Chemical Research in Chinese Universities ›› 2019, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (4): 616-620.doi: 10.1007/s40242-019-9012-x

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Improved Synthesis of Icaritin and Total Synthesis of β -Anhydroicaritin

TONG Jie1,2, LIU Chang1, WANG Bo1,3   

  1. 1. CAS Key Laboratory of High-performance Synthetic Rubber and Its Composite Materials, Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Process of Jilin Province, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China;
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China;
    3. University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
  • Received:2019-01-14 Revised:2019-04-03 Online:2019-08-01 Published:2019-08-01
  • Contact: LIU Chang, WANG Bo E-mail:wangbo@ciac.ac.cn;liuchang1010@ciac.ac.cn
  • Supported by:
    Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21672203).

Abstract: Natural products icaritin and β-anhydroicaritin with P-glycoprotein(P-gp) inhibitory activities were efficiently synthesized in nine steps from commercially available phloroglucinol. A modified Algar-Flynn-Oyamada cyclization and relay Claisen-Cope rearrangement were employed in this concise route. Our synthesis offers opportunities to synthesize various icariin analogues for biological and pharmacological investigations.

Key words: Icaritin, Flavonol, Regioselectivity, Algar-Flynn-Oyamada