Medicinal Chemistry - Volume 11, Issue 8, 2015

Currently, the treatment for HBV infection suffers from adverse side effects and drug resistance. The dramatic development of new HBV inhibitors is focused on discovering diverse non-nucleoside compounds with either novel structures or new mechanisms of action. Capsid assembly is crucial to the completion of the viral life cycle, which makes it an attractive target for antivirus discovery. Inhibitors that block the formation of t Read More

The search for new specific chemotherapeutic drugs designed to minimize the toxic side effects resulting from chemotherapy is still a subject of intense research. The objective of the current study was to design a non-steroidal-platinum(II) derivative that would target the estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) without triggering estrogenic cell proliferation. For this purpose, the amino acid L-tyrosine was modified and attached to a ci Read More

Histone deacetylases (HDAC) are currently a group of validated targets for anticancer drug discovery and development. In our research program to find novel small molecules targeting these enzymes, we designed and synthesized two series of 3-hydroxyimino-2-oxoindoline- and 3- methoxyimino-2-oxoindoline-based N-hydroxypropenamides (3a-g, 6a-g). The results show that these propenamides potently inhibited H Read More

Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators (SERMs) are characteristically capable of being antagonist and agonist of estrogen receptors and, therefore, they can inhibit or stimulate estrogen production in different tissues. Aiming to contribute to the identification of new synthetic SERMs candidates, the basic skeletons of raloxifene and tamoxifene were used as model. Here of, a set of 2,3-diaryl-quinoxalines having 2-(pip Read More

Daumone, a dauer-inducing pheromone and a series of lipid derivatives were synthesized from daumone to investigate structure-activity trends. Lipid derivatives demonstrated potent in vivo antiangiogenic activity on the chorioallantoic membrane, which exceeded that of fumagillin and thalidomide as reference agents. Among the 11 synthetic compounds tested, new derivatives 3, 11 and 13 showed the most potent anti Read More

A series of twenty molecules belonging to 2,5-disubstituted-1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives of Diclofenac and Naproxen were designed, synthesized and their structures were confirmed by spectroscopy. The target compounds were evaluated for anti-inflammatory and analgesic activity. The result indicates that the compounds 12, 4, 6, 7 and 15 were found to have good analgesic and anti-inflammatory activities, while the co Read More

The 3D-QSARs models of 29 flavone-8-acetic acid derivatives of aminopeptidase N inhibitors were generated by applying the molecular interaction fields at various 3D grid spacing. The cross-validated correlation coefficient q2LMO (0.6019) and conventional correlation coefficient r2 (0.9756) were obtained at a 1.0 Å 3D grid spacing, indicating the statistical significance of this class of compounds. The calculated inhibitory activi Read More

A series of styrylquinolines and quinolineamides based on the 8-hydroxyquinoline moiety were investigated as potential antimycobacterial agents. The lipophilicity of the compounds was measured using RP-HPLC and the tests of their activity against Mycobacterium kansasii, the M. avium complex, M. smegmatis, M. abscessus, M. tuberculosis and M. avium paratuberculosis was performed. Several of the compounds that w Read More

We have previously reported that polysaccharides extracted from Pyracantha fortuneana (Maxim.) Li (P. fortuneana) lowered the oxidative stress and inhibited the inflammatory responses in mice. Our present study aims to determine the effects of Selenium enriched P. fortuneana polysaccharides (Se-PFPs) against carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced liver injury in a mouse model. Our results displayed that CCl4 rem Read More

The reaction of various substituted 2, 4-dichloroquinolines with ethyl 4-(3-hydroxyphenyl)- 2,7,7-trimethyl-5-oxo-1,4,5,6,7,8-hexahydroquinoline-3-carboxylate was carried out in the presence of K2CO3 as a mild and efficient base at controlled temperature leading to novel 2-chloroquinoline based polyhydroquinoline with high regioselectivity. All the synthesized compounds were characterized using IR, NMR, Mass spectral dat Read More

Acid hydrazides are vital chemical entities due to their biological activities. Upon complexation with certain metal ions, their biological activities are known to be positively enhanced. The present work describes the synthesis of Cr(III)-hydrazide complexes, and their structural, spectroscopic and antioxidant properties to reveal their chemistry and biochemistry. Physical (magnetic moment, conductivity measurements), analytical ( Read More