Synthesis and biological evaluation of benzofuran piperazine derivatives as potential anticancer agents

This work describes about the synthesis and evaluation of substituted benzofuran piperazines as potential anticancer agents. The synthesized candidates have been evaluated for their cell proliferation inhibition properties in six murine and human cancer cell lines. In vitro evaluation of apoptosis and cell cycle analysis with the lead candidate 1.19 reveals that necrosis might be an important pathway for the candidate compounds to cause cell death. Further, in vivo evaluation of the lead compound shows that this candidate is well tolerated in healthy mice. Additionally, an in vivo anticancer efficacy study in mice using a MDA-MB-231 xenograft model with the lead compound provides good anti-cancer efficacy.