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Article

Antioxidant and Anticancer Activity of Novel Derivatives of 3-[(4-Methoxyphenyl)amino]propanehydrazide

by
Ingrida Tumosienė
1,
Kristina Kantminienė
2,*,
Arnas Klevinskas
1,2,
Vilma Petrikaitė
3,4,5,
Ilona Jonuškienė
1 and
Vytautas Mickevičius
1
1
Department of Organic Chemistry, Kaunas University of Technology, Radvilėnų pl. 19, LT-50254 Kaunas, Lithuania
2
Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, Kaunas University of Technology, Radvilėnų pl. 19, LT-50254 Kaunas, Lithuania
3
Laboratory of Drug Targets Histopathology, Institute of Cardiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Sukilėlių pr. 13, LT-50162 Kaunas, Lithuania
4
Institute of Physiology and Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, A. Mickevičiaus g. 9, LT-44307 Kaunas, Lithuania
5
Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio al. 7, LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Molecules 2020, 25(13), 2980; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25132980
Submission received: 15 June 2020 / Revised: 26 June 2020 / Accepted: 28 June 2020 / Published: 29 June 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue 25th Anniversary of Molecules—Recent Advances in Organic Synthesis)

Abstract

Series of novel 3-[(4-methoxyphenyl)amino]propanehydrazide derivatives bearing semicarbazide, thiosemicarbazide, thiadiazole, triazolone, triazolethione, thiophenyltriazole, furan, thiophene, naphthalene, pyrrole, isoindoline-1,3-dione, oxindole, etc. moieties were synthesized and their molecular structures were confirmed by IR, 1H-, 13C-NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry data. The antioxidant activity of the synthesized compounds was screened by DPPH radical scavenging method. The antioxidant activity of N-(1,3-dioxoisoindolin-2-yl)-3-((4-methoxyphenyl)amino)propanamide and 3-((4-methoxyphenyl)amino)-N’-(1-(naphthalen-1-yl)-ethylidene)propanehydrazide has been tested to be ca. 1.4 times higher than that of a well-known antioxidant ascorbic acid. Anticancer activity was tested by MTT assay against human glioblastoma U-87 and triple-negative breast cancer MDA-MB-231 cell lines. In general, the tested compounds were more cytotoxic against U-87 than MDA-MB-231 cell line. 1-(4-Fluorophenyl)-2-((5-(2-((4-methoxyphenyl)amino)ethyl)-4-phenyl-4H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)thio)ethanone has been identified as the most active compound against the glioblastoma U-87 cell line.
Keywords: hydrazine; Schiff base; 1,2,4-triazole-3-thione; antioxidative; anticancer hydrazine; Schiff base; 1,2,4-triazole-3-thione; antioxidative; anticancer
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Tumosienė, I.; Kantminienė, K.; Klevinskas, A.; Petrikaitė, V.; Jonuškienė, I.; Mickevičius, V. Antioxidant and Anticancer Activity of Novel Derivatives of 3-[(4-Methoxyphenyl)amino]propanehydrazide. Molecules 2020, 25, 2980. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25132980

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Tumosienė I, Kantminienė K, Klevinskas A, Petrikaitė V, Jonuškienė I, Mickevičius V. Antioxidant and Anticancer Activity of Novel Derivatives of 3-[(4-Methoxyphenyl)amino]propanehydrazide. Molecules. 2020; 25(13):2980. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25132980

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Tumosienė, Ingrida, Kristina Kantminienė, Arnas Klevinskas, Vilma Petrikaitė, Ilona Jonuškienė, and Vytautas Mickevičius. 2020. "Antioxidant and Anticancer Activity of Novel Derivatives of 3-[(4-Methoxyphenyl)amino]propanehydrazide" Molecules 25, no. 13: 2980. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25132980

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Tumosienė, I., Kantminienė, K., Klevinskas, A., Petrikaitė, V., Jonuškienė, I., & Mickevičius, V. (2020). Antioxidant and Anticancer Activity of Novel Derivatives of 3-[(4-Methoxyphenyl)amino]propanehydrazide. Molecules, 25(13), 2980. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25132980

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