Medicinal Chemistry - Volume 9, Issue 3, 2013

The 1,2,4-triazoles are an important group of medicinal substances which exhibit a wide range of activity, such as analgesic, antibacterial, fungicidal, antinflammatory, antiviral and anticancer. As a part of our long-term study on 1,2,4- triazoles we synthesize 4-benzyl-3-[(1-methylpyrrol-2-yl)methyl]-4,5-dihydro-1H-1,2,4-triazol-5-one which is characterized with anticancer activity. Here, we present an exhaustive studies of Read More

A series of chromone derivatives were designed as potential topoisomerase I (Top I) inhibitors based on the docking simulation study. Sixteen synthesized compounds were evaluated for Top I inhibitory activity and some compounds were further tested for in vitro cytotoxic activity. The most potent inhibitor, chromone 11b showed greater inhibitory activity (IC50 = 1.46 μM) than the known Top I inhibitors, i.e., camptothecin, fis Read More

Two series of novel phenylaminopyrimidine derivatives were designed and synthesized. All target compounds were determined against the human acute monocytic leukemia cell line U937 and the human chronic myeloid leukemia cell line K562 in vitro. Some of the target compounds demonstrated significant inhibitory activity against both cell lines. Compared with the control drug VX-680, 8a, 8e, 8g, 8h, 8j, and 8k de Read More

This paper describes the synthesis and in vitro biological activities of imidazolidine and hexahydropyrimidine derivatives against bacteria (Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis) and Leishmania protozoa. Out of sixteen heterocyclic derivatives tested, none were cytotoxic against mammalian cells. The compounds showed significant bacterial effects and leishmanicidal activity. Compoun Read More

Suppression of HIF prolyl hydroxylase (PHD) activity by small molecule inhibitors leads to the stabilization of HIF and offers a potential therapeutic option for treating ischemic disorders. In this study, pharmacophore based QSAR modeling, virtual screening and molecular docking approaches were concurrently used to identify target-specific PHD inhibitors with better ADME properties and to readily minimize false positives and Read More

The present paper describes the design and synthesis of a series of some 2-naphthyloxy derivatives with their antiamnesic activity using mice as the animal model and piracetam as the reference drug. All the synthesized compounds were characterized by spectroscopic techniques and were screened for their efficacy as cognition enhancers by elevated plus maze test and acetylcholinestrase inhibitory assay. Molecular modeli Read More

New derivatives of 7-chloro-4-aminoquinoline Mannich base were prepared by selectively modifying the aliphatic diethyl amino function of isoquine with different aliphatic/aromatic heterocyclic primary amino moieties at Mannich side chain. The synthesized compounds were characterized by their analytical and spectral data, and screened for in-vitro antimalarial activity against a chloroquine-sensitive 3D7 strain of Plasmodiu Read More

In order to meet the urgent need for novel antifungal agents with improved activity and broader spectrum, a series of 3/4-[[N-alkyl-2-(2,4-difluorophenyl)-2-hydroxy-3-(1H-1, 2, 4-triazole)] propylamino] benzylethyl carbonate were designed, synthesized and evaluated as antifungal agents. The MIC80 values indicate that all the compounds showed only moderate or even no antifungal activities against nearly all the t Read More

Comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) and comparative molecular similarity indices analysis (CoMSIA) studies were carried out for a series of thienopyrimidines, novel Histamine H1 receptor antagonists. Various models were generated. The best predictive CoMFA model gave significant correlation coefficients (cross-validated r2 (q2) = 0.514, non-cross-validated r2 = 0.925), showing the influence of steric and electrostati Read More

The LIM-Kinase 2 (LIMK2) inhibitory activity of a series of pyrrolopyrimidine analogs has been analyzed through combinatorial protocol in multiple linear regressions (CP-MLR) and partial least square (PLS) using different descriptors obtained from DRAGON software. The empirical, topological and charge descriptors have led to statistically significant QSAR models and showed good external predictivity as reflected in test set R2 Read More

A quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) study of aromatic inhibitors against aldose reductase (AR) activity was performed using variable selection from stepwise multiple linear regression (MLR) and genetic algorithm (GA)-MLR. As a result of variable selection, stepwise MLR and GA-MLR gave the same results with one, two, three and five descriptors and different results with four and six descriptors. GA-MLR p Read More

HIV-1 integrase (HIVIN) plays a key role in the replication of the HIV-1 virus and represents an attractive target for anti-HIV drug design. Experimental observation suggests that pyrimidone analogues have potent anti-HIV activity. Then, we modeled an HIVIN catalytic core domain based on the crystal structure of the prototype foamy virus (PFV) integrase. Molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations wer Read More

Farnesyltranseferase inhibitors (FTIs) are one of the most promising classes of anticancer agents, but though some compounds in this category are in clinical trials there are no marketed drugs in this class yet. Quantitative structureactivity relationship (QSAR) models can be used for predicting the activity of FTI candidates in early stages of drug discovery. In this study 192 imidazole-containing FTIs were obtained from the literat Read More

Chondromodulating chimeric prodrugs of diacetylrhein were synthesized with an objective of potentiating its moderate anti-inflammatory effect and optimizing its hydrophilic/lipophilic balance by conjugating it with essential amino acids through a bioreversible amide linkage. In vitro release in HCl buffer (pH 1.2) showed insignificant release of diacetylrhein. However in phosphate buffer (pH 7.4), almost complete release of diac Read More

A series of 2-thioxo-imidazolidin-4-one derivatives were synthesized and were characterized by IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR, mass spectral data and elemental analysis. All compounds were tested for antifungal and antibacterial activity. Some of the compounds were found to exhibit promising antifungal activity. Molecular modeling investigations showed that the active compounds may interact at the active site of the fungal cyt Read More

A novel series of benzimidazolo thiazolidinones, thiazinones and 5-arylidene-2-imino thiazolidinones were synthesized and evaluated for antibacterial activity. The compounds were synthesized in excellent yield and the structures were characterized on the basis of IR, 1H-NMR and MASS spectral data. Most of the synthesized compounds showed good antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative b Read More