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Research Progress on the Synthesis of Protoberberine Skeleton and Its Anti-inflammatory Activity

  • Xingzhou Liu ,
  • Mingjia Yu ,
  • Jianhua Liang
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  • a Key Laboratory of Medical Molecule Science and Pharmaceutics Engineering, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 102488
    b Yangtze Delta Region Academy of Beijing Institute of Technology, Jiaxing, Zhejiang 314019
* Corresponding author. ;

Received date: 2022-09-29

  Revised date: 2022-10-27

  Online published: 2022-11-22

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National Natural Science Foundation of China(21878022)

Abstract

The protoberberine alkaloids, exampled by berberine, have abundant biological activities, which show excellent anti-inflammatory effects in a variety of inflammatory diseases such as epilepsy and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Due to the challenge in separation and purification of protoberberines from natural resource and intrinsic low bioavailability, many researchers have devoted to the discovery of new total synthesis methods or structural modification. The total synthesis, anti-inflammatory pathway and anti-inflammatory structure-activity relationships of protoberberine skeleton are summarized for the discovery of de novo protoberberine chemotypes with anti-inflammatory activity.

Cite this article

Xingzhou Liu , Mingjia Yu , Jianhua Liang . Research Progress on the Synthesis of Protoberberine Skeleton and Its Anti-inflammatory Activity[J]. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2023 , 43(4) : 1325 -1340 . DOI: 10.6023/cjoc202209037

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