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Natural-Product Hybrids: Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Quinone-Annonaceous Acetogenins

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2000

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Abstract

Replacement of the butyrolactone unit of the natural products with a quinone subunit has resulted in the synthesis of natural-product hybrids of quinone–mucocin (1). These compounds, which are combined from partial structures of annonaceous acetogenins and ubiquinone, are very potent inhibitors of complex I (an NADH ubiquinone oxidoreductase) from mitochondrial membranes.