Thiazolidinedione: A privileged scaffold for the development of anticancer agents

Author(s):  
Juan Sun ◽  
Yue-Hu Chen ◽  
Han-Yu Liu ◽  
Emmerson Hondo ◽  
Yang Zhou ◽  
...  

: Thiazolidinedione, an important heterocyclic ring system, is a pharmacophore and a privileged scaffold in medicinal chemistry. Researchers have showed it’s potential application as a backbone for inhibitors, involving in anticancer development strategies, cancer progression and metastasis. In this paper, the anticancer activities of thiazolidinedione derivatives were reviewed for the first time with respect to different substituents and their positions. This work may imitate a stirring wheel to guide further advanced development of new anticancer molecules with high efficacy.

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pelin Çıkla-Süzgün ◽  
Ş. Güniz Küçükgüzel

Abstract: Apoptosis, often called programmed cell death, is a self-directed cell destruction process. It differs from classical necrosis by activation of caspases. Apoptosis is directly related to cancer progression and plays a vital role in carcinogenesis. All cytotoxic drugs and radiation therapy programs initiates apoptosis in tumor cells. Today, studies show that heterocyclic compounds that contain triazole funtionality have anticancer activities. Triazoles are 5-membered rings, which contain two carbon and three nitrogen atoms Therefore, many researchers have synthesized these small active compounds as target structures and evaluated their apoptotic activities. The present review describs more recent medicinal aspects of triazoles as anticancer agents reported during the past few years. We hope that the bioactivity of triazole derivatives will be beneficial for the rational design of new generation of small molecule drugs.


2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (22) ◽  
pp. 4681-4684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hai-Jun Chen ◽  
Xiu-Rong Huang ◽  
Xiao-Bin Zhou ◽  
Bi-Yuan Zheng ◽  
Jian-Dong Huang

The potential application of artemether as a novel sonosensitizer for sonodynamic therapy was explored and illustrated for the first time.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-171
Author(s):  
K. Pakeeraiah ◽  
Sujit Kumar Mohanty ◽  
K. Eswar ◽  
K. Raju

Azo compounds are a very unique class of chemical compounds, drawing considerations in scientific research. Azo compounds are studied as class of organic colorants which have at least a conjugated chromophore azo (-N=N-) group in fusion with one or more aromatic or heterocyclic ring system. Benzimidazole derivatives are privileged intermediates for the development of molecules of pharmaceutical or biological interest. Benzimidazole derivatives have gathered wide applications in diverse therapeutic areas such as antiulcer, anticancer agents, and anthelmintic species to name just a few. Although many azo derivatives of benzimidazole nucleus has been reported in literature but only few of them have been evaluated for their biological potencies. This review focuses primarily on those derivatives which are evaluated as anticancer, antibacterial, antifungal, antitubercular, and other medicinal agents. This review may be helpful for the investigators on the basis of substitution pattern on the nucleus with an objective to assist medicinal chemists for developing an SAR on azo benzimidazoles or similar compounds.


2021 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Zuccolo ◽  
Noemi Arrighetti ◽  
Paola Perego ◽  
Diego Colombo

: Platinum (Pt) drugs, including cisplatin, are widely used for the treatment of solid tumors. Despite the clinical success, side effects and occurrence of resistance represent major limitations to the use of clinically available Pt drugs. To overcome these problems, a variety of derivatives have been designed and synthetized. Here, we summarize the recent progress in the development of Pt(II) and Pt(IV) complexes with bioactive ligands. The development of Pt(II) and Pt(IV) complexes with targeting molecules, clinically available agents, and other bioactive molecules is an active field of research. Even if none of the reported Pt derivatives has been yet approved for clinical use, many of these compounds exhibit promising anticancer activities with an improved pharmacological profile. Thus, planning hybrid compounds can be considered as a promising approach to improve the available Pt-based anticancer agents and to obtain new molecular tools to deepen the knowledge of cancer progression and drug resistance mechanisms.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marat Korsik ◽  
Edwin Tse ◽  
David Smith ◽  
William Lewis ◽  
Peter J. Rutledge ◽  
...  

