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,4′‑((3‑Hydroxy,4‑Methoxyphenyl)methylene)
bis(3‑methyl‑1H‑pyrazol‑5‑ol) (5i)
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Yellow powder (yield 90%); mp: 230–232 °C; H NMR
(
250 MHz, d -DMSO): 2.04 (s, 6H), 3.66 (s, 3H), 4.67 (s,
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Scheme 1 Synthesis of pyrazolone 3
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H), 6.15–6.72 (3H), 8.69 (s, 1H), 11.08 (br., 4H); C NMR
(
62.5 MHz, DMSO-d ): 10.80, 32.39, 56.17, 104.97, 112.29,
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15.61, 117.47, 136.38, 140.20, 145.97, 146.32, 161.53;
condition was previously optimized, as shown in Table 1.
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FT-IR (KBr) (ν /cm ): 3300, 2930, 1603, 1510, 1463,
Among the tested conditions, including refluxing in H O,
max
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247, 1178, 1080, 1033, 980, 898, 822. Anal. Calcd. for
EtOH, a mixture of H O and EtOH and solvent-free system
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C H N O (330.13): C 58.17, H 5.49, N 16.96, O 19.37;
along with the catalytic amount of SBA-Pr-SO H, the best
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Found: C 58.14, H 5.52, N 16.98, O 19.36.
results regarding the high product yield and shorter reac-
tion time were obtained under solvent-free system (Table 1,
Molecular docking
entry 4). To make sure SBA-Pr-SO H catalyzed the reaction,
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the progress of model reaction was studied in the absence
The crystal structure of phosphorylated RET tyrosine kinase
of catalyst and no product was obtained (Table 1, entry 5).
Therefore, the role of SBA-Pr-SO H on the reaction pro-
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gress is undeniable. Then after, generality of this reaction
inhibitor PP1 in the protein databank, so in the docking step,
this inhibitor was removed, and then, ligands in our data set
were docked in the active site of protein one by one. Dis-
covery Studio 2.5 (Accelrys Inc, San Diego, CA, USA) was
employed to dock the compounds to protein. All molecules
were sketched and typed with CHARMm force field then
partial charges were calculated by Momany–Rone option
catalyzed by SBA-Pr-SO H was considered by applying dif-
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ferent derivatives of benzaldehyde (Scheme 2). The obtained
results in Table 2 show high yield of the products (85–97%)
within short reaction time (3–6 min).
The efficiency of SBA-Pr-SO H as a catalyst for the
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preparation of bispyrazoles 5 has been compared with the
previously reported catalysts in the literature (Table 4). As
[
19]. Afterwards, they were minimized with Smart Mini-
it is clear, SBA-Pr-SO H is an efficient catalyst in terms
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mizer which performs 1000 steps of steepest descent with a
RMS gradient tolerance of 3, followed by conjugate gradient
minimization. For preparation step of protein, CHARMm
force field was used, hydrogen atoms were added, all water
molecules were removed, and pH of protein was adjusted to
almost neutral, 7.4, using protein preparation protocol. The
protein active site was defined as a sphere with a radius of
of giving the products in high yields within short reaction
time. SEM image of SBA-Pr-SO H (Fig. 2) illustrates uni-
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form rice-like particles with the size of 1 µm. The same
morphology was previously detected for SBA-15. It can be
established that the morphology of modified SBA-15 was
saved with no change during the modification procedure.
Moreover, eco-friendly characteristic of SBA-Pr-SO H is the
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Å around the bounded ligand (PP1) to confirm atoms of
most important feature of in comparison, since it is recover-
the ligand and the side chains of the residues of the recep-
tor within 9 Å from the center of the binding site are free to
move. Then bounded ligand was removed from the binding
site. Other parameters were set by default protocol settings.
GOLD program was used to dock the compounds into recep-
tor [20].
able, safe, and non-toxic.
The recyclability of SBA-Pr-SO H was also determined
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under optimized conditions for the synthesis of the model
compound 5a. For this aim, the mentioned model reaction
was repeated in the first run for three times to recover about
0.05 g of catalyst. Next, it was well washed and reactivated
with diluted acid and then reused under the same condi-
tions. The process of recycling was repeated for further three
times and the yields of 91, 90, and 88% were obtained. It
was found that the catalytic activity drops slightly from the
first use (95%) to the second use (91%) due to leaching of
some sulfonic acid groups which were weakly grafted on
Results and discussion
Synthesis of bispyrazole derivatives
In this study, the effect of SBA-Pr-SO H in the reaction
the outer surface of SBA-Pr-SO H. Furthermore, no signifi-
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between pyrazolone and aldehyde was examined. Therefore,
initially, pyrazolone 3 was prepared, according to the pub-
lished research [21], through the reaction of ethyl acetoac-
etate 1 and hydrazine hydrate 2 in EtOH at room temperature
cant decrease in catalytic activity was observed for the other
cycles which there are no further leaching groups on the cat-
alyst surface. In fact, this catalyst is completely recoverable.
According to the proposed mechanism, as shown in
Scheme 3, the carbonyl group of aldehyde is first activated
(
Scheme 1). Then, the recrystallized pyrazolone 3 partici-
pated in the reaction with aldehydes 4a-i, while its reaction
by SBA-Pr-SO H to gain 4′. Then, the latter is attacked by
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