Dimethyl sulfoxide-aided copper(0)-catalyzed intramolecular decarbonylative rearrangement of N-aryl isatins leading to acridones

Described here is the first example of Cu(0)-catalyzed intramolecular decarbonylative rearrangements of readily available N-aryl isatins assisted by solvent dimethyl sulfoxide(DMSO)under air atmosphere and additive-free conditions leading to various biologically important acridones in good to excellent yields.This novel transformation is proposed to go through a sequential DMSO-aided Cu insertion into the amide C-N bond,CO extrusion,Cu migration,reductive elimination and DMSO-aided proton migration processes,involving multiple types of bond cleavage and formation in a single chemical step.

Study on the second-order non-linear optical properties of 10-hydrocarbylacridones

Twenty 10-hydrocarbylacridones and 2-methylacridone, 1-hydroxyacridone were synthesized from acridone and characterized by mp, IR, UV, 1H NMR and MS. Using Nd:YAG as a laser source, the second-order harmonic generation (SHG) values of the acridone derivatives were measured in powder state as compared with urea powder. The results showed that the SHG values of some of 10-hydrocarbylacridones were higher than that of urea, while others were lower. Although the hydrocarbyl substituents (R) attached to nitrogen atom of acridone were different in size and electronegativity, they had a little effect on the SHG values of 10-hydrocarbylacridones. Substituents, such as methyl or hydroxy group connected to the phenyl ring, caused a little effect on the SHG values, too, compared with acrid one. The ability of R to push electron toward the nitrogen atom or to pull electron from the nitrogen atom play an important role on the maximum wavelengths of UV-visible absorption of acridone derivatives.

Synthesis and Biological Activities of 10-Substituted 9-Aryl-3,4,6,7,9,10-hexahydroacridine-1,8(2H,5H)-diones

A series of 10-substituted 9-aryl-3,4,6,7,9,10-hexahydroacridine-1,8（2H,5H）-dione derivatives 2 were synthesized by a two-step reaction.All the compounds were characterized by IR,MS,and ^1H NMR.Crystals of 1a and 2c were obtained and determined by X-ray single-crystal diffraction.Crystal data of 1a：C_（20）H_（22）O_5,orthorhombic system,space group Pbcn,a = 15.8888（19）,b = 18.228（2）,c = 11.6926（13） A,V = 3386.4（7） A^3,Z = 8,F（000） = 1456,Dc = 1.343 g/cm^3,R = 0.0456 and w R = 0.1600.Crystal data of 2c：C_（26）H_（24） Cl NO_3,monoclinic system,space group P2_1/n,a = 8.628（2）,b = 10.912（3）,c = 22.425（7） A,β = 90.786（4）°,V = 2111.1（10） A^3,Z = 4,F（000） = 912,D_c = 1.365 g/cm^3,R = 0.0613,and w R = 0.1196.The results of biological experiments show that compounds 2b and 2c could inhibit the proliferation of Hep G2 cells.

3D-QSAR Topomer CoMFA Studies on 10 N-Substituted Acridone Derivatives

Topomer CoMFA models have been used to optimize the potency of 15 biologically active acridone derivatives se- lected from the literature. Their 3D chemical structures were sliced into three acyclic R groups, to produce a fragment that is present in each training set. The analysis was successful with 3 as the number of components that provided the highest q2 results: q2 is 0.56, which is the cross-validated coefficient for the specified number of components, giving rise to 0.37 standard error of estimate (q2 stderr), and a conventional coefficient (r2) of 0.82, whose standard error of estimate is 0.24. These results provide structure-activity relationship (sar) among the compounds. The result of the To-pomer CoMFA studies was used to design novel derivatives for future studies.

SYNTHESIS OF 6,7-METHYLENEDIOXY-3-THIA-1(2H,4H)ACRIDONE AND THE RELATED THIA-ACRIDINE-PUSED HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS

6,7-Methylenedioxy-3-thia-1(2H,4H)acridone and the related acridine-fused quinolines and pyridines,and also their flavylium-perchlorates were synthesized.The structures of all these compounds prepared are characterized by elemental analysis.IR and H-NMR spectra.