Pyrazole Scaffolds: Centrality in Anti-Inflammatory and Antiviral Drug Design

  • Dipanjan Karati
  • , Kakasaheb Ramoo Mahadik
  • , Dileep Kumar*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Background: Pyrazole is a component of a diversity of bioactive heterocyclic congeners with a broad-spectrum range of biological and pharmacological uses. Designing novel pyrazole and its analogues, revealing new routes for synthesizing this nucleus, exploring various potencies of that heterocycles, and looking for possible applications of pyrazoles are all becoming more important due to their numerous potential applications. Objectives: Pyrazole scaffolds have been proven to be successful as anti-viral and anti-inflammatory therapeutics against multiple targets like HSV-1, NNRTI, H1N1, CoX-1, and CoX-2. Due to this miscellany in the biotic area, this moiety has engrossed the consideration of many scientists to study chemistry and pharmacological profile. Results: The review encompasses pyrazole having various scaffolds with multiple biological activities and attempts have also been made to correlate their structure-activity relationship. Multiple pyra-zole correspondents have been synthesized as lead molecules and performed valuation for their ac-tions. Conclusion: The incorporation of pyrazole with other pharmacophores in the molecule might lead to novel potent therapeutic agents that will further help in designing potent lead molecules.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1060-1072
Number of pages13
JournalMedicinal Chemistry
Volume18
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12-2022

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Drug Discovery

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