Coumarin Synthesis Building Blocks with Anticancer Activity

Thu, 30 May 2024 09:11:56 +0000

Coumarin, also known as bisfuran cyclooxaphthalone, is a lactone compound widely found in Rutaceae and Umbelliferae. Coumarin is a general term for a class of natural products with a benzo-αpyrone structure, which is widely used in medicine, fragrance, dyes, instrument analysis, agriculture and other fields. The drug molecules with coumarin and its derivatives as the basic skeleton have a wide range of biological activities, such as antioxidant, anticoagulant, antiviral, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, hypoglycemic, anticancer and neuroprotective, which makes coumarins attractive for further optimization as novel drug templates. So far, there are more than 35 clinical stage and marketed drugs containing coumarin.