Design, synthesis and antitubercular evaluation of novel series of N-[4-(piperazin-1-yl)phenyl]cinnamamide derivatives

Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel 4-(thieno[3,2-d]pyrimidin-4-yl)morpholine derivatives as potent antitumor agents

A series of 4-(thieno[3,2-d]pyrimidin-4-yl)morpholine derivatives were designed, synthesized and evaluated for their in vitro inhibitory activities against PI3Kα and antiproliferative activities against PC-3, 22RV1, MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-453 cancer cell lines. Inhibitory activities against PI3Kα evaluation indicated that some compounds showed excellent PI3Kα activity in vitro, and IC50 values of eight compounds (17c, 17e, 17f, 17h, 17l, 17m, 17o, 17p) were less than 100 nM. The most promising compound 17f (PI3Kα: IC50 = 0.039 μM) showed remarkable antiproliferative against PC-3, 22RV1, MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-453 cell lines with IC50 values of 3.48 μM, 1.06 μM, 2.21 μM and 0.93 μM, respectively. Furthermore, 17f effectively reduced p-PI3K protein expression and inhibited the activation of downstream signaling AKT and mTOR proteins in MDA-MB-453 cells. In addition, 17f induced cell apoptosis by down-regulating the expression levels of anti-apoptotic proteins Bcl-XL and Bcl-2 and up-regulating the expression of anti-apoptotic protein BAX, and in MDA-MB-453 cells. All these results indicated the potential of compound 17f to develop as potent anticancer agent.

Cinnamamides: a review of research in the agrochemical field

The need for implementation of economically viable agrochemicals with lower toxicity and that are capable of overcoming resistance developed by insects, fungi and invasive plants has spurred the scientific community in the search for new active and selective substances and synthetic methodologies that adhere to the parameters of green chemistry. Cinnamamides, in turn, present a scaffold that has been a basis for various investigations due to their broad spectrum of biological activities. The agrochemical industry is a vast field in which these classes of compounds stand out, whether for their potential herbicidal, fungicidal, nematicidal, or insecticidal properties. Therefore, this review reports the progress of synthesis and the agrochemical potential of cinnamamides, their mechanism of action, and their structure-activity relationship (SAR), to provide insights for further research addressing the use of cinnamamides in crop protection. © 2024 Society of Chemical Industry.

Cinnamide derived pyrimidine-benzimidazole hybrids as tubulin inhibitors: Synthesis, in silico and cell growth inhibition studies

An approach in modern medicinal chemistry to discover novel bioactive compounds is by mimicking diverse complementary pharmacophores. In extension of this strategy, a new class of piperazine-linked cinnamide derivatives of benzimidazole-pyrimidine hybrids have been designed and synthesized. Their in vitro cytotoxicity profiles were explored on selected human cancer cell lines. Specifically, structural comparison of target hybrids with tubulin-DAMA-colchicine and tubulin-nocodazole complexes has exposed a deep position of benzimidazole ring into the αT5 loop. All the synthesized compounds were demonstrated modest to interesting cytotoxicity against different cancer cell lines. The utmost cytotoxicity has shown with an amine linker of benzimidazole-pyrimidine series, with specificity toward A549 (lung cancer) cell line. The most potent compound in this series was 18i, which inhibited cancer cell growth at micromolar concentrations ranging 2.21-7.29 µM. Flow cytometry studies disclosed that 18i inhibited the cells in G2/M phase of cell cycle. The potent antitumor activity of 18i resulted from enhanced microtubule disruption at a similar level as nocodazole on β-tubulin antibody, explored using immunofluorescence staining. The most active compound 18i also inhibited tubulin polymerization with an IC₅₀ of 5.72 ± 0.51 µM. In vitro biological analysis of 18i presented apoptosis induction on A549 cells with triggering of ROS generation and loss of mitochondrial membrane potential, resulting in DNA injury. In addition, 18i displayed impairment in cellular migration and inhibited the colony formation. Notably, the safety profile of most potent compound 18i was revealed by screening against normal human pulmonary epithelial cells (L132: IC₅₀: 69.25 ± 5.95 μM). The detailed binding interactions of 18i with tubulin was investigated by employing molecular docking, superimposition and free energy analyses. Thus remarks made in this study established that pyrimidine-benzimidazole hybrids as a new class of tubulin polymerization inhibitors with significant anticancer activity.

