allylation chemistry of indigo

• Alireza Shakoori,
• John B. Bremner,
• Mohammed K. Abdel-Hamid,
• Anthony C. Willis,
• Rachada Haritakun and
• Paul A. Keller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 481–492, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.54

• and benzo[b]indolo[1,2-h]naphthyridine heterocycles in one-pot, multi-step cascade sequences [3]. These ring systems are not only of chemical interest but biological testing revealed promising in vitro antiplasmodial activity and anticancer activity in certain cases [3]. While the analogous base

• , selected compounds were assessed for in vitro antiplasmodial (Plasmodium falciparum; drug resistant K1 strain) activity [15], cell-based anticancer activity (cell lines: NCI-H187 small cell lung cancer, KB oral cavity cancer, and MCF-7 breast cancer) [16], and in vitro antitubercular activity