Synthesis, characterization and evaluation of antioxidant activities of some novel chalcones analogues

Chemistry Central Journal

Nabilah Abdel-Aziz Aljaber¹  Faeza Hamad Al Korbi¹  Siham Abdelrahmane Lahsasni¹ 

[1]Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 22452, Riyadh 11495, Saudi Arabia

关键词: DPPH;    Antioxidant activity;    Fatty acid;    Chalcones;   

Others  :  787779
DOI  :  10.1186/1752-153X-8-32

 received in 2014-02-04, accepted in 2014-05-01,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Chalcone, an important intermediate of flavonoid synthetic pathway, has been shown to exhibit diverse biological and pharmacological activities such as anti- cancer, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, etc.

Results

In this study, a novel series of chalcones fatty acid esters 5b-e and 6b-e have been synthesized via the reaction of the respective chalcones with either palmitic or stearic acid. Another related class of compounds comprising 2,3-disubstituted chalcones 7b-d and 8b(b’)-d as well as 2-amino-6-(substituted-phenyl)-4-substitutedphenyl-nicotinonitrile derivatives 9a,c,e have been also prepared by both electrophilic and Michael addition reactions, respectively, with the corresponding chalcones. The structures of all compounds are confirmed via a wide range of spectroscopic techniques including IR, ¹H and ¹³C NMR, and mass spectra. Significantly, all synthesized compounds have been tested for their promising antioxidant activities via utilization of 1,1-biphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl as a free radical scavenging reagent. Surprisingly, the results demonstrated that compound 5e (68.58% at C = 2 μg/ml) was more effective as an antioxidant agent than the ascorbic acid, a commonly used antioxidant. Furthermore, the role and contribution of different functional groups on the antioxidant activity of the synthesized chalcone derivatives are also probed and rationalized in terms of their electronic and structural effect.

Conclusion

Good activity was noted for chalcone fatty acid esters, with some members recorded higher antioxidant activity than ascorbic acid.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Lahsasni et al.; licensee Chemistry Central Ltd.

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