Synthesis and characterization of piperazine-substituted dihydrofuran derivatives viaMn(OAc) 3 mediated radical cyclizations

The aim of this study is to synthesize novel piperazine-containing dihydrofuran compounds (3a-n)from radical additions and cyclizations of diacyl and alkyl-acyl piperazine derivatives (1a-h) with 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds (2a-c) mediated by Mn(OAc) ₃ for the first time. From the reactions of 1a-c with dimedone (2a);1a, 1c, and 1d with acetylacetone (2b); and 1a with ethylacetoacetate(2c) ,the dihydrofuran-piperazine compounds 3a-c, 3d-f, and 3g were obtained in medium to high yields (31%–81%), respectively. In addition, dihydrofuran-piperazine compounds 3h-j and 3k-n were prepared at low to medium yields (20%–40%) from the reactions of 1e-g with 2a and 1e-h with 2c , respectively.

An appraisal of anti-mycobacterial activity with structure-activity relationship of piperazine and its analogues: A review

Piperazine, is privileged six membered nitrogen containing heterocyclic ring also known as 1,4-Diazacyclohexane. Consequently, piperazine is a versatile medicinally important scaffold and is an essential core in numerous marketed drugs with diverse pharmacological activities. In recent years several potent molecules containing piperazine as an essential subunit of the structural frame have been reported, especially against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). Remarkably, a good number of these reported molecules also displayed potential activity against multidrug-resistant (MDR), and extremely drug-resistant (XDR) strains of MTB. In this review, we have made a concerted effort to retrace anti-mycobacterial compounds for the past five decades (1971-2019) specifically where piperazine has been used as a vital building block. This review will benefit medicinal chemists as it elaborates on the design, rationale and structure-activity relationship (SAR) of the reported potent piperazine based anti-TB molecules, which in turn will assist them in addressing the gaps, exploiting the reported strategies and developing safer, selective, and cost-effective anti-mycobacterial agents.

Opportunities and challenges of using five-membered ring compounds as promising antitubercular agents

Tuberculosis (TB), a chronic infectious disease, is one of the greatest risks to human beings and 10 million people were diagnosed with TB and 1.6 million died from this disease in 2017. In addition, with the emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), the TB situation has become even worse, which has aggravated the mortality and spread of this disease. To overcome this problem, research into novel antituberculosis agents with enhanced activities against MDR-TB, reduced toxicity, and shortened duration of therapy is of great importance. Fortunately, many novel potential anti-TB drug candidates with five-membered rings, which are most likely to be effective against sensitive and resistant strains, have recently entered clinical trials. Different five-membered rings such as furans, pyranoses, thiazoles, pyrazolines, imidazoles, oxazolidinone, thiazolidins, isoxazoles, triazoles, oxadiazoles, thiadiazoles, and tetrazoles have been designed, prepared, and evaluated for their antimycobacterial activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In this article, we highlight the recent advances made in the discovery of novel five-membered ring compounds and focus on their antitubercular activities, toxicity, structure-activity relationships, and mechanisms of action.

Cinnamamide: An insight into the pharmacological advances and structure-activity relationships

The cinnamamide (cinnamic acid amide and cinnamide) is a privileged scaffold present widely in a number of natural products. The scaffold acts as a useful template for designing and arriving at newly drug-like molecules with potential pharmacological activity. An attempt has been made to review the extensive occurrence of cinnamamide scaffold in many lead compounds reported for treating various diseases, their binding interactions with the therapeutic targets as well as mechanism of action and their structure-activity relationships. The discoveries of cinnamamide systems and some examples of unusual cinnamamides having an aromatic, aliphatic, and heterocyclic or other rings condensed to the basic cinnamamide structure also have been extensively covered in this review.

