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Abstract
“Isolation Characterization of Bioactive Isoflavone from Iris kashmiriana; and Synthesis,
Modification and Biological Evaluation of Flavone Analogues”
Iris Kashmiriana belongs to the family Iridaceae and a medicinal plant has been named Irsa in
Iranian traditional medicines. This family comprises 3000 species and 85 genera. Amongst them,
12 species are found in India. This genus having diverse nature of the secondary metabolites,
like isoflavones and their glycoside, flavones, benzoquinones, saponins and their glycoside
stilbenes, sterols, triterpenoids and bufadienolides. The traditional and folk use of the plant of
this genus gave the idea of diverse and prominent pharmacological activities like antibacterial,
antiviral, antifungal, emetic, anticancer, antioxidant and anti-asthmatics. The wide spectrum of
pharmacological activities associated with the isoflavones prompted us to undertake the
phytochemical investigation of Iris kashmiriana, which is reported to be a rich source of
isoflavones. Extraction followed by isolation of 12 new compounds has been done and name
assigned as AJD-1 to AJD-12. AJD-4 and their analogues like AJD-6, AJD-8, AJD-10 were
supposed to be new molecules. All the isolated compounds and their analogues were purified by
melting point determination and Rf value analysis. The characterization and establishment of
structure of all the isolated compounds and their analogues were done by chemically and
spectroscopic method, like U.V. Spectrophotometer, IR,1H-NMR.13C-NMR , 2-D NMR and
mass spectrometry. All the isolated compounds and their analogues were evaluated for their
antioxidant, antibacterial, antifungal and cytotoxicity activity by MTT assay against MCF-7,
MDAMB-231, A-549, PC-3 ,and Vero cell line followed by cell cycle analysis using Flow
cytometer. Most of the compounds show moderate activity, whereas the compound AJD-4, AJD6. AJD-9 and AJD-12 have shown marked broad spectrum anticancer, antioxidant and
antimicrobial activities. The compounds AJD-4, AJD-6 and AJD-5 have shown to induce cell
cycle arrest at G2/ M phase
The flavonoids and chalcones are polyphenolic compounds and universally present as
constituents of flowering plants, particularly of food plants. Prop-2-en-1-one (chalcones) is a
class of compounds that provides an option of developing inexpensive, synthetic therapeutic
agents in the future. Prop-2-en-1-one and its derivatives have attracted particular interest during
the last few decades due to use of such ring system as the core structure in many drug substances
covering wide range of pharmacological application. An attempt has made to synthesized sixty
compounds, out of which fifteen new dihydro methyl chalcones (Novelty of these compounds
were well explained by Prentic Hall Frame Work Molecular Model) and fifteen dihydro
pyrazole chalcones analogues were synthesized. All the synthesized compounds were purified by
melting point determination and Rf value analysis. The characterization and establishment of the
synthesized compounds were done by U.V, IR,1H-NMR.13C-NMR , and mass spectrometry. All
the compounds were evaluated for their antioxidant (DPPH and ABTS methods), antibacterial,
antifungal and cytotoxicity activity by MTT assay against MCF-7, MDAMB-231, A-549, PC-3,
and Vero cell line.. Most of the compounds have shown moderate activity, whereas the
compound KLD-4, 10, 15, and 7 have shown excellent antioxidant as well as anticancer
activities. The compounds CASD-5, 7, 9 and 15 have shown marked anticancer and antioxidant
activities. The compounds JAD-1, 9, 13, and 14 have shown excelent broad spectrum
antimicrobial activities between 4.2 to 7.6 µg/ml (IC5O) against all microorganisms.