Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of new sulfonamides derived from 2-Aminopyridine: ‎Molecular docking, POM analysis, and identification of the pharmacophore sites

Abstract

New series of imidazole[1,2-a]pyridine-sulfonamides was designed and synthesized from 2-aminopyridine, which was reacted with p-bromo phenacyl bromide in the present of MgO to produce  the corresponding imidazole[1,2-a]pyridine, which was then reacted with chlorosulfonic acid  to produce 2-(4-bromo-phenyl)imidazole[1,2-a]pyridine-3-sulfonyl chloride [2]. Following that, treatment of (2) with different amines using the grand method to generate imidazole [1,2-a] pyridine sulfonamides. All the synthesized compounds have been characterized by FTIR, ¹HNMR and ¹³CNMR and C.H.N analysis. The DFT, POM analysis and molecular docking were carried out on for all final compounds to investigate drug like attributes, and the results revealed showed that these compounds have an optimal drug ability score. According to the computational approach, the antioxidant activity and antiproliferative characteristics of the synthesized sulfonamides were examined using two cell lines (MCF-7 and hepG2) in varied times and different concentrations.