Medicinal chemistry of indole derivatives: Current to future therapeutic prospectives

Indole is a versatile pharmacophore, a privileged scaffold and an outstanding heterocyclic compound with wide ranges of pharmacological activities due to different mechanisms of action. It is an superlative moiety in drug discovery with the sole property of resembling different structures of the protein. Plenty of research has been taking place in recent years to synthesize and explore the various therapeutic prospectives of this moiety. This review summarizes some of the recent effective chemical synthesis (2014-2018) for indole ring. This review also emphasized on the structure-activity relationship (SAR) to reveal the active pharmacophores of various indole analogues accountable for anticancer, anticonvulsant, antimicrobial, antitubercular, antimalarial, antiviral, antidiabetic and other miscellaneous activities which have been investigated in the last five years. The precise features with motives and framework of each research topic is introduced for helping the medicinal chemists to understand the perspective of the context in a better way. This review will definitely offer the platform for researchers to strategically design diverse novel indole derivatives having different promising pharmacological activities with reduced toxicity and side effects.

Recent Development on Importance of Heterocyclic Amides as Potential Bioactive Molecules: A Review

Background:

Heterocyclic compounds are an integral part of the chemical and life sciences and constitute a considerable quantum of the modern research that is being currently pursued throughout the world.

Methods:

This review was prepared by collecting the available literature reports on various databases and an extract was prepared for each report after thorough study and compiling the recent literature reports on heterocyclic amides from 2007 to 2018.

Results:

This review summarizes the bio-potential of heterocyclic amides as antimicrobial, anticancer, anti-tubercular and antimalarial agents which would be very promising in the field of medicinal chemistry.

Conclusion:

A wide variety of heterocyclic amides have already been reported and some are currently being used as active medicaments for the treatment of disease. Still, the research groups are focusing on the development of newer heterocyclic amide derivatives with better efficacy, potency and lesser side effects. This area has got the tremendous potential to come up with new chemical entities of medicinal importance.

Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of piperazino-enaminones as novel suppressants of pro-Inflammatory cytokines

Infection triggers the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines (TNF-alpha and IL-6). Over-production, however, cause tissue injury seen in severe asthma. The ability of enaminone E121 to reduce pro-inflammatory cytokines in our laboratory encouraged further examination of its structural scaffold. Piperazino-enaminones were designed by incorporating n-arylpiperazine motif into the aromatic enaminone. Four possible modifications were explored systematically. Synthesis was accomplished by amination of the corresponding methyl/ethyl 2,4-dioxo-6-(substituted)cyclohexane-carboxylate.. Sixteen novel compounds were synthesized. Biological activity was tested in J774 macrophages stimulated with lipopolysaccharides. The release of cytokines was measured via ELISA. Four compounds significantly suppressed TNF-alpha and IL-6 release in dose-dependent manner.

Design, Synthesis and Antimycobacterial Activity of Novel Imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine Amide-Cinnamamide Hybrids

We report herein the design and synthesis of a series of novel imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine amide-cinnamamide hybrids linked via an alkyl carbon chain. All 38 new hybrids were evaluated for their antimycobacterial activity against M. tuberculosis (MTB) H37Rv ATCC 27294 using the microplate Alamar Blue assay (MABA). Although the hybrids are less active than the two reference compounds, the promising activity (MICs: 4 μg/mL) of 2,6-dimethylimidazo[1,2-a]pyridine amide-cinnamamide hybrids 11e and 11k could be a good starting point to further find new lead compounds against multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Combination of 4-anilinoquinazoline, arylurea and tertiary amine moiety to discover novel anticancer agents

