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Nickel- and zinc-promoted [2 + 2 + 2] cycloaddition of diynes and α, β-enones
Ikeda, Shin-Ichi,Watanabe, Hitomi,Sato, Yoshiro
, p. 7026 - 7029 (1998)
The [2 + 2 + 2] cycloaddition of diynes and enones occurred in the presence of both nickel and zinc together. This binary metal-mediated reaction had two interesting features: (1) a terminally unsubstituted diyne reacted with an enone to give an aromatic compound with the concomitant incorporation of two hydrogen atoms abstracted from an expected 1, 3-diene product into another molecule of the starting enone and (2) a trimethylsilyl-substituted diyne reacted with an equimolar amount of enone to regioselectively afford a 1, 3-diene, in which the trimethylsilyl group is adjacent to the carbonyl group.
Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel aryldiketo acids with enhanced antibacterial activity against multidrug resistant bacterial strains
Cvijeti?, Ilija N.,Verbi?, Tatjana ?.,Ernesto de Resende, Pedro,Stapleton, Paul,Gibbons, Simon,Jurani?, Ivan O.,Drakuli?, Branko J.,Zloh, Mire
, p. 1474 - 1488 (2017/11/17)
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major health problem worldwide, because of ability of bacteria, fungi and viruses to evade known therapeutic agents used in treatment of infections. Aryldiketo acids (ADK) have shown antimicrobial activity against several resistant strains including Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. Our previous studies revealed that ADK analogues having bulky alkyl group in ortho position on a phenyl ring have up to ten times better activity than norfloxacin against the same strains. Rational modifications of analogues by introduction of hydrophobic substituents on the aromatic ring has led to more than tenfold increase in antibacterial activity against multidrug resistant Gram positive strains. To elucidate a potential mechanism of action for this potentially novel class of antimicrobials, several bacterial enzymes were identified as putative targets according to literature data and pharmacophoric similarity searches for potent ADK analogues. Among the seven bacterial targets chosen, the strongest favorable binding interactions were observed between most active analogue and S. aureus dehydrosqualene synthase and DNA gyrase. Furthermore, the docking results in combination with literature data suggest that these novel molecules could also target several other bacterial enzymes, including prenyl-transferases and methionine aminopeptidase. These results and our statistically significant 3D QSAR model could be used to guide the further design of more potent derivatives as well as in virtual screening for novel antibacterial agents.
Selective catalytic hydrogenation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons promoted by ruthenium nanoparticles
Bresó-Femenia, Emma,Chaudret, Bruno,Castillón, Sergio
, p. 2741 - 2751 (2015/05/27)
Ru nanoparticles stabilised by PPh3 are efficient catalysts for hydrogenation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) containing 2-4 rings under mild reaction conditions. These compounds were partially hydrogenated with good to excellent selectivities just by optimizing the reaction conditions. The influence of the nature of substituents present in different positions of naphthalene on the selectivity of hydrogenation was also studied. Hydrogenation of products containing substituents at position 1 is slower than that of products containing substituents at position 2. In all cases, hydrogenation takes place mainly on the less substituted ring.