Synthesis and Screening of Some Novel Thiazole, Bithiazole and Thiazolidin-4-One Compounds with Biological Activity
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2023) | Viewed by 26075
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Interests: cancer therapy; anti-infective drugs; molecular mechanisms; drug synthesis; targeted therapies; bioactive heterocycle synthesis; docking and molecular modelling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is a great pleasure and honor for us to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue entitled “Synthesis and Screening of Some Novel Thiazole, Bithiazole, and Thiazolidin-4-One Compounds with Biological Activity”.
Nitrogen- and sulfur-containing heterocycles represent a highly important class of compounds that are widespread in medicinal chemistry, receiving special attention in drug discovery.
Thiazole is one of the most important scaffolds in heterocyclic chemistry and drug design and discovery. It is widely found in diverse pharmacologically active substances and in some naturally-occurring compounds. Thiazole is a versatile building-block for lead generation and provides easy access to diverse derivatives for subsequent lead optimization. In recent years, many thiazole derivatives, including bithiazole, have been synthesized and subjected to varied biological activities, such as antibacterial, antifungal, anti-HIV, anti-inflammatory, antiparasitic, antitubercular, and antitumor activity. Some drugs that already are on the market (e.g., Dasatinib, Sulfathiazole, Bleomycin, Ritonavir, Meloxicam, etc.) possess a thiazole nucleus.
4-thiazolidinones also present a variety of chemical properties and biological activities, such as anticancer, antiviral, anticonvulsant, cardiovascular, antiinflammatory, analgesic, antidiabetic, antihyperlipidemic, antibacterial, antituberculosis, and antiparasitic, among others. Some 4-thiazolidinone derivatives, such as Etozoline (diuretic), are now on the pharmaceutical market.
Moreover, these scaffolds also have applications as fungicides, herbicides, agrochemicals, and antioxidants and play an important role in biochemical processes because they are key elements of some coenzymes.
Despite the extensive literature on N,S-heterocycles synthesis, there is great interest in the development of more innovative and efficient synthetic methodologies to obtain new chemical entities.
This Special Issue will accept original research papers and high-quality reviews in the fields of medicinal chemistry, organic chemistry, coordinating chemistry, biochemistry, and pharmacology. The topic of this Special Issue will be focused on drug design and development, new synthetic approaches, biosynthesis, isolation, and biological activity of new thiazole/bisthiazole and thiazolidin-4-one derivatives.
Prof. Dr. Brindusa Tiperciuc
Dr. Cristina Nastasa
Dr. Ioana Ionuț
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Thiazole
- Thiazolidin-4-one
- Drug discovery
- Bioactive compound
- Chemometry
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