Synthesis of furo[3,2-g]chromones under microwave irradiation and their antitumor activity evaluation

A series of furo[3,2-g]chromone derivatives were synthesized via the reaction of furochromone carbaldehyde 1 with amines 3a - d and thioglycolic acid to give thiazolidinones 4a - d . The later react with benzaldehyde/thiourea or hydroxylamine and DMF-DMA in glacial acetic acid to give thiazolopyrimidines 5a - d or thiazoloisoxazoles 6a - d , respectively. Also, the synthesis of α-aminophosphonates via the one-pot reaction of 1 and amines 3a , b were trapped by dialkylphosphites 7a - c afforded the corresponding α-aminophosphonates 8a - f . Applying hexaalkyltriamidophosphites 9a , b to 1 gives alkylidenephosphorane ylides 11a , b in an open structure form. In the present investigation, the in vitro inhibition capacity of compounds ( 4a , 4c , 5b , 5c , 6b - d , 8a - f , and 11a ) was screened in three human cancer cell lines HCT-116, MCF-7, and HepG2. The anticancer activity results revealed that 8b and 8e had more potent cytotoxic inhibition activity against HCT-116 cell line; however, all the tested compounds had obviously less cytotoxic activity against MCF-7 cell line, while 5b , 5c , and 6d were potent against HepG2 cell line compared with that of doxorubicin.