@article {43744,
	title = {Identification and synthesis of mycalol analogues with improved potency against anaplastic thyroid carcinonia cell lines},
	journal = {Journal of Natural Products},
	volume = {80},
	year = {2017},
	month = {APR},
	pages = {1125-1133},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {The marine metabolite mycalol (1) has a specific inhibitory activity on cells of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC), a very aggressive and rare cancer that does not have effective conventional therapy. In this study, we describe six new related analogues (2-7) that differ in the length of the terminal alkyl residue and the presence of acetate or 3S-hydroxybutyrate (3S)-3HB as a substituent at C-19. Despite the structural{\textquoteright} analogies, some of the new members were significantly more-cytotokic than 1 on cell lines,derivecl from human ATC. Structures inclusive of the 2{\textquoteright}R,3R,4S,7R,8S,19R absolute configuration were asigned to 2-7 on the basis of detailed spectroscopic analysis, synthesis of different isomers, and application of ECD and Mosher{\textquoteright}s methods. This work led to the identification of mycal61-578 (3) as the most potent analogue, with an IC50 of 2.3 mu M on FRO cells:},
	doi = {10.1021/acs.jnatprod.7b00043},
	author = {Cutignano, Adele and Seetharamsingh, B. and D{\textquoteright}Angelo, Daniela and Nuzzo, Genoveffa and Khairnar, Pankaj V. and Fusco, Alfredo and Reddy, D. Srinivasa and Fontana, Angelo}
}
@article {45594,
	title = {Insect-repellent and mosquitocidal effects of noreremophilane- and nardoaristolone-based compounds},
	journal = {ACS Omega},
	volume = {4},
	year = {2019},
	month = {JAN},
	pages = {2188{\textendash}2195},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {<p>Here, we disclose novel mosquito-repellent synthetic hydrindanes based on noreremophilanes and nardoaristolone B which show increased activity against adult females of Aedes aegypti. The noreremophilanes and nardoaristolone B with hydrindane skeleton are structurally related to nootkatone with decalin skeleton, a well-studied natural product extracted from a grape fruit. Out of our library of compounds synthesized based on the noreremophilanes and nardoaristolone B scaffolds, NDS-100598 (compound 20) exhibits higher repellent and knock-down effects at a very low concentration (0.25 mg/cm2), while a few analogues showed considerably enhanced activity compared to racemic nootkatone. This is the first report documenting insect-repellent and knock-down activity of the noreremophilanes class of compounds.</p>
},
	doi = {10.1021/acsomega.8b03652},
	author = {Handore, K. L. and Kalmode, H. P. and Sayyad, S. and Seetharamsingh, B. and Gathalkar, G. and Padole, S. and Pawar, P. V. and Joseph, M. and Sen, A. and Reddy, D. S.}
}
