Synthesis and radical scavenging activities of resveratrol analogs
Highly substituted polyhydroxylated (E)-stilbenes were synthesized by Mizoroki-Heck reactions and tested for their ability to act as radical scavenger. One of the 56 stilbenes included in this study and investigated in DPPH assays gave an SC50 value of 11.0 μM, hence exhibiting an about 9.3 times higher activity than resveratrol. As shown in a photometric SRB assay using mouse NiH 3T3 fibroblasts, this compound is not cytotoxic up to concentrations of 30 μM. Highly substituted polyhydroxylated (E)-stilbenes synthesized by Mizoroki-Heck reactions were tested for their ability to act as radical scavengers. One of the 56 stilbenes included exhibited about 9.3 times higher activity than resveratrol. At concentrations 30 μM, this compound was not cytotoxic.
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. Novel polyhydroxylated (E)-stilbenes synthesized by Mizoroki-Heck reactions were tested for their ability to inhibit the enzymes acetyl- and butyrylcholinesterase. Several of them were found to be good inhibitors of butyrylcholinesterase. One of them carrying an extra fluorine substituent is a 94-fold stronger inhibitor of butyrylcholinesterase than of acetylcholinesterase.