In order to predict the antioxidant activity of 22 pinoline derivatives (1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-beta-carbolines), two dimensional quantitative-structure activity relationships (2D-QSAR) analysis of 19 hexahydropiridoindoles and 12 flavonoids was realized. Five statistically significant models were obtained from randomly constituted training sets (21 compounds) and subsquently validated with the corresponding test sets (10 compounds). Antioxidant activity (pIC50) was correlated with 5 molecular descriptors calculated with the software DRAGON. The best predictive model (n = 21, q2 = 0.794, N= 2, r2 = 0.888, s = 0.157) could offer structural insights into the features conferring a strong antioxidant activity to compounds built from a pinoline scaffold prior to their synthesis.
Upon one-electron oxidation by ammonium hexanitratocerate(iv) (CAN), aci-nitro anions 3a-d resulting from oxa-Michael addition of allylic alcohol to a,b-disubstituted nitroalkenes 1a-d undergo stereoselective radical cyclization into 3-nitro-4-nitrooxymethyltetrahydrofurans 6a-d and 3-nitro-4-hydroxymethyltetrahydrofurans 7,8a-d.
The synthesis of various heterocycles and carbocycles (tetrahydrofurans, pyrrolidines, cyclopentanes) has been achieved by using new and efficient ionic addition/cyclization sequences. Nitroolefins play an important role in the Michael addition induced ring-closing reactions (MIRC) reported in the present article, with various substituted alcohols, amines, Grignard reactants, or malonate derivatives acting as the nucleophile partner. The optimized cascade reactions were high yielding in most cases and highly stereoselective, creating up to three stereogenic centers starting from achiral substrates.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.