Regioselective additions of pyrroles to a variety of optically active nitrones under smooth acidic conditions lead to chiral pyrrolic N-hydroxylamines in good to excellent yields. Depending on the position of the chirality on the nitrone partner, the addition products have been isolated with high diastereoselectivity levels. Reaction of glyoxylate based chiral nitrones either at the C-2 or at t...

Up to four stereocenters with a well-defined configuration are generated in a single synthetic step by the cyclocondensation of (R)-phenylglycinol or (1S,2R)-1-amino-2-indanol with stereoisomeric mixtures (racemates, meso forms, diastereoisomers) of cyclohexanone-based δ-keto-acid and δ-keto-diacid derivatives in enantio- and diastereoconvergent processes that involve dynamic kinetic resolution...

A short synthesis of the postulated structure for indolizidine alkaloid 259B with the hydrogens at C5 and C9 entgegen has been achieved with complete control of stereochemistry at C5. Both diastereoisomers at C8 were obtained, but neither proved to be the natural product. The comparison of the mass and FTIR spectral properties of the synthetic compounds to those of the natural material strongly...

The binding affinities of the diastereoisomers of adenosine 3',5'-(cyclic)phosphorothioate, Sp-cAMP[S] and Rp-cAMP[S], for the cyclic AMP- (cAMP-)binding sites on purified and reconstituted pig heart type II cAMP-dependent protein kinase holoenzyme were determined by measuring the ability of these compounds to displace [3H]cAMP from this enzyme. Sp-cAMP[S], a cAMP agonist, displaced 50% of the ...

We characterized the bis-quinolizidine tetracyclic alkaloid (5S, 6S, 7R, 11R)-matrine in a supersonic jet expansion, using chirped-pulsed broadband microwave spectroscopy. Previous crystal diffraction analyses suggested 16 diastereoisomers associated with matrine's four carbon stereocenters but were inconclusive whether lactamic nitrogen atom would additionally produce separated trans-/cis- or ...

The role of neo-angiogenesis in prostate cancer (PCA) growth and metastasis is well established, but the development of effective and non-toxic pharmacological inhibitors of angiogenesis remains an unaccomplished goal. In this regard, targeting aberrant angiogenesis through non-toxic phytochemicals could be an attractive angiopreventive strategy against PCA. The rationale of the present study w...

Milk thistle (Silybum marianum) is a popular herbal product used for hepatoprotection and chemoprevention. Two commercially available formulations are the crude extract, silymarin, and the semipurified product, silibinin. Silymarin consists of at least seven flavonolignans, of which the most prevalent are the diastereoisomers silybin A and silybin B; silibinin consists only of silybin A and sil...