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Published on: May 9, 2025
Synthesis, biological evaluation and molecular docking studies of chromone hydrazone derivatives as α-glucosidase
Guangcheng Wang1, Ming Chen1, Jing Wang1
1College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Engineering Laboratory for Analyse and Drugs Development of Ethnomedicine in Wuling Mountains, Jishou University, Jishou 416000, PR China.
Abstract:
A series of chromone hydrazone derivatives 4a-4p have been synthesized, characterized by 1H NMR and 13C NMR and evaluated for theirinvitro α-glucosidase inhibitory activity. Out of these tested compounds, six (4a, 4b, 4d, 4j, 4o and 4p) displayed potent α-glucosidase inhibitory activity with IC50 values in the range of 20.1±0.19μM to 45.7±0.23μM, as compared to the standard drug acarbose (IC50=817.38±6.27μM). Among this series, compound 4d (IC50=20.1±0.19μM) with 4-sulfonamide substitution at phenyl part of hydrazide was found to be the most active compound. Lineweaver-Burk plot analysis indicated that compound 4d is a non-competitive inhibitor of α-glucosidase. The binding interactions of the most active analogs were confirmed through molecular docking studies. Docking studies showed 4d are interacting with the residues Glu-276, Asp-214, Asp-349 and Arg-439 through hydrogen bonds, arene-anion and arene-cation interactions. In summary, our studies shown that these chromone hydrazone derivatives are a new class of α-glucosidase inhibitors.
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