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Review
. 2018 Oct 5:158:917-936.
doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.08.040. Epub 2018 Aug 19.

A review on diverse heterocyclic compounds as the privileged scaffolds in antimalarial drug discovery

Piyush N Kalaria  1 , Sharad C Karad  2 , Dipak K Raval  3
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A review on diverse heterocyclic compounds as the privileged scaffolds in antimalarial drug discovery

Piyush N Kalaria et al. Eur J Med Chem. .

Abstract

The upward extend of malaria collectively with the emergence of resistance against predictable drugs has put enormous pressure on public health systems to introduce new malaria treatments. Heterocycles play an important role in the design and discovery of new malaria active compounds. Heterocyclic compounds have attracted significant attention for malaria treatment because of simplicity of parallelization and the examining power with regard to chemical space. Introduction of a variety of heterocyclic compounds have enabled to maintain the high levels of antimalarial potency observed for other more lipophilic analogues whilst improving the solubility and the oral bioavailability in pre-clinical species. In this review, we present an overview of recent literature to provide imminent into the applications of different heterocyclic scaffolds in fighting against malaria.

Keywords: Antimalarial; Heterocyclic; Malaria; Plasmodium.

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