Concise synthesis and antiproliferative activity evaluation of ellipticine quinone and its analogs

  • Eur J Med Chem. 2017 Aug 18:136:1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2017.04.071.
Takashi Nishiyama  1 ,  Noriyuki Hatae  2 ,  Masataka Mizutani  3 ,  Teruki Yoshimura  3 ,  Tsuyoshi Kitamura  1 ,  Mana Miyano  1 ,  Mami Fujii  1 ,  Nanase Satsuki  1 ,  Minoru Ishikura  3 ,  Satoshi Hibino  1 ,  Tominari Choshi  4
Affiliations
  • 1. Graduate School of Pharmacy Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Fukuyama University, Fukuyama, Hiroshima 729-0292, Japan.
  • 2. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaido 061-0293, Japan. Electronic address: [email protected].
  • 3. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaido 061-0293, Japan.
  • 4. Graduate School of Pharmacy Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Fukuyama University, Fukuyama, Hiroshima 729-0292, Japan. Electronic address: [email protected].
PMID: 28477443 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2017.04.071
Abstract

We developed a concise protocol for the synthesis of ellipticine quinone from the appropriate 3-iodoindole-2-carbaldehydes in four steps. The key step is the construction of carbazole-1,4-quinone through tandem Ring-Closing Metathesis (RCM) and dehydrogenation under oxygen atmosphere. Therefore, the ellipticine quinone analogs possessing substitution at the 8- and/or 9-positions were synthesized using this method. In total, 14 compounds were evaluated for antiproliferative activity against HCT-116 and HL-60 cell lines; 9-nitroellipticine quinone was found to have superior activity compared to calothrixin B.

Keywords
Antiproliferative activity; Carbazole-1,4-quinone; Ellipticine quinone; Pyrido[4,3-b]carbozole-5,11-quinone; Ring-Closing Metathesis.