A novel series of chalcones and flavanones discriminated by the presence of a 3,4-dimethoxyphenyl moiety in their structures were synthesized as anti-cancer agents. The cytotoxicity evaluation of the analogs against the MCF-7, MDA-MB-231 (human breast cancer), and SK-N-MC (human neuroblastoma) cell lines demonstrated that the introduction of a halogen on the 3,4-dimethoxyphenyl part of both ser...

A series of 1-phenyl-3-aryl-5-(4-(2-ethanoloxy) phenyl)-1H-pyrazoles were synthesized from chalcones and studied for their in vitro antibacterial activity. Chalcones i.e.,1-aryl-3-(4hydroxyphenyl) prop-2-en-1-ones, 1 on reaction with phenyl hydrazine yielded the corresponding 1-phenyl-3-aryl-5-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-1H-pyrazoles 2 which on further reaction with 3-chloroethanol furnished the title co...

2',3'-Dihydroxy-4,4'-dimethoxychalcone (1) and 2',3',4-trihydroxy-4'-methoxy-chalcone, two new chalcones, were isolated from propolis from El Salvador. The compounds showed significant antibacterial and antifungal activity and moderate toxicity to Artemia salina nauplii.

Novel fluorescent chalcone-based ligands at human histamine H(3) receptors (hH(3)R) have been designed, synthesized, and characterized. Compounds described are non-imidazole analogs of ciproxifan with a tetralone motif. Tetralones as chemical precursors and related fluorescent chalcones exhibit affinities at hH(3)R in the same concentration range like the reference antagonist ciproxifan (hH(3)R...

A three-way resolution method based on PARAFAC model was applied for the UV-Vis spectra to study the simultaneous degradation of anthocyanins extracted from fresh calyces of flowers of the Hibiscus sabdariffa. This methodology was used to resolve a chemical system, for which there was no a priori information about the composition or the pure spectra, a so-called black system. In the pH range fr...

Flow chemistry-based syntheses of deuterium-labeled analogs of important antidiabetic chalcones were achieved via highly controlled partial C≡C bond deuteration of the corresponding 1,3-diphenylalkynones. The benefits of a scalable continuous process in combination with on-demand electrolytic D2 gas generation were exploited to suppress undesired over-reactions and to maximize reaction rates si...

Abstract There is always a need for efficient luminescent materials with simple synthesis and possible ease of hydrogen atom or functional group manipulation use in different optoelectronic biological applications. However, certain real-world uses aggregation caused quenching effect luminophores their solid/aggregate state undesirable, cause concern areas, wherein the solid-state optical perfor...