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Cyanoethyl derivatives of usnic acid (natural lichen metabolite) were prepared. The reaction proceeded as a C-alkylation process via addition of two acrylonitrile molecules. Cytotoxic effect of the synthesized derivatives on the blood tumor cell lines was studied.
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Dedicated to Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences N. S. Zefirov on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 2, pp. 0566—0569, February, 2016.
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Rakhmanova, M.E., Luzina, O.A., Pokrovskii, M.A. et al. Synthesis and cytotoxic activity of usnic acid cyanoethyl derivatives. Russ Chem Bull 65, 566–569 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11172-016-1338-7
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