418282

Synthesis, Molecular Docking, DFT and Pharmacophore Studies of New Naphthalene-Heterocycle Hybrids of Prospective Antiviral Activity.

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Last updated: 27 Apr 2025

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Organic chemistry

Abstract

The rate of anti-viral drugs resistance has increased dramatically even while there are fewer new antivirals available agents. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the necessity of further endeavors to create comprehensive treatments to counteract SARS-CoV-2 infection. In the current study, an attempt to synthesize numerous N-heterocycles of substituted pyridine and pyrazole constituents have a marked family of molecules with a significant function in medicinal chemistry as promising possibilities for future antiviral drugs. Enaminones play a crucial role in the synthesis of diverse nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds. Heterocyclization of enaminone 2 with 6-amino-2-thioxopyrimidine-4-one 3 afforded the corresponding 2-thioxopyrido[2,3-d] pyrimidine-4-one derivative 5. Some new 1-aryl-3,4-disubstituted pyrazoles 8a-e were synthesized via the reaction of hydrazonoyl chloride derivatives 7a-e with enaminone 2. Pyrazolo[3,4-d] pyridazine derivative 9 was obtained through the hydrazinolysis of the new 1-aryl-3,4-disubstituted pyrazole derivative 8e. As well, malononitrile and 2,4-pentandione reacted with enaminone 2 to afford 6-naphthyl-2,3-disubstituted pyridines 10 and 11, respectively. Novel two pharmacophoric models of substituted [1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine 12 and [4,5]imidazolo[1,2-a]pyrimidine 13 were synthesized in good yield. Microanalytical data and elemental analysis have been used to prove the chemical structures of the new products. The antiviral activity of the new synthesized compounds was tested against VERO-E6 cell lines and compounds 8a, 8b and 8d exhibited good inhibition activities against SARS-COV 2 virus with selectivity index (SI) 21.98 and 27.73, respectively. Docking investigation of the designed structures has been studied into SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein (PDB ID: 6VSB) and compounds 8b and 8d showed good fitting inside the binding site of the protein molecular surface with minimum binding energy. Additionally, we used density-functional theory (DFT) to examine the molecular geometry and structure of the more effective compounds to deduce their antiviral effects.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2025.329489.10655

Keywords

Enaminone, triazolopyrimidine, pyrimidine-4-one, pyrazolopyridazine, Hydrazonyl chloride, docking, Antiviral

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Abdelwahab

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-

Affiliation

Applied Organic Chemistry Department, National Research Centre, Dokki 12622, Cairo, Egypt

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abdelwahabchem86@gmail.com

City

cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-1013-1237

First Name

Ashraf

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

M

Affiliation

Applied Organic Chemistry Department, National Research Centre, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

ammewas1@gmail.com

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0001-7019-5286

First Name

Salwa

Last Name

Mahmoud

MiddleName

Faheem

Affiliation

Applied Organic Chemistry Department, National Research Centre, Dokki 12622, Cairo, Egypt .

Email

drsalwa.fahim@gmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0001-7850-4223

First Name

Dina

Last Name

Elnaggar

MiddleName

Hamdy

Affiliation

Applied Organic Chemistry Department, National Research Centre, Dokki 12622, Cairo, Egypt.

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delnaggar9@gmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Naglaa

Last Name

Abde lHafez

MiddleName

Abdelsamei

Affiliation

Applied Organic Chemistry Department, National Research Centre, Dokki 12622, Cairo, Egypt

Email

naglaa1810@gmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0003-2211-8088

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

GabAllah

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Center of Scientific Excellence for Influenza Viruses, National Research Centre, El-Buhouth Street, Dokki, Cairo, 12622, Egypt

Email

gaballah09@gmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000000198829199

First Name

Eman

Last Name

Abou-Amra

MiddleName

S

Affiliation

Organic Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University (Girls) Nasr City, 11751, Egypt.

Email

emansadek.59@azhar.edu.eg

City

Egypt

Orcid

0000-0002-6267-5834

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Hussein

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62511, Egypt

Email

ahmed_m_hussein1122@yahoo.com

City

Beni-Suef

Orcid

0009-0006-4538-6324

Volume

68

Article Issue

6

Related Issue

54962

Issue Date

2025-06-01

Receive Date

2024-10-19

Publish Date

2025-06-01

Page Start

43

Page End

66

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_418282.html

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418,282

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Original Article

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297

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Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Synthesis, Molecular Docking, DFT and Pharmacophore Studies of New Naphthalene-Heterocycle Hybrids of Prospective Antiviral Activity.

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Created At

09 Apr 2025