Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening - Volume 17, Issue 9, 2014

An efficient parallel synthesis was designed to provide libraries of estradiol mimics that can potentially interact with different biological targets associated with estradiol-related diseases. Two libraries of 75 members each were synthesized around a non-steroidal core by adding three levels of molecular diversity. Hydroxybenzaldehydes (1st level of diversity), protected as a methoxymethyl ether, first reacted with primary am Read More

Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR)-based classification approach is one of the important chemometric tools in drug discovery process for categorizing the target protein inhibitors into more active and less active classes. In this background, we have presented here a novel approach of two-fold QSAR-based classification modeling for the Plasmodium falciparum carbonic anhydrase (PfCA) inhibitors using 2D- Read More

An experimental and theoretical study has been carried out on diastereoselective aziridation of styrene over a magnetically recyclable copper(II) catalyst: Cu(acac)2/NH2-T/SiO2@Fe3O4NPs. The turnover number (TON) of our heterogeneous catalyst appears considerably higher than that reported for the homogeneous Cu(acac)2. Successive applications of solid Cu(acac)2/NH2-T/SiO2@Fe3O4NPs have a slight effect on its c Read More

An efficient and environmentally benign domino protocol has been presented for the synthesis of structurally diverse spirooxindoles spiroannulated with pyranopyridopyrimidines, indenopyridopyrimidines, and chromenopyridopyrimidines involving three-component reaction of aminouracils, isatins and cyclic carbonyl compounds in deep eutectic solvent (choline chloride-oxalic acid: 1:1) which acts as efficient catalyst and envi Read More

Modulation of gamma-secretase cleavage of Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) to control the level of Amyloidbeta (A-beta) peptide is one of the strategies to develop therapy for Alzheimer’s disease. Presenilin is a subunit and the catalytic core of gamma-secretase. It has Asp 257 and Asp 385 residues, which are essential for catalytic activity and thus serve as the region of interest for screening of potential gamma-secreta Read More

Studies on the interactions between metallodrugs and human serum albumin (HSA), as carrier for drugs and biological molecules, are extremely important to design and discover new drugs. The interaction of three novel synthesized complexes of [Pd(phen)(R-gly)]NO3, where R-gly is methyl-, propyl-, and amyl-glycine and phen is 1,10- phenanthroline, with HSA were investigated using spectroscopic studies in combination with Read More

Melioidosis is a serious emerging endemic infectious disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei, a gramnegative pathogen. Septicemic melioidosis has a mortality rate of 50% even with treatment. Like other gram-negative bacteria, B. pseudomallei is resistant to a number of antibiotics and multi-drug resistant B. pseudomallei is beginning to be encountered in hospitals. There is a clear medical need to develop Read More

An effective one-pot synthesis of dialkoxyphosphoryl-2-oxo-2H-pyran derivatives by three-component reaction of alky bromides and dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates in the presence of trialkyl phosphite is described. The reactions were performed under solvent-free conditions at 50°C and neutral conditions and provided good yields of products.

Human activities have introduced tens of thousands of chemicals into water systems around the world which has significantly impacted water quality and aquatic ecosystems. The aim of this study was to develop an in silico QSAR model, capable of predicting the aquatic toxicity of pesticides in terms of a lethal dose (LD50) for fish without requiring the use of in vivo testing. A large data set of 230 diverse pesticides, i Read More