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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2020

An Overview of Coumarin as a Versatile and Readily Accessible Scaffold with Broad-Ranging Biological Activities.

Francesca Annunziata, Cecilia Pinna, Sabrina Dallavalle, Lucia Tamborini, Andrea Pinto

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 147 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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147citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
30.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

147 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 431 citations in OpenAlex.

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87 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Francesca AnnunziataDepartment of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Milan, via Mangiagalli 25, 20133 Milan, Italy.
Cecilia PinnaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Milan, via Mangiagalli 25, 20133 Milan, Italy.
Sabrina DallavalleDepartment of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of Milan, via Celoria 2, 20133 Milan, Italy.
Lucia TamboriniDepartment of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Milan, via Mangiagalli 25, 20133 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9755-7846
Andrea PintoDepartment of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of Milan, via Celoria 2, 20133 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2501-3348
University of Milan · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Privileged structures have been widely used as an effective template for the research and discovery of high value chemicals. Coumarin is a simple scaffold widespread in Nature and it can be found in a considerable number of plants as well as in some fungi and bacteria. In the last years, these natural compounds have been gaining an increasing attention from the scientific community for their wide range of biological activities, mainly due to their ability to interact with diverse enzymes and receptors in living organisms. In addition, coumarin nucleus has proved to be easily synthetized and decorated, giving the possibility of designing new coumarin-based compounds and investigating their potential in the treatment of various diseases. The versatility of coumarin scaffold finds applications not only in medicinal chemistry but also in the agrochemical field as well as in the cosmetic and fragrances industry. This review is intended to be a critical overview on coumarins, comprehensive of natural sources, metabolites, biological evaluations and synthetic approaches.

Indexed as

Chemistry, PharmaceuticalCoumarinsHumansStructure-Activity RelationshipTissue ScaffoldscoumarinCoumarinsbiological activitycoumarinsmetabolitesnatural sourcessynthesis

Identifiers

PMID32610556
PMCPMC7370201
OpenAlexW3038015203

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