In present study, 4-anilinoquinazolines scaffold, arylurea and tertiary amine moiety were combined to design, synthesize gefitinib analogs and discover novel anticancer agents. A series of 4-anilinoquinazoline derivatives (1, 2, 3 and 4) bearing arylurea and tertiary amine moiety at its 6-position were synthesized. Their antiproliferative activities in vitro were evaluated via MTT assay against A431 cell and A549 cell. The SAR of the title compounds was discussed. The compounds 2d, 2i and 2j with potent antiproliferative activities were evaluated their inhibitory activity against EGFR-TK. Compound 2j displayed potent inhibitory activity against EGFR-TK. In addition, compound 2j, at 50 mg/kg, can completely inhibit cancer growth in established nude mouse A549 xenograft model in vivo. These results suggest that the 4-anilinoquinazoline derivatives bearing diarylurea and tertiary amino moiety at its 6-position can serve as anticancer agents and EGFR inhibitors.

Cinnamamides, Novel Liver X Receptor Antagonists that Inhibit Ligand-Induced Lipogenesis and Fatty Liver

Liver X receptor (LXR) is a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily, and it regulates various biologic processes, including de novo lipogenesis, cholesterol metabolism, and inflammation. Selective inhibition of LXR may aid the treatment of nonalcoholic fatty liver diseases. In the present study, we evaluated the effects of three cinnamamide derivatives on ligand-induced LXRα activation and explored whether these derivatives could attenuate steatosis in mice. N-(4-trifluoromethylphenyl) 3,4-dimethoxycinnamamide (TFCA) decreased the luciferase activity in LXRE-tk-Luc-transfected cells and also suppressed ligand-induced lipid accumulation and expression of the lipogenic genes in murine hepatocytes. Furthermore, it significantly attenuated hepatic neutral lipid accumulation in a ligand-induced fatty liver mouse system. Modeling study indicated that TFCA inhibited activation of the LXRα ligand-binding domain by hydrogen bonding to Arg305 in the H5 region of that domain. It regulated the transcriptional control exerted by LXRα by influencing coregulator exchange; this process involves dissociation of the thyroid hormone receptor-associated proteins (TRAP)/DRIP coactivator and recruitment of the nuclear receptor corepressor. These results show that TFCA has the potential to attenuate ligand-induced lipogenesis and fatty liver by selectively inhibiting LXRα in the liver.

Piperazine scaffold: A remarkable tool in generation of diverse pharmacological agents

Piperazine is one of the most sought heterocyclics for the development of new drug candidates. This ring can be traced in a number of well established, commercially available drugs. Wide array of pharmacological activities exhibited by piperazine derivatives have made them indispensable anchors for the development of novel therapeutic agents. The review herein highlights the therapeutic significance of piperazine derivatives. Various therapeutically active piperazine derivatives developed by several chemists are reported here.

Novel amide and sulphonamide derivatives of 6-(piperazin-1-yl)phenanthridine as potent Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv inhibitors

A series of thirty three novel 6-(piperazin-1-yl)phenanthridine amide and sulphonamide analogues were synthesized, characterized and screened for their in vitro antimycobacterial activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) H37Rv strain. These compounds exhibited minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) between 1.56 and ≥50 μg/mL. Out of these derivatives, few compounds 6l, 6r, 7b, 7f, 7g and 7k exhibited moderate activity (MIC = 6.25 μg/mL) and compounds 6b, 6e, 6k, 6n, 7h, 7i and 7n displayed good activity (MIC = 3.13 μg/mL), whereas compounds 6m, 6s and 7d exhibited excellent anti-tubercular activity (MIC = 1.56 μg/mL). In addition, MTT assay was accomplished on the active analogues of the series against mouse macrophage (RAW 264.7) cells to evaluate the toxicity profile of the newly synthesized compounds and selectivity index of the compounds was determined. Additionally, compounds 6b and 7d were docked to the ATPase domain of M. tuberculosis GyrB protein to know the interaction profile and structures of compounds 6b and 7d were further substantiated through single crystal XRD.