RT Book,_Section T1 Synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of coumarins as new scaffold on the Parkinson´s disease A1 Matos, Maria João Correia Pinto Carvalho de A1 Viña Castelao, María Dolores A1 Janeiro, Patricia A1 Orallo Cambeiro, Francisco A1 Uriarte Villares, Eugenio A1 Santana Penín, María Lourdes AB With the aim to find out the structural features for the MAO inhibitory activity and selectivity, in the present communication we report the design, synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of a new series of 8-bromo-6-methyl-3-phenylcoumarin derivatives without substituent and with different number of methoxy substituent in the 3-phenyl ring. The substituent in this new scaffold was introduced in the 3', 4' and/or 5' positions of the 3-phenyl ring of the coumarin moiety. The synthesized compounds 3-6 were evaluated as MAO A and B inhibitors using R-(-)-deprenyl (selegiline) and Iproniazide as reference inhibitors, showing, most of them, MAO-B inhibitory activities in the nanomolar range. Compounds 3 (11.05±0.81 nM), 4 (3.23±0.49 nM) and 5 (7.12±0.01 nM) show higher activity than selegiline (IC50 = 19.60 nM), and high MAO-B selectivity with 9,050- fold, 30,960-fold and 14,045-fold inhibition levels, with respect to the MAO-A isoform PB MDPI SN 3-906980-23-5 YR 2009 FD 2009 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26865 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26865 LA eng NO Santana, L.; Uriarte, E.; Orallo, F.; Janeiro, P.; Viña, D.; Matos, M. Synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of coumarins as new scaffold on the Parkinson´s disease, in Proceedings of the 13th International Electronic Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 1–30 November 2009, MDPI: Basel, Switzerland, doi:10.3390/ecsoc-13-00220 NO The 13th International Electronic Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry session Bioorganic Chemistry and Natural Products NO We are grateful to the Spanish Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo (PI061457 and PI061537) and to Xunta da Galicia (BTF20303PR, PXIB203022PR and CSA019203PR) and Fondazione Banco Sardegna (Italy) for financial support. M.J.M. also thanks MIUR for a PhD grant DS Minerva RD 23 abr 2026