A facile synthesis of deaza-analogues of the bisindole marine alkaloid topsentin

Molecules

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2518-2527

  Carbone, Anna ^a   Spanò, Virginia ^a   Parrino, Barbara ^a   Ciancimino, Cristina ^a   Attanasi, Orazio A ^b   Favi, Gianfranco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antitumor activity; Bis indole alkaloids; Ethyl 1 (tertbutoxycarbonyl) amino 2 methyl 5 (1 methyl 1H indol 3 yl) 4 (1 methyl 1H indol 3 yl) carbonyl 1H pyrrole 3 carboxylates; Topsentin

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; TOPSENTIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG SCREENING; HUMAN; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ALKALOIDS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; HUMANS; IMIDAZOLES; INDOLES;

EID: 84875621392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules18032518     Document Type: Article

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