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The 4-aryl-2(5// )-furanone unit proved to be present in many naturally occurring (91JOC6275) and medicinally important compounds (93JHC1581). Examples are the potent antibiotics rubrolide A-F 90a-f, isolated by Miao and Andersen from the colonial tunicate Ritterela rubra (Scheme 26) (91JOC6275). 

The imposing structure and potential medicinal importance of rapamycin provide a strong impetus for the development of an efficient path by which a total synthesis can be achieved. At present, the chemical literature is replete with interesting synthetic studies that focus on various features of the rapamycin molecule. These undertakings provide salient testimony to the excitement that this natural product has generated. Rapamycin has already succumbed to four distinct and instructive total syntheses 5 8 this chapter will... 

S)-a-substituted P-bromo-a-hydroxy acids (S)-4 are very important chiral synthon for medicinally important compounds, such as potential new hypoglycemia active alkylglycidic acids (ref. 1) and anti-ulcer active misoprost (ref. 2). 

This method is very simple and convenient, therefore it can be widely utilized to the synthesis of the medicinally important compounds which have this chiral synthon (ref. 7). 

Medicinally Important Cold Complexes, Their Analogs and Reactions 287... 

Table 6.1 Medicinally important chrysotherapy complexes. Adapted from Shaw [17].

As discussed, the cultivation of C. sativa with high content of A9-THC (drug-type) is not allowed in many coimtries. Because of this, there is no opportunity to harvest a high amoimt of the medicinally important substance A9-THC directly from plant material. In the synthesis route for semisynthetic A9-THC, natural CBD from fiber hemp plants is employed. It can be extracted with non-polar solvents such as petroleum ether and purified by recrystalUza-fion in n-pentane. This procedure avoids the formation of abnormal CBD and gives the opportunity to produce A9-THC from fiber hemp. Semisyn-fhetic A9-THC is disfinguishable from the synthetic compound because it contains, besides the major product, small amounts of A9-THC-C3 and A9-THC-C4, which are not available in the synthetic product. 

Chander Mohan was born in 1975 at Dhariwal, Punjab, India. He received his B.Pharm. and M.Tech.(Pharm.) in bulk drugs from Guru Nanak Dev University and the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Mohali. After that he worked as senior chemist at Dr. Reddy s Research Foundation, Hyderabad. He then joined Professor M. P. Mahajan s research group in 2002 for his doctoral studies. His research is focused on the synthesis and chemical transformation of C-5/C-6-substituted pyrimidinones. His research interests include synthesis of medicinally important molecules, transition metal-induced transformations in organic synthesis, reaction mechanism and total synthesis of natural products. 

Recently, Jankowski et al. [80] reported the application of MW to the Diels-Alder synthesis of N-methyloctahydroisoquinoline adducts, which are important intermediates in the synthesis of medicinally important compounds, such as HIV protease inhibitor isoquinoline carboxylate pharmaceuticals. The reaction of the arecoline 67 or its isomer 70 with Danishefsky s diene 68 in toluene (Scheme 4.32) was studied under both conventional and MW heating in sealed tubes, i. e. at elevated pressure. 

The readily available 2 -aminochalcones provide easy access to 2-aryl-l,2,3,4-tetrahy-dro-4-quinolones in yet another solvent-free cydization reaction using montmorillo-nite K 10 clay under microwave irradiation conditions [150] the products are valuable precursors for the medicinally important quinolones (Scheme 6.47). 

The use of computational methods for the calculation of molecular properties has been a perennial goal of chemists. In recent years, the field of computational chemistry has become a firmly established discipline. Computational chemists have made impressive contributions to almost every aspect of chemistry, ranging from structural organic and inorganic chemistry to the prediction of polymer properties and the design of medicinally important therapeutic agents. While many computer-based methods are robust and widely utilized, the continued development and refinement of software and the underlying theory remains an active area of research.1,2... 

Catalytic RCM and another Zr-catalyzed process, the kinetic resolution of cyclic allylic ethers, joined forces in our laboratories in 1995 to constitute a fully-cata-lytic two-step synthesis of optically pure 2-substituted chromenes. These structural units comprise a critical component of a range of medicinally important agents (see below). Our studies arose from unsuccessful attempts to effect the catalytic kinetic resolution of the corresponding chromenes [13] a representative example is illustrated in Eq. 3. 

