Issue 28, 2024

Recent advances on anticancer and antimicrobial activities of directly-fluorinated five-membered heterocycles and their benzo-fused systems

Abstract

Due to the importance of the fluorinated heterocycles as main components of marketed drugs where 20% of the anticancer and antibiotic drugs contain fluorine atoms, this review describes the reported five-membered heterocycles and their benzo-fused systems having directly connected fluorine atom(s). The in vivo and in vitro anticancer and antimicrobial activities of these fluorinated heterocycles are well reported. Some fluorinated heterocycles were found to be lead structures for drug design developments where their activities were almost equal to or exceeded the potency of the reference drugs. In most cases, the fluorine-containing heterocycles showed promising safety index via their reduced cytotoxicity in non-cancerous cell lines. SAR study assigned that fluorinated heterocycles having various electron-donating or electron-withdrawing substituents significantly affected the anticancer and antimicrobial activities.

Graphical abstract: Recent advances on anticancer and antimicrobial activities of directly-fluorinated five-membered heterocycles and their benzo-fused systems

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
23 Feb 2024
Accepted
05 Jun 2024
First published
19 Jun 2024
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2024,14, 19752-19779

Recent advances on anticancer and antimicrobial activities of directly-fluorinated five-membered heterocycles and their benzo-fused systems

A. A. Abbas, T. A. Farghaly and K. M. Dawood, RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 19752 DOI: 10.1039/D4RA01387E

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