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Synthesis and Biological Activity of Novel Flavonoids Galactoconjugates

  • Lou Dinghui ,
  • Wang Gangqiang ,
  • Xia Li ,
  • Chen Ling ,
  • Wang Qiuan
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  • College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082

Received date: 2012-10-18

  Revised date: 2012-12-13

  Online published: 2012-12-18

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Project supported by the Hunan Provincial Innovation Foundation for Postgraduate (No. CX2012B160) and the Science and Technology Planning Project of Hunan Province (No. 2011FJ3214).

Abstract

Five flavonoids 5,7,3',4'-tetramethoxyflavonol (1), 5,7,3'-tribenzyloxy-4'-methoxy flavonol (2), 5,7,4'-trimethoxy- flavonol (3), acacetin (4) and 5,7-dihydroxy-4'-benzyloxyflavone (5) were synthesized from diosmetin or rhoifolin by O-methylation, dehydrogenation, glycoside hydrolysis, O-benzylation and dimethyldioxirane (DMDO) oxidation. Based on “Click chemistry”, ten novel flavonoids galactoconjugates 1120 were synthesized in good yield using copper-mediated 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions of acetylgalactose azides and alkynyl-substituted flavonoids 610. Their biological activities against five human cancer cell lines were evaluated by the standard MTT method. The results showed that 11, 13 and 20 exhibited moderate cytotoxicity against HL-60, SMMC-7721, MCF-7, SW480 and A-549 cancer cell lines.

Cite this article

Lou Dinghui , Wang Gangqiang , Xia Li , Chen Ling , Wang Qiuan . Synthesis and Biological Activity of Novel Flavonoids Galactoconjugates[J]. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2013 , 33(03) : 535 -541 . DOI: 10.6023/cjoc201210035

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