QSAR-based virtual screening: advances and applications in drug discovery

BJ Neves, RC Braga, CC Melo-Filho… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Virtual screening (VS) has emerged in drug discovery as a powerful computational
approach to screen large libraries of small molecules for new hits with desired properties …

Chalcone derivatives: promising starting points for drug design

MN Gomes, EN Muratov, M Pereira, JC Peixoto… - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Medicinal chemists continue to be fascinated by chalcone derivatives because of their
simple chemistry, ease of hydrogen atom manipulation, straightforward synthesis, and a …

Anticancer activity of natural and synthetic chalcones

T Constantinescu, CN Lungu - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cancer is a condition caused by many mechanisms (genetic, immune, oxidation, and
inflammatory). Anticancer therapy aims to destroy or stop the growth of cancer cells …

Recent advances of imidazole-containing derivatives as anti-tubercular agents

YL Fan, XH **, ZP Huang, HF Yu, ZG Zeng… - European journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis still remains one of the most common, communicable, and leading deadliest
diseases known to mankind throughout the world. Drug-resistance in Mycobacterium …

Applications of virtual screening in bioprospecting: facts, shifts, and perspectives to explore the chemo-structural diversity of natural products

K Santana, LD Do Nascimento, A Lima e Lima… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Natural products are continually explored in the development of new bioactive compounds
with industrial applications, attracting the attention of scientific research efforts due to their …

Synthesis and Pharmacological Activities of Chalcone and Its Derivatives Bearing N-Heterocyclic Scaffolds: A Review

K Mezgebe, Y Melaku, E Mulugeta - ACS omega, 2023 - ACS Publications
The incorporation of heterocyclic moieties into the standard chemical structure with a
biologically active scaffold has become of crucial practice for the construction of …

Indole-chalcone linked 1, 2, 3-triazole hybrids: Facile synthesis, antimicrobial evaluation and docking studies as potential antimicrobial agents

M Yadav, K Lal, A Kumar, A Kumar, D Kumar - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
The design and synthesis of a new series of indole-chalcone linked 1, 2, 3-triazole hybrids
via Cu (Ι)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition is reported. All the compounds (2, 4a–4e and …

Batched bayesian optimization for drug design in noisy environments

H Bellamy, AA Rehim, OI Orhobor… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The early stages of the drug design process involve identifying compounds with suitable
bioactivities via noisy assays. As databases of possible drugs are often very large, assays …

1, 2, 3-Triazole-Chalcone hybrids: Synthesis, in vitro cytotoxic activity and mechanistic investigation of apoptosis induction in multiple myeloma RPMI-8226

HF Ashour, LA Abou-Zeid, AA Magda… - European journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract A new series of 1, 2, 3-triazole-chalcone hybrids has been synthesized and
screened in vitro against a panel of 60 human cancer cell lines according to NCI (USA) …

Recent developments in biological aspects of chalcones: the odyssey continues

A Rani, A Anand, K Kumar, V Kumar - Expert opinion on drug …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Chalcones are attractive to synthetic chemists because they are easy to
prepare, have a large number of replaceable hydrogens, thereby having significant …