Synthesis, Anticancer Evaluation and Molecular Docking Studies of Isonicotinamide and Diaryl Urea Hybrid Motifs

Abstract

In search of new anticancer agents with improved efficacy, we designed and synthesized novel hybrid series of isonicotinamide and diaryl urea motifs (R1-R9). Design of series compounds carried out using docking study by Autodock vina tool. Binding energy (more than -9.7 kcal/mol) calculated using Autodock vina against Raf kinase (PDB: 4DBN). All the synthesized compounds were evaluated for them in vitro anticancer activity against MCF-7 cell line. The anticancer activities of the synthesized compounds were also carried. Some of the compounds (R1, R8, R9) showed better activities towards MCF-7 cell line by MTT assay.