Chalcone derivatives: role in anticancer therapy

Y Ouyang, J Li, X Chen, X Fu, S Sun, Q Wu - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Chalcones (1, 3-diaryl-2-propen-1-ones) are precursors for flavonoids and isoflavonoids,
which are common simple chemical scaffolds found in many naturally occurring compounds …

Toward multi-targeted platinum and ruthenium drugs—a new paradigm in cancer drug treatment regimens?

RG Kenny, CJ Marmion - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
While medicinal inorganic chemistry has been practised for over 5000 years, it was not until
the late 1800s when Alfred Werner published his ground-breaking research on coordination …

Tetrazoles via multicomponent reactions

CG Neochoritis, T Zhao, A Domling - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Tetrazole derivatives are a prime class of heterocycles, very important to medicinal
chemistry and drug design due to not only their bioisosterism to carboxylic acid and amide …

Chalcone: a privileged structure in medicinal chemistry

C Zhuang, W Zhang, C Sheng, W Zhang, C Xing… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Privileged structures have been widely used as an effective template in medicinal chemistry
for drug discovery. Chalcone is a common simple scaffold found in many naturally occurring …

Chalcone scaffolds, bioprecursors of flavonoids: Chemistry, bioactivities, and pharmacokinetics

M Rudrapal, J Khan, AAB Dukhyil, RMII Alarousy… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Chalcones are secondary metabolites belonging to the flavonoid (C6-C3-C6 system) family
that are ubiquitous in edible and medicinal plants, and they are bioprecursors of plant …

Current developments of coumarin-based anti-cancer agents in medicinal chemistry

S Emami, S Dadashpour - European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
Cancer is one of the leading health hazards and the prominent cause of death in the world.
A number of anticancer agents are currently in clinical practice and used for treatment of …

Chalcone: a promising bioactive scaffold in medicinal chemistry

G Rajendran, D Bhanu, B Aruchamy, P Ramani… - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Chalcones are a class of privileged scaffolds with high medicinal significance due to the
presence of an α, β-unsaturated ketone functionality. Numerous functional modifications of …

Recent developments of chalcones as potential antibacterial agents in medicinal chemistry

W Dan, J Dai - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Chalcones, containing an α, β-unsaturated ketone fragment, are an important
pharmacologically active agents because of their diverse mechanisms. This review provides …

Ferrocene-containing hybrids as potential anticancer agents: Current developments, mechanisms of action and structure-activity relationships

R Wang, H Chen, W Yan, M Zheng, T Zhang… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Cancer is one of the most fatal threatens to human health throughout the world. The major
challenges in the control and eradication of cancers are the continuous emergency of drug …

Targeting the JAK/STAT signaling pathway using phytocompounds for cancer prevention and therapy

S Bose, S Banerjee, A Mondal, U Chakraborty… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cancer is a prevalent cause of mortality around the world. Aberrated activation of Janus
kinase (JAK)/signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) signaling pathway …