Coumarins as anticancer agents: A review on synthetic strategies, mechanism of action and SAR studies
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2015Author
Thakur, Anuradha
Singla, Ramit
Jaitak, Vikas
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Abstract Coumarins are fused benzene and pyrone ring systems which prompt biological investigation to assess their potential therapeutic significance. It possesses immeasurable anticancer potential with minimum side effects depending on the substitutions on the basic nucleus. Coumarins have a tremendous ability to regulate diverse range of cellular pathways that can be explored for selective anticancer activity. This is the first standalone review that emphasis on the assorted retrosynthetic approaches, important targets for molecularly targeted cancer therapy and structure activity relationship studies that highlight the chemical groups responsible for evoking the anticancer potential of coumarin derivatives reported from 2011 to 2014. ? 2015 Elsevier Masson SAS.
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European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry