Sintesi di leganti ciclopentadienonici e piridilimidazolici per complessi metallici. Metodo classico e microonde a confronto

In questo elaborato è stata messa a punto una procedura sintetica, semplice e veloce che sfrutta la tecnica microonde per la sintesi di tetraarilciclopentadienoni variamente sostituiti mediante una condensazione bis-aldolica tra 1,3 difenilacetone con dichetoni aromatici variamente sostituiti. Questa nuova tecnica consente di ottenere tetraarilciclopentadienoni con rese da basse a buone in 25 minuti a 70°C. La stessa procedura sintetica è stata valutata per ottenere leganti piridilimidazolici, usando come fonte di azoto NH4OAc. Basse rese e la formazione di svariati sottoprodotti ha diretto lo studio verso un approccio classico per la sintesi di questi sistemi. I leganti piridilimidazolici sono stati poi impiegati per la sintesi di complessi di Zn(II) luminescenti, i quali sono stati caratterizzati anche da un punto di vista fotofisico.

Computer assisted synthesis and in-vitro cytotoxic evaluation of new pyrazole-fused isoquinolinoquinones derivatives as PI3K receptor antagonist with promising antitumoral activity

The importance of pyrazole and isoquinoline-5,8-dione scaffolds in medical chemistry is underlined by the high number of drugs currently on trading that contains these active ingredients. Due to their cytotoxic capability, the interest of medicinal chemists in these heterocyclic rings has grown exponentially especially, for cancer therapy. In this project, the first synthesis of pyrazole-fused isoquinoline-5,8-diones has been developed. 1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition followed by oxidative aromatization, established by our research group, has been employed. Screening of reaction conditions and characterization studies about the regioselectivity have been successfully performed. A remote control of regioselectivity, to achieve the two possible regioisomers has been accomplished. Through Molecular Docking studies, Structure-Activity relationship of differently substituted scaffolds containing our central core proved that a family of PI3K inhibitors have been discovered. Finally, in order to verify the promising antitumor activity, a first test of cell viability in vitro on T98G cell line of a solid brain tumor, the Glioblastoma Multiforme, showed cytotoxic inhibition comparable to currently trade anticancer drugs.

Mechanochemical solvent-free synthesis of Sn-β Zeolite and Ag2O/TiO2 catalysts

Preparations of heterogeneous catalysts are usually complex processes that involve several procedures as precipitation, crystallization and hydrothermal treatments. This processes are really dependent by the operative conditions such as temperature, pH, concentration etc. Hence the resulting product is extremely affected by any possible variations in these parameters making this synthesis really fragile. With the aim to improve these operations has been decided to exploit a new possible strong environment-respectful process by mechanochemical treatment, which permits to carry out solvent free-solvent synthesis exploiting the Mixer Mill MM400 (Retsch) in order to have reproducible results. Two different systems have been studied in this kind of synthesis: a tin β -zeolite tested in a H-trasnfer reaction of cyclohexanone and a silver on titania catalyst used in the fluorination of 2,2 dimethyl glucaric acid. Each catalyst has been characterized by different techniques in order to understand the transformations involved in the mechanochemical treatment.