A Chitosan Hydrochloride Mediated, Simple and Efficient Approach for the Synthesis of Hydrazones, their in vitro Antimycobacterial Evaluations, and Molecular Modeling Studies (Part III)

Abstract

A simple, eco-friendly and straightforward synthesis of hydrazones has been devised that is conducted in the presence of chitosan Hydrochloride (chitosan HCl) as catalyst in aqueous-ethanol medium at room temperature. The current protocol offers metal-free synthesis, adaptability to large-scaleup, good yields, and quicker reaction time. All ten synthesized hydrazones also showed good antimycobacterial activity, with minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) ranging from 3.12 to 6.25 ?g/mL. One of the products presented strong binding affinity against M. tuberculosis pantothenate synthetase (pdb id: 3IVX) with a Glide docking score of 8.803 kcal/mol. Molecular dynamics simulation analysis of its complex with 3IVX retained good stability over the simulation period of 20 ns.