Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Furyl-Carboxamide Derivatives as Potential Anticancer Agents
Journal of the Turkish Chemical Society, Section A: Chemistry(2022)
Abstract
Topoisomerase II (Top-II) is an essential therapeutic target in cancer treatment owing to its overexpression in a wide variety of cancerous cells, including colorectal and breast cancer. Significant efforts have been made to discover and develop competitive inhibitors of the Top-II enzyme as potential anticancer agents. Herein, molecular modeling was employed to identify a new series of furyl-2-carboxamide derivatives as potential anticancer agents. Compounds 3, 5, and 7 were synthesized and characterized with the aid of several spectroscopic techniques, such as FT-IR, NMR, and mass spectroscopy, as well as elemental analysis. The anticancer activity properties of compounds 3, 5, and 7 were evaluated in vitro using an MTT assay in a human colorectal HCT-116 cell line with different concentration dilutions. The results indicate that the anthraquinone compound 3 is 1.3-1.6 times more potent against human colon cancer HCT-116 cells than the pyridine and benzophenone compounds 7 and 5, respectively, which reveals the importance of the anthraquinone moiety in exerting the inhibitory activity of the compound. Our findings recommend that further optimization of this series would benefit colon cancer treatment.
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Key words
anticancer,furyl-2-carboxamide,docking,mtt assay,top-ii
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