Theoretical molecular predictions and antimicrobial activities of newly synthesized molecular hybrids of norfloxacin and ciprofloxacin

Antibiotics such as norfloxacin and ciprofloxacin are used to treat numerous bacterial infections. The present research work involves the molecular prediction, synthesis, characterization and in vitro antimicrobial activities of molecular hybrids of norfloxacin and ciprofloxacin. First set of compounds involve the substitutions of various amines at third position of ciprofloxacin and norfloxacin. On the other hand, second set of molecular hybrids include the substitution of different amines at seventh position along with linker (COCH2). These synthesized compounds were identified by TLC technique and well characterized by various spectroscopic techniques such as IR, NMR, and ESI-MS. Molecular prediction of these newly synthesized compounds have been carried out using the SwissADME, ADMETLab software. Their cytotoxicity parameters have also been studied using Osiris software. It was observed that almost all these molecular hybrids suitable for their drug likeness properties. Further, these newly synthesized compounds were subjected to study their antimicrobial activities in vitro. The third substituted as well as most of seventh substituted molecular hybrids have shown 10-folds increase in their antibacterial activity as compared to the standard drug ciprofloxacin. Some of these compounds have also shown their potency when subjected to study their cytotoxicity test against Escherichia coli AB 1157, proficient to prepare damage in DNA.