Synthesis and biological evaluation of extraordinarily potent C-10 carba artemisinin dimers against P-falciparum malaria parasites and HL-60 cancer cells

A series of artemisinin dimers incorporating a metabolically stable C-10 carba-linkage have been prepared, several of which show remarkable in vitro antimalarial activity ( as low as 30 pM) versus Plasmodium falciparum and in vitro anticancer activity in the micromolar to nanomolar range versus HL-60 cell lines. (c) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.