Open AccessNickel Oxide-Catalyzed Synthesis of 4-Amino-2H-Chromenes: Its Application in Antimicrobial Studies and Towards Protein Docking
Author(s) -
A. Neela,
Clarina Thanaraj,
Velladurai Rama
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
asian journal of chemistry/asian journal of chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.145
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 0975-427X
pISSN - 0970-7077
DOI - 10.14233/ajchem.2019.21799
Subject(s) - chemistry , malononitrile , knoevenagel condensation , docking (animal) , catalysis , nuclear chemistry , combinatorial chemistry , antimicrobial , organic chemistry , medicine , nursing
This work involves the synthesis of densely functionalized 2-amino-4H-chromenes by domino Knoevenagel-Michael-cyclization reaction of aromatic aldehydes, β-naphthol and malononitrile in the presence of a catalytic amount of a heterogeneous and reusable green NiO nanoparticle at 50 °C. The biogenic nickel oxide nanoparticles are characterized by Fourier transform infrared radiation, X-ray diffraction analysis, scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. The synthesized chromenes are characterized by IR, NMR spectra. The synthesized chromene derivatives are studied for microbial inhibition by Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion method using amikacin and flucanazole as positive control. The compounds are found to have good to moderate antimicrobial activities. Their bio evaluation has been carried out with a protein and identified promising ligands for Mycobacterium tuberculosis InhA through molecular docking.