Design, synthesis and molecular docking of novel 4-morpholino-1H-pyrrolo [2,3-b] pyridine-5-carboxamides and 4-methylpiperazin-1H-pyrrolo[2,3-b] pyridine-5-carboxamides for the evaluation anti-cancer activity

A novel series of 4-morpholino-1H-pyrrolo[2,3-b] pyridine-5-carboxamides (6 a-j) and 4-methylpiperazin-1Hpyrrolo[2,3-b] pyridine-5-carboxamides (9 a-i) have been designed and synthesized. All the synthesized compounds were well characterized and screened for their anti-cancer activity against MCF-7 breast cancer cell lines and A549 Lung cancer cell lines. The result of this study discloses that the synthesized compounds were shown good to moderate activity. The IC50 values of the tested compounds against MCF-7 cell lines are ranged from 16 to 111.9 mu g/mL. Whereas the IC50 values of the tested compounds against A-549 cancer cell line are ranged from 21 to 115.3 mu g/mL. Among, the synthesized compounds, 6 h exhibited significant cytotoxic activity against MCF7 and A-549 with IC50 16 mu g/mL and 21 mu g/mL respectively. Based on the in vitro cytotoxic activity results, compound 6 h and 9i showed good activity. Molecular docking experiments were conducted for 6 h and 9i with EGFR (PDB ID-4HJO). Among these two, 6 h has exhibited the highest binding energy (-11.22 kcal/mol) and 9i has exhibited remarkable binding energy (-8.06 kcal/mol).