LETTERS IN DRUG DESIGN & DISCOVERY, cilt.12, sa.10, ss.806-812, 2015 (SCI-Expanded)
Chalcones and Mannich bases are bioactive compounds and known with their cytotoxicities. alpha,beta-Unsaturated ketones are reported with their alkylating potential to cellular thiols thereby inducing cytotoxicities. In this study; Mannich bases (MT2-MT7), which may generate two additional alkylating centers comparing with starting compound 2-(4-hydroxybenzylidene)-2,3-dihydroinden-1-one MT1, were designed and synthesized expecting the increased cytotoxicities in bis Mannich bases. Their cytotoxicities were tested against Ca9-22, HSC-2, HSC-3, and HSC-4 human oral squamous cell carcinoma as tumour cell lines and HGF, HPC, and HPLF human normal oral cells as non tumour cell lines. Amine parts were changed as N-methylpiperazine (MT2), pyrrolidine (MT3), morpholine (MT4), piperidine (MT5), dimethylamine (MT6), and dipropylamine (MT7).