Antimicrobial Activities of Essential Oil and Methanol Extract of Teucrium montanum

This study was designed to examine the chemical composition of essential oil and the in vitro antimicrobial activities of essential oil and methanol extract of Teucrium montanum. The inhibitory effects of essential oil and methanol extracts of T. montanum were tested against 13 bacterial and three fungal species by using disc-diffusion method. GC/MS analyses revealed that essential oil contains mainly δ-cadinene (17.19%), β-selinene (8.16%) α-calacorene (4.97%), 1,6-dimethyl-4-(1-methylethyl)-naphthalene (4.91%), caryophyllene (4.35%), copaene (4.23%), torreyol (3.91%), 4-terpineol (3.90%), cadina-1,4-diene (3.39%), β-sesquiphellandrene (3.34%), τ-cadinol (3.12%) and γ-curcumene (3.18%). The essential oil has antibacterial as well as antifungal effect

In Vitro Antioxidant Activity of Selected 4-Hydroxy-chromene-2-one Derivatives—SAR, QSAR and DFT Studies

The series of fifteen synthesized 4-hydroxycoumarin derivatives was subjected to antioxidant activity evaluation in vitro, through total antioxidant capacity, 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl-hydrazyl (DPPH), hydroxyl radical, lipid peroxide scavenging and chelating activity. The highest activity was detected during the radicals scavenging, with 2b, 6b, 2c, and 4c noticed as the most active. The antioxidant activity was further quantified by the quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) studies. For this purpose, the structures were optimized using Paramethric Method 6 (PM6) semi-empirical and Density Functional Theory (DFT) B3LYP methods. Bond dissociation enthalpies of coumarin 4-OH, Natural Bond Orbital (NBO) gained hybridization of the oxygen, acidity of the hydrogen atom and various molecular descriptors obtained, were correlated with biological activity, after which we designed 20 new antioxidant structures, using the most favorable structural motifs, with much improved predicted activity in vitro

JSCS–3785 Original scientific paper

Chemical composition and biological activity of the acetone extract of Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. polle

Chemical composition and biological activity of the acetone extract of Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. pollen

In this study, the chemical components, antimicrobial and genotoxic biological activities of the acetone extract of Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. pollen were examined. Two lactones were identified: ambrosin and artesovin. The antimicrobial activity of the acetone extract of A. artemisiifolia L. pollen was examined on ten different bacterial species using the disc diffusion method and the microdilution method in Mueller-Hinton broth dilution. The minimal inhibitory concentration of the acetone extract of A. artemisiifolia pollen varied between 1.25−6.50 mg mL-1. The genotoxic effect of the acetone extract of A. artemisiifolia pollen on a eukaryotic model system Drosophila melanogaster was investigated using the SLRL test

Synthesis of some 3-(thiazol-4-yl)-4-hydroxycoumarins

In this work, an easy and efficient procedure for the synthesis of eight 3-(thiazol-4-yl)-4-hydroxychromen-2-one derivatives is presented. 3-Acetyl-4-hydroxychromen-2-one (1) was brominated with phenyltrimethylammonium tribromide to afford 3-(2-bromoacetyl)-4-hydroxychromen-2-one (2). Compound 2 reacts with thiourea, thioacetamide and ammonium dithiocarbamate to afford 3-(2-aminothiazol-4-yl)-4-hydroxychromen-2-one (3), 4-hydroxy-3-(2-methylthiazol-4-yl)chromen-2-one (4a) and 4-hydroxy-3-(2-mercaptothiazol-4-yl)chromen-2-one (5), respectively. In a similar manner, compound 2 was treated with four mono-N-substituted thioureas and thiobenzamide to give the corresponding 3-(thiazol-4-yl)-4-hydroxychromen-2-one derivatives

4-Dichloromethyl-4-methyl-5-(nitromethyl)cyclohex-2-enone

In the title compound, C9H11Cl2NO3, the six-membered ring adopts a screw-chair conformation. In the crystal, two different C—H...O hydrogen bonds involving the same acceptor atom connect the molecules into a chain extending along the c-axis direction