Synthesis of some acrylophenones with N-methylpiperazine and evaluation of their cytotoxicities

Abstract

In this study, the compounds having acrylophenone structure, 1-aryl-2-(N-methylpiperazinomethyl)-2-propen-1-one dihydrochlorides, were synthesized and their chemical structures were identified with ¹H NMR, ¹³C NMR and HRMS spectra. The cytotoxicities of the compounds were tested towards Ca9-22 (human gingival carcinoma), HSC-2 (human oral squamous carcinoma), HSC-3 (human oral squamous carcinoma) and HSC-4 (human oral squamous carcinoma) cell lines as tumor cell lines and HGF (gingival fibroblasts), HPLF (periodontal ligament fibroblasts) and HPC (pulp cells) cell lines as non-tumor cell lines. PSE of the compound TA2, which has a methyl substituent on phenyl ring, pointed out the compound TA2 as a leader compound to be considered.

• Acrylophenone
• cytotoxicity
• Mannich bases
• N-methylpiperazine

Declaration of interest

The authors report no conflict of interest and are responsible for the contents and writing of the paper.

This research work was supported by Ataturk University Research Fund (Project No. BAP: 2010/166), Turkey. The authors are thankful to Dr Murat Sukuroglu (from Gazi University) for HRMS spectra.