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Soni S, Sahiba N, Teli S, Teli P, Agarwal LK, Agarwal S. Advances in the synthetic strategies of benzoxazoles using 2-aminophenol as a precursor: an up-to-date review. RSC Adv 2023; 13:24093-24111. [PMID: 37577091 PMCID: PMC10416314 DOI: 10.1039/d3ra03871h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2023] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 08/15/2023] Open
Abstract
Benzoxazole is a resourceful and important member of the heteroarenes that connects synthetic organic chemistry to medicinal, pharmaceutical, and industrial areas. It is a bicyclic planar molecule and is the most favorable moiety for researchers because it has been extensively used as a starting material for different mechanistic approaches in drug discovery. The motif exhibits a high possibility of broad substrate scope and functionalization to offer several biological activities like anti-microbial, anti-fungal, anti-cancer, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory effects, and so on. There has been a large upsurge in the synthesis of benzoxazole via different pathways. The present article presents recent advances in synthetic strategies for benzoxazole derivatives since 2018. A variety of well-organized synthetic methodologies for benzoxazole using 2-aminophenol with aldehydes, ketones, acids, alcohols, isothiocyanates, ortho-esters, and alkynones under different reaction conditions and catalysts, viz. nanocatalysts, metal catalysts, and ionic liquid catalysts, with other miscellaneous techniques has been summarized.
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- Shivani Soni
- Synthetic Organic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, MLSU Udaipur-313001 Rajasthan India
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- Synthetic Organic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, MLSU Udaipur-313001 Rajasthan India
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- Synthetic Organic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, MLSU Udaipur-313001 Rajasthan India
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- Synthetic Organic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, MLSU Udaipur-313001 Rajasthan India
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- Synthetic Organic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, MLSU Udaipur-313001 Rajasthan India
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- Synthetic Organic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, MLSU Udaipur-313001 Rajasthan India
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Anwar S, Rehman W, Hussain R, Khan S, Alanazi MM, Alsaif NA, Khan Y, Iqbal S, Naz A, Hashmi MA. Investigation of Novel Benzoxazole-Oxadiazole Derivatives as Effective Anti-Alzheimer's Agents: In Vitro and In Silico Approaches. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2023; 16:909. [PMID: 37513821 PMCID: PMC10384982 DOI: 10.3390/ph16070909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2023] [Revised: 06/05/2023] [Accepted: 06/19/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
Abstract
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurological illness that is distinguished clinically by cognitive and memory decline and adversely affects the people of old age. The treatments for this disease gained much attention and have prompted increased interest among researchers in this field. As a springboard to explore new anti-Alzheimer's chemical prototypes, the present study was carried out for the synthesis of benzoxazole-oxadiazole analogues as effective Alzheimer's inhibitors. In this research work, we have focused our efforts to synthesize a series of benzoxazole-oxadiazole (1-19) and evaluating their anti-Alzheimer properties. In addition, the precise structures of synthesized derivatives were confirmed with the help of various spectroscopic techniques including 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR and HREI-MS. To find the anti-Alzheimer potentials of the synthesized compounds (1-19), in vitro acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE), inhibitory activities were performed using Donepezil as the reference standard. From structure-activity (SAR) analysis, it was confirmed that any variation found in inhibitory activities of both acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) enzymes were due to different substitution patterns of substituent(s) at the variable position of both acetophenone aryl and oxadiazole aryl rings. The results of the anti-Alzheimer assay were very encouraging and showed moderate to good inhibitory potentials with IC50 values ranging from 5.80 ± 2.18 to 40.80 ± 5.90 µM (against AChE) and 7.20 ± 2.30 to 42.60 ± 6.10 µM (against BuChE) as compared to standard Donepezil drug (IC50 = 33.65 ± 3.50 µM (for AChE) and 35.80 ± 4.60 µM (for BuChE), respectively. Specifically, analogues 2, 15 and 16 were identified to be significantly active, even found to be more potent than standard inhibitors with IC50 values of 6.40 ± 1.10, 5.80 ± 2.18 and 6.90 ± 1.20 (against AChE) and 7.50 ± 1.20, 7.20 ± 2.30 and 7.60 ± 2.10 (against BuChE). The results obtained were compared to standard drugs. These findings reveal that benzoxazole-oxadiazole analogues act as AChE and BuChE inhibitors to develop novel therapeutics for treating Alzheimer's disease and can act as lead molecules in drug discovery as potential anti-Alzheimer agents.
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- Saeed Anwar
- Department of Chemistry, Hazara University, Mansehra 21120, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, Hazara University, Mansehra 21120, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, Hazara University, Mansehra 21120, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, Abbottabad University of Science and Technology (AUST), Abbottabad 22020, Pakistan
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad 45550, Pakistan
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- School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Division of Science & Technology, University of Education, Lahore 54770, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, Division of Science & Technology, University of Education, Lahore 54770, Pakistan
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Cholinesterases Inhibition, Anticancer and Antioxidant Activity of Novel Benzoxazole and Naphthoxazole Analogs. MOLECULES (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 27:molecules27238511. [PMID: 36500605 PMCID: PMC9738531 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27238511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Revised: 11/29/2022] [Accepted: 12/01/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Benzoxazole and naphthoxazole fused systems are found in many biologically active molecules. Novel benzoxazole and naphthoxazole analogs functionalized by the 2,4-dihydroxyphenyl moiety were designed, obtained and evaluated as a broad spectrum of biological potency compounds. Sulfinylbis[(2,4-dihydroxyphenyl)methanethione] or its analogs and 2-aminophenols or 1-amino-2-naphthol were used as starting reagents. 4-(Naphtho[1,2-d][1,3]oxazol-2-yl)benzene-1,3-diol was identified as the most promising compound of the nanomolar activity against AChE (IC50 = 58 nM) of the mixed-type inhibition and of the moderate activity against BChE (IC50 = 981 nM). The higher antiproliferative potency against a panel of human cancer cell lines for naphtho[1,2-d][1,3]oxazoles than for benzoxazoles was found. The activity of the analog with chlorine atom was in the range of 2.18-2.89 µM (IC50) against all studied cells and it is similar to that of cisplatin studied comparatively. Moreover, this compound was not toxic at this concentration to human normal breast cells and keratinocytes. For some compounds it also has proved antioxidant properties at the level of IC50 = 0.214 µM, for the most active compound. The lipophilicity of all compounds, expressed as log p values, is within the range recommended for potential drugs. The biological activity profile of the considered analogs and their lipophilic level justify the search for agents used in AD or in anticancer therapy in this group of compounds.
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Cao L, Jiang K, Shao Z, Wang Y, Liu S, Lu X, Wu Y, Chen C, Su Z, Wang L, Liu W, Shi D, Cao Z. Synthesis and Anti-Cholinesterase Activity of Novel Glycosyl Benzofuranylthiazole Derivatives. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 2021. [DOI: 10.1134/s1070428021090190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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