•17 new compounds with two heterocycles were designed, synthesized as PTP1B inhibitor.•All the molecules were tested for the inhibitory activities against PTP1B and CDC25B.•Compound 14i containing pyrrole and thiazolidine-4-one showed IC50 = 6.09 μM for PTP1B.•Compound 14b displayed IC50 of 8.66 μM and 1.66 μM for PTP1B and CDC25B respectively.•Dock modes between 14b/14h/14i and PTP1B, ADMET properties and SAR were analyzed.A new series of 2-substituted imino-3-substituted-5- heteroarylidene-1,3-thiazolidine-4-ones as the potent bidentate PTP1B inhibitors were designed and synthesized in this paper. All of the new compounds were characterized and identified by spectra analysis. The biological screening test against PTP1B showed that some of these compounds have the positive inhibitory activity against PTP1B. The activity of the compounds with 5-substituted pyrrole on 5-postion of 1,3-thiazolidine-4-one are more potent than that of those compounds with 5-substituted pyridine group. Compound 14b, 14h and 14i showed IC50 values of 8.66 μM, 6.83 μM and 6.09 μM against PTP1B, respectively. Docking analysis of these active compounds with PTP1B showed the possible interaction modes of these biheterocyclic compounds with the active sites of PTP1B. The inhibition tests against oncogenetic CDC25B were also conducted on this set of compounds to evaluate the selectivity and possible anti-neoplastic activity. Compound 14b also showed the lowest IC50 of 1.66 μM against CDC25B among all the possible inhibitors, including 14g, 14h, 14i and 15c. Some pharmacological parameters including VolSurf, steric and electric descriptors of all the compounds were calculated to give some hints about the relative relationship with the biological activity. The result of this study might give some light on designing the possible anti-cancer drugs targeting at phosphatases. The most active compound 14i might be used as the lead compound for further structure modification of the new low molecular weight PTP1B inhibitors with the N-containing heterocyclic skeleton.Figure optionsDownload full-size imageDownload as PowerPoint slide

•18 new compounds were designed, synthesized as the anti-drug resistant HIV NNRTIs.•All the new molecules were evaluated for their biological activities against HIV.•Compound 1d displayed anti HIV-1 activities 47 fold than that of AZT.•Compound 1d also showed activities against double mutated HIV-1 and HIV-2 strain.•SAR study including the docking analysis was also investigated deeply.This article reports the design, synthesis and antiviral evaluation of a new series of non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs). The basic skeleton of these target 18 molecules is diarylpyrimidine featuring a substituted amino group between the pyrimidine scaffold and the aryl wing. All of the new compounds have been characterized by spectra analysis. The entire target molecules were evaluated for their in vitro anti-HIV activity with controlling group of FDA approved drugs. Most of them showed good to potent activities against wild-type (WT) HIV-1 with IC50 values in the range of 0.0175–69.21 μM. 2-(4-Cyanophenylamino)-4-(2-cyanovinylphenylhydrazonomethyl)pyrimidine (1d) displayed potent anti-HIV-1 activity against WT HIV-1 with a selectivity index (SI) of 106367 and an IC50 value of 1.75 nM, which was 47 fold lower than that of AZT. Compound 1d also showed a broad-spectrum inhibitory activity, with an IC50 value of 5.33 μM and 5.05 μM against both HIV-1 double-mutated (K103N/Y181C) strain and HIV-2 strain, respectively. The preliminary structure–activity relationship (SAR) was also investigated. The binding modes with HIV-1 RT for both the wild type and mutant type have also been discussed.A series of new diarylpyrimidine analogues featuring a functional substituted amino group between the pyrimidine scaffold and the aryl wing have been designed and synthesized, which were also evaluated as anti-drug-resistant HIV reverse transcriptase inhibitors.

A new series of 29 diarylpyrimidine analogues featuring a cyclopropylamino group between the pyrimidine scaffold and the aryl wing have been synthesized. All of the new compounds have been characterized by spectra analysis. The target molecules were evaluated for their in vitro anti-HIV activity with FDA-approved drugs as references. Some of the compounds exhibited moderate to potent activities against wild-type HIV-1. The compound 4-((4-((cyclopropylamino)(2,5-difluorophenyl)methyl)pyrimidin-2-yl)amino)benzonitrile (1e) displayed potent anti-HIV-1 activity against WT HIV-1 with an IC50 of 0.099 μM and a selectivity index of 2302. The preliminary structure–activity relationship (SAR) of this new series of compounds was also investigated.Graphical abstractDownload high-res image (177KB)Download full-size image