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