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    Important progress has been made in the synthesis of novel sesquiterpene dimers in Artemisia plants where Kunming plants are located

    • Last Update: 2022-01-09
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    The Chen Jijun research team at the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences is committed to finding anti-hepatocarcinoma lead compounds and innovative drugs from Artemisia plants with unique structures and novel mechanisms of action
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    Guided by anti-liver cancer activity and guided byLC-MSanalysis, the research team conducted a preliminary study on the anti-liver cancer active ingredients of Artemisia sphaerocephala ,isolated and identified 143 compounds from it, and found 41 sesquiterpene dimers ( Ata Pharmaceutica Sinica B), 2021 , 11, 1648–1666 ;Organic Chemistry Frontiers 2021 , 8, 1249–1256 ; Chinese Journal of Chemistry ; 2021 , doi:10.
    1002/cjoc.
    202100528 ) .
    The discovered sesquiterpene dimers are mainly polymerized by intermolecular Diels-Alder reaction, including 8 types of polymerization , and their anti-liver cancer activity is more significant than that of monomer compounds .


    The biomimetic synthesis of dimers based on high content of sesquiterpenes can not only verify the biogenic pathway of the compound, and quickly obtain the target compound, but also provide a synthetic route for the synthesis of analogs and lay the foundation for the structure-activity relationship study
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    Recently, the research team established a key method for the efficient synthesis of sesquiterpene dimers based on the analysis of the biogenic synthesis pathways of dimers, using arglabin , which has a higher content in Artemisia plants , as a substrate : ( 1)Through trivalent titanium The promoted epoxy isomerization reaction constructs the diene in one step; ( 2) The dimer is obtained with high stereoselectivity through the biomimetic Diels-Alder reaction .
    Through 4-6 steps of reaction, the semi-synthesis of natural products of lavandiolides H, I, K and artematrolide F was completed with a yield of up to 60% , and the  synthesis can reach a scale of 10g , laying a material foundation for subsequent in-depth biological activity research .
    Based on the Diels-Alder reaction between the sub-divisions , the established synthetic methodology was successfully applied to " natural product-like" Sesquiterpene dimers, trimers efficient synthesis, the tetramer were found to have a significant cytotoxic activity against cancer, the study is based on two subsequent synthesis of highly active anti-tumor activity sesquiterpenoids compound The aggregates are provided for reference


     

      Related research recently to "Biomimetic Synthesis of Lavandiolides H, the I, F and K and Artematrolide Via Diels  ?  Alder Reaction" in the title in Organic Letters published (magazines 2021 , 23 ,  8380-8384 )
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    Dr.
    Tianze Li / Associate Researcher is the first author, and Researcher Chen Jijun is the corresponding author


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