Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry (Formerly Current Medicinal Chemistry - Anti-Cancer Agents) - Volume 22, Issue 19, 2022

Cancer, a crucial global health problem, is characterized by abnormal cell division and uncontrolled growth. According to WHO, cancer is the second leading cause of global deaths and accounted for approximately 9.6 million deaths or one in six deaths in 2018. The National Cancer Registry Programme Report 2020, released by the ICMRIndia, estimated that there would be 13,90,000 cases of cancer in India in 2020 Read More

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. Proper efficient drugs are required to treat this deadly disease. Natural products have long been a vital source of anticancer agents and they have generated various “lead compounds” suitable for drug developments. With the recent advancement of chemical synthesis and bioevaluation techniques, these lead compounds of natural origins have been utilized for the pr Read More

Mother Nature is an indispensable source of bioactive natural products. Bioactive secondary metabolites have played a crucial role in the drug development and discovery process; mainly, anticancer and antibiotic molecules are extensively enriched with molecules of natural origin. Anthocyanins are water-soluble secondary metabolites found in most species in the plant domain, especially flowers, fruits, and tubers. Read More

Heterocyclic compounds offer an enormous area for new lead molecules for drug discovery. Till today, efforts are being continuously made to find appropriate treatment for the management of the deadly disease of cancer. Amongst the large number of heterocycles that are found in nature, heterocycles having oxygen obtained noteworthy attention due to their distinctive and pharmacological activities.‘Pyran’ is one of the m Read More

Background: In recent years, there has been a crucial need for the design and development of novel anticancer drugs that can lessen the serious health problems and unwanted side effects associated with currently used anticancer drugs. The triazole nucleus is well-recognized to possess numerous pharmacological activities, including anticancer, as revealed by various investigations on anticancer drugs and the latest rese Read More

Background: Cancer is a life-threatening disease. Anti-cancer drugs are the focus of research. The heterocyclic molecules like benzimidazole occupy a central position in searching for novel and effective anti-cancer drugs. The medicinal chemists designed and synthesized several benzimidazole derivatives and conjugates to evaluate them as potential anti-cancer agents. Objective: The purpose of this compilation o Read More

Heterocyclic compounds are that type of substances that are deeply intertwined with biological processes. Heterocycles are found in about 90% of commercially available medicines. In medicinal chemistry, finding new synthetic molecules with drug-like characteristics is a regular problem, which triggered the development of pharmacological molecules, the majority of which are based on N-heterocyclic motifs. Among the heteroc Read More

Background: Incidence rates and prevalence of cancer are substantially high globally. New safe therapeutic drugs are endorsed to overcome the high toxicity and poor safety profile of clinical anticancer agents. Objective: As antineoplastic Vosaroxin is a commercial fluoroquinolone (FQ), we hypothesize that superlative antiproliferation activity of lipophilic FQs/TFQs series correlates to their acidic groups and C8-C7 ethylene di Read More