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ACS Omega ; 7(39): 35170-35179, 2022 Oct 04.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36211086

RESUMO

The reduction of aromatic nitro compounds has been performed employing a catalytic amount of Wang resin-supported phenyl(2-quinolyl)methanol (Wang-PQM) in the presence of an excess of NaBH4 to regenerate the reactive reducing species at the end of the process. The reduction products are easily isolated through a simple filtration/extraction protocol, and the catalyst can be efficiently recovered and recycled. The condensation route is generally preferred, and azo- and/or hydrazo-arenes can be easily prepared in high yields.

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J Phys Chem A ; 125(18): 3892-3899, 2021 May 13.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33929857

RESUMO

The regioselectivity in the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition (1,3-DC) between five-membered cyclic nitrone and methylenecyclopropane (MCP) has been studied through density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The computational study of 1,3-DC with different 1-alkyl- (or 1,1-dialkyl)-substituted alkenes and the comparison with MCP have evidenced that the electrostatic interaction has a central role in the regioselectivity of the reactions. It has been observed that the electronic effect of the substituent (donor or attractor groups) determines the polarization of the alkene double bond and the reaction mechanism, consequently determining the interaction with nitrones and favoring an orientation between this moiety and the dipolarophile.

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RSC Adv ; 11(24): 14453-14458, 2021 Apr 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35424012

RESUMO

Bromotrimethylsilane (TMSBr) is a very efficient reagent in the solvent-free conversion of glycerol into bromohydrins, useful intermediates in the production of fine chemicals. As glycerol is a relevant by-product in biodiesel production, TMSBr has been also tested as a mediator in transesterification in acidic conditions, providing FAME from castor oil in good yields, along with bromohydrins from glycerol. Subsequently the glycerol conversion was optimized and depending on the reaction conditions, glycerol can be selectively converted into α-monobromohydrin (1-MBH) or α,γ-dibromohydrin (1,3-DBH) in very good yields.

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Chem Rec ; 21(2): 284-294, 2021 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33241920

RESUMO

Azetidinones and ß-amino acids serve as useful building blocks in synthetic organic chemistry and their structural motifs are often found in biologically active compounds. Due to the importance of these compounds, several synthetic strategies have been developed and availability of new synthetic approaches is highly desirable. In this account, we describe the development of an original method that allows the preparation of ß-lactam and ß-homoproline derivatives not easily accessible through traditional processes. The serendipitous discovery made in our lab in 2000 involved the formation of a ß-lactam by heating a mixture of an alkylidenecyclopropane tethered to a formyl group with N-methylhydroxylamine hydrochloride. Investigation of the process resulted in disclosing an alternative synthetic method of azetidinones based on an acid induced fragmentative rearrangement of cycloadducts of nitrones with suitable methylenecyclopropane derivatives. Herein, the scope of this process is reviewed. In addition, both experimental and computational studies of the mechanism for this peculiar fragmentative rearrangement are presented.


Assuntos
Aminoácidos/química , Oxazóis/química , Prolina/análogos & derivados , beta-Lactamas/síntese química , Prolina/síntese química , Prolina/química , beta-Lactamas/química
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J Org Chem ; 84(11): 6757-6764, 2019 Jun 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31042393

RESUMO

The complete path of the Brandi-Guarna rearrangement of 5-spirocyclopropane isoxazolidines has been investigated by means of density functional theory calculations to rationalize the competing formation of tetrahydropyridones and enaminones by the determination of the minimum energy reaction paths. Our calculations confirm that the rearrangement is triggered by the homolysis of the isoxazolidine N-O bond followed by cleavage of one of the two C-CH2 cyclopropane bonds as previously proposed by the Fabian group [ Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2001, 2001, 4223]. In addition, the results of this work suggest that in the presence of a stereogenic center at isoxazolidine C-4', the formation of a piperidinone or an enaminone as the final product depends on which of the two diastereotopic C-CH2 bonds of cyclopropane is cleaved in the second step of the process. The result can be of great interest for the understanding of other processes involving the opening of a cyclopropane ring.

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J Mater Chem B ; 6(14): 2022-2035, 2018 Apr 14.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32254426

RESUMO

The progress of the chemistry of carbon nanotubes (CNT) and graphene derivatives [mainly graphene oxide (GO)] has produced a number of technologically advanced drug delivery systems (DDS) that have been used in the field of nanomedicine, mostly in studies related to oncology. However, such a demanding field of research requires continuous improvements in terms of efficiency, selectivity and versatility. The loading of two, or more, bioactive components on the same nanoparticle offers new possibilities for treating cancer, efficiently addressing issues related both to biodistribution and pharmacokinetics. Nanostructured carbon materials (NCM), with their high surface area, their efficient cellular membrane crossing and their chemical versatility are ideal candidates for easy hetero-decoration and exploitation as advanced DDS. This review describes the achievements obtained in this area focusing on those studies in which two or more active components were loaded onto the DDS.

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ACS Omega ; 3(3): 3183-3189, 2018 Mar 31.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31458576

RESUMO

The four-step procedure involving bromination, reduction, and nucleophilic substitution via elimination/addition previously applied to 1-(2-pyridyl)-2-propen-1-ol for the synthesis of indolizidine systems has now been extended to 1-(2-quinolyl)-2-propen-1-ol allowing a general access to benzo-fused derivatives. For instance, (±)-benzo[e]lentiginosine has been easily synthesized in an 18% overall yield.

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Beilstein J Nanotechnol ; 8: 485-493, 2017.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28326239

RESUMO

A new synthetic approach for the production of carbon nanomaterials (CNM) decorated with organophosphorus moieties is presented. Three different triphenylphosphine oxide (TPPO) derivatives were used to decorate oxidized multiwalled carbon nanotubes (ox-MWCNTs) and graphene platelets (GPs). The TPPOs chosen bear functional groups able to react with the CNMs by Tour reaction (an amino group), nitrene cycloaddition (an azido group) or CuAAC reaction (one terminal C-C triple bond). All the adducts were characterized by FTIR, Raman spectroscopy, TEM, XPS, elemental analysis and ICP-AES. The cycloaddition of nitrene provided the higher loading on ox-MWCNTs and GPs as well, while the Tour approach gave best results with nanotubes (CNTs). Finally, we investigated the possibility to reduce the TPPO functionalized CNMs to the corresponding phosphine derivatives and applied one of the materials produced as heterogeneous organocatalyst in a Staudinger ligation reaction.

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Int J Pharm ; 521(1-2): 69-72, 2017 Apr 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28229946

RESUMO

Batches of oxidized multiwalled carbon nanotubes differing in length were adopted to prepare two drug delivery systems (DDS) loaded with doxorubicin. The different internalization of the two batches, verified by atomic emission spectroscopy onto cell lysates, was also confirmed by the different toxicity of the same DDS loaded with doxorubicin. In vitro experiments evidenced, after 48h of incubation, the superior efficacy of the shortest nanotubes. However, upon prolonging the incubation time up to 72h the difference in efficiency was minimized due to the spontaneous release of doxorubicin by the non-internalized long nanotubes.


Assuntos
Doxorrubicina/administração & dosagem , Doxorrubicina/química , Sistemas de Liberação de Medicamentos/métodos , Nanotubos de Carbono/química , Antibióticos Antineoplásicos/administração & dosagem , Antibióticos Antineoplásicos/química , Sobrevivência Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Sobrevivência Celular/fisiologia , Relação Dose-Resposta a Droga , Humanos , Células MCF-7 , Fatores de Tempo
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J Org Chem ; 81(4): 1661-4, 2016 Feb 19.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26800332

RESUMO

A concise stereoselective synthesis of (-)-lentiginosine, an iminosugar endowed with an interesting proapoptotic activity, has been accomplished using an enantiopure pyrroline N-oxide building block derived from d-tartaric acid. Key steps are a totally diastereoselective nucleophilic addition to the cyclic nitrone followed by a combination of two simultaneous and two tandem reactions occurring under the same conditions in a single laboratory operation. Natural (+)-lentiginosine can be synthesized by the same method but starting from l-tartaric acid.