<p></p><p>We have discovered and studied a <i>tele</i>substitution reaction in a biologically important heterocyclic ring system. Conditions that favour the <i>tele</i>-substitution pathway were identified: the use of increased equivalents of the nucleophile or decreased equivalents of base, or the use of softer nucleophiles, less polar solvents and larger halogens on the electrophile. Using results from X-ray crystallography and isotope labelling experiments a mechanism for this unusual transformation is proposed. We focused on this triazolopyrazine as it is the core structure of the <i>in vivo </i>active anti-plasmodium compounds of Series 4 of the Open Source Malaria consortium.</p> <p> </p> <p>Archive of the electronic laboratory notebook with the description of all conducted experiments and raw NMR data could be accessed via following link <a href="https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/21890">https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/21890</a> . For navigation between entries of laboratory notebook please use file "Strings for compounds in the article.pdf" that works as a reference between article codes and notebook codes, also this file contain SMILES for these compounds. </p><br><p></p>


Author(s):  
Neha V. Bhilare ◽  
Pratibha B. Auti ◽  
Vinayak S. Marulkar ◽  
Vilas J. Pise

: Thiophenes are one among the abundantly found heterocyclic ring systems in many biologically active compounds. Moreover various substituted thiophenes exert numerous pharmacological actions on account of their isosteric resemblance with compounds of natural origin thus rendering them with diverse actions like antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antiallergic, hypotensives etc.. In this review we specifically explore the chemotherapeutic potential of variety of structures consisting of thiophene scaffolds as prospective anticancer agents.


Author(s):  
Neelottama Kushwaha ◽  
C S Sharma

: Triazine is the six-membered heterocyclic ring containing three nitrogen which replaces carbon-hydrogen unit in the benzene ring. Based on nitrogen position present in the ring system, it is categorized in three isomeric forms i.e.1, 2, 3-triazine (vicinal triazine), 1, 2, 4-triazine (asymmetrical triazine or isotriazine) and 1, 3, 5-triazine (symmetrical or s-triazine or cyanidine). Triazines have weakly basic property. Its isomers have much weaker resonance energy than benzene structure, so nucleophilic substitution reactions are more preferred than electrophilic substitution reactions. Triazine isomers and their derivatives are known to play important roles possessing various activities in medicinal and agricultural fields such as anti-cancer, antiviral, fungicidal, insecticidal, bactericidal, herbicidal, antimalarial and antimicrobial agents.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 898-905
Author(s):  
Harun Patel ◽  
Rahul Pawara ◽  
Sanjay Surana

Quinazoline is the six-membered heterocyclic ring system reported for its versatile biological activities. This characteristic feature of quinazoline makes it a good template for a lead generation library. Ring opening is one of the major concerns in the synthesis of quinazolin-4(3H)-one that results in diamide formation. Here, alternative fusion strategy is reported, which is a time-saving and costeffective method to overcome the ring opening problem associated with the synthesis of benzo[ d][1,3]oxazin-4-one and quinazolin-4(3H)-one.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-431
Author(s):  
Kishore K. Valluri ◽  
Tejeswara R. Allaka ◽  
IV Kasi Viswanath ◽  
Nagaraju PVVS

Background: Many pyrazole piperazine derivatives are known to exhibit a wide range, thus being attractive for the drug design and synthesis of interesting class of widely studied heterocyclic compounds. It is therefore necessary to devote continuing effort for the identification and development of New Chemical Entities (NCEs) as potential antibacterial and anticancer agents to address serious health problems. Methods: A series of new compounds containing pyrazole ring linked to a piperazine hydrochloride moiety were synthesized and screened for their antibacterial activity, cytotoxicity of novel scaffolds are described by variation in therapeutic effects of parent molecule. The structure variants were characterized by using a blend of spectroscopic 1H NMR, 13C NMR, IR, Mass and chromatographic techniques. Results: When tested for in vitro antibacterial and anticancer activities, several of these compounds showed good activities. The target compounds 9b, 9a and 9e exhibited a high degree of anticancer activity against human colon cancer cell line Caco-2 and human breast cancer cell line MDAMB231. Further, 9a, 9b, 9d, and 9h showed better activity towards four medically relevant organisms; Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli and Klebsiella Species compared to CPF. In the present investigation, cheminfomatics tools Molinspiration, 2003 and MolSoft, 2007 for the prediction of insilico molecular properties and drug likeness for the target compounds 9a-h was evaluated and positive results were observed. Conclusion: Our study revealed that the molecular framework presented here could be a useful template for the identification of novel small molecules as promising antibacterial/ anticancer agents.


2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 488-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. P. Rakesh ◽  
Shi-Meng Wang ◽  
Jing Leng ◽  
L. Ravindar ◽  
Abdullah M. Asiri ◽  
...  

Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide. There is always a huge demand for novel anticancer drugs and diverse new natural or synthetic compounds are developed continuously by scientists. Presently, a large number of drugs in clinical practice have showed pervasive side effect and multidrug resistance. Sulfonyl or sulfonamide hybrids became one of the most attractive subjects due to their broad spectrum of pharmacological activities. Sulfonyl hybrids were broadly explored for their anticancer activities and it was found that they possess minimum side effect along with multi-drug resistance activity. This review describes the most recent applications of sulfonyl hybrid analogues in anticancer drug discovery and further discusses the mechanistic insights, structure-activity relationships and molecular docking studies for the potent derivatives.


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