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Synthesis, antibacterial, anti-oxidant and molecular docking studies of imidazoquinolines

Journal

HELIYON
Volume 7, Issue 7, Pages -

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07484

Keywords

Thio-imidazoquinolines; Hydroxy-imidazoquinolines; Chloro-imidazoquinolines; 2-Chloro-3-formylquinolines; Antibacterial; Antioxidant; Molecular docking; Multidrug-resistant

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  1. RUSA-Phase 2.0 Policy (TNmulti-Gen) [F.24-51/2014-U]

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The authors synthesized various imidazoquinoline derivatives by molecular hybridization approach and tested their antibacterial activity and antioxidant efficacy. Results showed that imidazoquinoline 5f with an electron-withdrawing (-Cl) substituent exhibited higher biological activity compared to other derivatives, suggesting its potential as a prototype for designing multidrug-resistant antibiotics.
Quinoline and imidazole derivatives have been playing a significant role in functional bioactivities and were potentially used as antibacterial, antifungal, anticancer, and anti-inflammatory drugs. Owing to the limitation of drug resistance, herein we synthesized thio-, chloro-, and hydroxyl-functionalized various imidazoquinolines by molecular hybridization approach. All the imidazoquinoline derivatives were examined for their antibacterial activity against selected bacterial pathogens by the agar well diffusion method. In addition, the anti-oxidant efficacy of imidazoquinolines was also tested using ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP). Among them,electron-withdrawing (-Cl) substituent containing imidazoquinoline 5f showed higher antibacterial and anti-oxidant activities than other imidazoquinolines and reached the effectiveness of the standard. In addition,compounds 4f, 5e, and 3f showed moderate antibacterial activity and other derivatives displayed weak activity against various pathogens. Molecular docking studies were also performed on selected imidazoquinoline derivatives(3f, 4f, and 5f), which showed high docking score and strong binding energy values. These results revealed that thio-imidazoquinoline could assist as a prototype for the designing of multidrug-resistant antibiotics against various microbial organisms.

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