DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF NEW EGFR- TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITORS CONTAINING PYRAZOLO[3,4-d]PYRIMIDINE CORES AS ANTICANCER AGENTS

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Department of Pharmacutical Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt

2 Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University Cairo, Egypt

Abstract

New designed EGFR inhibitors (7-11) were prepared from the pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine intermediates 4a-d including different moieties. All newly synthesized compounds were confirmed by elemental analyses and spectral data. The molecular simulation docking to protein tyrosine kinase (EGFR), using erlotinib (Tarceva TM) as a lead compound was also studied. Some of the prepared compounds were screened for in-vitro cytotoxic activity. The docking results were in coincidence with the biological results that indicated compound 7a showed an inhibitory activity against human breast carcinoma cell line (MCF-7) [IC50 (14.86μM)].