Synthesis and evaluation of potential complement inhibitory semisynthetic analogs of oleanolic acid

A number of semisynthetic analogs of oleanolic acid have been synthesized and tested for their complement inhibitory, cytotoxic and apoptotic activities. Among these, compounds 10 and 17 exhibited complement inhibitory potency superior to oleanolic acid. Both have also shown a moderate improvement in in vitro therapeutic index (T.I.).