Amit B. Patel

By Amit B. Patel and Premlata Kumari

Heterocyclic compounds are an important part of the synthetic medicinal chemistry. They offer a high degree of structural variety and have proven to be widely useful as therapeutic agents. Heterocyclic compounds play an important role in the biological processes. They are widespread as natural products. Heterocyclic compounds are widely found in nature categorically in plant alkaloids, nucleic acids, anthocyanins, and flavones. They are also present as in chlorophyll and hemoglobin. Additionally, some proteins, hormones, and vitamins also contain aromatic heterocyclic system. Heterocycles have huge potential as the most promising molecules as lead structures for the design of new drugs. About one half of over 6 million compounds recorded so far in chemical abstracts are heterocyclic. The proposed book chapter entitled, Recent Advances in the Biological Importance of Rhodanine Derivatives gives an outline of importance and applications of the various rhodanine derivatives in medicinal chemistry from 2004 to 2014.

Part of the book: Scope of Selective Heterocycles from Organic and Pharmaceutical Perspective

By Zebabanu Khalifa, Rachana Upadhyay, Premlata Kumari and Amit B. Patel

Heterocyclic compounds have an essential role in many domains of medicinal chemistry. Many pharmaceutical industries use and investigate nitrogen-containing heterocycles because they are crucial in discovering and developing novel therapeutically active compounds. The benzimidazole moiety is a fundamental component of many heterocyclic scaffolds, which play an important role in producing a wide range of biological activities. Similarly, quinoline is also a versatile bicyclic heterocyclic scaffold with many medicinal applications. It is an essential scaffold for drug discovery leads, and it plays a significant role in medicinal chemistry and has biological activities similar to benzimidazole scaffolds. The present chapter discusses the quinoline-benzimidazole hybrids scaffolds and their potential pharmacological activities.

Part of the book: Strategies for the Synthesis of Heterocycles and Their Applications