In the search for new antimalarials, we used the quinone scaffold of marine secondary metabolites as a chemical starting point to synthesize new thiazinoquinone compounds. Most of synthetic derivatives have shown a significant pharmacological activity and some structural requirements, critical for both the antiplasmodial effect and cytotoxicity, have been evidenced. The redox properties of the prepared compounds have been investigated by computational studies and electrochemical assays, which indicated that a higher antiplasmodial activity of some thiazinoquinones is related to their greater ability to form the semiquinone species and strongly interact with free Fe(III)-protoporphyrin IX.
Marine inspired antiplasmodial thiazinoquinones: Synthesis, computational studies and electrochemical assays / C. Imperatore, M. Persico, A. Aiello, P. Luciano, M. Guiso, M.F. Sanasi, D. Taramelli, S. Parapini, G. Cebrian-Torrejon, A. Domenech-Carbo, C. Fattorusso, M. Menna. - In: RSC ADVANCES. - ISSN 2046-2069. - 5:86(2015), pp. 70689-70702. [10.1039/c5ra09302c]
Marine inspired antiplasmodial thiazinoquinones: Synthesis, computational studies and electrochemical assays
D. Taramelli;S. Parapini;
2015
Abstract
In the search for new antimalarials, we used the quinone scaffold of marine secondary metabolites as a chemical starting point to synthesize new thiazinoquinone compounds. Most of synthetic derivatives have shown a significant pharmacological activity and some structural requirements, critical for both the antiplasmodial effect and cytotoxicity, have been evidenced. The redox properties of the prepared compounds have been investigated by computational studies and electrochemical assays, which indicated that a higher antiplasmodial activity of some thiazinoquinones is related to their greater ability to form the semiquinone species and strongly interact with free Fe(III)-protoporphyrin IX.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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