Publications by authors named "Zafar S Saify"

Seven new hydrazinyl thiazole derivatives of piperidin-4-one (PE3-PE9) have been synthesized by cyclization of intermediate thiosemicarbazone derivative (PE2). Parent molecule (PE1) was synthesized by one pot total synthesis using Mannich condensation reaction. Percent yield of most of the compounds found in between 70-85%.

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Acetylcholine esterase (AChE) is a key biological target responsible for the management of cholinergic transmission, and its inhibitors are used for the therapy of Alzheimer's disease. In the present study, a small library of molecules with 1,3-di-4-piperidylpropane nucleus were docked on AChE. The selected compounds were synthesized and evaluated for their enzyme inhibition.

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Objective: After the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a pandemic, intense efforts to combat the novel coronavirus were undertaken, with many fatalities in most regions of the world. The high fatality rate and socioeconomic collapse affected the health of uninfected individuals because healthcare measures and scheduled clinical and hospital visits were avoided by people in an attempt to reduce their exposure to the contagion. The general population began self-medication practices as means to safeguard against exposure to the virus.

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Benzimidazole and its derivatives found variety of biological activities, for the searching of its potent anti-inflammatory analogues, we synthesized four novel 4-(2-keto-1-benzimidazollinyl) piperidine derivatives (Q1 to Q4) by refluxing piperidine with substituted imidazole and subjected to in-vitro anti-inflammatory (ROS, NO) and antibacterial activities, structures were elucidated using spectroscopic techniques. Results revealed that compound Q1 showed most effective anti-inflammatory activity with IC 7.6±1.

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Numerous nutraceutical applications have been explored during the last decades. The present study is based on extraction of oil from super kernel basmati rice which has shown effective analgesic, anti- inflammatory, and anti-arthiritic activities. The feeding experiments on male Wister rats and female Sprague-dawley (SD) rats have elaborated the therapeutic value of variety of bioactive components including γ-oryzanol present in the oil.

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In this present study seven novel thiazole derivatives (PM3-PM9) were synthesized by cyclization of key intermediate thiosemicarbazone (PM2), derived from 4-piperidone (PM1). The parent 4-piperidone was synthesized by Mannich condensation reaction with good yield (89%). All the derivatives were characterized by UV, IR, HNMR and mass spectral analysis.

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Neuroinflammation affects millions of people around the world as a result of injury or stress. Neuroinflammation represents almost all types of neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease. Neurodegenerative diseases comprise demyelination and synaptic loss.

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In search of potent molecules having antioxidant activity the present work was designed to synthesize 2, 6-diphenylpiperidine-4-one compounds (1a and 1b) and their imine derivatives (2a, 2b, 3a, and 3b). Compounds 1a and 1b were synthesized by Mannich condensation reaction. The method was found to be simple, convenient with high yield and products were easily separated.

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The idea of this study is based on the marvelous fact of nojirimycin and deoxy nojirimycin, naturally occurring from piperidine class and having their role as alpha glucosidase inhibitors. In the present work some hydroxyl piperidine analogues have been synthesized and analysed for their hypoglycemic effect through glucosidase inhibition owing to the structural resemblance with nojirimycin. The activity was done by spectral absorbance analysis using acarbose as standard.

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The title compound, CHNO·Cl, was synthesized by a one-pot Mannich condensation reaction. In the mol-ecule, the piperidinone ring adopts a chair conformation, and the trimeth-oxy-substituted benzene rings and octyl chain are arranged equatorially. In the crystal, centrosymmetric dimers are linked into layers parallel to (011) by N-H⋯Cl and C-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds.

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Six novel analogues were prepared by reacting benzimidazole molecules (BM and CMB) propiophenone and benzoyl chlorides respectively. The structures of newly synthesized compounds were determined with the help of spectroscopic techniques. The compounds were subjected to in-vitro screening for their activity against nematodes.

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Oxytropis glabra DC. is a plant with enormous therapeutic vitality. In the present study a comparison of lipophilic profiling of different parts of O.

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Vitex negundu (Vn) is a well-known aromatic shrub commonly used as a traditional folk medicine famous for its potential pharmacological and biological activities. Several chemical compounds are extracted and identified from the different parts of the Vn such as leaves, root, seeds and flowers. Number of researches reported the herb as antimicrobial, anti-androgenic, anti-osteoporotic, and anti-tumour, anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-hyperglycemic and hepatoprotective.

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Vitex negundo (Vn) extract is famous for the treatment of neurological diseases such as migraine and epilepsy. These neurological diseases have been associated with abnormally increased influx of sodium ions into the neurons. Drugs that inhibit voltage gated sodium channels can be used as potent anti-epileptics.

