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Design Synthesis of Gardenamide A/Tacrine Hybrids and Their Protection against 6-Hydroxydopamine-Induced Insults in PC12 Cells

  • Zhang Xinyi ,
  • Yuan Sheng ,
  • Zhao Jiaqiang ,
  • Zhang Lei ,
  • Zhang Chao ,
  • Wang Rikang ,
  • Chen Heru
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  • a. Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632;
    b. National Pharmaceutical Engineering Center for Solid Preparation in Chinese Herbal Medicine, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang 330006;
    c. Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Pharmacodynamic Constituents of TCM and New Drugs Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632

Received date: 2016-11-22

  Revised date: 2017-03-01

  Online published: 2017-03-03

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Project supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (No. 2015A030311012) and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province (No. 20151BAB215030).

Abstract

Seven gardenamide A (GA)/tacrine hybrids have been designed and synthesized. Firstly, 10-gardenamide A (DG) aldehyde was prepared through 5 steps reactions applied genipin as starting material. The overyield was 20.4%. Then, N-terminated aminoalkyltacrine (TN-n) was synthesized via 4 steps reactions started from o-aminobenzoic acid. The overall yield was 50.0%~65.4%. After that, DG reacted with TN-n at the presence of appropriate reductant leading to the target compounds. The yields were from 37% to 54%. The structures of all the target compounds were confirmed by 1H NMR, 13C NMR and ESI-MS. The bioactivities of all the hybrids were evaluated by setting up 6-hydroxydopamine-induced impaired PC12 cell model. It was indicated that two hybrids TNG-1 and TNG-5 showed better neuroprotective activity than tacrine, GA or their combination. Based on this fact, it was proposed that the hybrids TNG-1 and TNG-5 were better drug-like candidates than both monomers.

Cite this article

Zhang Xinyi , Yuan Sheng , Zhao Jiaqiang , Zhang Lei , Zhang Chao , Wang Rikang , Chen Heru . Design Synthesis of Gardenamide A/Tacrine Hybrids and Their Protection against 6-Hydroxydopamine-Induced Insults in PC12 Cells[J]. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2017 , 37(4) : 873 -880 . DOI: 10.6023/cjoc201611026

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