Anti-inflammatory aromadendrane- and cadinane-type sesquiterpenoids from the South China Sea sponge Acanthella cavernosa

• Shou-Mao Shen,
• Qing Yang,
• Yi Zang,
• Jia Li,
• Xueting Liu and
• Yue-Wei Guo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 916–925, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.91

• product of squamulosone [aromadendr-1(10)-en-9-one] by the fungus Curvularia lunata ATCC 12017 [19], indicating (+)-1 and (−)-1 were enantiomeric each other. To secure the absolute configuration of optically pure (+)-1, a TDDFT-ECD calculation, which has proven to be a reliable tool for the absolute

• (J in Hz) and 13C NMR data of compounds (+)-1, 4, and 5. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 160: HPLC chromatograms of 4 and 5, chiral separation of 4 and 5, X-ray crystallographic data for 2, spectra of compounds (+)-1, 4 and 5, TDDFT-ECD calculation of compound (+)-1

Correction: Varioloid A, a new indolyl-6,10b-dihydro-5aH-[1]benzofuro[2,3-b]indole derivative from the marine alga-derived endophytic fungus Paecilomyces variotii EN-291

• Peng Zhang,
• Xiao-Ming Li,
• Xin-Xin Mao,
• Attila Mándi,
• Tibor Kurtán and
• Bin-Gui Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2394–2395, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.215

• benzenoid derivatives; cytotoxicity; marine alga-derived fungus; Paecilomyces variotii; TDDFT-ECD calculation; The authors wish to rename compounds 1 and 2 (shown in Figure 1 of the original article [1]) as varioloids C and D, respectively (Figure 1), as the synonyms varioloids A and B have already been

Biomimetic synthesis and HPLC–ECD analysis of the isomers of dracocephins A and B

• Viktor Ilkei,
• András Spaits,
• Anita Prechl,
• Áron Szigetvári,
• Zoltán Béni,
• Miklós Dékány,
• Csaba Szántay Jr,
• Judit Müller,
• Árpád Könczöl,
• Ádám Szappanos,
• Attila Mándi,
• Sándor Antus,
• Ana Martins,
• Attila Hunyadi,
• György Tibor Balogh,
• György Kalaus (†),
• Hedvig Bölcskei,
• László Hazai and
• Tibor Kurtán

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2523–2534, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.247

• the stereochemical studies of flavanoid alkaloids, the solution TDDFT–ECD calculation method [6] was applied to 2a–d and 3a–d. For the validation of our computational approach on flavonoids, the ECD spectra of (R)-naringenin ((R)-1), the building blocks of dracocephins A and B, were calculated first

• stereoisomers compared to that of the reported data with Chiralpak AS-H [2]. The solution TDDFT-ECD calculation approach was also applied to the stereoisomers of dracocephins B 3a–d in order to check the applicability of this method. The MMFF conformational search of (2R,5’’R)-3c and (2R,5’’S)-3b resulted in 41

Varioloid A, a new indolyl-6,10b-dihydro-5aH-[1]benzofuro[2,3-b]indole derivative from the marine alga-derived endophytic fungus Paecilomyces variotii EN-291

• Peng Zhang,
• Xiao-Ming Li,
• Xin-Xin Mao,
• Attila Mándi,
• Tibor Kurtán and
• Bin-Gui Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2012–2018, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.188

• varioloid B (2). Both compounds 1 and 2 exhibited cytotoxicity against A549, HCT116, and HepG2 cell lines, with IC50 values ranging from 2.6 to 8.2 µg/mL. Keywords: bisindolyl benzenoid derivatives; cytotoxicity; marine alga-derived fungus; Paecilomyces variotii; TDDFT-ECD calculation; Introduction The

Preparation of neuroprotective condensed 1,4-benzoxazepines by regio- and diastereoselective domino Knoevenagel–[1,5]-hydride shift cyclization reaction

• László Tóth,
• Yan Fu,
• Hai Yan Zhang,
• Attila Mándi,
• Katalin E. Kövér,
• Tünde-Zita Illyés,
• Attila Kiss-Szikszai,
• Balázs Balogh,
• Tibor Kurtán,
• Sándor Antus and
• Péter Mátyus

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2594–2602, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.272

• . Separated enantiomers of the products were characterized by HPLC-ECD data, which allowed their configurational assignment on the basis of TDDFT-ECD calculation of the solution conformers. Two compounds showed neuroprotective activities against hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) or β-amyloid25–35 (Aβ25–35)-induced

• cellular injuries in human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells in the range of those of positive controls. Keywords: 1,4-benzoxazepine; diastereoselective domino Knoevenagel–[1,5]-hydride shift cyclization; neuroprotective; tert-amino effect; TDDFT-ECD calculation; Introduction The 1,4-benzoxazepine structural

• ). TDDFT-ECD calculation was proved an efficient method to determine the absolute configuration of separated stereoisomers of bioactive synthetic [19] and natural derivatives [20][21] on the basis of their HPLC-ECD spectra. For the configurational assignment of the separated enantiomers, TDDFT-ECD