• YAKHAK HOEJI
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.104-105
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• 1986

Full details of a modified Friedlander quinoline synthesis, which utilizes a Wadsworth-Emmons-Horner reaction as a key step, will be described.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.30 no.12
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• pp.3061-3065
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• 2009

A series of mono- and 1,1'-bis(heteroaryl)-substituted ferrocenes were prepared by employing Frielander reaction of acetyl- and 1,1'-diacetylferrocene with a series of o-aminoaldehydes. Reactions of 1,1'-diacetylferrocene with two equivalents of 1-aminonaphthalene-2-carbaldehyde and 8-aminoquinoline-7-carbaldehyde afforded a mixture of mono- and 1,1'-bis(heteroaryl)-substituted ferrocenes in a ratio of 1 : 3.1 - 3.8, while the reaction with 4-aminoacridine-3-carbaldehyde did not provide any characterizable product presumably due to the redox instability of the product induced by low reduction potential of benzo[b]-1,10-phenanthroline. Structural and optical properties of the compounds prepared were described.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.29 no.10
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• pp.1988-1992
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• 2008

A series of new derivatives on the ring A of luotonin A were prepared by Friedländer condensation of 6,7,8,10- tetrahydropyrrolo[2,1-b]quinazoline-6,10-dione and suitably substituted 2-aminobenzaldehydes and 2- aminoacetophenones. Their inhibitory activities on topoisomerases and cytotoxicities against selected human cancer cell lines were evaluated. Among the compounds tested, 8-fluoroluotonin A showed similar inhibitory activity on topoisomerase I comparable to camptothecin while luotonin A and 9-hydroxyluotonin A showed 1.37 and 0.94 times stronger inhibitory activity, respectively, on topoisomerase II compared to etoposide. Some derivatives of luotonin A showed moderate cytotoxicity. The possible relationship between the inhibitory activity on Topo II and the cytotoxicity of luotonin A and its analogues, thus, cannot be ruled out.