Enhancing structural diversity through chemical engineering of Ambrosia tenuifolia extract for novel anti-glioblastoma compounds.

ABSTRACT: Natural products are an unsurpassed source of leading structures in drug discovery. The biosynthetic machinery of the producing organism offers an important source for modifying complex natural products, leading to analogs that are unattainable by chemical semisynthesis or total synthesis. In this report, through the combination of natural products chemistry and diversity-oriented synthesis, a diversity-enhanced extracts approach is proposed using chemical reactions that remodel molecular scaffolds directly on extracts of natural resources. This method was applied to subextract enriched in sesquiterpene lactones from Ambrosia tenuifolia (Fam. Asteraceae) using acid media conditions (p-toluenesulfonic acid) to change molecular skeletons. The chemically modified extract was then fractionated

SUBMITTER: Adessi TG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11190268 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature