Issue 5, 2023, Issue in Progress

Pyrazolone-type compounds (part II): in vitro and in silico evaluation of antioxidant potential; structure–activity relationship

Abstract

The pyrazolone class comprises a variety of hybrid compounds displaying diverse biological actions. Although studied for decades, these compounds are still of interest due to their facile chemical transformations. In our previous work, we presented the synthetic route of functionalised pyrazolone derivatives. The presence of pyrazolone structural motif in many drugs, such as edaravone, prompted us to investigate the antioxidant features of the selected compounds. In this paper, we provide an extensive in vitro and in silico description of the antioxidant properties of selected pyrazolone analogues. The obtained in vitro results revealed their great antiradical potency against the DPPH radical (IC50 values in the 2.6–7.8 μM range), where the best results were obtained for analogues bearing a catechol moiety. Density functional theory (DFT) was used to assess their antioxidant capacity from the thermodynamic aspect. Here, good agreement with in vitro results was achieved. DFT was employed for the prediction of the most preferable radical scavenging pathway, also. In polar solvents, the SPLET mechanism is a favourable scavenging route, whereas in nonpolar solvents the HAT is slightly predominant. Furthermore, antioxidant mechanisms were studied in the presence of relevant reactive oxygen species. The obtained values of the reaction enthalpies with the selected radicals revealed that HAT is slightly prevailing in polar solvents, while the SPLET mechanism is dominant in nonpolar solvents. Regarding the well-known antioxidant features of the drug edaravone, these findings represent valuable data for this pyrazolone class and could be used as the basis for further investigations.

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 Dec 2022
Accepted
12 Jan 2023
First published
18 Jan 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2023,13, 2884-2895

Pyrazolone-type compounds (part II): in vitro and in silico evaluation of antioxidant potential; structure–activity relationship

J. Branković, V. M. Milovanović, Z. D. Petrović, D. Simijonović and V. P. Petrović, RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 2884 DOI: 10.1039/D2RA08280B

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