Heteroannelation of Cyclic Ketones: Synthesis, Characterization and Antitumor Evaluation of Some Condensed Azine Derivatives.

A series of pyrimidine and thiazine derivatives was synthesized by one-pot reaction of cyclopentanone with a mixture of an aromatic aldehyde, namely o-anisaldehyde, and different ureas, namely urea, guanidine and thiourea, respectively. Furthermore, cycloaddition reaction of active methylene reagents, namely acetyl acetone, malononitrile, ethyl cyanoacetate, cyanoacetamide and N-phenyl cyanoacetamide with 2,6-bis(2-methoxybenzylidene)cyclohexanone afforded chromene and quinoline derivatives in basic medium. The antitumor evaluation of some new compounds against three human cell lines, namely MCF-7, NCI-H460 and SF-268 showed significant and moderate activity compared with the positive control doxorubicin.