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SUBMITTER: Das J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3876475 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters 20130906 22
Concise syntheses of two Leucetta-derived naphthimidazole alkaloids, kealiiquinone and 2-deoxy-2-aminokealiiquinone, are described based on a biosynthetic-guided hypothesis. Advanced intermediates containing the full naphthimidazole framework are constructed through Friedel-Crafts chemistry followed by oxidation of the electron rich C-ring with hydrogen peroxide. The cytotoxicity of these alkaloids in a breast cancer cell line along with several closely related marine-derived natural products ke ...[more]