Publications by authors named "Ghulam Shabir"

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial neurological disorder that involves multiple enzymes in the process of developing. Conventional monotherapies provide relief, necessitating alternative multi-targeting approaches to address AD complexity. Therefore, we synthesize N-(benzo[d]thiazol-2-yl) benzamide-based compounds and tested against monoamine oxidases (MAO-A and MAO-B).

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Diabetes mellitus is a multi-systematic chronic metabolic disorder and life-threatening disease resulting from impaired glucose homeostasis. The inhibition of glucosidase, particularly -glucosidase, could serve as an effective methodology in treating diabetes. Attributed to the catalytic function of glucosidase, the present research focuses on the synthesis of sulfonamide-based acyl pyrazoles followed by their and screening against -glucosidase.

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  • The study focuses on creating 2-imino-1,3-thiazolines with fluorinated components by reacting thioureas with a specific brominated compound, achieving good yields.
  • The structural identities of these compounds were confirmed using advanced techniques like FTIR and NMR spectroscopies.
  • Biological tests showed that these compounds effectively inhibit the enzyme α-glucosidase, with one compound demonstrating strong antidiabetic activity and better binding energy compared to a standard drug, indicating its potential as a valuable drug candidate.
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In the present work, a small library of novel pyrazolinyl-acyl thiourea (5a-j) was designed and synthesized through a multistep sequence and the synthesized compounds were screened for their antifungal, antibacterial and antioxidant activities as well as urease, amylase and α-glucosidase inhibitory activities. The synthesized series (5a-o) was characterized using a combination of spectroscopic techniques, including FT-IR, H NMR and C NMR. All compounds (5a-j) were found to have significant potency against urease, α-glucosidase, α-amylase, and DPPH.

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Due to industrialization and urbanization, the use of detergents inadvertently led to contamination of aquatic environments, thus posing potential threat to aquatic organisms and human health. One of the main components of detergents is linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS), which can cause toxic effects on living organisms, particularly aquatic life in the environment. In this study, floating treatment wetlands (FTWs) mesocosms were developed and augmented with LAS-degrading bacteria.

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Residual antibiotics have become emerging contaminants of concern for their adverse impact on the ecosystem. Additionally, their accumulation in the environment is increasing antibiotic resistance among pathogens. This study assessed the impact of intensification of biochar, nutrients, aeration, and bacteria (BNAB) on the remediation potential of floating treatment wetlands (FTWs) to treat amoxicillin (AMX)-contaminated water.

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  • - Fluorine's high electronegativity and small size enhance drug properties like potency, selectivity, and metabolic stability, making it a key focus in drug research for improving biological activity.
  • - Selective fluorine substitution in drugs can boost pharmacokinetic features such as membrane permeation and binding ability to proteins, showing its significant role in drug development.
  • - This review discusses FDA-approved fluorinated drugs from 2016 to 2022, highlighting various drug structures and the use of fluorine as a radiolabel in PET imaging.
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Ferrocenyl-based compounds have many applications in diverse scientific disciplines, including in polymer chemistry as redox dynamic polymers and dendrimers, in materials science as bioreceptors, and in pharmacology, biochemistry, electrochemistry, and nonlinear optics. Considering the horizon of ferrocene chemistry, we attempted to condense the neoteric advancements in the synthesis and applications of ferrocene derivatives reported in the literature from 2016 to date. This paper presents data on the progression of the synthesis of diverse classes of organic compounds having ferrocene scaffolds and recent developments in applications of ferrocene-based organometallic compounds, with a special focus on their biological, medicinal, bio-sensing, chemosensing, asymmetric catalysis, material, and industrial applications.

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Probiotics are considered effective microbial dietary supplements that provide beneficial effects to consumers, usually by restoring or improving gut microflora. Goat milk is one of the rich sources of probiotics as well as nutrients. Therefore, the primary aim of this research was to isolate and evaluate the potential of novel indigenous probiotic strains present in goat milk.

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Grain appearance is one of the most important attributes of rice. It is determined by grain size, shape, and weight, which in turn influences the rice yield and market value. In this study, QTLs for grain length, grain width, grain length/width ratio, and grain weight were mapped using the high-throughput indica/indica SNP platforms.

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Three different types (blank, annealed, and functionalized) of copper ferrite nanoparticles (CuFeO) were synthesized by the co-precipitation method. The CuFeO NPs were characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) techniques. FTIR analysis confirmed that 3-APTES is successfully grafted on the surface of CuFeO NPs.

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Ruthenium-based metal complex dyes have been employed extensively in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) as photosensitizers, but the cost and toxicity of metal complexes have promoted the development of metal-free organic dyes. The present investigation deals with the synthesis of hemicyanine and Dicyanoisophorone (DCI) based dyes adopting the D-π-A strategy, and their application on sensitization of nano-crystalline ZnO electrodes by appending the carboxyl (COOH) anchoring group as a pendant on the primary skeleton of dyes. Dyes have been characterized by UV, FTIR, and NMR spectroscopic studies.

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Thiazole derivatives are known inhibitors of alkaline phosphatase, but various side effects have reduced their curative efficacy. Conversely, compounds bearing azomethine linkage display a broad spectrum of biological applications. Therefore, combining the two scaffolds in a single structural unit should result in joint beneficial effects of both.

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Helicobacter pylori urease remains a validated drug target for the eradication of pervasive chronic stomach infection that leads to severe human health diseases such as gastritis and stomach cancer. The increased failure of current treatment protocols because of resistance to broadband antibiotics, severe side effects and low compliance underscore the need for a targeted eradication therapy. Therefore, in the present research, we have developed a new series of acetylphenol-based acyl thioureas that can potentially provide a new template for drug candidates to inhibit urease enzyme.

