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Medicinal Chemistry

Edited by Peng Zhan

Scope: This section publishes articles in all areas of medicinal chemistry including drug discovery, QSAR studies and applications, pharmacokinetics, design, synthesis, and evaluation of biologically active compounds, prodrugs, diagnostic agents and other pharmacological tools, structural and molecular biological studies and computational methods and applications in medicinal chemistry.

  1. Content type: Research article

    Benzimidazole is a valuable pharmacophore in the field of medicinal chemistry and exhibit wide spectrum of biological activity. Molecular docking technique is routinely used in modern drug discovery for unders...

    Authors: Sumit Tahlan, Sanjiv Kumar, Kalavathy Ramasamy, Siong Meng Lim, Syed Adnan Ali Shah, Vasudevan Mani and Balasubramanian Narasimhan

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:90

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  2. Content type: Research article

    In continuation of our work, new diazenyl chalcones scaffolds (C-18 to C-27) were efficiently synthesized from substituted acetophenone azo dyes (A–E) by base catalyzed Claisen–Schmidt condensation with different...

    Authors: Harmeet Kaur, Jasbir Singh and Balasubramanian Narasimhan

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:87

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  3. Content type: Research article

    Pyrimidine nucleus is a significant pharmacophore that exhibited excellent pharmacological activities. A series of pyrimidine scaffolds was synthesized and its chemical structures were confirmed by physicochem...

    Authors: Sanjiv Kumar, Archana Kaushik, Balasubramanian Narasimhan, Syed Adnan Ali Shah, Siong Meng Lim, Kalavathy Ramasamy and Vasudevan Mani

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:85

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  4. Content type: Research article

    Paeonia suffruticosa is an important traditional Chinese herb used to treat osteoarthritis (OA) and oligostilbenes are the main active ingredient of the seeds of P. suffruticosa. The monomer trans-resveratrol of ...

    Authors: Yu-Kun He, Xiao-tong Cen, Shuang-shuang Liu, Hua-ding Lu and Chun-nian He

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:72

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  7. Content type: Research article

    In search of effective antimicrobial and cytotoxic agents, a series of indole hybridized diazenyl derivatives (DS-1 to DS-21) was efficiently prepared by condensation of diazotized p-aminoacetophenone with indole...

    Authors: Harmeet Kaur, Jasbir Singh and Balasubramanian Narasimhan

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:65

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  8. Content type: Research article

    In order to overcome the challenges of microbial resistance as well as to improve the effectiveness and selectivity of chemotherapeutic agents against cancer, a novel series of 4-(4-bromophenyl)-thiazol-2-amin...

    Authors: Deepika Sharma, Sanjiv Kumar, Balasubramanian Narasimhan, Kalavathy Ramasamy, Siong Meng Lim, Syed Adnan Ali Shah and Vasudevan Mani

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:60

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  11. Content type: Research article

    Diabetes is an emerging metabolic disorder. α-Glucosidase inhibitors, such as acarbose, delay the hydrolysis of carbohydrates by interfering with the digestive enzymes. This action decreases the glucose absorp...

    Authors: Hatem A. Abuelizz, Nor Azman N. I. Iwana, Rohaya Ahmad, El-Hassane Anouar, Mohamed Marzouk and Rashad Al-Salahi

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:52

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  12. Content type: Research article

    Nitrogen containing heterocycles are widely used and investigated by pharmaceutical industry, as they are important in discovery and designing of new drug molecules. Drugs with a benzimidazole nucleus possess ...

    Authors: Sumit Tahlan, Sanjiv Kumar, Kalavathy Ramasamy, Siong Meng Lim, Syed Adnan Ali Shah, Vasudevan Mani, Ranjana Pathania and Balasubramanian Narasimhan

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:50

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  13. Content type: Research article

    In search of new antimicrobial and cytotoxic agents, a series of new naphthol diazenyl scaffold based Schiff bases (NS1–NS23) was efficiently synthesized by condensation of 2-hydroxy naphthaldehyde azo dyes with ...

    Authors: Harmeet Kaur, Jasbir Singh and Balasubramanian Narasimhan

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:49

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  14. Content type: Research article

    The medicinal plant Tirpitzia sinensis has been used by the Zhuang ethnic people in mountainous areas of Southwest China to stop bleeding, invigorate blood circulation, and treat inflammation and wounds. In order...

