Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2010-09-01

Synthesis of 3,3-diindolyl oxyindoles efficiently catalysed by FeCl3 and their in vitro evaluation for anticancer activity.

Ahmed Kamal, Y V V Srikanth, M Naseer A Khan, Thokhir Basha Shaik, Md Ashraf

Index: Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 20 , 5229, (2010)

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Abstract

A simple and highly efficient method has been developed for the synthesis of 3,3-diindolyl oxyindoles by the reaction of indoles with isatin or 5-fluoro isatin using a catalytic amount (5 mol%) of FeCl(3) at room temperature in a short reaction time in high yields. All these compounds were evaluated against a panel of five human cancer lines and most of them showed potent cytotoxicity. Compound 4b showed IC(50) of 4.7 and 5 microM against SK-N-SH and DU-145 cell lines, respectively, whereas 4c, 4d, 4f and 4k showed IC(50) of 2.2, 1.2, 3.6 and 3.6 microM, respectively, against DU-145 cell line. Interestingly, some of the compounds are selectively potent in prostate cancer (DU-145) with IC(50) values of 1.2-19.6 microM.Copyright 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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