Assuntos
Alcaloides/síntese química , Imino Açúcares/síntese química , Tartaratos/química , Alcaloides/química , Imino Açúcares/química , Estrutura Molecular , Estereoisomerismo
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J Mater Chem B ; 4(21): 3823-3831, 2016 Jun 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32263320

RESUMO

To demonstrate the potential of azido-substituted carbon nanotubes for application in nanomedicine, multiple-decorated oxidized multi-walled carbon nanotubes as drug delivery systems have been synthesized. These DDSs were able to carry doxorubicin inside breast MCF-7 cancer cell lines resulting in an enhanced cytotoxic effect with respect to the free drug. Decoration of the carbon nanotubes was accomplished through both covalent and non-covalent approaches: versatile click reactions and π-π interactions were exploited. To assess the internalization of the carbon nanotubes inside cells, decoration with a BODIPY fluorescent molecule was performed. Furthermore, the nanotubes were decorated with a biotin selector molecule to increase the uptake of the system by cancer cells. Comparative studies were performed on the complete drug delivery system to highlight its effect with respect to the free drug and the contribution of the selector in the internalization efficiency. Finally, preliminary in vivo tests were performed on MCF-7 inoculated mice. A net improvement in efficiency, concerning the minor growth of the tumors, has been found when using doxorubicin loaded on our drug delivery system with respect to free doxorubicin.

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Chemistry ; 21(43): 15349-53, 2015 Oct 19.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26332894

RESUMO

A series of azido-dyes were synthesized through Knoevenagel reactions of an azido-BODIPY with aromatic aldehydes. The nature of the substituents allowed the fine tuning of their spectroscopic properties. The dyes were used to decorate oxidized multiwalled carbon nanotubes (ox-MWCNTs), bearing terminal triple bond groups, by CuAAC reactions, affording fluorescent materials. This decoration allowed the efficient determination of the internalization of the ox-MWCNT derivatives by different model cancer cells, such as MCF7.

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Soft Matter ; 11(42): 8333-41, 2015 Nov 14.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26350644

RESUMO

The effect of the replacement of molecular moieties (carbamates vs. urea) that drive self-assembly for two organogelators with an identical C(2) symmetric molecular structure is described. The main properties of the gels obtained from the urea-based organogelators are also discussed. The proposed organogelators are chiral molecules and are able to express chirality also at the supramolecular level, thus allowing the employment of electronic circular dichroism to gain insight into the molecular-scale structure of fibrillar aggregates. With the same technique, the behavior of enantiomeric mixtures of the urea-based organogelators was investigated, revealing the occurrence of different self-sorting phenomena at the molecular and supramolecular scale. The urea-based organogelators demonstrated to be more efficient gelators with respect to the carbamate-based analogues, showing a high gel-to-sol transition temperature (up to 66 °C) and a very low minimum gelling concentration (0.85 mg mL(-1)). This study is a starting point for a deeper investigation of structure/property relationships and, taking into account the peculiar behavior detected for the enantiomeric mixtures, also of self-sorting and molecular recognition phenomena.

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Chirality ; 27(11): 784-7, 2015 Nov.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26365990

RESUMO

Chiral discrimination in a racemic mixture of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) is induced by a new selector at the water-air interface: L-DPPC is segregated in the condensed phase of a Langmuir monolayer upon interactions with an enantiopure amphiphilic compound.


Assuntos
Fosfolipídeos/química , Estereoisomerismo , Propriedades de Superfície
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Chempluschem ; 80(4): 704-714, 2015 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31973422

RESUMO

Efforts have been made in recent years to develop novel functionalisation protocols aimed at imparting multimodality and improved properties to complex carbon-based nanostructures. The incorporation of cleavable bonds to the nanomaterial surface for the controlled release (or exchange) of specific molecules under appropriate chemical and biological settings is relatively unexplored. The design and synthesis of a hetero-bifunctional linker joining a "cleavable" disulfide moiety for the covalent anchoring of a wide range of thiol end-capped (bio)molecules and a "clickable" terminal acetylene group is described. The strategy is based on the well-established copper-mediated acetylene-azide coupling reaction between the acetylene linker and single-walled carbon nanotubes decorated with phenylazido pendant arms. As a result, easily "post-derivatisable" and traceable nanostructured platforms containing a linking group potentially available for a wide range of biological probes are prepared and completely characterised.

