title: Combinatorial synthesis and antibacterial evaluation of an indexed chalcone library.
abstract: A 120-membered chalcone library has been designed and prepared from six differently substituted acetophenones (A1-A6) and 20 benzaldehydes (B1-B20). The library was subjected to biological studies targeted against six bacterial strains. For the identification of the most-active member(s) of the library, the so-called indexed or positional-scanning method was applied. Six out of 26 sub-libraries, i.e., AL1-AL6, were synthesized by keeping the acetophenone moiety A fixed and using equimolar quantities of the 20 different benzaldehydes. The remaining 20 sub-libraries BL1-BL20 were prepared by keeping the benzaldehyde B component fixed and varying the six acetophenones (Table 1). The bactericidal activities of the resulting sub-libraries were tested and used as indices to the rows or columns of a two-dimensional matrix. Finally, parallel synthesis of 24 specific members with the highest-expected antibacterial activities, present in two sub-libraries, was carried out. These chalcones were screened again, and the results were exploited for establishing the structure-activity relationship (SAR) and the identification of the lead compound, which turned out to be 1,3-bis(2-hydroxyphenyl)prop-2-en-1-one (A2B2) in terms of activity towards Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis (Tables 5-7).
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan. fla_qau@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Farzana Latif
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Ansari
authors.forename: Samina
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nazir
authors.forename: Humaira
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Noureen
authors.forename: Bushra
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mirza
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000494:pharmacology; D002599:Chalcone / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000494:pharmacology; D020650:Combinatorial Chemistry Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical / Q000379:methods; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests / Q000379:methods; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D002599:Chalcone