As indicated by the aforementioned examples U5-U8>5 the most useful feature of the intramolecular trapping of o-xylylenes generated from benzocyclobutenes is the control of stereochemistry so that high purity of ( )-estrone could be obtained. Subsequent molecular manipulation of synthetic estrone may give rise to alternative routes to other medicinally important steroid drugs. 

The medicinal importance of 2-aryltryptamines led Chu and co-workers to develop an efficient route to these compounds (130) via a Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling of protected 2-bromotryptamines 128 with arylboronic acids 129 [137]. Several Suzuki conditions were explored and only a partial listing of the arylboronic acids is shown here. In addition, boronic acids derived from naphthalene, isoquinoline, and indole were successfully coupled with 128. The C-2 bromination of the protected tryptamines was conveniently performed using pyridinium hydrobromide perbromide (70-100%). 2-Phenyl-5-(and 7-)azaindoles have been prepared via a Suzuki coupling of the corresponding 2-iodoazaindoles [19]. 

The medicinally important )3-lactam antibiotic thienamycin (34) has stimulated several investigations into the application of the aldol reaction for the introduction of the hydroxyethyl moiety with the indicated Cg and Cg stereochemistry (29,30). Low-temperature enolization (LDA, THF) of either 35 (29a,b) or 36 (30) and subsequent condensation with excess acetaldehyde afforded the illustrated kinetic aldol adducts (eqs. [22] and [23]). In both examples the modest levels of threo diastereoselection are comparable to related data for unhindered cyclic ketone lithium enolates. Related condensations on the penam nucleus have also been reported (31). 

Since biguanides are of outstanding medicinal importance (see Section IX), several methods have been devised for their estimation both in the pure state, and in body fluids (e.g. blood, urine, etc.). The use of picro-lonic acid in identifjdng drugs of basic character, including biguanides, has been described 759). 

Since even low overdoses cause severe inflammation of the mucous membranes of both the small intestine and the colon, the past medicinal importance of the Convolvulaceous resin glycosides as purgative herbal drugs has now been supplanted by the introduction of alternative phytopharmaceuticals with less severe... 

Cardiac glycosides are medicinally important steroids. Cardenolides are used in heart therapy, as emetics, diuretics, and purgatives. They affect the Na+/K+-ATPase and are very toxic at high doses. 

Furanocoumarlns have a number of scientifically interesting and even economically and medicinally Important actions. They are effectively used in human medicine in the treatment of vitiligo (skin depigmentation, leukoderma) ( ) and psoriasis (10,11), and have shown promise against certain other human maladies (12-15). Plants that contain furanocoumarlns are known to cause acute photosensltlzatlon (phytophotodermatltls) in man (2,16). 

Bringmann, G., Feineis, D Friedrich, H. and Hille, A. 1991. Endogenous alkaloids in man - Synthesis, analytics, in vivo identification, and medicinal importance. Planta Medica, 57 S73-S84. 

Indole is the parent of a very large number of alkaloids and medicinally important compounds. Its reactions, and particularly the synthesis of complex derivatives, occupy central stage in heterocyclic chemistry. 

Artemisia annua and (—)-o -bisabolol from Matricaria recutita (German chamomile). Addition of IPP to GPP produces 2 , 6 -famesylpyropho-sphate (FPP), the precursor for all sesquiterpenes. Farnesylpyrophosphate can cyclize by various cyclase enzymes in various ways, leading to the production of a variety of sesquiterpenes. Some of these sesquiterpenes are medicinally important hioactive compounds. For example, (—)-o -bisabolol and its derivatives have potent anti-inflammatory and spasmolytic properties, and artemisinin is an antimalarial drug. 

One of the simplest and most significant of the diterpenes is phytol, a reduced form of geranylgeraniol, which constitutes the lipophilic side-chain of the chlorophylls. Phytol also forms a part of vitamin E (tocopherols) and K molecules. Vitamin A is also a 20-carbon-containing compound, and can be regarded as a diterpene. However, vitamin A is formed from a cleavage of a tetraterpene. Among the medicinally important diterpenes, paclitaxel, isolated from Taxus brevifolia (family Taxaceae), is one of the most successful anticancer drugs of modern time. 

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