Molecules (Jan 2023)

Traveling across Life Sciences with Acetophenone—A Simple Ketone That Has Special Multipurpose Missions

  • Fedor I. Zubkov,
  • Vladimir V. Kouznetsov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28010370
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 1
p. 370

Abstract

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Each metabolite, regardless of its molecular simplicity or complexity, has a mission or function in the organism biosynthesizing it. In this review, the biological, allelochemical, and chemical properties of acetophenone, as a metabolite involved in multiple interactions with various (mi-cro)organisms, are discussed. Further, the details of its biogenesis and chemical synthesis are provided, and the possibility of its application in different areas of life sciences, i.e., the status quo of acetophenone and its simple substituted analogs, is examined. In particular, natural and synthetic simple acetophenone derivatives are analyzed as promising agrochemicals and useful scaffolds for drug research and development.

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