Antiinfective and antitumoral compounds isolated from tropical lianas

US8877718B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg · DE

Inventors

• Gerhard Bringmann · Würzburg, DE
• Stefan Rüdenauer · Weinheim, DE
• Reto Brun · Therwil, CH
• Andreas Irmer · Pratteln, CH
• Ralf Bargou · Lindau (Bodensee), DE
• Manik Chatterjee · Würzburg, DE
• Anastasia Voskobojnik · Bobingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 6, 2009
• Grant date: Nov 4, 2014
• Expiry date: Jan 27, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07H15/20
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention relates to naphthoquinone derivatives isolated from solid callus cultures from two species of the palaeotropical plant families Dioncophyllaceae and Ancistrocladaceae. It further relates to methods of their production as well as to their use as antiinfective and antitumoral pharmaceuticals.