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As a part of a directed program for development of new active agents, novel heterocyclic derivatives with antipyrine and pyrazolone moieties -incorporated in- have been designed and synthesized. Starting with 4-arylidene-3-methyl-1-phenyl-5-pyrazolone derivative 2a,b novel Mannich bases derivatives have been synthesized and biologically evaluated for their anti-inflammatory activity. Furthermore, the activity of such compounds has been tested interestingly as COX-1 and COX-2 inhibitors. Structure elucidation of the synthesized compounds was attained by the use of elemental analysis, IR, 1 H NMR, 13 C NMR, and Mass spectrometry techniques. Compounds 3b, 3d and 4b represent the high % inhibition values for both COX-1 and COX-2. On the other hand, compound 8 showed little selectivity against COX-2 while compound 10 showed good selectivity against COX-1 only. Structure activity relationship has been discussed and the results were confirmed by molecular docking calculations., (Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)

Inflammation is a fundamental physiological process that is essential for survival of human being but at the same time is one of the major causes of human morbidity and mortality. In the past decade, numerous advances have taken place in the understanding and development of novel anti-inflammatory drugs. Therefore, investigation of newest anti-inflammatory agents is still a major challenge. In this study, novel and successfully synthesized naproxen-derivatives indicated powerful anti-inflammatory properties as potent of COX-1 and/or COX-2 inhibitors are reported. Results obtained revealed the presence of very potent derivatives with% inhibition of the oedema by 100% in addition to enzyme inhibition values that can reach 92%. The molecular docking and molecular dynamic calculations have been studied. Thus, new potent candidates for further investigation as prospective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug were proposed. Furthermore, twenty of the synthesized derivatives have been selected by the NCI, USA for anti-cancer screening and some of the tested compounds showed good% growth inhibition and some selectivity against some cell lines such as melanoma, non-small cell lung and colon cancer with GI% values ranging from 60.9 to 82.8%. Structure activity relationship has been performed and molecular modeling studies and molecular dynamic simulations have been performed for more explanation of the action of the synthesized compounds., (Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)