Name

Surname

Constantinos

Athanassopoulos

Institution name and department

University of Patras, Dept. of Chemistry

Position held

Associate Professor

Address/Country

University of Patras, Rion Campus, North Chemistry building, 2nd floor, GR265 04, Rion, Patras, GREECE

E-mail

Webpage

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http://www.chem.upatras.gr/en/division-a/82-  athanassopoulos-constantinos

Key words (up to 5)

·       Synthetic Organic Chemistry

·       Natural Products

·       Synthesis of compounds with medicinal/ pharmaceutical interest

Areas of Research/Expertise 

 ·        Medicinal and synthetic organic chemistry in the fields of anticancer and antimicrobial agents, with special attention in targeting resistant cancer cells and bacteria.

·        The chemical modification of naturally occurring bioactive organic compounds (polyamines, retinoids, psoralens, chloramphenicol, abietane diterpenes etc.) and synthetic drugs aiming to alter their biological profile (enhance or modify their activity and/or improve their selectivity).

We are interested in the implementation of Mecahnochemistry steps in our synthetic procedures and especially for building heterocyclic scaffolds.

5 Most representative publications related to mechanochemistry 

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5 Most representative publications non-related to Mechanochemistry

1.   Kalantzi, S.; Athanassopoulos, C. M.; Ruonala, R.;  Helariutta, Y.; Papaioannou, D., General Approach for the Liquid-Phase Fragment Synthesis of Orthogonally Protected Naturally Occurring Polyamines and Applications Thereof. J Org Chem 2019, 84 (23), 15118-15130.

2.   Giannopoulou, P. C.;  Missiri, D. A.;  Kournoutou, G. G.;  Sazakli, E.;  Papadopoulos, G. E.; Papaioannou, D.; Dinos, G. P.; Athanassopoulos,* C. M.; Kalpaxis, D. L., New Chloramphenicol Derivatives from the Viewpoint of Anticancer and Antimicrobial Activity. Antibiotics (Basel) 2019, 8 (1)

3.   Magoulas, G. E.;  Tsigkou, T.; Skondra, L.;  Lamprou, M.;  Tsoukala, P.;  Kokkinogouli, V.; Pantazaka, E.; Papaioannou, D.;  Athanassopoulos,* C. M.; Papadimitriou, E., Synthesis of nοvel artemisinin dimers with polyamine linkers and evaluation of their potential as anticancer agents. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry 2017, 25 (14), 3756-3767.

4.   Sonia Stoica, G. E. M., Antonia I. Antoniou, Sherif Suleiman, Analisse Cassar, Lucienne Gatt, Dionissios Papaioannou, Constantinos M. Athanassopoulos*, Pierre Schembri-Wismayer*, Synthesis of minoxidil conjugates and their evaluation as HL-60 differentiation agents. Bioorganic

& Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2016.

5. Antoniou, A. I.; Pepe, D. A.; Aiello, D.;  Siciliano, C.; Athanassopoulos,* C. M., Chemoselective Protection of Glutathione in the Preparation of Bioconjugates: The Case of Trypanothione Disulfide. The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2016, 81 (10), 4353-4358.

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Orcid ID

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7549-1911

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.gr/citations?hl=en&user=4YtF6x0AAAAJ

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Primary focus in mechanochemical research