TY - CHAP
T1 - Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids
AU - Tamariz, Joaquín
AU - Burgueño-Tapia, Eleuterio
AU - Vázquez, Miguel A.
AU - Delgado, Francisco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Naturally occurring pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are isolated from plants and other sources. The interest of the scientific community in these compounds owes itself to their high toxicity and biological activity, as well as to the challenge of synthesizing their pyrrolizidine scaffold. This review encompasses a wide range of topics found in the literature from 1995 to date, including the occurrence, biosynthesis, toxicity (hepatotoxicity, genotoxicity, and tumorigenicity), biological activity, and pharmacological properties (glycosidase inhibitory activity) of these secondary metabolites. Particular attention is given to the chemistry of PAs, addressing general strategies for formal and total syntheses via amino-based substrates, pyrroles, and pyrrolidine-based derivatives.
AB - Naturally occurring pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are isolated from plants and other sources. The interest of the scientific community in these compounds owes itself to their high toxicity and biological activity, as well as to the challenge of synthesizing their pyrrolizidine scaffold. This review encompasses a wide range of topics found in the literature from 1995 to date, including the occurrence, biosynthesis, toxicity (hepatotoxicity, genotoxicity, and tumorigenicity), biological activity, and pharmacological properties (glycosidase inhibitory activity) of these secondary metabolites. Particular attention is given to the chemistry of PAs, addressing general strategies for formal and total syntheses via amino-based substrates, pyrroles, and pyrrolidine-based derivatives.
KW - Biosynthesis
KW - Glycosidase inhibition
KW - Hepatotoxicity
KW - Natural occurrence
KW - Necine bases
KW - Pyrrolizidine alkaloids
KW - Pyrrolizidine synthesis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85049465644&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/bs.alkal.2018.03.001
DO - 10.1016/bs.alkal.2018.03.001
M3 - Capítulo
C2 - 30001795
AN - SCOPUS:85049465644
SN - 9780128157909
T3 - Alkaloids: Chemistry and Biology
SP - 1
EP - 314
BT - Alkaloids
A2 - Knölker, Hans-Joachim
PB - Academic Press Inc.
ER -