New synthetic strategies leading to highly functional erythrina, oxindole and pyrrolidinoindoline skeletons have been developed and an efficient formal syntheses of (+/-)-demethoxyerythratidinone reported.

An elegant approach to quaternary oxindole formation has been developed through a room temperature decarboxylation/radical C-H functionalization by visible-light photoredox catalysis.

A novel magnetically immobilized polyethyleneimine (PEI)fabricated by covalently anchoring on MCM-41 (MCM-41@PEI)was prepared. The synthesized catalyst was characterized by Fouriertransform infrared (FT-IR), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), X-raypowder diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) andtransmission electron microscopy (TEM). The immobilized PEI wasshown to be an efficien...

The asymmetric Neber reaction of 3-O-sulfonyl ketoxime, in situ generated from isatin ketoxime and sulfonyl chloride, for the synthesis of chiral spirocyclic oxindole compounds is reported. With the developed protocol, a range of chiral spirooxindole 2H-azirines could be obtained in good to excellent yields and up to a 92 : 8 enantiomeric ratio by using (DHQD)2PHAL as the catalyst. This methodo...

The marine globin dehaloperoxidase-hemoglobin (DHP) from Amphitrite ornata was found to catalyze the H2O2-dependent oxidation of monohaloindoles, a previously unknown class of substrate for DHP. Using 5-Br-indole as a representative substrate, the major monooxygenated products were found to be 5-Br-2-oxindole and 5-Br-3-oxindolenine. Isotope labeling studies confirmed that the oxygen atom incor...

BACKGROUND Lymphomas frequently retain wild-type (wt) p53 function but overexpress HDM2, thereby compromising p53 activity. Therefore, lymphoma is a suitable model for studying the therapeutic value of disrupting the HDM2-p53 interaction by small-molecule inhibitors (SMIs). HDM2 have been developed and are under various stages of preclinical and clinical investigation. Previously, we examined t...

6'-(4-Chlorophenyl)-spiro[cyclohexane-1,2'-thieno[3,2-d][1,3] oxazin]-4'(1'H)-one (1) was synthesized and used as a starting material for the synthesis of a novel series of spiro compounds having biologically active sulfonamide 2a-e and 3'-(4-acetylphenyl)-6'- (4-chlorophenyl)-1'H-spiro[cyclohexane-1,2'-thieno[3,2-d] pyrimidine-4'(3'H)-one (3). Compound 2a was used as a key intermediate for the...

A facile construction of the spiro[indole-3,2'-pyrrolidine] skeleton, through diacetoxyiodobenzene (PIDA) mediated C-N bond-forming dearomatization of C3 sulfonamide linked indole derivatives, has been developed. A variety of spiro-indolepyrrolidines were obtained in moderate to excellent yields under mild conditions.

An exploration of the chemistry of the spiro-mamakone system, exemplified by the cytotoxic, fungal metabolite spiro-mamakone A, is presented. The first reported synthesis of the spiro-mamakone carbon skeleton was achieved, as well as the synthesis of a variety of closely related analogues of the natural product. Biological testing of the synthetic analogues generated a structure-activity profil...