Volume 15, Issue 4 p. 354-362
Communication

A Flexible Strategy for Modular Synthesis of Curcuminoid-BF2/Curcuminoid Pairs and Their Comparative Antiproliferative Activity in Human Cancer Cell Lines

Prof. Rodrigo Abonia

Prof. Rodrigo Abonia

Research Group of Heterocyclic Compounds, Department of Chemistry, Universidad del Valle A. A., 25360 Cali, Colombia

Department of Chemistry, University of North Florida, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, Florida, 32224 USA

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Prof. Kenneth K. Laali

Corresponding Author

Prof. Kenneth K. Laali

Department of Chemistry, University of North Florida, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, Florida, 32224 USA

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Dawn Raja Somu

Dawn Raja Somu

Department of Chemistry, University of North Florida, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, Florida, 32224 USA

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Prof. Scott D. Bunge

Prof. Scott D. Bunge

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242 USA

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Esther C. Wang

Esther C. Wang

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242 USA

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First published: 24 December 2019
Citations: 8

Graphical Abstract

Curcumin's resurgence: We developed a flexible protocol that enables synthetic curcuminoid-BF2/curcuminoid pairs to be interconverted. This widens their synthetic scope, allowing access to more diverse libraries of CUR-BF2/CUR pairs for antiproliferative and apoptotic studies in cancer cell lines.

Abstract

A facile protocol that enables synthetic interconversion of CUR-BF2 and CUR compounds is described that significantly widens the preparative scope of curcuminoids, providing access to larger libraries of compounds, thus enabling comparative antiproliferative and apoptotic study of a larger library of synthetic analogs in cancer cell lines.