Indole-containing natural products 2019–2022: isolations, reappraisals, syntheses, and biological activities

SM Umer, M Solangi, KM Khan, RSZ Saleem - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Indole alkaloids represent a large subset of natural products, with more than 4100 known
compounds. The majority of these alkaloids are biologically active, with some exhibiting …

Mining the biodiversity of plants: a revolution in the making

V De Luca, V Salim, SM Atsumi, F Yu - Science, 2012 - science.org
Only a small fraction of the immense diversity of plant metabolism has been explored for the
production of new medicines and other products important to human well-being. The …

Total synthesis of the Daphniphyllum alkaloid daphenylline

Z Lu, Y Li, J Deng, A Li - Nature chemistry, 2013 - nature.com
The Daphniphyllum alkaloids are a large class of natural products isolated from a genus of
evergreen plants widely used in Chinese herbal medicine. They display a remarkable range …

Solution of the multistep pathway for assembly of corynanthean, strychnos, iboga, and aspidosperma monoterpenoid indole alkaloids from 19E-geissoschizine

Y Qu, MEAM Easson, R Simionescu… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Monoterpenoid indole alkaloids (MIAs) possess a diversity of alkaloid skeletons whose
biosynthesis is poorly understood. A bioinformatic search of candidate genes, combined …

Total synthesis of natural products using gold catalysis

S De, AK Dan, R Sahu, S Parida… - Chemistry–An Asian …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Gold catalysis is an extremely enthusiastic field of investigation in the catalysis area. The
development of alternative, highly inventive, precompetitive techniques based on gold …

Organocatalytic cascade aldimine condensation/[1, 6]-hydride transfer/Mannich-type cyclization: sustainable access to indole-2, 3-fused diazocanes

LX Wang, B Qiu, XD An, PZ Dong, RB Liu, J **ao - Green Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
An unprecedented organocatalytic cascade aldimine condensation/[1, 6]-hydride
transfer/Mannich-type cyclization of indole-2-carbaldehydes with o-aminoanilines was …

Decatungstate‐Photocatalyzed Dearomative Hydroacylation of Indoles: Direct Synthesis of 2‐Acylindolines

T Varlet, D Bouchet, E Van Elslande… - … –A European Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We report herein a convenient and scalable dearomative hydroacylation reaction of indoles.
Employing readily available aldehydes as the acyl source and TBADT as an inexpensive …

Antiinflammatory Medicinal Plants from the Ugandan Greater Mpigi Region Act as Potent Inhibitors in the COX-2/PGH2 Pathway

F Schultz, OF Osuji, B Wack, G Anywar, LA Garbe - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Our study investigates 16 medicinal plants via assessment of inhibition of proinflammatory
enzymes such as cyclooxygenases (COX). The plants are used by traditional healers in the …

[HTML][HTML] Atypical opioid receptors: unconventional biology and therapeutic opportunities

CB Palmer, M Meyrath, M Canals, E Kostenis… - Pharmacology & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Endogenous opioid peptides and prescription opioid drugs modulate pain, anxiety and
stress by activating four opioid receptors, namely μ (mu, MOP), δ (delta, DOP), κ (kappa …

An interrupted Heyns rearrangement approach for the regioselective synthesis of acylindoles

M Altia, P Anbarasan - Chemical Communications, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
An efficient and general method for the synthesis of 2-and 3-acylindoles has been achieved
with high regioselectivity from o-acylanilines and α-hydroxycarbonyl or its equivalent. The …