Abdel-Ghany A. El-Helby, RezkRezk A. Ayyad, Khaled El‐Adl
Aug 4, 2017
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A new series of 4-acetyl-1-substituted-3,4-dihydroquinoxalin-2(1H)-ones (3–14) were designed and synthesized in order to evaluate their α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA)-receptor antagonism as a proposed mode of their anticonvulsant activity. The structure of the synthesized compounds was confirmed by elemental analysis and spectral data (infrared, 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), 13CNMR, and mass). The molecular design was performed for all synthesized compounds to predict their binding affinity towards AMPA-receptor in order to rationalize their anticonvulsant activity in a qualitative way and explain the possible interactions that might take place between the tested derivatives and AMPA receptor in comparing to compounds III and YM872 in order to obtain the anticonvulsant effect. The data obtained from the molecular modeling was strongly correlated with that obtained from the biological screening which revealed that; compounds 14b, 14a, and 13b showed the highest binding affinities toward AMPA-receptor and also showed the highest anticonvulsant activities against pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures in experimental mice. The relative potencies of these compounds were 1.89, 1.83, and 1.51 respectively, in comparing to diazepam.