    Authors: Ronghui Gu, Yuehu Wang, Shibiao Wu, Yeling Wang, Ping Li, Li Xu, Yue Zhou, Ze’e Chen, Edward J. Kennelly and Chunlin Long

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:47

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  15. Content type: Research article

    To combat the antimicrobial and anticancer drug resistance by pathogens and cancerous cells, efforts has been made to study the pharmacological activities of newly synthesized N-(4-(4-bromophenyl)thiazol-2-yl)-2-...

    Authors: Deepika Sharma, Sanjiv Kumar, Balasubramanian Narasimhan, Kalavathy Ramasamy, Siong Meng Lim, Syed Adnan Ali Shah and Vasudevan Mani

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:46

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  16. Content type: Research article

    Urease are responsible for several pathogenic states in human as well as in animals and its inhibition is utmost urgent. Clinically used drugs are associated with many side effects; recently several researches...

    Authors: Ritu Kataria and Anurag Khatkar

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:45

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  17. Content type: Research article

    The increased multidrug resistance among antimalarial drugs produces the urgency of potent anti malarial to combat resistant malaria and the malaria burden worldwide. The protein which may prevent the growth o...

    Authors: Jagbir Singh, Rani Mansuri, Sonam Vijay, Ganesh Chandra Sahoo, Arun Sharma and Mahesh Kumar

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:43

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  18. Content type: Research article

    Plants have always played important role in treating human and animal diseases as a therapeutic agent for traditional medicine. Through extensive research throughout the world, potential of natural products ha...

    Authors: Ritu Kataria and Anurag Khatkar

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:41

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  19. Content type: Research article

    Natural based inhibitors of monoamine oxidase are promising drug candidates for the treatment of several neurodegenerative and neuropsychological disorders including depression, anxiety, Parkinson’s disease an...

    Authors: Priyanka Dhiman, Neelam Malik and Anurag Khatkar

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:38

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  20. Content type: Research article

    Plants either in raw form or their isolated bioactive constituents are utilized as complementary and alternative medicine in various disorders. The present study was designed to evaluate chief phytochemical co...

    Authors: Riffat Batool, Muhammad Rashid Khan, Moniba Sajid, Saima Ali and Zartash Zahra

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:32

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  21. Content type: Research article

    Mangroves plants and their endophytes represent a natural source of novel and bioactive compounds. In our ongoing research on mangrove endophytes from the Panamanian Pacific Coast, we have identified several b...

    Authors: Dioxelis Lopéz, Lilia Cherigo, Luis C. Mejia, Marco A. Loza-Mejía and Sergio Martínez-Luis

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:22

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  22. Content type: Research article

    Proanthocyanidin (PAC) is a promising compound that has displayed its potent antineoplastic properties with a specific intrinsic pathway. This precise us to explore the phyto-preventive effect of PAC against c...

    Authors: Mani Suganya, Balasubramanian Mythili Gnanamangai, Balasubramani Ravindran, Soon Woong Chang, Arokiyaraj Selvaraj, Chandramohan Govindasamy, Mohamed Farouk Elsadek and Ponnusamy Ponmurugan

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:21

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  26. Content type: Research article

    There are many molecules used as a drug carrier. TUD-1 is a newly synthesized mesoporous silica (SM) molecule possess two important features; consists of mesoporous so it is very suitable to be drug carrier in...

    Authors: Kamel A. Saleh, Sharah A. A. Aldulmani, Nasser S. Awwad, Hala A. Ibrahium, Tahani H. Asiri and Mohamed S. Hamdy

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:8

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  28. Content type: Research article

    Recent studies have suggested that aldose reductase inhibition preferentially inhibits the growth of cancer cells. However, the investigations of this issue are not many. Novel nine substituted- 4′-iminospiro[...

    Authors: Mohammed A. Khedr, Reem I. Al-Wabli, Maha S. Almutairi and Wafaa A. Zaghary

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:3

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  29. Content type: Research article

    Glucokinase (GK) is the key enzyme expressed in β-cells of pancreas and liver hepatocytes and helps in the maintenance of blood glucose levels in normal range. Activators of GK are the novel category of drug c...

    Authors: Ajmer Singh Grewal, Rajeev Kharb, Deo Nandan Prasad, Jagdeep Singh Dua and Viney Lather

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:2

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