25173-72-2Relevant articles and documents
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Gutsche,Hoyer
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Paired Electrochemical Reactions and the On-Site Generation of a Chemical Reagent
Wu, Tiandi,Nguyen, Bichlien H.,Daugherty, Michael C.,Moeller, Kevin D.
supporting information, p. 3562 - 3565 (2019/02/20)
While the majority of reported paired electrochemical reactions involve carefully matched cathodic and anodic reactions, the precise matching of half reactions in an electrolysis cell is not generally necessary. During a constant current electrolysis almost any oxidation and reduction reaction can be paired, and in the presented work we capitalize on this observation by examining the coupling of anodic oxidation reactions with the production of hydrogen gas for use as a reagent in remote, Pd-catalyzed hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis reactions. To this end, an alcohol oxidation, an oxidative condensation, intramolecular anodic olefin coupling reactions, an amide oxidation, and a mediated oxidation were all shown to be compatible with the generation and use of hydrogen gas at the cathode. This pairing of an electrolysis reaction with the production of a chemical reagent or substrate has the potential to greatly expand the use of more energy efficient paired electrochemical reactions.
Modular synthesis and biological investigation of 5-hydroxymethyl dibenzyl butyrolactones and related lignans
Davidson, Samuel J.,Pilkington, Lisa I.,Dempsey-Hibbert, Nina C.,El-Mohtadi, Mohamed,Tang, Shiying,Wainwright, Thomas,Whitehead, Kathryn A.,Barker, David
, (2018/11/30)
Dibenzyl butyrolactone lignans are well known for their excellent biological properties, particularly for their notable anti-proliferative activities. Herein we report a novel, efficient, convergent synthesis of dibenzyl butyrolactone lignans utilizing the acyl-Claisen rearrangement to stereoselectively prepare a key intermediate. The reported synthetic route enables the modification of these lignans to give rise to 5-hydroxymethyl derivatives of these lignans. The biological activities of these analogues were assessed, with derivatives showing an excellent cytotoxic profile which resulted in programmed cell death of Jurkat T-leukemia cells with less than 2% of the incubated cells entering a necrotic cell death pathway.