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A series of N-((4-sulfamoylphenyl)carbamothioyl)alkanamides (5a-j) were synthesized by the reaction of sulphanilamide in dry acetone with freshly prepared alkyl and acyl isothiocyanates (5a-j). The structures of products were confirmed by IR, H, and C NMR. The synthesized compounds were screened as inhibitors of the bovine erythrocyte carbonic anhydrase isoform II (bCA II) and 15-lipoxygenase enzyme (15-LOX).

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Solventless cyclocondensation of 2-aminothiophenol with thiourea afforded the benzo[]oxazole-2-thiol () capable of existing also in the tautomeric form benzo[]oxazole-2(3)-thione (). Acylation with methyl chloroacetate in dry ethanol in absence of any base or catalyst selectively afforded the -substituted ester 2-(methoxycarbonylmethylthio)benzo[]oxazole () in preference to the corresponding -substituted ester -(methoxycarbonylmethyl)thioxobenzoxazole (). Quantum chemical calculations were conducted to determine the conformational landscape and NBO population analysis showed the strong electronic delocalization resonance interactions on the 2-mercaptobenzaxazole group.

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G-protein-coupled receptors for extracellular nucleotides are known as P2Y receptors and are made up of eight members that are encoded by distinct genes and can be classified into two classes based on their affinity for specific G-proteins. P2Y receptor modulators have been studied extensively, but only a few small-molecule P2Y receptor antagonists have been discovered so far and approved by drug agencies. Derivatives of indole carboxamide have been identified as P2Y and P2X antagonist, as a result, we developed and tested a series of indole derivatives4a-lhaving thiourea moiety as P2Y receptor antagonist by using a fluorescence-based assay to measure the inhibition of intracellular calcium release in 1321N1 astrocytoma cells that had been stably transfected with the P2Y, P2Y, P2Y and P2Y receptors.

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The title compound is a new pyrazolone derivative which was synthesized starting from p-sulphophenyl-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone (1) by nitrosation at low temperature to afford the corresponding p-sulphophenyl-3-methyl-4-nitroso-5-pyrazolone which can exist both in nitroso (2a) and oxime tautomeric forms (2b). Reduction of the latter using zinc with hydrochloric acid furnished the 4-amino-p-sulphophenyl-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone (3). The diazotization of (3) under careful control of temperature and pH afforded the p-sulphophenyl-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone diazonium salt (4) which was re-crystallized from acidified ethanol to afford crystal suitable for X-ray studies.

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In this present investigation, thiazolylcoumarin derivatives (5a-5k) were synthesized from thiosemicarbazide, ethyl acetoacetate, and naphthaldehyde through a multistep route. The formation of thiazolylcoumarin derivatives with bioactive scaffolds was confirmed through nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. A solvatochromic study of synthesized thiazolylcoumarin derivatives was carried out using ultraviolet-visible methods for dimethylformamide (DMF), ethyl acetate, and ethanol solvents.

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1-(adamantane-1-carbonyl-3-(1-naphthyl)) thiourea (CHNOS (4), was synthesized by the reaction of freshly prepared adamantane-1-carbonyl chloride from corresponding acid (3) with ammonium thiocyanate in 1:1 M ratio in dry acetone to afford the adamantane-1-carbonyl isothiocyanate (2) in situ followed by treatment with 1-naphthyl amine (3). The structure was established by elemental analyses, FTIR, H, C NMR and mass spectroscopy. The molecular and crystal structure were determined by single crystal X-ray analysis.

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Tyrosinase is a multi-copper enzyme found in plants, animals and microorganisms, plays a critical role in the melanogenesis and browning process critical to cosmetics and food industries. Many natural, semi-synthetic and synthetic inhibitors have been discovered. To this end, a small library of symmetrical Bis-Azo-Azamethine hybrids was synthesized and characterized through spectroscopic and analytical data and explored for mushroom tyrosinase and free radical scavenging activity.

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  • * This article builds on a previous review from 2000-2016, detailing new discoveries from 2016-2020, including new structural types and their pharmacological effects.
  • * Information was gathered from a range of scientific sources and validates earlier classifications while also revealing new findings about these compounds' structure and biological activities.
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The aim of this review is to provide a critical and comparative account of the total synthetic approaches toward histrionicotoxins, alkaloids isolated from skin extracts of Colombian poison arrow frog . We have summarized the maneuvers in each paper by graphically detailing the synthesis and associated reaction niceties of only the key intermediates by different researchers. Fascinating structural feature of histrionicotoxins is "8-hydroxy-l-azaspiro[5.

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We developed a simple and robust method for synthesis of 1,3-oxathiol-2-ylidene benzamides (4a-m) a sporadic class of heterocycles, by reacting freshly prepared aroyl isothiocyanates, with ethyl 2-chloroacetoacetate in presence of N-methylimidazole in dry acetonitrile. The synthesized compounds were explored for their inhibition against alkaline phosphatases and HeLa cancer cell lines. The results suggest that almost all the compounds possess good % inhibition against both enzymes, with compound 4m showing dual inhibition while 4g and 4i as potent and selective inhibitors of TNAP and c-IAP respectively.

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A small set of four new fluorenyl chromophores (5-5a-c) was accomplished by stepwise nucleophilic substitution, Friedel-Crafts acylation, Ullman coupling, aldol condensation and cyclization reactions. The fluorene moiety was substituted at 2,7,9 and 9' positions with diverse groups. The synthesized derivatives were characterized by FTIR, H-NMR and C-NMR spectroscopic techniques.

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