ABSTRACT
In this work, we reported the synthesis and evaluation of the analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and antipyretic properties of new 2-(6-nitro-benzo[1,3]dioxol-5-yloxy)-acetylhydrazone derivatives (3), designed exploring molecular hybridization and isosteric replacement approaches between nimesulide (1) and carbanalogue NAH series (2) developed at LASSBio. Target compounds were synthesized in very good yields exploiting abundant Brazilian natural product safrole (4) as starting material. The evaluation of the antinociceptive properties of this series led us to discover a new potent prototype of analgesic and antipyretic agent, that is, NAH derivative 3c, named LASSBio-891, which showed to be more potent than dipyrone used as standard.
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Analgesics, Non-Narcotic/chemical synthesis , Analgesics/chemical synthesis , Hydrazones/pharmacology , Safrole/chemistry , Analgesics/pharmacology , Analgesics, Non-Narcotic/pharmacology , Anti-Inflammatory Agents/chemical synthesis , Anti-Inflammatory Agents/pharmacology , Drug Design , Drug Evaluation, Preclinical , Hydrazones/chemical synthesis , Safrole/analogs & derivatives , Structure-Activity RelationshipABSTRACT
This paper describes the synthesis and the in vitro antimalarial profile of two new imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine derivatives 4HCl and 13HCl, structurally proposed as mefloquine (1) analogues, by exploring bioisosterism and molecular simplification tools. The synthetic route employed to access the title compounds used, as starting material, the previously described ethyl 2-methylimidazo[1,2-aJpyridine-3-carboxylate derivative (5). These novel heterocyclic derivatives 4HCl and 13HCl presented modest antimalarial activity against the W-2 and D-6 clones of Plasmodium falciparum as well as inhibitors of in vitro heme polymerization compared to mefloquine.
