The current study was chiefly designed to examine the antiproliferative and antioxidant activities of some novel quinazolinone(thione) derivatives 6−14.The present work focused on two main points; firstly, comparing between quinazolinone and quinazolinthione derivatives.Whereas, antiproliferative (against two cell lines namely, HepG2 and MCF-7) and antioxidant (by two methods; ABTS and DPPH) activities of the investigated compounds, the best quinazolinthione derivatives were 6 and here 14, which exhibited excellent potencies comparable to quinazolinone derivatives 5 and 9, respectively.
Secondly, we compared the activity of four series of Schiff bases which included the quinazolinone moiety (11a−d).In addition, the antiproliferative and antioxidant klaire labs ashwagandha activities of the compounds with various aryl aldehyde hydrazone derivatives (11a−d) analogs were studied.The compounds exhibited potency that increased with increasing electron donating group in p-position (OH > OMe > Cl) due to extended conjugated systems.
Noteworthy, most of antiproliferative and antioxidant activities results for the tested compounds are consistent with the DFT calculations.