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Nadia Elkanzi
Aswan University
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The synthesis of novel 1,4-naphthoquinone derivatives has attracted prominent interest in the field of medicinal chemistry since these compounds exhibit potent pharmacological activity as antibacterial, antioxidant, antifungal, and anticancer. Herein, a series of novel 1,4-naphthoquinone derivatives 4-7, 8a-c, and 9a-d containing heterocyclic moieties were synthesized in good yields and characterized by spectral and elemental analyses. All the new synthesized compounds were subjected to in-vitro antimicrobial testing against gram-positive, gram-negative, and fungal strains by calculating the average of the zone of inhibition. The antimicrobial results showed that compounds 8b, 9b, and 9c displayed the highest efficacy against both bacterial and fungal strains. Further studies have been conducted to estimate the antioxidant activity of the compounds using DPPH scavenging assay. The obtained results revealed that compounds 9d, 9a, 9b, 8c, and 6 exhibited the highest radical scavenging activity. Docking studies of the most active antimicrobial compounds within GLN- 6-P, recorded good scores with several binding interactions with the active site.
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Heterocycles, 1,4-naphthoquinone, antimicrobial, antioxidant, molecular docking
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Scheme 1 Synthesis of compounds 3-6
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Scheme 2 Synthesis of compounds 7 and 8a-c
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Scheme 3 Synthesis of compounds 9a-d
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Nadia Elkanzi
Aswan University
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The synthesis of novel 1,4-naphthoquinone derivatives has attracted prominent interest in the field of medicinal chemistry since these compounds exhibit potent pharmacological activity as antibacterial, antioxidant, antifungal, and anticancer. Herein, a series of novel 1,4-naphthoquinone derivatives 4-7, 8a-c, and 9a-d containing heterocyclic moieties were synthesized in good yields and characterized by spectral and elemental analyses. All the new synthesized compounds were subjected to in-vitro antimicrobial testing against gram-positive, gram-negative, and fungal strains by calculating the average of the zone of inhibition. The antimicrobial results showed that compounds 8b, 9b, and 9c displayed the highest efficacy against both bacterial and fungal strains. Further studies have been conducted to estimate the antioxidant activity of the compounds using DPPH scavenging assay. The obtained results revealed that compounds 9d, 9a, 9b, 8c, and 6 exhibited the highest radical scavenging activity. Docking studies of the most active antimicrobial compounds within GLN- 6-P, recorded good scores with several binding interactions with the active site.
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