Relationship between structure and antineoplastic activity of (arylsulfonyl)hydrazones of 4-pyridinecarboxaldehyde

Synthesis, Characterization and In Vitro Evaluation of Novel 5-Ene-thiazolo[3,2-b][1,2,4]triazole-6(5H)-ones as Possible Anticancer Agents

The present paper is devoted to the search for drug-like molecules with anticancer properties using the thiazolo[3,2-b][1,2,4]triazole-6-one scaffold. A series of 24 novel thiazolo-[3,2-b][1,2,4]triazole-6-ones with 5-aryl(heteryl)idene- and 5-aminomethylidene-moieties has been synthesized employing three-component and three-stage synthetic protocols. A mixture of Z/E-isomers was obtained in solution for the synthesized 5-aminomethylidene-thiazolo[3,2-b]-[1,2,4]triazole-6-ones. The compounds have been studied for their antitumor activity in the NCI 60 lines screen. Some compounds present excellent anticancer properties at 10 μM. Derivatives 2h and 2i were the most active against cancer cell lines without causing toxicity to normal somatic (HEK293) cells. A preliminary SAR study had been performed for the synthesized compounds.

Synthesis and antigastric ulcer activity of novel 5-isoproyl-3,8-dimethylazulene derivatives

5-Isoproyl-3,8-dimethylazulene derivatives were synthesized and evaluated for antigastric ulcer activity in vivo. Some of them possess the best activity against gastric ulcer with ulcer index values lower than the drug reference (omeprazole). The structure-activity relationship (SAR) shows that the lipophilic flat structure contributes to quite potent antigastric ulcer activity.

Electrochemical investigations on some potential antibacterials, I

Electrochemical behaviour of the medicinally important 4-(4′-sulphonamoyl)hydrazono-1-phenyl-3-methyl-2-pyrazolin-5-ones has been studied at d.m.e. and glassy carbon electrodes. At d.m.e., all six compounds exhibited a single, well-defined, four-electron wave in the pH range 2.5–12.0. Polarographic four-electron wave was found to be diffusion-controlled and irreversible. Similarly, cyclic voltammetry of these compounds at glassy carbon electrode exhibited a single peak. Peak potential shows shifts towards negative potential with pH, with linear segments up to pH 8.2 and are practically pH independent at higher pH values. An anodic peak at far-off positive potential was observed in the reverse scan, indicating the irreversible nature of the electrode process. Controlled potential electrolysis and coulometric studies gave the value of n as 4.0 ± 0.1 in the pH range 2.5 to 10.0. Out of the two major end products formed, one was identified as sulphanilamide and the other as 1-phenyl-3-methyl-4-amino-2-pyrazolin-5-one on the basis of IR and NMR studies. On the basis of DCP, LSV, CV, CPE, coulometry and spectral analysis, a mechanism has been postulated for the reduction of these compounds at d.m.e. and glassy carbon electrodes. Keywords: polarography, cyclic voltammetry, antibacterials, pyrazolin-5-ones.

Synergism through direct covalent bonding between agents: a strategy for rational design of chemotherapeutic combinations

Self-assembling chemotherapeutic agents are mixtures of relatively nontoxic precursors that can combine chemically under physiological conditions to form products with greater cytotoxic and/or antimicrobial activity than either of the precursors. Combinations that form products more rapidly in or near the target (tumor, pathogen, virally infected cell) than in normal tissues will exhibit target-selective synergism, thus exhibiting an antitarget selectivity that is greater than the selectivities of the product (e.g., a hydrazone) and of either precursor (e.g., a hydrazine derivative or ketone) used singly. This paper describes the target-selective cytotoxic synergism of a cationic aldehyde (A) and a cationic acylhydrazine (B) containing a triarylalkylphosphonium moiety against Ehrlich ascites carcinoma cells (ELA) in culture, in addition to reviewing previous work on self-assembling cytotoxins. The synergism between A and B is carcinoma selective when the ELA cells (the target) are compared to CV-1, an untransformed African green monkey kidney epithelial line. Like tetraphenylphosphonium and rhodamine 123, which are selectively concentrated in ELA cells relative to CV-1, A, B and the hydrazone C resulting from their reaction are lipophilic delocalized cations that selectively inhibit ELA growth relative to CV-1 growth. The hydrazone C is more growth inhibitory than either A or B for both cell lines. A combination of A with an unreactive analogue of B and a combination of B with an unreactive analogue of A did not synergistically inhibit ELA proliferation. The degree of synergism is greater against the ELA cells than against the CV-1 cells. These data, together with hydrazone formation kinetics, suggest that A and B are both concentrated together selectively inside the ELA due to the transmembrane potentials, reacting inside the ELA cells at a higher velocity than inside the CV-1 cells to form the more growth-inhibitory hydrazone C.