Browsing by Autor "Teresa Abad-Grillo"

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Evaluation of substituted phenalenone analogues as antiplasmodial agents
(Elsevier BV, 2013) David Gutiérrez; Ninoska Flores; Teresa Abad-Grillo; Grant McNaughton‐Smith
Synthesis of Substituted 1H-Phenalen-1-ones and Nitrogen-Containing Heterocyclic Analogues as Potential Anti-Plasmodial Agents
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2025) Teresa Abad-Grillo; Grant McNaughton‐Smith; Mónica Blanco Freijo; David Gutiérrez; Ninoska Flores
Given the known biological activity of both natural and synthetic substituted 1H-phenalen-1-ones, the generation of a small chemically and structurally diverse 1H-phenalen-1-one-based library of compounds was warranted. Herein, we have synthesized several groups of compounds to broaden and improve the chemical diversity of our 1H-phenalen-1-one collection. Additionally, we have also introduced hydroxyl, amides or carboxylic groups onto the core, or nitrogen atoms into the core, to increase the chemical diversity while also lowering the ClogP values to aid their water solubility. Notably, we have also improved the synthetic routes to several compounds of interest and have observed the unexpected formation of phenoxazine and acridin-7-one systems during cross-coupling reactions with polyfunctional anilines. Combining the compounds generated in this work with previous ones has enabled us to create a library of chemically diverse 1H-phenalen-1-one available for screening assays. Evaluation of anti-plasmodial activity against the chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum strain FCR3 revealed four compounds with notable activity, three of which exhibited IC50 values below 1 µM, while none displayed significant cytotoxicity at 10 µM.