Various conjugates of amino acids with chrysin in which the amino acid was bonded through the C-or N-terminus to the flavone were prepared using peptide chemistry methods (symmetric anhydrides and activated esters).Flavonoids are the most widely distributed compounds of natural origin. They can be found in practically all plant species. At present, flavonoids comprise about 6500 natural compounds [1]. The study of flavonoids is becoming increasingly interesting because of the important role that they play in the metabolism of plants and animals and their high and diversified biological activity [2]. Chrysin (5,7-dihydroxyflavone) is one of the most common flavonoids, has been isolated from various plant families [3,4], and possesses, like its derivatives, a broad spectrum of biological activity. Thus, chrysin exhibits anticancer [5,6], antioxidant [7, 8], anti-inflammatory [9, 10], vasodilating [11, 12], immunomodulating [13, 14], antibacterial [15, 16], antifungal [16], antiprotozal [17], neuroprotective [18], hypotensive [19], and anti-allergy [20] activity. Chrysin derivatives possess hypoglycemic [21], anticancer [22-25], anti-inflammatory [26, 27], and antibacterial [15] action.Considering the importance to the metabolism of all animals of amino acids and their derivatives, our goal was to synthesize chrysin derivatives with pharmacophores containing amino acids.The amino-acid derivatives of chrysin were synthesized via two modification pathways. The first was based on formation of the ester of N-protected amino acid and phenolic compounds. The most suitable and convenient method for synthesizing 7-O-amino-acid chromone derivatives is the reaction of 7-hydroxychromones and symmetric anhydrides of N-substituted amino acids because the reaction proceeds under mild conditions and is not complicated by side reactions [28]. It has been used successfully to synthesize similar types of compounds [29,30].The hydroxyls of 5,7-dihydroxychromones have different reactivities because of the different influence of electrondonors, steric factors, and intramolecular H-bonds. Therefore, the 7-hydroxyl of the chromone system is acylated exclusively under mild conditions [31,32].Symmetric anhydrides of N-protected amino acids were prepared by reaction of dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC) with two equivalents of the corresponding N-protected amino acid in anhydrous dioxane at 0°C. The amines of the amino acids were blocked with t-butyloxycarbonyl (Boc), benzyloxycarbonyl (Cbz), and p-toluenesulfonic acid (Tos). Chrysin was acylated by the resulting amino-acid anhydrides at 0°C in anhydrous dioxane in the presence of catalytic amounts of 4-dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP) to produce N-protected 7-O-aminoacyl-5-hydroxy-2-phenylchromen-4-ones 2-20. The products contained glycine (2, 8), L-alanine (3, 9), L-valine (4, 10), L-leucine (5, 11), L-isoleucine (6, 12), L-methionine (13), L-phenylalanine (7, 14), β-alanine (15, 17, 19), and 6-aminohexanoic acid (16, 18, 20).The selective acylation of the chromone 7-hydroxyl was confirmed by PMR ...