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ReviewBiomolecules2025

Quinazolinones as Potential Anticancer Agents: Synthesis and Action Mechanisms.

Zhijiang Deng, Jieming Li, Pengbo Zhu, Jie Wang, Yuanfang Kong, Yulong Hu, Juntao Cai, Chunhong Dong

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Review in Biomolecules, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  4. Synthesis and Anticancer Activity of New Quinazolin-4(3Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  7. RHA/TiOScientific reports · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Zhijiang DengTraditional Chinese Medicine (Zhong Jing) School, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China.
Jieming LiTraditional Chinese Medicine (Zhong Jing) School, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6667-8533
Pengbo ZhuTraditional Chinese Medicine (Zhong Jing) School, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China.
Jie WangTraditional Chinese Medicine (Zhong Jing) School, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China.
Yuanfang KongHenan Polysaccharide Research Center, Zhengzhou 450046, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9220-4275
Yulong HuTraditional Chinese Medicine (Zhong Jing) School, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China.
Juntao CaiTraditional Chinese Medicine (Zhong Jing) School, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China.
Chunhong DongTraditional Chinese Medicine (Zhong Jing) School, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450046, China.

Funding

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2021M690936National Natural Science Foundation of China 224070427Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province 232300421374the plan for the Key Scientific Research Foundation of the Higher Education Institutions of Henan Province 22A350003
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quinazolinones, essential quinazoline derivatives, exhibit diverse biological activities with applications in pharmaceuticals and insecticides. Some derivatives have already been developed as commercial drugs. Given the rising cancer incidence, there is a critical need for new anticancer agents, and quinazolinones show promising potential in this domain. The present review focuses on novel advances in the synthesis of these important scaffolds and other medicinal aspects involving drug design, the structure-activity relationship, and action mechanisms of quinazoline and quinazolinone derivatives, to help in the development of new quinazoline and quinazolinone derivatives.

Indexed as

Antineoplastic AgentsNeoplasmsQuinazolinonesAnimalsDrug DesignHumansQuinazolinesStructure-Activity RelationshipAntineoplastic AgentsQuinazolinesQuinazolinonesanticancercatalytic synthesismechanismsquinazolinones

Identifiers

PMID40001513
PMCPMC11852416

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