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Synthesis Of Biologically Active Tropolones And Stereochemically Rich Compounds Via Cross-Coupling Reactions, Nana B. Agyemang
Synthesis Of Biologically Active Tropolones And Stereochemically Rich Compounds Via Cross-Coupling Reactions, Nana B. Agyemang
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Over the past years the Murelli lab has established research based on the synthesis and biological evaluations of alpha-hydroxytropolones (alpha-HTs). These seven-membered aromatic rings have three contiguous oxygen atoms that chelates to metals, thus, biologically having the ability to bind dinuclear metalloenzymes and promoting inhibition. Synthetic routes to alpha-HT’s are scarce and therefore has been the main driving force in developing efficient and general synthetic methods to obtain variations in alpha-HTs, enabling SAR studies. The Murelli lab have therefore developed an oxidopyrylium cycloaddition/ring-opening strategy that is able to generate polysubstituted alpha-HTs starting from kojic acid, a cheap and readily available …