Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10593233 | Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters | 2012 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
As a part of our research program on developing novel anti-Alzheimer's disease medicines, several dihydrofuran-fused perhydrophenanthrenes (DFs) possessing a phenolic hydroxyl group were found to exhibit potent dendritic and axonal regeneration activities. Introduction of a methoxy group into the perhydrophenanthrene skeleton was successfully achieved via a PhI(OAc)2-mediated phenolic oxidation of a benzocyclobutene nucleus and subsequent tandem intramolecular electrocyclic reactions based on o-quinodimethane chemistry. We could reveal that a new methoxy derivative having a phenolic hydroxyl group exerted the most significant effects on the dendritic and axonal extensions in the damaged neurons, among DFs examined in this study.
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Authors
Kenji Sugimoto, Kosuke Tamura, Naoki Ohta, Chihiro Tohda, Naoki Toyooka, Hideo Nemoto, Yuji Matsuya,