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In view of the well-documented medicinal properties of Calotropis procera (CP), the present study was designed to evaluate the neuroprotective effect of the extract. We have prepared a methanolic extract of Calotropis procera and screen varying concentration of CP (20, 30, 40, 50 and 70μg/ml) for the stimulatory potency on neurite outgrowth. The stimulatory effect of CP on neurite outgrowth was assessed in primary hippocampal neurons.

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Piperidine is the most significant scaffold which reveals therapeutic potential because of its conformationally flexible nature. During the course of present investigations synthetic quaternary salts of alkyl piperidine with various phenacyl bromides were explored for their possible analgesic activity. Compounds I analogs (1a-1f) and compound II analogs (IIa-IIf) showed varying degree of analgesic activity when compared with pethidine as standard and its duration by tail immersion method.

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In this research program, the antibacterial, antifungal and antioxidant activities of six N'-substituted sulfonyl and benzoyl derivatives of lead molecule PCH were reported. Out of these compounds, sulphonyl derivatives 2,3 and benzoyl derivative 5 showed moderate to good activity against different strains of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria including B. cereus, B.

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In the present study, some 9-aminoacridine derivatives have been synthesized by condensation of 9-aminoacridine with substituted phenacyl, benzoyl, and benzyl halides (RM1-RM6). Compounds were investigated for acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase inhibition potential, considering these enzymes playing a key role in Alzheimer's disease. All derivatives showed better inhibition of enzymes than the standard galantamine, whereas except RM4, all exhibit better results than tacrine, a well-known acridine derivative used for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

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Malaria is the world's most prevalent disease that affects 515-600 million people each year and about 40% of the world's population live at risk for this infection. The prevalence of morbidity and mortality from drug resistant malaria (Plasmodium falciparum) is increasing in most of the developing countries, which is also a global threat because international travel is common now and imported malaria is increasingly a serious problem. Since rapid schizonticidal action of naturally occurring endoperoxides pharmacophore present in artemisinin against drug-resistant malaria has been documented, researchers have focused more on artemisinin analogs than any other antimalarials.

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Synthesis of novel phenacyl derivatives of alkyl piperidine as cytotoxic agents via simple and single step reaction procedure is going to be reported here. Twelve new compounds were successfully synthesized in moderate yield and in solid form. Their synthesis was confirmed by TLC, melting point, CHN analysis and through different spectral studies such as UV, IR, Mass and proton NMR.

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Piperidine derivatives are known to exhibit analgesic activities and are likely to possess the ability to block the effects of prostaglandins through inhibition of downstream signaling pathways. The present study investigated the activity of five derivatives (PD2-6) of 4-(4'-bromophenyl)-4-piperidinol (PD1), against pain and platelet aggregation mediated by the release of prostaglandins and thromboxane A2, respectively. The results showed that compound PD1 and its two phenacyl derivatives PD3 and PD5 exhibited a highly significant analgesic effect (p < 0.

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In the context of our previous communication on phytochemical studies of the ethanolic extract of flowers of Alstonia scholaris of Pakistan origin, these have resulted in the isolation of two new triterpenoids. One is of the oleanane type, alstoprenyol, 3-β-hydroxy-28-β-acetoxy-5-olea triterpene (1), the other is of ursane type, alstoprenylene 3β-acetate-24-nor-urs-4,12,2'-triene ester triterpene (2) and together with four known triterpenes, α-amyrin acetate (3), α-amyrin (4), lupeol acetate (5) and 3β-hydroxy-24-nor-urs-4,12,28-triene triterpene (6) were isolated. The structures of 1-6 were elucidated with the aid of extensive NMR spectroscopic studies.

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The plant-derived terpenoids are considered to be the most potent anticancer, anti-inflammatory and anticarcinogenic compounds known. Enzymatic biotransformation is a very useful approach to expand the chemical diversity of natural products. Recent enzymatic biotransformation studies on terpenoids have resulted in the isolation of novel compounds.

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Study of natural products led to the development of new molecules of potential biological activity. Piperidine nucleus constitutes one of the components of various alkaloids and drugs. During the course of our project regarding the synthesis of derivatives of piperidine carboxamide to study the effects of these compounds as anti-depressive agents, some of the compounds exhibited significant effects at all three doses, through open field activity thus establishing a direct relationship between dose and locomotion.

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The HslVU is the proteasome-related two component system composed of HslV peptidase and HslU chaperone. It is involved in the degradation of an array of intracellular proteins. The presence of HslVU homologs in pathogenic microbes and its absence in human makes it an antimicrobial drug target.

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