Synthesis and characterization of the novel pyrimidine’s derivatives, as a promising tool for antimicrobial agent and in-vitro cytotoxicity

Abstract

Herein, the biological activities including antibacterial, antifungal, and in-vitro cytotoxicity for some novel substituted pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidinone, benzylidene dihydropyrimidine, pyrano[2,3-d]pyrimidine, hexahydropyrimido[4, 5-d]pyrimidinone, tetrahydropyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidine-6-carbonitrile, and pyrido[2, 3-d:6,5-d'] dipyrimidinone derivatives were investigated. The synthesized novel compounds were achieved through the incorporation of the active moieties such as halo compound, pyrazolo, pyrano, pyrimido, pyrido-derivatives with active methylene group in thiobarbituric acid derivatives at C-5. Structures of all synthesized compounds were characterized by spectral techniques including IR, ¹H-NMR, MS, and ¹³C-NMR. All synthesized compounds were screened for their antibacterial and antifungal activity, while the most promising compounds were selected to investigate their in-vitro cytotoxic efficacy against normal Vero cells and cancerous Caco-2 cells. Data showed that the biological activities were concentration-dependent. All novel pyrimidine derivatives exhibited broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity with a varied zone of inhibition ranging between 11.3 ± 0.6 and 25.3 ± 0.6 mm. The MIC values are different according to a pathogenic organism (ranging between 3.91 and 500 µg mL⁻¹), whereas the MBC/MFC were 2 × to 4 × MIC value. Data of in-vitro cytotoxicity confirm the efficiency of selected novel pyrimidine derivatives to target Caco-2 cancerous cells at low concentrations more Vero normal cells. Four selected compounds 4, 7b, 10, and 12 displayed IC50 values of 286.73 ± 4.54, 138.07 ± 8.21, 332.48 ± 18.75, and 241.18 ± 15.60 µg mL⁻¹, respectively, for normal Vero cell line, whereas it was 271.55 ± 3.68, 65.94 ± 2.36, 121.16 ± 4.96, and 82.28 ± 4.08 µg mL⁻¹, respectively, for Caco-2 cancerous cell line.