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ZnO Nanoparticles Catalyst in the Synthesis of Bioactive Fused Pyrimidines as Anti-breast Cancer Agents Targeting VEGFR-2

Author(s): Dina H. Dawood, Eman M.H. Abbas, Thoraya A. Farghaly*, Mamdouh M. Ali and Mohammed F. Ibrahim

Volume 15, Issue 3, 2019

Page: [277 - 286] Pages: 10

DOI: 10.2174/1573406414666180912113226

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Abstract

Background: Pyrimidines emerged as a remarkable class of heterocyclic compounds that have reinforced the pharmaceutical chemistry with various bioactive antitumor agents. Moreover, pyrimidine scaffold displayed VEGFR-2 inhibitory activity. Also, nano-sized catalysts are used in organic reactions in order to speed up the catalytic process.

Objective: We were interested herein to synthesize a new series of fused pyrimidines using ZnO(NPs) to investigate their antitumor efficiency against breast MCF7 cancer and their VEGFR- 2 inhibition properties.

Method: A simple and efficient method for the synthesis of fused pyrimidines was developed using zinc oxide nanoparticles ZnO(NPs) in refluxing ethanol.

Results: The proposed structures of all new fused pyrimidines are in agreement with their spectral data. Antitumor evaluation of newly fused pyrimidine derivatives against breast MCF-7 cancer was performed. It was apparent that the 2-phenylpyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine derivatives 9a (IC50 = 9.12±1.16 µg/ml), 9c (IC50 = 9.10±1.07 µg/ml) and 9d (IC50 = 9.60±1.22 µg/ml) exhibited equipotent antitumor activity as Tamoxifen (IC50 = 9.11±0.90 µg/ml). Also, the inhibitory activity of the novel fused pyrimidine derivatives on VEGFR-2 as well as Tamoxifen was determined using breast cancer cell line MCF-7. The data was obvious that 2-phenylpyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine derivatives 9a, 9c and 9d exhibited noticeable VEGFR-2 inhibitory effect with % inhibition ranging from 80-84 % versus Tamoxifen 93.5%.

Conclusion: We succeeded in this context to synthesize new fused pyrimidines using ZnO(NPs) as anti-breast cancer agents targeting VEGFR-2.

Keywords: ZnO(NPs), fused pyrimidines, anti-breast cancer, catalyst, VEGFR-2 inhibitory effect, heteroamines.

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