Issue 31, 2023

Potential anticancer and antioxidant lauric acid-based hydrazone synthesis and computational study toward the electronic properties

Abstract

The modification of natural products is one of the key areas of synthetic organic chemistry for obtaining valuable chemical building blocks that have medicinal significance. In this study, lauric acid-based hydrazones, namely (E)-N′-(2-nitrobenzylidene)dodecanehydrazide (NBDH), (E)-N′-(naphthalen-1-ylmethylene)dodecanehydrazide (NMDH), and (E)-N′-(4-fluorobenzylidene)dodecanehydrazide (FBDH), were synthesized and characterized using spectroscopic techniques. The newly synthesized lauric acid-based hydrazones were screened for their anticancer and antioxidant potential. The antioxidants showed their activity by inhibiting the oxidative chain reactions that produce reactive oxygen species. The antioxidant activity showed that NBDH exhibited the maximum DPPH inhibitory activity when compared with that of NMDH and FBDH, whereas the anticancer activity showed that FBDH exhibited maximum percent viability when compared to that of NBDH and NMDH. The reactivity and biological needs of the synthesized compounds NBDH, NMDH, and FBDH were met by performing geometrical, FT-IR vibrational, UV-visible, global reactivity parameters (GRP), MEP, FMO, NBO, ELF, LOL, and nonlinear optical (NLO) analysis at the DFT/B3LYP/6-311+G(d,p) level. NBO analysis confirmed the existence of extended conjugation and intramolecular charge transfer among NBDH, NMDH, and FBDH, which have the lowest gap in π → π*, which are in line with the FMO results where successful charge transfer occurred from the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) to the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO). GRP analysis confirmed the potential of NBDH, NMDH, and FBDH for biological, electronic, and NLO applications. It is clear from the comparative analysis of the urea molecule that NBDH, NMDH, and FBDH all comprise fine NLO properties.

Graphical abstract: Potential anticancer and antioxidant lauric acid-based hydrazone synthesis and computational study toward the electronic properties

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
12 4 2023
Accepted
16 6 2023
First published
19 7 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

RSC Adv., 2023,13, 21793-21807

Potential anticancer and antioxidant lauric acid-based hydrazone synthesis and computational study toward the electronic properties

M. A. Assiri, A. Ali, M. Ibrahim, M. U. Khan, K. Ahmed, M. S. Hamid Akash, M. A. Abbas, A. Javed, M. Suleman, M. Khalid and I. Hussain, RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 21793 DOI: 10.1039/D3RA02433D

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