Bioactive aurones, indanones, and other hemiindigoid scaffolds: Medicinal chemistry and photopharmacology perspectives

LM Lazinski, G Royal, M Robin… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Hemiindigoids comprise a range of natural and synthetic scaffolds that share the same
aromatic hydrocarbon backbone as well as promising biological and optical properties. The …

[HTML][HTML] Aurones: A golden resource for active compounds

I Mazziotti, G Petrarolo, C La Motta - Molecules, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Deemed as poorly represented in nature, aurones have been often overlooked by
researchers compared to other members of the flavonoid superfamily. However, over the …

Recent advances on synthesis and biological activities of aurones

G Sui, T Li, B Zhang, R Wang, H Hao, W Zhou - Bioorganic & Medicinal …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Aurones are naturally occurring structural isomerides of flavones that have diverse
bioactivities including antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, antitumor …

Aurone: A biologically attractive scaffold as anticancer agent

A Alsayari, AB Muhsinah, MZ Hassan, MJ Ahsan… - European Journal of …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Aurones are very simple, promising anticancer lead molecules containing three rings (A, B
and C). A very slight structural variation in the aurones elicits diverse affinity and specificity …

Benzofuran as a promising scaffold for the synthesis of novel antimicrobial agents

AA Abbas, KM Dawood - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2022‏ - Taylor & Francis
Introduction The benzofuran moiety constitutes a main component of enormous biologically
active natural and synthetic heterocycles. Such heterocycles have distinctive therapeutic …

Design, synthesis, in-vitro, in-silico and DFT studies of novel functionalized isoxazoles as antibacterial and antioxidant agents

A Arzine, O Abchir, M Chalkha, K Chebbac… - … Biology and Chemistry, 2024‏ - Elsevier
A series of new isoxazolederivatives incorporating the sulfonate ester function has been
synthesized from 2-benzylidenebenzofuran-3 (2 H)-one, known as aurone. The synthesis of …

Amino acid–derived defense metabolites from plants: A potential source to facilitate novel antimicrobial development

A Parthasarathy, EJ Borrego, MA Savka… - Journal of Biological …, 2021‏ - jbc.org
For millennia, humanity has relied on plants for its medicines, and modern pharmacology
continues to reexamine and mine plant metabolites for novel compounds and to guide …

Design of aurone‐based dual‐state emissive (DSE) fluorophores

DV Berdnikova, S Steup, M Bolte… - Chemistry–A European …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The development of dual‐state emissive (DSE) fluorophores, ie organic molecules showing
balanced emission in both solution and as molecular solids, has recently become an …

L-proline-based natural deep eutectic solvents as efficient solvents and catalysts for the ultrasound-assisted synthesis of aurones via knoevenagel condensation

MA Karadendrou, I Kostopoulou, V Kakokefalou… - Catalysts, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Aurones are minor flavonoids that possess a wide variety of bioactivity, including
antioxidant, anticancer, and enzyme inhibitory activity. L-proline-based natural deep eutectic …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the 2′-hydroxy-chalcone framework for the development of dual antioxidant and soybean lipoxygenase inhibitory agents

I Kostopoulou, A Tzani, NI Polyzos, MA Karadendrou… - Molecules, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
2′-hydroxy-chalcones are naturally occurring compounds with a wide array of bioactivity. In
an effort to delineate the structural features that favor antioxidant and lipoxygenase (LOX) …