Michael Cyclization of Polarized Systems: Synthesis and in vitro Anti-Diabetic Evaluation of Some Novel Pyrimidine, Pyridine, Pyrazole and Pyrazolo[3,4-b ]pyridine Derivatives

Various interesting heterocycle skeletons were synthesized via Michael type addition reaction with 1,2; 1,3-bidentate nitrogen and carbon nucleophiles. Cycloaddition of different α,β–unsaturated systems afforded bromopyrimidinone 3/5, bromothiazine 4 and bromopyrazole 6a/6b pyrazole-1-carboxylate 8, pyridinylmethanone 9, nicotinonitrile 10, pyrazolopyridine 11a/11b, pyran-3-carbonitrile 12/13, chromenopyridine 14 and N-butyrylpyrazolyl-1-butanone 15 derivatives. The structures of the synthesized compounds were elucidated based on IR, NMR and mass spectral analyses. Group of the newly synthesized compounds were screened for their anti-diabetic activities, whereas compounds 8 and 11b exhibited promising anti-diabetic activities at micro molar concentration against α-glucosidase inhibitor with IC50 values ranging between 13.80-500 μM. On the other hand compound 10 showed a week effect as compared to the standard anti-diabetic agent. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License