Design, synthesis and anti-HIV activity of novel quinoxaline derivatives
Nirma University, India; Rega Institute for Medical Research
Abstract
In order to design novel anti-HIV agents, pharmacophore modelling, virtual screening, 3D-QSAR and molecular docking studies were performed. 50 quinoxaline derivatives with different substitutions were designed on basis of both ligand based drug design approaches and were mapped on the best pharmacophore model. From this, best 32 quinoxaline derivatives were docked onto the active site of integrase enzyme and in-silico ADMET properties were also predicted. From this data, synthesis of top 7 quinoxaline derivatives was carried out and were characterized using Mass, 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR spectroscopy. Purity of compounds were checked using HPLC.
Two quinoxaline derivatives showed good results, which can be further explored to develop novel anti-HIV agents.