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Chempluschem ; 80(4): 636, 2015 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31973433

RESUMO

Invited for this month's cover are collaborators from four different Italian research groups, three at the National Research Council (ICCOM, IFAC, and ISOF) and one at the University of Florence. The cover picture shows a representative cartoon of engineered 1D carbon nanomaterials and their effective surface decoration with (bio)molecules and fluorescent markers. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/cplu.201402391.

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Curr Top Med Chem ; 14(10): 1294-307, 2014.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24758428

RESUMO

(+)-Lentiginosine, a natural trans-1,2-dihydroxyindolizidine belonging to the class of iminosugars, is a potent inhibitor of amyloglucosidase, and a good inhibitor of Hsp90. The non-natural enantiomer, (-)-lentiginosine, induces apoptosis on tumor cells of different origin and is poorly cytotoxic towards non-transformed cells. The significant biological activity of these compounds has resulted in the development of many synthetic approaches for their preparation. This review is an update of a previous survey and summarizes the most recent achievements on biological studies as well as total syntheses of lentiginosine and trans-1,2-dihydroxyindolizidine analogues.


Assuntos
Alcaloides/síntese química , Alcaloides/farmacologia , Antineoplásicos/farmacologia , Inibidores Enzimáticos/síntese química , Inibidores Enzimáticos/farmacologia , Glucana 1,4-alfa-Glucosidase/antagonistas & inibidores , Alcaloides/química , Antineoplásicos/síntese química , Antineoplásicos/química , Proliferação de Células/efeitos dos fármacos , Ensaios de Seleção de Medicamentos Antitumorais , Inibidores Enzimáticos/química , Glucana 1,4-alfa-Glucosidase/metabolismo , Proteínas de Choque Térmico HSP90/antagonistas & inibidores , Humanos , Conformação Molecular , Relação Estrutura-Atividade
19.
Amino Acids ; 44(2): 769-80, 2013 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23053017

RESUMO

The stereoselective syntheses of 2-cyclopropyl- and (2S)-2-hydroxymethyl-(3R,4S)-4-hydroxy-ß(3)-homoproline are described. The reported amino acids were constructed through 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of strained alkylidenecyclopropanes with enantiopure pyrroline N-oxides derived from malic acid followed by thermal rearrangement of the adducts in the presence of trifluoroacetic acid. The two-step sequence afforded the homoprolines suitably protected to be directly used as building blocks in peptidomimetic synthesis as proved by the synthesis of the two model mixed α/ß/α tripeptides Phe-ß(3)-HPro-Val.


Assuntos
Oligopeptídeos/química , Prolina/análogos & derivados , Estrutura Molecular , Prolina/síntese química , Prolina/química , Pirróis/química , Estereoisomerismo
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PLoS One ; 7(8): e43316, 2012.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22916240

RESUMO

Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is a significant target in the development of rational cancer therapy due to its role at the crossroads of multiple signaling pathways associated with cell proliferation and cell viability. The relevance of Hsp90 as a therapeutic target for numerous diseases states has prompted the identification and optimization of novel Hsp90 inhibitors as an emerging therapeutic strategy. We performed a screening aimed to identify novel Hsp90 inhibitors among several natural compounds and we focused on the iminosugar (+)-lentiginosine, a natural amyloglucosidases inhibitor, for its peculiar bioactivity profile. Characterization of Hsp90 inhibition was performed using a panel of chemical and biological approaches, including limited proteolysis, biochemical and cellular assays. Our result suggested that the middle domain of Hsp90, as opposed to its ATP-binding pocket, is a promising binding site for new classes of Hsp90 inhibitors with multi-target anti-cancer potential.


Assuntos
Adenosina Trifosfatases/metabolismo , Alcaloides/farmacologia , Proteínas de Choque Térmico HSP90/metabolismo , Imino Açúcares/farmacologia , Trifosfato de Adenosina/metabolismo , Ativação Enzimática/efeitos dos fármacos , Humanos , Estrutura Molecular , Espectrometria de Massas por Ionização e Dessorção a Laser Assistida por Matriz , Ressonância de Plasmônio de Superfície , Termodinâmica
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