Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel thiazolidinone derivatives as potential anti-inflammatory agents

Synthesis, X-ray, DFT and photophysical properties of some new ferrocenyl hydrazono thiazolidin-4-ones and their derivatives

Cyclocondensation of thiosemicarbazone of 2-acetylferrocene with α-haloacids and α-haloketones afford new ferrocenyl hydrazono thiazolidin-4-ones and ferrocenyl hydrazono thiazoles respectively. Ferrocenyl hydrazono thiazolidin-4-one is easily converted into enamino ketone with N,N-dimethylformamide dimethyl acetal (DMF-DMA). The compounds were characterized by spectroscopic means and the structure of the new ferrocenyl hydrazono thiazolidin-4-one (3a) was determined by means of X-ray crystallography. The photophysical properties of these compounds were studied by means of UV/visible absorption spectroscopy and fluorescence spectroscopy. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations have been carried out with Gaussian 09W using B3LYP density functional method and 6-31G (d) basis set. (1)H and (13)C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) have been calculated and correlated with experimental results. Antimicrobial activity studies of some new compounds have been reported.

Synthesis, preliminary bioevaluation and computational analysis of caffeic acid analogues

A series of caffeic acid amides were designed, synthesized and evaluated for anti-inflammatory activity. Most of them exhibited promising anti-inflammatory activity against nitric oxide (NO) generation in murine macrophage RAW264.7 cells. A 3D pharmacophore model was created based on the biological results for further structural optimization. Moreover, predication of the potential targets was also carried out by the PharmMapper server. These amide analogues represent a promising class of anti-inflammatory scaffold for further exploration and target identification.