Bioactive aurones, indanones, and other hemiindigoid scaffolds: medicinal chemistry and photopharmacology perspectives

LM Lazinski, G Royal, M Robin… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hemiindigoids comprise a range of natural and synthetic scaffolds that share the same
aromatic hydrocarbon backbone as well as promising biological and optical properties. The …

[HTML][HTML] Aurones: A golden resource for active compounds

I Mazziotti, G Petrarolo, C La Motta - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Deemed as poorly represented in nature, aurones have been often overlooked by
researchers compared to other members of the flavonoid superfamily. However, over the …

Recent advances on synthesis and biological activities of aurones

G Sui, T Li, B Zhang, R Wang, H Hao, W Zhou - Bioorganic & Medicinal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Aurones are naturally occurring structural isomerides of flavones that have diverse
bioactivities including antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, antitumor …

Tuberculosis: an overview of the immunogenic response, disease progression, and medicinal chemistry efforts in the last decade toward the development of potential …

A Sharma, M De Rosa, N Singla, G Singh… - Journal of medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Tuberculosis (TB) is a slow growing, potentially debilitating disease that has plagued
humanity for centuries and has claimed numerous lives across the globe. Concerted efforts …

[HTML][HTML] Application of Quinoline Ring in Structural Modification of Natural Products

YQ Zhao, X Li, HY Guo, QK Shen, ZS Quan, T Luan - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Natural compounds are rich in pharmacological properties that are a hot topic in
pharmaceutical research. The quinoline ring plays important roles in many biological …

Design, synthesis and characterization of functionalized pyrazole derivatives bearing amide and sulfonamide moieties from aza-aurones

M Chalkha, M Bakhouch, M Akhazzane… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - Springer
In this work, we report the synthesis of new pyrazole derivatives bearing amide and
sulfonamide frameworks from aza-aurones. Firstly, the intermediate spiropyrazolines were …

Hydrogel-Encapsulated Biofilm Inhibitors Abrogate the Cariogenic Activity of Streptococcus mutans

P Ahirwar, V Kozlovskaya, B Nijampatnam… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We designed and synthesized analogues of a previously identified biofilm inhibitor IIIC5 to
improve solubility, retain inhibitory activities, and to facilitate encapsulation into pH …

[HTML][HTML] Diversity-Oriented Synthesis: Amino Acetophenones as Building Blocks for the Synthesis of Natural Product Analogs

M Eymery, VK Tran-Nguyen, A Boumendjel - Pharmaceuticals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Diversity-Oriented Synthesis (DOS) represents a strategy to obtain molecule libraries with
diverse structural features starting from one common compound in limited steps of synthesis …

[HTML][HTML] Synthesis and anticancer cytotoxicity of azaaurones overcoming multidrug resistance

S Tóth, Á Szepesi, VK Tran-Nguyen, B Sarkadi… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The resistance of tumors against anticancer drugs is a major impediment for chemotherapy.
Tumors often develop multidrug resistance as a result of the cellular efflux of …

[HTML][HTML] Scaffold-Hopping Strategies in Aurone Optimization: A Comprehensive Review of Synthetic Procedures and Biological Activities of Nitrogen and Sulfur …

G La Monica, F Alamia, A Bono, A Lauria, A Martorana - Molecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
Aurones, particular polyphenolic compounds belonging to the class of minor flavonoids and
overlooked for a long time, have gained significative attention in medicinal chemistry in …